to another cnn exclusive. we re hearing for the first time in a dance instructor who lost a foot, and part of her leg here in the attacks at the boston marathon. 32-year-old adrianne haslet-davis was watching the marathon with her husband adam davis, air force captain, when they were hit by the second explosion. despite her injuries, haslet-davis is vowing to dance again, and to run in the boston marathon. here s what she had to say to cnn s anderson cooper. i landed, and sort of closed my eyes and was underneath adam and kind of covering my head, and my face, it was very gray and quiet. gray smoke and ashes, and and a lot of debris falling, and i remember telling adam, oh, my gosh, i m alive. and then he said i m okay. i m okay. oh, my gosh, are you okay? and i said i think we re okay. and i couldn t believe it. couldn t believe that we survived and that we weren t hurt at all.
saw, what you heard. sure. it was right near the finish line, maybe a mile, even less, to it. as i said before, it s lines, the crowds were packed. there were thousands on either side, hundreds running down the middle, all the runners heading toward the finish line. and that s when i heard a big explosion about 100 yards away from me, looked to my right and saw a big plume of white/gray smoke. it was going up about two or three stories high. people were shocked. we didn t quite know what to do at that point. about ten seconds later, right across the street from me about 20 yards away, another explosion. it didn t seem as big as the last one, but it was still pretty big and booming. that s when everyone started to panic and scramble away. and you heard people screaming, is that accurate, matt? that people were screaming and people were fleeing, it was definitely panic. people just wanted to get away from that. some of us got pushed into the building behind us and others
of gadhafi. and his ability to be able to hurt people and to attack people and to really have terrorist attacks that have been going on through his leadership for a period of time. congressman, democrat from maryland, thanks for your time today. we appreciate it. up next, on the road with president obama. we ll check in with chuck and savannah in south america where the president will hold his first press conference later today on the military action in libya. plus, gray smoke spotted at japan s nuclear site. how big a setback is this after a weekend that provides some small, at least, glimmers of hope. nuclear weapons expert david albright joins us. you re watching the daily rundown on msnbc.
so stay tuned for that. john gordon, meanwhile, lives in the neighborhood, he watched this whole thing unfold and what a night it s been for him and his wife and baby daughter. is everybody okay in your family and your friends and neighbors? yeah, everyone is fine that i know, yes. bill: john, what happened last night? where were you, what did you feel, what did you smell, what did you see? well, about 6:10 last night, i was getting off the bar train about a mile 1/2 down the hill and from the parking lot, i looked up the hill towards my house, and there was a huge ball of flames. and i thought it was i followed it to see if it was close to my house. as i drove towards my house, the smell of smoke, i could actually hear the sound of the gas, of the flame, and as i came up i realized it was off san bruno, which was
special, former mayor rudy giuliani says what he witnessed during one of the darkest days in the nation s history. it looked like a nuclear cloud. gray smoke, coming toward the building. bla things flying through the streets. things hitting the side of the building, and all of a sudden it became dark outside. totally dark outside. bill: you can watch the rest of that gripping special, the national geographic channel on monday, the 13th of september, check your local listings for the time in your area, the former mayor, rudy giuliani will join us, tomorrow at noon, eastern time, and martha and i are on the air for a special edition of america s newsroom, starting at 12:00, noon, eastern, going to 2:00 p.m. on what will be the 9th year