. >> joining me now is kim smith, an intensive care nurse at doctors regional hospital in corpus christi, texas. thank you so much for being with us and everything you do. >> thank you. thank you for having me. >> so, kim, covid-19 cases, hospitalizations, icu admissions and deaths are surging in this country. ppe supplies are running out and health care workers are stretched to the limits. tell us what your experience is on the front lines and how does it make you feel every day when you have to deal with this? >> i can definitely see here -- i've been in nursing for going on 23 years and this is the most stressed i've ever seen my fellow nurses in my whole career. you know, just emotional impact as well as the physical toll day in and day out. first they worry about their own space, worry about the safety of our fellow co-workers, our families. trying to keep our patients safe. the stress level is higher than i've ever seen it. and then you add on concerns about the safety factor, how much protection i'm getting. i have never felt more under valued as a nurse when i look at the level o

. >> and earlier i spoke with kim smith, she is an icu nurse based in corpus christi, texas, and she told me how the last few weeks have affected her and her colleagues. >> i've been nursing for going on 23 years. this this is the most stressed i've ever seen my fellow nurses in my whole career. you know, just emotional impact as well at physical toll. day in and day out, you know, of course they worry about their own safety. we worry about safety of our fellow co-workers, our families. trying to keep our patients safe. so, definitely the stress level's higher than i've ever seen it. then you add on to concerns about the, you know, safety fact? how much protection are we getting with our ppe? and just the overall, you know, i -- i have never felt more undervalued as a nurse when i look at the level of protection i've been given. >> icu nurse kim smith talking to me a little earlier. >>> well, brazil now sits on a massive 2.4 million cases, but the number of new cases has decreased over the weekend. that country's president, jair bolsonaro, now says he has tested negative after having

reporter: blood found on the nearby wall and marks on kim's body suggested she was struck repeatedly and so forcibly that she probably blacked out. smithd kim was then bound at the wrists -- >> she's zip-tied to this dresser. >> reporter: -- giving kim's attacker time to step out of that first floor bedroom and into the kitchen that lay just beyond. drawers randomly opened indicated someone had been rifling through the room. but that pause also gave kim time to regain consciousness, free herself, and do something incredible. >> she opens this drawer somehow. she got the gun out and she aimed -- now she probably can't see really well. she is punched in the face, so she fired the gun five times. it went through the doorjamb and up into the ceiling in the kitchen. >> reporter: so her attacker was, you believe -- obviously was outside that door. >> she either saw him or heard him, and she fired off five shots, and the gun was empty. >> reporter: but she missed. >> she missed. >> reporter: even then, she said, kim did not give up. >> so, she's able to move and she leaves this area. she still has the gun in her hand and as she moves around t

. >> kim cattrall's love interest, best known as smith jerrod, first popped up on "sex and the city"ventually their move to l.a., but alas, it didn't last. >> lewis, age 49, has popped up on australian tv, looking rugged and still awesome, according to the person who wrote this. ladies and gents, he's off the market. lewis announced his engagement this past february to actress liz godwin for his own happily ever after. congratulations. >>> next to a "bachelor" bunker right here in manhattan. >> matt james, the first black lead in "bachelor" history, is shelter is in place -- what? it's happening with a fellow bachelor, okay. >> matt is bunking with his bff, 27-year-old "bachelorette" star tyler cameron in a splashy two-bedroom condo. >> in the meantime, matt apparently won't have to worry about getting in shape for the show, there's no sign of the covid 15 there. "the bachelor" is set to begin filming in late september -- and yeah. ♪ everywhere around the world they're coming to america ♪ and looking to buy life insurance on a fixed budget, remember the three p's. what are the three

smith: the gentleman's time has expired. mr. kim is recognized. >> thank you for coming on here and talking to us today. as you referred to earlier, many of us members were briefed in this room earlier today about the intelligence about what we know, about possible russian payments to the taliban or militants to kill american soldiers and servicemembers in afghanistan. aside the discussions about whether or not there is sufficient evidence regarding possible bounties or payments, whatever we want to call it, the intelligence and what we know inut russian efforts afghanistan were targeting our personnel is deeply concerning to me and general milley, you made reference to this saying something this is we have known for a long time. i want to ask this question. but think about a previous time we have been in this room together at the beginning of this year talking about iran and at that time, secretary esper and others were talking about how there was a threat to our personnel with regards to iraq and the region due to iranians -- iran