that their cars are being submerged. they cannot get through to anybody on their phones. people s food supplies are running out. so they know a lot about hurricanes. they have never experienced a hurricane like this. this is starting to feel more and more like the bahamas since katrina. there is good news, the coast guard has sent a rescue chopper from the united states. and they have begun carrying out rescues this evening. obviously, much more need still out there as this hurricane continues to wreck just total hell on the islands. thank you very much. we re going to speak to the coast guard about that in just a moment. i want to go now to chris
a helicopter rescue in phoenix turned into a terrifying ordeal for a 75-year-old hiker. the video tells the whole story here. the woman had to be rescued after falling and hitting her face and her head. when the rescue chopper arrived, the pilot began to lift her up and then air turbulence from the chopper s rotor caused the rescue basket to spin wildly. look at that! wildly! they eventually stopped the spinning and safely hoisted the woman onboard. sometimes if we re in a canyon, if it s a strong, windy day, it will spin on us. it doesn t happen very often, but sometimes it just does. and when it does, we re trained to take care of it. ahh! elizabeth mccormack is a decorated former u.s. apparently blackhawk helicopter pilot and elizabeth, i mean, i have watched that over and over. and it s not like a little bit of spin, it s like, bang!
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goes from bad to worse. oh, that s horrible. good lord. oh, fellows. my goodness. you re watching this live, folks. if you know a prayer, say it. and now it s the rescuers who need help. just moments before the rescue chopper came crashing to the ground, its arrival was the most welcome sight to selena maestas, one of the climbers waiting on the ice, hoping for a miracle. this is her first trip to mt. hood. and just before the climb that morning, she has an uneasy feeling, admitting to her boyfriend, jeremiah, she s nervous. jeremiah and i promised each other that no one would die on this trip. it was a joke, of course. but then selena and jeremiah, both paramedics, attempting the summit with experienced climbers, six of them, paramedics or firemen. so they set out about 4:00 a.m. on a perfect spring morning. and by can a.m., their group is nearing the summit.
this thing with one of its most futuristic weapons, a rail gun. not a nail gun, a rail gun which fires projectiles at seven times the speed of sound. more than 5,000 miles per hour. if the zumwalt didn t sound straight out of science fiction, the name of the original captain is james kirk, captain james kirk. seriously. but on the zumwalt in this case. early saturday morning something interesting happened with the zumwalt. the u.s. coast guard stent out a request looking for assistance from any nearby vessels in the water off of portland. turns out the captain of a 45-foot long fishing boat called the danny boy was having chest pains. he called in i need help to the coast guard. the coast guard flew a rescue chopper out to get them out of their base on cape cod. when they got there they couldn t figure out a safe way to hoist him on the helicopter from the fishing boat. it wasn t going to work for some reason. the coast guard put out a call