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Symbol of the division between east and west. when you went to see it in person, id been there several times before, you could never adequately convey the coldness of it on camera. it was this ominous piece of slab of concrete. and we knew obviously about all the people who had paid for their lives trying to get over it. >> the day after arriving in berlin brokaw attends a press conference called by the minister of information for the east german republic, a man named gunter schabowski. >> the r...

>> theyll take an object which maybe costs $200 and add a name or two to it, and the value will increase to $2 million. >> he then took me to the israel museum to see inscriptions on some of their most prized finds. >> this is one of the remarkable finds. what we see here is the actual inscription mentioned in not only pontius pilate but mentioning the emperor tiberius. >> this inscription was found purely by chance. archaeologists turned over a large slab being reused as a seat in this grand ou...

Hearing any fixes to it, you know? how are we supposed to afford these high costs? especially for the group that im in. the little too much but not quite enough, you know? i make a little too much money to get a subsidy and not enough to afford a full-price plan. martha: ive heard the president write off that group. a lot of those people are going to get subsidies, but a lot of them wont. and youre one of them. >> right. martha: as you say, youre caught right in that middle zone, right? >> i am....

Thank you. thank god hes got long arms, huh? and we got some hot water. we make do. you know, we do what we got to do to live and survive in this nice little space of ours. i smoke cigarettes. but i cant get a cigarette here anymore, so i cut myself. then they think that im trying to kill myself. they put me in a butt naked room which is bull [ bleep ] because im not trying to kill myself. if i was going to kill myself, id just slice up or hang myself, know what im saying? i carved c-14 in my ar...

Wall splits the city in two. >> the wall was this sinister symbol of the division between east and west. when you went to see it in person, id been there several times before, you could never adequately convey the coldness of it on camera. it was this ominous piece of slab of concrete. and we knew obviously about all the people who had paid for their lives trying to get over it. >> the day after arriving in berlin brokaw attends a press conference called by the minister of information for the ea...

. >> i was picked up in a whirlwind. i landed against the wall, i asked, god, please, just save me. just the dont let me do i. huge chunks of concrete just hitting my body. every time another slab of concrete hit me, i just the felt ribs break, another slab, another slab, another slab. i was waiting for that one thing that was going to hit me. maybe i can take it. maybe im strong enough i can withstand the shot. it didnt happen. 11 second later, i was alive. >> thats a fire fighter talk figure a...

Wall splits the city in two. >> the wall was the sinister symbol between the east and west. when youd been there to visit it in person -- id been there several times before -- you can never adequately convey the coldness of it on camera. it was this ominous piece of slab of concrete. and we knew, obviously, about all the people who had paid for their lives trying to get over it. >> the day after arriving in berlin, brokaw attends a press conference called by the min stir of information of east g...

Slab behind me. theyre pulling it up. going to put in a brand new school but not until next year. for now three quarters of the kids who used to go to school here who live in the area, theyre going to go to a new building, a different building. its going to be a tough day not just for the kids, but for the grownups. >> if we have to hide our fears and our yap prehennion for starting thats what were going to do. >> reporter: at a staff meeting thursday principal amy simpson struggled with emotion...

Comment or sexual orientation comment, because your words have impact and when you say them, people listen and it can hurt people. >> must see baseball. the angels shuck running out of room in left field. jumps into the stands. hes gone. where did he go? there he is. and in fact, he has the baseball, too. he made the catch. teammates fired up. watch shuck dive in. he actually landed on a slab of concrete, but he jumps back up, gets back on the field and they rule that a catch. a great catch. per...

But, safe to say, kate, no beer summit, too. not even a bromance. its going to be frosty for a while. >> there you go. even got one more beer reference in. all right, jim, i love it. seriously, a lot of fight for the heart and soul of the republican party. what direction are they going to go and who will be the leading candidate come 2016. >> all good questions. well take a break right now. coming up on "new day" a dolphin stranded and not at the beach, at sea world on a slab of concrete. dist...