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>> all right. got. breaks my heart but i got go. new book coming out entitled "end of discussion." there it is. when we come back megyn kelly will discuss how many looters and protesters are facing charges in baltimore. the number may surprise you. and senator elizabeth warren. we are coming right back. meet the worlds newest energy superpower. surprised? in fact, america is now the worlds number one natural gas producer... and we could soon become number one in oil. because hydraulic fractu...

Found along the banks of the blanco river yesterday. jeff, they cant be identified until autopsies are performed. >> glor: don dahler, thank you. in new york city today frightening images after a construction crane accidentally dropped its payload. seven people were hurt. ti-hua chang is there. >> reporter: sunday morning in new york city turned to dust in midtown. a crane operator lifting a massive air conditioning unit into an office building instead apparently smashed it into the 30th floor. ...

High-rise buildings causing injuries to construction workers and pedestrians below. for more we turn to our new york station wnbc. >> good evening, carl. im a block away in midtown, manhattan from what was a terrifying situation a few hours ago. just after 10:30 this morning when a heavy piece of machinery was hoisted by a crane to the top of this building on madison avenue. it broke free plunging nearly 30 stories down. the man machinery sheered the side of the building before hitting the groun...

His family. >> my fathers first job was here. north tower. im a fourth-generation iron worker from my fathers side, third from my mothers. >> but the final step made him the most nervous. >> its a lot of planning. setting that last piece of the spire. >> attaching a camera to the spire and hoisting it up. watch as it soars upward. you can hear the cheers and whistling. reaching a symbolic 1,776 feet. the building, now the tallest in the u.s. the observatory, taking tourists to the 102nd floor. f...

Limit of what i feel is possible. >> reporter: potter dropped out of college becoming one of thor worlds best known daredevils, even flying with his dog whisper. over the weekend potter and his friend leaped at yosemite national park wearing wing suits and didnt survive. officials are investigating what went wrong. basejumping is illegal at yosemite. around the world some 200 basejumpers is have died since 1980 including sean leery who died in a similar wing suit incident in utah. climbing great...

He was a legend in his own time, a man who thrived on finding his limits and pushing past them. over the weekend extreme athlete dean potter and a friend took on a challenge they would not walk away from. jacob rascone has more on potter, who died as he lived -- on the edge. >> reporter: in a sport where one misstep could be your last, dean potter was undaunted, climbing without safety ropes, high lining without a harness and waiting for the last moment to deploy his parachute. >> im doing the t...

Police suspect the attack may have started as early as wednesday. neighbors reported unusual activity around the family home before the murders including an aggressive door-to-door salesman and a possible prowler. there were no signs of forced entry and investigators are looking for a person of interest seen in this surveillance video. authorities suspect that person of interest was driving the family porsche, later found torched, 15 miles away. >> its going to be a black porsche convertible. it...

Heres abcs neal karlinsky. >> reporter: he was once called "the man who can fly" for his daring and illegal wingsuit jumps. and dean potter, seen here climbing the face of el capitan, told us he knew exactly how dangerous it could be. >> i wonder if its healthy, what i do. like youre obsessed on this thing that might kill you. >> reporter: potter and fellow base jumper graham hunt were killed leaping from a 7,500-foot cliff. their parachutes apparently never deployed. potter was an intense but g...

His focus into pushing the limit and going where no human had ever gone before. >> ready, set, go. >> reporter: wingsuit flying is arguably the most dangerous sport in the world. in 2009, "60 minutes" gathered some of the best flyers, including j.t. holmes, who knew dean potter. >> if you do crash in your wingsuit, youre going to die. nobody lives through that. youre just going too fast. >> reporter: in an interview showed on "outside television" last year potter said as a kid he dreamed about f...