>> look at you delivering hard news. you think walter would have spent knew years eve with kathie griffin? that does it for us. thanks very much for watching. cnn newsroom begins now. >> i will politicize because a political action is what we're making. >> president obama continues to push for new gun laws a day after a mass shooting at a community college which claimed nine lives. all of them now officially identified. and the u.s. east coast hunkers down, embraces hurricane joaquin. hello, everybody. we would like to welcome our viewers in the united states and all around the world. hi. i'm john vause reporting from roseburg, oregon. cnn newsroom begins right now.

it is 9:00 p.m. here in roseburg, oregon, where we are learning more about the school shooting, the gunman and the nine people he killed on thursday. the swrik tims range in age from 18 to 67. they lived in or near roseburg. >> the victims are lucer alvarez, 19 years of old roseburg, quinn glen cooper 18 of roseburg 18 years old.

kim dietz of roseburg, 59 years old. jason dale johnson, 33 years old. lawrence levine of glide, 67 years old. mr. levine was the teacher. sarena dawn moore of myrtle creek, 44 years old. treven taylor anspach of sutherlin, 20 years old. and rebecca ann carnes of myrtle creek, 18 years old. >> we now know the names of those killed. more on what we've learned about their lives. what have you found out? >> they're more than just the names the sheriff was reading. they were students, just four days into their college career, many of them. there were nine lost in all. eight of them students, one of them was their teacher.

the teacher you heard, larry levine. these are sons, daughterins. two of them were related to firefighters in this town. many of them liked to be in the outdoors. a lot of them were athletes. what they all had in common is that they all had this thread of education. and we want to take a look at just a few of these people so we can get to know them. lucero al luceroalcarez wanted to be a pediatric nurse. she wants to be able to joke about the size of starbucks cups. >> her sister never got to say how proud she was of her. >> and it's through that public discussion that she's hopefully trying to communicate how much she is missing her sister. there is 18-year-old lucas eibel, one of a quadruplet, graduated with his brothers and his sister.

they all started these new lives. he was four days into his college career. and the other teenager, 18-year-old quinn cooper, his mother writes that he stood up for people. he was a brown belt. he loved to dance. and their lives are just shattered in innumerable ways. >> these are ordinary dpe tails about people who were really just going about their lives and they were cut short. s in not a regular college. it's a community college. a lot of people who come here are older. some of the people killed were, in fact, older students. >> exactly. there's a 34-year-old gentleman who was killed. he actually wasn't sure what to do with his life, according to his mother. jason johnson, his mother said she was so proud of him that she thought he was finally on the right track and that she was proud of the fact that he enrolled in college. so these were people just trying to get an education. and met face to face with this angry man. >> the thing i keep thinking

about here is that they came here, a lot of people to start a new life. and that is what end ed on thursday. the gunman decided he wanted to take some kind of anger or revenge. thank you for those details. they're very poignant, we appreciate that. we now know the names. we also know the bodies of the nine victims have arrived back in roseburg. sara, you were there when that helicopter touched down. describe that moment. >> the helicopter came to the small airport here in roseburg and the helicopter answered and they brought a gurney one after the other after another after another and loaded the bodies one by one. it was terribly sad to watch it happen bpd you realized at that

moment -- and these are blackhawk helicopters flown by the national guard called into duty by the governor. they did their duty to try to help the families heal faster. they went to pick up these bodies that were all in portland so they could have their autopsies done there so they could make this a quicker proce procepro proce process. and then all flown back into two separate blackhawk helicopters in the national guard, landed here in roseburg. and then standing outside the fence, there are people standing there. some were praying, hugging one another, watching as they came in. most of those people were from fun ram homes, waiting for those bodies to be loaded up and brought to the homes so that the families can begin a very difficult process. that was really a moment of sheer heartbreak as you watched this happen. you knew when those helicopters touched down, it gave you a sense of the days when we saw war. you know, when helicopters touched down to bring soldiers from abroad, that's the feeling

that you got, war had arrived in rosedale, and for many people, that's what it felt like on the campus. that's what it felt like the day the shooter wreak eed volcano o the classrooms there, the teachers, the students. so we watched as they brought those bodies in -- put them in vans. they were just regular vans, because there were so many body, nine bodies in total that they brought back. the one body that was not there was the shooter's body. they said they were not going to be transporting the body that way. only those killed by him, the innocent victims of this terrible tragedy, john. >> you touched on this. that now means the process is under way for funerals and memorials and of course for a community that means so much. >> that's right, you're going to

have in and around this area nine funerals that take place one after another. this will be terrible, terrible for the family. this will be the last time they they get to see their loved ones. what remains to be seen of the people who remain to make their lives better. this is going to be a very difficult time. the shock of all of this has still not set in completely for some people. for others, it's starting to happen and that sadness is growing. right now, that sadness overwhelming for them. and it will be that way for quite some time, john. >> does anybody know what they will eventually do with the body of the gunman? he did come from this area as well. >> that's right. we do not know that pl we has

families here. he visited this apartment where he lived. a lot of people stayed with his mother who was there, who was balling her eyes out yet according to one of the neighbors who witnessed that. they're going to have to figure out what they're going to do with his body, where he will be buried. but right now, the government here really con sen trauting on who was killed by the shooter, making sure the family's needs are taken care of and given the honor that they deserve. that is why the national guard got in those helicopters and went to pick up all those bodies so that this wasn't a long, drawn out process, trying to bring those bodies back home.

>> i'm going to talk about this on a regular basis. and i will politicize it. because our inaction is a political decision that we are making. >> the gunman reportedly gave something to a student during the rampage. it appears the gunman had a prolific online presence. we get details now from pamela brown.

>> the gunman handed his writings to a survivor to give to the police. in those page, the shooter rambled about his hatred towards black men and how he was frustrated about being a virgin, unable to find a girlfriend. >> he's in a classroom. >> he also vented about other mass murderers who did not shoot police, vowing he would do just that. >> that is kinds of the underpinning of these copycat crimes. they really base their behavior on outdoing the next one. >> cn has learned h efs a student at the college, in the very class he shot up. why the shooter targeted umpqua community college is still unclear. he lived nearby in this apartment complex with his mother who was reportedly fiercely protective of him. his family has been interviewed by investigators and cnn learned the shooter suffered mental health issues and had sought treatment.

>> shocked. shocked is all i can say. >> the gunman's father in california telling reporters he didn't see this coming. >> obviously it's been a devastating day. devastating for me and my family. >> the gunman joined the army in 2008 but was discharged after only one month. his interest in the military seemed to continue. >> he wore combat boot, very distinctly, i remember black combat boots and very camo, military uniform almost. >> i did see him at the time leaving his apartment and coming home with what looked like gun cases. him and his mom both. and he did say he used to go shooting at some range. >> investigators are also looking into blog posts apparently linked to the shooter, one talking about the virginia man who recently murdered a tv news crew live on the air. the post reading, i have noticed that so many people like him are all alone and unknown. yet when they splil a little blood, the whole world knows who they are. seems the more people you kill the more you're in the

limelight. >> thanks to pamela brown for that report. in the hours after the shooting, ang angry and frustrated barack obama challenged us, the news media, to look at the numbers of americans killed by gun violence and compare that to those who have died in acts of terrorism. the cnn security correspondent crunched the numbers and they're staggering. >> there's been another mass shooting in america. >> showing deep frustration in the wake of one more mass shooting, president obama issued a challenge to the media. >> have news organizations tally up the number of americans who have been killed through terrorist attacks over the last decade and the number of americans who have been killed by gun violence. and most those side by side on your news reports. >> we did, and here are the answers. first, cnn went back more than a decade to 2001. so as not to exclude 9/11, by

far the largest terror attack on u.s. soil. from 2001, to 2013, more than 6,000 people were killed. 60% of the gun deaths, about 237 were suicide. exclude suicide and gun related deaths fall to 167,000. but still drastically higher than the number killedly terrorists. 50 times higher. the enormous numbers lead some to call gun violence a national threat on par or worse than terrorism and deserving of the same attention. >> that's an average weekend in chicago. >> in some u.s. cities as noted by peter bergen, the death rates from violence exceed death rates in actual war zones. the murder rate in new orleans,

six times the rate of civilian debts in afghanistan. and the nation's capital washington, twice as deadly than the afghan warriors for civilians. law enforcement officials trace many gun deaths to drug and gang warfare. >> the reality is on the a daily basis, the drug problem is one of the greatest national security threats that we have because the majority of people that are dying from guns are related to drug violence. >> stay with us here on cnn. when we come back, we'll continue to have the latest on the oregon college shooting and we'll have more insight about the gunman from those who were once his neighbors. it's hard to believe you can book over

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years. and the bodies of the nine people he killed have arrived back in roseburg. that happened on friday. there are medical examiner's office in portland, oregon. known in on two blackhawk helicopters, men and women ranging in age from 18 to 67. one victim was a teacher. we have other news this hour. rescue crews in guatemala are searching for survivors after a massive landslide just outside the capital. heavy rains unleashed a torrent of rocks and boulders on thursday night, burying dozens of homes. at least nine people were killed and dozens more were injured. at least 600 people might still be missing. one guatemalan official says the tragedy could have been avoided if residents followed warnings and were evacuated. russia as launched more than a dozen air strikes in syria since thursday. russian state media says moscow is targeted isis, but the u.s. says the jets are hitting areas held by rebels who oppose syrian president bashar al asad.

an international coalition is urging russia to stop attacking syria's opposition and focus instead on terrorists. russia says that's just what it is doing. meantime, the u.s. says russia's air campaign will only lead to more bloodshed in the war-torn country. u.s. president barack obama accuses russian president vladimir putin of propping up the syrian regime. pentagon correspondent barbara starr has more. >> reporter: a warning from president obama to russian president vladimir putin. >> an attempt by russia and iran to prop up assad and try to pass fi the population is just going to get them stuck in a quack mire. and it won't work. and they will be there for a while. >> and criticism for targets of putin's air strikes.

>> if russia continues hitting rebel force, will the u.s. defend those rebels? the pentagon not really to even say if the russians have hit them. >> we don't have a clear picture of their intentions at this point. >> gop members challenging the narrative. >> i can absolutely guarantee there were strike against our free syrian army or groups that have been armed and trained by the this ia. >> russia continuing its air strikes even as the pentagon and moscow talked about how to ensure pilots from both both countries can avoid each other in the skies over syria. >> the u.s. pilots are going to have to look after themselves. they're also going to have to be

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pentagon. >> and now to afghanistan where both the taliban and government forces are claiming control of the key northern city. afghan troops say they have retain kunduz, but the taliban denies that, saying the government has suffered heavy losses. the military's biggest victory in 15 years. meanwhile, the u.s. military is investigating a plane crash at afghanistan's jilalebad airfield that killed six service members and five afghan services. it does not appear that any enemy fire was involved. a short break here, but when we come back, more details about the shooter at a u.s. college campus, including his apparent fascination with other mass killings. when you're not confident your company's data is secure, the possibility of a breach can quickly become the only thing you think about.

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>> welcome back, everybody. i'm john vause in roseburg, oregon, where we are learning more about the deadly school shooting which took place here on thursday. so far, authorities have not given a motive for america's latest mass killing. what we do know is that the victims ranged in age from 18 to 67. they lived in or near roseburg. the gunman was enrolled at ucc in the class where he open fired. he briefly served in the army in 2008 but was discharged because he did not meet the minimum administrative standards. investigators have linked 13 firearms from the shooting to the 26-year-old. authorities say all other weapon he is had were legally obtained by him or family members over

the past three years. the massacre led the president to push for further reform. >> here we've got the, the majority of the american people think it's the right thing to do. background checks, other common sense steps. that could maybe save some lives couldn't even get a full vote. and why is that? it's because of politics. it's because interest groups fund campaigns, feed people fear, and in fairness, it's not just in the republican party, although the republican party is just uniformly opposed to all gun safety laws.

>> and there's been so much information which has come out over the last day and a half about exactly what happened at this community college and you've had a chance to sort through it all. we now have a much better idea of what happened here on thursday morning. >> because we're actually getting eyewitness accounts of people who were inside this classroom as the gunman came in. he was firing. and what they saw was disturbing. a man who had a small arsenal of weapons, who was intent on killing. >> as many ambulances as possible. we have upwards of 20 victims. >> the gunman came heavily armed, prepared to kill as many as possible. >> he's in a classroom. >> investigators say the gunman brought a steel-plated flak jacket, multiple pistols and a rifle. >> six were recovered at the school, seven were recovered at the shooter's residence, along with five magazines.

>> the gunman entered snasfasi a's classroom. her brother was a building over. she said students hit the crown. the gunman asked them one by one a single chilling question -- >> are you a christian? he would ask them. and if you're a christian stand up. and they would stand up. he said good, because you're a christian, you're going to see god in just about one second. and then he shot and killed them. >> an online dating profile lists his religion as not religious, don't like organized religion. ana survived by playing dead. she then saw the gunman leave something behind. >> ana said he gave somebody a box, gave somebody a box. one of somebody who lived.

>> i don't know. >> and said you've got to deliver this. >> investigators tell cnn the gunman also left behind writings expressing frustration with not having a girlfriend and racial anger towards black. the gunman's family told investigators he suffered from mental health issues. >> i've seen this on the news before. i've seen other people deal with this and i felt horrible for him, but it was somebody else's thing. that happens to other people. and now it's happened to me and my son and my family. and this shouldn't be -- this shouldn't be happening in our country. >> and you can hear the frustration in that father's voice. and we did manage to talk to him and get an update. she was able to get out of surgery. that bullet that was lodged against her spine, the doctors were able to remove it. she has feeling in her legs. she has some mobility and they think she will make a full recovery, she will walk. >> that's good news. what we often find in these

circumstances is that in the first 24 hours, people are in shock, they're numb. they don't really absorb what happened. and then as the time goes on, it sinks in. and that's when there is trauma and traumatic stress. how are they going to deal with that here? >> what they're trying to do, and we heard it at every single press conference we've been at is that the sheriff's department has been reminding everyone that there is counseling. it's going to be set up throughout this entire community. it's going to be available to the students. even at the hospitals when the families are showing up in the very early hours, we saw the hospital was setting up a safe room for families to go to to talk to counselors. it's going to be a continuous conversation trying to get to that trauma. this community is trying to move beyond that initial shock.

they are part of this club, this very big club in the united states where they've had these kinds of mas shootings. >> and we hear it every single time, whether it be aurora, colorado, or new town. they all say the same thing, this club is not one that these communities want to be a part of. but the reality is that that's true. they are. >> we appreciate you being with us. thank you. we learned much more about the shooter including his fascination with other mass shootings. those details from brian todd. >> he entered the classroom firing, said he had been waiting to do this for years. then shot a professor point blank. that's according to what one survivor told her father, who

says the gunman seemed to want to deliver a message. >> ana said that he gave somebody a box, gave somebody a box, somebody who lived. >> i don't know. >> and said you've got to deliver this. >> it's not clear what was in the box. but law enforcement officials tell cnn the shooter handed his writings to a survivor. writings saying he was frustrated with not having a girlfriend and being a virgin. according to boy lan, he also singled out christians during the rampage. but none of that points to a clear motive for why chris harper mercer gunned down nine people. his father would only say he's devastated. >> shocked. shocked is all i can say. the gunman includes rambles about his hostilities towards black. >> these are people who suffer from typically surplus powerlessness. they feel powerless, they feel abandoned by society, rejected.

they collect all the injustices that occurred in their life and they don't let go. >> law enforcement officials say the gunman's family told investigators he suffered from mental health issues. former neighbors at his apartment complex in torrance, california, said he lived with his divorce mother, who was protective of her son. >> she had a petition with complaints about the complex and that her son had anxiety issues then a the roaches were working amuck and they were going to have to go stay in a motel. very camo, military uniform.

the gunman's writings indicate he studied other mass shooters like the man who killed six people in santa barbara, california, last year. and blog posts by a user whose e-mail is associated with the oregon gunman expressed sympathy for vester flanagan, the man who shot and killed two journalists on live television in virginia recently. >> this has once again added to the controversial gun laws in the united states. we spoke with robert spitzer about what he says are the weaknesses of the current background checks.

>> there are lots of people with lots of mental problems who don't get caught in the two fwhet nets. however, there are other place where is background checks are much more meaningful. and that extends to police making inquiries into the associations of friends and neighbors and work colleagues of people who apply to obtain a pistol legally, or a firearm legally. and since a more thorough check did not occur in oregon and does not occur in most states -- although it does occur in my state of new york state -- he was able to obtain these guns legally. and that goes to the limitations and weakness of current gun law.

>> the sheriff of douglas county opposes gun control. who looked into the views of the sheriff. >> he's not afraid to share them and with that, john, as you know, controversy often follows. thrust on to the national stage after the massacre at umpqua community college, douglas county sheriff john hanlan talks tough and isn't afraid to share his opinion. >> i will not name the shooter. i will not give him the credit he probably sought prior to this horrific and cowardly act. >> reporter: his stance on the shooter applauded by many. but his other views putting him smack dab in the middle of gun

control. a letter he sent to joe biden one month after sandy hook elementary, one of the deadliest in american history gives everyone a good look at his unwaivering stance on gun control. it says in part, gun control is not the answer to preventing heinous crimes like school shootings. but now a mass shooting has hit him at home. so we asked him about his thought as the entire country asks, why is this happening in america yet again and what will stop it. can you talk to me about your stance on the fact that you feel like gun control is not a potential answer. >> okay. i understand your interest in that. and i can appreciate that you have an interest in my position, but like i've said a number of times this morning, we are focusing on getting this investigation completed. but he did talk to us a bit about a controversial post on his facebook page that is also getting attention now. long before the umpqua college

shooting, he reposted a viral video. that video delves into conspiracy theories involving the sandy hook shooting. it goes as far to question whether some of the grieving parents were crisis actors. he writes, this makes me wonder who we can crust anymore, and goes on to say, watch, listen, and keep an open mind. >> did you post that? >> no. you didn't post it? >> no. no. i know what you're referring to. >> no. that's not a conspiracy theory belief that i have. >> reporter: so he was very clear that he did not believe those conspiracy theories inside that viral video. but he did talk today of course about the grief that this community is going through and he said he really wanted to concentrate on dealing with the task at hand, the investigation, and all the rest that mr. be going on here for quite some time, john. this community is reeling from

this. there are so many families suffering because of it, not only those who have lost loved ones, but those who still have family members in the hospitals a couple of days after the shooting. john? >> and the sheriff has been part of the community for a long time. would you say that his view hons gun control are fairly widely supported by this community? >> you know, it's hard to say. we've talked to a few people and you get kind of two different views, especially since this has happened. and that's what we were very curious about, john. now that it's happened in his own community and he's having to deal with this issue. it's concerning to a lot of people. on the other hand, people still stand by it's not the gun who kills people, it's people who

kill people and mental illness need to be concentrated on. but a wider group of people that is right start to say maybe this is an issue that's several pronged, not just mental illness, not just access to gun, not just the media coverage, be all of it combined needs to be looked at and looked at closely and perhaps changed forever. john? >> and very quickly, the sheriff says h he didn't post that video to his facebook page. did he say who did? >> he never said he did. but he clearly knew what we were talking about as you heard there. but it did exist, but then it was taken down, or the page was made private so you weren't able to see that video anymore. but that viral video is quite interesting. and to be clear, all of the conspiracy theories that were put into that video have been debunked time and time again by several different sources who looked at it and compared with what really happened.

none of it is true. john? >> make of what that you will. when we come back, we'll continue to bring the latest on the oregon shooting, but we're following another story. the search for a missing ship lost at sea in the middle of a hurricane.

>> zok tors without borders say three staff members are dead and 30 are unaccounted for after their trauma center was bombed several times in their northern city of kunduz. the taliban blamed american forces, but we have no word on this from u.s. officials. the ongoing fighting has driven many afghanis outside of their country. one man told his story to nick payton walsh. >> reporter: can't imagine the fears racing through his head unless we take you back to where he was two months ago. this was once america's longest

war. nows th now this is wahid's. his afghan army unit battling a resurgent taliban in the worst clashes this summer outside kunduz. but now americans are leaving. they are losing. sometimes, he told us, they didn't have ammunition, food, or even fuel to drive their wounded to hospital. money is spent on perks for commanders. after three-quarters of his men fled, he did, too. and now must leave afghanistan. the taliban, and even isis, know where he lives. staying puts his family at risk. the nightmare journey through iran, turkey, greece to germany was, he felt, the safer option.

at the iranian border smugglers led them to a cave where they had little food and water, apart from what they bough with inflated prices. they were taken on a four-hour march, 50 of them through the steep mountainous border. the climb was easy through an afghan shoulder. the iranian border guards saw them. we hid behind rocks. i got 15 people out and across. we walked for 18 hours. in the next pictures we see, wahid is smiling and clean shaven to blend in easier in greece.

it's inside now and the double price of 1,800 euros he paid for a seat on this safe boat is paying off. standing on the island, he was thinking i'm here and i'm alive. yet the greatest trauma was still ahead of him. this is the border between hungary and serb. mie grants, refugees, call them what you will, the hungarian police won't let them cross. >> open the door! open the door! >> anger builds. around him, young men lash out and are soon hit with tear gas and water cannons. i didn't see one but tens of women and children just in their tents, he tells us. we were crushed by protesters escaping tear gas and water cannons. i could not film the scene, though, as i was crying. not because of the gas, but

because of what happened to these poor people. the police and their fence hold. wahid once fought the taliban, nato and europe. but now they have their own frontline to keep him out. when he arrived through croatia and austria. the taliban think i have gone back to the army, he h says. they have taken the phones. when i tried to call my wife, they forced me to go to them. i love all my children the same, two sons and a daughter, but i miss her the most. she's always in my mind. separated from his family by a journey he barely survived. a new life left haunted and incomplete by the old. nick payton walsh, cnn, new york.

a another u.s. coast guard is for a missing container ship. it was last seen on the bahamas. 33 people onboard, 28 americans. the storm is threatening to bring historic floods and heavy rain to the east coast. we're following hurricane joaquin for us. and as well, pedram, we'ring looing at the potential impact on the united states. do we know how bad this could be? >> historic there and life threatening. this is something thi actually never seen for the amount of time period it could eventually play out. if you look at the oddity and frequency the amount of hateful this storm could leave behind, it would be something on the order of once in a 1,000-year event statistic stichically speaking. here we go with hurricane joaquin. a menacing category three across portions of the bahamas.

it has literally pitched a tent across the bahamas for a 48-hour period as a major hurricane. some of the weather observations we looked to to get you data across this area are not reporting anymore. the weather observations are now rendered useless across that region. you would certainly think the most destructive hurricane since the 180ss. some of these beaches unrecognizable after the storm system finally deciding to move to the north and east at about 10 miles an hour. so good news on the way there. but you take a look as far as the model guidance. the vast majorities taking the storm system offshore. that's great news when it comes to the direct impact to land. we think significant weakening as it moves over the open waters. i want to show you the moisture available. not often you have the moisture parked up near the feature. sometimes you get it extending away from the storm system as well.

some 30 million people have been warned of the flood watches and places over this region. the rain forecast between 10 to 15 inches could come down over the southeastern area of the united states. we also have a wind concern across this region of the united states. the hurricanes, and also the storm system that is off the southern u.s., well off as far as the impact directly. but you look to the north, an area of high pressure over canada and another one over the atlantic ocean. high pressure and low pressure, not the best of friends. coastal flooding, we can get some waves in excess of eight to nine feet above what is considered normal, even as far north of portions of new jersey. a major threat over this region of the united states. certainly the story we're following for you, we'll leave with you, an image shared by astronaut scott kelly from space, looking over the bahamas

down towards joaquin. you can see the lights by night across florida. pretty impressive sight with a storm system that's finally beginning to move out over open waters, john. >> we've seen a 1 in 500-year event every five years. >> yeah, we do. in various parts of the world. you're very right. i've stood next to you talking about those. i forget where it was, but it happened every places as well. you're right. >> all the time. pedram, thanks a lot. in the chaos of the oregon shooting, at least one shooter ran towards the danger. he took seven bullets trying to protect others in harm's way. we will share his story when we come back.

>> at least one person during the chaos ran into harm's way. he confronted the shooter and tried to stop him. he's a u.s. army veteran who's being hailed a hero. >> reporter: when a gunman open fired at umpqua community colle college early thursday morning, it was a scene of chaos. but chris mintz took three

bullets. >> he looked up at the gunman and said it's my son's birthday today. >> but that didn't stop the gunman from shooting h imin the back, sthom stom act, arms and legs. he was shot seven times while trying to defend his seven classmates. mince was a star at his local high school in north carolina. number 71, defensive tackle. after graduation, joining the united states army from 2004 to 2007, achieving the rank of specialist and being awarded a national defense service metada. now with two broken legs, he's focused on healing and spending time with his family. >> he's going to have to learn to walk again, but he walked away with his life and that's more than so many other people

did. >> if you would like to know what you can do to help chris mince and the rest of the community here, as well as their families, go to impact. we're collecting funds for everybody who has been affected by this tragedy, including a go fund me that's being set up for chris and his family. thank you very much for joining us here. i'm john vause. for our viewers in the united states, "this is life with lisa ling." you're watching cnn. ♪ while you're watching this, i'm hacking your company. grabbing your data. stealing your customers' secrets.

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