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Special. in the personal story segment tonight on this special, the chattanooga shooting did it reopen old wounds for victims of the 2009 ft. hood attack? joining us retired staff sergeant alonzo lonsard and on the phone retired staff sergeant manning. both men shot multiple times when nadal has san killed 13 people and injured 30 others. what went through your mind when you heard about chattanooga? >> it was, oh not again, you know complete anger. and i was wondering when are we going to lear...

Shot, but casualties wouldnt have been so bad if a few people were armed. makes no sense to not trust soldiers with weapons when you have to trust them overseas. if we cant trust a soldier with his weapon, he shouldnt be in the military. >> sergeant manning, how many people may have been saved had you had a firearm and if sergeant luns ford has his at the time? >> i would say half. hasan obviously whether youre able to shoot him right away. he would have been engaged in a fire fight with one of ...

Would have been shot but the casualties wouldnt have been quite so bad i think if a few people were armed. and makes no sense to not trust soldiers with their weapons in garrison when you have to trust them overseas. if we cant trust a soldier with his weapon he shouldnt be in the military. >> sergeant manning, how many people may have been saved had you had a firearm and if sergeant lunsford had his firearm with him at the time? >> i mean i would say at least half. hasan, whether youre able to ...

The building and get to safety. >> and sergeant luns ford, when you were shot, was there instinct to look for your firearm? did you reach for it? tell us about that. >> well, instantously, thats instinct to reach for a firearm which we did not have. i think to miscreate this from happening again, we need to arm military personnel in the facilities theyre working in, especially in duty uniforms. so at least well be able to fight back against a threat presented before us. >> and sergeant manning, ...

And he was out of the hospital and awaiting trial. he apologized for the ordeal. >> still on the beat, sergeant manning has a new outlook and some sage advice for his colleagues out on patrol. >> exercise extreme caution when youre in a situation like this, where youre deploying the spike strips. make every effort to get yourself some cover and do it in a safe location. >> weve seen what happens when drivers get distracted. air shows go awry and when people get reckless on the road, many of the ...

>> and there was a tremendous bang and i saw it out of the corner my eye, my car just going up and back and it felt like it was traveling right over my head. it was an eerie feeling. >> the speeding van crushes mannings police cruiser, car parts and glass flying in every direction. the car is sent spinning out of control, into the middle of the road, barely missing the other cruiser recording the incident. >> i was looking around at my other fellow police officers making sure everybody was all r...

An idaho state trooper, attempting to stop a car chase in progress, narrowly escapes death on the side of the road. >> just looked at my car and it was completely demolished and i was just relieved that i was alive and still in one piece. >> sergeant matt manning thought hed seen everything in his almost 25 years in law enforcement. but a call to the fort hall indian reservation almost becomes his last. >> i was at the state police office in pocatello and we received a call requesting assistance...

Certainly one of the most amazing videos. quite spectacular. im just happy that it all turned out. >> minutes after he escaped death, manning and the other officers gather round to watch the dramatic video playback from the police car. >> when i saw the video, i realized how close the situation was and how fortunate i was to be alive and still able to walk around after the crash. >> in a surprising twist to the story, the crash is not mannings last run-in with the suspect, who was later convicte...

Without being spiked. >> sergeant manning, seen here on the right, waits for the fugitive to arrive, but not for long. >> i move toward the back of my police car, as i see the suspect vehicle has crossed the center line now, aiming right for my car. i didnt want to run out to the left or to the right and get run over, so i just waited till the suspect vehicle was committed in one direction. >> the van is barreling toward the officer at a tremendous speed, showing no signs of slowing down. with t...

At that point, we positioned our -- our police cars in sort of a gauntlet for the approach of the suspect. >> the suspect is racing toward them at more than 80 miles an hour. manning and his fellow officers are in position and after waving through another driver they lay spike strips down across the highway. >> in the ideal situation to deploy the spikes is in an area where you have guardrails or bridge abutments or some area where you can funnel the suspects car into and still provide yourself ...