caller: i didn t see any chaos when i lift. a lot of people were shaken and crying, but. jamie: how do you feel today, are you shaken? caller: i m a little shaken and it was horrific, once the i ve gone to the ottawa bluesfest and it is a fantastic event and i m sad to hear about what happened. jamie: we are watching the people help other people and it seems like the effort of authorities and those who were there to get everybody out safe. it is incredible and thank you for being willing to talk to us about it. caller: thank you. jamie: that has to be the video of the day, bill, don t you think. bill: you can hear the vietnamiscreaming in the background. go to a concert and see this before your eyes? it is interesting, he takes note of the birds flying away and you can see them in the top portion of the picture frame here, right before the winds came up and took the stage down with it and cheap trick, the band, walked off stage, just in time. fortui fortuitous.
shouted nasty things as she emerged from the jail and our own geraldo rivera spoke with casey anthony s attorney, jose baez on his program, last night and this is how he characterized it. listen: this young woman had her day in court. a jury of 12 found her not guilty of murder and manslaughter an aggravated child abuse. and we need to start respecting jury verdicts and decisions juries make. reporter: he texted george and scindy anthony, the night o the release letting them know she was okay, and they watched the release on television like most of us, bill. bill: a bit of a mystery. there, casey steegel. in orlando. jamie: he has a nickname, dr. no and, tom couk coburn has a plan
playing, when the entire thing came down and several people were hurt and, luckily, no one was killed, and, joining us on the phone, the man who actually shot the video. ben, thanks for being here. caller: thank you, a pleasure to be here. jamie: and bringing us the video. what was it like to experience? it seemed to have happened so quickly? caller: it was ominous before the stage collapse, because the clouds started to roll in and you could see a flock of birds flying away which was scary as well, and we knew something was coming on and in a matter of seconds, cheap trick ran off the stage and the stage came down. jamie: where were you in the crowd. caller: relative close to the stage, to the left side of the stage, probably about 30 rows back. jamie: any warning? other than the birds? caller: the only warning we had, was the dark clouds coming in. and, there was people leaving the concert, probably a minute or two just before the stage had collapsed, because of the high wind
like plenty of people stuck around. and do you think it is miraculous, having been there, that more people were not injured and nobody died? caller: it was chaos when it happened, and, thank heavens, because everybody was shaken when they were leaving. jamie: what did you hear people say? caller: just, that they hoped nobody was hurt. and, there was a an announcement by the mayor of ottawa, that happened just at 7:00 and the stage collapsed 7:20, to declare the bluesfest a danger in ottawa. jamie: you would imagine folks would be running, like the dickens, to get out of there. did some people get trampled? caller: i saw nothing like that. i saw nothing like that, because, we were close to the exit. and, so it was pretty orderly leaving. jamie: is that arena or stadium area really conducive to making that exit, were there enough exits for people to get out in a timely way?
mcconnell plan, it kicking the can down the road and the american people sent us here to make big, tough choices and didn t set us here to send up a commission and give the president veto power, that is not what they sent us here to do. reporter: and, with different constituencies dug in it s not clear where the votes will be to find a compromise, to raise the debt ceiling. jamie. jamie: we do need one, mike emanuel, thanks. bill: we found one of the leading credit agencies saying uncle sam should abolish the debt ceiling entirely. moody s saying the fighting over whether to raise it causes more uncertainty, than the debt itself. and america is one of the few countries where lawmakers set a ceiling on government debt an moody s says, it would reduce the risk assessment, if the feds got rid of the debt ceiling, altogether. 7 minutes past the hour, significant change to the war in afghanistan. general david petraeus officially handing over command in that war. brand new video, here, th