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Megyn: it has become an all too familiar story, a crazed gunman shows up on a school campus and opens fires and this week it happened again, this time in a littleton, colorado middle school, the sail community that endured the unspeakable tragedy at columbine high, but this time the ending was dramatically different. two students were injured, but no one died. thanks in no small part to our next guest. teacher david benke who risked his own life to tackle the gunman and becky brown, the assistant principal who grabbed the madman's gun, this is their first national television interview and we a...

Arer, dr. david benke tackled before he could fire again. >> seventh grade math teacher david benke moved towards the suspect even as the gunman kept firing and tackled him as he demonstrated on my colleague. >> i grabbed him by the front -- by this. >> okay. >> right, and then we were kind of dancing around for awhile. >> two students were shot. a seventh grade girl and an eighth grade boy. benke wishes he could have done more. >> it bothers me that i was a little bit late. it bothers me that he got the second shot off. i only heard -- i only heard one and then saw another one and it bothers ...

Situation from turning more tragic. "the fox report's" correspondent jonathan shouldn't with us. everybody is calling him a big-time hero. >> every kid and the parents of every kid at deer creek middle school. and in many ways it seems that dr. david benke was prepared for exactly this moment. he was a big guy after all. 5 --'6" 6'5". a college basketball player. he had thought about what he would do in precisely this situation before. >> during drills and things like that that we had, i would tell the kids, i would say, look, i hope that we can do something about it and so basically i was thi...