put on the gear and helped put the fire out with my brother, and other side has the medic side where there s a med evac helicopter escorting a couple of wounded soldiers out and kind of a ghostly image of my brother as a battle angel watching over, making sure those wounded soldiers get into the helicopter okay. and so, that s kind of what we did, and then on the back is, of course, picture of ryan in sis hiss state firefighter gear when he was in school, but, yeah. well, i tell you what, that battle angel is still up there looking over your and your family and everybody that he touched. steven, thank you very much for calling in. thank you for having me. appreciate this. it was our honor. please log on to cnn.com/homeandaway. tell us about your hero. we ll lift him up. thank you, friend
flight deck of a koefts guard cutter. a dedication and commitment from our people. was that the birth? we had a number of pictures that went by so quickly. i remember that moment and you talking about that. what was that like? what was the chatter around that? they were trying to med evac the woman at the time who was about to give birth and they were on the flight deck and the baby wouldn t wait so we were there and took care of business. you have definitely done it all. there was one photo also that was very special to you from haiti. that was with the haitian coast guard, and i love this photo. we will bring it up in just a second. it s with all of the members of the haitian coast guard in their uniforms standing around you. there it is right there. that is another picture that you said is one of your favorites. why? i first went to haiti in 1973 when i was a search and rescue controller in san juan and have been back there since then. we have a special unique relationship w
we re obviously in the early stages of assessing the incident. it s a tragedy, clearly, and the president was briefed immediately on and made aware of it immediately and briefed on it, and we re monitoring the situation. shepard: we re expecting a news conference. do we know if the marines have any clue what happened here? reporter: well, shep, it s not clear, but the 60-millimeter more tar being used in the activities, it exploded prematurely, we re told. five marines were killed instantly. one died awaiting med-evac. one died on route to the hospital. seven more were injured some were taken 140-miles to reno for treatment. the incident did not involve the ammunition depose depots. the marines were from camp he