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Today on "studio b," i spoke with one of those vendors, a veteran of vietnam named duane jackson. he described what happened as that pathfinder filled with smoke. >> we didn't really back off of it at that particular point. and then about a minute or so later, that's when we heard the fire crackers go off or what i now know to be fire crackers, pop, pop, pop. >> pop, pop, pop, and you smelled the gun smoke immediately. >> shepard: police responded and took care of the bomb. jackson emerged as one of the heros in. this he doesn't wear that label. refuses to. today, investigators summed summoned...

Whatever. >> shepard: it started smoking. >> gentlemen. >> shepard: then what? >> we didn't back off of it at that particular point. about a minute or so later, that's when we heard the fire crackers. >> shepard: pop, pop, pop. >> yes, and you smelled the gun smoke immediately. >> shepard: then what? that's when police officers jumped into action. >> everybody started running. there was a pause where people moved back quickly and i was one of those people. they brought out tape and pushed people down the street and the fire trucks arrived. >> shepard: as far as this -- anybody who might have g...

Smoking. police were on the scene. as they were about to start the evacuation, the path finder exploded and all chaos and panic set in. >> explain what you mean exploded and how close were you when it happened? >> i was 15 feet when the explosion occurred. after that, we had no choice but to back up and people started running and people yelling and screaming. the police were backing everybody up and yelling at them. it was chaotic. >> small pops like fire crackers, louder like gunfire? >> louder. i heard a loud bang, basically. you could see the fire and flames in the car. then just a lot of s...

Then set off the fire crackers. >> the investigators can take this clock and somehow trace this clock back to, what? perhaps where it was bought? >> certainly where dell who manufactured it first. and from there, let's trace it and see where it was actually sold. there isn't a watch around you can't look at and say, who made that? who sold it? i'm going to tell you, this is not something that's going to be a $500. this will be something cheap. probably hurt him a little bitment doesn't mean he can't run it down. it makes you think this was an act of international terrorism because they're goin...

Do with khalid sheikh mohammed. >> one thing you say about the polling from the last election, that might be true, and that was before scott brown and that was also before you had christmastime when everybody was scared to death because all of a sudden you had a guy with more than fire crackers in his pants, and scott brown was able to use that and combine it with the way the administration wants to try these guys, and to say you want them to have the same rights that you do. you talk to anybody in the brown campaign and they will tell you that was blockbuster, off the charts. that's why the d...