Oregon Shooting Victim Recovers in Hospital
WHITFIELD: All right, we continue to monitor presidential candidate Hillary Clinton right there in Hoover, Alabama, just outside of Birmingham. She's laying out her plan for the economy but also giving credit to President Obama. So in her words, he strengthened the economy. She is releasing more information about her promise, her plan to increase wages and put more young people in college. We'll continue to monitor her remarks there out of Hoover, Alabama. Meantime, we're also learning new details today from this month's campus massacre in Oregon. The man so many called a hero, Chris Mintz, is recounting what happened the day of the shooting moment by moment. Eight students and one professor were killed in the rampage, nine people were injured, including Mintz, who was shot five times. CNN's Nick Valencia has details.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Dispatch as many ambulances as possible, we have upward of 20 victims.</s>VALENCIA: Chilling new details from the Oregon community college massacre from shooting survivor, Chris Mintz, the army veteran who has been called a hero for protecting others.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He's in a classroom.</s>VALENCIA: In a Facebook posting Mintz recalled the day that he says started out as normal but quickly descended into chaos. He writes "There was a bunch of yelling and that there were gunshots going off that sounded like fire crackers." Mintz, who says he sat in the front of the class, says everyone got up and took off. "I stopped and held the door open and waited for everyone to leave safely," he writes. "He then says he took direction from a counselor that kept screaming someone needed to tell the people in the library, and I told her I would do it."</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Somebody is outside one of the doors.</s>VALENCIA: Mintz writes that he made his way back into the classroom area where he came face to face with the gunman. "He leaned out and started shooting as I turned toward him," he recalled. This is how he described the shooter. "He was so nonchalant through it all, like he was playing a video game, and showed no emotion." Mintz says "The shots knocked me to the ground and felt like a truck hit me." He then says he was shot again while on the ground and that the gunman said "That's what you get for calling the cops." Mintz writes in the Facebook post that he told the gunman that he didn't call police and they were already on the way. He then yelled to the gunman, "It's my kids birthday, man." Mintz says "The shooter pointed the gun right at my face and then retreated back into the classroom."</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hello, everyone. I'm doing well.</s>VALENCIA: A friend posted this video of Mintz in the hospital. He has since been released and has this lingering question. "I'm still confused as to why he didn't shoot me again."</s>WHITFIELD: That was Nick Valencia reporting. All right, coming up, the rash of deadly attacks in the West Bank continues this weekend as a peace rally is underway. We're live from Jerusalem next.