that's mimi dittmer, buried in the market. with her sons ricky and mike. mimi, how are you feeling? >> i'm feeling -- i'm feeling better. i'm getting better now. i'm feeling okay now. >> larry: what kept you going for five days under rubble? >> what kept me going? i can tell you -- i can tell you that in one word. that was the lord jesus christ. i had no doubt that he would save me. the minute i saw myself buried, i knew my lord jesus christ would take me out of there. and i started praying from the minute then. >> larry: ricky, did you think you'd lost your mother? >> no, we never -- five days was quite a while, but we never lost hope. we just had to keep going. you know, hoping and praying that she would be all right. >> larry: well, the three men who got her out are with us. they're still in port-au-prince, of course. joseph fernandez the leader of the south florida urban rescue task force two team. dr. mark grossman, also of task force two. and eric ficus, the south urban as well paramedic for pembroke pines, florida, the town where mimi dittmer is from. how do you explain this?

>> i think by the grace of god, as mimi said, and help from us.ding the operations and all these guys in the hole with her, and she started reciting all her information down to her driver's license number. and we had a lot of the pauses there between ricky and a, i and i said, is this a family member of mimi? and he said yes. i said, your mother is fine. and then there was huge pause. and the exclamation from ricky and my heart sank for a second there. >> larry: you have every right to feel great. dr. grossman, what medical treatment was immediately applied to mimi? >> really just trying to get her out of the hole. she was stuck in the hole obviously for five days. and even once she got out of the hole, the area was contaminated. we had been digs, and dust and food rothing and things going on. just to get her out of the area. but really, she was awake and talking and relatively stable. just dehydration and reassurance. and again, remarkably, she didn't need that much intervention. he was intact. didn't have broken bones or anything obvious. >> lar

a haitian man, and a 13-year-old girl, and early this morning, a 50-year-old american woman named mimi, and we understand she has a son in florida not living far from the home of one of the rescue workers. larry? >> i am a captain paramedic, when i found out, when the lady or victim was pulled out, she actually lives in the city that i surf. serve. >> larry: dr. grossman, when you got there, was what you found what you expected? >> in haiti or at the caribbean market? >> larry: the whole ball of wax. >> no. i was expecting devastation, but i honestly feel like i have landed on another planet. everything is in disarray and disorganized. you go from down a street and there is masses of people sleeping on the street. streets are closed so people can sleep. everything is rubble and destroyed. and you go from -- our job is to go in and search buildings for survivors. it could be anyone building that you passed by is collapsed, you never know where somebody might be that we can help. it's frustrating and difficult to just drive through. >> larry: joseph, how do you explain finding people ali

>> i thought it was over for mimi -- for me, speaking in public. i hope we'll hang out again.y name is miriam guichard, and my letter is quite different than to the other letters that you will note in the book. but what i felt when i was writing it is the same. michelle obama for me looks exactly like my sister, acted exactly like my mother and my grandmother. she has not disappointed at all. she is who she is. and i love that. i spent about half of my life in africa in french-speaking africa. and part of it was in the foreign services of public affairs counselor. and my job was to teach the africans the host country nationals as we call them about american culture and about american politics and why we do what we do and why we are as we are. i must say that the -- most of the time i was the first woman to head my office. invariably i was the first black to head the office. so there was a lot of curiosity about african-americans in africa. i loved doing african-american history month. and i would love -- i'm sorry. i'm retired. i would love to have been able to do not only a b

. >> hi, mimi hall from "usa today."attack, and two, if you could talk,how you know what the threat is? i remember the 9/11 commission had tremendous access to intelligence. can you describe what sort of access you have? >> on the second question, i chaired the congressional joint inquiry into 9/11, and would say our commission has had the same level of access to intelligence our commission has had the same level of access to intelligence that the congressional committee had, and i believe it would be comparable to that which the commission members, one of our nine members was congressman tim roemer now the united states ambassador to india and tim commented favorably as to the access and i think one of the things that gave more confidence in what we were about to recommend was its consistency with with the intelligence community assessment just a few days after we issue our report on that threat level that there would be a weapon of mass destruction or more likely than not by the end of 2013. but the van haditha directo