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Two people had to jump to safety to make it out of their burning home alive. >> detroit firefighter michael joiner is one of the first responders at the scene. >> we got a call to a dwelling fire. it was on helen street. which is on the east side of detroit. it appeared someone fire bombed the structure. >> from the outside it looks like the fire is raging out of control. its actually contained to the front of the house, but the two clearly terrified residents, a man and a woman, are so panicked...

Reactionary response. >> uh-huh. well, lawrence, training failed even before that officer had to make that split-second decision. we refer to this as too fast, too close. you know, when you get a call thats potentially dangerous like this, where someone may be armed and understand that that information of it possibly be a toy and he being a juvenile was not related to the officer but still you dont respond to closely and so quick to the potential threat they should have taken their time, they sh...

>> well, couple things about that, jim. you know, you dont know -- again, the officer haves to go by what theyre told by the dispatcher. youve already heard family members say that tamir was large for his size. that means if he looked a bit older than 12, 14, 15, theres other kids in the streets of cleveland and all over this country gunning kids down at that age with handguns. thats number one the size would be relevant. and you have kids much smaller than that that have killed other kids. seco...

Young train buff walks to the other side of the tracks and starts recording a tractor-trailer that stops right in the middle of the crossing. as the gates start to close, he quickly realizes he, too, is in danger. he makes a split second decision to run to a safer location. >> i noticed that there was about to be a bad day, so i took off running with my camera farther away from the tracks. i didnt want to get hit by any flying debris or anything. >> he plants his tripod and starts adjusting the ...

>> the call was very, very close. i mean, split second anywhere and she would have, you know, succeeded in what she was trying to do. >> tina has written a book called "why i jumped" to help others struggling with depression and she speaks publicly about her ordeal. >> i wasnt even thinking of my children. i just was thinking theres no hope. >> what began on a desperate morning has grown into a supportive friendship for tina and the officers at the bridge. >> ive got to meet her children, her hu...

Gone on in the world, that this was likely a terror attack? >>. >> you have this moment when you have to make a split second decision what to do, i remember thinking i think these are gunshots. i dont want to die today. and i just ranned in. >> what was the mood? was it pabiced? was it controlled? >> so the regions were very calm. i think the only people in the restaurant who were actually agitated were the people who were outside. as americans, we were pretty scared. we went in and we saw famil...

>> well, you have this moment where time kind of slows down. you have to make a split second decision. honestly, i can remember having this, gunshot, dont overreact. then jumping up. your adrenaline kicks in. and its very emotional. im also jet lagged. im an american here in paris from san francisco. i was quite tired. my adrenaline kicked in. ran into the restaurant. i was very scared. crying and pretty upset. >> have you been able to reach your family in san francisco and theyre alerted youre ...

After the letter that was sent to the prosecutor, and this is a request for the special prosecutor the take over this case. the woman on the screen right now in the gray coach is sam-- y coat -- gray coat is samaria rice, and she is asking for the special prosecutor for her son. and they are checking the mic now. and in the last few months, the denver prosecutors report, the former fbi report, and the ohio highway department has done a reenactment of the scene, and the cuyahoga sheriffs departme...

[ crowd saying "justice for tamir." ] >> for this i want to bring in analyst joey jackson and this is a heartbreaking case, and no matter how you look at it, it was a 12-year-old kid who was not menacing anyone and he had an air soft gun, and if you are looking at it from the family, it is a tragedy unanswered, but if you look at it from the police officers, they make a split second decision, and they were not armed with information that he is a youngster and looked apparently much older one of ...