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>> 78 years old. he standing. >> hes right behind us. unfortunately, their family probably took a lot of the damage for us. and maybe saved our lives in one way or another. we were lower to the ground. we immediately dropped. and just frantically trying to cover my children. and use my body to protect them. >> literally you and someone else who is next to you. you were both covering your children? >> i was trying to cover mine. and then my neighbor had his 15 month old in a stroller, which we pu...

Out. you had to shield your infant son in his stroller. tell me about that moment. >> it was -- it was -- it all happened so fast. when the first burst of shots rang out, my first thought was someone was lighting off firecrackers in the crowd. and then you could tell just the sound of it was gunfire. people started diving, and i dove to the ground and pulled my son over top, and just that sense of helplessness, laying on the ground, covering my son, trying to cover behind a curb, just waiting fo...

>> hes right behind us. unfortunately, their family probably took a lot of the damage for us. and maybe save our lives in one way or another. we were lower to the ground. we immediately dropped. and just frantically trying to cover my children. and use my body to protect. them >> literally you and someone else who is next to you. you were both covering your children? >> i was trying to cover mine. and then my neighbor had his 15 month old and a stroller, which we put down. he had the front side,...

Here is beginning to settle in. joining me now in highland park is joel crause who was at the parade. joel, thank you for being with us. this is a hard day. for everyone else, things are settling down. for you, you are still processing this. you are here with your family, with your two little daughters. >> thats correct. >> where were you? you are down the road? >> just on the left side here. down about a block or so. before joining the parade, we we met with some neighbors there with their two ...

>> police across the country coming under attack over the holiday weekend in philadelphia, a manhunt intensifies after two officers were shot during a fireworks show, and illinois state police releasing this video showing a mob racking up troopers cruiser. >> marianne. >> good morning, todd and curly. several attacks on law enforcement officers on the fourth of the country. that includes at least 12 officers were hurt after confronting hostel part in san francisco. it was a chaotic scene in the ...

Joining me now in highland park is joel -- who was at the parade. joel, thank you for being with us. this is a hard day. for everyone else, things are settling down. for you, you are still processing this. you are here with your family, with your two little daughters. >> thats correct. >> where were you? you are down the road? >> just on the lefthere. down about a block or so. before joining the parade, we were there their neighbors there with their two children. there were four young children t...

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Well have much more on this as the morning develops. in the meantime, were hearing more and more from people who were here 24 hours ago when it happened. and i should note obviously, the train tracks are right behind me. the train station is just one block away and as the shooting took place, people did flee to the train station. well let this train move past us here. joining me now is dr. lauren schefter who was here with his elderly parents standing basically in the shadow of the building wher...

The roof. and i just -- i screamed that it was a shooter, and i got my daughter, and we ran into my husbands store, and i yelled for my son and my mother and father-in-law, and we all were able to get in safely as my husband helped a whole bunch of other patrons get away from the danger. >> it sounded like a string of firecrackers going off inside of a big metal trash bin. and at first, thats what i thought it was, 20, 30, maybe. and then i looked up to my right, and i saw the police starting to...

Served in the reserves decades ago and after i dismissed it as a backfire of a car or a couple of firecrackers, then i said, this sounds like gun fire. i said, no, that cant be. it is in highland park but it was. approaching the scene i was maybe half a block away from it. and i saw blood on the ground and then people with blood on the legs or arms and then very, very graphically i saw turned out to be three females in pools of blood on the cement as if they were murdered by the gun and strikes ...