. >> bill husfelt tried to convince them to let people go. >> will you let them go? or obviously upset with me. and as soon the gunman begins -- >> soon the gunman begins to fire his weapon at point-blank range. >> he had an extra magazine that was fully loaded in his back pocket. he had another box of ammo. >> incredibly, he misses every time. demagogue was standing in front of me. i believe that with all my heart -- >> god was standing in front of me. i believe that with all of my heart. >> he took his own life. he had previous record. in 2000, he was sentenced to four years in prison for stocking and shooting at his wife. -- stalking and shooting at his wife. >>> we have news about a lawsuit against mcdonald's. a california mother is filing a class action suit in that stopping the giant -- aimed at stopping the marketing to children. they claim -- the suit claims that the marketing has contributed to childhood obesity. the restaurant has claimed in the past that it has lower- calorie options. >>> the government has outlawed drop-side cribs, decision coming after t

while superintendent bill husfelt tries to calm him. >> i don't want anybody to get hurt. and i got a feeling is what you want the cops to come in and kill you because you're mad. >> i am going to die today. >> why? this isn't worth it. this is a problem. please don't. please don't. please. >> reporter: duke fires wildly. four shots. all of them miss. he then crumples to the floor. as he lay wounded, duke used the remaining bullet to take his life. >> police were there within minutes. and we had the sheriff's office and the panama city police department there, working the scene. >> reporter: here's another look at the moment of horror. another reminder of just how miraculous it is no one else was hurt. >> but why? this isn't worth it. this is a problem -- please don't. please don't. please. >> i'm gonna kill you. [ gunfire ] >> mike jones was treated for heart palpitations after the shooting but could be okay. >> the school superintendent, also acted bravely, as you saw. afterwards, he talked about being at the other end of that gun. >> this was a no-win situation. and mik

mainly, the superintendent bill husfelt, who somehow had the composure to reason with the gunman. >> i don't want anybody to -- listen, just listen to me for a minute. i don't want anybody to get hurt and i've got a feeling that what you want is the the cops to come in and kill you because you're mad. because -- >> i'm going to die today. >> but why? this is -- this isn't worth it. this is a problem. please don't. please don't, please. >> reporter: police say duke fired at least 14 rounds, and every single one of them missed. one bullet hit the desk right in front of the super inten dance and stuck in his noteweekbook. >> i found out today that the bullet lodged in my board book. it's about that thick. and good lord put it there to save my life. >> reporter: ann husfelt believes the quick-thinking of school security officer mike jones jones. he fired on the suspect, at which point, duke turned the gun on himself. the one shot he didn't miss. on duke's body officers found evidence the gunman was hoping to do far more damage. >> what he was carrying was a. .9 millimeter, high capacity.

superintendent bill husfelt tried to talk duke down. he pleaded with the gunman to let other board members go. >> reporter: no luck. in hindsight the "v" duke had spray painted earlier stood for vendetta, the logo of a movie about a mysterious man battling the government. the movie's characters filled duke's facebook page. duke then got more ominous. >> reporter: other board members also pleaded. >> reporter: but duke was in no mood to listen. >> he was going to do this. if you could have seen that gentleman's eyes, this was going to happen. >> reporter: suddenly, it did, gunshots pointblank range, targeting superintendent husfelt. >> one hit my board book and my papers on my desk. i was laying down and there was probably inches from where i was laying. >> reporter: incredibly, no one was hit. >> there is nothing short of a miracle that our superintendent is alive and well with us today. >> reporter: alive because of mike jones, the school system chief of security and a former police officer. he came into the room and off camera fired a

superintendent bill husfelt tried to talk duke down. he pleaded with the gunman to let other board members go. >> i'm the one that signed the paper, right. okay, i don't remember and i don't know who she is. but let them go. >> reporter: no luck. in hindsight the "v" duke spray painted earlier stood for ven date, the logoave movie about a mysterious man battling the government. the movie's characters filled duke's facebook page. duke then got more ominous. >> i'm gonna die today and bury my wife. >> can you talk for a minute? >> no, i've already been -- >> reporter: other board members also pleaded. >> i've got a lot with my wife and family. i don't need to die. >> reporter: but duke was in no mood to listen. >> i got a feeling that what you want is for the cops it come in and kill you because you're mad because you said you're going to die. >> i'm mad. >> but why. this isn't worth it. this is a problem. please don't, please don't, please. >> i'm going to kill you. >.>> he was going to do this. if you could have seen that gentleman's ey

the superintendent, bill husfelt, calmly negotiated with duke.er board members to leave. >> i don't want anybody to get hurt. and i have a feeling that what you want is the cops to come in and kill you because you're mad. >> i'm going to die today. >> but why? this isn't worth it. this is a problem. please, don't. please, don't. please. [ gunfire ] >> reporter: police say duke fired at least 14 rounds. every, single one missed. >> i'm telling you right now, i have no doubt that i'm here by the grace of god. >> reporter: ryan owens, abc news, panama city, florida. >> experts we spoke with said there's several important survival moments in that incident. they say ginger littleton was wrong to hit the gunman with her bag. and that they could have used a more soothing tone to diffuse that situation. >>> a man who has been convicted of a terror plot here in new york city, has been sentenced to life in prison. before being sentenced, he insisted he was wrongly convicted, saying he doesn't believe in harming anyone. >>> and in arizona, border patrol age

. >> reporter: then the big surprise, miraculously, superintendent bill husfelt was alive. >> i justwhen he came up over that chair, i lost it. i went to my knees like this and started crying, like, oh, my god he's alive and i couldn't believe it. i looked up and the rest of them were up and i was like, yeah, this is a miracle. >> reporter: mark strassmann, cbs news. >>> and this morning on "the early show," we will hear from that man in an interview with security guard mike jones and his wife. i'm terrell brown. this is the "cbs morning news." seasonal flavors are here. t ♪ express yourself ♪ [ female announcer ] because coffee is like the holidays. it's better when you add your flavor. coffee-mate. from nestle. it's better when you add your flavor. the are now availableove about in our toploads. remarkable energy savings extraordinary capacity, introducing the no compromise kenmore elite topload washers save now at sears if you live for performance, upgrade to castrol edge advanced synthetic oil. with eight times better wear protection than mobil 1. castrol edge. it's more than jus

. >> reporter: bill husfelt pleaded with the man who pulled out a gun during a school board meeting but the man, clay duke, refueled to back down. what happens next is disturbing to watch. >> please don't. please don't, please... [ gunfire ] >> reporter: despite shooting at point-blank range, duke missed his targets completely. >> he was going to do this. there was nothing we could have done to stop him. >> reporter: the 56-year-old kept shooting until a security guard wounded him. the suspect then turned the gun on himself. before he opened fire, duke let most people leave. ginger littleton, a board member, snuck back in and used her purse to try to knock the gun from duke's hand. it didn't work. >> these guys were sitting ducks. they were lined up like pigeons on a wire. and i couldn't leave them without trying to at least divert or somehow or other defuse the situation. >> reporter: duke pointed the gun at littleton, but didn't fire. >> anybody else injured? >> no. >> reporter: by the time s.w.a.t. team officers entered the room it was over. no one else was hurt. >> it was a tragedy.

this is bill husfelt, we just talked to him a short while ago.ent taken with board members had shots fires at him. let's listen in. >> before he finally turns around and i'm telling you mike saved our lives. it doesn't get any more real than that. you don't have to believe that. i was telling you, that gentleman was not going to stop shooting. mike and him got into the shooting barrage and that's what saved our lives. he had more ammunition and he was going to keep going. >> where was mike when the shots first started? >> i think he was in his office or in the building somewhere. when he started spraypainting, i think dr. haley went to get mike. i am not making light of this, but i thought, man, he really hates technology because we had just voted on a thing about technology and we were getting ready to do a technology presentation and i thought, man, he doesn't want us to spend any money on technology. i didn't know what the v stood for and then when he turned around with the gun, it was totally different then. >> he's good. i went and visited w

. >> reporter: then the big surprise-- miraculously, superintendent bill husfelt was alive. >> i just remember when he came up over that chair i lost it. i just-- i 21 my knees and i started crying. i was like oh, my god. he's alive. and i couldn't believe it. i looked up and the rest of them were up and i was like, yeah, this is a miracle. >> couric: joining us now is mike jones from panama city. and, mike, i know that you spent the night overnight in the hospital because you were pretty shaken up by this, understandably. how are you feeling today? i'm doing fine today. i've got a lot of mixed emotions, you know. taking the life of someone, and visiting here in the room where i'm sitting now and where it all took place. we're getting there. we're fine. i'm going to be okay. >> couric: how does it feel sitting in that room? >> uhm, you know, it's not really bad because, you know, they train us and they tell us the things to expect when you're in a shoot-out and doing those things, and everything they taught us is true. it's kind of like tunnel vision and you block everything out, and

the superintendent, bill husfelt, calmly negotiated with duke, trying to get him to let the other boardembers leave. >> you don't want that to happen. i don't want anybody -- just listen to me for a minute. i don't want anybody to get hurt, and i've got a feeling that what you want is the cops to come in and kill you because you're mad. but why? this isn't worth it. this isn't -- please don't. please don't. please -- >> reporter: police say duke fired at least 14 rounds. every single one missed. >> i'm telling you right now i have no doubt that i'm here by the grace of god. >> reporter: the real hero in this story may be the school security guard, who opened fire on the suspect. at that point, the suspect turned the gun on himself and that is one shot he didn't miss. ryan owens, abc news, panama city, florida. >>> president obama releases a long-awaited review of the u.s. war strategy in afghanistan today. it's expected to say there has been enough progress there to continue the current strategy while acknowledging that some changes must be made. the review is also expected to claim tha

. >> reporter: then the big surprise, miraculously, superintendent bill husfelt was alive. >> i justwhen he came up over that chair, i lost it. i went to my knees like this and started crying, like, oh, my god he's alive and i couldn't believe it. i looked up and the rest of them were up and i was like, yeah, this is a miracle. >> reporter: mark strassmann, cbs news. >>> and this morning on "the early show," we will hear from that man in an interview with security guard mike jones and his wife. i'm terrell brown. this is the "cbs morning news." seasonal flavors are here. t ♪ express yourself ♪ [ female announcer ] because coffee is like the holidays. it's better when you add your flavor. coffee-mate. from nestle. it's better when you add your flavor. the are now availableove about in our toploads. remarkable energy savings extraordinary capacity, introducing the no compromise kenmore elite topload washers save now at sears if you live for performance, upgrade to castrol edge advanced synthetic oil. with eight times better wear protection than mobil 1. castrol edge. it's more than jus

the superintendent, bill husfelt, calmly negotiated with duke, trying to get him to let the other board members leave. >> here's what i don't want to happen. i don't want anybody -- listen, just listen to me for a minute. i don't want anybody to get hurt. and i've got a feeling that what you want is the cops to come in and kill you because you're mad. >> i'm going to die today. >> but why? this isn't worth it. this is a problem. please don't. please don't, please. >> reporter: police say duke fired at least 14 rounds, every single one missed. >> i'm telling you right now, i have no doubt that i'm here by the grace of god. >> reporter: as you may know by now, the real hero here was a school security guard. he came into the room, started firing at the suspect. at that point, the suspect turned the gun on himself and that was the one shot he did not miss. one word, diane, about the other hero in this case, the so-called purse lady. we talked to her husband today, he said, when he first found outing he wanted to strangle her, but tonight, he is very proud to be married to one tough cookie,

s a superintendent bill husfelt tried to end the standoff peacefully. >> i don't want anybody to get hurt and i've got a feeling that what you want is the cops to kill you because you're mad because you said you're going to die. but why? >> reporter: duke raised the gun. >> this is a problem. please don't. please don't. >> reporter: fired several shots at point blank range. >> i'm going to kill you. >> reporter: miraculously, all missed the target. then a security guard mike jones off camera exchanged fire. duke fell wounded, the only person hit. and lying on the floor, he fired one final shot killing himself. on his facebook page, clay duke posted what he may have intended to be the final words writing some people, the government sponsored media, will say i was evil. a monster. but people in this room saw him more simply. as a disturbed man with an apparent death wish. >> joining us from panama city, you just saw both of them in the video, bay county superintendent of schools bill husfelt and member ginger littleton who tried to stop him hitting him with her purse. good morning to y

ginger littleton, and school superintendent, bill husfelt. what an example you two set. your presence of mind was just extraordinary. >> thank you. thank you, we think. >> we're blessed to be here, to be honest with you, george. >> absolutely. >> well, thank you for joining us this morning. ginger, let me start with you. this is a routine school board meeting. you're discussing head lice. and all of a sudden, you've noticed something has gone wrong. >> this very large fellow came to the podium, which was a bit unusual. we were not asking for people's input at that moment. then, he started painting on the wall. and turned around with the gun. the painting on the wall was a bit disconcerting. the gun was sheer terror. >> and he asked women and children to leave. then, you got behind him, enon the podium, correct? >> yes correct. i had the exit behind him. >> what possessed you to come back and try to knock the gun out of his hand? >> when i turned around, i had a choice of leaving, feeling that something bad was about to happen. and turned back around. at this point, he wa

bill husfelt is the boards -- let's listen now to mike jones. >> i appreciate all of the waiting youave had to go through and i'm sorry, when this incident happened, they took me to the hospital and my daughter's only 5'4" but she's pretty feisty and she wanted know stay overnight so i had to stay there. but first of all i want to tell you that being a law enforcement officer you always think about this day and i just want to let the duke family know that my heart goes out to you. he was somebody's son. and somebody's father and maybe even a grandfather, i don't know, i have never met him. but my heart goes out to that family. i think that the thing that sticks in my mind most of all is during the gun battle, i tried to get this gentleman to come outside with me and to draw him away from the school board and the superintendent. and that didn't work and when i was planning my engagement and i saw that first shot and i knew the superintendent had fell backwards and all the board members fell backwards and then he and i engaged in the gun battle that i had lost the superintendent and i

bill husfelt is the superintendent and ginger tried to disarm duke using her purse. and we've got that unbelievable video of you trying to knock the gun from his hand. but first of all, bill, i mean you look at this video. it's beyond shocking. what was it like to actually be there? >> it was surreal. we use that word together. i started using it last night and ginger was using it this morning. we're at a board meeting and we're talking about technology and headlights and the next thing we know this guy's got a gun in our face. and so, you know, there's nothing you can do to prepare or think that's coming. >> you talked with him very calmly and very reasonably. we want to play a little of that in just a second. but all through that, was it going through your mind that, oh, my god, we could all die here? >> he'd already told us that he was going to die. he was prepared to die, and we were going to die, as well. and so we -- we knew -- i mean, you could tell by the look in his eyes that there was going to be some killing going on. and so he made up his mind. right there

jones thought at first superintendent bill husfelt had been killed. >> when the superintendent came uplin harrison, and he came and hugged my neck, that's when i lost it like i am now, just crying. i cry at chick flicks too, y'all. >> reporter: duke had said he was taking revenge for the dwrkt firing his wife, a special needs instructor. rebecca duke says he was only intent on hurting himself. police say that's not the case. jones says after he was released from the hospital for chest pains he spent last wednesday with his pastor to try and come to terms with what has happened, rob and vinita? >> the house joined the senate by sweeping the tax compromise and now it's on the way to the president's desk. the debate and vote ran past midnight. the $358 billion measure will extend the bush era tax cuts and unemployment benefits and provide 400 billion in other tax cuts and credits to boost the economy. the president is expected to sign it later today. >>> the longest war in u.s. history will not be over any time soon. president obama's review of his afghan strategy warns that combat could

. >> reporter: superintendent bill husfelt confronted duke.-old stood up at a school board meeting, pulled out a gun, and demanded that all the women and children leave the room. >> everybody in this room [ bleep ]. hit the road. >> reporter: duke was upset that his wife, a teacher, had been fired within the past year by the board. >> that's what he was trying to tell everybody. is that the world is focusing too much on money and we've stopped hearing about one another. >> reporter: husfelt tries to talk him down. >> you're obviously upset at me -- >> reporter: at one point, school board member ginger littleton actually comes back into the room and hits duke with her purse. >> they were lined up like pigeons on a wire. and i couldn't leave them without trying to at least divert or somehow or other defuse the situation. >> reporter: duke eventually opens fire on the school board members at point-blank range. incredibly, every shot misses. >> nothing short of a miracle that god protected him and stood in front of that bullet and pushed it anothe

tension builds as he rants at the male board members over a sales tax increase, while superintendent bill husfeltes to calm him. >> stick with me for a minute -- >> i don't want anybody to get hurt and i've got a feeling that what you want to talk to me and kill you because -- >> but why? this isn't worth it. this is -- please don't. please don't. please. >> reporter: duke fires wildly. four shots. all of them miss. he then crumples to the floor, shot from the back of the room by chief of security mike jones, a former detective. as he lay wounded police say duke used the remaining bullet to take his own life. >> police were alerted immediately, they were there within minutes. we had both the dade county sheriff's office and panama city police department there working the scene. >> reporter: here's another look at the moment of horror. another reminder of just how miraculous it is no one else was hurt. >> but why? this is -- this isn't worth it. this isn't -- please don't. please don't. please -- >> reporter: bill weir, abc news, new york. >>> the bellagio resort in las vegas is down about $1.5 mi

jones thought he was too late fearing duke had killed superintendent bill husfelt. it turned out he was right on time. >> when he came out from behind that desk, i crieded just like i am now. but just to see him, it was like seeing a newborn baby for the first time. >> reporter: mike jones is no stranger to panama city. for more than two decades, he's been known as salvage santa, providing gifts for needy children at christmas time. >> what a giving community, i love them. >> reporter: and love is returned. school board member ginger littleton who used her purse in an unsuccessful attempt to -- even remembbecca duke called hi hero. >> i know you were just doing what you were trained to do and i'm sorry that god had to choose you to do that because you are a kind, sweet, generous man, with all the things you do at christmas time. >> reporter: mike expressed his concern for the gunman's family saying his heart goes out to them. meredith? >> mark potter, thank you very much. and we're going to get a check of the weather from al right now. >> all righty, thank you very

but miraculously superintendent bill husfelt was alive. >> when he came up over that chair i just, i lost it. i just -- i went to my knees like this and started crying like, oh, my god he's alive. >> reporter: alive, because of mike jones. mark strassmann, cbs news, panama city, florida. >> mike jones and his wife colleen join us now from panama city. good morning to you both. >> good morning. >> morning. >> mike, let me ask you this, just to begin with, as you watched all of this unfold, what was your greatest fear? >> that the superintendent was dead. >> that he was actually dead? >> yes. >> because you -- >> when you pulled that trigger and -- >> right. because you saw mr. duke open fire and you then saw mr. husband felt fall behind the -- behind the desk there, right? >> right. he had his back to me. mr. duke did. when i seen him square up with both hands with the weapon in front of him, i knew it was over. and when he fired that round at that close range, i just, i knew he was dead. >> whew. and at that point, do you know you have to, you have to act? >> right. i mean, that's wh

jones thought at first superintendent bill husfelt had been killed. >> when the superintendent came up. police say that's not the case. jones says after he was released from the hospital for chest pains he spent wednesday with his pastor to try to come to terms with what had happened. rob and vinita. >>> the house joined the senate by sweeping the tax compromise and it's on the way to the president's desk. it ran past midnight. the measure will extend the bush era tax cuts and unemployment benefits and provide 400 billion in other tax cuts and credits to boost the economy. the president is expected to sign it later today. >>> the longest war in u.s. history will not be over any time soon. president obama's review of his afghan strategy warns that combat could last four more years and although his new report says progress has been made, it also says those games could slip away. here's jake tapper. >> reporter: the president announced that the u.s. will essentially stay the course. in this war that has essentially become his. >> we will never waiver from our goal of destructing and disma

ginger littleton and jerry register are both school board members, bill husfelt is the superintendent of the bay county school district. good morning to all of you. >> good morning, meredith. >> i've looked at that video now several times and i find it frightening and surreal. you people lived it. how are you feeling today, besides just very grateful to be alive? >> that's number one, meredith. we are so happy to be alive. life means a lot more today than it did yesterday, probably. and i'm so proud of mike jones. he was truly the hero and mike jones deserves a lot of credit. >> yeah, mike jones is the security guard who shot this man. >> he's not just a security guard, though, he's a -- >> he's a retired detective from the police department. he literally saved our lives. if he hadn't had come in when he did, we wouldn't be here with each other this morning. >> bill, take me back to yesterday. this was a regular school board meeting. suddenly this man comes up that none of you knew, in front of the room, draws that circle, puts the "v" in the middle of it, and then turns on you with a