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Its just amazing, just fantastic, i cant believe it. at precisely eight oclock, for the fifth week in a row, it felt like the whole of the uk erupted. # let it shine, let it shine, let it shine.# 8000 miles from home, members of the british antarctic surveyjoined in. in the middle east, divers from hms ledbury clapped and washed their hands at the same time. in the skies above wiltshire, the pilot of a light aircraft plotted his flight path to spell out his gratitude. while on the ground, the so...

Rooneys drafted me. chris: they thought you were irish. >> they thought i was irish. >> for me, i want to push my own limits for the human potential. my larger purpose is to inspire others. chris: collin is talking about his athletic abilities. his records are astonishing. becoming the first person to walk across antartica solo and rowing across the worlds most treacherous waters. do you ever think in the middle of one of these challenges, ex depictions, what the hell am i doing? >> all the time...

Attorney general, a director of the cia, a secretary of labor, a secretary of commerce and someone to head up the small business administration. were expecting him to complete that by early january. jessica dean, cnn, wilmington, delaware. syrian refugees were forced to flee a camp in lebanon after a tent caught fire and the blaze spread through the entire settlement. the un agency in lebanon said the fire happened after a violent dispute on saturday night, although no official cause is being ...

Leslies body to float from where he said she fell to where she was found, 150 feet and three waterfalls downstream? >> when we brought in the really top-notch water flow experts, we had to go back and try to duplicate the water flow as it was on the evening of the event. >> reporter: in august 2009, 15 months after leslie died, investigators headed up to cottonwood creek to conduct some tests. they dressed a woman around leslies size in similar clothing to what she wore the day she died. and pos...

Their theories, but did they have a case? fred went home to texas, where his family thought would be the end of it. >> his entire philosophy through all of this was it was an accident, im telling the truth. >> and he wanted to cooperate. he wanted to help them see that. >> reporter: but investigators hadnt seen that. not at all. and if fred couldnt answer their questions, theyd head back to cottonwood creek and hope that the water could. >> coming up -- fred has always said that water carried le...

Of those tests, pointing out, in one, how the female stand-in wasnt swept downstream and in another the mannequin wasnt washed over the waterfall and eventually sank to the bottom. >> are you seeing any sliding of the mannequin into the water? >> no. >> any washing or oozing? >> no. >> reporter: the prosecutions drowning expert was blunt. to her, freds story was pure fiction. >> the water, theres nothing in that environment water-wise that could have gotten her to that spot. a human being had to...

Of the planet, antarctica. scientists call this the domesday glacier. its roughly the size of britain, but the ice is vanishing fast. billions of tonnes of melt water pouring into the sea every year. to assess the damage, the biggest science survey in antarctic history got under way. the glacier holds a colossal amount of water, and if it collapses, cities around the world could be swamped by the rising seas. the ice here is very accessible to change, and so if we are thinking about what the sea...

Very much for having me. these are very much for having me. these a re really not very much for having me. these are really not technical mountains, but they are very easily accessible from tehran, quite steep, high relief, basically, you very quickly get to about 4000 metres above sea level, so the alborz mountains area level, so the alborz mountains are a relatively young mountain range, $0 are a relatively young mountain range, so they are very steep, the southside has very little vegetation,...

Could have avalanches. this sounds relatively accessible. are they quite popular with locals and visitors? they are really quite popular, so they have a ski area on top, there is an aerial tramway that goes to the top, very popular with hikers, back country skiers, limited slope, medium slopes for skiers, they are on the outskirts of northern tehran, the station for the aerial tramway is northern tehran itself, so very easy access, but if you are not prepared, it can be very treacherous. what ab...

Visitors? they are really quite popular, so they have a ski area on top, there is an aerial tramway that goes to the top, very popular with hikers, backcountry skiers, limited slope, medium slopes for skiers, they are on the outskirts of northern tehran, the station for the aerial tramway is northern tehran itself, so very easy access, but if you are not prepared, it can be very treacherous. what about rescue shelters and infrastructure on the mountain range? what is there available? there are s...