play it again. a calf stuck on an icy pond when a helicopter used the rotors to propel the calf to safety. we played it over and over. so cute. this is so good we had to talk to the guy who made all of this possible. mason don, nationally recognized news chopper pilot joins me now. mason tell me, who do you have with you? who is that? my photographer. ken kilgore. good to talk to you. good to talk to you. okay, so, listen, tell me about how you got the call for the calf? a woman called me. she said she saw the deer rescue three years ago. they told me the 2-year-old calf
born on christmas was in the middle of a frozen pond and wanted to know if there was anything we could do. took down their information. ran it by a couple of people. and ken and i hop in the helicopter and we headed that way. which enwe when we arrived, the whole flight there i was wondering what kind of situation i would be looking at when i got there. and when i get there, i notice it s a huge pond, no trees, no wires, the calf is right out in the middle. took me about, i don t know, two seconds to make a decision. i told ken, i circled the pond once and i said, let s go do this. we made it happen. and you re looking through the view finder, what are you thinking? we showed up. we got the camera turned around. i said, we re going in. he said don t lose the calf out of the picture frame.
pictures, we just got them in from a cnn employee who was on the ski lift when it jolted to a stop with more than 200 people on board. six people had to be transferred to the hospital with their injuries, and joining me now on the phone to update us is ethan austin from sugarloaf resort. ethan, are you there? yes, i am. okay. ethan, tell us what happened. what is the status of this rescue operation now? well, the rescue operation has been completed. they finished, our ski patrol finished evacuating the lift around noon today, and what happened was at about 10:30 a.m. this morning, one of our chair lifts derailed from one tower and as a result of that, a number of chairs fell and at least three of those chairs directly impacted the ground. at that point the lift was shut off and our ski patrol immediately responded, treated anybody who was injured, and went about getting everybody off of that lift. so listen, do we know what the cause of this is? do you know what cause