anchorage today, and what are the kids saying about what they went through? reporter: well, chris, they certainly say they had a crazy experience, a frightening experience and certainly dangry. two of the seven kids still remain hospitalized. they were on a month-long survival expedition and they used all of the skills they learned. everybody was in disarray. everybody seemed to have an injury. reporter: their story of survival is as fresh as their wounds. just one of the most terrifying things that ever happened to me. seven teenagers hiking in rugged terrain, encounter a grizzly bear and her cuss. i remember standing up and basically watching, as this bear chased everyone around and then eventually ran up the held. the boys were in a single-file line cross ago riverbed. joshua berg was first in line,
the kids saying about what they went through? reporter: well, chris, they certainly say they had a crazy experience, a frightening experience and certainly dangry. two of the seven kids still remain hospitalized. they were on a month-long survival expedition and they used all of the skills they learned. everybody was in disarray. everybody seemed to have an injury. reporter: their story of survival is as fresh as their wounds. just one of the most terrifying things that ever happened to me. seven teenagers hiking in rugged terrain, encounter a grizzly bear and her cuss. i remember standing up and basically watching, as this bear chased everyone around and then eventually ran up the held. the boys were in a single-file line cross ago riverbed. joshua berg was first in line, first to be mauled. noah laird was next.
single file line crossing a riverbed, and 17-year-old joshua berg was first in line and first to be mauled, and noah was next. the screaming i could hear from my friends and the growls from the bear which were loud and deep, and the screamings were heldless screaming and i can still hear it in my head. reporter: the grizzly pounced and clawed four of the teens before she retreated. just the chaos and the disbelief, and just, the confusion going on really was overwhelming to handle. reporter: the attack was roughly seven minutes long, but the rescue took over seven hours. the group was in the middle of nowhere. the aftermath and the way were scarier than the attack itself even though that seems like hard to fathom. reporter: with their emergency beacon calling for help, the teens used anything they could including garbage bags to slow the bleeding. working together as a team, they survived. the fact that we all made it out alive is a testament to the
and lucky lucy. a 6-year-old girl who nearly lost her leg to a shark attack in just 18 inches of water talks about the horrific ordeal for the first time today, tuesday, july 26, 2011. captions paid for by nbc-universal television and welcome to today on this tuesday morning. i m ann curry. and i m matt lauer. boy, it s interesting to watch these two speeches in primetime last night. the president went first and delivered a tough message at the white house. he warned americans of an impending economic crisis if congress fails to pass a comprehensive budget deal in only seven days. and, of course, he pointed the finger of blame directly at the republicans. they describe what s happening in washington as a partisan three-ring circus. speaker boehner fired back saying even when a deal is within reach, the president, he said, would not take yes for an answer. the latest report live from washington ahead. also, where does the case against dominique strauss kan go from he
from the hill to the white house, and with we have team coverage with all of the angles of this developing story with msnbc s kelly o donnell, and kristen welker. i want to start with kelly. senate minority leader mitch mcconnell now saying he supports boehner s plan, and what does that mean for the reid plan? well, one of the things that we have been watching is what would mitch mcconnell say publicly, because he and majority leader reid had been working on the super duper fallback we were talking about a week or so ago, and for a while, he has allowed boehner to be the front man for this, and the comments that mcconnell made today are important, and what it suggests is that there are people in the senate who believe that the boehner plan must go first meaning that the house has to vote, and see where the votes actually end up, and that will determine what the senate can do. so, it was an important push today for the republican speaker john boehner to try to get his folk