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Look at the aftermath here on your screen. This was high winds from a storm thats being blamed. This morning, more than a quarter million customers in the area are without power. Also breaking overnight, former Boston Red Sox great david ortiz shot at a bar in the dominican republic. Ortiz was ambushed, shot in the back at close range. His father said hes out of danger now after surgery. Why would anyone shoot david ortiz . In the meantime democratic president ial candidates were in iowa, 19 of ...

For cranes. a lot of people are doing things that are pushed in these positions without the proper training. >> thats chilling actually to hear. when you hear this accident didnt have to happen, that a crane should have been able to sustain. i think the winds in dallas were 70 miles per hour. what do you think? >> it really just breaks your heart. the things we saw and what we were going through. people didnt know where their friends, their animals were. luckily i was with my fiance at the time....

Barth, thank you very much for being with us this morning. we are monitoring the progress of people still in the hospital. sammy, we hope you get into your home soon. >> thank you. >> thomas, thank you very much for all the information. >> youre welcome. thank you. bye-bye. >> its scary. we have a bunch of cranes outside the building here. a lot of construction going on. >> so many cities have cranes dotting the skyline. you have to have been trained well to know what you are doing. all right....

This morning. joining us now, a resident of the building hit by the crane, sammy sandquist and former crane accident investigator and a former crane operator himself thomas barth who joins us by phone. thank you very much for being here. as i understand it, sammy, you were walking up to the building as it happened. tell us what happened at the moment. >> when we got there we could see that there were fire trucks and ambulances that had started to arrive on the scene. we had walked up to what was...

On one side and cloud on the other. >> sammy sandquist i appreciate you taking the time and sharing with us what you know, what you saw, and what you heard. i appreciate it. i want to bring in another eyewitness. joining us on the phone is abe carney. abbey, we have some photos from you. describe for me what you saw when you started to see this crane fall. >> caller: just just a normal sunny day. there was people at the pool. we live over the pool. my husband and i had just gotten back in town f...