TIMS
DURING THAT ATTACK.
ACTION NEWS REPORTER BIANCA
BELTRAN HAS HIS STORY.
BIANCA: HE IS JUST 18-YEARS-OLD,
GRADUATED FROM SALINAS HIGH
SCHOOL LAST YEAR.
BRAVER THAN MOST.
JUST UNDER A YEAR IN THE NVY,
HE CREDITS HIS TRAINING FOR
MOTIVATING HIM TO RUN TOWARDS
THE DANGER TO HELP.
NAVY AIRMAN DAVID BARBA WAS ON
LEAVE, SIGHTSEEING IN NEW YORK
CITY WHEN CHAOS STRUCK.
>> WE'VE GOT A CAR RUNNING
PEOPLE OVER.
BIANCA: A DRIVER PLOWED THROUGH
TIMES SQUARE, INJURING SEVERAL
PEOPLE AND KILLING 18-YEAR-OLD
ALYSSA ELSMAN.
DAVID AND A FELLOW SAILOR RAN
TOWARD THE WOUNDED.
>> I COULDN'T LIVE WITH MYSELF
IF I HADN'T HELP THEM.
BIANCA: THE SALINAS NATIVE SPOKE
TO US FROM FLORIDA WHERE HE IS
STATIONED.
HE DESCRIBED COMING ACROSS
ALYSSA AND HER 13-YEAR-OLD
SISTER AVA, WHO WAS SUFFERING
FROM SEVERE INJURIES.
>> I RAN UP TO HER AND GRABBED
HER HAND AND TOLD HER EVERYTHING
WOULD BE ALL RIGHT.
SHE WAS FADING IN AND OUT OF
CONSCIOUSNESS.
BIANCA: HE STAYED WITH HER UNTIL
THE AMBULANCE ARRIVED.
HER SISTER, JUST FEET AWAY.
>> IT WAS A HORRIBLE MOMENT.
I NEVER COULD HAVE IMAGINED
SOMETHING LIKE THIS.
BIANCA: BACK HOME IN SALINAS,
HIS FATHER SAYS HE WAS SCARED
FOR HIS SON, BUT PROUD OF HIS
ACTIONS.
>> I WANT HIM TO COME HOME.
WHEN HE JOINED THE SERVICE, I
SAID YOU MAKE ME A DEAL THAT YOU
COME HOME.
BUT I'M GLAD THAT HE WAS THERE
TO HELP HER THROUGH HER MOMENT
OF NEED.
BIANCA: AVA SURVIVED, SENT TO
THE HOSPITAL WITH A COLLAPSED
LUNG AND BROKEN PELVIS.
THE SAILORS SAY THEY RECEIVED A
MESSAGE FROM HER FATHER,
THANKING THEM FOR THEIR
KINDNESS SAYING HE WOULD LIKE TO
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