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Cellphone. she claimed yesterday that her friend's last words were, get off, get off, and then the phone went silent. let's listen in to what she has to say today. >> mr. martin continued to walk? >> yes, sir. >> and he observed and told you that the man is following him in the car? >> yes, sir. >> and then you said, well run? >> yes, sir. >> and he did run. >> to the back area. >> he wasn't -- he was on the street or on the sidewalk in front of mr. zimmerman's car at the point that he decided to run. >> yes, sir. >> and he ran? >> yes, sir. in the back area to try to leave him. >> you don't k...

Inside the restaurant say all of this happened literally in an instant. >> we were sitting there enjoying the view after our dinner and we heard people screaming. we didn't know where it was coming from. >> we were walking into the back area and it was more of what we heard rather than what we saw. first we heard like a crack and then it was within seconds that the whole deck had collapsed into the water. >> a lot of people went to this bar to see the heat game and many of them got hurt, we were coming from the beach we saw all of these lights so it occurred to us to figure out what was going ...

Enjoying the view after our dinner and we heard people screaming. we didn't know where it was coming from. >> we were walking into the back area and it was more of what we heard rather than what we saw. first we heard like a crack and then it was within seconds that the whole deck had collapsed into the water. >> a lot of people went to this bar to see the heat game and many of them got hurt, we were coming from the beach we saw all of these lights so it occurred to us to figure out what was going on or wonder what was going on so we noticed it was close to our hotel and we were actually notif...

That's one thing that benefitted the fire rescue units and the dive teams that came out here immediately responding. one of the fire rescue units less than a mile away, they got here very, very quickly. now, with first light, don. you can get an idea of what happened to that floating dock there behind me. literally collapsing in the center there. you've got the tables, the chairs, the potted palm trees and you have the railing and you've got -- every piece of debris and people were falling on top of that. the debris falling on top of them. obviously, a lot of panic going on and a lot of bedlam...

They say they are concerned about peoplie getting back into the back area as they are pulling people out. make sure that doesn't happen in a situation like this where (indiscernible). they are working to keep opeopl out of this area. the survivors are able to come back and pick up anything that is salvageable. >> okay. thank you so much. let's go out to luther right now. we have someone close to volunteer firefighters who have been responding to the situation up there. tiffany? >> mike, you are absolutely correct. these firefighters have been working around the clock. looking at these flashi...