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The Philip DeFranco Show

PDS 8.22 The Billie Eilish Taylor Swift Problem, Horrifying Dangling Cable Car Rescue, & Today's News

The Philip DeFranco Show

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4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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0:00.0

Today we're talking about these kids stranded hundreds of feet in the air after one of the cables out of cable car snap.

0:05.3

The secret about near misses that are happening at airports multiple times every week.

0:09.0

These messy controversies around Taylor Swift and Billy Eilish.

0:12.0

And how the recreational marijuana industry is actually making legal weed dangerous.

0:15.3

We're going to talk about all that and so much more on today's brand new, extra large Philip DeFranco show you daily dive into the news.

0:21.5

So hit that like button to let me know you like these big shows. And let's just jump into it.

0:25.4

Starting with, this news is nightmare fuel. Because today you had this group of seven children and

0:29.5

their teacher with that group traveling to a school in a remote mountainous area using a cable car,

0:33.5

which turns out is a very popular method of transportation for the residents of this valley in Pakistan. Because since getting built some five years ago, it's been an absolute blessing to the local

0:40.8

students. Where their track to the nearest school was reduced from two hours to just four minutes.

0:44.7

But today, at around 7 a.m. local time, as the cable car was halfway across a gaping ravine,

0:49.2

one of the cable lines carrying the car suddenly snapped. Leaving this container full of kids as young as 10 years old,

0:54.3

dangling by a single intact cable some 900 feet above the ground.

0:57.9

And to make matters worse, attempting a helicopter rescue is super risk

1:00.8

because of gusty winds and the possibility that its rotors may further destabilize the car,

1:04.7

which is actually what began to happen when an army helicopter hovered overhead

1:07.5

while a commando slid down a rope to deliver food and water.

1:10.2

With it getting a little too close, causing the cable car to shake heavily.

1:13.1

Meanwhile, you had someone inside the car telling a local Al would be a cell phone that one child with a

1:16.6

heart condition had fainted after panicking. And by nightfall, only two of the children had

1:19.8

been taken to safety. With video showing one kid getting airlifted off the cable car by a helicopter and a harness, then the other reportedly being saved by locals using a zip line. But then they had to call off the helicopter rescue as night fell, making it too dark to continue.

1:30.6

As reportedly, floodlights were installed and a ground-based operation was underway.

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