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Inside grand rapids kent county jail is a small room usually manned by a couple of deputies and a cadet. its central control, the nerve center of the jail. from here staff can survey and control movement through the entire facility. >> i always say that were kind of like 911 dispatchers crossed with air traffic controllers. >> where you going? >> central control staff can open and close every door in the jail, and the choreograph the movements of hundreds of inmates in a manner that is organized...

But they still let him out. the police came. they gave us a court date. one of them told me quite frankly, ill never forget it, he said, you have to protect yourself. you dont have to tell me but once to protect myself because im going to do that. i started carrying my pistol. im walking outside every night now, checking the perimeter, you know, making sure nobodys creeping around the windows. i mean, this guy has me kind of, you know, tight and tense. i heard the back gate one night. we didnt k...

Who fire-bombed our car. he stayed in jail for a week. but they still let him out. the police came. they gave us a court date. one of them told me quite frankly, ill never forget it, he said, you have to protect yourself. you dont have to tell me but once to protect myself because im going to do that. i started carrying my pistol. im walking outside every night now, checking the perimeter, you know, making sure nobodys creeping around the windows. i mean, this guy has me kind of, you know, tight...

>> wow. what a strange story. nbcs jim miklaszewski. thanks very much. >> it sounds awfully familiar. mika brzezinski in fact grew up around langley. they live right by back gate of the cia headquarters. there were one or two nights in high school was mika was racing and took the wrong turn. >> i went into the cia and lets say they let me know very quickly i had taken a wrong turn. >> the signs are not well lit at night. squinting at the -- >> yeah no. wow, thats incredible. they dont mess aroun...

They picked him up that night because they knew he was the one who firebombed our car. he stayed in jail for a week, but they still let him out. the police came. they gave us a court date. one of them told me, quite frankly, ill never forget it. he said you have to protect yourself. you only got to tell me once to protect myself because im going to do that. i started carrying my pistol. im walking outside every night now, checking the perimeter, you know, making sure nobodys creeping around the ...

Had been given to the ambassador during the attack. calling the numbers, someone gets to the american embassy and says a man has been found and he is dead. the caller provides a description matching ambassador chris stephens. >>záñmñ a car pulls up and park here. a guy comes around and he is reaching like he is throwing something. right as he brings his arm back to throw, i engage him. i move and shoot him two to three times. he goes down and whatever he threw landed just short of our back ga...

Small trees in this area. this is what we call zombie land. >> all the activity is coming from this intersection. theyre starting to stage here. this is just a big open parking lot. here is the house that were seeing people start to go into that little area. >> they can come into here. it gives them access to our back gate. >> so youre watching this development and the cars and the people going into this house and you dont know if its bad guys or not. and whats the engagement? youre going to wai...

Inside grand rapids concept county jail, its a small room usually manned by a couple of deputies and a cadet and central control, the nerve center of the jail. from here, staff can survey and control movement through the entire facility. >> i always say that were kind of like 911 dispatchers crossed with air traffic controllers. >> where you going? >> central control staff can open and close every door in the jail, and the choreograph the movements of hundreds of inmates in a manner that is orga...

Inside grand rapids kent county jail is a small room usually manned by a couple of deputies and a cadet. its central control, the nerve center of the jail. from here staff can survey and control movement through the entire facility. >> i always say that were kind of like 911 dispatchers crossed with air traffic controllers. >> where you going? >> central control staff can open and close every door in the jail, and the choreograph the movements of hundreds of inmates in a manner that is organized...

Tom foreman is here. >> ft. hood is in between waco and austin. it is about 214,000 acres. a big facility. spreads out this way. it is ft. hood right here. that community college were talking about is right over in this area here. this is the clear creek gate, one of the main entrances to ft. hood. and over here is the burning back gate. this is where weve been hearing that reporter locally down there talking. the gate thats closed is this gate in here. as we move in closer here, we can move int...