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Of dare devils performing a spectacular base jump off of the top of denvers 45 story four seasons hotel and they come in for a smooth landing. the stunt tock a lot of planning. >> first of all, you have people everywhere. we are normally out in the cliffs and canyons and me and mills and our bros and no one shares that experience for us. and down here in downtown denver we have all of you guys out here. >> theentious vent raised funds for the colorado scholarship. >> i like that and i know you a...

Still jump out of a helicopter oroff a base jump and be able to fly down for a while. eight to ten minutes with the fuel he has gone all the way over the english channel with this thing. >> make you a deal. you do it. ill be waiting on the ground with wine. >> all right. ill bring the cheese. >> deal. chad myers, good luck with that. thank you very much. coming up next, we are talking about this at cnn. were so excited. premiering this new film this week. "our nixon." an intimate look at the n...

Level, and he dives right in. russian daredevil valery rotsov with his demonstration of the principle what goes up must go down. going down pretty fast in this case, 125 miles an hour, the worlds fastest base jump. is this just a string of record breaking jumps this past year? there was felix baumgartners jump from a space form, the highest ever space dive, and titanic director james cameron took the deepest dive ever, jules verne style, 70,000 miles down, as deep as everest is tall. the base ju...

Respiratory syndrome coronavirus. a handful of countries have been hit as you can see on the map. symptoms often start as a fever and cough. a training accident that killed seven marines in nevada in march is being blamed on human error. investigators found one of the marines didnt follow proper procedure before mortar round exploded at the hawthorne army depot. eight other service members were injured. no criminal charges have been filed. but three marine leaders were relieved of duty after t...

Fever, and a cough. and for all you thrill seekers, 60 years ago today, sir edmund hillary conquered mt. everest but didnt do this. cool pictures. this is what russian extreme sports star valerie rozov did earlier this month. yes, hes flying and, yes, it is a first. this is the worlds highest base jump at an altitude of a cool 23,700 feet. and he actually was in the air, flying for nearly 60 seconds before landing on a glacier, there he goes, more than 4,000 feet below. coming up, were takin...

Apiece. in baseball, the cross town inner league rivals the new york mets honored mariano rivera before last nights game with rivera throwing out the first pitch. but ironically in the ninth inning, rivera gave up a single, his first blown save of the season for a 2-1 mets win. well, a german soccer teams trip to london took a turn for the worse. the players were at the airport waiting to leave for home when a dancing flash mob sent by their sponsor puma started performing for them. as you c...

At this point. hes had a few vodka cranberries. >> but as the boozy b.a.s.e. jumper prepares to take the plunge -- >> a patrol officer pulls up. >> police. >> dont even think about it. pull it back up right now. >> ill sit here and wait for you. >> options are "a," get in the back of a cop car with a guy who looked pretty pissed. b.a.s.e. jump over an ocean. im going to "b" any day. >> im sorry. i got to do it. >> the guy does it. does a little roll in the sky, pops the chute out. then there he ...

Chosen by car & driver as the best luxury sedan in a recent comparison test. see you guys. >> on a new mexico bridge, a base jumpers ambitious attempt at acrobatics spins out of control as he crash lands on the bottom of a rocky gorge. >> he just died. >> they say if you start base jumping, youre going to die base jumping. its only a matter of time. >> in 1998, base jumper alex walkling attempts his 98th base jump off the rio grande gorge bridge in taos, new mexico. his brother ralph is there ...

On the air. >> aunt barbaras coming back. >> yes, she is. >> give us your questions. wnnfans.com. also finally this half hour, daredevils always seeming to outdo one another, jumping from higher and higher heights. >> they get crazier and crazier. one example -- a man spent a week climbing one of the worlds highest peaks and then jumped off with a wing suit. abcs nick watt has more on that epic jump. >> reporter: theres a mystical himalayan mountain 21,500 feet high. and theres a man. >> hello...

tell us why george zimmerman is back behind bars today. >> reporter: yeah. and the one other thing in there, its about one very angry judge. it happened at 1:45. that is when george zimmerman was booked back into the seminole county jail here. if that is accurate, then he had about 45 minutes left on the ticking clock at 48 hours that the judge kenneth lester when rerevoked the bond on friday. the interesting thing here is there was a great deal of concern about security and so george ...