The train is coming.

People on the platform hear it first.

That low metallic roar echoing through the tunnel beneath Manhattan.

Commuters shift closer to the yellow line. A father stands with his two young daughters waiting for the subway.

Then chaos.

A 19-year-old film student suddenly collapses beside him… convulsing from a seizure.

In seconds, the young man tumbles off the platform and onto the tracks below.

And now the headlights are visible in the tunnel.

But One man jumps down onto the tracks.

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On January 13, 1982, Air Florida Flight 90 crashed into Washington, D.C.’s 14th Street Bridge before plunging into the frozen Potomac River. Amid the wreckage, one man trapped in his seat gave up his own chance at survival, passing the rescue line again and again to save five strangers. This is the story of Arland D. Williams Jr. — remembered forever as “the man in the water.”

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Today on The Good Samaritan, we step into the red-clad frenzy of Kansas City’s 2024 Super Bowl victory parade, where joy exploded into tragedy with gunfire that killed one woman and wounded twenty-two others, including children. Amid the screams and confetti, two fathers—Paul Contreras and Trey Filter—charged through the panic, tackling a fleeing suspect and securing his dropped gun, their raw courage halting a potential massacre.

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