. >> reporter: connie hoagland was her best friend. >> connie was lying on her side curled up in a ball. i rolled her over there was glass, there was shrapnel there was shards of metal everywhere everywhere. >> reporter: teddy knew all the hoagland family cell phone numbers, and she was the one who broke the news. >> i was driving and there was an explosion and my mom's truck blew up. so i immediately pulled over stopped and called my dad, asked him what's going on. what do we do? >> reporter: what did he say? >> he said i just heard, too. i don't know all the details. >> reporter: the hoagland family gathered at uc san diego county medical surgery. >> we got to see her rushed from the hallway into surgery. it was probably ten seconds. and i just remember telling her, i love you, and her being awake but kind of being out of it. and then that was it. >> seeing her like that and all the wires coming out of her and the bags hanging and the blood and all that it was very very shocking, taken aback. i almost felt sick. >> reporter: what did you think had happened? >> i thought her truck malf