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News Cut: August 15, 2010 Archive

The nightmare is over

Posted at 8:21 AM on August 15, 2010 by Bob Collins
Filed under: Weather

Even though it probably announces the beginning of the end of summer, Sunday morning brought the long-awaited, refreshing, low-humidity, you-can-do-anything convincing cool air to the Upper Midwest.

It's the kind of day that makes you want to be a kid at summer camp again:

Fall of a folk hero

Posted at 8:14 AM on August 15, 2010 by Bob Collins (1 Comments)
Filed under: Aviation

Video has been released showing the Jet Blue flight attendant -- also known formerly as 'the new American folk hereo' -- jumping off his flight by deploying the emergency chute last week.

View more news videos at: http://www.nbcnewyork.com/video.


The most illuminating part of the video is it shows the plane at the gate, not sitting out on the tarmac. He simply could have walked off the plane the way normal people do.
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