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[08:00:15] KRISTIE LU STOUT, HOST: I'm Kristie Lu Stout in Hong Kong and welcome to News Stream."
Now, attackers stormed a university in Pakistan killing at least 19 people.
The Americans held captive in Iran speak out. Amir Hekmati says he feels alive again.
And a new film depicts a grim future for Hong Kong as fears rise at the city's autonomy from China is disappearing.
A deadly attack has rocked a university in Pakistan. Militants stormed the campus in the city of Charsadda early on Wednesday killing at
least 19 people. And the death toll is expected to rise.
The attack began in the morning as classes were getting under way. The army says all four attackers are now dead.
One Pakistani Taliban spokesman claimed responsibility for the attack while another faction denied involvement.
Now, the attack happened in northwest Pakistan, a region that has seen plenty of violence. Now Charsadda is less than an hour's drive from the
city of Peshawar. And back in December of 2014, the Pakistani Taliban went on a gun rampage at a school there, killing 145 people, most of them
children.
Now, for the latest let's cross to CNN producer Sophia Saifi. She joins us now from Charsadda.
Sophia, you are there where this attack took place earlier today. Describe the aftermath of that attack.
SOPHIA SAIFI, CNN PRODUCER: Kristie, I'm right here. and we're standing outside the boys' hospital of the university, which is where most
of this operation took place. The military has ended the operation, there's now mainly
security personnel and media that is now kind of all over the place.
There is tension. There is fog -- it was foggy in the morning, which is how these militants managed to get in.
The university is in a very idyllic part of northwestern Pakistan, it's surrounded by fields, it's very beautiful and very tragic that
something like this has happened here.
We walked into the boys hospital and there are very strong signs of a battle that took place. Know that militants came in with grenades. There
are bullet marks all over the hospital walls. There's blood on the stairs. But we know
that thankfully the operation is now over and all four militants who did go in this
morning have been killed and were affiliated with the Taliban -- Kristie.
LU STOUT: You just described seeing bullet holes in the walls, blood on
the stairs, very, very graphic and disturbing account of what happened earlier today. Have you had a chance to talk to eyewitnesses? What did
they see? What did they hear? How did the students at this university find cover when this attack took place?
SAIFI: Well, Kristie, at the moment, the entire campus has been cleared of
students. There are not many people being allowed in. This complete chaos outside the gates of the campus itself.
We do know from eyewitnesses that when the attack started, a lot of local towns people picked up their own weapon and stormed to the gates of
the university willing to start fighting to protect their own, but they weren't allowed to go
inside.
But apart from that, the university itself is quite still and there's this air of complete isolation and just -- it's strange, it's a university
campus, but there aren't any students, there aren't any professors, there's just silence and military personnel scouring the place. You know, silence
and military personnel just scouring the place.
LU STOUT: You described this vigilante response responding to the attack when it took place, just these civilians, individuals with guns
coming there to help out. What about an official security response? You mentioned military personnel is there? Is the security presence -- has
that been significantly ramped up?
SAIFI: Well, this area itself has always had a very strong military and
security presence, because of the fact that it is always -- I mean, not the university but the general part of northwestern Pakistan has seen a lot of
militant attacks. So, when I spoke Assam Bashir (ph), the spokesperson of the
military, he said that the military itself was at the university within 15 minutes from when the attack took place, which is how they were able to --
keep the death toll to a minimum.
LU STOUT: And who is responsible? We're getting conflicting claims from the Pakistan Taliban.
[08:05:04] SAIFI: We are getting conflicting -- we're getting conflicting kind of accounts of various Taliban factions, either condemning
the attack and then others taking responsibility for it.
The military itself has not really pointed any fingers yet confirming who was behind the attack, but we're getting different factions coming up
to the media and taking responsibility, however, there's nothing confirmed by the military or the government.
LU STOUT: All right, Sophia, many thanks for your reporting. That was CNN's Sophia Saifi, producer, joining us live on the line. She had
just touched down there in Charsadda, Pakistan, describing the aftermath of that brutal attack on the university there, claiming the lives of at least
19 students.
Now, one of five Americans released by Iran has spoken out publicly for the first time since leaving the country. Now, former marine, Amir
Hekmati, told reporters that he feels alive for first time. He was flown to a U.S. military hospital in Germany with two other Americans released by
Iran, including a Washington Post journalists.
Now the freed Americans have thanked the diplomats who negotiated their release. And one of those negotiators sat down to speak with our Jim
Sciutto about the difficult process of getting them out.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
JIM SCIUTTO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Jason Rezaian in the first video since his release seen laughing with his wife. Still, Amir Hekmati, the
first of the freed Americans to speak says their detention ended only after one final night of fear and uncertainty.
AMIR HEKMATI, AMERICAN PRISONER FREED BY IRAN: Up until the last second, we
were all worried and concerned. We were just put in a very small room and we had no telephone or access to any information. We kept being told that
we're going to be taken off in two hours and two became six became ten. So, a total of
almost two and a half days was really nerve-wracking.
SCIUTTO: Brett McGurk, the American diplomat, who negotiated the Americans' release over 14 months of secret talks, told us the first sign
of trouble that evening was when he and his team could not locate Rezaian's wife and
mother.
BRETT MCGURK, U.S. SPECIAL PRESIDENTIAL ENVOY: That was very concerning so we stopped the whole thing.
SCIUTTO: Turns out they were being held on their own without any communication in a part of Tehran's airport controlled by the military.
MCGURK: We said, no, the entire thing is off unless they are on the airplane.
SCIUTTO: You would have killed the deal if Jason's mother and wife were not on the plane?
MCGURK: Well, part of the deal -- I mean, Yaganeh Rezaian was part of the deal. So, that's part of the deal, period.
SCIUTTO: And do you think the Iranians at that point were trying to change the terms? What were they trying to do?
MCGURK: It's unclear. I mean, I think -- look, there's a lot of people in the Iranian system and the people who hold the keys to the prison
cells that never wanted this to happen.
SCIUTTO: McGurk was not convinced the deal was back on until the Swiss ambassador, America's diplomatic representative in Iran, narrated the
scene second by second by telephone.
MCGURK: He then was on the tarmac and described the van approaching the airplane, couldn't see in the windows and the doors opened and one by
one he explained that it was Jason's wife, his mother, Jason, Amir and Saeed and described one by one getting on the plane, which was the key
moment for us. And that was kind of the trigger for us.
So I'll never forget his voice in my ear.
SCIUTTO: In fact, McGurk says the talks almost fell apart several times, including this moment in October, when McGurk, whose public roll
included only the war on ISIS showed up unexpectedly at nuclear talks with Iran in Vienna.
But again, hope disappeared.
MCGURK: And we did make a lot of progress with (inaudible) there. But then when I got back together with my counterparts that kind of went
back to square one...
SCIUTTO: I have spoken to diplomats involved in the negotiations who describe the urgency of the Americans' cases, including fears that Jason
Rezaian faced the prospect not just of a long prison sentence, but also, this is alarming, the possibility of a death sentence.
Jim Sciutto, CNN, Washington.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
LU STOUT: You're watching News Stream. And still ahead, a woman says ISIS
lured her to Syria with promises, but the reality she faced was much different. How she escaped the terror group. That story is straight
ahead.
Also, a Swedish human rights activists detained by China has appeared on television with a confession. Why the organization he worked for says
his statement was forced.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
[08:11:17] LU STOUT: Welcome back. Let's recap our breaking news. Terror has struck a university in northwest Pakistan. Militants stormed
the campus in the city of Charsadda early on Wednesday killing at least 19 people. The death toll is expected to rise.
The attack began in the morning as classes were getting under way.
The army says all four attackers are now dead. One Pakistani Taliban spokesman claimed responsibility for the attack while another faction
denied involvement.
Now within the past hour, I spoke with the Muhammad Baligh Ur Rehman. Now he is the Pakistani minister of state for education and interior and
was in Charsadda where the attack took place. And I asked him why schools seemed to be under attack in Pakistan.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
MUHAMMAD BALIGH UR REHMAN, PAKISTANI MINISTER OF STATE FOR EDUCATION: Pakistan has been fighting this war and we have been constantly under
attack. It has been schools, it has been places of worship, it has been markets and the number of Pakistanis have lived their life in this war
numbers in thousands -- 2013 we had a bomb attack, bomb blast outside of Imgen (ph) University, then in 2014 and last
year we had an attack on an army public school (ph). And today this attack at the university.
So this is part of the attacks we have been going through, but the good thing is that the frequency with which it was happening has been
reduced in a big way. And the terrorists have been shrunk in an unprecedented manner.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
LU STOUT: That was the Pakistan education minister speaking to me earlier. Now ISIS fighters are getting a steep pay cut. A document leaked
from inside ISIS territory says the salary of its fighters has been cut in half. The leaked memo, it doesn't explain why, but air strikes have been
aggressively targeting the ISIS oil business, a major part of their income.
Now, the U.S. Treasury says last year ISIS was making $40 million a month on oil alone. And to increase pressure on the terror group, the U.S.
bombed a building in Mosul that defense officials say held millions in cash.
Now, despite its current cash flow problems, ISIS continues to appeal to
vulnerable young people. And some of those lured to join the terror group quickly find themselves trapped. Now, one young woman managed to escape
the nightmare and is now trying to readjust. Atika Shubert has this exclusive report.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
ATIKA SHUBERT, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Hanane was lured to ISIS territory in Syria with pictures like these, promises of an Islamic
caliphate that was, in her words, a paradise, without racism or greed, guided purely by Islamic principles.
Instead, she says, she was imprisoned, beaten, and accused of being a spy after refusing to marry an ISIS fighter.
[08:10:04] HANANE, SYRIA RETURNEE (through translator): I did not understand. These girls were supposed to be my sisters. They said they
loved me. They said I was smart and important to them. They invited me to their house. We ate together. We were doing everything together. I
never did anything wrong to them, but they wanted me dead because I refused to get married.
SHUBERT: Hanane She was lucky. An ISIS court ruled there were not enough witnesses to convict her. She managed to convince her jailer to let
her go.
She spoke to us on condition we do not reveal her face. She is now in France, under police observation.
HANANE (through translator): When I got back to France I was considered as a
girl who tortured people, like a monster who came back pretending to be a victim.
I didn't hurt anybody there. The only person I hurt was myself.
[08:15:15] SHUBERT: Dounia Bouzar is the woman spearheading France's de-radicalization program, also Hanane's counselor.
DOUNIA BOUZAR, HEAD OF DERADICALIZATION PROGRAM(through translator): When they take you to priso, you go through the famouse square in Raqqa.
You see heads on sticks. Not what you expected.
HANANE (through translator): I see people, their faces. They are without expression. I see the heads on sticks.
BOUZAR (through translator): And they put colored lights around the heads.
HANANE (through translator): Yes pink, green lights.
SHUBERT: Muslim and outspoken, Bouzar says she understands victims like Hanane, because she was the victim of an abusive relationship herself.
BOUZAR (through translator): The fact is, I went through a moment of my life when I didn't feel like myself, when I was dominated, when I
thought everything was over. I think of that now as strength that shows that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger.
There is a future. I tell those parents that their children are going to make their way through this difficult moment. Your child will save
others. I'm sure that their experience will help France in the fight against terror.
BOUZAR (through translator): So, you're nostalgic because you feel less empowered. You're not part of a group.
HANANE (through translator): Exactly, I am not in a group anymore. I don't have my shield anymore.
BOUZAR (through translator): And you feel vulnerable?
HANANE (through translator): Yes.
SHUBERT: Bouzar says the testimonies of returnees like Hanane are critical to turning recruits away from ISIS, but her work has also made her
the target of ISIS death threats. She travels with at least two body guards.
BOUZAR (through translator): We're caught in a human chain and we become a wave crashing against these ISIS words. We will win because we
love death more than you love life. We are constantly trying to prove that we will win because life is stronger than death. We get sucked into it.
We need protection such as bodyguards so that we don't forget that there is still the danger out there.
SHUBERT: That is something Hanane cannot forget.
For those people who want to come back and feel like they won't be accepted back into society, what have you learned from the process and from
speaking with Dounia?
HANANE (through translator): I always think of these girls. I am angry at myself because I could get out but I left them over there.
Sometimes I think I should have stayed to plan a better escape and leave with other people who wanted to leave Syria.
I know there are some girls who want to come back, but they just can't. It's torture for a woman there, like you can't even breathe.
SHUBERT: Hanane says she now knows that paradise she was looking for exists only as ISIS propaganda. Acatastrophic mistake she is hoping that
Bouzar can help to slowly undo.
Atika Shubert, CNN, Paris.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
LU STOUT: You're watching News Stream. And coming up, a televised confession by a detained Swedish human rights activist in China has sparked
accusations that it was made under duress.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
[08:22:12] LU STOUT: Coming to you live from a very foggy Hong Kong, you're
back watching News Stream. Now, let's return to our top story this hour. At least 19 people have been killed in a gun attack at a university in
Pakistan near the border with Afghanistan.
Militants stormed the campus as morning classes were getting under way. The army says all four attackers are now dead.
One Pakistani Taliban spokesman claimed responsibility for the attack, while another faction denied involvement.
A Swedish human rights advocate detained in China has appeared on TV claiming that he violated Chinese law.
Now, Xinhua reports that Peter Dahlin worked for an illegal organization that sponsored activities jeopardizing China's national
security. He worked for the Chinese Urgent Action Working Group that provides legal aid for human rights defenders.
Now, China Action calls Dahlin's appearance an apparent forced confession and insists that the accusations are baseless.
Swedish authorities have made no comment on the report.
And all this comes just days after a missing Hng Kong bookseller reemerged on Chinese TV with a similar confession and they are sparking
worry in Hong Kong that Chinese authorities are encroaching on the city's autonomy.
Now, a new Hong Kong film portrays a city 10 years from now, and it is a grim future.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
LU STOUT: Abductions by authorities, children intimidating shop owners and self-immolation: Ten Years imagines a dystopian future for Hong Kong in
the year 2025, highlighting concerns its directors have about the city through five short films. The scenarios are fiction, the directors say but
have echos of events playing out in real life.
One film shows so-called youth guards patrolling neighborhood shops looking for violations.
NG KA-LEUNG, DIRECTOR (through translator): My story portrays an environment where everything is banned, like you can't use certain words or
read certain books. Audiences laugh at these scenes, because they think it's ridiculous, but I want to tell people, these ridiculous things are not
far from actually happening.
LU STOUT: Earlier this month, thousands protested in Hong Kong after five men who sold books critical of Beijing disappeared in late 2015. At
least two are in Mainland China, one issued an eyebrow raising confession to a crime that happened more than a decade ago on State TV.
Freedom of expression became one of the central themes in the demonstration.
Another story focuses on language and the problems many Cantonese speakers, the dominant dialect in Hong Kong, have with Mandarin, China's
official national dialect.
In Ten Years, taxi drivers who don't pass a Mandarin test face a ban from working in certain busy districts.
[08:25:04] AU MAN-KIT, DIRECTOR (through translator): It's like the taxi driver was helpless and couldn't change the situation, but the story
takes place ten years from now and my aim is to show it to audiences right now in the present. Will we become hopeless like the taxi driver? It
depends on what choices we make now.
LU STOUT: In another scene, tanks from the People's Liberation Army roll into Hong KOng's central business district to crack down on
protesters. The scenes are sure to remind people in Hong Kong of the Umbrella Movement protest in 2014 when local police clashed with
protesters. Beijing, however, never sent in troops.
Hong Kong's top official, chief executive CY Leung, has continually vowed that the government will run its own affairs independent of Beijing.
CY LEUNG, HONG KONG CHIEF EXECUTIVE (through translator): Hong Kong people
administrating Hong Kong into high degree of autonomy in accordance with the basic law. Our position never changed on that issue.
LU STOUT: But the directors argue people in Hong Kong should take nothing for granted when it comes to politics.
CHEUN KWUN-WAI, DIRECTOR: The fact that the film can be shown in Hong Kong proves that things aren't as bad as portrayed in the movie. We should
be grateful that we still have freedom of speech and we have to cherish that. We have to protect it.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We aren't looking for change to happen immediately after people take action, but we hope more people think, if we do something
right now, it will contribute to a bigger change in the future.
LU STOUT: A future, these director says, they hope will be very different from what their film depicts.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
LU STOUT: Now, the film is a hit. Now, it moved from being shown at just
one theater in Hong Kong to a citywide release. The directors say they hope their film can inspire the audience to care more about Hong Kong.
You're watching News Stream. And do stay with us as we continue to follow breaking news on the deadly attack on a university in Pakistan. We
have got the latest just ahead.
Plus, top officials say that they will do anything they can to solve the
water crisis in Flint, Michigan. But some residents say the promise is too little, too late.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
(HEADLINES)
[08:30:49] LU STOUT: Now, let's return to breaking news: the deadly attack on a university in Pakistan.
I want to bring in CNN's terror analyst Paul Cruickshank. He joins us now live from London. Paul, thank you for joining us.
And first off, what do you make of these contradictory claims from different parts of the Pakistan Taliban? I mean, who is responsible and
why the conflicting claims?
PAUL CRUICKSHANK, CNN TERROR ANALYST: Well, Kristie, you have Omar Mansur (ph), who is the commander in the Pakistani Taliban claiming this
and claiming this in a phone call to our local CNN reporter in Pakistan saying that he carried this out for the Pakistani Taliban.
But then the central leadership of the Pakistani Taliban denying this and saying that they don't believe that this was a legitimate attack.
Well, Mansur (ph) is telling our local journalists in Pakistan that actually it is indeed the Pakistani Taliban that are behind this, but the
central leadership are denying it for political reasons. They don't want to get the heat, the criticism from launching this kind of an attack,
despite the fact that's exactly what they did in December of 2014 launching an attack on that school in Peshawar in which more than 140 were killed.
They were criticized after that attack, even by al Qaeda, by a lot of people in Pakistan, there was a backlash. So, I think this could be a case
of the group carrying out the attack, but then at least in public, at least as far as central leadership is concerned, denying it so they don't get
that criticism.
LU STOUT: Now, the death toll of today's attack is thankfully far lower than what happened in that terrible attack, December of 2014, on that
school killing over 140 people, mainly students.
But why are schools being targeted here in Pakistan?
CRUICKSHANK: Well, on the one hand it's an easy target. It's a soft target. There's not a lot of security around a lot of schools and
universities. So they can get a lot of people killed in these kind of attacks.
On the other side, there's a sort of ideological point being made by these groups. They don't believe in secular education. They believe that
people should just go to madrasses to religious schools where they should learn fundamentalist version of the religion.
But essentially this is the Pakistani Taliban lashing out against the Pakistanis, against the Pakistani state because the Pakistani military has
been hitting the Pakistani Taliban really hard over the last year or so,
especially in the aftermath of that school attack in 2014.
Pakistanis were outraged by that. The military intensified their campaign and that has weakened these militant groups in Pakistan, including
the tribal areas of Pakistan. Some have even been pushed into Afghanistan.
If you look at the casualty counts for last year in Pakistan from terrorism, 1,300 people being killed, that's clearly a lot of people but
the year before that, was more than 2,000.
So it's been halved in a year. There is progress against these militants finally in Pakistan. But they are lashing out.
LU STOUT: Yeah, they are making progress, but now we're hearing a promise from the Pakistan prime minister, Nawaz Sharif on the back of
today's attack. He said we are determined and resolved in our commitment to wipe out the menace of terrorism from our homeland. Can he wipe out the
Pakistan Taliban?
CRUICKSHANK: Well, it's going to take a long, long time and a lot of effort from the Pakistani military to do that.
These groups still have a significant amount of resilience, even though they have been weakened. They still have strongholds in
northwestern Pakistan, especially in the Tribal areas of the country, some of these groups now operating on Afghan side of the border, which is a
concern to the Pakistanis as well. And of course, you've got the Afghan Taliban, which has been supported by some parts of the Pakistani military
intelligence apparatus.
So militancy is resilient in Pakistan and it will take many decades of effort to root it out.
[08:35:04] LU STOUT: All right, Paul Cruickshank, our terror analyst, always appreciate your thoughts and your insight. Thank you very much and
take care.
Now, you're watching News Stream. And still to come in the program, an entire city in America is in crisis over drinking water tainted with
lead. The state governor has apologized but protesters say that is not good enough. They want him out of office.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
LU STOUT: Welcome back.
Now, we are getting our first look at Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman behind bars in a Mexican prison. Now, he won't be kept in the same cell for long.
Authorities are making sure that the notorious drug lord cannot pull off another jail break after escaping from that same maximum security prison
last year.
Now, dogs trained to detect his scent are standing guard and El Universale newspaper reports that the prison has been outfitted with motion
sensors as well as cameras.
Now, the governor of Michigan is promising help for an economically struggling city trying to overcome a crisis over contaminated drinking
water. It is contaminated with lead and there is no easy, quick or inexpensive fix here.
Protesters want Governor Rick Snyder prosecuted. They say the state is to blame for forcing the city to switch the water supply.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
RICK SNYDER, GOVERNOR OF MICHIGAN: To you, the people of Flint, I say tonight as I have before, I'm sorry and I will fix it.
No citizen of this great state should endure this kind of catastrophe. Government failed you, federal state and local leaders, by breaking trust
you place in us. I'm sorry most of all that I let you down. You deserve better. You deserve accountability. You deserve to know that the buck
stops here with me.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
LU STOUT: Meanwhile, Flint residents have to rely on bottled water.
Now, CNN's Jean Casarez reports on how the crisis started and what officials have done about it.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
JEAN CASAREZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It is something many take for granted, fresh, clean water from the tap in your home. But for the
nearly 100,000 residents of Flint, Michigan, it's a problem.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Smell like -- smelled like toilet.
CASAREZ: Rhonda Kelso (ph) says that toxic water has been flowing in Flint for nearly two years. She is part of potential class action suits
alleging the governor and other state and local officials lied to the community about what was in their water.
RHONDA KELSO, FLINT, MICHIGAN RESIDENT: You really don't want to think about it. You want to block it out of your mind. It's like did they really
do that.
CASAREZ: The suits alleged that in 2014, local and state officials made the decision to switch from the safe Detroit water supply to water
from the Flint River, a savings of about $60 a day according to the federal complaint. At that time, Flint was under a financial emergency.
CARY MCGEHEE, ATTORNEY: People, of course, are talking about rashes. They're talking about hair loss. They're talking about seizures that never
happened before. We're talking of women that have had miscarriages.
CASAREZ: Officials failed to add an anti-corrosive agent to the river water, which then allowed lead from some of the system's pipes to
contaminate the water. The complaint states that Flint emergency manager at that time and now defendant, Darnel Early, made the decision.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Can you explain why you twice declined to go back to Detroit water even after there were problems?
[08:40:09] UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'm not at liberty to answer any questions regarding that situation.
CASAREZ: Governor Rick Snyder admits the water crisis is a disaster, but many are questioning the state's response. According to a new lawsuit,
the U.S. EPA wrote in June 2015 a detailed memo outlining unacceptable levels of lead in Flint's water. That was shared with state officials, but
no action was taken.
It wasn't until October 2015 that the state changed Flint's water supply. So far, hundreds of residents have complained of health issues
including Rhonda Kelso, who now worries the about the future of her 12- year-old daughter?
(on camera): What are you asking for from the officials of the state?
KELSO: A refund for paying for poison. I'm asking for combination for injuries to my daughter. I am asking for compensation for my property
damage.
CASAREZ: Jean Casarez, CNN, Flint, Michigan.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
LU STOUT: Now, Oscar-winning Actor Jamie Foxx is being called a guardian angel after he and another person pulled a driver out of a burning
truck on Monday night. Christine Lazare (ph) has more on this real-life drama.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
CHRISTINE LAZARE (ph), JOURNALIST: After Jamie Foxx embraced the father of the man he pulled from the burning truck last night, likely
saving his life.
BRAD KYLE, DRIVER'S FATHER: I think we hope that we could do something when the time is there, but the question is, is do we? Do we act
or do we fear our own lives? And he did not.
LAZARE: The highway patrol says 32-year-old Brett Kyle (ph) was speeding and driving under the influence when he swerved off the road,
hitting a drainage ditch, causing his truck to flip several times resting right in front of Foxx's Hidden Valley mansion.
It then burst into flames.
JAMIE FOXX, ACTOR: As I'm getting him out, and I say you've got to help me get you out, because I don't want to have to leave you. And I said
you've got angels around you.
LAZARE: Kyle's family calls Foxx a guardian angel, but the Oscar- winning actor is humble about his heroic actions.
FOXX: I don't look at it as heroic, I just look at it like, you know, it's just -- I had to do something, you know, and it all just worked out,
man.
LAZARE: Brad Kyle came to Foxx's home today to see the scene of the accident. And the actor brought him inside, showing him security video of
the crash.
KYLE: I just kept watching it and going my god, my god. He didn't have to do a thing.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
LU STOUT: Another reason to love Jamie Foxx.
And that is News Stream. I'm Kristie Lu Stout, but don't go anywhere. World Sport with Amanda Davies is next.
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