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And im -- accepted where i am and i look around, its easy to do. people have a few more problems than i have. the main problem of not being able to see out of one eye, it takes awhile for my brain to adjust. so i have trouble with depth perception. i stumble a bit. but i will be fine. >> ill be fine. brain will adjust. we will have more on the show. and his take on why women are the best thing ever to happen to the united states senate. and why senators threaten to beat each other up all the tim...

So i have trouble with depth perception. i stumble a bit. once in a while. ill get over that. your brain will adjust to that and ill be fine. >> ill be fine. brain will adjust. well have more on that interview with senator reid just ahead in the show including his surprisingly elaborate take on why women are the best thing ever to happen to the united states senate. and why senators threaten to beat each other up all the time. stay with us. ♪ [upbeat music] ♪ defiance is in our bones. defian...

So i wasnt looking through both eyes. it gives you depth perception. plus the fact were flying on snow. and in cloudy day, towards sunset, you cant make out the texture. its just white. >> the plan is for boole to deploy his parachute at 600 feet, just after the lead wing-suit flier opens his. although its dangerously low to the ground, boole is determined to capture as much of the flight as he can. >> so i was very committed to stay there until either he pulled or i just knew that we were at 60...

Get right something we never anticipated or specifically trained for, and being in the open ocean would be a much more challenging situation, but over water in general, its featureless terrain where depth perception is difficult, descending without engine thrust, much steeper and rapidly than a virtual landing on a runway where you can make a more gradual approach. it would be a very challenging thing to do but its possible theoretically possible. >> i went back to your audio from 2009 u.s. airw...

Room" yesterday and he talked with cnns brianna keilar how difficult a landing would be. >> thats an interesting problem too. its been done. its more challenging, obviously, in the open ocean than in inland waterway. at least in the united states in our flight simulators its not possible to practice a water landing. for our water landing the only training we had gotten for a water landing was a classroom discussion. there was a checklist. there was protocol. we had never done it. we had one chan...

Of water here. can you make that kind of landing on the java sea in the storm? >> thats an interesting problem, too. its been done especially in an inland waterway but at least in the united states and our flight simulators its not possible to practice a water landing. before our water landing the only training wed gotten in the water landing was a theoretical checklist and protocol and we had one chance to get right something we never anticipated and never specifically trained for and being in ...

Had a ring site on my left eye. it gives you depth perception. plus the fact were flying on snow. and in cloudy day, towards sunset, you cant make out the texture. its just white. >> the plan is for boole to deploy his parachute at 600 feet, just after the lead wing-suit flier opens his. although its dangerously low to the ground, boole is determined to capture as much of the flight as he can. >> so i was very committed to stay there until either he pulled or i just knew that we were at 600 feet...

Quickly determines he has no choice but to ditch in the pacific. >> my mother mentioned that she didnt hear any yelling or screaming. she did hear a lot of praying in different languages. the mood was very, very serious. >> the pilot radios a nearby coast guard cutter for assistance. and a plan is formed. the stratocruiser will circle above the ship for the rest of the night, lightening its fuel load and waiting for daybreak. >> you want to be as light as you can because with less weight you can...

>> april 10, 2009. kamchatka peninsula, russia. professional wing-suit pilot james boole is traveling to russias far east to shoot a documentary on its extreme landscape. >> its covered in snow for nine months a year. it has the most active volcanos than anyplace on the planet. they call it the land of fire and ice. >> it is the final leg of the trip, and hes eager to make it one of the most thrilling trips. >> we had done three other jumps that day. and it was obvious to everybody this was goin...

Your feet were squarely on the ground through that whole thing. >> i think its baser in had any fear because i never saw it was coming at me. it didnt even push me a head. the plow driver said it was a bigger truck than he normally drives. this can throw it 25 feet, so we werent stupid standing on the road but the depth perception of that shot makes it look like we were on the shoulder. we were off the road in a peach orchard and i thought safely off the road. we were in the middle of rural new ...