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WELL-BEING CHECK.
SHE ADVISED THAT HER SISTER WAS
TALKING ABOUT DEMONS PRIOR TO
LEAVING THE RESIDENT.
DONNA PRATT AND TAYLOR QUENTIN
WERE WATCHING THIS UNFOLD.
YOU WERE THERE ON THE BEACH.
THIS MINI VAN DRIVES OUT ONTO
THE BEACH.
WHAT EXACTLY DID YOU SEE?
>> WELL, AT FIRST I SAW THE VAN
ACTUALLY DRIVING REALLY CLOSE TO
THE OCEAN AND MY FRIEND POINTED
OUT, THAT IS A LITTLE WEIRD HOW
DEEP IN THE WATER THEY WERE
GETTING.
AND THEN WE NOTICED THAT THEY
WERE IN ABOUT A FOOT OF WATER AT
THAT POINT WHEN TWO BYSTANDERS
FROM THE BEACH RAN OVER TO TALK
TO THEM AND THE WOMAN JUST SPED
UP AND WENT STRAIGHT INTO THE
WATER AND THE VAN WAS SUBMERGED
UNDER THE WATER AT THAT POINT.
WHEN TWO BYSTANDERS RAN IN TO
GET -- ONE BYSTANDER GOT TWO
KIDS OUT OF THE VEHICLE AND THEN
THEY WERE SCREAMING THERE'S A
BABY IN THE CAR, THERE'S A BABY
IN THE CAR.
THEY WENT BACK INTO THE CAR TO
GET THE SMALL CHILD OUT OF THE
CAR.
AT FIRST I THOUGHT IT WAS A JOKE
BECAUSE THEY WERE LIKE HANGING
OUT THE WINDOW.
THEN I WENT DOWN TO THE OCEAN.
YOU COULD HEAR THEM SCREAMING
FOR HELP AND TRYING TO GET
ATTENTION FROM ANYBODY ON THE
BEACH.
>> TAYLOR, WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT
THEM HANGING OUT OF THE WINDOW,
THE WINDOWS WERE DOWN, RIGHT?
WHAT WAS THE TEMPERATURE LIKE?
>> THE WINDOWS WERE DOWN.
IT WAS ACTUALLY A COOL DAY OUT.
NOT MANY PEOPLE AT THE BEACH
BECAUSE IT WAS SO COLD THAT DAY.
IT WASN'T A GREAT DAY.
SO THEIR HANDS AND ARMS WERE OUT
THE WINDOW LIKE WAVING AND
SCREAMING.
>> SO DID YOU GET THE IMPRESSION
THAT THEY KNEW SOMETHING WAS
WRONG, WERE CRYING FOR HELP,
THAT AS YOU SAID THEY WERE
SCREAMING?
>> YES.
YES.
WE GOT THE IMPRESSION THAT THEY
WERE IN TROUBLE.
>> I MEAN, THAT'S JUST A
HORRIFYING THING TO IMAGINE WHEN
YOU THINK OF THE AGE OF THESE
CHILDREN, 10, 9 AND 3.
DONNA, YOU WERE STAYING AT THE
HOTEL.
YOU SAW THIS FROM THE BALCONY.
I WANT TO PLAY THE VIDEO, THE
EXCLUSIVE VIDEO THAT YOU HAVE
THAT YOU GAVE TO US WHICH YOU
APPRECIATE WHAT YOU SAW.
EVERYBODY COULD SEE.
THE SPOTLIGHT THERE IS THE
ACTUAL MINI VAN.
DONNA, FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF
YOUR VIEW FROM THE BALCONY, WHEN
YOU SAW THIS, WHAT DO YOU THINK?
DID YOU THINK THIS WAS AN
ACCIDENT OR WHAT?
>> ORIGINALLY I JUST THOUGHT THE
VEHICLE WAS DRIVING PARALLEL TO
THE BEACH THE WAY ALL THE OTHER
CARS GO BUT JUST IN THE WATER
MORE SO I JUST THOUGHT THAT --
INITIALLY THAT IT WAS A KID OR
SOMETHING HAD DECIDED, YOU KNOW,
WHAT'S IT LIKE TO BE DOWN IN THE
WATER.
WHEN I SAW THE BYSTANDERS GO UP
TO THE VEHICLE AND WHEN THEY
APPROACHED THE VEHICLE AND
LOOKED IN THE WINDOW, THE WOMAN
CLEARLY JUST SPED UP MORE AND
HEADED DIRECTLY INTO THE OCEAN,
I KNEW IT WAS NO JOKE, THERE WAS
SOMETHING SERIOUS GOING ON.
AND AT THAT POINT IT GOT PRETTY
DEEP PRETTY FAST.
THE BYSTANDERS, THEY WERE
HEROES, YOU KNOW?
THEY -- THE VAN STARTED ROCKING
AGAINST THE WAVES AND ONE OF
THEM ACTUALLY WENT DOWN AND THEY
GOT THE KIDS OUT PRETTY QUICKLY.
THEY TOOK TWO OUT AND REALIZED
THERE WAS ANOTHER CHILD STRAPPED
A CHILD SEAT AND A LIFE GUARD AT
THAT POINT HELPED AND GOT THE
THIRD CHILD OUT.
>> IT'S A MIRACLE THAT THAT
HAPPENED.