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Storm, on camel, charging the crowd with whips. taking aim at the very protestors who had been demanding egypts president step down. fear spreading through cairo quickly. the neighborhood so tense now, they dont want us near the entrance to their neighborhood with a camera. >> we hate america. >> you hate us? >> yeah, i hate you. >> reporter: at the time, many believed western cameras were fueling the unrest and yet, with the turmoil, we also heard hope from the youngest faces. what do you hope ...

And to make sure everybody else gets back. i consider that my responsibility as the person on the bottom. >> but as quickly as bland reorients himself, unbelievably, it happens again. another pocket of dead air, and another midair collision. this time, two different wing-suit fliers. as they tumble in the sky, the team reaches 5,000 feet and bland signals to pull their parachutes, unsure if everyone is accounted for. >> after we opened the parachutes, i look around to see the correct number of p...

Flock can perform. its called the stack. >> its when you get a number of wing suiters actually flying one over top of the other. you can only see whats in front of your eyes. so you have a hard time seeing the people behind you. you have to rely on those people to do the right thing and not fly into you. definitely, a large risk whenever a stack goes wrong. >> but all seems okay on exit. team leader scott bland points the flock towards the drop zone as scotty burns and another wing-suit diver sh...

>> i would say the most dangerous thing is the risk of collision. if you lose sight of somebody else that youre flying with, you can wind up with closing speeds in excess of 200 miles an hour. >> the main fear with being hit is to be knocked out or killed. >> the biggest risk for collision comes when wing suiters fly dangerously close to each other in formations called flocks. and the most important person in the flock is the base. the person flying out front, guiding the team toward their targe...

these beaches had been closed for people to get into the water, and we talked to a life guard just the other day about the strong rip currents that they are concerned about. take a listen. so i see the white caps out there. is that safe for a person to get into the water? >> no. it is not. the thing is with closing water completely, you let somebody knee deep they want to get waist deep. you let them waist deep they want to go in. >> reporter: what is a rip current? >> its a channel of...

apparently there is a person in custody in relation to this case, someone who has apparently made it clear that he or she has a connection to this case. as you mentioned, man, this is an old case. 33 years old, etan patz went missing in a lower manhattan neighborhood, never to be seen. no one could crack this case. several weeks ago, the investigation reopened into a carpenter, a carpenter who had a carpentry shop just down the street from where etan patzs family lived. they, in fact, ...

pulling this graduation stunt on stage. >> wait until you hear the whole thing. i have a mixed reaction. >> good morning, everyone, welcome to "early start,". >> were bringing you the news from a to z, its 5:00 a.m. in the east. so lets get started. were following breaking news out of maine. firefighters battling a fire on a nuclear submarine for close to 12 hours. the uss "miami" was in dry dock when a fire broke out in the forward compartment. six people suffered minor injuries. the ...

plumbers. all kidding aside, its not the same job requirement. so, its totally legitimate for the president to point this out. >> this comes as a new ad from president obama highlights the, quote, real people who were affected by bain capital, that private equity company that mitt romney ran for 15 years. take a look at that ad. >> makes me angry. those guys were all rich. they all had more money that theyll ever spend, yet they didnt have the money to take care of the very people that...

Egypt. >> the violent footage from last years re-lution shut down the industry that employed 10% of the population. tourism. >> lets say -- [ inaudible ] taking opinions, like -- [ inaudible ] >> he made his living giving tours of the pyramid. now he has a lot of time to admire the view from the deserted overlook. vendors talk most themselves. those selling camel rides sleep but they still must pay and feed their flock. he used to own 12 camels and now he can barely afford five. >> egyptians pai...

And mechanic. her husband was a naval officer, and she would go on to worry like only a mother can when prince andrew flew helicopters in the faulk lands war. now its the turn of her grandsons. prince harry is likely to return to afghanistan at the controls of an apache helicopter while prince william works as a rescue pilot. >> i think shes lovely. great woman, great family. and im glad that thats what we got as our head of state. >> reporter: todays spectacular parade and fly-by are only part ...