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You may have seen big wave surfers before. but what happens when one of the best tries something that's never been done -- ride one of the most notorious waves in the world in total darkness? australian, mark visser, travels the world chasing big waves. but none more fearsome than those that break daily off the coast of maui. in winter, so threatening, the breaks have been nicknamed jaws. >> when you look at the big wave spots to choose from, jaws to me was the scariest. it breaks right into a cliff. >> for a risk-taker like visser, the cliff doesn't make it scary enough. he wants to push the ...

Bonet, a lifelong alaskan, lives in fairbanks, a former gold rush boomtown that prides itself on its natural beauty. while covering local crime stories in 2003, bonet learns that police are using taser guns as a crime-fighting tool. his curiosity is piqued when a police officer makes an offhand comment. >> they were talking about tasers and their effectiveness and he jokingly said you should do it. it's a lot of fun. and i said, yeah, sure, why not. fateful statement. >> fateful, indeed. a self-described risk taker, bonet decides to try it and capture it all on camera. >> when i told my co-wor...

Plan. >> would we be talking about that if jorge ramos didn't do what he did? >> probably not. i do think that donald trump is a risk taker. when you're advising a candidate for president, you say if you want to get around this issue, high i think you should do it. and in a couple weeks he'll do it. well, did it serve both purposes? i think so. at least it got everybody talking. also, i don't think that -- i think you could shout a question at the end of a press conference, not at the beginning of one. >> he pointed out -- i hadn't seen this. two question hs already been asked of the trump sta...

Was with us last night discussing the worst year of her life, which she has magically transformed in to brilliant comedy. she hung around after the show to talk about it a bit more. we'll show you more of that. in that terrible year, tig was diagnosed with breast cancer. just weeks before that, tig's mother died in a freak accident at home. you say my mother was hiss er the call. when i hear that from a hysterical stand up comedian, i want to know more. i feel like ah, that's where this whole career really begins. >> my mother, she was a prankster. i talked about that in the movie. she was ver...

Life, which she has magically transformed in to brilliant comedy. she hung around after the show to talk about it a bit more. we'll show you more of that. in that terrible year, tig was diagnosed with breast cancer. just weeks before that, tig's mother died in a freak accident at home. you say my mother was hysterical. when i hear that from a hysterical stand up comedian, i want to know more. i feel like ah, that's where this whole career really begins. >> my mother, she was a prankster. i talked about that in the movie. she was very free spirited and did her own thing. she was an artist, pain...