Mes: septiembre 2019

Children often grow up dreaming that, one day, they’ll be able to fly. JT Holmes was one of those kids, and he’s come about as close as anyone on the planet. He and his so-called “birdmen” crew use special suits that enable them to soar off peaks and through valleys across the globe. But nothing could have quite prepared him for his most death-defying jump so far, when producers of the new “Transformers” movie came calling. At first glance, the birdmen soaring through the Chicago skyline seem like computer-generated creations, “Early Show” co-anchor Chris Wragge reported. But what they do is very real. Holmes and his daredevils plunge from the relative safety of the Willis Tower roof, 1,400 feet above the street, to take flight in the Windy City. Rob Bruce, director of photography for the film, told CBS News, “These are actual people flying wing suits in a downtown city environment, which has never been done before.” For his new film, “Transformers: Dark of the Moon,” director Michael Bay tapped extreme sports athlete Holmes and his crew of high-flying birdmen to give moviegoers a spellbinding look at this type of base-jumping. Bay discovered the team, according to Holmes, from a “60 Minutes report. Holmes said, “(Bay) saw Julian and I flying around mountains in Norway. He called Spielberg and was like, ‘I gotta have wingsuits in ‘Transformers 3.'”...

(CBS/AP) WASHINGTON – The U.S. is carefully expanding efforts to provide intelligence, training and at times small numbers of forces to African nations, to help counter terrorist activities in the region, the top American military commander for Africa said this week. Speaking to a conference that included representatives from African nations, Gen. Carter Ham, head of U.S. Africa Command, says coordinated moves by several Africa-based terrorist groups to share their training, funding and bomb-making materials are worrisome and pose a threat to the U.S. and the region. Ham claimed Africa’s three largest Islamist terrorist groups – Boko Haram in Nigeria; al Qaeda in the Islamic Magreb (AQIM), which is spread across the Sahara; and al Shabab in Somalia – have been sharing money and explosive materials while training fighters together, Reuters reports. While Boko Haram and al Shabab have a strong nationalist bent, Ham claims recent evidence of cooperation – especially between Boko Haram and AQIM – is particularly worrisome to American interests. He pointed to U.S. surveillance in central Africa to try to ferret out rebel leader Joseph Kony and his Lord’s Resistance Army and said it is the type of thing the U.S. military can do, but only when invited in to partner with African nations. “Do we collect information across Africa? Yes, we do,” said Ham, singling out the LRA. “To have some intelligence collection capability...