what i see is the kids, you know, with the car burning. i was panicking. i was shaking for the whole commotion that was happening, but just to think that i m going to lose them i was feeling numb, but i got out and ran to them. eric and his extended family make it out, but his grandmother s house is totally destroyed along with 60% of middletown s other homes. in the end, several firefighters suffered severe burns and four civilians lost their lives. i do think it s a miracle that we survived. it was the scariest thing of my life, and it always will be. nothing can top that. to avoid finding yourself in such a dire scenario it s critical to always listen for evacuation orders and remember the following survival tips. if driving, keep headlights and hazard lights on and close your windows. if trapped, find a structure to
him out. as time progressed the vehicle got a lot heighter and flames started igniting in the engine block. alexis is still pinned inside and cannot move. the gentleman filming this event would film part of the time, then set the camera down, run, get more fire extinguishers for us. he was really a big help. but the fire extinguishers are now empty. i notice the flames were getting stronger and there was no fire extinguisher left. i was looking for a truck or something big, might have some bigger extinguishers. jack sees a greyhound bus stopped up road. thank god greyhound happens to be there. everybody have fire extinguisher? there is a car burning. give it to me, guys. as they try in vain to douse
to the field now with brian todd. don, a very impressive observance of this curfew. just two hours into it, our photo journalist and i are moving out into the intersection of north avenue and pennsylvania avenue. this, of course, the scene of so much of the tension over the last several days. on monday, this was the scene of looting, car burning, of fire at the cvs pharmacy over here. it was one of the most violent, chaotic scenes here in the city. over the past couple of nights, it has been the scene of some real tension tonight and other nights as far as just a couple of standoffs with the police which we re going to get to in a second. now, one of the things that we observed earlier tonight was when the curfew was approaching, there were still several people in the intersection. they were blocking the intersection. the police were telling us, they were mingingeling in the crowd. the police were telling us they wanted to see if some of the protest leaders could come back and actual
calms down. i slowly try and rehydrate her the old fashioned way. we touched down once more at a makeshift hospital high in the mountains and we realize as dramatic as that was, it is a scene that is playing out every day, maybe every hour in the skies above nepal. to get an idea how challenges these conditions are, look at the very small space which the helicopter had to land on top of this hill. hardly any room to spare. they re taking off these badly needed supplies as quick as they can because there s a woman on that helicopter who nearly went into cardiac arrest. they have to get her back as quickly as possible. here come the patients, one by one. i am handed a precious little bay to fly back whose mother is too weak to hold her. sabini s iv bag is now tied to the ceiling use a disposable face mask. anything to just make it work. just a single moment to
protesters and get them away from the intersection. so what happened was they somehow somebody got congressman elijah cummings to come back to this intersection. mr. cummings has been a really impressive leader through all of this, addressing the crowds, tamping down their anger, basically telling them the status of the investigation, just giving them updates and telling them, look, you ve got to be patient. he did it again tonight. i interviewed him just as he got to the scene and had talked to some protesters about vacating this intersection. here is what he had to say. we must allow the process to go forward. and all i can assure them and the senator and others is that we will stick with this case until the end. but the fact is is that now we have a state s attorney who we are very impressed with and very proud of. we trust her, we believe in her. and i know that she will i just want her to get the facts right. she will apply the law and come