NTA Video Stories

Thatcher, Arizona – Dark, menacing storm clouds churned low over the desert near Safford as a rare outbreak of severe weather rolled across southeastern Arizona on Thursday, October 22. X user Lee Patterson filmed the sky from a parking lot in the afternoon, calling it “crazy weather.” “This is looking west from Thatcher. I’m not sure exactly what I’m looking at, but...

Show Low, Arizona – Hail pelted down and turned the ground white around parked pickup trucks in Show Low as a string of severe thunderstorms swept across Arizona’s White Mountains on Thursday, October 22. X user craig matthews filmed the storm from a car near the town’s airport during a lunch break, saying there was “mostly dime sized hail, with occasional nickel sized hail&#8221...

Quito, Ecuador – Muddy water laced with hail cascaded down a concrete stairway like a waterfall as a violent storm turned the streets of Ecuador’s capital into rivers on Thursday afternoon, October 22. X user Gigi Macias filmed the deluge in three clips, writing, “Quito reminded us that its climate is cold.” Water gushes down a flight of steps beside a flooded avenue, while slush...

Quito, Ecuador – A violent downpour of rain and hail buried the streets of Quito’s La Mariscal district under a layer of white ice on Thursday afternoon (October 22), turning roads into fast-flowing rivers of slush that left drivers struggling to get through. Footage filmed by Pame from a building overlooking the neighborhood shows hail piled across an intersection as murky water rushes over...

Sanibel Island, Florida – Sheriff’s deputies threw a rope to two men bobbing in choppy water beside their sinking boat off Florida’s southwest coast and hauled them to safety. Body camera footage released by the Lee County Sheriff’s Office shows a Marine Unit patrol boat racing toward the nearly submerged vessel on October 18, with only its outboard motor poking above the waves a...

Monument Valley, Utah – Muddy floodwater poured across a highway in Monument Valley as severe storms lashed the Navajo Nation, swallowing the roadside in thick red sludge beneath the area’s famous rock towers. The Navajo Police Department shared videos of the scene on October 21, with the footage provided by a community member. Reddish-brown water gushes across U.S. Highway 163 at Milepost 1...

Kansas City, Missouri – A police drone hovering high above a Kansas City neighborhood tracked down a 7-year-old boy who had run away from home, guiding officers straight to his hiding spot under a deck. The Kansas City Missouri Police Department shared the aerial footage on October 21. Seen from above, officers walk across a backyard to the deck beside a house, crouch down and help the boy out bef...

Glendale, California – A herd of 200 hungry goats charged down a trailer ramp and stormed a steep hillside in Glendale, chomping through dry brush to protect homes from wildfire. The Glendale Fire Department shared the video on October 20, showing the goats bounding out of a livestock trailer and spreading out across the slopes above Oakmont Country Club. Behind temporary fencing, the animals munc...

León, Spain – Heavy-lift drones are flying bundles of straw onto steep, fire-scarred mountainsides in northwestern Spain to keep the blackened soil from washing away in the rain. Footage released on October 21 by Naturaleza Castilla y León, the regional government’s environment account, shows crews on the ground loading netted bundles of straw that drones then carry up over charred, rocky sl...

Gela, Italy – A 25-year-old armed with a pistol tried to rob a jewelry store in the historic center of Gela, Sicily, and fled empty-handed. Police later found a homemade weapons workshop at his home. Footage released by Italy’s Polizia di Stato on October 21 shows the masked man walking into the shop on security cameras. It then shows the seized haul laid out on tables at the police station:...

Washington, D.C., United States – Cockpit footage shows an F-22 Raptor stealth fighter rolling and banking over the U.S. capital as its pilot practiced for America’s 250th anniversary celebrations. The two videos, released by the U.S. Air Force, follow Capt. Nick “Laz” Le Tourneau, pilot and commander of the F-22 Raptor Aerial Demonstration Team, as he rehearsed his routine over...

Middle East – U.S. Navy fighter jets blasted off and landed on the aircraft carrier USS George Washington as the warship operates in the Middle East. Footage released by the U.S. Navy shows F/A-18 Super Hornets catapulting off the flight deck at dusk and an F-35C stealth fighter coming in to land, while deck crews in colored jerseys guide the aircraft into position. The Nimitz-class carrier (CVN 7...

Mendocino County, California – A firefighting helicopter dumped water onto a burning, timbered hillside in Northern California as crews battled to hold the Cooley Fire. Footage released by CAL FIRE Mendocino Unit shows flames and smoke climbing through trees on a steep slope before a twin-rotor helicopter swoops in low and releases its load directly onto the fire. The Cooley Fire broke out at abou...

Minden, Nevada – Parachutists from the U.S. Army’s Golden Knights lit up the night sky over Nevada in a mass formation jump at the Minden-Tahoe SkyFest. U.S. Army video by Sgt. 1st Class Luke Olk shows the team descending together in the dark over Minden-Tahoe Airport on October 16. The Army said the demonstration showcased the team’s “precision, coordination and aerial expertise...

Laurinburg, North Carolina – Members of the U.S. Army Parachute Team, the Golden Knights, jumped into a hometown crowd at an air show near the team’s North Carolina base. U.S. Army video by Sgt. 1st Class Daniel Gerlach shows the soldiers descending under their canopies over Laurinburg-Maxton Airport for the Sky High Aerospace Expo on October 16. The event is being held close to the Golden K...

Irvine, California – Firefighters used an aerial ladder to rescue an injured hawk stuck high in a tree in Southern California as Santa Ana winds swept through the area. Footage released by the Orange County Fire Authority shows a firefighter at the tip of Truck 4’s ladder, lit by a spotlight, reaching into the branches of a eucalyptus tree to retrieve the bird on the night of October 15. The...

Boca Grande, Florida – Sheriff’s deputies raced across the Gulf to rescue three adults and a dog after their boat caught fire off Florida’s southwest coast. Body camera footage released by the Lee County Sheriff’s Office shows Marine Unit deputies pulling alongside a large boat, grabbing its rail and helping passengers in life jackets step across to the patrol vessel on October 1...

Vienna, Austria – Three baby squirrel monkeys are riding piggyback through their enclosure at Vienna’s Schönbrunn Zoo, clinging to their mothers’ fur as they take their first steps into the world. The youngsters were born in September and are an important addition to the European breeding program for the species, the zoo said on October 20. While they still spend most of their time on...

Turin, Italy – Climate activists climbed and rappelled down the walls of an abandoned factory outside Turin under cover of darkness, painting a giant “No Data Center” message on the building where Italy’s biggest data center could be built. Extinction Rebellion released footage on October 22 showing its members scaling the former ILTE printing plant in Moncalieri at night, hangin...

Phoenix, Arizona – Sheets of rain and hail lashed a Phoenix apartment complex on Wednesday afternoon as a rare and violent storm tore across the desert city. X user SouthwestWX filmed the scene from a porch on October 21. Hail bounces off the railing and parked cars as wind-driven rain swallows the buildings across the lot. The National Weather Service warned of golf ball-sized hail and 60 mph win...

Puno, Peru – A huge wall of flames raced across the reed beds near Lake Titicaca’s famous Uros floating islands, sending a towering glowing cloud of smoke into the night sky. X user Movimiento Ecologista del Perú shared the video on October 21, filmed from the city of Puno. A line of fire stretches along the lakeshore as the smoke plume turns orange above the water. The blaze broke out on Oc...

Phoenix, Arizona – Howling winds and hail blasted through the doors of a Phoenix library on Wednesday afternoon, turning the street outside into a white wall as a rare storm swept across the city. X user Sam filmed the scene from inside the lobby on October 21, writing “Phoenix as I have never seen it before.” The doors swing open in the gale as rain and hail pour across the entrance,...

Miyakojima, Japan – Towering waves smashed into the rocky tip of a remote Japanese island, turning the sea white with foam as powerful Typhoon Champi churned toward Okinawa. X user iguanarock4126 filmed the scene from Hennazaki Lighthouse on Miyakojima’s Higashi-Hennazaki cape on October 21. Huge breakers roll in under a heavy grey sky and explode against the cliffs on both sides of the narr...

New River, Arizona – A rainbow arched across a wall of menacing dark clouds as a severe storm rolled over the desert north of Phoenix on Wednesday, October 21. X user matt_alv5288, a storm chaser and SKYWARN spotter, filmed the scene from a car driving through New River, writing “Beautiful rainbow over severe storm.” The video shows the faint band of color stretching over saguaro cactu...

Kagoshima, Japan – Japan’s Sakurajima volcano erupted on October 16, sending a thick column of ash billowing 2,200 meters above its summit crater over the city of Kagoshima. Footage from a set of cameras around the volcano operated by Kagoshima-based company Zaiho shows the grey plume punching up from the Minamidake summit crater at 7:01 a.m. and spreading across the morning sky, viewed from...