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Even in rural iowa. as the robbers move through the 2,400-square-foot bank, threatening the employees, the cash nears know that there are panic buttons beneath their registers. pushing those buttons would alert the fayette county sheriff, but if they're caught going for the alarms, it could mean disaster. a fatal mistake if the robbers start firing. >> the only one that could have would have been cheryl, but she wasn't in the first window that she went to, there isn't one in there and she really didn't have a chance. >> you don't want to put anybody in jeopardy. you know, if they would have se...

He actually pushes her to the ground. he checks with the customer that's back here and gets him on the ground. you'll see him walk another employee and force her to the ground. you see he has the gun in his right hand. >> the only chance employees have to stop the robbery in progress is to sound a silent alarm. each teller station has a button underneath its table. and the bank's other desks have remote controls with panic buttons as well. but no bank employee has the chance to push them. >> when you're ordered like that and you have a gun there, they're thinking about their own safety. they d...

A man temporarily off the job. brian nielson was suspended for flying the flag from a fire truck during an independence day parade in minnesota. south of minneapolis. he did it because he is fed up with political correctness. he is concerned the flag will vanish completely. he plans to apologize to parade organizers and hopes to get back on the job soon. >> a brand new way to keep the postal workers. they are giving out panic buttons to all of the letter carriers. when they activate the noblemobile device they send them through gps. they reported more than 400 assaults on the jobs. it will cos...

Is there not some kind of equivalent of a panic button that a pilot or co pilot can press that alerts the airline that somebody somewhere is a major problem. >> there's nine different panic buttons. >> is it feasible that they weren't able to do any of that, shorter than an explosion which has blown this plane to pieces in a second, is it feasible that if it had been an accident of some kind none of them would have had time to alert anyone? >> the only thing i can think that's common to everything that we have out, the transponders, the acars, any of the vhf radios, all of that is located down...

>> i think they have a strong suspicion that we are, especially when you have to turn in all of your documentation to the banks and it says what they are. but for them, they can ignore it. so we take great pains for them to ignore it, like paying our vendors with cash. we also febreeze the money who is doesn't smell like pot when they get it and we pay an armored vehicle to pick up the money to take it to the bank for us. >> we try not to keep any amount of cash in high levels in any one location. >> reporter: big stashes of cash locked away in saves: guard dogs to discourage attackers. for ev...