mr hopkins are you able to harris. yes fraction can you tell us what's the latest situation where you are. of the casualties and the injuries people have received. at our facility we are one of the chiefs at least receiving the. the patients from the from the blast right now we have seen sixty five patients one of which is critical the majority of the ones we've seen have had already broken bones head injuries and a lot of them had a head and hydrous ammonia inhalation from the from the fertilizer plant what is the effect of that inhalation. it should be short term it's treated properly we have had a massive response from our medical our doctors our nurses our respiratory therapist and they have been able to to treat and release most of the ones who have who have had the exposure to the to the ammonia we have had twelve admissions of the sixty five patients we have seen and intensive how you've been able to come at any stage with the hospital overwhelmed will have all of the contin contingency plans that are going to p

mr. hopkins, just tell us,what sort of injuries are you treating people for after this explosion? right now, we've treated broken bones, head injuries and quite a few from respiratory distress from the an hydrous ammonia. >> we have to be very careful in terms of decon tam nalting these patients. we have also been put on alert that dpepding on how the wind blows, that it could affect us here in waco. they seem to be doing well. we have had tremendous physician support, nursing respiratory, all of those folks have been here. and we've been able to take care of the situation as best we can. >> i read somewhere that every ambulance in central texas is on the scene there. does that sound like a fair assessment? >> that sounds like a very fair -- a very fair statement, absolutely. and there's been people from the dallas ft. worth metropolitan area all over central texas responding to the terrible disaster. >> what are you expecting in the coming hours? >> well, we should have probably the majority of the folks that have been triaged at the local football field. we probably will be seei

hopkins county. john king just received 40 years on his charge of evading and i believe burglary charges. >> and mr. cummings, your area is reeling following the murders of two prosecutors over the last two months in a nearby county. you know, one has to wonder, you know, whether there was increased security at your facility just as there has been at many other state and local government buildings and heightened security of civil servants as a whole. >> yes. you know, in regards to that, i've been asked about that also. this is being considered a coincidence and no relation to that at this time. >> all right, sergeant brad cummings, thanks so much for your time. >> thanks. >>> the widow of a murder victim is seething after learning the convict that gunned down her husband was let out of prison in colorado four years early. colorado court officials apologized for the clerical error that led to evan ebel's premature release. they believe he killed nathan leon, a father who worked at ibm and then delivered pizza on the off hours to earn some extra money for the family. investigators found the pizza box

hopkins school of advanced international studeys. holds an ma from new college, oxford university. please proceed. >> thank you, mr. chairman, and senator cruz, and other members of the committee for the privilege of testifying. we at the new america foundation basically have been collecting data on cia drone strikes for the past three or four years, and i'm not a lawyer but my presentation will really be about kind of what has been happening in the drone program and here are the main points. under president obama there's been 307 drone strikes in pakistan. six times more than pressure pressure did in his four -- president bush did in his two terms in office. the total number of deaths in pakistan we calculate between 2,000 to 2,300 roughly. the drone program in pakistan has changed in 2010. there were 122 don't strikes. over time it has decreased and that's for a series of reasons. there's been a significant pushback from the statement department about are we losing the wider war in pakistan? it's a price of a successful drone program is angering 180 million pakistanize, a country with nuclear weapons, that's a la

andy harris, a johns hopkins physician and also also maybe of the u.s. house from maryland. dr. harris. mr. harris: thank you very much. i'd like to thank the gentleman from new jersey for bringing this subject to the attention of the american people. because this is a subject that's not going away. what we're talking about today, of course, is a trial going on in pennsylvania, little heard about in the press, but one that's very significant, because when it's coupled with what the gentleman from pennsylvania and the gentleman from louisiana spoke about, the overarching medical ethics question, it's something we have to come to deal with. because, mr. speaker, it is true that apparently in dr. gosnell's mind, there was little difference between a late-term abortion and killing a baby after birth. and make no mistake about it, these children were killed because the trial right now is for seven cases of murder. on those newborns. interestingly, only discovered because of the death of the mother. and to show how flippantly many states have dealt with the issue of regulating clinics like that,