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These american heros honored. >> ive not only been at these ceremonies, i know of a few medal of honor recipients. one from the second world war, a couple from the vietnam war. theyre amazing people to be around. so full of stories when they recount them to you, you hang on their every word. theyre normal every day americans who at one moment in life rose up to be here r -- heros, saving their comrades. to honor such people in such an apolitical fashion as happens here in the united states reall...

Himself to intense fire as he moved from casualty to casualty. a b-40 rocket impacted meters from sergeant rose. knocking him from his feet and injuring his head, hand and foot. ignoring his wounds, sergeant rose struggled to his feet and continued to render aid to the other soldiers. sergeant rose exposed himself to enemy fire as he attempted to hoist wounded personnel up to the hovering hem continuer which was unable to land due to the terrain. the medevac was aborted and the helicopter crashe...

Had we not come out that day, we were extracted, we probably would have never left." thats from the man in charge that day. the ceremony is to begin now. lets listen. truth is, theyre running a few minutes late. lots of reasons for that from day to day. a lot going on there. back the john roberts briefly while we wait for this ceremony to begin. john? >> you know, shep, if you want to know, we can never know what captain rose actually went through. particularly hes a medic. if you want to get so...

Constant fire. as bullets flew in every direction, mike fired with one arm while dragging the injured soldier back to the perimeter with the other. soon after they returned to their unit, a rocket-propelled grenade exploded nearby and shots smoldered metal into mikes back and into his leg. he was seriously, seriously wounded. the shrapnel left a gapping hole in mikes foot. for the next 48 excruciating hours, he used a branch as a crutch and rescued the wounded. mike did not stop to eat, sleep or...

Safety. this was just the beginning of mikes harrowing four-day mission. mike and his unit slashed through the dense jungle, dodged bullets and explosives and everything that you can dodge because they threw it all at him and continually returned fire as they moved deeper and deeper and deeper into enemy territory. mike rescued those in distress without any thought for his own safety. i will tell you, the people with him could not believe what they were witnessing. he crawled from one soldier to...

Responders who came, some of the eye witnesses, that weve had on who lived through this morning, saying to us, 10 to 15 minutes of constant, constant fire, saying it felt like it would never end. >> it went on twice. you could hear pauses where the gunman was clearly reloading. law enforcement saw the flashes from the 32nd floor of the mandalay bay hotel. they radioed to other law enforcement who were able to go up to the room and through a dynamic raid using an explosive breach, they blew down ...

Proper precautions. >> reporter: place -- police say they just want to question jordan. they have been questioning an off-duty officer whos an old friend of jordans. he was seen leaving the doctors house, and its reported he had $5,000 cash on him and a rolex watch. so at this point local, state and federal authorities are all on the lookout for jordan, the the fbis involved as well, and manhunts entering its third day. contact 911 or crimestoppers should you see dr. jordan. jon? jon: his wherea...

Be able for our firefighters, the brave men and women who are out there on the line, so that they have the tools to be able to do their job. that includes having the air resources they need, the large air tankers, the helicopters, the engines and the firefighters themselves. the second thing, were going to continue our work to be able to restore national forests by doing more thinning, more timber harvest, using more prescribed fires so that when we do get a fire started, its going to bush at a ...

Tried calling her, tried to get her out to no avail. there are at least 12 fires burning in six states right now, and the head of the forest service says unless we change how we care for our forests, we will see more of these super fires all summer long. were joined by tom of the u.s. forest service, hes the chief of that industry, and were going to draw upon your 33 years of service when we talk a little bit about these fires. we havent heard that term, super fire, before. why is it being used?...

In our forests. in addition to that, weve had with the changing climate where we have warm winters, we have extended droughts, very low snow pack, were seeing that our fire seasons often now are another 30-50 days longer than weve had in the past. so when these fires get started, they have the right conditions to be able to burn at a much higher rate, theyre much more severe. its because of these fuels are extremely dry. plus the additional buildup of fuels thats occurred over the last few decad...