Nik Wallenda Completes Canyon Walk
PEREIRA: That guy.</s>BOLDUAN: We're talking about. Welcome back to NEW DAY. Last night, this pretty extraordinary feat. Take a look at this. This is high wire walker Nik Wallenda pushing himself to the limit, walking across the Grand Canyon and doing it with no safety harness. Our Miguel Marquez is live in Arizona with more. It makes you dizzy just looking at it. Hey there, Miguel.</s>MIGUEL MARQUEZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Oh, my goodness. We're east of the Grand Canyon in the Little River Gorge, Navajo Nation -- whatever you call it, death defying, stomach churning, hair raising -- it was scary.</s>NIK WALLENDA, DAREDEVIL: Shoes feel slippery. There's dust on the cable.</s>MARQUEZ (voice-over): It didn't start well.</s>WALLENDA: Need to relax more. Hard to relax 1,500 feet above the canyon.</s>MARQUEZ: Twenty-two minutes and 54 seconds of death-defying, vertigo- inducing thrill.</s>WALLENDA: That's a view there, buddy.</s>MARQUEZ: A two-inch cable stretching a quarter mile across the little Colorado River.</s>WALLENDA: I'm not liking it.</s>MARQUEZ: The most hair-raising part of the Discovery Channel- sponsored feat --</s>WALLENDA: Lord, help this cable to calm down.</s>MARQUEZ: When the seventh-generation daredevil's balance pole began swinging, teetering higher and higher.</s>WALLENDA: The winds are way worse than I expected.</s>MARQUEZ: Was he losing control.</s>WALLENDA: You'll have to tell me how long I'm on the wire.</s>MARQUEZ: Twice, he stopped, kneeling to regain his composure and steady the wire quivering under his feet.</s>WALLENDA: We're just a long way down.</s>MARQUEZ: Over hell hole bend and without a tether or safety harness, the 34-year-old thrill seeker sounding more like a preacher.</s>WALLENDA: Thank you, Lord.</s>MARQUEZ: The feat finished. Wallenda says it was his faith that kept him focus as he battled the winds and dusty conditions.</s>WALLENDA: It took every bit of me to stay focus that entire time. My arms are aching like you wouldn't believe.</s>BOLDUAN: You make nervous into focus, is that how you --</s>WALLENDA: Yes. I mean, once it's time to go, it's time to go. After the first step, there's no turning back.</s>MARQUEZ: Life on a wire, cheating death one more day.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: On a scale, one to ten, what he did tonight was unbelievable. I mean, I'd give it a ten.</s>MARQUEZ: For the finale, Nik Wallenda ran to the finish.</s>MARQUEZ: Now, he actually said, if you're keeping count, he said the word Jesus 61 times during his little walk across the gorge there, and his next feat, he's already lining it up. It's going to be in New York City, two skyscrapers and then walking across those. Crazy. Back to you guys.</s>BOLDUAN: You should have heard everyone here. Everyone was ooh, aah.</s>CUOMO: Sixty-one times, that's nothing. I would have been saying Jesus 60 times a minute.</s>BOLDUAN: He says who else is he going to talk to while he's up there?</s>CUOMO: Praying everybody at anything.</s>BOLDUAN: No one better to talk to when you're going to keep your composure.</s>PEREIRA: He was wearing jeans. I don't know if I thought he was going to wear some daredevil like unitard or something.</s>BOLDUAN: I asked him that when I interviewed him. He said, what am I supposed to wear? He wears whatever is comfortable. It's all about for him the moccasins. His mother makes special moccasins.</s>CUOMO: Did you have those on when you did your thing?</s>BOLDUAN: No, I did not have those on. Maybe not especially --</s>CUOMO: We see you doing it again?</s>BOLDUAN: I don't even think need them. I was two feet off the ground.</s>CUOMO: Come on, watch Kate. Kate right now is 1,800 feet above the ground.</s>BOLDUAN: This is me above the Grand Canyon or 30 feet up, 30 feet up is scary enough. And I not if I ever would --</s>PEREIRA: Did you look down?</s>BOLDUAN: I look down and he actually said he does look down. He takes time to enjoy the view that nobody else gets to see.</s>CUOMO: Is this true that you told him using the balance pole makes it weak and soft --</s>BOLDUAN: No, I did not say that. But I did say, does it at least built up your biceps, when you do workout in there while you're up there?</s>CUOMO: Got a two for going?</s>BOLUDAN: Congratulations, Nik. We're glad you made it to the other side.</s>CUOMO: Boy, oh, boy. Twenty-three minutes after the hour. That means it's money time. Christine Romans is here with all the business news you need to know. I assigned you a time, and you must be here.</s>CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT: I know. I'm telling you, it's scary, just like Nik Wallenda was, looking at the stock market, right? I mean, it's kind of a rough week last week. Stock futures weaker this morning following last week's selloff. The Dow, NASDAQ, S&P; each fell 2 percent after Ben Bernanke signaled an end to the Fed's stimulus program. And this morning, China's main stock index plunging 5 percent today. Lowest close there since 2009. Worries in China, you guys, about a credit squeeze. So we're really watching China and its problems right now to see how that's going to reverberate for us. Futures are lower. > And earlier today -- Michaela said it's a two cup of coffee morning. Starting tomorrow you're going to pay more for your Starbucks latte, my dear.</s>PEREIRA: How much more?</s>ROMANS: Yes, 1 percent. The price tag is going to affect brewed coffee, tea, latte, and espresso drinks.</s>BOLDUAN: Everything.</s>ROMANS: Yes, except for maybe the cake pops. Starbucks blames rising rent, labor, and material costs. You're going to pay more.</s>CUOMO: And the desire to make profits.</s>ROMANS: And money, of course. Making money. And the wait is over. Twinkies and Hostess cupcakes returning to store shelves July 15th. Our national nightmare has ended. There will reportedly be a new tag line, I love this one, the sweetest comeback in the history of ever. The recipes have been tweaked. Cupcakes are going to be made with dark cocoa instead of milk chocolate. Hostess filed for bankruptcy last year, but was bought by a private equity firm, and they're taking the most famous brands and bringing them back. We'll see how they do.</s>BOLDUAN: We might giggle this morning. People were furious. They were buying them off the shelves. Are you people?</s>CUOMO: I'm people.</s>PERIERA: When was the last time you bought a Twinkie?</s>CUOMO: First of all, I had at least three boxes in the house when we found out they were going away. I had friends sending them to me as gifts. I thought they were delicious. And I don't understand why do they have to make new ones? Don't they have a half life of like 100 years?</s>PEREIRA: There's still one in your stomach digesting.</s>CUOMO: All Twinkies right here.</s>BOLDUAN: Nice. You want a Twinkie with your coffee, it's going to be more expensive.</s>CUOMO: Thank you, Christine.</s>ROMANS: You're welcome.</s>BOLDUAN: All right. Still ahead, we're talking to the Taliban. How critical peace talks could determine the fate of the only known American prisoner of war in Afghanistan. A huge story we've been following since last week.</s>CUOMO: Plus, El Ray (ph). LeBron James talks about life after his NBA finals win. An exclusive conversation only here on NEW DAY with Rachel Nichols. Stick around. We'll be right back.