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Kathleen. good evening, ladies. how are you doing? >> good evening. we're much better now that we're in san juan. >> i bet you are. you and your friends were rescued by captain hall. what happened? >> well, we had to -- yeah, that's our bedroom right there. we had to evacuate from a couple of different areas from the actual unit we were in. we were in the living room first, and that's the ceiling. it blew off, and then we evacuated to the bedroom, which also blew off. you can see there. so we wound up having to evacuate down stairs. there was a connecting stairway between our unit and the unit...

Gratitude, endless gratitude. >> what do you want to say to them, captain hall? they're paying you the highest compliment there? >> it's humbling, it is. i haven't been doing this very long, but the rewards the guys and i reap on these missions are things that last a lifetime. i know i'll never forget the people i met down here, people i've worked with, the help that we've gotten, all the hard work from everyone on the crew, all the tireless, thankless hours from the guys of the back of the airplane. every minute of that has been worth it and ten fold. >> ladies, can you tell me -- i spoke to ...

They took good care of us, and they got us here. and they got us out. >> captain hall is listening. what do you want to say to him? >> captain hall, and we're at the hotel we're at in puerto rico, we've been spending quite a bit of time with the 106. and i believe i met captain hall. and let me tell you, captain hall, you and your men, you did your job. you were fantasticmism and i couldn't stop telling every serviceman i ran into, thank you. thank you. i owe my life -- i owe my life to the u.s. military who came and picked us off that island. i have no doubt about it at all. >> and he is smil...

Do to get the safety. the photos you're seeing is right outside our room and the beach we had pina coladas on the day before. there were buildings and structures reduced to rubble by the storm had her way with us. our main goal was to just survive, get enough food and water until help arrived. >> and kathleen, eventually your prayers were answered. c-130 plane came to rescue you and others. and captain hall is still on the line, by the way. how relieved were you when you realized you were going to make it out? >> words can't describe it. words absolutely can't describe it. i was swelling insid...