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Venue, obviously, there are plenty of other survival stories including the one from addison short, an 18-year-old, young woman, who was shot in the leg. shes lucky that she ran into a guy named jamie jackson, who saw that her boot was soaked threw with blood, took it off, used a belt to try to stop some of the bleeding using it as a tourniquet. because of where she was shot she couldnt walk or run so he literally took her, put her over his shoulder and ran her to safety. she ended up getting to ...

Down a road, and i ended up down on harmon avenue down by planet hollywood. at that point, the people werent really aware of what was happening, and i was able to find a safe place to go and contact brian and make sure he was okay. >> ben and brian, im so glad you guys are okay and were able to help other people along the way. i appreciate you talking about it. i know its just a difficult thing to process, even 24 hours later like this works so thank you so much for talking to us. i wish you the...

Gunshots when i heard my brother say i got hit. i turned around and saw him coughing up blood. >> reporter: using a piece of plastic and band-aids to cover his chest wound. ushering his wife to safety, he was shot in the back and died trying to save her. >> most people climbed the fence. i had to stay with my body. >> reporter: his friend was shot three times in the chest. >> we got him over the fence once the fire stopped and slid him under a stage so we were safe. >> reporter: vanessa, an off-...

One, there were just dead bodies. >> reporter: addison short was shot in the leg while trying to get away. a stranger came to her aid. >> and so i dove under this bar to get cover and this guy helped me grab my foot because it was just gushing out blood everywhere. i just want to -- if the guy that helped me is watching, i really just want to tell him how grateful i am for basically saving my life. >> reporter: addison says she never got the mans name. amid all the blood shed, countless stories ...

Reigned down all around her. she said a stranger came to her rescue. >> i dont know his name and barely what he look like. he completely covered me. he covered my face, he said, ive got you. its truly incredible a stranger jumping over me to protect me. >> reporter: 18-year-old addison short was among those running for cover but couldnt move fast because she was shot in the leg. from her hospital bed she tells the story of a good samaritan who used his belt to wrap her in a tourniquet and carry ...

Into that mass crowd. >> another interesting thing, i walked that street very carefully this morning now that were allowed to go through it. i was expecting at least somewhere up above in the line of sight going into where the convention was youd see bullet holes in something, youd see a ricochet mark, youd see something. you dont. that september to say everythings cleaned up, it means many of his shots landed where he wanted them to go. >> monday i want to point out we met a young survivor here...

Were still working through that and trying to manage that as well. >> have you ever seen anything like this in an e.r.? >> no, sir. one of my partners served in iraq and afghanistan, and he compared this to something that you would see in a war zone. >> dr. sher, we appreciate the work of the doctors and nurses and everyone thats been responding to this, thank you so much. joining us is at son short who was wounded. im so glad that you are okay of the how do you feel? how are you holding up? add...

Lot and were rushed to the hospital in the back of a pick-up truck driven by complete strangers. >> what do you want to say to these people? >> thank you for saving my life. if it wasnt for them i probably wouldnt be here right now. >> reporter: robert aguilar was at the concert with his girlfriend rosa when he was shot in the spine above his right hip. >> you could hear the bullets whizzing by. i told her to stay down and i kind of had my head turned just thinking the next one will hit us again...

>> and on the corner. because he broke the window on the corner here. so he had overlapping firing zones. and the corner one would cover this area over here. and the other one actually looked right straight over the venue. so he was able to hit people trying to escape out of this area over here, but also firing into that mass crowd. >> another interesting thing, i walked that street very carefully this morning now that were allowed to go through it. i was expecting at least somewhere up above in...

Didnt want your friend to stay around? >> yeah. i wanted her to go get somewhere safe. i was going to try to do my best to get out of there safe. i just wanted her to be okay. >> where in the leg were you shot and how are you doing now? >> i was shot right, like, in my tibia. it hurts so bad. the spain unbearable, but it could have been way worse. i cant imagine the people that lost their lives and are in more pain than i am. im just grateful thats all that it was. >> your mom is a police office...