a good time can turn ugly in a hurry. >> i looked up, and i see a tv coming out the window. >> thousands of people, no way out. panic in a chicago nightclub packed to four times capacity. >> they started running down the stairs. and somebody fell, and then somebody fell on top of them. >> a soccer game goes from confrontation to total chaos. >> two to four to ten, 16 dead. >> and what happens next is a shock even to the players. >> he said, i am telling you now, we are going to play this futbol match. >> a concert lets out, and the

crowd is trapped in a suffocating crush. >> i thought they must be dying. >> it was absolute chaos. it was very much your worst nightmare. "caught on camera: crowd control." streams of people enter a popular chicago nightclub. what happens inside sends them all running for the exit. >> the fear that pervaded the whole place was overriding emotion. it was panic. it was panic turning to fear. >> february 17th, 2003, the e2 nightclub located one floor above the epitome restaurant in chicago's south loop hopes to attract a large turnout with a special dj performance.

by 2:00 a.m. the club security cameras are rolling as nearly 1,200 people pack inside. at the time, robert r. egan is the assistant states attorney for cook county. >> the capacity for the club was just over 400 people. they had two times that. frankly, they were wall to wall. it was literally jammed. >> suddenly, outside of the view of the cameras, a fight breaks out and a security guard discharges a can of pepper spray. >> the crowd reacted, not knowing what this was. somebody yelled out, poison gas. it happened a year 9/11 happened. there was a lot of fear just naturally out there. and people said, let's get out of here. >> people inside the club begin to run for the stairwell leading down to the front door. >> it was a very tall, steep

stairwell. it was not a stairwell that was built to code, and it really was not suitable for the use that it was put to. and they started running down the stairs. and somebody fell, and then somebody fell on top of them, and somebody fell on top of them. and the next thing you know, people were literally stacked 10, 12 feet high. you look at a scenario where your life is under threat, where you're looking for means of escape. do you choose the door you came in by, the route that you know, or door number two? >> keith still is a professor in england and specializes in crowd dynamics. >> i can see the exit, but i don't know if it's open, i don't want know where it goes. so my perception of risk is go out the way i came in, it's a safer route. people revert to what they think they believe to be the lesser risk.

>> people stuck in the crush are desperately reaching for relief. local freelance videographer kent hurslic is part of the first camera crew to arrive, capturing the only video of the scene. >> there were people that were stuck in the doorway, and they could not get out. they just became so interlocked that they couldn't pull the people out. they were going to pull a limb off if you were going to pull somebody out of the there. >> firefighters must enter through the back of the club to access people piled up along the stairwell, leading to the front door. >> they had to stand on the pile. they had to stand on people and take one person at a time off the pile and pull them into safety. they were in cardiac arrest. they were technically dead, and they worked on them and resuscitated them and got a heartbeat and brought them back to life.

it takes time for the rescue workers to get there. unfortunately these people didn't have any time. they were being asphyxiated from all the pressure up against them. they had minutes. not tens of minutes. >> despite the efforts of rescue workers, 21 people die and more than 50 are injured. the club owners, managers, and event promoter are charged involuntary manslaughter. the owner's case is dismissed and the rest are found not guilty. the owner and manager filed a lawsuit against the city of chicago for malicious prosecution on a related charge. the city denied the claim, and the case was dismissed. nearly two decades earlier, fear grips another crowd and frenzied soccer fans are crushed against a concrete retaining wall. may 29th, 1985.

nearly 60,000 supporters fill belgium's stadium for the european cup final, pitting england's liverpool against the italian team. emotions are running high as two of the world's most successful soccer teams face off. liverpool fan rogan taylor is watching on television from his home in england. >> i have a young family, three daughters. all crazy liverpool fans, of course, it comes with the territory. and we are awaiting this match. we have some bubbly in the fridge. we're expecting a great game. >> at the stadium, liverpool fan chris roland is just arriving. but before the game even starts, the festive mood of the day begins to unravel. >> there is no crowd control at all. there are no stewards. there are no police.

there are no -- well, there's a few turn stile operators, but they're just waving you through. nothing. absolutely nothing. people couldn't believe their eyes. it's suddenly packed to the rafters. it really was a recipe for disaster. >> the opposing fans, typically seated at opposite sides of the stadium and separated by barriers are instead placed side by side. at the time, english fans have a reputation for hulliganism and violent behavior at matches. >> to police about 17,000 people in total, about five police and a dog, and there was a piece of chicken fire fence sort of chest high, separating the two sets of supporters. you don't mix them and not separate them, but there they were, completely unseparated. >> with nothing substantial to keep the sides apart, tensions begin to rise. >> insults are passed back and

forth. there's a little bit of wire shaking goes on. eventually somebody pulls the wire down. and a couple of fights start. as soon as small fights start, the vast bulk of the crowd, the italian crowd in this case, begin to retreat. and fight. many of them are desperate to get out of there. >> panicked italian fans tear across the terraces, but there is no escape. the rushing crowd is forced against a concrete wall. >> we're all in the dressing room. we're all slowly starting to get ready. and then we heard like a distant sort of thud. almost like a rumble. we thought, oh, what's that? never thought anything of it. five minutes later one of the officials with liverpool came in and said, look, guys, the walls

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in belgium's stadium, the 1985 european cup final hasn't even gotten underway when a scuffle between opposing fans sparks a frenzy. italian fans trying to escape aggressive liverpool fans are trapped against a concrete wall with nowhere left to run. crowd safety expert keith still knows the dangerous pressure that can build inside a crush of people.

>> these are not unusual forces, because it's the combined mass and speed, the momentum, the energy within the crowd that creates the combined force. it's not just how much i can push against the wall, it's how much everybody is pushing against me. whenever steel and stone meets flesh and bone, there can only so ever be one winner. >> like much of the stadium, the wall is in disrepair from years of neglect. the force of the fans against the already weakened structure creates a perfect storm. liverpool fan chris rolland is entering the stadium. >> as we were making our way towards the turn stiles, we actually heard the wall break. and we saw lots of, what appeared to be italian supporters clamoring over a wall. who looked crazed, to be honest, and charging down the banks towards us, that's what they

were trying to do, to escape the trouble. and in doing so, it had brought a wall down. >> frantic italian fans are trampling each other, as they try to escape danger. the ground is covered with the injured and the dead. >> we hear that there's two dead, four dead, ten dead, 16 dead. we're going, oh my god. and of course, people would be getting more and more worried if they had family there. it's happened to them. where are they? you can imagine. no mobile phones. couldn't give them a call. >> while paramedics tend to the injured that have been brought outside, the chaos continues inside the stadium. >> certainly there are hundreds of italian supporters, they're running towards us. as it turns out, those italian fans heard what had happened at the other end and appeared to be charging around for some revenge.

>> even though rolland has heard the wall collapse, like many fans in the stadium, he's unaware just how serious the situation is. >> absolutely no idea whatsoever at the time. just that there were a lot of people on the pitch and something had happened in that far right-hand corner from where we were standing. no one knows why this is happening. no one knows why there's a delay. no one knows why the italian fans are agitated. >> more police arrive to attempt to gain control of the stadium. meanwhile, the teams begin to wonder if they'll still be expected to play. >> the people on the liverpool staff came in and said, there's loads of people dead. just like that, there's loads of people dead. the belgium chief of police for brussels came into the dressing room with all sorts of other police in riot gear and said, we're still searching beneath the rubble. there are people dying, people gone to the hospital. he said, but i've been to see the eventist. and i am telling you now, we are going to play this futbol match. and i'm pretty sure one our

players just went, why? what's the point? people dead, people dying, why are we playing football. and the chief of police said, because if i decided, if we don't, there could be even more problems. >> they're afraid of the consequences of announcing we've got a lot of dead people here, we're not going to do this, please go home quietly. they don't think that's going to help. they think the only way is to play the game. >> but the team is not on board with the police chief's decision. >> there was a general consensus by the players saying, we shouldn't be playing football. we should so not be playing futbol. but the coach said, look, we have to be guided by the police. >> as night falls, the fans are now subdued in the terraces. more than an hour past the scheduled kickoff time, the teams get ready to play. >> we have almost forgotten by this point there might actually be a game of football.

and the teams came out and said, good lord, there's going to be a match. okay. nobody seemed in the slightest bit enthusiastic about the prospect. at least not on our end. >> there's no polite applause, there was just nothing. it was like you're out walking your dog in the forest. absolutely no reaction whatsoever. no players were talking to each other, no players were looking at each other. and i think, literally, everybody was just looking at the floor, totally numb. >> just a short time the game, laurenson is taken off. >> when the game started i only lasted 80 seconds because i got injured and dislocated my shoulder. i started to cry. it was a mixture of emotions. it was a realization of the massive problems that were being in the game. >> as the game continues, a sense of unease that dominates play, that is apparent even to

those like roggin taylor, watching from home. there's a tackle close to the penalty area. but not quite in it. the referee gives a penalty to the italian team. i'm already thinking, he doesn't want extra time. he wants to get this game over. >> the italian team takes the penalty shot. they score the only goal in the game, winning the european cup. but it is a hollow victory. the chaos of the day has left 39 fans crushed to death and 600 people injured. because of the role of the fans in the violence, english clubs are banned from european competition for five years. >> none of our people were dead, but something had died for us too that night. for those young lads who didn't really have very much going for

them, but who could put on a shirt and think we're the best in the world. suddenly we're the worst in the world. these are the fans who killed people. and that for the city was a trauma of considerable significance. >> 14 liverpool supporters are convicted of involuntary manslaughter and sentenced to three years in prison. the belgian police captain is found guilty of criminal negligence for his handling of security and is given a six-month sentence. for many, the years have not softened the painful memory of that dark day at heisel. >> i went back to the stadium to play, and i looked before the game to where i thought the wall was, and there was absolutely nothing there. but that was spooky, that was very, very spooky. i kind of thought, oh, my goodness, all those years ago.

coming up, too many people, too little space. a terrifying combination on a bridge in cambodia. >> the people in the middle start fainting. the whole crowd went down like that. >> and later a stampede is triggered at a popular rave, when "caught on camera: crowd control" continues. then we gave each person a ribbon to show how many years that amount might last. i was trying to, like, pull it a little further. [ woman ] got me to 70 years old. i'm going to have to rethink this thing. it's hard to imagine how much we'll need for a retirement that could last 30 years or more. so maybe we need to approach things differently, if we want to be ready for a longer retirement. ♪ if we want to be ready for a longer retirement. and i'm his mom at the dog park. the kids get trail mix, and here's what you get

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when crowds converge on a suspension bridge, excitement quickly turns to a crushing panic. >> there was absolute chaos. it was very much your worst nightmare when a panic like that is triggered and the whole seem things to go out of control. nbc news correspondent ian williams is a veteran reporter

in the region. >> different countries have different ways of working. cambodia is a special case. it's a very small country. it's also a very poor country. and a lot of the systems that are in place in cambodia, whether it's law enforcement, the health system and crowd control systems are pretty basic. >> every year nearly 2 million people flood cambodia's capital city, panampen, for the water festival, which marks the end of the rainy season. on the final night of the 2010 festival a concert lets out and crowds converge on a newly constructed suspension bridge. it's the only pedestrian walkway protecting the mainland to main island. freelance journalist carmichael and his friend live there. >> it was newly opened. there were people on the island

who wanted to leave and go home. there were people on the mainland who wanted to get on the island to come and have a good time. >> it had gotten tighter and tighter and tighter. and there was no outlet. >> people started leaving the island and they got caught in the middle. >> a massive crush of people forms on the bridge. each person desperately reaching for pockets of air and the cooling relief of water in the stifling heat. >> it's like a boa constrictor you can breathe out so your lungs can collapse, but you can't breathe back in. you have no space to breathe back in. it only takes 30 seconds to lose consciousness. >> as people in the middle faint from lack of oxygen, the whole crowd went down like that. >> cambodian native and press photographer, han, gets word of the perilous situation and heads to the bridge to take pictures. but he is not prepared for what he is about to see.

>> they try to call, please give me water, i'm thirsty, or please help me. and i'm really, really shocked. i thought that they must be dying. >> rescue workers desperately try to dislodge people one by one from the crush. it is pinning them down with incredible combined forces. >> think of it like dominos. and as you start them off, the more they gain momentum, but it's the momentum of the entire mass. it only takes five people pushing against one to break a rib, collapse a lung, or smash a child's head. >> the government said there might have been as many as 8,000 peop people. and they had to start at each end and untangle people, pull them out one at a time.

>> trying to free up vital room on the bridge, many decide to take their chances in the river. >> these young men and women who are willing to jump off of a bridge that they didn't know the depths to. and a lot of whom didn't even know how to swim, just to make room for other people to have a better chance at catching their breath, i thought that was pretty extraordinary. >> as the minutes pass, panicked faces begin to look exhausted as rescue workers and journalists gather around them. >> i tried to apologize to all of the victims. this is the way of my journalism. i must do it, to take this picture, so my camera just hang up like that and click. just move a little bit to see how they have people, and release people from the pile.

i just asked somebody, why, whauz happened? nobody can answer that. >> after hearing rumors of what is happening, journalist carmichael races to the scene to file a report. by the time he and his friend arrive, survivors and the dead have nearly all been removed by rescue workers. >> we were on the bridge, shooting some video, and taking some images to help me out. there were just hundreds and hundreds of personal possessions lying on this bridge. then down the other side that hadn't yet cleared, and there was dozens of people lying dead. >> hospitals stretched far beyond their limits, scramble to receive and treat the injured. >> we saw the scene of the hospital, chaotic scenes of the hospital, people desperately looking for friends and relatives, the corridors backed with the injured. the hospitals were overwhelmed. >> despite the efforts of rescue

workers, 347 people are killed and hundreds are injured. >> the overwhelming cause of death, according to the hospital authorities, were people suffocating in the sheer crush, or broken bones, people having their bodies crushed in the crowds, or in some cases, tloug themselv throwing themselves into the river and drowning. >> while the number of casualties is staggering, it could have been higher if it weren't for those who jumped from the bridge. >> one of the survivors were told by one of the older people, you youngsters have to jump into the river, because we have to free up space, and he was at time holding the woman's child and he gave the child back to the woman and he jumped. so he and his friends survived, and of course a lot of people didn't. the light of the next day shines on an eerily quiet scene. a stark contrast from the chaos

of the night before. >> one of the most striking images of that night were the sheer numbers of shoes just spread all over the bridge, all over the banks, and it was -- it left you wondering, where are those people now? the nation unites to support the survivors and mourn those lost. >> the national government came to pay their respects at the site and the prime minister was crying. and that is something i don't think anyone's seen. >> the prime minister himself described this as the worst tragedy for cambodia since the murderous regime in which millions of people have died. this country is no stranger to tragedy. >> one year later the bridge is demolished, even though it's less than two years old. there's no structural damage, but it's deemed too painful a reminder. a memorial is constructed to honor those lost.

>> i think one of the key things which even the government admitted was the ability, the crowd control ability wasn't there. that the policing was very poor. that they would need to have better systems in place. >> one of the worst things about it is that most people were young. just young kids out on an evening. people live different lives here and this water festival is a celebration, a time to have a good time and let go. and for it to end like that, i think it affected a lot of people. coming up -- out of control college students turn a city upside down. >> i looked up, and i see a tv coming out the window. >> when "caught on camera: crowd control" continues. [ female announcer ] there's a gap out there.

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nighter of drinking in albany, new york. by nearly 7:00 a.m. house parties spill onto the street as part of a celebration known as kegs and eggs, as students eagerly await the city's st. patrick's day parade. >> they caught us a little bit by surprise with the thousands of young people that were involved. it was upsetting to see what was going on. and we had never experienced that. >> everybody is on every inch of the street, on every inch of the sidewalk. and on all the porches. they're completely wasted. it's just a sea of green mayhem. >> the crowd is whipping itself into a frenzy. and then things take a destructive turn. >> i was walking at one point. i remember hearing "charge" and look up and see a tv coming out the window. fantastic. now it's raining appliances.

>> people up on balconies, taking microwaves and throwing them into the street, taking couches, pushing them out there, taking beer bottles, anything they can get their hands on that they don't care about. everybody is just completely belligerent. >> at what point does somebody turn around and look around in their kitchen and say, i'm going to throw everything in here out the window. when somebody gets to that point it can only go downhill. once things started getting really crazy, we moved on. we wanted no part of that. >> once things started to get really crazy we moved on. >> after destroying property inside the houses, the crowd turns the attention outside. >> at some point somebody yelled flip that car. which they started to chant "flip that car." and they decided to move that into the middle of the street and started going to town on it. >> when they're not able to tip it over, they start jumping on the roof, throwing stuff against the windshield. kicking out windows. it only takes one person with a

bad idea to start something like that. >> the criminal element, we'll use that to just create mayhem. imitators may follow on, reactionaries may get caught up on it. if people are throwing stones, then you tend to have this sort of reaction, if they can do it, i can do it. if they can get away with it, i can get away it. it's criminal behavior, but when you're caught within the crowd, it does tend to become part of the culture of the moment. >> as a group tries to flip a large van, police arrive on the scene and attempt to put a cap on the chaos. >> we got a lot of calls about very loud parties. the police were deployed. by then the kids were on the street. they were going from house to house. >> students are capturing all the action on video using their cell phone cameras. >> anybody with a smartphone is like, i can't believe this is happening. i have to get it on video. they would upload them to facebook or youtube right away. i got back to my room and was able to watch what happened an

hour ago. videos intended for the students' entertainment quickly become incriminating evidence against some of them. >> the police took video stills off the youtube videos and made a little photo array, so the police are walking through the neighborhood, handing them out to students, trying to get them to match names to faces. >> we have good video on it. you know, people, when something happens like that, they're going to film it, and people have to understand that we are going to identify you. we identified youngsters that were violating, that were breaking the law, and we arrested them. >> the videos go viral, gaining attention online and in the news media. >> i talked to the seniors graduating and never lived in the neighborhood. now they're getting their degree that they worked hard for four years, now has a stain of kegs and eggs incident on it. >> after a chaotic day, there are a number of arrests and many are convicted on multiple charges.

two people receive jail time. the rest get probation, fines or community service. the city in corroboration with the local colleges is doing whatever it can to prevent anything like this from ever happening again. including a clever new placement for a school vacation. >> they pushed their st. st. patrick's day parade as the same week as spring break so they wouldn't be around for the st. patrick's day parade. >> the last thing i want to do is arrest college students that are here. as far as i'm concerned, the message is strong. we're not going to tolerate it. coming up -- concert go concertgoers in los angeles rush the gates. >> stop now. the party will be stopped. >> when "caught on camera: crowd control" continues. how are things with the new guy?

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june 26th, 2010. the electric daisy carnival, considered a large scale raid, is kicking off its second day in the los angeles coliseum, featuring a lineup of electronic artists and carnival rides. fr freelance photo journalist, dan crouse, is photographing the event near the stage. >> it's almost like a woodstock kind of thing, but just way newer with new technology and it's the new youth culture. >> you see a lot of like people in different costumes, sometimes they're like really creative or sometimes they just have regular bathing suits and bikinis. >> as the rides are in motion and music is underway, fans are finding their places throughout the stadium. chris cox is a music prurz and dj, sitting in the vip section.

>> they stopped letting people downstairs, because they wanted to start filling in the bleachers. >> and they all wanted to get down into the field, which was packed with people. and there were only a few access points where people could get through. and then so many people just started pushing and, you know, that it just kepting mo ingetti dense and tighter and everyone kept getting more squished so people started climbing over the fences. >> almost embimperceptibly, a situation became dangerous. >> when i started saw the thing started happening, i started shooting it. >> within seconds, the crowd breaches the barriers and rushes over the tops of tents that cover concession stands on the main floor. >> stop now! >> i was just blown away by it.

people were like literally like falling over each other, getting crushed and trampled. >> i saw this girl, she slipped off of one of her tents and the bone popped out of her leg. >> a massive buildup of people forms at one of the gates and is captured on cell phone video by a concertgoer. >> a lot of people were getting crushed, because it was either you run or you just stop. and a lot of people got stepped on and trampled over. >> i'm sure a lot of people were scared about getting lost under a mass of people. there wasn't really much that anyone could do to stop it. >> people are pulled from the force of the crush and injuries are assessed. >> back, back, back! hey! >> as event organizers attempt to gain control of the situation. >> all of a sudden, they cut the music and started like, you know, yelling at the crowd, you know, telling everyone to behave themselves and grow up.

>> stop now! the party will be stopped! throw these people who came here in the name of love and light. >> the rapper, lil' john, happened to be on stage, and he just grabs the microphone and it was absolutely hysterical. >> okay, mother [ bleep ], you need to [ bleep ] stop! >> and then the crowd just swept up, and everyone just started laughing about it. and then it just completely diff fused this thing that could have gotten really out of hand. >> more than 100 people are injured and taken to hospitals for treatment. despite the powerful force of the stampede, no one is killed. after the 2010 incident, the electric daisy carnival is moved out of los angeles to las vegas. but fans of the event remain firm that it is not a danger to attend. >> i think it gave the festival

a pretty bad rap for really a lot of people behaving themselves pretty well. it was really a small percentage of people that were caught up in that. >> i mom saw it after i came back. she was like, you're never going again. but i ended up going three years afterwards. i'm going this year as well. so it's something that you have to be like, okay, you have to know what you're getting yourself into, and you have to be smart about what you're doing. coming up -- the crowd goes wild. >> we just all grabbed him and squeezed him and put him on our shoulders. >> fans storm the court at a one-of-a-kind high school basketball game. >> it was a dream come true. the crowd just erupted. it was like lava came out of a volcano. and the whole place just went nuts. >> when "caught on camera: crowd control" continues. i'm j-a-n-e and i have copd.

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an autistic high school student is given the chance to play in a basketball game.

but what happens next sends an emotionally charged crowd rushing on to the court. >> it was a dream come true. the crowd just erupted. it was like lava came out of a volcano. and the coach sat down and there was tears in his eyes and the whole place just went nuts. >> jason mcelwain, better known as j-mac, lives in rochester, new york, not far from grease afina, the high school he attends from 2002 to 2006 as a special education student. >> i had this ability growing up that i had to get hard to get their respect. basketball teaches you life lessons of things are not always going to go your way in life. >> as a student, it's basketball tryouts that never seem to go jason's way, as his father, david mcelwain, sees firsthand. >> he practiced and so forth, but when he was a sophomore in high school, he was only about 100 pounds, about 5'6".

so he got cut. that's when the jv coach came up with the idea of maybe he could be the team manager. >> basically get water for the team, encouraging the guys around the court. >> i could always see how he's excited in his white shirt and tie, his shirt would be out in the first quarter and he'd be yelling and screaming. what i didn't really realize is everybody else had kind of seen that too. >> jason's dedication inspires players like ricky wallace and varsity coach jim johnson to set a plan into motion. >> we had already brainstormed it, let's get this league built for this kid, so we can have a substantial amount of time to get in. >> we had talked during the season, that i couldn't promise him that he was going to get into the game, but that i was going to have a uniform for senior night. >> he worked so hard in practice, so i mean, that was the least that we could do, was to, you know, push for him to get in the game. >> february 15th, 2006.

excitement is building for grease athena's last game of the season. jason's teacher, sarah drams, is one of many in the crowd. >> he was very excited, that there was a game that night, and that there was a chance he was going to be able to get in for the first time. in the back of my mind, i just kept thinking, oh, my goodness, i hope the coach lets him in. >> fans fill the bleachers. many of them are shooting amateur video as the game gets underway. >> they had signs, j-mac signs and pictures of his face on little paint sticks and so forth. so that was -- sent a chill down your back, you know p? >> but near the end of the second half, the clock is ticking down, and jason, number 52, is still on the bench. >> the crowd throughout the game, because they were periodically, you know, started chanting, we want j-mac, we want

j-mac. >> with only four minutes left and a lead built, the coach finally does what everyone in the crowd has been hoping for. >> i started hearing the chants again, pretty loud, and i was just kind of mulling in my mind, when is the best time to put him in, so when i looked up at the clock and saw there was just over four minutes, i said, you know what, the time's right. he's going to have enough time where he can get a chance to score a basket. and i stood up and i pointed to him, and he just bounced right up. >> it was like, oh, my gosh, he's in. we were all up on our feet. the whole gym was on their feet at this point. >> the kids all stood up and gave him a standing ovation and they put all those placards of his face, i got so overcome with emotion i sat down on the bench and tears were rolling down my face and it was something i'll never forget. >> a nervous excitement grips the crowd. >> i was just so pure, happy for

this kid. he finally got his shot. and the other side of me was like, i hope he doesn't make a fool of himself. i didn't want him to be overwhelmed or make him scared or you know, i didn't want him to be laughed at or anything. >> i know you're not supposed to pray in a public school, but i was praying, i was praying, dear god, help him just score one basket. >> jason takes his first shot. it's an air ball. >> usually, in a high school gym, if a player shoots an air ball, you hear chants from the crowd, air ball, but i didn't hear anything. it was just like an ahh. and i think everybody was pulling so hard for him to get to score a basket. >> he takes his second shot. another miss. >> it was like, oh, come on, you can do it! and just, you know, really trying to give him good vibes, that, you know, you can do it. >> i'm very nervous. i don't want anyone to take the ball from him. i don't want him to lose it, get it stolen. i'm so nervous. every second i'm like, don't do this, don't do that.

>> jason sets up for another three-pointer. >> it left my hands, all the coaches are praying to god that it would go in. >> and the third one's the charm. >> the place just exploded! it just was pure bedlam. >> everybody was up on their feet and we were all just so excited. and then i thought, finally! >> but jason isn't done yet. what happens next is something no one in the crowd could have expected. >> the shots from the three-point line keep coming. >> and he just went crazy. he like turned into michael jordan and started making shot after shot. >> one after another after another. >> it went from excitement to hysteria. everybody was, i mean, just besides themselves.

>> everyone was going crazy, because no one knew he was capable of this. >> i was in a zone and i was just hot as a pistol. i've never shot like that in my entire life. if you see me in the video, i'm number 34, the whole time he's making the shots, i'm jumping up and down, and i can't believe it. >> just seconds before the buzzer is about to go off, jason sets up for one last shot. >> and jason's teammate took the ball, you know, the point guard, threw it right to jason, and the crowd's all in anticipation, and he pulls up from three or four feet behind the three-point line, and i'm thinking, oh, my gosh, jason, don't shoot from there, it's too far. >> but he makes it. jason has scored a total of 20 points in four minutes. when the buzzer sounds, the crowd bursts on to the court. >> just ran over to him as fast as we could after the game and just all grabbed him and squeezed him and put him on our shoulders. >> to see a young man see his

dreams come true, there's no better feeling than that. >> jason's fan base quickly expands into a much wider audience, thanks to those amateur videos. >> see a lot of letters from, like, the white house, getting to meet president bush, getting to meet people like magic johnson, going to the final four that year. >> jason leaves high school as a student in 2006, but in 2009, returns to his alma mater, this time as an assistant coach. no one would deny, it's a triumph jason has earned. >> it feels great, to give back to the game that i always loved. >> final shot, final seconds, february 15th, 2006. >> now everyone is saying, wow, an autistic kid can do this. being autistic is not bad. if he can do this, there's nothing to run from, nothing to be afraid of, of who you are. and i feel like he inspired probably millions of people. >> whatever you put your mind

to, you can achieve anything you want. you just don't give up. whether you're ready for it -- >> one mistake and you're done. >> or you're not. >> i definitely do not want to burn to death. >> life can get treacherous. >> it's the scariest thingive ever seen in my life. >> and fast. >> immediately, i started spinning out of control. >> how do people react when a normal day -- >> i thought i was going to die. >> takes a terrifying turn. >> and i started praying, because that's what i know to do. >> if i'm going to die, i'm going to die trying.