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For survivors who lived through that last day in jonestown, ghosts return in different ways. for tim carter, it's a smell. >> i can't smell almonds to this day. it will make me physically nauseous because cyanide smells like almonds and that's what it smelled like there that day was almond. >> for tracy parks it can be behind the wheel of her pickup truck. >> i still have fears of being shot driving down the street. i always feel like someone is going to shoot me. yeah, it scars you. >> for vern gosney, it could be walking down the street. >> i could see a man with light skin and black hair fr...

Matthew, i want to start with you. mr. swet is in the hospital. is he chained to the bed? what's it look inside his hospital room? >> i don't know he's necessarily chained to the bed but definitely security will be in the room watching every move. he's very well secured. >> lawrence do you think mr. sweat is really fighting for his life? >> i think wounds to the torso can be extremely serious. clearly there was no major artery that was severed. had that happened he would have bled out immediately. >> right. >> but could suffer from a collapsed lung. it could be other organ damage. it's hard to...

Gosney in a hospital for months. >> i was shot through the stomach. i was shot through the liver. my diaphragm was torn. my stomach had a -- was torn. had a collapsed lung. my spleen ended up -- having to remove my spleen. >> at first he turned to painkillers. >> i was on anti-depressants. i was on tranquilizers. i was on sedatives. >> then worse. >> and i started drinking and i started using elicit drugs, as well. >> he had gone back to work in a san francisco law office. >> when i look back on it now i don't even see how i walked around much less worked a full-time job. it was so painful for...

Survival. >> i just kept praying and saying i got to get out of here. i was swimming. trying to swim. grabbing for air. he did not know if he was go up or down. he kept adrenaline driving him. he was able to get up enough to where he could see light at somebody's house. crawled over there and knocked on the door and told them our house got washed away and needed help. his energy level just collapsed. >> jonathan is in the hospital with a collapsed lung. everyone else in that cabin is still missing this morning. a new round of severe weather in texas wednesday afternoon. look at this. a torna...

The home sitting right along the blanco river when it rose 26 feet in one hour. it ripped this house right from its foundation sending it crashing down stream. the sheer force of the river washing at least 70 homes off their foundations and 1400 damaged. her husband managed to escape and he's recovering in the hospital with a collapsed lung. >> he is absolutely devastated. he did everything he possibly could to save them. >> at least 12 are confirmed dead across texas, including alyssa ramirez, the homecoming queen and student council president driving home from her prom when she got stranded ...