martha: wow, what a story we are joined now by bruce palmer the spokesperson for the national leadership the wilderness adventure program. good to talk to you today, bruce, welcome. this must have shaken you all up when you got word of this. >> absolutely. it's the worst possible thing that you could imagine. we here at the leadership school, we are pleased to see how quickly the alaska state troopers were able to step in and get a helicopter in the air and moving toward the students to support them, and then get them out of the field. and so, yeah, you get that kind of word it gets your attention really quickly. martha: i can imagine. you guys have been leading outstanding programs for many, many years for students across this country. this must have been, you know, a real kick in the gut when you got that phone call. speaking of kicks, one of the boys that we heard from a little while ago he said, you know, i just kicked him in the face, this bear, and, you know, basically kod him, that's what we do where i come from. is that what you trained him to do? >> not exactly. in terms of our

of the alaska state troopers and also joining us bruce palmer of the national outdoor leadership school based in wyoming. we'll get to him. i want to start with you, megan. i understand that this was supposed to be a longer trip, the first time they were out on their own and then how did they get to safety? what happened? how did you help them? >> well, when we first got to the scene, we really didn't know what we were expecting. we were just told that there was a group of teenagers that were a part of this program and they were given a locator beacon to set off as an emergency situation happened. that required medical attention or something they didn't know how to deal with and, of course, there's always a possibility that false activations or an activation that's not so severe. when we got on scene we for the first time saw what we were dealing with and they were mauled. very severely. there were two that were seriously injured with life-threatening injuries. two seriously injured with and flee injuries that received minor injuries or had exposure related issues. so it truly was an em