My Mac book pro gets to the screen with the apple logo with a spinning loading symbol and an actual loading bar underneath it and when the loading bar gets to about 1/2 - 3/4 the computer shuts down how do I fix this?

Need it fixed asap

Unfortunately for that it's usually not a quick fix, unless it's a stuck firmware update.
Hold the power button down to force a hardware shutdown and boot again, if it appears again then it's a bigger problem.
The bigger problem is that the fsck drive repair at boot can't fix the problem with the drive.
You will need to consider your off machine backup situtation if you have one or not and how recently backed up are those files.
If you have no backups or desperatly need to get files off and willing to possibly spend some money to do so (a powered external drive + even $100 recovery software), then it depends upon your computer skill level. If not very good then your seeking the services of a local PC/Mac tech, Apple doesn't do data recovery.
Once you have a copy of your files off the machine, then your looking at a erase and reinstall of OS X, programs and files from backup.
If you have a recently updated TimeMachine you can restore from that.
If you have a bootable clone, then it's easy. Just hold option/alt key and boot from it, grab your files, erase the drive and reverse clone your problems away.
Gray, Blue or White screen at boot, w/spinner/progress bar

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