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With twisted metal. >> whoa! >> the shockwave from the gas tanker pushed me backwards about ten feet. >> whoa! >> there was a large probably five-foot tall by eight-foot wide circular disk that blew out of that tanker. >> we need some help out here. it just blew. we got parts -- in the road. we need a lot of help. >> the trooper and the trucker are a safe distance from the explosion. the firefighters are dangerously close. >> i ran up to the firemen because i knew they were only just feet away. ...

This story, a louisiana firefighter, arrested by police for not moving his truck during an emergency call. heres the surveillance video that shows the firemen here arriving first, when police got there, they told him to move his truck, he refused, so the officer cuffed him and put him in the back of his cruiser, the victim, the fireman was helping says the officer should be the one in cuffs. >> i think he should get fired or suspended. something should happen to him, because like, who does arres...

A fire. the man was dangling from a ledge as flames tore through the building. he escaped with seconds to spare with minor injuries but he says all of the attention is not warranted on him at least. >> im not the hero or nothing. i was just saving my own skin. heroes are the firemen who risk their lives to help us and under save our property and they are the heroes. im just a guy who is caught in a bad situation trying to escape. >> and speaking of heroes. "the boston globe" reports on two bosto...

Quickly and killed 31 people. now, a team of forensic experts said new computer technology provided the answers. >> the computer graphics helped us to understand what had taken place and also to present the results to people who were maybe not as familiar with the technology that we were using, so we could explain the results to them very simply. >> some time around 7:15 p.m., a smoker at kings cross carelessly dropped a match on the wooden escalator. the match fell between the steps and the sid...

The station on one of those trains. >> we notice these two men, i dont think they were in uniform, but they were blocking, physically blocking entrance to the wooden escalators on our left, which are the ones that directly go to the train. so, we thought, thats strange. it was actually a tiny bit hazy in there, too. we noticed that, too. a little bit smoky. >> firemen see a small fire burning about halfway up one of the escalators bringing passengers up the tracks to the ticket hall. >> a very e...

Directly across the street. >> i was sitting at my desk and i saw smoke. just a little smoke coming out of the window. then i saw more. i grabbed my camera, i started shooting. >> as pearlstein zooms in on the building, he sees a man perched on a window ledge trying to escape the thick smoke. >> im like, oh, my god, now this is a life or death situation. help him. >> firefighters from the fdny rescue one unit arrive at the building, joining other crews already on scene. patrick barr and kevin sh...

Timothy mcveigh believed that he was going to cause people to rise up and rebel against their government. this was going to be the start of the revolution. and what happened was the total opposite. you saw a community in total support of its law enforcement, of its firemen, of its government. it shows that when we put our hearts and our minds together, we can make something good happen out of something terrible. >> but resilience, alone, cant protect against every threat. events continue to demo...

Families left behind by attacks like the oklahoma city bombing. timothy mcveigh believed that he was going to cause people to rise up and rebel against their government. this was going to be the start of the revolution. and what happened was the total opposite. you saw a community in total support of its law enforcement, of its firemen, of its government. it shows that when we put our hearts and our minds together, we can make something good happen out of something terrible. >> but resilience, a...

Bridgegate. and i think that was a good beginning. martha: the beginning of his speech he retold a story about early on in his career at governor walking into an unfriendly crowd of firemen whose pensions he was about to rein in to save the program. hes making the point hes been threw the fire before and when he gets on the other side of it people tend to think he did a good job. how do you think hes doing turning things around for himself. >> chris christie is a very skilled communicator and sk...

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