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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...

Screaming. and i couldnt find brian, i couldnt find my friends wife. as i was running, i called home, i called my lady. sorry. >> its okay. >> and tried to tell her what was happening. and then there was people following -- >> im sorry, go ahead, ben. >> people following. and i think people were so overwhelmed. theres no way to prepare yourself for something like that. what do you do under that kind of pressure. i try to stay as calm as possible, and the end result get home to my family. so i ra...

Come this way. and hes sweating. as soon as we pass him, he starts running off into the bad area where everything is bad. and i just thought in my head, wow. and so i just stayed as calm as possible and tried to take the two girls by their hands and run through. and there were people following me. and it was body, body, body. then we hit the fourth body. and they were people with these people laying there, hiding. but theyre bloody. and i couldnt stop because i was trying to help the people that...

Like many of the witnesses we heard from, our next two guests initially thought the gunfire was fireworks. brian hopkins and the band called elvis monroe played and then joined the crowd. ben, first of all im so glad youre both okay. brian, if you could walk us through what you remember happening last night. i know you were watching jason and then you and ben got split up during the chaos. >> yeah, we were standing out front. when the initial -- when he got past that it wasnt fireworks, and it w...

And he says, run, and i grabbed the two girls in front of me, and i grabbed both of their hands and i made them run with me. and ben ran towards a friend ours wife in her direction. and he got ran over. and thats when we got separated because he got up and i said, ron. being that we just came from backstage, i went out and around the corner in the backstage area. and it was just coming. when i play it barks i wasnt moving very fast but i was making sure the people following me could get back the...