don lemmon is on the ground in harrisburg tonight. don, we've seen these devastating pictures.en before we talk to a survivor you spoke to earlier. >> just look at this and wonder how you ever got out. a bedroom on this side, a bedroom on that side completely destroyed and the bathroom right there in the middle and that's where i was. and how the bathroom got left, good enough for me to survive, only god knows. >> so when you ran out you had to come around on the street? >> yes. i came out of that bathroom door that's facing on that side. you can see where i busted it to get out. and i crawled over all this stuff and came out to here hollering for anybody. >> when they started coming out one by one. >> tears of joy. i didn't want to let none of them go, but i knew i had to let the 5-year-old go because he needed medical attention. >> you were holding onto him? >> i was holding on tight. >> don, that gentleman there i'm sure others you talked to, so much raw emotion. any estimate just how bad this damage is? >> well, we know it's about 2 to 300 homes across the area. and more th

. >>> hello i'm don lemmon. >> does bob durham think that the bobby bales he knows could be capable of this action? >> reporter: he says he absolutely cannot fathom how this possibly could have happened. he said the man he knew was a caring young man who he knew through adulthood and when he worked in the business world and then went to the military after 9/11. he said that if something somehow caused him to snap, for example, no one knows what happened, he said if doctors are able to find out and get him to understand in actuality that children and women had been killed, that he doesn't think his friend, sergeant bales, would ever be able to come to grips with that. don? >> the last time he spoke with him was back in december. it's been fairly recently, correct? >> reporter: that's right. he called him because -- sergeant bales called mr. durham from afghanistan to console mr. durham about the loss of his own father. and so he felt very badly about it. he said they still have a very special bond. he's close to sergeant bales' entire family. here's part of what he told me. >> i love th

. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> hello i'm don lemmon. breaking news from iraq where a united nations official the is telling cnn that an american said to be held captive for months has been turned over to the u.s. embassy in baghdad. two political leaders in alli sadr's movement. no active duty military personnel have been missing in iraq. we'll continue to update this story when we get new information as it becomes available here on cnn. >>> the army soldier accused of killing 16 civilians in afghanistan is in fort leavenworth, kansas. it has stunned people in and around washington's joint base lewis-mccord they are having a hard time understanding how the man could be accused of this atrocity. dan lewis has more now. >> reporter: don, this is a soldier who served four tours of duty, three in iraq and one in afghanistan. there is speculation that all that time in a war zone may have contributed to him being emotionally unstable. his attorney tells cnn that two years ago robert bales suffered a traumatic brain injury when his vehicle wen

. >> sanjay, if you can hold for a moment our own don lemmon has spoken to the coroner. what she told you. >> a minute or two ago i spoke with ed winter and i heard you and sanjay and i wanted to clear it up immediately. he said the cause of death was due to drowning and the affects of arterial scler attic heart disease and cocaine use? what does that mean? does it mean she had a heart attack or she drowned? which one happened first? >> he said she probably had a heart attack because of using cocaine at the time and went under water. and i said, what exactly does that mean? which one precipitated the other? it was probably all of them, taking a bath, a bad heart, taking cocaine, went under the water and she died and he said the final tox reports won't be listed with the levels of everything in her body for ago two weeks now, but all of the drugs they mentioned, the cocaine and metabolyte and the xanax and all of them are contributing factors and he did say the cause of death was accidental and cocaine did contribute to her death. >> yes, because in the tox kohl je report