with your baby in a stranger s car. what happened? yes, they let us know early that morning that we were going to be evacuated and with less than five minutes after that announcement, they had a few gentlemen came into my room and lift me and put me in a wheelchair and wheeled me out. there were obviously not enough ambulances for the over 60 patients and so they started loading patients into private employee vehicles to get out of there as soon as possible. and you raced out of there with a man named dave, who you, i imagine, didn t know much more about other than his name. nope. and how far into the drive did you turn to him and say, you know, heaven forbid, you jump out with my baby? well, it was a lot more time than it was in distance. we were all in gridlock, not moving quickly with people getting panicky and leaving their vehicles and having to go
around and so it had been quite a while in time, but not very far in distance. we hadn t even made it a mile. and the fire had surrounded us already on all sides of the vehicle, there were people getting out and david actually looked over at me and said, what would you want me to do? and i knew exactly what he meant. and i said, i would want you to take the baby and thank you, thank you so much, but i cannot run. i mean, i had an abdominal surgery. i wasn t even walking yet. i still had iv lines and a catheter, there was no way i was going to get out of there. so if it came down to it, he did ask me what i wanted, and we did kind of make an agreement right there. we didn t speak about it again after that, it was just known, if that is what happens, that s what we re going to do. so the worst didn t come, thank goodness. you re obviously, you are okay, dave is okay, lincoln is okay. have you had a chance to see
the camp fire was erupted and flash forward 12 hours, she and little lincoln were forced to evacuate because the fire was racing towards them at the hospital. they ended up inside of a car of a stranger, a hospital employee by the name of dave and they made a pact that if they had to abandon the car, this mom said that dave needed to save the baby and leave mom behind. 20 miles and 9 hours later, everyone survived. and richelle is with me now on the phone. so richelle, thank you so much for jumping on with me. through all of this, congratulations on lincoln, but my goodness, first of all, is little lincoln okay? yes, he s doing well now. he only spent about 24 hours in the nicu and he is with us now out of the hospital. doing well. oh, my goodness. so take me back. i read about your story. you gave birth via c-section, which is major surgery. and then you are physically forced to leave the hospital
dave again and throw your arms around him and say thank you? very briefly. he did make it a point to come, once we were settled in the hospital in chico, he came up to the room and visited briefly and met my husband, who was extremely grateful. of course, this man that didn t know his wife and child was essentially responsible for saving our liveses and we were able to talk briefly. i asked about his wife, because we had talked about our families and we had prayed out loud and really just left it in god s hands, because there was no way anyone had control over what was happening. and so we did speak briefly then. and then he also called to check again later with the nurse s station and let me know that they did finally find his wife, bonnie, and that she was also safe. that s who we had been praying for on his end. the kindness of strangers, how about that. richelle, thank you.
93. now nearly ten years later, there is a new video which may be the earliest footage captured at the scene. trace gallagher has more on that. trace? reporter: in fact, megyn, a woman who is now collecting oral histories for the national parks service says she believes this is, in fact, the earliest video of the crash of flight 93. take a look at this thing. this was actually recorded just minutes after the crash by a man named dave. dave died this year, but i want you to listen as you look at the video and the thick black smoke, listen to him narrate over this video and how calm he was, and listen to the detail that he gives as he watches this video and the rest of what s gown finish going on in the world at that time. play this. i don t know what else has happened. they ran one into the pentagon and into the world trade center, and we re watching it on tv, and this one happened. a great big, black cloud just