bicycle bicycle i want to ride my bicycle i want to ride my bike i love that song. his favorite queen song. it s unquestionably a bicycle race like no other. california to maryland, 3,000 miles. the race across america is regarded as the world s toughest endurance bicycle race. our cameras went along for the ride. we re up all nightline with abc s neal karlinksy. reporter: they call it the race across america or r.a.m., billed as the world s toughest and maybe craziest bike race. it s nonstop. 3,000 miles. there isn t anything close. reporter: 3,000 miles from california to maryland. no hotels, no beds to sleep in, just a bike, a support team and a camper and the willpower to ride night and day through rain and sweltering heat, all of it before the 12-day cutoff.
that are placed that rode their way through the skin, that when the patient opens their bra, you are looking straight at an implant that has worn a hole through the breast skin. reporter: not just bad plastic surgery but difficult patients like less than shy, janice dickenson. are you worried you are seeing so much, people are having a problem. i do. there are people who, injected themselves with silicone you see in warehouses. people have gone across the border and had dangerous procedures done for discount that turned into a nightmare. reporter: i can t figure out if you doing the show and talking about this is good for business or terrible for business. i don t care that it is good or bad. i care that people understand the truth about plastic surgery and treat it like it is. that is a serious surgical procedure with serious ramifications. reporter: yeah, it can turn into a horror show. it can and does. reporter: neal karlinksy for
a brand new series premiering tonight on e! that spotlights a darker side of plastic surgery. we are up all nightline with abc s neal karlinksy. meet specialists, and stars of botched filled with plastic surgery gone wrong. this is what happens when then get botched. two crusading doctors trying to fix sometimes desperate how many surgeries have you had on your nose? six. three different surgeries. reporter: and sometimes just plain weird patients. my reason for contacting you, i was looking for a surgeon to help me in my quest to rebuild and modify my body. so i have come up with some new plans for a quad implant, calf implant and lat implants. you devised these? yeah, yeah, i did them myself. reporter: americans spent more than $7 billion on plastic surgery last year. doctors dubroes and
if you go down about four to five feet, there s a bench down there. reporter: this which looks like a pond is actually the field where the state s high school baseball all-stars were supposed to play this weekend. that game had to be moved. it s been an unusually violent weekend of weather. severe thunderstorms blew through chicago bringing trees down on homes and wiping out power lines, even causing hundreds of delays at o hare airport. back in minnesota where they re living through the wettest first half of the year on record, they re still coping with a series of mudslides. a number of them keeping us from reaching the small town of henderson. but it s a forecast of more rain that has them concerned because this land of 10,000 lakes can t take much more. they re just keeping their fingers crossed here that if there is more rain to come, it doesn t make things any worse. neal karlinksy, abc news, chaska, minnesota. now to a near tragedy in georgia. a man walks away after getting
feet above flood stage at cedar falls, iowa. much higher than initially expected. even before that, many roads were flooded and closed. and minneapolis, the swollen mississippi river left a hospital building teetering above the water. the mud fell onto a parkway along the river, narrowly missing two passing cars. abc s neal karlinksy has more on the wicked wet weather. reporter: along the crow river in delano, the water is reaching its peak, just barely protected by a freshly built dike. but some businesses on the wrong side of that barrier are now scrambling. yesterday morning we had, i don t know, 40 or 50 people here that were just sandbagging. because as you can see, we re on the wrong side of the clay leavee. reporter: the smallest towns facing the biggest impact. in chaska, the minnesota river is choked with logs and getting higher. that little shack over there,