Hotlinks for 12/27 & 12/28

Here are the links to everything you saw in this weekend's special best-of-the-best "News To Me:"

CLOSE CALLS:
Backdraft -
- Full "News To Me" report
- Raw video on YouTube

Icy Rescue -
- Full "News To Me" report (in our "old school" red style)

Family Outruns Fire -
- Full "News To Me" report

VBS.tv:
Inside North Korea -
- Eric's full interview with VBS.tv reporter Shane Smith
- Shane's full series "The Vice Guide to North Korea" on VBS.tv

Garbage Island -
- Eric's full interview with VBS.tv reporter Thomas Morton
- Thomas' full series "Garbage Island" on VBS.tv

Coming soon -
- Eric's interview with VBS.tv reporter Ben Anderson about his series "Inside Afghanistan with Ben Anderson"

CAUGHT ON CAMERA:
- Trailer vs. bank
- Van vs trains
- Man rescued from burning car
- Experimental plane crash
- B2 bomber crash

TALES FROM THE DEEP:
Exploding whale -
- Eric and Nichole Lapin get the real story behind the exploding whale

Shark diving without a cage -
- Eric's full interview with shark videographer Tom Campbell

ADRENALINE JUNKIES:
Big wave specialist Garrett McNamara -
- Where in the world is Extreme Surfing World Champion G-Mac?
- visit Garrett's web site: garrettmcnamara.com

Blue suit skaters -
- Meet the skaters and the filmmakers who took high fashion to high speed
- Watch the full video on designer Adam Kimmel's Web site: adamkimmel.com

Mt. Hood ski-base jump -
- Watch the full "News To Me" report on Mattias Geriuas and his death defying jump off Mt. Hood

WEBHITS:
- Take a walk up El Camino del Rey
- Skydiving without a parachute
- This video has now been viewed over 63 million times on YouTube: Charlie bit me!
- Kid caught in vending machine
- Amazing viral travel ad
- "Clouds" of birds create the black sun phenomenon in Denmark

From everybody at "News To Me" we hope you enjoyed this look back at the best of the best! We're back next weekend with another special show, this time we're putting the spotlight on HLN's iReporters!