with. reporter: inside, officials discovered the body of steven floyd, a 16-year veteran of the department. an honor guard for the fallen officer. officer steven floyd sr. saved lived yesterday. reporter: the surviving hostage, patricia may a counselor at the prison for 45 years. there were inmates that actually shielded this victim and ensured her safety. reporter: investigators consider at least 120 inmates suspects. as they try to figure out how this could have happened. ron allen, nbc news, delaware. and there s new reporting this morning on the question surrounding that white house statement on the holocaust that never made reference to the jewish people. the state department drafted its own statement to recognize holocaust remembrance day which included the mention of the jews killed that they thought the white house was going to use. they never asked the state department to draft a statement and never knew it existed until
911 tapes being released by authorities. chilling tapes from the scene. one of the people who was there was a woman named patricia may, this eyewitness. she said everything was happening sto fast. she didn t know if she would be injured, or credited as one of the people, one of the heroes who helped tackle the suspect. she was told to grab the gun. she helped grab the magazine which was empty while he was trying to reload and did reload the second magazine which had 31 bullets in it. by chance the spring didn t work and there was a malfunction of the gun so there were no more bullets fired. she spoke with us today. you can hear how modest she is about all that unfolded. the two men that secured him were the heroes. i just was an assistant in being able to get that magazine or clip i m not a gun person. i m not sure i m using that right words.
corner of the state. it was a close, bruising race. according to her official biography, solar energy, immigration reform and issues for military families are her priorities in congress. prior to coming to washington she served in both houses of the arizona state legislature and ran her family s tire and automotive business. she s married to nasa astronaut mark kelly. ever since the tragic shooting the pima county sheriff clarence dupnik has railed against vitriol. we do not have any clinical assessment of the gunman s mental state but the sheriff insists he as a sees that an unstable person could be provoked by hateful rhetoric on the internet. let s have a conversation about is our political rhetoric contributing perhaps. david, i want to go to you
but i was able to hold onto the clip and another gentleman that was standing up, not the two securing him, was able to get the gun. patricia, the sheriff said your actions may have saved countless lives. i don t think so. i think the other two men saved countless lives. you know, jessica, you say everyone here has a connection. this woman refers to the congresswoman as gabby. she said she came to talk about the so-called job-killing bill. she said she considered running away but then thought she might be a target. what did she do instead? she stayed and not only helped tackle this shooter alleged shooter, but helped one of the victims bleeding from the head. listen to what she told us about that. when i saw the man with the head wound, i was a little panicky and then i decided that wasn t that wasn t going to
react. i have seen nothing that convinced me had it been john mccain or jon kyl that the same thing wouldn t have happened. reporter: gabrielle giffords was put in the crosshairs by sarah palin on her sarah-pac. it s something people on the left have been pointing to and the sheriff raised the discussion. both of those are absurd. i m sorry. but it s even sick the fact that people were premeditating making this into a political issue when it is a tragedy for the community. it s a horrible thing. don t compound it, especially when you re the sheriff, by trying to drag people into it that don t belong in the discussion. there are people and not a lot of people that were kind of hoping this would be a tea party because they don t agree with the tea party. they want a cudgel to beat the tea party with. if it fits or not they were going to try to i can ma it fit. obviously the details of the case have wanted that.