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>> i was starting across the parking lot, and i just heard pop, pom pop, pop. >> a busload of children forced on a chase through the streets of miami by a desperate man. >> he said that if she didn't continue driving, he would blow up the bus. >> and 52 americans held against their will for more than a year. >> they come into your cell at night and say we could kill you. >> caught on camera, hostage. >> 911 emergency. >> we got a guy shooting. >> local tv cameras are rolling as an eight-hour standoff comes

to a horrifying end. with a gunman going down the line executing hostages. >> april 4, 191. lisa joseph is inside a good guys electronics store with her uncle and cousin. >> i'm five months pregnant, so i had to use the rest room, and my uncle, he was -- when i came out, he was closing up the conversation. >> then without warning, her uncle pulls her to the ground. then i hear, like, gunshots going off. then i hear screaming.

>> after receiving several 911 calls there was a special enforcement detail dispatched to the scene, and in thisors p dispatched to the store. >> they learned four gunmen of vietnamese desent are holding hostages until their demands are met. they're becoming more and more outrageous. >> they asked initially for bullet proof vests. they wanted full body armor, everything from head to toe. >> i want a bullet proof vest. the kind you wear. >> they asked for 1,000-year-old ginseng plants. they wanted a letter from the president of the united states giving them free passage back to vietnam, and they wanted a

helicopter big enough to take them and the hostages to vietnam. >> as day turns to night, the gunmen show they are serious about their demands by wounding a hostage. >> they shot a man in the leg and sent him out to tell us if we didn't provide what they wanted, they were going to start shooting hostages. >> they want three bulletproof jackets, a helicopter, firearms. they already shot me. >> at 9:30 p.m. eight hours into the stand-off sheriff craig makes a critical decision. when the police sniper fires the first shot, the swat team is to rush the store from the back. >> the whole whered was to make them believe we were attacking the store from the front. that's where their attention will be. so it would be away from the hostages and not focused on our swat team coming from the rear

of the store. >> to distract the gunmen, negotiators leave a bulletproof vest out front. >> the whole scenario was designed to give a sniper a clear shot once the door was open to get the vest. >> but the gunmen don't go out themselves. instead they send out lisa's cousin who is tethered to an electrical cord. >> they sent the woman out to get the vest. that hampered the sniper's ability to shoot immediately when the door was open. >> in a split second the eight-hour standoff explodes. >> i was starting across the parking lot, and i just heard

pop, pop, pop. when was the hostage taker going down the line and shooting hostages. my heart went to my toes when that started taking place. with gunfire spraying in every direction deputy sheriff john mcginnis moves a tethered hostage to safety. >> as that shot was fired and the glass broke, it instantaneously changed everything, and now all of a sudden it was intense. it was explosive panic.

>> when it's all over, six people are dead. that included lisa's uncle. >> when i was still in the hospital, my grandmother came to see me to ask about her son, which was my uncle, and i had to give her the news. >> it turns out to be a double tragedy for lisa's family. not only is her uncle killed, but lisa has a miscarriage during the traumatic incident. >> we made the decision based on the fact that they said they were going to start shooting people. if we waited and people were killed, it would have been hard to live about yourself yoosh storming the place and people being killed was not a lot easier. it's a very, very hard thing to

live with. >> the sheriff said today given the desperation of the gunmen, this was bound to end violently. >> unfortunately, the final outcome was three innocent people lost their lives. still for the vast majority of those people that were held there that day they were released unharmed. i attribute that to some very brave souls who put themselves significantly in harm's way, and, frankly, the leadership of the organization that i think handled it very well. in this february 1995 trial 21-year-old loy, the lone surviving gunman, is convicted of three counts of murder. the motive? he and his colleagues had trouble adjusting to life in the u.s. and wanted to draw attention to problems in their home country of vietnam. in 2003 lisa writes a book about her hostage experience, which continues to affect her. it inspired her to devote her life to helping children and

crime victims. >> a victim is someone who complains about something that happened to them. a survivor is someone who gets something that happened to them and makes something good come of it. that's a survivor. >> nearly two decades later, there's another tense hostage standoff in sacramento. >> i find myself in the role of sheriff. the concorde police department had chased this suspect by the name of alvarez in the east bay. >> 26-year-old anthony alvarez is wanted in connection with three bay area bank robberies and a possible homicide. he evadz a police roadblock, fires at a detective, and gets away, but then four days later -- >> they tracked him to a location in sacramento, as their officers went to attempt to arrest him, he abruptly grabbed

his second cousin who would later be dubbed jackpot by the swat team. >> the boy with the code name jackpot is michael pittman jr. he is the son of alvarez's cousin. now the 16-month-old is a hostage whose fate lies in the hands of a man who is armed and dangerous. police surround the apartment and get the gunman on the phone, but negotiations go nowhere. >> he does have concern for the child's safety and you guys will take into consideration. >> as the standoff drags on into a second day, police are growing increasingly concerned for the welfare of the toddler. >> the suspect specifically went from referring to the baby as his nephew and the baby to actually referring to him as a hostage. >> after 40 hours authorities escalate their tactics, using

explosives. they blow a hole in the wall of the apartment so they can see inside. >> these would allow officers the ability to see into the area where the suspect and child were cob sealed. >> the strategy pays off. the next day a swat team officer sees an opportunity through the port and takes a shot. >> we observed the suspect bend over and pick up the child and exposed his upper body. the officer fired at the suspects striking him in the heart and lung. >> jackpot. suspect is down. >> the suspect is killed. the toddler is uninjured. deputy orlando maize brings the boy to safety.

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on two of the soldiers' helmet cameras. >> is he going to be sold off to another group and be beheaded? is he just going to be killed because he is taking up too much effort? >> november 2004. roy helms is working for the saudi arabian trading and construction company negotiate the catering contracts for the iraqi military and police. >> our office -- it's outside the green zone in the embassy and u.s. army offices. we knew it was a dangerous place, but we never had any trouble with anybody. >> but on november 1st, that all changes. at the time special agent tom o'connor is with the fbi's joint terrorist task force. >> on november 1st of 2004 roy was working in his monseuir district office. >> i was working at my computer, and i saw motion to my left. when i looked up, there were

four men standing in the doorway with ak-47s. they sdmrip tie his hands, and he was brought out to a car. >> like many hostages before him, roy hallum disappears without a trace. american authorities fear the worst. >> unfortunately, a lot of those hostages were being shown on video being beheaded. it was a real concern that the u.s. citizen would be used in that manner. >> but it appears the kidnappers are more interested in money than murder. >> the head of the game, the -- he said to me that because i was an american, they were going to get $12 million. in order to conceal his presence, they find him in a farmhouse 16 meals out of baby.

coalition forces call it the triangle of death. >> it's an area that had a lot of issues. there is a large insurgent population and al qaeda. >> roy's residence for the next ten months is this underground bunker, seen here in photos later taken by the fbi's evidence response team. the conditions inhumane. >> i was always tied up. always had a blind fold. when they shut the door, it would just be totally black. if you tried to stand up, you had to bend over because it was so short. i was like that 24 hours a day. >> i've been in law enforcement. i've never heard of such a horrendous environment for someone to be in. >> on close-up roy was snatched in baghdad nearly three months

ago. a videotape emerged showing him pleading for his life. >> i'm please asking for help because my life is in danger. >> plea for life video is just that. it's going to show anybody who is interested, whether it be family or law enforcement that, we have this person, and he is alive. >> they take the mask off. on my left there's a man with an ak-47, and he puts a piece of paper like right here. he says you read it. my worst thoughts were, well, they're going to kill me during the video. >> i'm not asking for any help from president bush because i know of his selfishness and unconcern for those that have been pushed into this hell hole. >> when you watch it, it's clear that this isn't roy hallums words. he actually asked for assistance not from the u.s. government, but from libyan leader mow har

kad after if i. >> i am asking for the help of arab rulers, especially president muammar kadafi because he is known for helping those who are suffering. >> it takes nearly a year before the u.s. government has enough intelligence to act safely. there's no guarantee hallums will even be alive once they get there. but on september 7th, 2005, it's go time. >> a daring raid in broad daylight, and the soldiers' helmet cams capture every adrenaline-fuelled moment. >> i heard helicopters, and at first it sounded as normal helicopters flying by. the helicopters started getting louder and then it felt like they were landing on top of the house. i heard a lot of yelling, running, and then i heard

somebody hitting on this door. i didn't know if it was somebody there to rescue me or trying to kill me. the door falls in. this american soldier jumps down in the room, and he points at me, and he says are you roy? i said yes. he says come on, we're getting out of here. >> the special forces guys handed me a flag and said whenever we're able to rescue someone, we always give an american flag to them. >> it was a pretty exciting day for everybody that was involved in it. i have to say in the 30 years law enforcement, that's as good as it gets. >> these guys jump out of their helicopter and run right in not knowing what they're going to need. they didn't know what to expect. to me they're real heroes. >> for 311 days roy hallums

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one of the most infamous hostage incidents in history begins on november 4, 1979 and doesn't end until nearly a year and a half later. the iran hostage crisis. >> for 444 days we were humiliated from mock firing squads to russian reulet, stripped nude. >> islamic students, militants, are angry with the american government over its support of the deposed shaw of iran.

in what would become the single most iconic image of the crisis, the students leave their american hostages blindfolded out of the american embassy in tehran and parade them before photographers. >> iran has been in political turmoil. the western supported shah of iran is ousted after the islamic revolution in february. barry rose seven a press atache with the u.s. embassy in tehran. >> we were in a very volatile situation for those months. much of it came to a head when the shah was promoted into the united states for medical reasons. >> mobs of students are protesting outside the u.s. embassy. >> imagine a quarter of a million people chabting death to america. people new the tensions were

very high. >> on the morning of november 4th, 1979, ten months into the protests, rock where i, a 22-year-old marine security guard gets a distress call that iranian students are storming the embassy grounds. >> over the gate came these individuals. i took off running back to the main embassy. >> to climb over they all used cutters to cut the chains. >> he and another marine make it inside the building just as a group of students makes it through the gate.

>> instead of resolution, it's more revolution. the iconic image of the students parading their hostages before the media is replayed countless times to a country that feels it's being held hostage. >> the morning that we were taken, they brought us out of the front of the embassy. there were thousands of people at this point in time. >> the 52 americans become human bargaining chips as the students demand the u.s. return the shah to iran. for the next 14 months rosen says the captors abused them physically and emotionally. >> they come into your cell at night and put you against the wall and with a gun against your neck and say we could kill you and then walk right out.

>> my worst day was when they put me up against that wall, stripped nude with three rifles. >> the captors force the hostages to say things on camera that make it seem they're sympathetic to the students' cause. >> i than they keep telling us they want the shah to return to iran and we'll be released. >> on multiple occasions the iranian students released staged videos of hostages, including barry rosen shown here being examined by doctors. all propaganda to convince the west that they're treating the hostages humanely. >> there were times that they had some people coming in and checking on our health. so sure enough, they used that videotaped that. they brought the weights that we had at the embassy from our weight room. they knew that they needed us healthy to be able to negotiate. >> as the days turn into weeks and then months, the hostages wonder if the outside world has

forgotten about them. actually, the hostage crisis remains a lead story. >> the american embassy in tehran is in the hand of muslim students tonight. >> during the ninth day of the crisis over the hostages in iran -- >> on the 49th day of the embassy takeover -- >> the militants who have held the hostages for 124 days. >> this is the 300th day of their captivity. >> about six months into the crisis, there's a rescue attempt, but operation eagle claw is a disaster. the mission is aborted, and as american forces are on their way out of iran, a helicopter crashes into a c-130 killing eight american servicemen. it's an embarrassment for president jimmy carter. afterwards they scatter the hostages across the country to make a second rescue attempt nearly impossible. >> then on january 20th, 1981 --

>> on the 144th and final day of the hostage crisis -- >> i, ronald reagan, do solemnly swear. >> minutes after president ronald reagan's inaugural address, the hostages are released. >> a dark chapter in a nation's history has ended. they're coming home. >> all of us got on the plane and made sure everybody was there. >> there's no high fived, there's no screaming. people are still in shock and still concerned if this is really going happen. >> the hostages head to the united states where they reunite with the families they haven't seen in more than a year. the emotional moments are caught on camera and carried live on tv. >> my brothers and sisters, my girlfriend were all waiting for me and my mom and dad to get off the airplanes. >> i remembered getting off the plane, and there i'm met with

barbara and the kids. it was good. it was great again. >> shortly after their arrival on u.s. soil, the hostages are honored with a parade down new york city's canyon of heroes. >> you could see new yorkers were just so happy to see us. it became a national parade, and it really meant something to all of us. was at that time that we got the idea that we weren't forgotten. >> coming up, a busload of kids held hostage by a desperate man with police in pursuit. >> he said that if she didn't continue driving, he would blow up the bus. >> when "caught on camera, hostage" continues. a and you can enjoy every single bite. eat loud, live loud,

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>> this day is different. >> i notice someone crossing the street. a well-dressed man. he quickly pushed me into the bus, closed the doors, and ordered the bus driver to drive, to keep going, and that he had a gun. >> the man is highly agitated. he demands to be driven to a local irs headquarters. when the authorities get a tip from someone who witnessed the hijacking, they respond by sending a swarm of police vehicles to the scene on the palmetto expressway. >> it was like a cross between "speed" and the o.j. simpson case. it was a slow speed chase for a long time, and everybody was afraid of what might happen.

>> he had a box that he hit in one of the seats. we were positive there was some kind of weapon. >> translator: he said if she didn't continue driving, he would blow up the bus. i started talking to him. i asked him why he was doing this, that these were special kids. not to hurt them. to not hurt us. >> through the two-way radio, sang tells authorities is heing to talk. a florida highway patrol trooper risks his life driving this car along side the bus and throwing a cell phone in through the open door. >> he facilitated the only means of communication that we had with the hijacker.

>> he said i have a huge tax debt. i don't have a way to pay it. i work as i waiter in a restaurant. >> police later learn sang owes more than $15,000 to the irs. he is distraught over it. the bus passes the exit for the irs building. no one knows where it's headed. the bus driver arks leasha chapman, helps authorities by repeatedly depressing her two-way radio so police can listen in. meanwhile, the miami dade police department is mapping out a game plan to end the siege. sharpshooter jay a. fernandez is ready to move. then more than two hours after it started the riot ends. when the bus stops in front of a miami beach restaurant where sang works part-time, that's when fernandez and the swat team spring into action.

>> you storms the bus with the kids still on board, but he is focused on his target. >> i see him gesturing for me to come in and stick aing hand inside his jacket. i made a split decision. i shot him three times. i didn't miss any of the rounds. i went in and grabbed them and pulled them out. i ordered my team to drag him out away from the bus just in case he did have something that we missed. >> the swat team pulls the wounded man out of the bus. here still concerned he may be carrying an explosive device. >> other people were evacuating schoolchildren. i kept hearing the screams and stuff. >> let's go. >> and then we had the bomb squad come in and sweet it. it turns out they didn't have anything. >> minutes later lying alater on on the concrete nick sang dies from his wounds. >> there was some backlash because what turned out was that mr. sang was a nice man. he was troubled. to this day i think it was a suicide by cop situation.

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november 2rd, 2002. >> a sold out performance of russia's first broadway style musical northeast. svetlana is celebrating with her american fiance and with her 13-year-old daughter sasha. the first act ends. nothing out of the ordinary. >> then the second half started, and right around this time i saw -- no heard the gunshot and saw a man dressed in camouflage getting on the stage. >> the theater's house camera captures the first startling moments of what will turn out to be a four-day siege. a masked man shooting wildly into the air. the 850 heater goers don't know whether it's part of the show or something else. >> translator: when i looked

around and saw groups of armed men walking along the aisles on both sides. >> the voez shows women strapped with what they claim to be bombs lining the theater aisles, waiting for the command to detonate. their leader, a notorious chechen terrorist commander takes the stage. >> translator: he announced from the stage that this was a siege and this demanded the war on chechnya to come to an end. >> at the time chechnya is fighting its second civil war to gain independence from russia. the terrorists are demanding that the russian government end its occupation of their homeland. if their demands are not met, he said he will level the theater with everyone inside. >> i kept looking at this bomb and thinking what if? where would we hide? the woman noticed my nerves and

said don't worry. if it explodes, everyone will get it regardless. >> now clear this is a life or death situation. the moscow theater siege becomes an international lead story. >> in moscow this evening armed gunmen are holding hundreds of people hostage in a theater. >> moscow based journalist mark covers russia for "the sunday times of london." he manages to reach him by cell phone to convince the rebel leader to a face-to-face interview. this news footage shows the reporter as he makes his way inside.

>> we're talking about soldiers arriving undetected and taking 800 hostages in central moscow. it was a massive triumph and success as far as he was concerned. >> the siege drags on into a second day. a third. then after 57 hours a development. russian officials tell the rebels a negotiator is coming to discuss terms for a russian withdrawal from chechnya. >> eventually they are told that the main swren in the war on chechnya was about to come and talk to them. there was a sense that after two days of standoff they had managed to finally achieve a breakthrough. sfroo but the russian government has another plan in mind. >> the russians never had any intention of allowing the main journal and the war on chechnya to go inside. they tricked the chechen terrorists luring them into a

sense of false security. they relaxed. and they're going to pay for that. at 5:45 a.m. more than four days into the siege, russian forces make their move staging a full scale assault. they pump a cold war era weaponized gap into the theater. once they knock out the terrorists with the chemical agent, the plan is to enter and shoot. it's a decision the russian government will come to regret. >> what happened next was utter chaos. the government gave no warning whatsoever to the emergency services. >> emergency service workers are grossly unprepared for the hundreds of unconscious theater goers. many of the victims die outside the theater. >> there was just panic. we have got to get them out, and they were just dumping them outside, and people were

literally suffocating to death outside. they weren't enough doctors. this person is out. is he breathing? if he is not breathing, resuscitate him, put him in a recovery position. that was the issue. i have absolutely no doubt >> in the panic, svetlana and her 13-year-old daughter are separated. the story ends tragically. neither svetlana's american fiance nor her daughter survive. >> sasha ended up on the very bottom of the pile. she was crushed. no chance of surviving with such a rescue. >> svletnana's life is changed forever. she lost a daughter. >> i'm still coming to terms with it, living with it. i'm trying to survive somehow. >> all of the terrorists are

killed and 130 of the 850 hostages die as a result of the gas or lack of medical attention. a memorial stands outside the still functioning theater as a stark reminder of that dark moment in recent russian history. >> coming up, a police taser cam captures a point-blank shootout putting cop against hostage taking gunman. >> i thought he was going to shoot me. i was looking straight down the barrel of the gun. >> when "caught on camera: hostage" continues.

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working at knifepoint in a quick stop convenience store. the man says he has two improvised explosive devices, or ieds. to protect the public and contain the scene, police quickly close the street and divert traffic. a first blast inside the store knocks the door open. with all the commotion, a ground gathers. police keep onlookers away from the store, but people can see enough to offer a running commentary. suddenly they're shocked to see the assailant appear, threatening the clerk with a knife. the man baits the police, yelling "shoot me" several times. meanwhile, bystanders growing angry and impatient attempt to negotiate with the hostage taker

in their own way. >> let her go you [ bleep ] coward! then without warning, just as police begin moving the canine unit into position, the man lets the hostage go. >> run! run! >> at this point police move in. >> shoot me, mother -- >> he makes a run for it into the woods, the police and their dog give chase. >> let the dog go! >> meanwhile, sarah, the hostage, is reunited with her parents. in the woods, a photographer from a local newspaper captures the moment police taze the suspect and take him into custody. he's identified as 24-year-old joshua robert terry. his next stop, prison.

in another taser incident in may 2009, matt edmonds wrapping up his bar tending shift at the lakes hotel in australia when out of nowhere a masked man accosts him. >> the gunman grabbed me, put a gun to my head, and told me to get back inside. >> the gunman then grabs two more hostages, both of them hotel employees. >> there's me, the manager, and the security guard. and he was just asking for money. >> sergeant steve dilorenzo of the new south wales police department is the first officer to arrive on scene. >> i saw there was a man with a high caliber semiautomatic pistol. several hostages were screaming. >> the sergeant is armed with a taser gun. >> it carries a camera on the front of it. it films the person who was going to be tasered. i came up on his blind side.

the taser landed on a zipper, and he wasn't shocked by the weapon. i kept coming towards him thinking the weapon had worked, and he pointed his firearm at my head and fired two shots straight directly at my head. you can see him firing point-blank. >> a lot of noise. a lot of flashing. it's all sort of blurry because it happened so quickly. >> a fellow officer lends him a weapon and a bullet proof vest. a fast and furious gun battle breaks out. >> i decided that i would shoot him in the lower leg, dropping him to the ground, rendering him immobile, and then rush at him and shoot him point-blank in the stomach area. >> but the gunman isn't going down without a fight. he shoots him in the shoulder. >> it went straight through me. i didn't feel it at all. i went to touch under my arm, and i felt a wet substance there. i was able to put my thumb into

my shoulder, so i knew i had been hit. >> despite his injury, dilorenzo helps free the hostages, then he is brought to the hospital. at the end of the four-hour siege, the gunman, a 39-year-old man injured and bleeding heavily is taken into police custody. two years after the incident he's convicted of seven offenses, including shooting with intent to murder sergeant dilorenzo. he's sentenced to a minimum of 11 years. in the wake of the incident in which no hostages were killed or injured, many local newspapers call sergeant dilorenzo a hero. >> i wasn't thinking of medals being handed out. or hero status. i did it because of a sense of duty and a sense of honor to the community. and i'm very, very proud that i did what i did that night.

sizzling 2,000 degree lava decimates a village. >> lava is the winner when it comes to man versus lava. a lightning bolt makes a direct hit. >> oh, my god. wild time lapse footage of a mammoth dust storm. >> the storm spanned from one side of the horizon to the other. >> baseball-size hailstones. >> it's in my room. >> massive wildfires. >> it looked apocalyptic to me. >> mother earth at her worst. >> i totally thought i was going to die. >> and the cameras aol