Shock! He survived lightning at gas pump

Just ask William Hall, the man who stopped at an upstate New York store to get gas ... and instead got struck by lightning.

“The light itself it was bright white surrounded by orange, and then the rush. It was like heat,” the 44-year-old Hall told TODAY co-host Meredith Vieira in an exclusive interview Monday in New York, just three days after his brush with death. Other than a bruise on his elbow and bump on his head that he got when he lost consciousness, he was unhurt. He even wore a black shirt with red flames on it to tell his story.