Miracle Amid The Bridge Collapse

It was an unimaginable sight to anyone. But to Martha Roberson, it was all too real because her two granddaughters were inside.

"We just thought 'all of them was gone,'" Roberson said.

Samarra, 6, and Josette, 4, along with the 58 other kids and counselors from an inner-city summer camp were alive, but terrified, teetering on the edge of concrete.

"Everybody was crying on the bus," Samarra Washington said.

"Were you crying?" asked CBS News correspondent Tracy Smith. Yes, Samarra replied, "'cause I was scared."

They were on their way home from a day at the water park. The bus was headed south in traffic at about 10 mph and had just crossed the river when the bridge collapsed.

Luis Aragon, 8, thought he'd never escape.

"Everybody was screaming and I thought 'I'm gonna die,'" he said.

Smith asked the children what happened."

"Jeremy kicked the door down," said Samara.

"Did Jeremy save you?" asked Smith.

"Yeah," Samarra replied.

"Jeremy" is camp counselor Jeremy Hernandez.

"You could hear the kids, like, moaning and crying, and the dust was in the air. You couldn't see the kids," he said.

At first, he thought it was just an accident.

"And then, when the dust settled down, they all just started screaming, 'We're gonna go in the river, we're gonna go in the river,'" he said.

Hernandez said he didn't have time to think; he just knew to start a human chain out the emergency door.

"I don't remember counting," he said. "I just remember grabbing them and putting them down."

Gary Babineau was there to catch them. He'd just emerged from his own mangled truck and ran to the bus to help.

"The ones that could walk, I just told them to run. And the ones that, you know, couldn't walk, I just would carry them to where all the other kids were," Babineau said.

Of those on board, four are in the hospital — two children and two adults — including the bus driver. All are expected to recover.

On Thursday morning, Samarra was a little banged up, but her grandmother saw only one thing in her face.

"It just had a glow like it was an angel. It just brought 'em back to us," Roberson said.

She's grateful to the ones who forgot about themselves in order to save the children.

"They're like my brothers, my little sisters," Hernandez said of the kids. "I've been working there for five years. I feel like they're a part of me."