p.d. officers. for the first time since the beating, he went back to the scene to relive that hellish night. here now is that interview in the cnn documentary race and rage, the beating of rodney king. what do you think when you see it? stay alive. i knew that i had to survive this. like that, with my hands up. no threat. this was a lynching on video. we, the jury, in the above entitled action find the defendant i think the verdicts lit a match. the tinder was already in place, very dry. are you able to forgive those cops? have you let those demons go? did you hang onto the money or did you throw it away? can we can we all get along? can we get along? march 3rd, 1991, 25-year-old rodney king is thrust from obscurity to a national symbol of police brutality. the brutal beating that took place here along foothill boulevard in los angeles, california, would reverberate across the country. a city in flames. entire neighborhoods burned to the ground. now, two
reporter: from what we understand, rodney king s fiancee called police shortly after 5:00 this morning. she heard a splash in the pool. before that they had been talking. she called the paramedics. police arrived and took rodney king out of the pool and did everything they could to revive rodney king. cpr failed. they took him to a local hospital. all their efforts did not pan out. rodney king was not revived. we do know rodney king was an avid swimmer. it was part of his physical therapy. we talked to him at cnn recently and he explained how he went into the pool and kind of used the pool as a sanctuary. they didn t find anything around the pool. right now, the preliminary investigation is indicating it appears mr. king died of a drowning. however, the police department, the detective bureau is investigating the incident. there were no obvious signs of trauma. police also said there were no signs whatsoever, at least at this point, of any foul play. rodney king recentl
reporter: well, we did talk to police here in rialto. by all accounts this was an accidental drowning. there were no signs of foul play. basically this morning around 5:00 p.m. a 11 call came in from rodney king s fiancee. she heard a splash, went out and rodney king was at the bottom of the pool. police responded. they were unable to revive him and he was pronounced dead later at a local hospital. rodney king made swimming a daily part of his life. it was a ritual. as we ve been told rodney king was swimming in many ways because of the therapy he sustained during his injuries, physical therapy. this was part of his routine every day. no one at cnn knows rodney king more than stan. when you met up with rodney about a month and a half ago you were in the backyard in the pool. this was part of his life. well, when i asked him how did you manage to survive the beating 20 years ago? he mentioned that was his main objective to get through that terrible phase in his life. the o
it s only about three feet high. witnesses say she overcompensated and made a sharp right, crossing over three lanes of traffic going in the very same direction, hit a curb that went over a fence, only again about two to three feet high, and went sailing about 50 to 60 feet. control of the suv. it could have been, authorities say, any number of things. maybe something physically went wrong with her. perhaps there was a mechanical failure, a distraction of some kind. these are all the things that they ll be looking at as some of the possibilities, don. all right. susan candiotti in new york. susan, thank you very much. this stretch of road is no stranger to bad wrecks. back in 2006, six people were killed in almost the exact same spot. i spoke to steve casamo about the safety of this particular roadway. back in 2010, this bridge was one of several in new york state that were determined to be functionally y functionally inoperable. what that definition means, it doesn t mea