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Deputy paramedic mark demarto toward the woman. both men are wearing helmet cameras. >> as soon as i left the bird, i started to spin due to the wash. i needed to stop this spin as fast as i can and get it stopped in a safe manner away from our victim. >> he doesnt want to accidentally bump into the woman and knock her off the rock face. >> i was able to point out a spot on the cliff where i could safely stop my spinning. basically, its a flintstone maneuver. you stick your feet out and stop. th...

War caught on camera. correspondents in the heat of battle. >> i remember hearing it, bing, bing, bing, as the bullets are hitting the side of the humvee. >> troops recording the danger they face every day. >> oh! >> my first instinct was that i just lost three soldiers and a vehicle. >> come on, fire. >> and a classified military video that stuns the world. in this hour, troops from the front lines to their front lawns. >> i think he remembers you. >> war, up close.

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A terrified woman clings to the side of a cliff while rescuers rush to reach her. >> her time was running out. >> that was not a fall that anyone could survive. >> september 22, 2011. los angeles county sheriffs department air five rescue unit receives an urgent call. a female climber is stuck high on eagle rock on topanga state park. how did she end up in such a precarious position?

>> complete on one. >> caught on camera as they come under fire themselves. >> theyve been taking incoming rounds from at least two directions on these hills. >> war reporting is as old as war itself, and for journalists covering the wars in iraq and afghanistan its as dangerous as ever. in 2008, nbc news richard engel the networks chief foreign correspondent, heads to afghanistan to report the story of soldiers based at restrepo. >> we didnt know what we were going to find. we went to the koran...

Extremely difficult situation. the soldiers from restrepo design to mount an operation designed to draw out the taliban. >> the troops broke up into two units. one unit from restrepo climbed down in the middle of the night through the hills and took up a post in a safehouse in the middle of this village. the other unit openly, overtly walked, drove and moved in to the village on the other side and set up position in a farmhouse. >> its a trap to catch the taliban. and things are going just as pl...

Helicopter. after swinging past the woman a couple times, he is able to grab hold of the rock. >> im using the force to keep him pinned. >> i was able to get enough footing so i could get my body close to her. >> demarto is screaming to the woman not to let go as he gets the rescue strap ready. >> i dont want her to change anything until i get get that rescue strope on her. >> shes too terrified to let go of the rock face. >> shed been hanging on to that rock face for two hours. she didnt want t...

"caught on camera: combat." hello. im contessa brewer. welcome to "caught on camera." u.s. troops in the wars in iraq and afghanistan have had some of the most high-tech fighting gear but theyve also brought something else to the battlefield like never before. their cameras. the images captured have changed the way people back home see and hear what the troops are going through, thousands of miles away. a terrifying ied attack. >> combat patrolling at that time was hours upon hours of complete b...

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>> during the very first firefight they film, cameraman redden edwards gets a little too close to the action. >> there was a group of soldiers who were just returning from a trip. and then suddenly these gunshots rang out. so i went up on to the top of the actual command post. i wanted to get a full, what we call sequence of him firing. the first shot i got was on his right hand side where the shell casings were coming out. so i basically got too close to the weapon and was hit by the shell casi...