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People on the planet who do formation sky diving with their parachute open. >> today his partner is katie hanson. >> she won't be so intimidated that they can't think and can't do. >> craig and i jump together all the time. >> hanson is recording their jump on her helmet cam. >> everybody has cameras. this is sky diving. >> stapleton and hanson are a good team with more than 11,000 jumps between them. stap 'em ton has done this stunt they are about to tackle before, but it's the first time for hanson. >> there is a learning curve where you have to figure out what could possibly be going. >> at...

My feet are actually on her shoulders i'm already down above her. >> he lowered down the tether. all i had to do was clip it in. >> then n the most delicate part of the maneuver, they separate, and start to unif you recall a huge american flag which isn't seen yet on camera. >> it's like flying in a hurricane. it's 80 miles an hour straight at the ground. >> but something goes terribly wrong: stapleton gets his foot tangled in his lines, porschely collapsing his parachute. >> at first i'm thinking oh, man i'm such an idiot, he can't believe i let this happen. my parachute starting spinning and...

Craigs and then i started just following him down. >> stapleton manages to free his arms and release the flag. but he's losing all the attitude, and hope, fast. >> now i'm down to one problem i have a malfunctioned parachute. sky divers are trained from jump one how to deal with a malfunctioned parachute. you reach down and pull the handle and release the parachute. >> the handle is jammed, so the only way to release the chute is to cut it free. but he is spining so violently he can't reach. >> i couldn't do it. >> fighting desperately for his life stapleton is down to his last resort. >> i wa...

Is so tangled it can't help the primary chute slow down his fall. >> i am at 500 feet and i have got a few seconds to think about what is important and say good-bye. >> a fellow sky diver's cell phone records stapleton as he plumts to earth. hand ton races to her friend. >> don't move, craig. don't move. >> i was 1700% sure that he was dead. >> hanson drops her helmet cam to the ground. what is your name. >> craig stabel on the. >> where are you? >> the drop zone in the [ bleep ] wine field. >> amazing, stapleton is breathing and conscious. but does he have lethal internal injuries. >> i'm all...

0 marathon's return has been all about. the whole city overcoming the worst and getting back to its best. one step at a time. tom foreman, cnn. >> admire those people a lot. that's it for be. thanks very much for watching. i'll be back 5:00 p.m. eastern in "the situation room." "newsroom" continues right now with brooke baldwin. it's called a virgin tax. nl rookies shelling out big bucks, part of a hazing ritual. but in one locker room, did it go too far, sending one player over the edge? >> i'm brooke baldwin. the news is now. police missing the alleged l.a.x. gunman by minutes. you will ...