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One that keeps the rescue team at the kearn county sheriffs office busy. >> people go in and swim or fall in and they get tired fighting the current, and they drown. >> the boulders that are just under water level, theyre the size of a volkswagen. thats usually what people smash into. weve had over 250 actual drownings in the kearn river since they started keeping stats. >> the rivers nickname is the killer kearn. >> on a warm june day in 2010, two friends, mike mccave and ed flickimer, decided ...

Looking at. >> it was amazing. i was a little bit stunned for a second and then my mind started gearing up. >> yeah, keep it tight. i dont want him slipping down. >> by now, its been almost two hours. paul is understandably exhausted. captain roy knows that no matter what plan he comes up with, hell need maximum effort from everybody involved, including 11-year-old paul. >> at the time, he was getting real sleepy, so i talked to him and asked, do you play baseball? he said, oh, yeah. he perked u...

The kayaker making the death-defying ride is brazilian pedro olivia who he met in 2007. >> pedro was competing for the brazilian national team and i was filming for a company producing kayaks here in the united states. he started telling me about the amazing waterfalls in brazil. >> im just going to lean back over. >> a year after meeting, the two planned the ride that would push them close to the danger zone. >> our hope is to salvage the new world record for the tallest waller fall run on the ...

A frightening situation up here in los angeles. >> 11-year-old paul hartness is trapped, sandwiched between two huge boulders in a crack just a few inches wide. >> oh, poor kid. jesus. >> rescuer tom jones quickly understands the thing the boy needs to do most to survive, keep breathing, is the very thing putting him in even more danger. >> he was like farther and farther down into that crevice with every breath he took. obviously, if the chest cannot expand, you suffocate. >> hes so close, resc...

For the cbs weekend news. firefighters in the west are up against a perfect storm for wildfires. hot, dry conditions, even triple-digit temperatures in some places, are fanning at least a dozen large fires. north of los angeles, santa barbara county is under a state of emergency. the so-called sherpa fire has destroyed more than 7,600 acres. teri okita is on the front lines. >> reporter: lighter winds allowed crews to perform burn-out operations just north of santa barbara late friday night. the...

To conduct what they call any meaningful investigative follow-up. >> two different accounts of the story. thank you. there are also new developments after the deadly alligator attack at disney world. the autopsy results revealed more about the death of 2-year-old lane graves today. disney keeping its beaches closed and today installing temporary barriers and new signs going up, warning of alligators. abcs gio benitez is in orlando. >> reporter: tonight, barriers going up at disneys grand flori...

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Vrm the so-called black boxes from the egyptair flight that cashed nearly a month ago are "extensively damaged. one egyptian official said they are too banged up to be analyzed and they will be sent to another country for repairs the black boxes will help investigators learn what caused the doomed plane to crash may 19th. all 66 people on the 234r50i9 were killed.