How The Rescue of Missing Hiker Cody Michael Unfolded

IT WAS A BEAUTIFUL MOMENT. BETWEEN A FATHER AND A SON. Reporter: SO WHAT A DAY AND WHAT A RESCUE. THERE YOU SEE SEAN BENNETT ON THE SCENE. DOING A GREAT TIME. THERE'S A BIT OF DELAY WITH SEAN ANSWERING BECAUSE OF HIS LOCATION. BUT TAKE US BACK TO THE MOMENT WHEN YOU KNEW SOMETHING WAS HAPPENING WHEN IT CAME TO THEM FINDING CODY AND BOWER. Reporter: WE WERE AT THE COMMAND POSTDOING A STORY FOR OUR NOON SHOW. WHEN THE OFFICER WHO GIVES ALL THE MEDIA INFORMATION LOOKED AT ME AND SAID FOLLOW ME. AND THAT'S WHEN THEY ANNOUNCED THAT THEY FOUND CODY AND BOWER. THAT JUMPS TO ONE OF MY QUESTIONS INVOLVING THE RESCUERS. SO MANY TIMES AT THE OTHER END OF THE SPECTRUM WHERE THEY HAVE DIFFERENT RESULTS, THEY MUST HAVE JUST BEEN EXSTATIC. Reporter: YEAH, TONY. THEY COULDN'T BELIEVE IT. THEY GOT WORD HERE AT THE COMMAND POSTTHAT NOT ONLY DID CODY AND BOWER HAD BEEN RESCUED BUT THE BLACK HAWK HAD ALREADY TOUCHED DOWN AT CISCO GROVE. THEY WERE JUST WAITING TO TAKE CODY AND BOWER OFF INTO TWO SUVS AND BRING THEM RIGHT TO WHERE WE'RE STANDING AT THE COMMAND POSTTO HAVE A REUNION WITH MOM AND DAD AND THE BROTHER. SO IT WAS AMAZING JUST TO SEE THIS WHOLE THING UNFOLD IN FRONT OF US WITHIN MINUTES. HOW DID THEY LOOK CLOSELY, WE'VE SEEN THE VIDEO BUT HOW DO THEY LOOK UP CLOSE TO YOU? Reporter: YOU KNOW SEEING CODY WALK FROM THE HELICOPTER INTO THE SUV WAS AMAZING. UNINJURED. HE'S OBVIOUSLY GOING TO THE HOSPITAL TO GET CHECKED OUT. BUT AMAZING. I SAW HIM, I WAVED AT HIM THROUGH THE SUV FROM WHERE WE WERE STANDING ATOP THE BLUFF AT CISCO GROVE WHERE THE BLACK HAWK HAD TOUCHED DOWN BELOW AND I WATCHED THE NEXT SUV WITH BOWER THE GERMAN SHEPHERD IN THERE AND THEY LOOKED GREAT. SHERIFF DEPARTMENT SAYS THEY WERE IN GREAT SPIRITS AND THAT THEY WERE IN GREAT SHAPE DESPITE BEING OUT IN THE COLD ELEMENTS FOR THREE DAYS. I KNOW YOU SAID OVER THE PHONE TO ME THAT BOWER HAS A BIT OF A LIMP BUT HE'S GOING TO BE CHECKED OUT AND WILL BE OKAY. AS FAR AS THE FATHER, HE STAYED SO POSITIVE THROUGHOUT THIS. WHAT WAS YOUR TAKE ON WALKING AWAY WITH WHAT HE HAD TO SAY. I MEAN, HE WAS EMOTIONAL. HE ENDED UP YOU KNOW MAKING ME EMOTIONAL. I STARTED SHEDDING A TEAR. I HAVE TWO KIDS OF MY OWN AND YOU KNOW, YOU THINK ABOUT THAT. AND YOU THINK ABOUT WHAT HIS FATHER AND MOTHER WENT THROUGH. AND HE, I THINK WAS A LITTLE NUMB. HE WAS SHOCKED, HE COULDN'T BELIEVED IT. MORE PROBABLY STUNNED THAN ANYTHING THAT IT HAD CAME TO AN END. HE WAS THANKING GOD FOR ALL THE PRAYERS AND ALL OF THE COMMUNITY'S SUPPORT. AND I ASKED HIM, WHAT WAS IT LIKE WHEN YOU SAW WITH YOUR OWN TWO EYES WHEN YOU SAW CODY FOR THE FIRST TIME. HE GOT SO CHOKED UP IT WAS HARD FOR HIM TO ANSWER THE QUESTION I HAD ASKED HIM AS ANY PARENT WOULD BE IN THAT SITUATION. SO, JUST ELATED, SO HAPPY THAT HE HAD A HAPPY ENDING HERE UP IN PLACER COUNTY. SO MANY TIMES WE REPORT ON A HORRIBLE ENDING SO WE'RE HAPPY TO BRING THIS TO YOU. THANK YOU SO MUCH.