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Of richard shoop after 3:00 a.m. in the back area of the mall under construction. he was dead from a self inflicted gunshot wound with the same rifle he used to scare people when he walked in. while police and mall security are getting a lot of credit for handling this, this clearly could have been much, much worse. jenna: thank you. jon: technology 101 not working for the obamacare website. how about economics 101? our next guest talks about a growing doctor shortage with millions of newly insu...

The flight data voice recorders and the go team is on the ground? >> they have had the flight recorders i would say for roughly about four hours now. so right now theyre downloading the data from the flight recorders. and those are actually located in the back of the plane, the back area around the tail. so we have some video of the flight recorders, the ones shipped over from san francisco right there in the lab. so once again, you can see a little bit of soot on them. but the process of trying...

In fact, lets listen to a bit of one testimony. >> it looked like a tussle. i could really only see one person, and i think i described it as possibly being some type of dog attack because there are a lot of dogs that walk in that back area and i could only see, you know, an object. >> okay. what then did you observe after that? >> it seemed like a tussle. they were vertical to me just like the blinds were. and then at one point i yelled out, whats going on? stop it. i believe. >> will the defen...

Of dogs that walk in that back area and i could only see an object. >> okay. what then did you observe after that? >> it seemed like a tussle. they were vertical to me just like the blinds were. and then at one point i yelled out whats going on? stop it, i believe. >> so do you watch football? >> yes. >> okay. you know how on football they have instant replay? >> yes. >> im going to as best i can do an instant replay. my question is you stepped outside and in terms of how long you had one foot o...

>> and that you had a conversation with mr. martin where you told him -- well just run on him? >> yes, sir. >> and as far as you know, he did? correct? >> no, sir. he had -- i told him run home. and then he said no. no. na is no. second later he told me hes going to make a run for the back area where his fathers fiancee lives. >> lets break that down just a little bit. so at the point -- at the point that he says the mans following me. >> yes. he was trying to lose the man. >> lets break it down...

Cellphone. she claimed yesterday that her friends last words were, get off, get off, and then the phone went silent. lets listen in to what she has to say today. >> mr. martin continued to walk? >> yes, sir. >> and he observed and told you that the man is following him in the car? >> yes, sir. >> and then you said, well run? >> yes, sir. >> and he did run. >> to the back area. >> he wasnt -- he was on the street or on the sidewalk in front of mr. zimmermans car at the point that he decided to ru...

Inside the restaurant say all of this happened literally in an instant. >> we were sitting there enjoying the view after our dinner and we heard people screaming. we didnt know where it was coming from. >> we were walking into the back area and it was more of what we heard rather than what we saw. first we heard like a crack and then it was within seconds that the whole deck had collapsed into the water. >> a lot of people went to this bar to see the heat game and many of them got hurt, we were ...

Enjoying the view after our dinner and we heard people screaming. we didnt know where it was coming from. >> we were walking into the back area and it was more of what we heard rather than what we saw. first we heard like a crack and then it was within seconds that the whole deck had collapsed into the water. >> a lot of people went to this bar to see the heat game and many of them got hurt, we were coming from the beach we saw all of these lights so it occurred to us to figure out what was goin...

Thats one thing that benefitted the fire rescue units and the dive teams that came out here immediately responding. one of the fire rescue units less than a mile away, they got here very, very quickly. now, with first light, don. you can get an idea of what happened to that floating dock there behind me. literally collapsing in the center there. youve got the tables, the chairs, the potted palm trees and you have the railing and youve got -- every piece of debris and people were falling on top o...

They say they are concerned about peoplie getting back into the back area as they are pulling people out. make sure that doesnt happen in a situation like this where (indiscernible). they are working to keep opeopl out of this area. the survivors are able to come back and pick up anything that is salvageable. >> okay. thank you so much. lets go out to luther right now. we have someone close to volunteer firefighters who have been responding to the situation up there. tiffany? >> mike, you are ...