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He was hanging on pretty tight to the building but seemed okay. wasnt, like, super panicked yet. the guy below him seemed more in a panic state. i think one of the reasons was that his harness was right around his legs where it should have been, but his whole weight was suspended by that harness, which was starting to cut off the blood flow. >> gero approaches the lower victim and secures him to the rope lines. >> with the main line attachment, what i did, is i attached the end knot to myself an...

Hill, found the young man laying on the rocks, his foots all but detached. his friends claim he was just walking down the rocks and stepsed on something. there was a divot in the ground. actually looks like a divot where there was an explosion. >> i have no idea what it was. it sounded like a cannon. so thats why i thought it was a fourth of july thing. >> it sounded like a cannon. even she thought it sounded like something hiving to do with the fourth of july. these are the sounds that people a...

Cameras. im contessa brewer, thats all for this edition of "caught on camera." its a heart stopping, high-altitude horror as a skydiver becomes a human bullet. >> it was so hard. it crossed my mind that maybe it hit a plane. and a base jump goes horribly wrong. >> the ground was coming at me incredibly fast. i was pretty sure this was going to end badly. on the ground, an unexpected encounter between buck and biker. and a rescue that just barely gets the job done.

This is cnn breaking news. >> you are live in the cnn newsroom. i am brianna keel washington. breaking news, sources telling cnn an explosion in new yorks central park may be more sinister than originally thought. we know that at least one person was injured in this blast. witnesses say severely. listen. >> and saw his friend standing there panicking, ran up the hill, underthe young man laying on the rocks, his foot all but detached. his friends claim he was just walking on the rocks and stepped...

A base jumpers ambitious acrobatics send him crashing into the bottom of a rocky canyon. >> before i could even know whats happening, bang, i hit the ground. >> july 23rd, 2009. rifle, colorado. base jumper ted davenport and his friends are preparing to leap off what they call room 817 of the hotel. >> i was one of the first persons to ever jump this object and the shape of the cliff is about half a mile around and it

>> finally, howe is able to take the hill, but at such a cost -- about 1,000 british soldiers dead or wounded. more victories like that, and the british would have lost the entire enterprise. >> the americans suffer tremendous losses, as well, with more than 400 patriots killed or wounded, including dr. joseph warren, who gives his life for the revolution he helps to create.

Commander thomas gage watches as general william howe drives his troops up breeds hill toward the colonial front line. >> the americans fortify the top of the hill so that they can have an advantageous position over the british and defend the hill in a way that the british werent anticipating. >> dr. joseph warren, president of the massachusetts provincial congress and soon-to-be general, joins his fellow volunteers in the trenches. >> when liberty is the prize, who would shun the war? we esteem...

Of these very, very big fireworks. things that you normally see on the national mall. and they just are playing with it. and things go wrong all the time. people get hurt every year and they do it every year. >> you see it all over washington, d.c. one of the things the bomb squad representative said was that there doesnt seem to be -- he didnt get into details but he said the forensic evidence is showing that actually this was not something that was meant to explode with someone stepping on it....

But he doesnt have enough time. >> i was definitely very scared, as i started to overrotate the trick, i knew that i was going to be eating up precious time and needed to get things figured out quickly. a lot of things were going through my head. mainly just make it through this. get the parachute out, you got it, live, live, live. >> with his safe landing window closing in fractions of a second, ted successfully rotates his body face down. but its too late. >> i opened my parachute and right th...

Plummeting to the ground. but rescuers are concerned that may quickly change. no one knows how long the scaffold, or the workers, can hold on. >> when they sit in their harnesses for a long time it decreases the blood flow to their lower extremities which creates a lot of physiological problems. >> its a serious thing. they were starting to get some of that because their legs were starting to get numb. it was a little cold out. >> firefighters first attempt to use their truck ladder to bring the...