came from the creekbed area. so i spot these two north vietnamese on the -- against this little mound there. they were down in the creekbed and coming up on the flat area, little mound, bamboo coming out of it. anyhow, there are two of them on this side. american gi on the other side. the mound is only like -- i would say three, four feet high. and maybe six feet at diameter. they are on one side and gi on the other side. i don't know if they can see each other or if they saw each other prior to this, what the hell is going on. that's how close they came. i'm screaming and yelling. i stop and scream and yell. they are not far away. >> what were you saying? >> i was screaming. north vietnamese, viet cong, everything i could say, screaming and trying to point. nobody could hear me. noise was very loud. and he didn't look. i don't think the north vietnamese -- could have been another one throwing another grenade at me. i don't know where it came from. >> are you thinking it is these two guys? >> well, those are the t

i felt very good, very happy in the creekbed. plus we had the shelter. hi to shelter for first time. then in that creekbed. it is like -- i would say four feet deep, five feet at best. and 4, 4 1/2 feet deep. maybe -- anywhere from 4 feet to 6 feet wide at different points. and this river from -- came from the mountain, snaked down. zigzagged. wasn't like a straight creek. zigzagged with curves and things. guyses throwing hand grenades at the enemy and our guys were in there. throwing hand grenades back and forth to each other. one side to the other, one end to the other. they were down in it. i felt good about that because i thought man, this is nice. i have cover here and some friends, you know, new game. i feel good. this was going to be no better than what i saw. >> right. >> so -- >> nadal -- he slyke we are going. >> we are down here. and -- i don't know. five minutes or one minute. next thing i know he is to my right and i'm -- one works guys to my left. and -- rest of the guys down the creekbed. i don't know how many there were right then. 10, 20

guys secure the landing zone, and i've got b company moving to the west where they fire on the famous creekbed on the western end of lz. he said, you go -- he told john herring, you go west and exploit -- not exploit, but explore what's out there. he told me to secure want landing zone. so i sent my platoon to the left of b company. they go to fight pretty quickly, the moment they got there. >> so how difficult was it to get your -- you're in charge of all three of these platoons. do you have four platoons now? >> they had taken the weapons platoons, which were by that team had become quite small, because the mortar were equipped and too heavy to carry in the jungle. >> sure. each company had come down to evolve to one -- carrying one mortar, 181, and they fired the direction for that one mortar and a couple of additional guys to hold the ammo. so the weapons platoons had been probably halved in size. >> i see. >> and the troops had been used as infantrymen, replacement infantrymen. >> organizationally you -- as you think about it, you were thinking about three platoons. that was your responsi

the video. >> is this a creekbed, normally like a dry wash flooding now with all this hail and rain? >> this is a creek that is flooding. >> i'm still having a hard time believing that that is hail but my gosh, look at the trees. it's just picking up and sweeping away. is that a truck and trailer going down the river there? >> it looks like whatever was in there is getting carried away. nothing was spared in this creek. >> it's like a river of hail that meteorologists have said i have never seen anything like it. >>> at number seven on the "rtm countdown," now bowling and love with contact sports. >> 31-year-old clair holly went bowling an she got a strike. she drove her ford focus right through the front windows of a bowling alley because she had just gotten dumped hours earlier by her boyfriend. he was one of the kingpins in the bowling alley that she was gunning for. she caused $28,000 in damage. you see everybody come running to help her out. no one was injured. she was aiming for davy jones. the name of her boyfriend that dumped her. and the father of her child. >> it's not wort

. >> the rescuers are concentrating on areas that are not too urban, large areas, large areas of parse sell properties, hillsides, creekbeds, some of these time areas where the potential to locate a crime scene would be a little higher than in an urban area. >> reporter: tomorrow will mark three weeks since the 15-year-old girl disappeared before she was supposed to head off to high school. in that time, they have since found her cell phone, her purse with her clothes and then there was another location where they found late last week or a week prior, two used condoms and a box that had the word "handcuffs" on it. the condoms and her clothes are still at the lab being tested for trace and dna evidence. they don't know when they're going to get the results back. it could be a day, it could be another week. they're also asking people who owned large swaths of land out here if you see anything suspicious over the past three weeks. santa clara county sheriff's office would love to hear from you. reporting live in san martin, bob redell, nbc bay area news. >> this has been a long and fruitless search. now the searchers taking a

the woman said she saw gourden in a creekbed -- gordon in a creekbed and said hi to him. e woman said she spoke to him before and does not know why he attacked her. >>> a family in martinez mourning the loss of its pit bull that had to be put down for mauling their 3-year-old daughter. last friday, the 3-year-old got in the dog's face, they say she may have stepped on the dog's injured foot. the family insists it was an accident. but on sunday, the dog was euthanized. >>> 7:04. it was a somber ceremony at the fountain. hundreds gathered to remember the great quake of 1906. the memorial event has moved to union square. lorraine blanco is live. she's at lefty o'doul's. good morning, lorraine. >> reporter: good morning, dave. they were honored. they were in the parade. now they are enjoying drinks and food here at lefty o'doul's. that's the annual tradition as well as the painting of the fire hydrant. the fire l.a.d for days after the huge creme last -- lasted for days after the huge quake. san franciscans remembered their loved ones during this time. >> they were shaken out