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He didnt know it, but national parks are no-fly zones for drones. yes, theres plenty of breathtaking drone video online. arches national park, the grand canyon, zion, the smoky mountains. the trouble, says the park service director, drones are disruptive to both people and wildlife. >> that can interfere with lets say nesting birds. we had an incident with a drone chasing big horn sheep and actually separating the adults from the young. >> reporter: these spectacular images from yellowstone nati...

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Against saddam. the enemy now, a few hundred isis fighters using ieds, snipers and suicide bombers. but the iraqis confidence is high. from the celebrating soldier, to the news anchors saying victory is coming, god willing. ramadi fell to isis in may. iraqs army humiliated, retreating in disarray. looking back now, sunni tribal fighters filming their own attack on what is a sunni city. the shia militias we filmed in the summer, held back by iraqs government for fear they would massacre sunni civ...

Chase sullivan is seven, his brother jake, five. their mother bree cant remember the last time they were this happy. >> they get to be with other kids who get it, who understand what its like to lose a parent. >> reporter: michelle karnoski brought her 13-year-old daughter, sammie. >> its heartbreaking knowing that all these kids have lost a parent while on active duty military. its hard. >> reporter: this is the tenth anniversary of the snowball express, a nonprofit charity named for an old dis...

Weather on i-49 along the texas-arkansas border turned the roadways deadly. three killed, seven injured in a blinding fog pile-up. >> it sounded like a explosion. >> reporter: the wild weather system creating havoc is also poised to shatter records. some spots, 40 degrees above average. christmas eve in philli, 73. charlotte, 77. savannah, georgia, 79. 2800 temperature records already broken in december. in raleigh, where it will be 78, today the roads are sloppy. 2600 piglets were on this big r...

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To make him walk again? >> thats the part i had no idea at the time. >> reporter: eventually, though, he learned about this exoskeleton device that can help some people walk again. unfortunately, it costs about $80,000. so to pay for it, eugene quit his job at a research company in northern california-- to hike. >> here we go! >> reporter: from the california-mexico border to canada. >> were going! >> reporter: along the way he posted videos of the adventure and asked people to donate on social ...

Taxiway as it was approaching the gate. it ended up in a ditch. 133 passengers and five crew members evacuated the jet. the faa is trying to figure out what went wrong. and federal crash investigators are looking into the cause of a medivac helicopter crash outside of phoenix overnight that claimed the lives of two crew members. the second deadly crash involving an air ambulance in a week, raising concerns yet again about this growing industry. 1,500 me devac choppers transport 400,000 patient...

Purpose is saving lives and not losing them and no one is more invested in safety than the air crew members and the clinicians that climb into a medical aircraft every day. >> reporter: last year the faa issued new orders, stricter flight rules for helicopter operators, improved communications, training and onboard safety equipment. but the faa didnt order the night vision goggles or auto pilot systems that the ntsb still wants. nationwide 7% are government owned. by counties, cities or state. t...

Africa, where islamic militants linked to isis are terrorizing villages in a campaign of murder and kidnapping. the americans are there to support cameroons army, and debora patta went along. >> reporter: cameroons elite counter-terrorism soldiers gear up for the days patrol to the nigerian border. balaclavas provide scant relief against the choking dust. theyre searching for boko haram, the extremist group that has aligned itself with isis and killed more than 20,000 in the past six years. bord...