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Lucky for him he was able to think fast enough and jump onto the hood and avoid what could have easily been seriously injury or death. >> yeah. see that jump? >> that jump -- >> saved his life. >> -- saved his life. absolutely right. instead of getting pushed down. he would have hit his head on the pavement. i guess thats how it happens. >> almost like cat-like reflexes. >> yeah. >> i dont know that i would have been able to act that way. >> right. in your mind, you are going "not good." but the...

>> the government, theyre trying to be helpful. the interesting thing here is that this was indirectly relying on a piece of infrastructure that the bad guys controlled. >> reporter: it has been up for eight months but a court order allowing them to do that expired. so they pulled the plug on the computer life support system. and users are now on their own. t.j. winick, abc news, new york. it was a wild scene on the jersey shore. and it had nothing to do with snooki and company. a new jersey t...

Cover to extend the bush tax cuts. that obama would pay a price if he did it himself without any support. if he wins re-election, the bush tax cuts are not going to be extended. i dont care what he can extract from the republicans for it. it isnt going to happen. thats why clinton running around and saying he thinks they should be extended is such a big deal. >> richard wolf, theres rush limbaugh on the smart thinking about this. >> look, the smart thinking. whats going on here right now is obvi...

It is very obvious what the republicans are trying to do and why it is in their interest to try to spin clintons comments and lawrence summers comments to try to suggest theyre saying something theyre not. we dont need to buy into it. thats part of what bothers me about this. from the perspective of a political tactic, why were accepting letting the republicans tell us what time it is, letting rush limbaugh tell us what time it is is ridiculous. there is no daylight between what the president is...

It is very obvious what the republicans are trying to do and why it is in their interest to try to spin clintons comments and lawrence summers comments to try to suggest theyre saying something theyre not. we dont need to buy into it. thats part of what bothers me about this. from the perspective of a political tactic, why were accepting letting the republicans tell us what time it is, letting rush limbaugh tell us what time it is is ridiculous. there is no daylight between what the president is...

Time i wasnt able to sleep, the first few days. i had to actually go to the hospital and meet the family and kind of, you know, see that they were okay and then i slept pretty good but ive only seen video one time because i really dont like seeing it. it is emotional. jenna: absolutely. we can understand it. sound like you did an amazing job, mark. >> there was a lot of people that did amazing. >> sound like a lot of people came together in the community there but smart thinking. >> yes. jenna:....

Mr. hernandez out of the car, out from under the car. jenna: what smart thinking, mark, to run over to pharmacy aisle and grab medical supplies. was that a gut reaction? have you been trarnd to respond to these sorts of emergencies? >> no. i have two kids. so you read up on stuff, and just, there is certain things. just common sense. i knew the pharmacy was there and i went ahead grabbed whatever was there. grabbed the gauze. publix will not mind me grabbing all this stuff. jenna: sure. >> i gra...

Get to locked classrooms. at the college level and perhaps in other situation, depending where a person is, they may flee. they may get out of the building especially with a college and university you have adults less supervised than k-12 student, kindergartner, middle school student. jenna: one kid locked the door to the classroom, turned off the lights and a lot of fellow students credited her for smart thinking. they didnt get away but they were able to try to have a little bit of a disguise....

>> smart thinking. what she didnt know was a neighbor was videotaping this and once it was posted it went viral. the reaction, overwhelmingly negative. >> look how enormous that moose is. i had no idea they were that big. >> oh, yeah. >> wow. >> i would never have guessed it. why would you even -- she could see how big it was. why did you go up and pet that dinosaur looking thing? >> theyre not known to be dangerous, are they? >> whatever. its bigger than me. im not touching it. >> i forgot. you...

Well. the law is off the books. so youre free to flip the bird in baldwin, missouri. but cant believe he got cited for that. flipped the dude off. crazy world we live in. let the birds free. let the birds fly. >> so a little bit of jealous rage in pennsylvania. police have charges against a western pennsylvania man with falsely reporting a natural gas leak. he was trying to determine if his girlfriend was hiding another man in her residence in an adjoining building. so he made the false report b...