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The latest headlines. >> so far, weve looked at the history of cuba and the current day repression of the castro regime. but president obama has turned the page on all of that. what had to happen to make this

September 22nd, 2005. class is in full swing at trapeze school new york. beginners are learning to fly and catch from instructors, including jonas speer. >> it was -- i think it was our first class of the day. >> sweep, legs not so high and back. >> we spend two hours with them working on the ground and in the air on flying trapeze tricks. >> one of the students takes his turn on the bar. a classmate films him with his digital camera. >> we were flying on the trapeze, i was up on the board getti...

And all of a sudden -- she gets hit with 7200 volts of electrici electricity. >> you see the spark, bright light and then the bear falls backwards, plummets to the ground. >> i thought she was done. the fall let alone being shocked. theres no way that bear is okay. >> witnesses are relieved to find the bear survived the shock and fall with only minor burns and some bruising. after rehab at a local zoo, the mama bear is reunited with her cub and released back into the wild. >> its such an upsetti...

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And say that i am a lineman for pg&e because its my hometown. its a rewarding feeling. 23 minutes after the hour. just before the break we talked about new york and new jersey watching out for this storm. they are not the only ones waiting for this snow, ice, wintry mix, whatever is on the way. >> which is dangerous at the end of the day. ivan is joining us with your forecast. we know our friends in boston, they are going to be feeling it. >> absolutely. i lived there 10 years. only safe for a...

>> firefighters record the action with their own video cameras. theyre hoping to catch this rare high-angle rescue on camera to be used in training video one day. minutes pass. theyre prepping captain fulford. but down in the bucket, kim is starting to wonder if theyll ever be saved. >> just dangling there, i wasnt sure what they were doing. were they figuring out how to get us? were we hopeless? >> but now hes on his way to kim and the others. >> i couldnt feel him necessarily moving when he wa...

My naim a lineman for pg&e out of the concord service center. i have lived here pretty much my whole life. i have been married for twelve years. i have 3 kids. i love living here and i love working in my hometown. at pg&e we are always working to upgrade reliability to meet the demands of the customers. im there to do the safest job possible - not only for them, but everybody, myself included that lives in the community. im very proud to do the work that i do

August 2nd, 2005, davenport, iowa, a developmentally disabled man and his caretaker are riding on a 50-foot ferris wheel when disaster strikes. >> he slipped underneath his safety harness and was dangling from the top of the ferris wheel. >> the caretaker gave it all she had. i mean, you see her screaming and holding on to his arm and hes slipping through. >> oh my god! >> but she cant hold on any longer. >> he falls. your stomach just drops. i screamed. its goose bump inducing. >> but help is o...

Motorist motorists, but to weaken arch-enemmy iran which depends on oil revenue. the saudis decided they could afford to earn less from their oil and that their rivals could not. the ripple effect has been enormous, weakening russias putin and striking a blow against surging american oil production leaving some u.s. wells idle, no longer cost effective. still, the king was a close u.s. ally although famously closer to president bush than to president obama. he didnt trust obama. and was outraged...

Its meow mix mealtime. with great taste and 100% complete nutrition, its the only one cats ask for by name. my name is bret hembree. i am an electric crew foreman out of the cupertino service center. i was born and raised in the cupertino area. its a fantastic area to work. the new technology that we are installing out in the field is important for the customers because system reliability i believe is number one. pg&e is always trying to plan for the future and we are always trying to build some...