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I'm right here. you're right there. >> we were very safe in our planning. >> and maybe a foot or two behind me. >> so, right prior to us jumping we all had a great feeling. high fives and feeling stoked and just let's do it. >> a two-person safety crew is there to observe the jump from start to finish and call for help in case of emergency. with everyone in place, it's go time. >> when you first step off the edge, you first have, you have zero gravity. you're kind of floating and then you start to pick up speed. the wind is blowing in your face and now you're really starting to pick up speed a...

Sent him on a 180-foot plunge to the river below. amazingly, though, he survived and then swam until rescuers plucked him to safety. he was seriously injured but is expected to live. that makes him the third person to survive going over the falls without a safety device. unbelievable. in washington state, it was a harrowing ordeal for a 13-year-old boy stuck on a tiny ledge for eight hours. >> hi watchedm frcros river for those eight hours to makre hsawa >> cgineents that? let's take a look at your w rain from the northeast. showers around d.c. thunderstorms in the southeast. stormy in the...

washington. this is very serious. they're not telling us where these jets were scrambled from but you know it is serious when they scramble two aircraft to bring in a civilian passenger jet. >> reporter: yeah. the two f-15s for scrambled about 40 minutes before this plane landed in bangor. there are a couple nearby bases that could do that, but norad confirmed they did use two f-15s to accompany this plane, which is a boeing 767. us airways flight 787 onto the ground in bangor, maine. buses look like they could be there for deplaining those 179 passengers. y you mentioned the tsa did...

You're right there. >> we were very safe in our planning. >> and maybe a foot or two behind me. >> so, right prior to us jumping we all had a great feeling. high fives and feeling stoked and just let's do it. >> a two-person safety crew is there to observe the jump from start to finish and call for help in case of emergency. with everyone in place, it's go time. >> when you first step off the edge, you first have, you have zero gravity. you're kind of floating and then you start to pick up speed. the wind is blowing in your face and now you're really starting to pick up speed and you're fallin...

I'm right here. you're right there. >> we were very safe in our planning. >> and maybe a foot or two behind me. >> so, right prior to us jumping we all had a great feeling. high fives and feeling stoked and just let's do it. >> a two-person safety crew is there to observe the jump from start to finish and call for help in case of emergency. with everyone in place, it's go time. >> when you first step off the edge, you first have, you have zero gravity. you're kind of floating and then you start to pick up speed. the wind is blowing in your face and now you're really starting to pick up speed a...