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(CNN) -- There is an old saying: Out of sight, out of mind.

T.I., whose real name is Clifford Harris, has mentored at-risk students as part of his community service.

But when rap star T.I. disappears from the hip-hop scene to complete his one-year, one-day sentence in federal prison, several music experts say, that won't be the case.

The self-proclaimed "King of the South" will be sticking around, thanks to the success of his most recent album -- the double-platinum, Grammy-nominated "Paper Trail," released last September -- his community service efforts and a reality show on MTV that has resonated with fans, they say.

"I think that if anything, it will gain him more fans and actually support his fan base, because he's talked about making a mistake," said Emil Wilbekin, editor in chief of Giant Magazine, which focuses on urban music and lifestyle and featured T.I. on its November 2008 cover. "He's talked about taking care of the error of his ways."

T.I., whose real name is Clifford Harris, was sentenced to prison in federal court in Atlanta, Georgia, last week on weapons charges. He will be taken into custody no earlier than May 19.

In addition to serving prison time, the court asked T.I., 28, to pay a $100,300 fine on weapons charges related to purchasing machine guns and silencers.

"I would like to say thank you to some and apologize to others," Harris said at his sentencing Friday. "In my life, I have been placed in the worst-case scenario and had to make the best of it."

Though he had been in legal trouble before, Harris' current situation began when he was arrested just hours before he was to perform at the BET Hip-Hop Awards in Atlanta.

The rapper had provided a bodyguard with $12,000 to buy weapons. Harris was not permitted to own any guns, however, because he was convicted in 1998 on felony drug charges -- possession of crack cocaine with intent to distribute -- in Cobb County, in suburban Atlanta.

After his arrest, he entered a plea agreement, which federal authorities called unique because it allowed the rapper to remain out of prison for a year while he performed community service.

Harris has already left a strong mark on the hip-hop genre, music experts say, which should position his career well when he is released. Harris had been named to the Forbes list of top-earning rappers, making an estimated $16 million in 2006.

His fan base has expanded in the last year, with some of the growth due to "Paper Trail," which has sold close to 2 million copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

This year, Harris went on to star in the MTV reality show "T.I.'s Road to Redemption: 45 Days to Go," which chronicles his efforts to shave years off his sentence by completing his community service. The show features him talking to schools and community groups "about how to avoid the trouble he now finds himself in," according to the network's Web site.

To keep Harris in the spotlight, Jason Geter, part owner of Harris' record label Grand Hustle Entertainment, said the company will release a remixed copy of "Paper Trail" with five new songs this summer. He says Harris is shooting music videos set to be released when he is in prison.

"We come from a world if you don't work, you don't eat," Geter said.

In addition to music, Harris' television production company Grand Hustle Productions, which produced the MTV reality show, is filming a second reality television series for MTV about celebrity racing. Also, in the heist film "Takers," produced by Screen Gems and set for release in January 2010, Harris will appear alongside actor Matt Dillon.

And Grand Hustle Entertainment officials say Harris' clothing line for young men, AKOO, will continue to be available in stores.

Geter said that even in prison, his partner Harris will stay focused on his career.

"His [Harris'] music reflects his experiences," Geter said. "He makes himself vulnerable, and that's why people like him so much. And people always love to hear a good drama."

Music experts say Harris' fans are an extremely dedicated group that will probably remain loyal until his release. They say that since fans have known for more than a year that their celebrity rapper would be facing jail time, they have had time to prepare for his departure and the decision doesn't come as a shock.

Furthermore, experts say, one year is too short of a time to forget such a popular artist.

"This will give him some time to do some great thinking and creating," said Gail Mitchell, senior correspondent for R&B and hip-hop at Billboard. "This time around, he is going to be OK."

Stacey Richman, a New York-based attorney who has worked with hip-hop artists such as Jay-Z, DMX and Ja Rule, said there is some threat that going to prison may cause a artist to burn out. But she adds that properly managed talent can help the artist survive.

"It comes down to where he stands in his career," said Richman, who has been practicing law for nearly two decades.

Prison time can, perhaps ironically, serve to raise the profile of some hip-hop stars. A handful have been able to resume their careers at an even higher level after concluding their sentences.

One of the most infamous examples involved 2Pac, also known as Tupac Shakur, who entered prison in 1994 on a sex abuse conviction. In 1996, after his prison stint, he released his album "All Eyez on Me," which had sold 9 million copies by 1998, according to the Record Industry Association of America, a trade organization representing the U.S. recording industry. It was the first double-disc album of original material in hip-hop history, according to Billboard.

More recently, Grammy-winning rapper Lil' Kim, also known as Kimberly Jones, is making her comeback on the popular ABC reality show "Dancing With the Stars." She served a year in prison after being convicted of perjury in a federal case involving her friends and a 2001 gunfight in New York City. She has not released an album since leaving prison.

But incarceration doesn't promise success. Rapper Foxy Brown spent eight months in prison for violating her probation; her first post-incarceration album, "Brooklyn's Don Diva," was given mediocre reviews and floundered in sales. It has sold only about 30,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

Hip-hop artist Jamaal "Shyne" Barrow, who was sentenced to 10 years in prison for two counts of assault and a list of other charges for involvement in a much-publicized New York City nightclub shootout with Puff Daddy and Jennifer Lopez, released an album while incarcerated in 2004, "Godfather Buried Alive," that struggled to make a splash on the charts.

Since his plea agreement, Harris has worked to differentiate his personal life from his rapper image. In multiple interviews with the media, he often mentioned that he is a father of five who lost a daughter to a miscarriage in 2008. His best friend died at a post-party shooting, which he says was the motivation for arming himself.

"Most often, things I have learned have been from trial and error," Harris told CNN. "I knew no way to protect myself than to arm myself."  Watch the rapper's interview with CNN's T.J. Holmes Â»

In Harris' latest single, "Dead and Gone" with Justin Timberlake, the lyrics indicate a changed Harris, trying to shed his previous image. He writes in the song that the "old me is dead and gone."

The fan support for Harris continues to pour in since he received his sentence Friday. On Facebook.com, one fan, Hendrick Garner in Tupelo, Mississippi, wrote, "Like you said this [is your] defining moment, and I think we all have had that moment, but it only makes us stronger."

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(CNN) -- The wife of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid underwent neck surgery Friday after being injured with their daughter in a four-vehicle wreck in suburban Washington a day earlier, her surgeon said.

Since the surgery, Landra Reid, 69, has been able "to get out of bed, her pain is well-controlled and she's able to swallow some," said Dr. Elizabeth Franco of Inova Fairfax Hospital.

She can move her arms and legs, but is expected to go through physical therapy before being released in a few days, Franco said.

Reid's wife broke her neck, a vertebra in her lower back and her nose, the doctor said.

The couple's adult daughter, Lana Reid Barringer of McLean, Virginia, suffered a neck injury and facial lacerations, the senator's spokesman, Jon Summers, said Thursday. Lana Reid was released from the hospital Thursday night.

The wreck occurred in the northbound lanes of Interstate 95 in Fairfax County at 1:10 p.m., when the 2005 Honda Odyssey driven by the daughter began braking in stop-and-go traffic and was rear-ended by a tractor-trailer, according to a Virginia State Police report.

"The impact forced the Honda Odyssey to rear-end the vehicle in front of it, a 1997 Jeep Grand Cherokee," it says. "The Jeep Grand Cherokee was then forced into the next lane over where it struck a 2007 Chevrolet Cobalt."

The drivers of the Jeep and the Chevrolet also were taken to Inova Fairfax Hospital. Their injuries were not considered life-threatening.

The driver of the truck, Allan W. Snader, 59, of Ohio, was charged with reckless driving, the police report said. He was not injured in the crash. The tractor-trailer was carrying rolls of plastic.

The 70-year-old senator visited his wife and daughter shortly after hearing of the accident at 2:15 p.m., then returned to his office in the Capitol to work on health care legislation, said Reid spokesman Jim Manley.

He was back at the hospital later in the afternoon and stayed until midnight, then returned early Friday to be there for his wife's surgery, Summers said.

Summers told reporters Landra Reid's recovery is the senator's top priority, but "his plans have not changed at all" in Congress.

"Landra and I have been married for 50 years -- she is the love of my life," Reid said in a statement read by Summers at a news conference. "And I look forward to her making a quick recovery as soon as possible."

Reid met his wife at Basic High School in Henderson, Nevada, during the mid-1950s. They married in 1959 and had their first child, Lana, two years later. Three boys followed. The couple has 16 grandchildren.

CNN Congressional Producer Ted Barrett and Brianna Keilar contributed to this report.

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question: What age is Landra Reid?

answer: 69,

question: What can she do since having surgery?

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question: What do the doctor's say she is able to do since surgery?

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question: What was the Chicago man accused of?

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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Despite a hardline U.S. policy, there is no reason why federal officials can't negotiate directly with pirates who are holding a U.S. captain hostage off Somalia, a counterterrorism expert said Thursday.

Pirates have been plaguing commercial shipping vessels in the waters off the coast of east Africa.

Nor is there anything to stop an independent party from paying for his release, said Juan Carlos Zarate, who served as deputy national security adviser for combating terrorism under former President George W. Bush.

"The U.S. has a very clear policy of no concessions; that's different than no negotiations," said Zarate, now is a senior adviser to the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.

The U.S. policy against concessions translates into a policy against paying for the release of hostages, he said.

"That means no ransoms, nothing of value in return for the safe release of hostages," he said.

But, he added, "It's also important to note that there's nothing in U.S. policy that restricts family members or private companies -- like a shipping company -- to actually pay a ransom. There's nothing that the U.S. government can do other than potentially to prosecute if that money is going to a known terrorist organization, which is a fine line."

Nevertheless, he said it is U.S. government policy to discourage private companies from making payments to hostage takers.

"The U.S. has a very clear sense that, if you start to pay ransoms, you in essence create an industry for kidnapping," he said.

"And, frankly, it's why you see an uptick in the piracy problem in East Africa. It's a for-profit venture. It's very lucrative at low cost for the pirates and it's, in part, fueled by the fact that shipping companies in other countries have been paying ransoms for the release of ships, cargo and personnel."

Zarate predicted the standoff off Somalia will not be resolved soon.

"I don't see or forecast the use of massive force inadvertently because of the potential for hurting our citizen," he said, referring to Richard Phillips, the captain of the Maersk Alabama who was taken hostage after four gunmen boarded it on Wednesday.

"And so I think this is going to take a while, and it may involve some third-party negotiations."

Though he approves of the government's handling of the situation so far, Zarate said the situation not an easy one.

"This, to a certain extent, is the U.S. government's nightmare scenario," said Zarate, who oversaw the U.S. government's counterterrorism strategy from 2005 to 2009.

"We had always planned for, but hoped that this kind of situation wouldn't happen -- where a U.S. vessel was taken or a U.S. citizen was taken in those waters," he said.

He called the standoff "a classic hostage situation, which is difficult to resolve. It is certainly difficult to resolve on the high seas where we have limited levers to play." iReport.com: How should the U.S. respond?

Zarate said the hostage holders appear to be in the stronger position, though at first glance -- four men holding a fifth aboard a 28-foot powerless lifeboat in the ocean hundreds of miles from shore -- that may not appear to be the case.

"I think they have the upper hand, in part, because we value the life of our citizens," he said. "They may not value their lives as much, and they may not be using the same rational calculus that we would in this situation."

But, he said, the pirates may not be able to turn that advantage into victory.

"I think the good guys will win," he said. iReport.com: 'Stop the pirates, Obama!'

"I think we'll find a way out of this. I think the FBI hostage negotiators, the naval personnel on scene and others will find a way of negotiating their way out of this. They're professionals; they know how to do that. But it's difficult."

CNN's Mike Ahlers contributed to this story.

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answer: an industry for kidnapping,"

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question: what is the reason for the standoff?

answer: no ransoms,

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question: what is difficult in high seas

answer: standoff "a classic hostage situation,

text: standoff "a classic hostage situation,

question: what did security adviser say?

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KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN)  -- Two coalition U.S. soldiers were killed along with three Afghans, including a police official, while trying to disable a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan Sunday, the U.S. military said.

Afghan police destroy poppy fields in Helmand province.

The explosion was under investigation, the military said.

The soldiers were part of a convoy of coalition troops accompanying Gulab Mangal, the governor of Helmand province, to a village where he intended to talk to residents about alternatives to opium farming.

The convoy came upon two bombs stacked on top of each other, said local journalist Abdul Tawab Qureshi.

When the soldiers tried to disable the bombs, the second one went off, added Qureshi, saying the blast killed the police chief of the province's Nad Ali district, Mohammed Nader; a police officer; and a translator.

Over the years, opium and heroin -- both derivatives of the poppy -- have served as a major source of revenue for the insurgency, most notably the Taliban movement that once ruled Afghanistan.

Though southern Afghanistan still provides about two-thirds of the world's opium and heroin, poppy cultivation has dropped by 20 percent -- to the lowest level since 2006.

CNN's Atia Abawi contributed to this report.

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SAN DIEGO, California (CNN) -- More than a dozen uncontained wildfires raged Monday across Southern California, threatening thousands of structures and forcing people to flee homes from San Diego to Malibu to Lake Arrowhead.

This photo taken from space Monday afternoon shows smoke rising from the wildfires in Southern California.

Fire officials said more than 265,000 people have been evacuated and nearly 4,900 firefighters are battling the fast-moving blazes, which began over the weekend.

By Monday afternoon, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Prevention had reported 13 active wildfires have consumed more than 98,000 acres and destroyed or damaged at least 50 homes and businesses across six counties.

The winds driving the flames are expected to stay strong, coming out of the northeast, at least through Tuesday, according to CNN meteorologist Rob Marciano.

"It's a tragic time for California," California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said earlier Monday.

He declared a state of emergency in seven counties and asked the National Guard to pull 800 soldiers from patrolling the U.S.-Mexico border to help battle the wildfires.

Monday evening, Schwarzenegger asked U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates to order delivery of all available Modular Airborne Fire Fighting Systems (MAFFS) to help fight the fires.  Watch fires devour homes and land Â»

Citing the proliferation in the number of fires, Schwarzenegger wrote, "Your immediate assistance is necessary to deploy Department of Defense aircraft located in Wyoming, North Carolina and Colorado to assist California in our firefighting effort."

According to the White House, the federal Agriculture Department will provide fire crews, air tankers and helicopters to fight the fires, and the state will receive assistance grants to help pay firefighting costs.  See where fires burn across Southern California Â»

Hardest hit was San Diego County, where 250,000 people have fled from five fires. One person was killed and 18 were reported injured in the county, including five firefighters. Local officials said the fire situation had worsened throughout the day, prompting new evacuations.

"We have a very dangerous, unpredictable situation," said Ron Roberts, chairman of the San Diego County Board of Supervisors. "We have some of the highest temperatures, some of the driest landscape conditions and some of the most powerful winds -- all the ingredients for a perfect firestorm."

On one cul-de-sac in the San Diego suburb of  Rancho Bernardo, five of six homes burned to the ground, leaving flames from gas lines flickering amid the ruins, according to a KGTV report.  See photos of the fires Â»

Officials turned Qualcomm Stadium, home of the NFL's San Diego Chargers, into an evacuation center.

Residents of four housing areas at the Camp Pendleton Marine base in northern San Diego County were put on notice for possible evacuations and told to pack personal belongings as a precautionary measure.

Earlier Monday, fixed-wing firefighting aircraft were grounded by the strong winds, officials said, making the jobs of fire crews on the ground even harder.

Fires threatened the San Diego Zoo's Wild Animal Park on Monday, causing the park to close. Some of the animals, such as endangered condors, are being moved to a safer location, according to zoo spokeswoman Yadira Galindo.

Authorities are asking people to hold off on 911 calls unless there is a real emergency, saying clogged cell phone lines are hurting rescue efforts.

The largest of the wildfires was the Buckweed blaze north of Los Angeles, which has consumed 27,500 acres and forced the evacuation of 15,000 residents from Santa Clarita and nearby communities, according to the state forestry department.

About 4,000 structures were threatened, and the fire was moving toward the Magic Mountain amusement park.

Two fires that erupted Monday morning in San Bernardino County near Lake Arrowhead have destroyed at least 123 structures and charred 1,800 acres, said Loretta Benavidez, a spokeswoman for the San Bernardino National Forest. Several communities in the area, including Green Valley Lake, Arrowbear and Running Springs, were evacuated.

And in Malibu Canyon, south of the Pacific Coast Highway, nearly 1,450 firefighters were battling a blaze that began Sunday afternoon and still threatened 900 structures in the area, which is home to many Hollywood luminaries, the state forestry department said. The Canyon fire is only 10 percent contained, an official said.

The Pacific Coast Highway remains shut down in Malibu. E-mail to a friend

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MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota (CNN) -- Drivers who were on the Minneapolis bridge when it collapsed told harrowing tales of survival.

"The whole bridge from one side of the Mississippi to the other just completely gave way, fell all the way down," survivor Gary Babineau told CNN. "I probably had a 30-, 35-foot free fall. And there's cars in the water, there's cars on fire. The whole bridge is down."

He said his back was injured but he determined he could move around.

"I realized there was a school bus right next to me, and me and a couple of other guys went over and started lifting the kids off the bridge. They were yelling, screaming, bleeding. I think there were some broken bones."  Watch a driver describe his narrow escape Â»

At home when he heard about the disaster, Dr. John Hink, an emergency room physician, jumped into his car and rushed to the scene in 15 minutes. He arrived at the south side of the bridge, stood on the riverbank and saw dozens of people lying dazed on an expansive deck.

They were in the middle of the Mississippi River, which was churning fast, and he had no way of getting to them. He went to the north side, where there was easier access to people. Ambulances were also having a hard time driving down to the river to get closer to the scene.

Working feverishly, volunteers, EMTs and other officials managed to get 55 people into ambulances in less than two hours. Occasionally, a pickup truck with a medic inside would drive to get an injured person and bring him back up even ground, Hink told CNN.

The rescue effort was controlled and organized, he said; the opposite of the lightning-quick collapse.

"I could see the whole bridge as it was going down, as it was falling," Babineau said. "It just gave a rumble real quick, and it all just gave way, and it just fell completely, all the way to the ground. And there was dust everywhere and it was just like everyone has been saying: It was just like out of the movies."

Babineau said the rear of his pickup truck was dangling over the edge of a broken-off section of the bridge. He said several vehicles slid past him into the water.

"I stayed in my car for one or two seconds. I saw a couple cars fall," he said.

"So I stayed in my car until the cars quit falling for a second, then I got out real quick, ran in front of my truck -- because behind my truck was just a hole -- and I helped a woman off of the bridge with me.

"I just wanted off the bridge, and then I ran over to the school bus. I started grabbing kids and handing them down. It was just complete chaos."

He said most of the children were crying or screaming. He and other rescuers set them on the ground and told them to run to the river bank, but a few needed to be carried because of their injuries.  See rescuers clamber over rubble Â»

Babineau said he had no rescue training. "I just knew what I had to do at the moment."

Melissa Hughes, 32, of Minneapolis, told The Associated Press that she was driving home when the western edge of the bridge collapsed under her.

"You know that free-fall feeling? I felt that twice," Hughes said.

A pickup landed on top of her car, but she was not hurt.

"I had no idea there was a vehicle on my car," she told AP. "It's really very surreal."

Babineau told the Minneapolis Star-Tribune: "On the way down, I thought I was dead. I literally thought I was dead.

"My truck was completely face down, pointed toward the ground, and my truck got ripped in half. It was folded in half, and I can't believe I'm alive."  See and hear eyewitness accounts Â»

Bernie Toivonen told CNN's "American Morning" that his vehicle was on a part of the bridge that ended up tilted at a 45-degree angle.

"I knew the deck was going down, there was no question about it, and I thought I was going to die," he said. After the bridge settled and his car remained upright, "I just put in park, turned the key off and said, 'Oh, I'm alive,' " he said. E-mail to a friend

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text: were

text: some

text: broken

text: bones

text: Watch

text: a

text: driver

text: describe

text: his

text: narrow

text: escape

text: Â

text: At

text: home

text: when

text: he

text: heard

text: about

text: the

text: disaster

text: Dr.

text: John

text: Hink

text: an

text: emergency

text: room

text: physician

text: jumped

text: into

text: his

text: car

text: and

text: rushed

text: to

text: the

text: scene

text: in

text: minutes

text: He

text: arrived

text: at

text: the

text: south

text: side

text: of

text: the

text: bridge

text: stood

text: on

text: the

text: riverbank

text: and

text: saw

text: dozens

text: of

text: people

text: lying

text: dazed

text: on

text: an

text: expansive

text: deck

text: They

text: were

text: in

text: the

text: middle

text: of

text: the

text: Mississippi

text: River

text: which

text: was

text: churning

text: fast

text: and

text: he

text: had

text: no

text: way

text: of

text: getting

text: to

text: them

text: He

text: went

text: to

text: the

text: north

text: side

text: where

text: there

text: was

text: easier

text: access

text: to

text: people

text: Ambulances

text: were

text: also

text: having

text: a

text: hard

text: time

text: driving

text: down

text: to

text: the

text: river

text: to

text: get

text: closer

text: to

text: the

text: scene

text: Working

text: feverishly

text: volunteers

text: EMTs

text: and

text: other

text: officials

text: managed

text: to

text: get

text: people

text: into

text: ambulances

text: in

text: less

text: than

text: two

text: hours

text: Occasionally

text: a

text: pickup

text: truck

text: with

text: a

text: medic

text: inside

text: would

text: drive

text: to

text: get

text: an

text: injured

text: person

text: and

text: bring

text: him

text: back

text: up

text: even

text: ground

text: Hink

text: told

text: CNN

text: The

text: rescue

text: effort

text: was

text: controlled

text: and

text: organized

text: he

text: said

text: the

text: opposite

text: of

text: the

text: lightning

text: quick

text: collapse

text: I

text: could

text: see

text: the

text: whole

text: bridge

text: as

text: it

text: was

text: going

text: down

text: as

text: it

text: was

text: falling

text: Babineau

text: said

text: It

text: just

text: gave

text: a

text: rumble

text: real

text: quick

text: and

text: it

text: all

text: just

text: gave

text: way

text: and

text: it

text: just

text: fell

text: completely

text: all

text: the

text: way

text: to

text: the

text: ground

text: And

text: there

text: was

text: dust

text: everywhere

text: and

text: it

text: was

text: just

text: like

text: everyone

text: has

text: been

text: saying

text: It

text: was

text: just

text: like

text: out

text: of

text: the

text: movies

text: Babineau

text: said

text: the

text: rear

text: of

text: his

text: pickup

text: truck

text: was

text: dangling

text: over

text: the

text: edge

text: of

text: a

text: broken

text: off

text: section

text: of

text: the

text: bridge

text: He

text: said

text: several

text: vehicles

text: slid

text: past

text: him

text: into

text: the

text: water

text: I

text: stayed

text: in

text: my

text: car

text: for

text: one

text: or

text: two

text: seconds

text: I

text: saw

text: a

text: couple

text: cars

text: fall

text: he

text: said

text: So

text: I

text: stayed

text: in

text: my

text: car

text: until

text: the

text: cars

text: quit

text: falling

text: for

text: a

text: second

text: then

text: I

text: got

text: out

text: real

text: quick

text: ran

text: in

text: front

text: of

text: my

text: truck

text: because

text: behind

text: my

text: truck

text: was

text: just

text: a

text: hole

text: and

text: I

text: helped

text: a

text: woman

text: off

text: of

text: the

text: bridge

text: with

text: me

text: I

text: just

text: wanted

text: off

text: the

text: bridge

text: and

text: then

text: I

text: ran

text: over

text: to

text: the

text: school

text: bus

text: I

text: started

text: grabbing

text: kids

text: and

text: handing

text: them

text: down

text: It

text: was

text: just

text: complete

text: chaos

text: He

text: said

text: most

text: of

text: the

text: children

text: were

text: crying

text: or

text: screaming

text: He

text: and

text: other

text: rescuers

text: set

text: them

text: on

text: the

text: ground

text: and

text: told

text: them

text: to

text: run

text: to

text: the

text: river

text: bank

text: but

text: a

text: few

text: needed

text: to

text: be

text: carried

text: because

text: of

text: their

text: injuries

text: See

text: rescuers

text: clamber

text: over

text: rubble

text: Â

text: Babineau

text: said

text: he

text: had

text: no

text: rescue

text: training

text: I

text: just

text: knew

text: what

text: I

text: had

text: to

text: do

text: at

text: the

text: moment

text: Melissa

text: Hughes

text: of

text: Minneapolis

text: told

text: The

text: Associated

text: Press

text: that

text: she

text: was

text: driving

text: home

text: when

text: the

text: western

text: edge

text: of

text: the

text: bridge

text: collapsed

text: under

text: her

text: You

text: know

text: that

text: free

text: fall

text: feeling

text: I

text: felt

text: that

text: twice

text: Hughes

text: said

text: A

text: pickup

text: landed

text: on

text: top

text: of

text: her

text: car

text: but

text: she

text: was

text: not

text: hurt

text: I

text: had

text: no

text: idea

text: there

text: was

text: a

text: vehicle

text: on

text: my

text: car

text: she

text: told

text: AP

text: It

text: 's

text: really

text: very

text: surreal

text: Babineau

text: told

text: the

text: Minneapolis

text: Star

text: Tribune

text: On

text: the

text: way

text: down

text: I

text: thought

text: I

text: was

text: dead

text: I

text: literally

text: thought

text: I

text: was

text: dead

text: My

text: truck

text: was

text: completely

text: face

text: down

text: pointed

text: toward

text: the

text: ground

text: and

text: my

text: truck

text: got

text: ripped

text: in

text: half

text: It

text: was

text: folded

text: in

text: half

text: and

text: I

text: ca

text: n't

text: believe

text: I

text: 'm

text: alive

text: See

text: and

text: hear

text: eyewitness

text: accounts

text: Â

text: Bernie

text: Toivonen

text: told

text: CNN

text: 's

text: American

text: Morning

text: that

text: his

text: vehicle

text: was

text: on

text: a

text: part

text: of

text: the

text: bridge

text: that

text: ended

text: up

text: tilted

text: at

text: a

text: angle

text: I

text: knew

text: the

text: deck

text: was

text: going

text: down

text: there

text: was

text: no

text: question

text: about

text: it

text: and

text: I

text: thought

text: I

text: was

text: going

text: to

text: die

text: he

text: said

text: After

text: the

text: bridge

text: settled

text: and

text: his

text: car

text: remained

text: upright

text: I

text: just

text: put

text: in

text: park

text: turned

text: the

text: key

text: off

text: and

text: said

text: Oh

text: I

text: 'm

text: alive

text: he

text: said

text: E

text: mail

text: to

text: a

text: friend

question: Who thought he was going to die?

answer: Gary Babineau

text: Gary Babineau

question: What was the number of people who were affected?

answer: 55

question: Which bridge was it?

answer: Minneapolis

text: Minneapolis

question: Where was the bridge that collapsed?

answer: Minneapolis

text: Minneapolis

question: Which Minnesota bridge collapsed?

answer: Minneapolis

text: Minneapolis

question: What state did the bridge collapse?

answer: Minnesota

text: Minnesota

question: What was the estimated free fall in feet per the driver?

answer: 30-, 35-foot

text: 30-, 35-foot

question: Did vehicles on the bridge fall far?

answer: 30-, 35-foot free

text: 30-, 35-foot free

question: What distance did the driver fall?

answer: 30-, 35-foot free

text: 30-, 35-foot free

question: What did the man think he was going to do?

answer: to die

text: to die

question: What did the driver say after the event?

answer: "The whole bridge from one side of the Mississippi to the other just completely gave way, fell all the way down,"

text: "The whole bridge from one side of the Mississippi to the other just completely gave way, fell all the way down,"

question: Which bridge collapsed?

answer: Minneapolis

text: Minneapolis

question: What words did the man use to describe the accident?

answer: "I probably had a 30-, 35-foot free fall. And there's cars in the water, there's cars on fire. The

text: "I probably had a 30-, 35-foot free fall. And there's cars in the water, there's cars on fire. The

question: What did the man say?

answer: "The whole bridge from one side of the Mississippi to the other just completely gave way, fell all the way down,"

text: "The whole bridge from one side of the Mississippi to the other just completely gave way, fell all the way down,"

question: What did the driver say?

answer: "The whole bridge from one side of the Mississippi to the other just completely gave way, fell all the way down,"

text: "The whole bridge from one side of the Mississippi to the other just completely gave way, fell all the way down,"

question: Did the driver fall far?

answer: 30-, 35-foot free

text: 30-, 35-foot free