sense. president of ghana. i interviewed him last night. he was in new york giving a speech last night and got on a plane to come here. ghana is a sight of pilgrimage for presidents, including president obama, one of the port towns there as well. many of the slaves boarded those it terrible ships and shackled. when president obama visited there several years ago at the exit point where slaves were brought to the colonies. we are joined by rick stengel is watching this. the crowds are streaming in right now. there is a very measured approach to this. you can see the authorities haven t let people literally storm the gates or the
at it from afar. that s why i named it the w hotel. and that day we were jumping room 817, which is 817 feet. has a really flat takeoff. drive right to the exit point and pretty much just run off the top of this thing. let s go! ted is a seasoned base jumper, with more than 600 jumps under his belt, not even a number of nasty crashes have deterred his enthusiasm. during jumps, he makes sure to stay focused on his anymore one priority. not dying. challenges on base jumping are to be able to do it successfully and safely and be able to wake up the next day and do it again. it s and credibly dangerous sport. there s a lot of risk and it s only experience, safety and making smart decisions lets you continue on in the sport. on this day, ted and his friends believe they have everything figured out.
want to go after any soft target or maybe 0 more, they have the capability. this was something they were doing to advertise themselves, not just in kenya, not just in east africa, but really on a worldwide basis. okay. to that extent, how realistic is it that something like that can happen here? will our security agents be able to pick up on intel or chatter during the planning stages? you would hope so but realistically, our intelligence people are, you re law enforcement people have been concerned about this since before 2001. we ve always been concerned about soft targets. one of the problems we have is that they re soft. it s hard to stop them at every single entry and exit point. think about any mall in the united states. think about any western mall. you have many entry points, many exit points. you can t turn this into an armed for res. you have a lot of people. the ability to injury and kill a lot of people and create a statement is a very simple thing to do. but if we turn
a base jumper s ambitious acrobatics send him crashing into the bottom of a rocky canyon. before i could even know what s happening, bang, i hit the ground. july 23rd, 2009. rifle, colorado. base jumper ted davenport and his friends are preparing to 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 is formed into a w, if you look at it from afar. so that s why i named it the w hotel. and that day we were jumping room 817, which is 817 feet. has a really flat takeoff. drive right to the exit point and pretty much just run off the top of this thing. let s go! ted is a seasoned base jumper, with more than 600 jumps under his belt, not even a number of nasty crashes have
a base jumper s ambitious acrobatics send him crashing into the bottom of a rocky canyon. before i could even know what s happening, bang, i hit the ground. july 23rd, 2009. rifle, colorado. base jumper ted davenport and his friend are preparing to leap off what they call route 17 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 is formed into a w, if you look at it from afar. so, that s why i named it the w hotel. and that day we were jumping room 817, which is 817 feet. has a really flat takeoff. drive right to the exit point and pretty much just run off the top of this thing. let s go!