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tim, a photographer on assignment for cnn digital covering the aftermath of harvey and he's covered hurricane katrina and an earthquake in haiti. to all of you standing in these pictures, we are thinking of you and fighting for you. >> next hour starts right now. >> most of the staples are out. a lot of isles are empty. >> the president and first lady, melania trump are going to look at the devastation. >> my husband sleeps in the truck. i sleep on the tailgate. >> not only is the water contaminated, it is highly contaminated. >> we will continue to coordinate with them and bring the relief and the comfort and everything else we can to the gulf coast. >> special counsel robert mueller has the reason president trump fired fbi director, james comey. >> there is a serious obstruction of justice case going on, it is the president of
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the united states. >> we will be transparent with the investigation. i don't have anything to add beyond that. >> the president weighs on whether to end dava. >> i don't think he should do that. >> we love the dreamers. we love everybody. announcer: this is "new day weekend" with victor blackwell and christi paul. >> the president will look at harvey's devastation. in a few hours from now, the president and first lady will head to texas and louisiana. the waters are starting to recede. the misery, unfortunately, the death toll as well are rising this morning. >> the president and first lady will leave the white house about 9:00 a.m. eastern. the first stop is meeting with victims of harvey. they are going to do this outside of houston. >> i just want to tell them to
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be strong and everything will be okay. >> the president's promise of swift government response is handed over to congress. the white house is requesting $7.85 billion in disaster aid, a couple billion more than initially expected. a vote on the aid money has been scheduled for late next week in the house. >> in political news, "the new york times" reporting special counsel robert mueller has details about the reason president trump fired former fbi director, james comey. the times reports the justice department handed over a letter drafted to comey, but never sent, in which the president explains his rational for the firing. the white house council thought it was problematic. so, it has a lot of people wondering if this new information is pointing to where the investigation goes from here. also, the futures of 800,000 young undocumented immigrants decided by the president next
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week. his decision on the dreamers program is coming on tuesday. he's not giving any hint, yet. >> worried? >> we love the dreamers. we love everybody. >> let's start with the aftermath of harvey. this morning, the death toll is at 50. let's go to cnn's george howell, live in houston at the george r. brown convention center. good morning to you. i assume people are starting to wake up, 6:00 local time there. what's happening and going to happen on the day ahead? >> reporter: victor, we are starting to see more people out and about after another nights sleep here, this home away from home. many people who don't have a home left to turn to. we are seeing the numbers diminish here. the latest estimate we got from the red cross, somewhere between 1200, her happens, people that are still here. the number a few days ago, 8,000
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people. what we are seeing now, victor, we are seeing people go into the communities to determine the extent of the damage. i want to give you a couple stats. it really tells a story. according to the governor of the state, greg abbott, some 440,000 texans, as we understand, have applied for federal aid. so, you really get a sense of how many people are asking for help from the federal government at this point. $79 million has already been doled out in aid. at this point, some 42,000 texans are in shelters of various kind throughout the state of texas. to talk about this shelter, again, the numbers are starting to diminish, but producer leslie went out and determined, there's so many services being offered from fema assistance, housing assistance. legal advice, free transportation, play areas for the kids, sunday worship and
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counselor assistance. you get the feeling people are getting help as they take the steps to get back out there and see what's left of their homes. >> all right. george howell, thank you so much. a lot of the volunteers and first responder who is have been working to help people have been added for days. one of them in houston is chris. these are a few pictures he has taken over the last couple days of the flood. he's been a volunteer firefighter for 24 years now. he and his wife have hosted displaced people in their home since the storm began. chris is on the phone with us. good morning to you. i want to start with the decision to welcome some of the people into your home. there are firefighters doing gods work there, trying to rescue people, help people, but not everybody invites people into their home. why have you and your wife decided to? >> caller: it's the right thing to do. you help your neighbors. you help fellow man in a time of
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need. you know, you hope the people would return the favor to you if you needed it. >> chris, how many rescues are still happening? is that phase over or are people still being pulled out of their home? >> caller: no, sir. that phase is over with. we are in clean up mode right now. >> how many people do you have with you in your home? >> caller: nobody right now. they were all kind of placed, found hotels for them to stay. right now, it's just my family. >> give us an idea, if you can, from your perspective, the gravity of what you are seeing, being there, how this has impacted your community. >> caller: it's just, i mean, devastation. i mean, i don't have figures on hand, but i would probably say 60% of dickinson flooded. >> what do people need most from
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authorities? >> caller: they've really, right now, people need clean clothes. they need somewhere to take a shower. they need somewhere to sleep. >> yeah. it's the basic things that so many of us take for granted, a place to do laundry, to shower, electricity. >> caller: right. >> they have had the good fortune, some of them to be welcomed into your home. thank you so much. thank your wife as well. thank you for being with us on "new day." >> caller: if i could just thank a couple people for all the help we have had. our initial response was only ten people. from our station of volunteers. it wasn't until we got help from the texas mutual aid system, we had a strike team that is still here and assisting us. i just want to thank them.
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>> chris, thank you so much. >>. >> caller: thank you. >> all right. >> in two hours the president and first lady are leaving washington and going to go to that area in the gulf coast. they are set to meet with survivors of harvey in texas and louisiana. live from the white house, jeremy diamond with us. jeremy, what do you know about this trip? >> reporter: in a few hours, we'll see the president and first lady heading to houston as well as to southwestern louisiana. this will be the president's first chance to visit actually and meet with some of the survivors of this storm. this comes, of course, as yesterday the president's administration requested $7.85 billion in emergency federal disaster relief aid from congress. the house of representatives is expected to vote on that next week. of course, the president here is ho hoping that congress will swiftly approve that. most will go to fema, handling
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the primary, federal response to hurricane harvey. the president, today, with this viz si will have a chance to demonstrate the empathy many of his critics said he lacked in his first visit to the area, a couple days after hurricane harvey first made land fall. vice president mike pence visited and set a high bar for what the president will have to do to demonstrate empathy, hugging survivors, clearing debris in the area. we'll have to see if the president meets that. even as he is leaving washington, of course, a lot of new changes happening at this white house. the president is dealing with the changes implemented by his chief of staff, john kelly, aimed at putting rigor here. the president will also be losing, it seems, at the end of the month, one of his closest and most loyal advisers. the president's director of oval office operations, his former body guard for nearly two
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decades. sources telling me, my colleague dana bash and keith gray he is planning to leave the white house. that, of course, could leave the president feeling more isolated. >> all right. jeremy diamond. quite a wrap up of headlines this morning. thank you so much. police are now managing mandatory evacuation in the los angeles area. >> firefighters are working to protect homes from a wildfire. look at the images we are getting in here. this burned 2,000 acres in a matter of hours. we know at least 200 homes have been evacuated. the fire is burning in the mountains above burbank chlgt it is moving downward. firefighters say strong winds are helping fuel this fire and causing it to burn in four different directions, which really makes their job tough. >> a report from "the new york times" suggests the special counsel may be targeting the president over the firing of fbi
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another big moment in the investigation into russia's meddling in the 2016 election here. >> according to "the new york times" special counsel robert mueller has a draft of the letter president trump wrote for the reason to fire director james comey and the motive behind the decision. the report says the white house counsel did not use the letter because it had a tone that was
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problematic. >> a long-time trump aide who hand delivered the public version of the letter blaming the clinton scandal for the firing plans to leave the white house. he is leaving because of financial reasons. one source says the limited access to the president under the new chief of staff, john kelly, became a problem. >> this is a busy couple days for the white house. the fate of dreamers across the country we'll learn on tuesday. president trump is considering getting rid of the daca program. this is designed to protect young, undocumented immigrants from deportation. >> a lot to unwrap here. a correspondent for "the washington examiner" and josh roggin a political analyst. thank you for being here. let's listen to ryan lizza and what he said about the mueller investigation.
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>> we are talking about here both the letter that comey has now, excuse me, mueller had gotten and the meeting between the special counsel and trump's lawyers. there is a serious obstruction of justice investigation going on against the president of the united states. >> do you agree? >> i think this does give a window into what it is that mueller is looking at because the president's allies and to a certain extent, the white house has been trying to argue this is a probe that is expanding beyond the original mandate, the russian collusion that was focusing in on people like paul manafort that are no longer associated with the president and mueller is requesting and receiving documents related to the investigation, which is whether there was russian interference and whether there was an effort to cover that up. this is telling about where the direction of the probe is going, not just manafort's finances and
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the president's taxes. there is some meat to these questions about obstruction and russian interference. that is problematic for the white house. >> i need to switch gears here to get everything in. we have been talking about daca. sarah huckabee sanders says this is really weighing on president trump. i want to say what orin hatch said. i have urged the president not to rescind dava. tougher enforcement of immigration laws, but a solution for those who entered the country unlawfully as children. that solution must come from congress. we are told there will be a decision by the white house on dreamers, as they are called, these children brought here. we are going to hear that decision by tuesday. josh, do you believe the president will hand this over to
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congress? >> i don't know. the early reports were that the president is going to take a tough line on the daca issue, contrary to what he said and contrary to he loves the dreamers. the pushback from congress has been unusually strong in this case. it is a battle between the president's political benefit and his ideology here. there's a real issue here. he hates these 800,000 people and takes away their status and identifies them for deportation. that could have political implications. at the same time, because of the sort of the president's commitment to the ideology of being tough on immigration, there's no way to predict which way this will come out. i think this is an example where, you know, the president is genuinely conflicted. he's not only conflicted internally, the white house is conflicted and this will be a major ipd indication of whether
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or not the president is going to pursue hard line policies that are in line with his campaign promises to be tough on immigration or adjust and modify and respond to the realities, not just the political situation in the white house but the actual vulnerable status of 800,000 people. >> sarah, speaker ryan said let congress handle this. what are the implications for the president. there are a lot of people, even republican who is say, let's leave daca. >> the best way is not to scrap the program outright. what the president is leaning toward doing is a gradual winding down of daca that would let the work permits expire for the people who already applied for daca protections and stop new applicants from entering the program. that would give congress time to find a solution to daca.
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we are hearing the white house, the trump administration wants to use it as a bargaining thing to use for funding for border wall, enforcement of e-verify and money for detention centers, things democrats might not vote for unless they were forced to because protections for dreamers were on the line. it's the approach the white house wants to take. it's clear the president recognizes leaving dreamers vulnerable is untenable and i think that's why you will see he will pressure congress to take action but have it tied to immigration issues he wants. >> josh, real quickly, i want to get your reaction to something that senator mccain wrote in the "washington post." congress must govern with a president who has no experience in public office, often poorly informed and impulsive in speech and conduct. we must respect his authority. we must, where we can, cooperate with him.
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we are not his subordinates. we don't answer to him, we answer to the american people. >> i agree with with john mccain. this speaks to what sarah is talking about. there's been a broad, dysfunctioning congress for a long time. it's not one party of the other. it's a slow, steady deterioration of congress to get things done. especially when it's not what the white house wants to get done. when we talk complicated trade over immigration policies, the with reality is congress is broken and the legislative process is not functioning. this imperils the legislative branches ability to not only do its job, but add the influence that would put it on par with the executive branch. i think john mccain is putting a circle around and saying now that we have what many perceive to be an administration that is working in a way that's so
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unusual and so brash, in a way, congress needs to step up. i don't think that's going to happen, but john mccain is right on the edge of it. >> sarah, josh, thank you so much for being here. appreciate you. >> thank you. i have a list of some of the things in this water in houston. it is putrid. i'm not going to go through all the things. we are going to have an expert in infectious diseases to explain the health risk of the water left behind. experience unparalleled luxury at the lexus golden opportunity sales event before it ends. choose from the is turbo, es 350 or nx turbo for $299 a month for 36 months if you lease now. experience amazing at your lexus dealer.
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you are up early for a saturday, but we are glad you are with us. i'm christi paul. >> i'm victor blackwell. in a few hours from now, the president will head to texas and louisiana to visit victims of
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harvey. he's pushing congress for nearly $8 billion in the first round of recovery funding. there is a mandatory evacuation order of texas. the water is still rising. these areas in imminent danger of losing their sewer services. so far, 50 people have died after harvey tore through this part of the state. 72,000 people have been rescued. >> let's talk about the floodwaters. yes, they are receding, but health officials warn there are major health threats that will linger for weeks, if not months. let's talk about that with the dean for the school of medicine at baylor. thank you for being here. we know there are rancid things in this water that's there. what are the most immediate threats to people who have been in it. . >> good morning and thanks for having me on. we know there's short term and
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long term health effects we can anticipate. we know this because we learned a lot of lessons from katrina a decade previously. for example, we have in the waters themselves, chemical toxins because of oil and gas refineries. you worry about benzene exposure and carcinogens. there's infectious pathogens in the water. there's a unique flesh eating bacteria. wounds get contaminated, that is a concern. we have anti biotic resistant wounds. we have salmonella, e. coli. when people are sent to evacuation centers or sent to shelters, then you have to worry about the stress and the crowded conditions, so we worry about
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neurovirus infection, an infection that causes diarrhea, respiratory infections. that's just in the immediate term. later on, as the floodwaters recede, it creates pools for breeding mosquitos. we know from katrina, we saw west nile virus. there's an up tick in that. we are going to be on the lookout for west nile virus infection. now, on the gulf, we have zika, we have chicken, and others, so we are going to be on the lookout for that. we are going to have serious health problems to look at in the coming weeks. we have the problem with mold and allergies from that and the possibility of asthma. we'll have our work cut out for us. >> doctor, what do you say to people who have been in the floodwaters who are starting to feel badly? what do they do? especially in the conditions they have right now? and how long should they be watching the symptoms?
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>> certainly -- that's a great question. i think right now, if you have been exposed to floodwaters, if you have wounds, you want to get those medically treated. that's how the flesh eating disease can happen. if you have symptoms of diarrhea, seek medical attention because you might need antibiotic therapy. then, also, you want to minimize your exposure to mosquitos because they are going to start ramping up in the coming days and weeks. minimizing expo sure to mosquitos is very, very important. if you have mold in your house or accumulate mold, do everything you can to do mold abbatement and get rid of it. >> that can be horrible. doctor, thank you so much for sharing helpful information with us, we appreciate it. >> you have harvey aid package. you have funding the government. raising the debt ceiling.
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asking congress to raise the debt ceiling before september 29th to avoid the government defaulting on loans. >> we pay our bills. i'm not worried that's not going to get done. it will get done. >> reporter: the debt ceiling hike, they need to jump another hurdle by the end of the month, passing a new bill to fund the government. in september, the president then wants congress to take up tax reform. >> this is a once in a generation opportunity to deliver tax reform for every day, hard working americans. i am fully committed to working with congress to get this job done. i don't want to be disappointed by congress. do you understand me? >> reporter: democrats saying they will not go along with a plan that cuts taxes for the wealthiest americans. >> it's going to be one of the biggest fights of the next three, four months. democrats are ready for it. >> reporter: frustrated by the
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lack of accomplishments, the president is pushing republicans to dump the filibuster rule and only require a simple majority of 51 votes to pass a bill, instead of 60. >> if we don't, the republicans will never get anything passed. you are wasting your time. >> reporter: not majority leader, mitch mcconnell says, that is not a starter. >> there are not enough votes as i said to the president and all of you, to change the rules of the senate. >> reporter: trump's frayed relationship with mcconnell and attacks on gop allies like with tennessee governor bob corker led to whether the white house is hindering republicans efforts to get something done, especially with only 43 shared legislative days left in 2017. one option for congress is to pass a stopgap bill that would fund the government at least through the end of the year, then pick up the budget battle
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so, congress is going to be back at work and, oh, my goodness, what a month they are going have. >> it is a growing list. let's start with approving money for harvey. the president submitted an $8 billion request. crafted a tax reform bill to pass in cobb.
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there's a lot to do and talk about. let's bring in stephen moor and peter. gentlemen, good morning to you. >> good morning. >> peter, let me start with you. i don't think any doubts there will be an aide package for the people along the texas gulf coast and louisiana as well. the question is, how soon will it pass and under what conditions? how do the republicans from that part of the country who voted in 2013 either against sandy funding or to offset that funding reconcile with not holding the funding for their state to the same standard? >> they need to apologize and say, we need help and their colleagues will respond. face it, no state can handle a disaster like this. we are going to get an initial funding package and quickly. republicans in washington,
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democrats in washington, don't want to be in a position of saying no to distressed folks in texas. >> i think it's important that, you know, although the lawmakers are called out, these once in a century, once in a millennium storms are happening more often. congress, the country is going to have a serious reconsideration with how to fund the recoveries. >> well, look, i agree with what peter said. there's no question they are going to approve this $8 billion aid package and quickly. they will do it the first couple days back because houston needs the money. the fight is going to come the weeks ahead as more and more money is requested to rebuild houston. i think the best kind of aid is the charitable aid, the aid from the private sector. i was looking at historical events like the chicago fire, it happened in the late 19th century and the san francisco earthquake. those cities were rebuilt with little federal money. there's not a need to deluge the
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city with money. we found africa tree that, there was tens of billions of dollars wasted. we don't know what happened. we don't want to repeat that again. >> you are not suggesting the red cross and charities should come up with tens of billions of dollars to rebuild? >> no. the more that can be done with private sector and charitable relief, the better. as i said, with katrina, to this day, we don't know what happened with billions and billions of dollars. by the way, when congress passed that bill you are talking about, victor, a lot of money didn't going to new orleans. it was a pork barrel bill where the states say 100, 200 miles away were getting funds. we want it to be targeted. >> that was the criticism from the lawmakers who tried to justify their decision. peter, i want to talk about tax reform. the president was in missouri a couple days ago. he will be in the dakotas this
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week. you really don't believe that the white house and the rest of the republicans will be able to pass a tax reform bill and get it to the president's desk for signature? >> i don't think they will be able to do that, even under reconciliation. they don't have a working majority in the senate. the problem with the budget is 60% goes for entitlements. within ten years, it will be close to 100%. so, you really can't find money for tax cuts without entitlement reform. health care debate say senators like murkowski and collins will not sign on for the most basic entitlement reform, like acquiring men who are healthy, of working age, who refuse to work to get a job to get medicaid. lacking that, you simply can't find the money. now, we talked border tax adjustments. on the right, the koch brothers
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defeated that. brady, in the house, has creative proposals, but mnuchin vetoed them all. you can't make bricks without straw and they don't have straw. >> stephen, i heard a groan there. >> i agree with a lot of what peter said. who can argue against able bodied people working? i think this is going to be a tax cut. that's where i disagree with peter. i think, peter, they are going to pass a bill that over, say, ten years is a $2 trillion tax cut. we believe that if you get this tax bill done, we have the highest business tax rates in the world. it will bring a lot of companies and jobs back to america. if you get the growth rate up, the economy grew 3% last quarter. this quarter is 3.5%. i think we could get it growing
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at 4% with a well designed tax cut. you are going to get a lot of revenues. i'm not saying it is going to pay for itself. you have to get more people back to work. >> i don't know that i saw peter's head shake, he doesn't believe it >> i think you get about 30 cents back on the dollar if you luck and the white house wants a permanent tax cut. >> that won't happen. >> they are going to have to settle for what mr. bush settle for, when it expired. >> and before we run out of time, i want to talk about the wall and remapd what people said about the funding about the border wall a week and a half ago in arizona. >> the obstructionist democrats in government want us to do that, but if we have to close down the government, we're building that wall. >> the president is not going to push to have it in the september funding bill. push it off to december.
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why the holdoff and what is the indication that he'll have my more support even from the freedom caucus that are willing to vote for the funding measure without wall funding in december. >> the hard reality for the president is not just the democrats. there are a good amount of rock republicans who own ranches along the border who don't think a wall is the best way to invest federal funds to deal with the inflow of illegal migrants. they are technology means are much more effective. this is a much more symbolic gesture by the president and people believe in illegal immigration if we put enough cinder blocks together that somehow the problem will go away. hard truth, the number of number illegal migrants in the united states has not been rising in recent years. changes in the population in mexico have caused the flow into the united states to much lessen. this is fixing a problem that has already done been fixed. the president should get off it
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and move on to tax reform. >> i won't do that. >> and ten seconds, steven. >> this is one of the central promises he made to voters from the very first day he started running for office. lo look, i think you have to get this wall built before you could do the substantial immigration reform that i think we all would like to see. i think you are going to see a clash on this, victor, in the week as head. but i don't think it will lead to a government shut down. >> but he is not requiring it in september. do you think we'll get to that point potentially in december? >> you mean the wall? >> well we'll be facing a shut down. >> i think the big issue is how do they get to 218 votes to pass a debt ceiling extension. because there is a lot of republicans, victor, who do not want to have vote to raise the debt ceiling. that means paul ryan will have to g to get democrats to do that. >> that is a heavy lift. >> and mnuchin said the full faith and credit of the united
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salt lake city police department is apologizing after an officer arrested a nurse who was following hospital protocol. >> this is pretty interesting video, let's say. it is kind of hard to watch at points. but here is the background. the nurse refused to allow the officer to draw blood from an unconscious crash victim without legal consent.
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dan simon has what happened next. >> a disturbing video comes from the inside of an emergency room. and the woman screaming, a burn unit nurse who has been arrested by a salt lake city police officer. >> please -- you're hurting me. >> then walk. >> no. >> the incident captured by police happened in july but now the district attorney said he wanted a criminal investigation. >> salt lake city police. >> the university of utah nurse said she was just doing her job, following hospital protocol by refusing to let police take a blood sample from an unconscious patient. >> is this patient under arrest. >> no. >> the detective jeff paine remanded a blood sample from a car crash victim in a coma and severely burned. his truck smashed by a car racing from police, according to local media. wubbels calmly explains the policy for obtaining blood.
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>> the the things are in you have an electronic warrant, patient consent or patient under arrest and neither of those things -- the patient can't consent. >> she even gets her supervisor on the phone who backs her up. >> she has told me no. >> but you are making a huge mistake right now. you are making a huge mistake. because you are threatening a nurse. >> okay. we're done. we're done. you're under arrest. we're going. >> i can't be under arrest. >> [ inaudible ]. no! >> salt lake city police chief apologized and said what happened was unacceptable. >> i was alarmed by what i saw in the video. i want to be very clear, we take this very seriously. >> reporter: for now wubbels isn't filing a lawsuit. >> i feel strongly in giving people the benefit of the doubt. and i truly believe that he was honest in his apology and sincere in his willingness to
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try to make change and make things better. >> reporter: police released her without charges that day after she sat in the police car for 20 minutes. the detective said in a written report that his watch commander advised him to arrest the nurse for interfering with a police investigation. paine and another officer now on administrative leave. as internal investigators look into the startling incident. dan simon, cnn, salt lake city. most of the staples are out, a lot of the aisles are empty. >> the president and first lady will get a firsthand look at devastation. >> my husband sleeps in the truck, i sleep on the tailgate. >> the water is contaminated. >> we'll continue to coordinate and bring the comfort and everything else that we can to the gulf coast. >> robert

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