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Ruined briar wood elementary school with one of the first responders from the urban search and rescue team john blumenthal. he told me when he arrived he heard from somebody at the front of the school that the entire second grade was trapped. he followed them back to a classroom at the back of the school with all of the walls collapsed, he found 18 children. and two teachers. and both he and the fire chief remarked that it was absolutely remarkable that no one died at briar wood elementary. but when i talked to la donna cobb she said not everything turned out great for her because one of her p...

He mustered the strength to lift the wall. his wife was crying she was suffocating and he pulled them out. donna said it was the most frightening thing she's ever gone through. >> it's unexplainable. i thought i was never going to see my family. we're processing it a little bit every day and we tease the girls when they fight about silly things. you know, we almost died. stop fighting. >> life seems a little bit sweet. donna learned a pre-k student at home died when a tornado hit her house. >> you got into the school with the first responder. waves it like? >> we went in with john blumenthal, ...

0 moving there are ways around this mess. they will fill up quickly. the first big test shep will be this holiday weekend. >> shepard: workers built that bridge in 1955. the feds describe is as functionally obsolete. meaning its design was outdated. it was not among the 11% of u.s. bridges which transportation officials warn are structurally deficient. that's how engineers defined the i-25 bridge in minneapolis. remember that? it collapsed collapsed collaps. a collapse that killed 13 people. the attorney general eric holder approved a request for a warrant to search fox news correspondent jame...

0 condition. >> what's the latest on the investigation? >> well, police say no doubt it was caused by -- the collapse was caused by an 18-wheeler hauling an oversized metal container. the problem appears to be he was in the far right lane where the steal cross support curves, lowering the clearance. normally high, wide loads get as close to the middle of the bridge as possible because clearance is always higher in the center. >> they're supposed to check the routes, have a pilot car in front of them and they're supposed to know if they need to take two lanes or drive down the center. >> report...