A rescue team braves icy water to save a stranded dog after it fell through a frozen pond in Kentucky. WLWT's Amy Wagner reports. (NBC News)
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An impulsive swim with a friend in a flooded Queensland creek left a 14-year-old by desperately clinging to a tree until police and firefighters were able to reach him and pull him from raging floodwaters. NBC's Sara James reports. (TODAY)
An Oregon woman is cut free after falling into a tiny space between two walls during her smoke break. Art Edwards reports. (NBC News)
Firefighters in Portland, Ore., worked for hours to free a woman who fell from a 20-foot-high wall and became wedged inside an eight-inch crack between two buildings. (Jansing and Co)
It's believed that shifting winds may have broken up the ice that confined the killer whales, who survived by taking turns coming up for air in a hole the size of a pickup truck. NBC's Anne Thompson reports. (Nightly News)
An estimated dozen killer whales have been trapped for days under thick arctic ice in a remote corner of Quebec , taking turns to breathe through a tiny hole. The town's mayor is begging for help, asking the government to send icebreakers before the animals suffocate. (TODAY)
A woman who was trapped in the Sierra Mountains for nearly a week survived by seeking shelter inside a hollowed-out tree and eating tomatoes and snow. KCRA's Sharokina Shams reports. (NBC News)
A young humpback whale has been entangled in rope off the coast of Sydney, Australia. TODAY.com's Alex Witt reports. (TODAY)
TODAY's Natalie Morales reports from Hoboken, N.J., where chilling new images capture communities utterly destroyed; meanwhile, thousands still remain trapped in the region without water, power or heat. (TODAY)
A kitten may have used up one of its nine lives before a Florida mechanic freed the trapped feline from inside a car's axle. The kitten was removed unscathed, and has since by adopted by the mechanic's family. (TODAY)