sashell saunders talked to the family about what happened and how he's doing. >> reporter: that veteran was taken right here out of his own drive way. tonight his daughter says he's still in the hospital and preparing for surgery in the morning. >> at first i was like what happened? >> reporter: the wild ride driver was picking up a patient on ronny street monday morning. >> i said i'll be right back, i'm going to the store. the bus should be back nipple. >> reporter: he was strapping in the 80-year-old wheelchair bound father. when out of nowhere, this man 37-year-old jumped inside the bus, took the wheel and floored it. >> the man jumped on the bus and said he was taking the bus. put it in drive and took off and my dad hit like on the middle of the bus face first. and then he flew out of the wheelchair. >> reporter: they were thrown dangerously around. leaving doctor and air force veteran like this. >> he has a small bleed in his brain. he also has a large hematoma on the front of his head. he is all black and blue. swollen. [!speaker5]: and just as quickly it began, it was over. he d

reporting in sanford, sashell saunders news 6. >>> florida homeowner got a big surprise when this hawk right here came smashing through his bedroom window this morning. martin county shaves office. they learned the hawk was not alone. they found this squirrel. the bird apparently brought it in when it crashed through the window. officers were able to get the bird outside and released the squirrel. somehow it's going to be okay. so it got rediscovery channel in these people's berm that picks up a squirrel smashing through the window. >> the squirrel's okay, and the bird's okay too? >>> they already let that thing go. except for the guy that has to replace his window. >> i have a cardinal that pecks at my shades all the time. you open the shades, he takes off. it scares me. >> i would imagine so. chief meteorologist tom sorrells. the cool is here, and the weekend is here as well. >> i'll just go and tell you. i think you know already. it feels this good right now. it could only get better. i want to start out the weather story with a few pictures for you. my man -- a private pilot's got

here' s news 6 reporter sashel saunders on how this all >> reporter: at 8:00 this morning gary bullock showed up for his janitorial job at elcarib as usual. it' s part of his prison work release program. >> i' ve just seen him a few mornings on the bus when he was going on work and i was on the way to work with that ankle monitor on. >> but the inmate with the japanese tattoo on his right arm wouldn' t finish his shift, at some point cutting off his gps ankle monitoring bracelet and disappearing. >> i guess he had trouble and wanted to go take care of it and not be locked up in there anymore. >> reporter: mark said the talkative fugitive seemed harmless but was doing time for serious charges including robbing a woman' s home in 2009 while she was inside shooting his gun several times to scare her. one cab driver said he' s worried could run into them. >> don' t know how he could react. >> bullock had orders to release center each night by 5. inmates there have less than 19 months left in their sentence. >> and here' s one more look at gary bullock jr. if you' ve seen him or know where