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>> bill: dramatic moments caught on police body camera. officers working to rescue a driver trapped inside of a car that was on fire. >> he is coming, he is coming. is anyone else in there? >> bill: that could be a life ring the moment. drivers side window and unlocking the door and pulling the man to safety. happened monday night in washington, d.c. the victim taken to the hospital, treated and released. he will be okay. well done police officers. >> no question some people had a very good expe...

Go over and just stand up. >> hes up, but its not time to celebrate yet. the mans footing is still unstable. co-pilot art litsinger knows he has precious seconds to act and only he can save the man now. but spray is pelting him in the face. and so blindly he tosses the life ring into the teeth of the swirling wind. >> fortunately i got pretty close to him, and the current took it right across in front of his face, about two foot in front of him. >> now its do or die for the man who has held on f...

Tossing is repeatedly washed back to them by the strong currents. but co-pilot art litsinger suggests they get the life ring to the victim from the air. >> were going to have to actually get fairly close and try to toss this ring out somewhere where he could get ahold of it. >> i knew our biggest problem was the rotor wash from the aircraft itself, the wind speed. and i was afraid we were going to knock him over. >> but theyre willing to give it a shot. >> were probably only about a foot or two ...

Captain kevin caffery hovers above, trying to get a rescue basket close enough for the man to grasp. >> we made four or five attempts to get him with the rescue basket. we got pretty close to him. the problem is with the treacherous air current, it was almost impossible to control the aircraft. >> at some point he said, im running out of power. were not going to be able to do this. >> another failed attempt. the chopper returns to land so the team can come up with plan "c." and in the water, car...

Its march 19th, 2003. rescuers have been trying for more than an hour to save a man from falling nearly 180 feet over the edge of niagara falls to his death. from the air rescuers are attempting to toss him a life ring. but sudden the man slips, and they fear theyve lost him for good. >> when he first fell, he grabbed onto the rocks. and then within a few seconds, he slid back probably another two or three feet. and at that point, his legs actually went over the brink. >> but against all odds, t...

But they are now searching for any sign of life. i want to show you video as they updated that they found a life ring and also found a life boat. there are two life boats on the boat that normally holds about 43 people but the life boat was efrp fee. they also said they found an unidentified body still in a sur vial survival suit. the captain planned to surpass hurricane kwjoaquin but there w a boat issue that caused it to sink. we heard distress call, it took on water and it forced the 33 crew ...

Stuff in it but they cant be sure its coming from the missing cargo ship. they did get a life ring with the ships name on it. there was a container discovered. wood, life jackets and sky row fo -- styrofoam spread across the surface. what they havent found is any sign of the 33 members that were the crew. this vessel was on its way from the united states, jacksonville, florida, headed to puerto rico, as you mention, ran into trouble because it ran into the hurricane. last heard from 7:00 a.m. th...

Aircraft. we flew it very high, up at 27,000 feet altitude so we could scan a very wide area. weve covered 70,000 square nautical miles yesterday, looking for the "el faro," so based on all of that, for our search planning efforts, we are assuming that the vessel has sank. we believe it sank in the last known position that we recorded on thursday. so, what that means, though, we just change our search-planning efforts. we are still looking for survivors or any signs of life, any signs of that ve...

Survivor could be found. you heard the coast guard captain say, they will not underestimate someones will to survive. its something they wont discount, but he continued to reiterate how difficult the conditions of survival would have been here. the discoveries were made yesterday. thats when they located the initial debris field that led them to believe the ship had sunk. they started to find evidence that the material in the water had, in fact, belonged to "el far on the." they found a life rin...

History. >> the kind of thing that i know first responders are saying theyre witnessing a change in the landscape down in the carolinas. things are washed away they wont put-back together again. >> im sure the pictures will be telling. >> well come back to you if the news warrants. thank you very much. >> this fox news alert. the search for the 33 people missing on a cargo ship in the bermuda triangle. nearly all of them americans. search and rescue crews reporting they found a second debris fie...