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Megyn: it has become an all too familiar story, a crazed gunman shows up on a school campus and opens fires and this week it happened again, this time in a littleton, colorado middle school, the sail community that endured the unspeakable tragedy at columbine high, but this time the ending was dramatically different. two students were injured, but no one died. thanks in no small part to our next guest. teacher david benke who risked his own life to tackle the gunman and becky brown, the assistan...

Arer, dr. david benke tackled before he could fire again. >> seventh grade math teacher david benke moved towards the suspect even as the gunman kept firing and tackled him as he demonstrated on my colleague. >> i grabbed him by the front -- by this. >> okay. >> right, and then we were kind of dancing around for awhile. >> two students were shot. a seventh grade girl and an eighth grade boy. benke wishes he could have done more. >> it bothers me that i was a little bit late. it bothers me that h...

Situation from turning more tragic. "the fox reports" correspondent jonathan shouldnt with us. everybody is calling him a big-time hero. >> every kid and the parents of every kid at deer creek middle school. and in many ways it seems that dr. david benke was prepared for exactly this moment. he was a big guy after all. 5 --6" 65". a college basketball player. he had thought about what he would do in precisely this situation before. >> during drills and things like that that we had, i would tell ...

>> dr. benke said he was essentially wrestling with the guy. at one point he was underneath the shooter. that faces were very close today and dr. benke said he held him and said why did you do this? were you a student here? dr. benke said the shooters reaction either basically didnt make sense or just werent really existing at all. >> shepard: from everything i have been able to read about this suspect, a lot about him didnt make sense. >> we do now know he did in fact attend deer deer creek in ...

Dr. denky assessed the situation and without ten concern to his life he tackled the guy. >> a bus driver in littleton, colorado, commenting on the shooting there. for more on what happened and how teachers responded, im joined by a parent who was picking up her daughter when she witnessed one of the shootings. sherry is on the line with us. >> hello. >> so as i i understand it youre driving up and hear a shot. >> yeah, i was actually parked, kind of parallel to the buses and at the head of the l...

Was in mrs. bathrics class, just talking to her, and matt said hey dr. benke, high five, and you said you know matt, im getting old, i can only see students in their chair, with their hand raised, right? so then we got the high five after he sat down. you know, he was -- he is a great kid. were hoping to be able to see him later this afternoon. we really -- becky and rob were kind of on their way, to see him this morning, and then they kind of got corralled. megyn: little did he know when he had...

Helping kids. i saw him turn his head towards the school as i looked to the school as well. he had taken off because i guess saw the gunman and then i heard the second shot and exited the truck and ran to the school. i didnt think i was running into danger, i thought i was looking for people that had been hurt. i saw dr. benke tackle the shooter to the ground a 57" man, dark coat on. i saw the rifle and saw him bend over, like hunchback like he was preparing to reload his rifle to take more acti...

Posing a threat to our forces. on the bottom, former olympic skater nancy kerrigans brother is free on $10,000 bail, he had been charged you may remember with assaulting their father shortly before their father died last month. jon: a teacher in colorado is called a hero for tackling a gunman who shot two students not far from columbine high school, the site of one of the nations wore sts -- worst school shootings -- shootings. it happened at deer creek school when a guy with a gun reportedly ...