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Down a road, and i ended up down on harmon avenue down by planet hollywood. at that point, the people weren't really aware of what was happening, and i was able to find a safe place to go and contact brian and make sure he was okay. >> ben and brian, i'm so glad you guys are okay and were able to help other people along the way. i appreciate you talking about it. i know it's just a difficult thing to process, even 24 hours later like this works so thank you so much for talking to us. i wish you the best. we heard from addison short who was recovering in the hospital after being shot in the leg...

Screaming. and i couldn't find brian, i couldn't find my friend's wife. as i was running, i called home, i called my lady. sorry. >> it's okay. >> and tried to tell her what was happening. and then there was people following -- >> i'm sorry, go ahead, ben. >> people following. and i think people were so overwhelmed. there's no way to prepare yourself for something like that. what do you do under that kind of pressure. i try to stay as calm as possible, and the end result get home to my family. so i ran, and i ran. and i jumped the fences. and i ended up running into the mgm hotel thinking that...

Come this way. and he's sweating. as soon as we pass him, he starts running off into the bad area where everything is bad. and i just thought in my head, wow. and so i just stayed as calm as possible and tried to take the two girls by their hands and run through. and there were people following me. and it was body, body, body. then we hit the fourth body. and they were people with these people laying there, hiding. but they're bloody. and i couldn't stop because i was trying to help the people that were with me. and that was my sole goal at this time. so when i got to -- yeah. >> i just want t...

Like many of the witnesses we heard from, our next two guests initially thought the gunfire was fireworks. brian hopkins and the band called elvis monroe played and then joined the crowd. ben, first of all i'm so glad you're both okay. brian, if you could walk us through what you remember happening last night. i know you were watching jason and then you and ben got split up during the chaos. >> yeah, we were standing out front. when the initial -- when he got past that it wasn't fireworks, and it was this rapid fire type of thing, i just remember seeing a guy standing in front of us, dropped. ...