NTA Video Stories

Oliva, Spain – Spain’s military emergency unit used helicopters to hoist stranded residents from flooded homes and fields in eastern Spain after the storm known as DANA Adam cut off whole neighborhoods. Footage released by Spain’s Defense Ministry shows Military Emergencies Unit (UME) rescuers being lowered from a helicopter onto patios surrounded by muddy water in Oliva on October 19,...

Valencia, Spain – Firefighters hanging from a rescue helicopter plucked residents one by one from rooftops and terraces surrounded by floodwater as the storm known as DANA Adam swamped the coast of eastern Spain. Footage released by the Valencia Provincial Firefighters Consortium was filmed from inside its MV6-R helicopter over Oliva and the surrounding La Safor area on October 19. It shows rescue...

Oliva, Spain – A Civil Guard helicopter crew winched an elderly woman from a flooded home in eastern Spain as rescuers raced to reach residents cut off by the storm known as DANA Adam. Footage released by the Civil Guard shows a mountain rescue specialist being lowered onto a terrace surrounded by muddy floodwater in Oliva on October 19, before being hoisted back up with the woman strapped in and...

Oliva, Spain – Spanish Civil Guard officers waded through flooded streets to carry elderly residents out of their homes as the storm known as DANA Adam swamped the Valencia coast. Footage released by the Civil Guard shows officers from its Reserve and Security Group helping an older couple out of a doorway into ankle-deep brown water, carrying a woman on an officer’s back and guiding a man t...

Portland, Oregon – An Asian elephant at the Oregon Zoo stomped a 500-pound pumpkin flat in the zoo’s 28th annual Squishing of the Squash, a Halloween tradition dating back more than a quarter of a century. Footage released by the Oregon Zoo shows 18-year-old Samudra taking on the giant pumpkin, which keepers had stuffed with lettuce, apples and sweet potatoes, on October 17. “This year...

Mona Passage, Caribbean Sea – A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter tracked a dangerously overloaded boat packed with 66 migrants in the waters between Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic before a cutter intercepted it. Thermal footage released by the Coast Guard shows the 30-foot makeshift vessel crammed shoulder to shoulder with people as it cuts through the sea on October 16, filmed by an MH-60T Jay...

Morazán, El Salvador – A police officer and local residents pulled a man to safety after a fast-flowing river swept his vehicle away in eastern El Salvador. Footage released by El Salvador’s National Civil Police shows the man standing on the roof of his red pickup, half submerged in muddy, churning water beside a stone wall, as the officer and a resident hold a rope, before helpers on a roo...

Fairfield, California – Dashcam footage released by the California Highway Patrol shows a Tesla speeding into a closed freeway lane and ramming a patrol car with two officers inside, after its driver said he was asleep with the car’s self-driving system engaged. The crash happened just before midnight on October 13 on eastbound Interstate 80 west of Air Base Parkway in Fairfield, Solano Coun...

Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, Hawaii – Kilauea volcano shot a fountain of lava 720 feet into the air in its 55th eruptive episode, ending the longest and most complex pause since the current eruption began in December 2024. Timelapse footage from U.S. Geological Survey webcams on the rim of Halemaumau crater and on the flank of neighboring Mauna Loa shows six hours of fountaining from the north...

Santiago, Chile – Lightning flashed over the eastern skyline of Santiago early on October 20, marking the start of a stormy day as a frontal system swept into central Chile. X user Maria Angelica Labbe filmed the storm from a high-rise looking east across the city, where a burst of lightning turned the dark clouds purple above apartment blocks and the outline of the Andes foothills. “The sto...

Tucson, Arizona – An owl has made itself at home on an Arizona woman’s front porch, napping in the rafters during the day for the past couple of weeks. X user Jennifer filmed the bird tucked into a gap in the wooden porch beams on October 19, where it turned its head to give the camera a slow, unimpressed stare. “When I walk outside, he turns and gives me this funny look like ‘He...

Santiago, Chile – A brilliant bolt of lightning split the sky over Santiago early on October 20 as thunderstorms rolled across the Chilean capital before dawn. X user Tomás Novoa filmed the storm from a balcony overlooking the city, capturing a flash that turned the clouds purple and lit up the skyline. “We’ve been with the thunder since early in Santiago,” Novoa wrote. The light...

Lake Lanier, Georgia – Golden evening sunlight danced across the surface of north Georgia’s Lake Lanier on October 19, framed by trees just beginning to turn for autumn. X user Joey Nicholson filmed the scene from the shore, where shimmering points of light flickered across the rippling water behind a curtain of yellow and green leaves. “The sunlight is dancing on the water this evenin...

Cape Canaveral, Florida – A SpaceX rocket left a glowing, jellyfish-like plume stretched across the dawn sky over Florida as it climbed toward orbit on the morning of October 20. Photographer Andrew Dees filmed the spectacle above a row of palm trees as the sky turned from orange to blue, capturing the rocket’s bright exhaust trail and a ballooning, translucent cloud at its tip that slowly s...

Santiago, Chile – Booming thunder woke residents of Santiago’s Las Condes district before dawn on October 20 as an electrical storm swept over the Chilean capital ahead of a major frontal system. X user Cata Olivares filmed the storm from a balcony after being woken by “super loud” thunder at around 4:10 a.m. Purple flashes of lightning repeatedly lit up the sky behind the area&#...

Santiago, Chile – Lightning lit up the night sky over Santiago in the early hours of October 20 as a powerful frontal system bore down on central Chile. X user Guillermo filmed the storm from a high vantage point at around 4:30 a.m., capturing a bright flash that illuminated the clouds and the mountains on the horizon above the city’s lights. Residents across the Chilean capital reported lig...

Tanegashima, Japan – A Japanese H3 rocket carrying a probe bound for the moons of Mars lit up the pre-dawn sky over Tanegashima on October 20, its blinding exhaust turning night briefly into day over the island’s coastline. X user Tsukuru filmed the launch from a hillside overlooking the sea, capturing the rocket’s flame flaring across the horizon before it climbed steadily into the da...

Trapani, Italy – Supermarket shelves have been stripped bare in western Sicily as a strike by Sicilian truck drivers over soaring fuel costs choked deliveries across the island. X user Carmelo filmed rows of empty refrigerated cases at a Lidl store in Trapani on the morning of October 19, writing that many shelves were empty and no new stock had arrived. The footage shows vacant vegetable and sala...

New York, New York – A historic brownstone on Manhattan’s Upper West Side has been transformed into a Halloween showpiece, with skeletons riding bicycles, lounging on balconies and peering from windows across its facade. X user NYC Photographer filmed the display on West 75th Street between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue on October 16. Skeletons dressed as witches and pirates fill the...

New York, New York – Dozens of skeletons wrapped in cobwebs have taken over the front steps of a brownstone on Manhattan’s Upper West Side in one of the neighborhood’s most elaborate Halloween displays. X user NYC Photographer filmed the decorations at 241 West 71st Street on October 18, joking that “even the skeletons can’t afford to leave New York City.” The stoop i...

New York, New York – A towering pumpkin-headed character has taken over a rooftop in Manhattan’s West Village, with enormous spiders crawling down the facade below it as New York City gears up for Halloween. X user NYC Photographer filmed the display at the corner of Christopher Street and Waverly Place on October 18, showing the grinning jack-o’-lantern figure with outstretched arms p...

Paris, France – Hundreds of protesters pushed into a luxury shopping street just steps from the Élysée Palace before a loud bang sent the crowd running, as a nationwide day of action against the high cost of living turned violent across the French capital on October 17. Francisco Guerrier filmed the scene from an elevated position above the street, where a dense crowd advanced past boutique fronts...

Nottingham, United Kingdom – A burglar who raided an Ann Summers shop in Nottingham city centre wearing a high-visibility vest has been jailed for three years, after police caught him within minutes and found a car boot crammed with lingerie and sex toys worth more than £12,000. Footage released by Nottinghamshire Police shows officers jumping out of a patrol car in the early hours of Aug. 14 and...

Santa Cruz, United States – A runaway emu caught drivers off guard in Santa Cruz County, California, after it was spotted running in and out of traffic, prompting numerous calls to the California Highway Patrol, the agency said. Footage released by the California Highway Patrol’s Santa Cruz office shows the large flightless bird standing in a sunny dirt yard between a white-sided building an...

Gandia, Spain – The Serpis river surged through the heart of Gandia on Monday morning, October 19, filling its channel from bank to bank after Storm Adam dumped historic rainfall on Spain’s eastern coast overnight. Local resident Stanisław Radomski filmed the muddy torrent from a bridge in the city at around 8:05 a.m., calling it a sight “never seen before, incredible.” In the vi...