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The gap, and here's why. today, in australia, a man got stuck while boarding a train. his leg was wedged between the train and the platform. transit workers could not get him out, and then dozens of passengers tilted the train, just enough so he could escape. the man, we're told, was not hurt. in a moment, we'll sail back in time aboard america's oldest commercial ship. when folks think about what they get from alaska, they think salmon and energy. but the energy bp produces up here creates something else as well: jobs all over america. engineering and innovation jobs. advanced safety systems ...

In seven states. >> at least eight people have been struck by lightning on the boardwalk in venice beach, california. paramedics were on the scene, the strike also caused a power outage in that area. also this afternoon, a terrible scene on a beach in venice, florida, a small plane crashed there killing a man. the man was walking with his daughter on casperson beach when a plane, a 1972 piper cherokee, came down. the daughter was critically injured. >> up next, kayakers at kennedy airport. how did they enter a restricted area? and a mixed marshall arts savvy employee foils a convenience store ...

>> after the assault, rhodes sneaks back into his apartment. >> now i have to clean this blood up before it points a finger right at me. i go into the house. i clean the knife. that's the bottom line. >> but do you feel a sense of relief almost? >> relief that i got away. >> relief that the mission was accomplished? >> no, i don't think that i was ever relieved that a mission was accomplished in any case and that's why the mission had to continue. it wasn't filling the void. >> the next morning, police canvass the area with their new description of the suspect. a white man in his 20s with wire...

Even in the desert there is such a thing as too hot. at joshua tree national park east of los angeles, the last decade was the hottest on record. and now as danielle nottingham explanation, these stark symbols of the american southwest are beginning to die off. >> reporter: looking like sculptures in the sand, joshua trees are icons of the mojave desert. more than a million of them stand under the blazing southern california sun in joshua tree national park. these trees have survived here because their roots are capable of finding water deep in the desert ground but there are early indications...

Speed when it hits the surface and then its weight increases about a thousand pounds a second as the water flows in. the pilot pulls up just short of hitting the beach, hauling 16,000 gallons. imagine that from the cockpit. why has this fire been so explosive? well, have a look at this. this is the snow pack last january. this is what it looks like now. california is in extreme drought and here's ben tracy. >> less than an hour after the fire started, 320 firefighters were on the scene and five helicopters were dropping water. >> last night we had an additional ten fire engines on with our reg...