killed last week. it sends international sherpas there and it is not looking to profit. >> that does it for us, this special report is now. the following is a cnn special report. >> to me there's something inherently powerful of a still image. it's an image frozen in time. >> the images we'll always remember, of five days we can never forget. >> this was like the worst thing i've ever seen in my life. >> stories of a gravely wounded mother and daughter. >> i remember thinking, like, it's too much. i'm going to die. >> and a man instantly losing both legs. >> next thing you know, i hear fireworks and i'm on the ground.

>> stories of heroism, of saving lives. and springing into action. >> couldn't really think of, okay, was this a terrorist? >> stories told by these photos, frame by frame. "back to boston: moments of impact." good evening, i'm randi kaye. it's been a year now since the boston bombings. there's been time to reflect and begin to process what happened. tonight, we focus on several iconic images from the bombings and its aftermath. we meet the photographers who took these photos and meet the people in them to try to understand what happened in that moment and how it has changed everything since. here's our special report, "back to boston: moments of impact." >> i could see the blood just

coming out of her body. it was that horrific. i mean, it was just shocking at first to see and then for me to make my way into it and decide what to shoot and not to shoot. this isn't the worst photo i've taken that day, but it's pretty bad. >> part of the american sports scene since 1897. >> i was with my mother, my father, and my aunt, carmen, she was running the marathon. she's my mom's sister and we're all very close, so we wanted to support her. >> we were tracking carmen through our cell phones as to where she was in the race, so when we knew she was getting close, we decided to, you know, go to the finish line. >> we weren't there more than it seemed like 15 or 20 minutes before everything happened.

>> it was just the loudest noise i have ever heard, so, like, from that second, both my eardrums got blown out. >> as i recall seeing the people behind me getting pushed back from the blast and even sydney falling backwards and getting tossed back, and i just kind of was pushed down. this smoke and debris and everything just went past me. everything became a gray cloud of dust. >> i just remember being sort of thrown and i remember things hitting my face. i remember just trying to breathe. >> and by the time i turned back around, everybody who was in front of me was now on the ground. i turned around and there was nobody in front of me. i thought that, okay, where's my wife, and i just slowly looked down, and i see her, and her eyes are open, so i realize, all right, she's okay.

she's okay. >> my first look at the scene of the bodies was over the fence and straight on. and i saw celeste. i guess time just stood still for a moment. >> i just looked down at my legs, and i just saw blood and bone and i just immediately was like, no, no, like, i couldn't comprehend. it was sort of like a panicked feeling, like i just wanted to change it. like, no, this couldn't have happened. nope. >> she is bleeding, and her feet were literally almost totally separated from the rest of her body. you knew right away that there was no way they were going to be able to repair the damage. it was just too, too far gone. too catastrophic. >> i immediately just took off my belt and put it on one leg to try to stop the bleeding. >> you can see right there,

kevin's just tightening a belt on her. she's struggling to look up. i just feel so bad. i mean, i look at that, it's not good. >> i had turned around after i put the belt on and just looked behind us, and i couldn't see sydney at all. she was immediately lost to me, which was so scary. i have to just hope and trust that somebody has her and is taking care of her. >> do you feel like you had to make a decision that day between your wife and your daughter? >> yeah, of course, a little bit, although it was an easy decision, because i was there with celeste and with her wounds. i wasn't about to leave her to go find sydney, because i knew we could get separated extremely quickly and easily. >> did you understand what was happening? >> i did. i did. and then i said, is sydney okay? and he said, i think she is. and i didn't worry about her after that.

i think i knew how gravely injured i was. and then i think then i asked my husband, are my feet attached to my legs, because i knew it was bad, and he said, yes. so then i just remember sort of holding on to that and thinking, okay, i'm going to get to a hospital, i'm going to have surgery, they'll be able to fix them. it's going to be okay. >> i didn't tell her how bad it was, even though i knew in the back of my mind that they weren't going to be able to save them. i just kissed the side of her face. i tried to relax her. i was just trying to get her to be comfortable, because i knew she was in pain. >> i think there's no words to describe it, just excruciating. i'm going to cry. i just remember he was -- he was so good. he just tried to keep me calm. as soon as he had the

tourniquets on and i think someone was with him putting pressure. i just remember it hurt so much, them pressing down on me, but i knew that they had to do it. and then i just remember him, like, lying down next to me, and he was just touching my hair and just saying, you know, i'm with you, i got you. it's going to be okay. we're going to get you out of here. >> and you trusted him? >> absolutely. >> did you think you weren't going to make it? >> i think at first, when i first looked down and the pain, and i remember thinking, like, it's too much. i'm going to die. but then sort of like almost like i wanted to, but, like, you know, right on the heels of

that, i was, like, hell no. i can't. can't. i'm not going to die. i can't. like, i won't. i remember, you know, them taking me out of the ambulance and i remember all the emergency room people, everybody frantically doing things, cutting clothing off. i remember feeling my arms and my hands like pins and needles everywhere. they just kept telling me that i was doing good and i was doing okay while they were working on me. and i don't know if they had to straighten out my legs, i just know they manipulated my legs and i did scream then, and then one doctor, i remember, came over to me and he had a paper, and he said, i need -- we need your permission. we need to sign this to amputate. and i just remember sort of,

like, taking a breath, and i looked at him and i'm like, you really have to amputate my legs? and he said, yes, we do. so then i was just like, okay. i just knew that the pain had to stop and for the pain to stop, they needed to put me under, and if they had to take my legs, then so be it. >> and then as i got through the fence, there i found sydney. i lingered, you know, something about her struck me. she just had that look on her face, basically, she was helpless. she doesn't know what's going to happen to her. i got this.

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my first photos were of sydney's mother being helped, and then as i got through the fence, there i found sydney. i lingered, you know, it's something about her struck me. she just had that look on her face, basically, she was helpless. she doesn't know what's going to happen to her. >> we were very close to the first bomb. i don't think i'll ever forget it. it first went off and immediately your ears feel like they have bugs in them or something, and it's very -- you can hear people, like, screaming.

and i remember going down on the ground, but i remember, like, kind of coming to and seeing everyone around me and then i was getting scared and i knew what happened because so many people were grabbing at my leg. >> i didn't know who she was. i just saw a woman laying on the ground being helped by a man wearing a red t-shirt with a baseball cap backwards. the closer i got with my camera and i was shooting, it was almost like he was whispering to her, and he was comforting her. in one frame he was holding her head off the ground and had his right hand on her chest, almost to see if her heart was beating. i heard people saying, oh, she's hurt, she's really hurt. somebody else was trying to stop her from bleeding to death. >> there were two gentlemen that were assisting sydney, and one

of them asked for a tourniquet and kind of just had me take over from what he was doing, so i tied it off and just kept my hands there. >> i could see, like, my leg, like, it was open. it wasn't good. i knew it was bad. >> we got there, and from the bottom of her right knee all the way up, she was open. the first gentleman was worried about her artery, and we were worried. we just tried not to show it. >> when i was helping her, you know, i kept my hands and i tried keeping pressure, but my head was on a swivel, so to say, you know, there were just so much, there was so much. and it was awful. it was awful. >> i would almost have these moments where i'd start to freak out a little and cry, and then

i'd kind of just look around again and try to get a better grasp of what was happening. i'd keep having those little moments of panic. >> and at one point she was looking straight up and then she lifted her hand and put it on her face, almost like she couldn't take it anymore, but i just remember also the -- how hard these guys were working on her. >> i definitely remember matt first, because he was so close. even if he was holding my leg, his face was always there. he asked me, like, do you want me to stay with you? it was a familiar face from the moment it happened, so i said, yes, like, yes, i want you to stay with me. and i remember him, like, telling me to grab his hand and, like, he kept saying, come on, buddy, stay with me. keep your eyes open. i remember asking, like, what's going on, asking where my parents were and if they were okay.

and i think i was trying to ask, like, what happened to my leg, do i have my leg. >> do you remember how he responded to that? >> he was saying, like, you're okay, you're going to be okay. >> her face was white. her eyes were white, you know, you look at her and you don't know. you honestly don't know. >> my entire body, from head to toe, was, like, going to sleep, and i just felt tingly. probably from, like, as soon as i was on the ground, it started to feel tingly, because the blood was leaving me so quick. and i started feeling really, really, really, really cold. >> sydney, you know, turning pale. i just remember people saying, where's the emt, we need a stretcher.

>> do you remember what you were thinking while you were laying there on the ground? >> i remember thinking, like, if i lost my parents, and i really thought i was going to die, and i thought i was fading. >> so there was a time where you thought you weren't going to survive this? >> absolutely. when i was in the ambulance, there was a time when he had to brake, like, incredibly fast and i remember feeling the blood just like come out of my leg and it was warm all over, and i thought, like, i'm bleeding out. like, i'm not going to make it to the hospital. >> and she got to the hospital, she was, you know, basically on her last breath, you know, losing a lot of blood. >> i remember massive amounts of pressure being put on my leg, and it was very painful.

at one point, when i was finally in the hospital room and the emergency room, and i just remember asking, when are you going to put me out, i just want to go to sleep, just put an end to it. >> so tell me when you first learned of sydney's condition and when you first saw her. >> all of the families were in one room, and the vascular surgeon came down and asked for the corcoran family, so he brought us in a separate room and that's when he described the wound. and he said that without a doubt she had a mortal wound, and if it wasn't attended to when it was, that she would have died, and she was minutes away from bleeding to death. >> when was the first time you saw sydney and could speak to her? >> breathing tube in her, she realized i was there, and then she couldn't talk. she was actually trying to talk to me, so i asked the nurse in

the room for some paper and a pen, and i had actually before she started writing stuff down, though, she asked me about mom, i could clearly understand that, so i told her what happened to celeste, and, of course, sydney -- it was just a single tear just rolls down her face. so then i got the paper, and one of the first things that sydney wrote down was that when she first woke up, she thought she was an orphan and that we weren't with her anymore. >> i was terrified that they had both died. and i was so scared that i was only going to have my brother left, so i just -- okay, okay, i just want to see my mom. they put our beds side-by-side, and we just grabbed on to each other and looked at each other and started crying. we just said, like, we love each

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the images that stuck with me the most are the ones of all the people who thought nothing of themselves to run back into that scene, not knowing what was there, or if it was even safe to help people, help the victims. >> i am a freelance photographer, and i'm also a staff photographer at tufts university. this is my third straight marathon. the finish line of the marathon is a special place. everybody there is in such high spirits, because they just ran a marathon. >> i was at the finish line with roommates. we were in a crowd of people watching the race.

then, like, a guy was making his way to the crowd kind of rudely. he bumped into me. i looked at him. he looked like he didn't belong there. then the next thing i know, i was on the ground. >> you know, you hear all this cheering and a loud boom goes off. and then silence. and then the second one went off, and then it got really loud and chaotic. i knew it was bad when i saw people kicking over gates. i mean, these are the big barriers that, you know, the police set up. people were just throwing them down, running on to the course. i had never seen anything like that. >> the first scene i saw there

was all these bodies on the ground and missing limbs, broken limbs, people crying. >> once i got up above, i just saw, just, people everywhere. that's when i realized how bad it was, that, you know, i started seeing people with pretty horrific injuries. i recognized carlos immediately, because he's very active locally. you know, i saw the hat. >> i went straight down to the ground to help jeff, but immediately after that, i look at his legs. i ask for help. here, somebody help. >> when he came to help me, he was crazy. his adrenaline was definitely, definitely kicking. >> i picked up jeff from the

floor. i pick him up, and i set him in the chair, and i told him to hold on, hold on. and i told the lady, we have to rush, we have to rush. let's move it, let's move it. >> actually, when carlos picked me up and threw me into the wheelchair, all right, maybe i am going to make it, but before that, no way. i thought i was done. >> as he was pushing jeff out, jeff's lower body was obscured, and then we saw the herald photographer standing next to me, he just started, you know, screaming, oh, god, and he turned his head. i looked down to make sure he was okay, then i kept on shooting. >> i ended up taking him all the way to the ambulance, which i pick him up again and i put him in the bed. and that's the last time i saw jeff.

>> to me, there's something inherently powerful about the still image, you know, it's a moment frozen in time. it's that memory that you can hold on to, you know, it doesn't just pass, you know, it's right there for you to see forever. >> is there a story behind that photo, do you think? >> yeah, jeff bauman survived, you know, and he regained consciousness and pointed out the suspect. and it's just that little glimmer of hope that, you know, this guy made it next to all these other people who rushed to help him. it's proof that, you know, love for your fellow man and compassion will win out over evil every time, and so that's helped me process a lot of -- a lot of the stuff that i saw.

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everybody wants to do boston. i felt good, and i was going to sprint a little bit right at the end there, and everything was going fine until that big explosion. >> the only holiday we're not allowed to take off, so we all work marathon monday. but it was just a peaceful day. it was a beautiful day. boom. it was like a grand finale at the fourth of july. that loud last bang that shakes your stomach and makes you rattle a little bit. >> so immediately after that first bomb exploded, you kept shooting. >> i kept shooting. i didn't stop. >> i never expected something like that to happen at the finish line, so i was in shock. they didn't know what was going on, but i'm just reacting to what they were experiencing.

once you heard the second blast, you start realizing, this is for real. there's people now screaming and running in all different directions. >> my mind is trying to digest that, but i'm looking in front of me, bill iffrig, who falls to the ground because of the explosion. david ryan, the other "globe" photographer, was up on the photo bridge. he's got a longer lens, so he can see way down the race course on boylston street. the explosion goes off, and i ran towards bill. i made those photos of bill, and then there was a brief moment where i turned back and i looked at david, and i looked up at the photo bridge, and i just wanted to make sure he was all right. >> i could feel the force behind me pushing me, and my legs started going like this, spaghetti, you know, had no control. i was going down.

>> why bill iffrig? what drew your lens to him? >> maybe he was the first victim. he's the marathon runner, an old-timer who wants to finish the marathon. it's everybody's dream to finish the marathon. it was just an instant, it was like, you know, a 5,000th of a second that happened. when i look back at that photo, i just think it tells the story. >> yeah, i was very lucky. i started getting emotional about it, but, yeah. it was pretty close. >> and i called my husband, and my husband's a retired sergeant from nypd who was there for september 11. i don't even remember, i think i was starting to cry, you know, there's a lot of causalities. i'm fine, but just, i love you.

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that was my first view of bodies and carnage and legs, you know, blown off. that's when it hit me. that's when i realized that this was like the worst thing i've ever seen in my life.

>> it was a very special day for me. i was with my father, who was running the marathon with me. i was actually feeling a little nervous that morning. i was nervous i was going to let my father down, because he had trained so hard. the first 25 miles, i was feeling good. i was feeling strong. it was still a challenging race, but i was feeling good. we had run past the sign that said "you have one mile to go," and you honestly don't know how you're going to get through that last mile, but you know you have to. it's the home stretch. and we heard the bombs go off. >> and i'm literally right on that finish line tape, and i get thrown back a bit by the explosion.

>> oh, my god. >> i heard people saying, oh, my god. no, this can't be true. nobody could get to the victims on the sidewalk. race officials saying rip this down. rip the fence down. the police, emts, and volunteers just ripped the fence apart. >> i just knew i had to get there. i knew if something was that bad, that i had to be there to help, and i jumped over the barricade. >> tell me about that barricade. >> i remember, yeah, my foot hurt so bad. i remember i was thinking i'm going to have to jump. i'm going to have to jump over something to help these people. i remember thinking, i can do it. i can do it. your foot doesn't matter. people are dying. >> so you pushed through something like that. >> yeah.

>> and i started sprinting as fast i could towards the finish line. i remember running through the crowd. people running down the street. people were running every which way. policemen were yelling at me trying to get me to stop. i said i'm a physician, please, you have to let me through, and he must have seen the fear, the devastation, the horror in my eyes. whatever it was he saw, he let me through. >> i kept shooting. i didn't stop. i kept shooting. and then it wasn't until i knew up close to the railing and the fence that i actually saw what had happened. there was probably 15 bodies just kind of, like, leaning on each other in one area, you know, people helpless. just looking up. >> i just went to the people i

saw, quickly running as fast as i could to the people i saw, thinking oh, my god, there's another one. oh, my god, there's another one. >> people were smoking. the bodies were smoking, you know, their faces were charred. their clothes were ripped, and, you know, nicole gross, one of the victims from charlotte, north carolina, she's sitting on the ground, she tried to get up but she couldn't get up. her legs are all torn up with shrapnel, and she had that look on her face in shock and disbelief. >> tell me what you see when you look at that photo. >> i see what i felt that day. i see the pain, and i see the fear. it brings back the smell and the taste of the smoke and the smell of the blood.

i saw so much blood. you know if you're smelling it and you know if you're seeing that much, something truly horrible has happened. >> who was the first victim that you reached? >> there was a crowd of people at what is now known as the second bombing site, and they were gathered around a woman. there were a lot of people helping. we were -- we were packing her legs with towels, and we were doing cpr. she had such bad injuries to her legs. >> gaping wounds? >> yeah, gaping wounds to her legs. we got her in an ambulance. all i can say is, we tried our best. we really did. >> one of the most gruesome things was, you know, a horrific

image that i still deal with is one of the women who died, and there was a boston police officer who leaned over and she's putting both fingers on her throat to check her pulse. and, you know, just her leg was ripped off, and i can't -- i can't look at that picture. it's so difficult. and it was almost like if you took your eye off the camera, you would be, like, oh, my god, this is really happening. i think it was important for me to just keep photographing it, document it for the world to see. i mean, i think the world needed to see the horror of this terrorism attack. >> i am in. >> you are? >> coming up -- moving forward.

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in the days and months after the bombings, the suspects were captured, the city rebounded, and the injured began a long journey towards healing. on may 2nd, sydney and celeste met john tamake for the first time. >> hi. >> hi. >> how are you? >> i'm good. >> i have to give you the biggest hug. so nice to see you. >> so nice to see you, too. >> i have a little present for you. >> i was nervous. i didn't know if there would be a positive greeting to me or they didn't -- whether sydney really wanted to see me, but i felt guilty for the longest time, for several weeks i just felt like maybe i took something away from her. >> so sorry i had to take pictures of the marathon, but i hope you understand.

>> people weren't helping her -- >> if people weren't helping her, i would have been the first person to rip my shirt off and do whatever i could. >> i think it served a purpose that the world had to see. >> absolutely. >> what happened. you know, and i really appreciate you letting me share that picture. i don't know how you guys can be so strong the way you are. it's so inspirational. just seeing you guys, i mean, just being here is just the best day of my life. >> the very next day, tamake photographed sydney going home. >> as the car drove off, she sticks her arms up to the sunroof, like, oh, my god, look at her. there she goes. that was just priceless. just seeing her smiling like that, to see that that's the

same girl two weeks before that was laying in a pool of blood and almost died. i mean, i love that photo. it just saying anything's possible. this is the ultimate victory for her. >> sydney corcoran. >> two months after the bombing, sydney graduated from high school. in june, celeste got her first pair of prosthetic legs. >> back a little bit. try that. >> i am in. >> you are? one, two, three. >> god, like, everything hurts today. i had really good legs. i really did. if i do say so myself.

i miss my legs. >> my heart goes out to her. i feel so bad for her. i know she's going to be up and about in the future and there are plenty of people that lead active lives, but i just feel so bad for her. >> that's it. over, push. >> just walk. just walk. if only it was that simple. >> three months after the bombing, celeste walked into her house for the first time. >> you want me to step up with you? >> yep. one, two, three, go. >> i might not have vacuumed this room. i didn't think you were coming in this way. >> it doesn't surprise me.

>> welcome home. >> by january she posted a video on facebook of her running. >> it's regaining the normalcy of things. they can't win. they can't start taking pieces of my life that i cherish. >> for dr. natalie davis, the tragedy gave her a new purpose in life. >> after the bombing, i didn't know what was going to happen with my life. i was spiraling for a while almost out of control. i still have nightmares about racing up to that scene and trying my best, but just still not being able to save people. maybe because i couldn't or because i didn't, it's driven me

to this new purpose and this new passion that i have. i joined a fantastic organization called "soul train," which takes inner-city kids and show them that through running they can succeed at anything in life. >> look at this team holding hand-in-hand. nicely done, everybody. >> good job! >> i think the greatest gift i got was when a really tough kid came up to me, a kid that i run with who's been in trouble with the law, he came up to me and he said, dr. natalie, i want to be a doctor just like you. >> bill iffrig is about to turn 80 and says nothing will keep him from running.

>> i've been running for close to 40 years now. no, i'm not going to quit doing anything. now just get ready for the next race. >> jeff bauman is walking, engaged, and has a baby on the way. >> i've overcome all my main hurdles, and now it's all about healing and getting to that point of 100%. my legs are still really, really sensitive. my nerves are always shooting off. it's very different from the past 27 years of my life to now. it's just totally different. >> he wrote a book about his experience called "stronger." >> what i've been through is crazy.

this random math makes a lot of people feel unsafe since i'm okay and show people i'm fine, not going to let this hold me down, people are like, all right, we're not going to let it let all of us down either. >> jeff bauman and carlos arredondo are now close friends. together they watched as their home team went from underdogs to winning the world series. >> a moment we were healing together, participating with the whole community. it was very beautiful. very boston strong, yeah. >> it was the city's finest hour, the red sox had given new meaning to boston strong. and a new iconic image of

champions, of heros, of a city that emerged victorious. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com this is a cnn special report. i'm don lemon. we begin with breaking news. the air search suspended due to bad weather from tropical cyclone jack. meanwhile, deep below the surface, bluefin-21 is completing its ninth mission, but what happens if the bluefin comes up empty again? it has been 46 days of dead ends, 46 days of waiting for word on the fate of their loved ones. we're going to talk to the family of flight 370 passenger chandrika sharma, but we also have a miraculous tale of survival. a teen boy climbs inside the wheel well of a jet in california and stumbles out into