army veteran daniel wilkinson on an emergency room stretcher shortly before he died. >> he loved hisployments over in afghanistan. came home with a purple heart. and it was a gallstone that took him out. >> reporter: last saturday his mother rushed him to bellville medical center, just three doors down from their home. but for wilkinson, help was still too far away. >> i do labs on him, i get labs, and the labs come back. i'm at the computer, and i have one of those oh crap moments. >> reporter: er doctor hasan kakli treated wilson and found he had gallstone pancreatitis, something they were not able to treat. >> if the stone doesn't resolve today, that fluid just builds up, backs up into the liver, backs up into the pancreas, and starts to shut down those organs. his blood work even showed that his kidneys were shutting down. >> reporter: this went from life threatening to he's dying in front of you. >> yes. >> reporter: wilkinson needed a higher level of care, but with hospitals across texas and much of the south overwhelmed with covid patients, there was no place for him. >> we're

army veteran daniel wilki wilkinson. he was awarded a purple heart.ton. he had gallstones. a painful disease, but one that is entirely fixable and treatable if treated on time. the er doctor who first saw him tried for seven hours to find a hospital with an available icu bed for him. all of the beds were full. because of coronavirus. all full because millions of eligible people still aren't vaccinated so the virus keeps going. and so 24 hours after this veteran walked in to his local er, he was dead at the age of 46. this should not happen in america. joining me right now is the doctor who hetried to get danie the treatment he needed. an er physician. doctor, thank you for coming on. i first learned of daniel's tragic story from the fantastic reporting of david begnaud of cbs news. when i saw the report, i could not stop thinking about your conversations. i mean, you knew daniel needed more advanced level of care than your hospital offered. tell me about how you tried -- all you tried to do to find him a bed to get him the treatment he needed. >> than

doctor hassan should never have to be in this position and daniel wilkinson should be alive today. thank you, doctor, for speaking up and for what you do. >> thank you for joining us. . >> hello. next hour the president will deliver his first remarks since ending the u.s.'s longest war. the chaos and confusion, the failures and agony. and the successes of the final retreat out of afghanistan after 20 years. the images, the implications, they will resonate for years. will the president's next words? we're covering this remarkable moment from every angle with our team of reporters and experts standing by. i want to start with the white house. jeff zeleny is there. how did the president spend his morning preparing and any insight into what he might say? >> reporter: we know the president and vice president spent at least part of the morning with their advisers getting the final briefing on the final day of america's longest war in afghanistan, getting operational briefings and hearing about the final flights that took off yesterday afternoon here in washington time. at midnight in afg