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The dogs are playing in absently critical role and are saving lives. theyve been out here on this pile of rubble, as i said. today -- i also want to introduce you to an extraordinary dog handler and his team. hector mendez, can you believe this, was in houston, texas, then in florida with his recovery team helping in the recovery efforts after the hurricanes there. he flew back to mexico city from miami on the morning of september 19th. that is tuesday. he was sitting or lunch with friends and f...

Officers were of times square of course and we were very shortstaffed. i myself assigned to the bomb squad. i was a junior manager, most of the seniors had off. i had a partner with me a dog handler, and we had received a call that a bomb had exploded at 26 and earl plaza, we responded to there. virtually every window and the back of the building had been blown out. there were shards of glass everywhere. because of that, we had a bomb at k-9 with us and we decided not to use the dog fearing that...

Including the dog killed on the bergdahl mission remco. >> wow, shes fast. >> shes an athlete, man. >> he started an organization called spikes canine fund to provide medical care and proper protection for police dogs, search and rescue dogs, dogs that can be hurt or killed in the line of duty. >> im not going to let her run really fast at you. >> im good. im ready for it. >> a former naval dog handler himself, i asked hatch to show me some of what his dutch sheppard mina can do. >> punish him. ...

>> with those words? >> twice. >> ever since -- ever since jimmy hatch has been on a path of healing. today he continues to honor those who saved his life including the dog killed on the bergdahl mission remco. >> shes fast. >> he started an organization called spikes canine fund to provide medical care and proper protection for police dogs, searching and rescue dogs, dogs that can be hurt or killed in the line of duty. >> i am not going to let her run really fast at you. >> no, i am good. ready...

When you touch something, they connected that, you walk away, you are leaving the dead skin cells. what the dog does is trying to establish trail, hoping to lead to the suspect, but if nothing else, bare minimum, they can have the state police and the other agencies involved give them a direction of travel. >> as we find out more about how they did, in fact, capture david sweat, we will find out what role those blood hounds plays in finding him. i want to go back to clint van zandt, talking abou...

Escaped in ways that rival what happened at clinton. working at the lansing correctional facility in kansas bringing in rescue dogs for the inmates to train. she fell for john maynard, and few months later struggled him out of the prison in a dog crate. served a sentence for her role, toby, thank you for joining us. a lot of people who look at joyce mitchell wonder how somebody can get to a place where she helped somebody escape from prison. i wonder how it happened for you. what was it that thi...

Needs to be looked into in this prison? >> absolutely. when you look at the nexus between joyce and gene, both of them received paintings. ceived paintings from these guys? did gene provide paintings to other officers? did they bring in photos of their family? did the inmate then paint those? paint pictures for members of service? i think it has to be looked into. i think there is a lot more going on than we are being told. >> certainly being investigated right now. gavin, appreciate you being w...

Out on a c-130 and cargo plane. theres still some americans there. and theres still some foreign nationals there. but i think between tonight and tomorrow, hopefully well be able to get most of them -- >> how do you see this? you have more experience in iraq than most people, you know, how surprised are you by the advances, then, and the quickness of the speed of the advance that isis have made? >> im not too surprised because when i was here, i was in the marine corps. and i was deployed here t...

>> after you got hurt, you said that zenith was right with you all throughout that day you were injured and beyond? >> yeah. he was 20 feet in front of me when i stepped on the ied, and after that he was by my side while washington was receiving medical attention. >> how did you get him back to this country and get re-united with him? >> well, he was redeployed after i was injured with another dog handler. they finished his deployment in afghanistan. after they returned from the deployment, i pu...

Six month old daughter to four strangers. show told plos he smoked methamphetamine and drinking. rescuers helped two boaters. the husband told her the air boat was sinking. they guyeded rescuers to the scene. and iowa, a marine and his best friend bonded by war and now reunighted. the marine sergeant served as a dog handler with blond lab casy in afghanistan. hes been ing get her back and pleading with the state fire marshall office where casy was working. >> i cameere to plead my case and mr. r...