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Lucky for him he was able to think fast enough and jump onto the hood and avoid what could have easily been seriously injury or death. >> yeah. see that jump? >> that jump -- >> saved his life. >> -- saved his life. absolutely right. instead of getting pushed down. he would have hit his head on the pavement. i guess that's how it happens. >> almost like cat-like reflexes. >> yeah. >> i don't know that i would have been able to act that way. >> right. in your mind, you are going "not good." but then you think -- whatever you are saying. then you think to jump. thank goodness he did. >> gosh, sm...

>> the government, they're trying to be helpful. the interesting thing here is that this was indirectly relying on a piece of infrastructure that the bad guys controlled. >> reporter: it has been up for eight months but a court order allowing them to do that expired. so they pulled the plug on the computer life support system. and users are now on their own. t.j. winick, abc news, new york. it was a wild scene on the jersey shore. and it had nothing to do with snooki and company. a new jersey teenager panicked when the power went out on a beach side chair lift ride as a thunderstorm rolled i...

Cover to extend the bush tax cuts. that obama would pay a price if he did it himself without any support. if he wins re-election, the bush tax cuts are not going to be extended. i don't care what he can extract from the republicans for it. it isn't going to happen. that's why clinton running around and saying he thinks they should be extended is such a big deal. >> richard wolf, there's rush limbaugh on the smart thinking about this. >> look, the smart thinking. what's going on here right now is obviously this prepositioning for the big discussion, the big negotiation, the grand compromise, if...

It is very obvious what the republicans are trying to do and why it is in their interest to try to spin clinton's comments and lawrence summers' comments to try to suggest they're saying something they're not. we don't need to buy into it. that's part of what bothers me about this. from the perspective of a political tactic, why we're accepting letting the republicans tell us what time it is, letting rush limbaugh tell us what time it is is ridiculous. there is no daylight between what the president is saying, what president clinton was saying, what lawrence summers was saying. you have both c...

It is very obvious what the republicans are trying to do and why it is in their interest to try to spin clinton's comments and lawrence summers' comments to try to suggest they're saying something they're not. we don't need to buy into it. that's part of what bothers me about this. from the perspective of a political tactic, why we're accepting letting the republicans tell us what time it is, letting rush limbaugh tell us what time it is is ridiculous. there is no daylight between what the president is saying, what president clinton was saying, what lawrence summers was saying. you have both c...