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This began before mccain was speaking out. it began in the campaign. >> he said he likes guys that didnt get captured. i have been over there in hanoi. his plane went in the middle of the water. he went into the water. the plane crashed. he didnt just give up. beating the hell, he didnt surrender. >> donald trump got a number of deferments because of bone chips. ridiculous comparison. i dont know what makes him -- >> he hates obama too. >> the only explanation is that he has this long standing v...

The bones were human, but that didnt mean the police were any closer to knowing if the bone chips were shamias. >> there was a lot of thermal destruction. this would suggest a tremendous fire that lasted for as much as days. >> i had never worked with samples that had been so charred and so burnt before, so i was very hesitant as to whether i would be able to generate a dna profile from these remains. >> but in a case with so few lucky breaks, the forensic anthropologist finally got one. they fo...

In the search for shamia smith, investigators collected dozens of what appeared to be bone chips from the fire pit on ken ottos property and sent them to the forensics lab. >> this skeleton was burned so significantly that it was nearly destroyed as if it would have been in a commercial cremation. the fragmentation was so severe that you had pieces that were the size of a fingernail. it really is like a needle in a hay stack. it was an anthropologists nightmare. >> after close examination, foren...

Violent it is and how loud it is. no, i dont remember any of that at all. i dont remember anything really until the next morning waking up in icu. >> reporter: this was the blast site. payne was trying to retreat and made it about 35 yards away behind a fire truck, which apparently shielded him just enough. the truck was left a mangled ruin. somehow robert payne survived. >> when i visited with the guy that rescued me, brad, he filled me in on a few things about where i was found and the fact i ...

No. watch it in video and see how violent it is, how loud it is, no, i dont remember any of that at all. i dont really remember anything until the next morning, waking up in icu. >> reporter: this was the blast site. payne trying to retreat, made it about 35 yards away behind a fire truck, which apparently shielded him just enough. the truck was left a mangled ruin. somehow robert payne survived. >> when i visited with the guy th rescued me, brad, he filled me in on a few things about where i wa...

Violent it is, how loud it is, no, i dont remember any of that at all. i dont remember anything really until the next morning waking up in icu. >> reporter: this was the blast site, payne was trying to retreat and played it 35 yards away behind a fire truck, which apparently shielded him just enough. the truck was left a mangled ruin, somehow robert payne survived. >> when i visited with the guy that rescued me, brad, he filled me in on a few things where i was found and the fact that i was blow...

Me in on a few things about where i was found and about the fact that i was blown out of my boots. my boots in one place, and i was -- he described about 35 feet away. >> reporter: payne has nerve damage in his right arm, broken ribs, broken facial bones and bone chips in his leg and needs surgery to repair his right eardrum. but hes alive. 12 other first responders werent so lucky. >> these are some of the fire fight eveers we lost. the mayor took us to the fire station. two new donated fire tr...

Weeks later all the more remarkable. do you remember the explosion? >> dont remember it at all. no. watched it in video and you see how violent it is and how loud it is. no, i dont remember any of that at all. i dont really remember anything until the next morning. waking up in icu. >> reporter: this was the blast site. payne was trying to retreat and made it about 35 yards away behind a fire truck which apparently shielded him just enough. the truck was left a mangled ruin. somehow robert payne...

Fact that i was blown out of my boots. my boots were in one place, and i was, he described i think about as 35 feet away. >> reporter: payne has nerve damage in his right arm, broken ribs, broken facial bones and bone chips in his leg. and he needs surgery to repair his right eardrum. but hes alive. 12 other first responders werent so lucky. >> those are some of the firefighters that we lost. >> reporter: wests mayor took us to the fire station. the names of the firefighters who died are still o...

>> youre next. >> when i walked in, a guy looked up and he goes, oh, whos next, willie? mika was there. you need to take your wife there. >> youll love it up there. lets get to the news. well start with the latest on the condition of congresswoman gabrielle giffords. now, doctors say they have removed several bone chips from her eye socket as she continues to recover from a gunshot wound to the head. medical staff are still watching to see whether giffords speech will return. she is currently ...