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That john liked helicopters and he'd get excited and flap his arms and the first thing i asked is, can you ask the helicopters to back off a little? >> he'd be excited now then by the helicopters, the crowd, all the attention he was getting. no, he was not afraid. >> the lines carry 230,000 volts, enough juice to power a small town. the authorities cut the electricity but they warn there may still be 20,000 volts of residual power. captain terry self of the mesa fire department harnesses himself to the tower and leads the rescue. >> get higher and higher and before you get to the top, some poi...

Myself into this? >> the plan -- terry and firefighter jeff mitchell will harness the boys and rappel down the tower with them. with night falling and temperatures dropping, it's becoming a risky operation. >> james had john's hand clamped down on to the little 3-inch angle iron girder there. he had a death grip on it. his brother's hand was blue. >> it's been two tense hours since the crisis began when another option makes a dramatic entrance. a special utility truck called a condor equipped with a 150-foot boom. by coincidence, it had been undergoing repairs just a few miles away. >> they on...

Out protesters opposed to the prime minister. now in the streets around the park protesters are setting fires while the sound of chaos echoes all across the city. i want to get to the thick of things. what are you seeing right now? >> reporter: well, don, we're down on one corner of the square and down this street about 200 yards down there there are still large groups of protesters in the side streets that lead to the square and they continue to fight running battles with riot police. that white vehicle that you can see now just reversing up the street is one of the police water canons. they ...

Somebody today described him as a cornered cat, that he's desperate and you don't know how he will strike out. so they're trying to proceed with as much caution as they possibly can to take him alive, but also to make sure there's no loss of life, and we're told that right in the vicinity of where they've got him, there's also sort of a 40 gallon tank so they will be very careful about that as well. they don't want to fire a random shot and have something happen there. >> but at this point, john king, with night falling, night is actually to the advantage of law enforcement personnel. they hav...

Poultry plants and other small businesses. against provisions that let the cops check the immigration status of people they stop for suspicious behavior. and allow school officials to verify a student's legal status and make it a crime for illegal residents not to carry registration papers. supporters of this measure say the crackdown will help legal residents find work. people all around the world had trouble with their email today. we'll see what triggered a global blackberry problem and why it is not fixed even yet. plus a family called 911 after getting loss in a corn maze. >> i don't see ...