Dad Dives Into East River, Saves Daughter
HOLMES: All right, Welcome back to RICK'S LIST. I'm T.J. Holmes sitting in today. We have been talking about and showing you Tiger Woods, big day for him. He faced reporters today for the first time in a press conference since this whole scandal broke back in November of last year. He talked a short time ago about 35 minutes, took questions and answers, and answered everything that came to him. Some things he kind of left still, he said were personal, he wasn't going to touch. This is him walking into the press conference. We would like to play you some more. We played some at the top of the hour, but we have some restrictions on this video. We have restrictions on how much we can show you per hour. So you'll hear from him at the top of our next hour. We do want to let you hear from Christine Brennan now of "USA Today" who has been covering Tiger Woods for quite some time. This is what she told Ali Velshi -- she was in the room, by the way, for the press conference, and asked a question -- but this is what she told our Ali Velshi as soon as they walked out of the press conference.</s>CHRISTINE BRENNAN, SPORTS COLUMNIST, "USA TODAY": I think overall the feeling was -- this is my first time I've seen him, we have written about him a lot, we all have, since Thanksgiving. And Ali, what struck me, once again as I saw on TV on February 19th and the two interviews he did a few weeks ago, I felt we saw a changed man. But I think it's going to be his actions. I think it's going to be over time. If he throws a club this week -- he said he's going to try not to do that, but if he does, then what has changed? And I hate to have the same refrain over and over, but I hope for his sake and his family's sake that he is a different person.</s>HOLMES: And he certainly claims he will be a different person. He came on and actually said that he enjoys golf more. This is the most fun he has had in quite some time, and he has been a part of that, even though he was winning. Winning majors wasn't as fun as now, because he can now live without that secret. Here also is Christine Brennan who sent a tweet out going into that press conference. She said, "I will be in Tiger's press conference," again this is before the press conference. "Most coveted ticket in sports to get in is postage-stamp-sized." And she sent this Twit-pic. You can see the interview number 396, Monday, April the 5th. This is what some of those reporters had to get to get in there. Normally, this is not the case. Everyone has their press credentials and you're allowed to go to these press conferences, but for this one in particular, another layer of credentialing had to take place for this one. And she sent out a picture. We do appreciate that. Brooke, we call this "Brooke's list," "Brooke's Block"?</s>BROOKE BALDWIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: We do have a list in the "Brooke Block." By the way, that was a postage-stamp-size? I would so lose that. I'm just saying.</s>HOLMES: I bet they held on to them today.</s>BALDWIN: Hi, T.J. Holmes, good to say you!</s>HOLMES: Welcome back.</s>BALDWIN: Yes, Costa Rica, I'm on Tico (ph) time, as they say, a little slow today. But I know we're Tiger, Tiger, all day long. This is guy whose name you will be talking about possibly over dinner want to. His name is Dave Johnson and the story essentially is that he rescued his two- year-old daughter who fell 20 feet into the East River -- take a look at this video here -- fell into the East River over the weekend. And he jumped in, any parent out there watching this is thinking, of course, I would do that as well. But I found out something new today. We were trying to dig more on this guy, and I found out that he used to be a ski patroller at Vail Mountain. So rescuing, kind of in his blood. The guy -- I tore my ACL a couple years ago skiing in Colorado, and they're the guys who kind of bravely ski you on down, right? So he did that some time ago. Moved to California, family visiting the South Street Seaport, they're visiting the ship, it was called the Peking, ship turned museum, essentially. Daughter goes down, he goes down in, had to go grab her. And we have some sound from the guy from behind the camera shooting this video. He says he remembers hearing the splash and the best sound, he said, was hearing this little girl cry. Listen.</s>ERIC STRINGER, WITNESSED GIRL'S RESCUE: I saw the father, I didn't know it was the father at the time, running down, making a bee line to get into the water, you know, sort of taking off a bracelet or whatever it was. And I could see somebody was in the water at that point. I had no idea if it was a kid or not. The father sort of hesitated a second before he jumped in, and the hesitation I think was just to see where his daughter was, because when I got over there, he was just coming up. It seemed like he jumped in and in one motion went in, went underwater, and came up with her. She was in his arms when he came up. Right away, you could see he was focused on getting her head back, clearing her airway just to make sure she was breathing.</s>BALDWIN: The father is Dave Anderson -- forgive me if I said Dave Johnson, he's one of our producers. Dave Anderson swam back with his girl back to the pier. And according to Eric Stringer, there was also this other guy not a lot of people are talking about today, the unsung hero, the Frenchman who dived in with his boots on, helped the father get this little girl, Bridget, back to the pier, back up safe and sound. And according to reports, the Frenchman kind of did that and took off in a cab. The father is reportedly -- you know, the father, the daughter, the whole family, they're exhausted but they're OK. And paramedics arrived, took the whole family to the hospital, just to be safe. But it's amazing, and it's one of those stories that just has a lot of people, I think -- thinking miraculous perhaps over the weekend. And a lot of parents -- and I would love to hear from you. So tweet me. What would you do? We're not parents yet.</s>HOLMES: I'm a parent.</s>BALDWIN: Of a --</s>HOLMES: Yes -- of a child. Yes, I am a parent. So that's what you do. You just react like that. You just -- it's natural. Even if you rescue or not. Anybody's child, quite frankly, in trouble --</s>BALDWIN: You would jump in.</s>HOLMES: No matter what. You don't think about consequence, the temperature of the water. You see a child in trouble.</s>BALDWIN: And think about how freezing the East River would have been over the weekend, absolutely. The parents, right? You're jumping in after your child.</s>HOLMES: You react. That's what parents do. And it's a great story and good to have dad as a rescuer. That's kind of cool.</s>BALDWIN: Yes that is kind of cool. Ski patroller at Vail -- nice guy.</s>HOLMES: Like you said, send in the tweets and we'll get those.</s>BALDWIN: Yes, we'll check those next hour. "The Brooke Block," and "The List." You got it,</s>T.J. HOLMES: Stay tuned for this too.</s>MACKENZIE PHILLIPS, ACTRESS: I've been to doctors who never even touched my body or took my blood pressure. And I walked out with a prescription for 130, you know, Hydrocodon tablets.</s>HOLMES: Huh? Is this Hollywood's dirty little secret? Some of those well-known people in the world popping from Dr. Doctor to doctor to doctor undetected. That is next.