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Buddies and lifting weight, and i remember doing a dead lift and my back all of a sudden, it just seized up. i kind of tilted over, and i remember i could not walk. i couldn't get off the ground. >> reporter: his back was broken. >> after three months, i finally got out of the body cast. and i started p.t. i just had to learn how to walk and pick things up off the ground and then i wanted to get on the ice. >> reporter: he had to come back slowly and wear just one pair of skates. >> i was never a medalist, and i always-of-that was tough for me. i decided i would figure skate and per sue it as ...

Away physically unscathed but mentally it's hard. listen as one describes the final seconds before impact. >> we seemed to be flying in way too low. the last couple seconds before it happened the engines revved into high gear. like the captain is say nothing, no we have to get out of here. then boom the back end lifted up and the jolted everybody in their seats. for a second we thought we were pulling it off. but the back end went up and came back down and we started fish tailing and you can see from the video, tilted over, came down on its side. seat belt unbubbled. and people jumped out of t...

And they were terrified. it's pitch-black. they had no idea what was going on and didn't know what they were going to hit. they dove off and sam ashore. >> amazing. courtney walsh following this for us. we'll continue to follow it throughout the morning as more details come in. thank you so much live on the scene reporting. >> amazing thing, she mentioned a guy who had a broken leg who helped everybody off. the captain apparently was in a row boat, a lifeboat under a blanket. the purser for the ship apparently helped hundreds of people off the ship and into lifeboats. and he was the last guy o...

The allegation is the captain may not have done that. david saba, thanks so much for sharpg the chaos going on on that ship. thank you. >> and now they are headed to florida where they make their home. let's talk a little bit about the state. two states north of florida, and of course, we're talking about south carolina. later on today, we understand in myrtle beach, jon huntsman late this morning is going to officially drop out. he came in third place and he was so excited in new hampshire. but third just isn't going to cut the mustard. and later on today, he is going to actually endorse some...

Calm. but the people were going crazy. it definitely looked like a disaster. >> how did you get to the lifeboat? how did you get to the life raft, mr. saba, and was that a difficult trip from the ship to the water itself? >> oh, yeah. on the way down from the raft to the water was very, very violent. i guess the angle at which the ship was tilted made the raft, made it tilt so when we were going down, we kind of were swinging a little bit. which was very scary. so it took us actually more than an hour, more than two hours to get into those two rafts. we were sitting with the club,