reporter: 34-year-old n nik wallenda isn t your average everyday sort of guy. he lives his life on a wire, a very, very high wire. my great-grandfather carl wallenda said life is on the wire and everything else is waiting. reporter: he s on a quest. nik s constantly thinking, bigger, greater, higher, faster. reporter: to accomplish a fete even beyond what his historically acrobatic family has accomplished. his latest life-letenithreateni stunt, walking across the grand cany canyon. it s breathtaking. it s highly dangerous. reporter: walk 1,400 feet, nearly the length of five
that it is second nature. that is when something will come up to bite you. whether a gust of wind or a cable moving underneath your feet so. those are the things that help me keep my focus are when those things happen, a gust of wind or something. it is kind of a wake-up call, saying hey, you re up on a wire and you need to be careful. martha: what is the scariest moment you ve had? i would say the scariest moment i had when i was breaking a world record in newark, new jersey, on a bicycle on a wire. the record was for distance. it was 235 feet across. there was a large dip in the middle of the wire. on the way uphill the back wheel started to spin. i sort of, didn t so much lose balance and didn t know what i would do in order to get in. ended up backing to get momentum to make it all the way. that was probably the scariest moment in my career. martha: sarasota obviously has a lot of meaning for , doesn t it? it does. this where i was born and raised. this is about the community.
arrived. they will pull them to safety when the shaft is big enough. the hole is big enough to give them the comforts of home. they can sleep on cots and talk with families on a video phone and watch movies. they want easier access to e-mails in order to track criminals and terrorists. increased online communication rather than by telephone made it harder to wire tap suspects. the bill would require blackberry, facebook and skype to redesign the software so fbi officials can react on a wire tap order. communication is difficult to intercept because they are not routed through a central hub. southwest airlines plans to buy air trend giving the airlines a bigger share of the market. the deal continues and the airline industry s trend towards consolidation. if approved it would coming to n 2010. we are expecting a couple of reports on the economy.
republicans of not being serious when it comes to getting the financial ship in order. what i see out of the republican leadership over the last several years has been a set of policies that are just irresponsible. we saw in the pledge to america a similar set of irresponsibility policies and they propose four trillion worth of tax cuts and $16 billion in spending cuts and say we will somehow magically balance the budget. that s not a serious approach. republicans demand democrats schedule a vote to extend the tax cuts before lawmakers go on recess. the democrats are accusing republicans are tying things up in the senate. in the battle in the desert, harry reid is tied with tea party candidate sharon angle running as a republican. the latest survey fines angle tied reed at 43%. 8% undecided.
actually takes place in jacksonville, florida. at the jacksonville, florida, airport. just a few years ago, 2013, the widow of one of the past dictators of guinea, the widow of the dictator who died in 2008, she became a cooperating witness for the fbi. one day in the spring of 2013, she put on a wire. the fbi wired her up so they could surveil and tape her conversation. and she went to the jacksonville airport. and she had a meeting at a diner at the jacksonville airport with a representative from a large mining company with interests in her home country and in that big iron ore deposit. in 2008, guinea had awarded to this company the exploration rights to half of that gigantic deposit of iron ore. it was a little bit of an unusual deal at the time because the guinean government had previously awarded all of the rights for that mine to a totally different company, but then inexplicably, a few years later they just sort of changed their mind and decided that half the rights would now g