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Lets go. >> reporter: you tell me you said lets go. what was running through your head? >> nothing. get him. >> reporter: why? >> because thats what you do. you chase the bad guy. >> reporter: what was going through your head as this was going on? >> not a lot. i like to drive, and so if i can get away with driving fast, well, you know -- and i had to catch the guy. i had to mach sure he was caught, and at one point the gentleman riding with me said you may have to use your truck to get him off ...

I saw. and the guy with you the other hero had his own ar-15. >> yes, sir. he came out, he was bare footed. >> he was bare foot. >> yes. yeah. he had no shoes on or nothing. he was ready to act. and the moment police got there and everything, you know, he did all the right things. >> grabbed his gun before he grabbed his shoes? >> yes. >> which tells you something about the mindset of the other hero involved in this. you said the chase was 12 to 15 minutes long. going 95, down these country road...

Black suv driving fast by in front of us. the windows were breaking from the back. i dont know if they were shooting at the cops or cops them. we heard shots and we just cover and back of the car that was in want from of us. and then when they passed us when they passed us, maybe about 30 or 40 feet after they passed us, more shots rang out and thats when we really took cover good. they had scruffy faces. short black hair. and they were looking back. i did not see if this everywhere pointing at ...

At 36,000 feet. the catastrophic incident some hint that perhaps corrosion because malaysian airlines flies oceanic routes will cause reduction in air pressure that would cause passengers and the crew to lose consciousness in a matter of seconds. whunts again, they have a good anti-aging program. the plane is 11 years old. we dont know anything. one of the problems going forward is the awful example of the air france crash in the south atlantic several years back. it took investigators two years...

I had my ear pieces in doing a live report so i didnt hear what you heard standing at the same location. >> we were there for the officer being shot at m.i.t., and it was my photographer who said, did you hear that? at the same time, some of the other reporters said, three booms, three booms. so at that point, there was somebody, another reporter listening to scanners and gave us an address, memorial drive in cambridge where they heard that -- said head that way. we started to see police cars. a...

Hiding in that closet. tonight, one very brave teenager tells us how she kept it together, called the cops and survived as the bad guys bust in. we begin, though, with breaking news in the murder of colorados prison chief. evidence that links the shooting in colorado to the death of a suspect in texas. new pictures showing just how close one of the texas lawmen came to dying at the hands of that suspect. thats a bullet hole in that windshield, just inches from where the drivers head was. there...

Together. >> new pictures showing just how close one of the texas lawmen came to dying at the hands of that suspect. thats a bullet hole there in the windshield. another hole inside the car. >> the suspect was shooting and driving, driving fast through wise county, texas. now, until he hit an 18 wheeler, that is. somehow he survived that, then deputies shot him dead. that was yesterday. ever since, investigators from texas and colorado have been trying to link evidence from the wreckage in the c...

But to be american to me means have the freedom to choose and be who you want to be, and to have a shot at that american dream, which is whatever you want it to be. well its getting a good job, raising a family, getting a piece of land. just being free. the ultimate sense of being free, more free than anywhere else in the world. >> do you feel that the american dream is still what it used to be? >> i dont know. sometimes i shake a finger at those baby-boomers. you know, i wonder if they did some...

Ive talked to my dad about this and several people. i think the dream is still there. i think its more difficult nowadays. but i also think theres plenty of new opportunities being created. with the internet and all this other technology things that are coming out. i think its always going to be there as long as -- you know, every once in a while when youre driving fast, youre going to stray off the course a little bit. jerk the wheel and get back on it. i think were just jerking the wheel right...

Why she was driving fast, whether she was trying to get away from the police or had a record or was under the influence or what, we dont know yet but thing are considerably more relaxed here when this began about 9:30 this morning, chris. >> good to know, pete williams. youll get to us as we get more information about what happened and who this person is. thank you. theres a lot of other news in washington this morning. lets start with the republican chairman of the house intelligence committe...