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His life. >> a thousand thoughts go through your mind. do i let go at 40 miles an hour now, or do i let go at 140 miles an hour down the road? >> in that split second, musto has another thought. >> if i could have freed up my left hand and just hung on with my right, which was impossible, and could have freed up my gun hand, i probably would have shot him. >> but he doesnt. as the biker accelerates, musto is thrown off just as the biker re-enters the interstate. >> this guy was not going to stop...

There. i looked in his eyes before he -- for a split second, a thousand years, all at once. webster hasnt even come up with the words to describe a moment like that. and i kind of stood there for a second kind of -- i mean, like you cant move, and then i ran to the window and looked down in time to see him hit the ground. we were on the 25th floor and he fell 17 stories because he hit the eighth floor parking garage. and -- i mean in my mind, he -- i mean for some reason i thought, oh my gosh, h...

I cant want to get snagged on the wall. >> the second time, his legs hit hard. more than halfway down, he looks for a potential landing spot. >> i was wondering, am i going to go into the lake, in which case im not sure i can swim because at this point i thought his broken legs. >> worse, he sees the rock directly below him. >> if i go into the general hard ground with the vertical speed that i have, i figured it would at least break my back if not kill me. >> matthew spots a metal storage conta...

Boilover from happening by making sure the water sprayed on the tank drains out the bottom. this time, they miscalculate. >> what do you think caused that explosion? >> just water inside the tank boiled over. crude boilover. >> despite the chaos, davids instincts kick in. he keeps taping as he runs away from the intense heat and flames. >> for a split second i thought this is it. how i had the presence of mind to point the camera backwards and run, to this day, i cant explain it but i thought th...

The split second as the the shot was fired. and jack rubenstein, this of course is lee harvey oswald. you see the gun in the hand of, of ruby. and just about to be fired. >> i know my own feelings were -- and i think they were widely shared -- we have to question ourselves. >> working on the assumption there is indeed a connection between jack ruby and lee oswald. and that in some manner of speaking, oswalds murder twos shut him up.

Otherwise, if something happens that you didnt plan on, theres shots fired inside or you have indications through observers that a hostage is being harmed, you may have to make the decision on that premise in a split second. they would have been planning for this all day. they had 16 hours to figure out the tactics. >> chris, from when im hearing, its a two-pronged job youre trying to do. youre trying to talk this person down, get those people out, but at the same time, glean as much tactical in...

Filled with a lit shell. >> the box was coming ends over end towards us and it landed two feet from my sons leg. for the split second i thought were okay. >> but then a shock -- >> tyler takes a direct hit from a 3,000-degree shell launched out of the mortar box laying right next to him. >> i wasnt sure quite what happened. it just felt like i got kicked really hard in the back of the leg and my ears were ringing. i heard my girlfriend running away screaming. i went after her. i wasnt really sur...

>> ive heard inmates tell me about how they will intentionally take a cold shower. what happens when you take a cold shower? you jump in there, you turn it on and the shock of the body, you recoil, you draw yourself in. but, you see, but when you get stabbed, its that same feeling. its that same trauma, that same shock that goes through the body is what the inmates tell me. and as a result of that, if you flinch, if you draw in in that split second, you can be very, very vulnerable. so they trai...

Difference. we need tome this be better and we need your citizens to be educated and better that one, they cannot rest arrest and two once the police officer makes that decision to make that arrest they have to go. that is a tough thing for both sides. >> do you think these are issues solely of race? a question of bad policing? some combination? >> well these circumstances take place in split seconds. and split second decisions. if i read -- as i read the grand jury transcript, if there was an a...

Politician. >> lets talk about spontaneity. a really unfair thing. some people have it. and theyre not necessarily good people. the ability in a split second when somebody says, you know, whatever ham to your teddy bear? where is it right now? im just asking stupid questions. clarence, responsibility night like the way tim russert asks the tough questions. where are you on illegal immigrants? or undocumented people in california getting drivers licens licenses. i have to make up my mind. >> bill...