his name was daniel chong, for 20 celebration of marijuana culture and never charged with any crime and ultimately was released. is -- want tohat say this is just an accident, and accidents happen, but accidents like that should never happen we're talking about a police agency, much less a federal police agency, being allowed to just sort of forget about somebody. in the end, what happens to taxpayers bailout the dea from his killing someone for no cause whatsoever. each year the dea goes through its own little appropriations hearings in congress. each year it gets approved. each year they sort of get a ride. inhink things are piling up a way that should no longer be sustained. >> john shiffman, what has been ?our response rocks they say it is perfectly legal to what they do. -- one dea official told us this was a bedrock principle, parallel construction that they use every day. a were pretty unabashed about it and said they have been doing this since the late 90s and there's really nothing wrong with it. yesterday the justice department said they were going to review it. but the dea ha

without food or water, 25-year-old daniel chong was detained after a drug raid at a friend's house lastthat the nightmare incarceration drove him insane. he took drastic measures to survive. >> eventually your survival ins tents do kick in and you start to realize what you have to do which is drink any fluid around which was my urine at the time. >> he just settled a lawsuit for $4.1 million. >> talk about some traumatizing events. >> he's been through a lot. >>> 45 minutes after the hour. let's check in on the folks on "new day." >> hello, chris cuomo and kate. what's going on? >> a whole lot. good morning, guys. >> obviously, the big story is this one out of florida. we'll take you back there, the story of another shooting, on another unarmed man, this time by police, 15 shots fired at a man in his own driveway, why, well, police say they he failed to comply. what was going on here? we'll have the sheriff on live to answer obvious pressing questions. >>> we'll show you some new and pretty shocking video sparking some outrage and adding another black eye if it's possible to sea world's

to an american college student daniel chong. >> i did go crazy. >> reporter: he just reached a $4.1 million settlement with the u.s. government. the nightmare began on april 21st of last year. he was visiting a friend at a house in the san diego area when agents of the drug enforcement administration burst in. they seized thousands of ecstasy pills, drugs and guns. chong admitted he'd smoked pot there and knew nothing of the other contraband. taking him to a holding cell -- they said they wouldn't charge you. what else? >> they'll come get me in a minute to take me home. >> reporter: minutes, hours, days passed. no food, water or toilet facilities. his lawyer says chong was in total darkness the last two days. >> what did you do to survive? >> eventually your instincts do kick in. and you start to realize what you have to do which is drink any fluid that's around which is my urine at the time. and i went ahead and did that. >> reporter: he hallucinated he said, so desperate he bit into the glasses, broke them and -- >> i tried to carve a message saying sorry, mom. on to my arm. but i -- i d

that is what happened to 25-year-old daniel chong.e just settled a $4.1 million lawsuit against the dea. the university of california san diego student was detained in april after dea raided a house where he was visiting friends. in that house, they found ecstasy, marijuana, several guns and thousands of rounds of ammunition. he says he never knew about the guns or the drugs and he was never charged. he's outfront tonight to tell his story. thank you so much for taking the time. just even talking about what you went through on the basic headlines is shocking. five days locked up in a 5 x 10 windowless cell. you thought you were going to die. you had a piece of glass in your arm and you wrote your mother a goodbye message. tell me what happened. >> for the first few days i was pretty much in denial. i couldn't believe what they were doing to me because i didn't think it was an accident because of how many people were involved. i didn't think they had forgotten me. i was a bit worried about what they were going to do and confused, all k