Nightline, code 3 the heroes of San Bernardino will be back this is a special edition of nightline. Code 3 the heroes of San Bernardino. Good evening. What youre about to see and hear in our report tonight will provide harrowing new insight into the terror attack last year in San Bernardino, california. New Surveillance Video, 911 the horror and the heroism of that day. Heres our chief investigative correspondent brian ross with an abc news exclusive. 911. Yes, hi, there may be a shooting. Unfortunately thats not a totally uncommon call for us to have. Reporter but nothing about this day in San Bernardino, california, would be routine. Theres people with machine guns shooting up at my work. I work at Inland Regional Center we were getting updates it was now possibly shots fired. Somebody opened the door and started shooting inside the room. Then it was updated to, man with a gun. Then, possibly an active shooter. We have an active shooter here maam, listen to me, take a deep brett. Have you seen the person with the gun . Yeah, theyre there, dressed way. Is he still shooting . Oh my god reporter it was one year ago this week that terror struck San Bernardino and america saw these faces of evil. A husband and wife whose deadly shooting rampage killed 14 people and injured 22 more. Tonight for the first time exclusive new video of the shooters as they prepared the attack. Chilling photographs taken moments before. And the Inspiring Stories of the men and women who responded, community from further attacks. The heroes of San Bernardino. 911. Reporter those first calls coming from a county Conference Center in San Bernardino. The Inland Regional Center, the irc. County Health Department employees had gathered for a Training Session with a holiday lunch to follow. Inside the room itself at the Inland Regional Center, there was a Christmas Tree, decorations. Reporter at 10 53, one of the county employees, syed later. Did you see people with guns . Yes. Theyre wearing all black. Can you see them anymore . No. Im on the floor. Okay, stay on the floor. Is he still shooting . I dont know. Okay. How many rounds did he fire . Oh my god, a million. Reporter lieutenant mike madden, Administrative Officer in an unmarked car, had pulled over in a target calls. Possible active shooter. Being primarily a desk jockey the last few years, i had never responded on an actual active shooter. This would have been a first in my 25year career. Reporter maddens calcine is call sign is lincoln 3. He was less than a mile away. I was driving faster and faster as i was getting closer. Think im the first one here. I quickly got out of the car. Because i didnt want to be a sitting duck, if in fact i was out in a vulnerable position. Lincoln 3 go ahead. I need two more units with me for an entry team. We have an active shooter, we need an entry team now. Reporter madden had only a handgun and left his bulletproof vest in the trunk. You went in without a vest, just your handgun . Im not the smartest guy two down reporter as the first officers inside, their active Shooter Training dictated they only focus on finding the shooters still believed to be in the building. Our goal is the initial entry team, had to be locating them and stopping them. Most difficult thing ive ever done in my life. Reporter San BernardinoPolice OfficerSean Sandoval was in the first team to go in. His instructions, find the shooter. Meaning, he could not stop to help the wounded. And the looks on the victims faces. You cant describe. Knowing that some were alive when you entered and when you came back they were no longer living. Left a huge burden, almost a burden of guilt that we didnt help them and they didnt survive. Clearly it still bothers you a year later. Theres not one day that goes by that i dont think about it. Reporter but right behind where stop and help. Including county probation officer nate scirano. When i encountered that first group of people it sucked the air out of my body. With all the noise including the fire alarm going off, i heard a faint voice. Help me, im going to die. That was the second time i lost my air. I couldnt breathe. I looked down. Next to my leg, in front of the this beautiful young lady, severely wounded. I was begging. Please help me, please help me. She proceeds to tell me she had been shot. Very nonchalant, very catatoniclike. She tells me where she had been shot. She tells me sha shethat shes o die and not to let her die. People were moaning around me. I said, please come here, help me. I looked at her, i at the conference room. I looked down at her and i said, youre not going to die today. Reporter he stayed and amanda gaspert lived. With my blood loss, if it had been a little longer, i would have died, i believe. Reporter today, still in pain and recovering, she sends this message to that officer and others. You are one of gods angels here on earth. I believe i have Guardian Angels but that day god used all those First Responders to get in there and to get us out so that we are still alive today. Black suv had made a clean getaway. Seen on this traffic Surveillance Video, right by police cars in the opposite lanes racing to the scene. Theres a sense of urgency initially, not knowing are there more out there . Are there followon attacks being planned . Suspicious vehicle that matches the suspect is there another target . Is there a potential that these suspects are going to continue driving around the city of San Bernardino . Or move to another location . Reporter as rescue teams rush to save the wounded that day in San Bernardino we got a couple bleeding out, we need to get them out of here right now. Reporter officers had to also question them for information about who was responsible and right away one employee provided a solid lead. He said, i think maybe you need to look at this person. And he gave us the name syed farook. Reporter the employee said faruk, in this photo obtained by abc news, posed with fellow Health Department workers in front of a Christmas Tree and the shooting started. He was very irritated and upset. Reporter the name faruk was fed back to San BernardinoPolice Headquarters and donnie rusfanca, the departments veteran analyst who put the name in Law Enforcement data bases. I didnt see anything initially. 911 emergency. Reporter moments later a 911 call that would be the turning point. Yes, im calling ive just been watching the tv and there was a black suv that turned front of me onto seventh street. There was such a sudden abrupt move that i was thinking, hm. This is a little unusual for a vehicle coming from utah. Reporter 61yearold stewart boden, Computer Programmer for the county, wasnt aware police were looking for a black suv when a car of that make cut in front of him at this intersection. I had noticed the license plate. And as they were waiting to turn vehicle coming, i go, i think i need to commit that license plate to memory. Because . Because something wasnt quite right. The suspects perhaps left the scene in a black suv when i got home i turned on the tv. Something said, the suspects fled in a black suv. I saw something, i needed to say something. About 20, 25 suv at that time. A black suv . Yeah. And i do have a good memory. Utah license plate. Okay. X523ry. That was the turning point in the investigation. Reporter the plate number came back to the enterprise car rental company. It had been rented by a syed faruk. My hands started to shake at that point. I thought, wow, we really dont have just a person of interest, we need to locate this person. Reporter as police and the fbi would later learn, faruk and his wife, a pakistani he married overseas and brought to the u. S. , had been secretly planning the attack for a long time. 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Reporter officials now believe they may know what led the couple to attack that day. Outrage over christmas. By the fbi. She had essentially made the statement in an online account that she didnt think a muslim should have to participate in a nonmuslim holiday event. You could clearly see from pictures inside that room there was somewhat of a festive atmosphere. It had those christmas overtones to it. That is really one of the very few pieces of potential evidence that we have that we can truly point to and say that possibly is a motive in this case. Reporter inspired, the f agent in charge says, by isis. After the shooting you add the wife who went on social media and declared her allegiance to al baghdadi, the selfproclaimed caliphate leader. Reporter ironically agents discovered the couple wasnt even sure of baghdadis name until the morning of the shooting. That particular morning, there was Online Research done with an account associated with them where they were researching maybe they didnt truly know who it was so they had to have the name to actually pledge their allegiance, so to speak. Reporter three hours after the shooting, an undercover San Bernardino police team arrived at the home address for faruk. They saw him pull out in his black suv. Just in time. Had we been several seconds later we probably would have missed him. Reporter Sergeant Gary shulky, undercover narcotics detective in an unmarked consider, led the Team Following the suv with officerseh in an Unmarked Police van. Like we do with a drug suspect, we dont want them to know were following them. Reporter to their surprise, it appeared faruk was heading right back to the scene of the shooting at the irc. They came back by the crime scene a number of times. They were very, very close to our crime scene several times within that fourhour time period. Reporter San Bernardino chief jared bugwan believes they were essentially circling the scene for hours after the attack. Came very, very close to the of times. Reporter apparently trying again and again to remotely detonate three pipe bombs they had left behind that had gone unnoticed. You can presume they had the detonator in their car. That potentially it was did try to get close enough to detonate that device still. Reporter before they could this time, two marked squad cars pulled in behind them with lights and sirens. Sirens sounded like this. [ sirens ] reporter Sergeant Andy capps of redlands was just behind the suspects. As we drove when they took off, i saw them the passenger to the driver passing articles or items to each other inside the car. Looks like theyre putting vests on inside. Shots fired, shots fired. Theyre firing at Law Enforcement. Reporter deputy sean wallen of the San BernardinoSheriffs Office was the target. Driving like this. Your knee was steering . Steering with my left knee. Gas with the right knee. Talking with my left hand. Pulling my rifle out of the passenger seat. The suspect vehicle suddenly stopped, slamming on his brakes. Theyre shooting at us from an suv. Crossfire. Ones in the trunk. I got it. Ran to the back portion right here. Shooting this way. Towards the male suspect. And i was hunkered down again like this. Shooting back at them. Reporter faruk made a break from the vehicle to get even closer to deputy wallen, firing as he ran. Either trying to get to the houses or trying to flank me, for whatever. To come up on you . Yeah, he was about probably 50 feet away. In to protect wallen. I remember yelling at wall. To come back. Thats when i felt the bullet hit me in my leg. My leg kind of gave out. I remember stumbling and fell into the grass over there at the curb. We have one officer down. Copy. I didnt see blood pouring out of my leg like there was going to be you know, a femoral hit or anything. Okay, got to keep fighting, im not going down like this. So i pushed myself back into the street and kept shooting at the suv. Even after being hit . Yeah. Reporter and he continued firing at faruk, now down on the street. I kept shooting until he stopped moving. Reporter faruks wife malik was still firing from the back of the black suv. Look at all the bullet holes in the windshield. She didnt stop shooting until she was stopped. At a certain point she was struck by i think at least 15 rounds. Reporter not certain she was dead, and whether there were explosives rigged to go off pull her out. And it was only then that authorities realized it was a woman. Faruks wife, the mother of an infant child left behind who is now in foster care. It certainly surprised me that youd have a woman with a 6monthold baby who could do Something Like this. Thats very hard for us to comprehend. Reporter four hours and 17 minutes after the first shots were fired, the two shooters, the two terrorists, were dead. They had killed 14 people and injured 22 others and left permanent scars in the lives of hundreds more. Still evident now one year later. For nightline, brian ross, San Bernardino, california. Our thanks to brian ross for his extraordinary reporting tonight. Well be right back. During the ford year end event, discover why ford is americas bestselling brand. With the most 5star ratings. Awardwinning value. And the highest owner loyalty. Giving drivers what matters most. Thats how you become americas bestselling brand. During the ford year end event get an extra thousand dollars black friday bonus cash on top of all other great offers. Its an amazing time to visit your ford dealer. I have asthma. One of many pieces in my life. So when my asthma symptoms kept coming back on my longterm control medicine. In my asthma treatment with breo. 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