griefously injured, on average from the time you are grievously injured to the time you arrive in my icu in bethesda is 3 days. that capability is provided to us by on screen care with unparalleled first responder action that can save the live, tourniquet therapy, clotting agents, understanding, robust immediatevac capibility, and then a continuing continuum to germany and back to the states in the c130's, the flying icu's which the air force has, which you are safer in the air at 30,000 feet than you are in 90 percent of the icu's in this country. they do not lose patients over the atlantic. they do not lose patients over the pacific and, remember, they transport them within days, days, of them being critically injured. the patient will wake up for the first time in a hospital in the states. that is often the first time they wake up. that's how fast the medevac system goes. wouldn't it be a shame to waste that compartment of skills on a mass casualty event that occurs here. well, we have hospitals and they're going to be okay and we have a robust provider system, and you do, one that th

it's not like, okay, we have them in icu for 3 days, we're all set, they have somewhere to go. so really what we see and what a lot of the effort of the health department is to tray to intervene in that, you know, really harmful to the client and expensive ricocheting through the system and never really landing anywhere. some of the other sites, it works better when you are showing them up on the screen but we're just going to have to visualize for a second here. in case you've seen them and wondered about them, these are more recent sites i'm pointing out like in 2010 the 149 mason street site, it's owned by glide, it's got that ceramic mural on it. 55 units, beautiful housing right on the edge of union square. so people come out of their apartments, hopefully they head that way towards union square versus the other way towards the tenderloin and they can sit and enjoy san francisco just like everybody else does. other, you know, sites that we're particularly proud of, edith whit senior community is a direct access to housing site right there on 9th and mission street. it's 10

it becomes, from a regular bed or an unused bed, into an icu bed. i walk across the street to the county hospital, and there are 10 people waiting in line to get into an icu bed. if a person has chronic renal failure, the federal government will jump in and pay for that. however, a child with liver disease doesn't get covered in the same way, and that patient may struggle to find funding, whether it's through the medicaid program or some other structure to get paid. so what we find is that because there's funding inequities, we find that some hospitals are trying to increase the number of patients of the type that pay well and decrease those who don't pay. of the trillion dollars invested in health care each year, only about 55% is spent on acute care-- doctors and hospitals. william schwartz: and the other is for non-acute care-- things such as dentistry... nursing home care, and over-the-counter drugs. now, that's scarcely mentioned as a factor contributing to the rapid rise in health-care costs. nursing homes, you hear mentioned, but this 45%, wh

. >> two dozen family members and friends are gathered at the icu waiting room. many are still in shock. >> i'm very sorry about this. i feel bad. >> i was just saddened. to me it was just unexpected. the chp officer was out there this morning helping another driver change a flat tire. yes he did have warning lights on. the cause of this crash is still under investigation. live at stanford medical center, cbs 5. >> it was the family's first thanksgiving apart the can is say their parents were on the way to louisiana for a gambling trip. the parents were the only two killed in the chain reaction crash in heavy fog. more than a hundred vehicles were involved. 80 people were injured. >> awfully reminisce reminisce isn't a of what we saw last year. this battle is between supporters of president muhammad morsy. some are called morsy a dictator. >> the obama administration finds itself in an uncomfortable position. >> police fire department tear gas on thousands of protesters that hurled rocks at protesters in cairo. at least 100 people are in violent demonstrations in

in gaza, the icu unit of the hospital is full. what efforts to broker a cease- continue, there was an cairo, withssion in callcondemning what they israeli aggression. >> there will be no peace, no security as long as occupation continues. >> president obama departed saturday for a trip to asia. he has been in touch with region, but the has backed israel as troops massing along the gaza border. the developments are fuelling of a drawn-out conflict. the israeli army has been to call up reservists, and the white house says israel has a right to attacks,self against blaming hamas for starting the conflict. >> new information in the deadly train crash in texas that killed four veterans. federal investigators say the of thethe morning train were activated the flowonds before crossed the tracks. the ntsb said the train started sounding its war 9 seconds float and thethe engineer used is emergency brake 5 seconds before the crash. dozens of local children who would not otherwise get a dinner this year had an amazing meal. father and liste

a moment that would make even the hardest of hearts tender, the teen who spent his last birthday in iculegs. stood up from his wheelchair to receive his ring. >> i didn't want to disappoint my teammates, so i got better. >> reporter: to learn more about nick balinger and how to help him and his family, go to nbcwashington.com. erica gonzalez, news4. >> thanks for joining us. that's all for "news4 this week." ♪ ♪ we were skipping stones ♪ and letting go ♪ over the river and down the road ♪ [ female announcer ] at nature valley, we know nature comes together in amazing ways. that's why we bring together natural ingredients, like dark chocolate with toasted oats, or sweet golden honey. perfect combinations of nature's delicious ingredients, from nature valley. ♪ ♪ i was thinking that i hope this never ends ♪ [ female announcer ] nature valley granola bars, nature at its most delicious. ♪ i got it made, i got it made ♪ ♪ i got it made fresh at subway ♪ ♪ breakfast made the way i say ♪ [ male announcer ] at subway, you got it made. try a steak, egg white & cheese, tricked out any way you wan

i never been in an icu that was dark and somebody had just five minutes ago had a flashlight and there were signs of recent activity. so crumpled sheets, iv bags that were eerily hanging up on poles with the iv tubing running out but nobody on the other end. it reminds me of a detective movie where the pertraitor is and there's a cup of coffee and it's still warm, he was here a minute ago. i had that same feeling, they were here a minute ago but there was nobody there, it was ghostly quiet, it was eerie something i never seen before. >> rose: i have the impression thousands of mice used in research. >> i just spoke to dr. grossman again about an hour ago and he told me about, this is one of the real real problems that came out of this. about 20% of the rodents that were used in research there were lost. and this is a calamity for a lot of these researchers. so they're talking about mice for example called factout mice -- knock out mice. this is their life work in terms of research. you need help not only from fema but from the national institutes of health in order to get these scienti

they included 20 babies who were in the neo natal icu dependent on respirators and medications wereein given via powered desupervises that had to be working. and the clock was ticking. when were these generators going to go out. >> rose: let's thank you about the generators. every hospital is to my knowledge has some kind of medical generator back up with the power fails. they had more than one. >> yes they did. i just got off the phone with dr. bob grossman. he is the dean and ceo of nyu angone medical center. he explained what happened. there were eight back up generators there. one on the ground and thethers got flooded. the other seven were high on the floors including the roof. the problem was by state code the fuel pump has to be on the ground floor. when the water's flooded in it tripped a sensor that cut off the line of fuel so it just ran out of fuel. >> rose: so the lesson is to do what next time. >> they had planned bob just told me dr. gross man told me there was a plan for a surge. there hadn't been a 12 foot surge since 1821. it reminds me of fukushima where they said we'

. >> reporter: at least two dozen family members and friends are gathered at the icu waiting room and have been coming and going all day. many are still in shock. >> what do you think of all this? >> just very sorry. >> i was just saddened. to me it was just unexpected. >> and that chp officer was actually out there helping another driver change a flat tire, and yes, all of his warning lights were on. the cause of the crash is still under investigation. >>> reminiscent of what we saw last year, egyptians riding in the streets. it was about former ruler. this time it's about muhammad morsi. critics call morsi egypt's new dictator. this is something the white house is watching closely. >> the obama administration finds itself in an uncomfortable position. it's praised as a peace keeper, a man who's drawn violent protests at home. >>> reporter: the crowd accuses muhammad morsi, the first freely elected president, of making himself a pharoah. tens of thousands of activists poured in to the square, the same place where it toppled his predecessor. this time they want morsi to go. more than

churches, your clinics, your homes, we'd like to be able to bring its operating rooms and 40,000 tons of icu's and hospital beds and transports and medical evac, whether we fly you in or float you in. that's what we'd like to bring. and like everybody else in the medical business, i wake up every morning and hope the next day i'm out of a job. i hope the next day that world peace has been declared and disease has been stamped out and nobody will be ill, nobody will be harmed or injured. until that day comes, it's my responsibility to be able to speak to the communicate dapblt and the chief of naval operations and tell them we are ready to go when you need us. and so i'm very proud to be here and witness and to somewhat extent participate in the collaborative efforts that are being made. i had a chance to be up close and personal tlau probably the worst hurricanes in the gulf coast in the last 40 years: ivan, dennis, katrina. and katrina i was the commander of the medical forces in pensacola, florida, and i owned the branch clinics that existed in new orleans, pascagula and gulf port, mississip

in the icu, men with traumatic brain injuries. ahmed darmoush, 21, is brain dead and doctors are not optimistic. are you able to cope if this escalation continues? >> no, of course no. situation is stable. and if it continue, we can't. of course we can't. >> reporter: israel, however, is ready for a more drawn out fight. it was revealed today that israeli authorities have prepared for seven weeks of fighting. so, diane, these are very tense times on both sides of the border tonight. >> thank you, alex. and now we bring in once again abc's global affairs anchor, christiane amanpour, in jerusalem tonight. you were there. new target is jerusalem. what did you see all around you today? >> reporter: well, diane, it is absolutely new. we were out earlier today and we heard this air raid siren go. and what happened was that hamas let go a rocket in this direction. you don't get a sense of general panic neither here nor in tel aviv. but people are concerned. they obviously don't want to be on the receiving end of any of these rockets. i t

and he would write a long essay on philip larkin or the chesterton dimension which he wrote in the icu of the m.d. anderson hospital center. an extraordinary range and there could be peachy woodhouse or james bond. or hagel or marks. >> we should not be morbid but we should talk about his courage and the fact that his good manners, his sincere good manners -- you would be sitting at his bedside and -- in the hospital district of houston and people would come in every half an hour and try to get them to do something novel and he never lost it. it stays with me that he was physically very brave and a physically very brave man and we would often be in desperately menacing park in london and there would be some muttering and then a confrontation with five very useful looking young men of no great education and i would be saying come on you know and he would never take a step back. and we arrived one evening and e. and tells the story. christopher said no, he said a man roughing up a woman at the end of the square and he is going to deal with that. >> there was a woman being roughed up in f

icu got this letter out today. >> it's cold. it's about that time of year. we are below average.can complain a little just because we are colder than we should be but it will stick around for awhile. let's show you what's going on on the radar. this is something we are watching some drier air is moving in. we are trying to get a little clearing, but in the upper atmosphere we have a piece of energy that will be moving through. that will bring some clouds. and it will try to bring a couple sprinkles or salaries. don't be surprised. -- sprinkles or flurries. this morning it is still dark. we have a little cloud cover. in the 40's along the coast. here's a colder pocket of air that's down the appalachian mountain expanded to the deep south. it's 43 degrees at reagan national. that is warmer than most of the region. 36 in gaithersburg, 34 in manassas, 38 at dulles. our average high is 63, average low of 45. in the future we will continue to see our full coming in predominantly out of the north northwest. that will keep us chilly out. partly sunny, a few sprinkles possible, 52-56 toda

including children in the icu men with traumatic brain injury.brain dead and doctors not optimistic. are you able to cope if this escalation continues. >> no. tl no. situation is stable. very unstable. and if continue we can of course we can. >>reporter: alex reporting from the gaza strip. >>> well 2 people back here are missing after an explosion on an oil rig in the gulf of mexico. 2 workers triggered the blast while using a cutting torch for mainte people injured 2 not yet found. craw capped off the broken line and put out the fire. a little oil leaked into the ocean just off the coast of louisiana. >>> flames shot up 50 feet into the sky from a fire at chemical plant interdallas. one explosion crabbed window at nearby buildings it was that powerful. column of black smoke can be seen over the entire area. area quite flat you can see the smoke for mile miles. no reports of injuries. not known what sparked the blaze. but it is out tonight. >>> we have some pictures to show you here. wisconsin grandfather being called a hero for pulling a baby fr

right now so many people coming in from the attacks, no icu beds left. right now they're trying to evacuate people out to egypt. inchts violence in the middle east has touched a nerve in our region. two large groups protested outside the white house. one supporting israel and one palestinians. both groups had messages for the obama administration. >> we're very wary and frightened and anxious about what's going to happen in the next four years to come. >> israelis are safer because of u.s. support and the strong u.s. relationship. we're here to thank him, thank the administration, and ensure the continued support of israel from the united states. >> secret service police and a metal fence separated the two groups. >>> a not guilty verdict capped off an emotional three days in the bowie state university murder trial. after just a few hours of deliberations, a jury acquitted alexis simpson on seven charges, including first degree murder. she was accused of stabbing her roommate dominique frazier. the two got into a fight over loud music in their dorm. defe

we're going to speak with that nrk icu norris ahead. an amazing woman.s she and the other folks did. also tonight, an incredibly disturbing story emerging from staten island, new york. this is from wha it looks like from the air. it has not gotten the attention it should have and there is a search on the ground where police found the bodies of two young brothers in a marsh. how they got there is just an unbelievably upsetting story. a mother seeking shelter, losing her children and literally turn ed away by somebody who didn't want to help her and of course, a close-up tour of the aftermath in new york city. i went under ground at the sight of the world trade center. it was bad, could have been much worse. we'll show you how much water is left there. it's all at the top of the hour. >> thanks. and now, our fifth story. breaking new, new details on the deadly attack on the u.s. consulate in libya. an intelligence official this afternoon holing a rare briefing with reporters to defend the cia and this afternoon, our suzanne kelly was the only television re

but during that first night in icu, it became obvious that the clot-dissolving medication was continuing to work. it was really a bad ght. but when karen finally woke up, like later that night, you know, it just became pretty obvious to everyone that it had been more successful than they had... they had originally thought. we were able to reopen the blocked blood vessel and limit the damage from the stroke, but not prevent... but not prevent damage altogether. and for the next two weeks, there were many touch-and-go issues having to do, in part, with how best to go ahead with the delivery, and how much of a threat to the mother continuing to carry the pregnancy was. karen was pretty anxious to have the baby, but she was pretty anxious even before the stroke. she was wanting to get on with it. they were actually thinking of doing a c-section, but then they decided against it. they were all saying, "the baby's fine," and they even brought up an ultrasound to show karen that the baby was just fine, but karen wasn't really going to be convinced until she was here. the neurology team and the

. >> she spent about four days in icu and she was given vials of anti-venom. >>> a piglet named chucksa animal center. >>> we're looking out live at your traffic. there's the toll plaza. sal's coming back one more commute for you. ♪ ♪ we were skipping stones ♪ and letting go ♪ over the river and down the road ♪ [ female announcer ] at nature valley, we know nature comes together in amazing ways. that's why we bring together natural ingredients, like dark chocolate with toasted oats, or sweet golden honey. perfect combinations of nature's delicious ingredients, from nature valley. ♪ ♪ i was thinking that i hope this never ends ♪ [ female announcer ] nature valley granola bars, nature at its most delicious. >>> a memorial service will be held tonight for a san francisco police officer killed in the line of duty 1 years ago. -- 18 years ago. james gel was shot by a carjacking suspect back on november 15th, 1994. police say he shot back at the man. the s.w.a.t. team later shot and killed the man. dianne feinstein introduced a bill that would make it illegal to sell armored equipment to co

these are patients, let's say you have an unstable icu hospital and intrahospital transfer is dauntinges this work? >> listen. usually counting on a stretcher to move a patient, a team of professionals to move them, elevators that work and lights. >> in this case -- >> you have the environment and the patient still needs to be moved and they have the monitoring and life saving equipment attached to them. one example, the patient is intimated. this is all the patient that fits on the desk and simple procedure in one respect is still needs to be ventilated while no longer on the ventilator machine and relatively easy to do but transferring from the bed to the stretcher and then down the hall and then i heard you mention trying to carry them down stairwells. >> right. >> if you dislodge this tube -- >> what happens? >> then the patient doesn't get the oxygen they need and then you have a real medical examp emergency. >> how are people trained for this? >> they're trained regularly but in the dark and the cold under these circumstances, they just use professional training and do the best t

. >> she was in the icu for almost a whole week on the breathing machine and we've never seen a casee size, it was pressing on the heart and the airway. >> and a few months later. >> i can barely see it and now it's gone. >> another year of chemo is still ahead of her, yet she's back in college hopeful and pursuing her passion. >> how important has dance been through this whole process? >> almost therapeutic. in my head, i'm going, i want to dance again so i better get up and stretch and try to walk so i can get back to what i want to do. >> if you could dance anywhere with anyone, who would it be? >> oh, man. probably the rockettes. i didn't grow tall enough to really chase that, i'm only 5'4", you need to be 5'8". >> if i grow 4 inches, i can be a rockette, i can try for it. >> reporter: her first visit to new york just last week. >> here it is. >> reporter: turned into a surprise dream come true for hillary. >> cool. >> your name. >> oh. >> reporter: you're going to go in and do what you always wanted to do and that's be with the rockettes. it'll be fun. >> with the help of the ga

would write a long essay on philip morgan or the chesterton that was mentioned which he wrote in the icu of the m.d. anderson hospital center. >> don't forget -- >> extraordinary range, or could be peachy white house or james bond. or hegel or marx. >> we should, not to be morbid, but we should talk about his courage, and the fact that his good manners, sincere good manners. you would be sitting at his bedside at the hospital in houston, in the house hospital district and people are coming every half hour, every 20 minutes to do something horrible to him, and he never lost his greatness. stays with me that he was physically very brave. he was physically a brave man. and would often be in desperately menacing parts in london on the piccadilly circus comes to, they know their confrontation with sort of five very youthful looking young man of no great education. and i would be saying -- and he would never take a step back to anti-would arrive in here right one evening he make you an. and ian tells us story slightly rolling his eyes but hitch, you're right. let's have a drink. christopher sa

brennan is going into icu. they are putting him down now.t blows oxygen and forces it into his lungs, and i could hear him going i love you, daddy, through the stuff, and -- and i'm sitting there on the phone with the two oth guys right next to him. trying to think, my god, i've got to say good-bye to my son. >> a turn for the worse but not the end for brennan. now he's been in remission for almost 19 months, with his health getting back up to par, doctors allowed him to return to the sport he loved. >> now on the champions tour. >> reporter: here at the tyco golf skills challenge in palm beach, florida, brennan got to watch and go head to head with some of his heros from the pga tour. while trying to beat cancer and hold his own with the pros, brennan imagines a future career off the golf course. how old are you right now? >> 10. >> reporter: and what do you want to be when you grow up? >> a nurse. >> reporter: you want to be a nurse. did you always want to be a nurse or just since you spent time at st. jude's. >> just since i spent time at

. -- icu one night. there was a screaming baby next door. i felt bad for the baby.e there anymore than i did. it was not the baby or the clowns fault, i was the one who did not belong there. the only problem with the plan, is the place i did a long did not exist yet. -- i did belong did not exist yet. teen cancer america unit are hospital wards designed specifically for teenagers and has an emphasis on independence area and shortly after i was diagnosed i was so eager to find someone who was going through what i was. i read an article about a local high school football player that was diagnosed with a brain tumor. i reached out through him through the wonders of the internet. he was gracious enough to write back to me. we wrote a little bit of back- and-forth about his journey and what he went through. i learned a little bit about it. it was nice to know i was not the only one in the state of georgia that has a brain tumor. irt felt better knowing i was not the only one. i realized that most teenagers would not go out seeking that kind of support. i consider myself