over there the united medical center. a sign of progress.last april, a woman was struck and killed by a hit and run driver. the city says it would study the crossing problem. ten days ago, when another woman was struck and killed by another hit and run drive, the city said it had a tentative plan to do something next year. but today, action. it appears someone put this project on the fast track. see that in front of the united medical center? it's a crosswalk. you see, up until now, this is the only hospital in our city that didn't have a crosswalk at its entrance. this year, two women have been struck and killed by hit and run drivers as they were leaving the united medical center trying to cross southern avenue. and for years, people here have been waiting for some crossing help. david thompson is with the united medical center. >> this is like a blessing and the short -- the short way to say it's a blessing because we need a traffic light here, a crosswalk, we needme

this comes after two separate hit and run crashes just outside the united medical center. this is where we find pat collins on the story. >> why doesn't the united medical center have a traffic light and crosswalk at its entrance? all the other hospitals do. tonight word from the mayor's office of a possible tentative fix. neck year. -- next year. >> this is ricardo robinson crossing southern avenue at the entrance to the united medical center. he says getting from here to there can be dangerous. >> the cars are not being controlled by the speed limit they supposed to be driving. they like racing. >> unlike most hospitals in our city, there is no traffic light or crosswalk at the entrance to the united medical center. so far this year, two women have been struck and killed by hit and run drivers here. one of the victims faith pines, simone jordan is her daughter. >> if you had a chaps to talk to leaders of the city what would you tell them? >> you need to put a stop sign or light to save those people's lives. you need to do something. >> council member charles says it shou

he here, not the united medical center on southern avenue and it's having deadly consequences. southern avenue, where many cars travel at a high rate of speed, where people coming to and from the hospital often find themselves in harm's watch >> crossing the streets. >> very dangerous. >> without a doubt, always have been treacherous. >> reporter: last april, 68-year-old faith pines struck and killed by a hit and run driver as she was leaving the hospital. last friday, 56-year-old emma bet cab bay day, hit and killed by a driver almost at the same spot. emma bet a long-time physician's assistant at united medical center was leaving work when it happened. she comes from a large and loving family. >> my mother was the kindest american you will ever meet in your entire life. she was the most hard working person i have ever known. >> reporter: this is the entrance to the unite medical enter. this is the bus stop many people use to get from here to the hospital over there. the nearest traffic light, the nearest safe crosswalk is way down the street, nearly two blocks down the street

for years, emma bet worked here at the united medical center. she was a highly regarded medical professional. >> you can feel her absence. it's kind of hard to believe she's not gonna be there anymore. and i'm not quite sure, you know, how we're gonna do without her. >> reporter: it was just last april that 68-year-old faith pines was struck and killed by a hit and run driver on southern avenue at almost the exact same spot. [ sirens ] now at the entrance of the united medical center, there is no traffic light. there is no crosswalk. what's it gonna take to get a traffic light here? more on that coming up at 6:00. live in southeast, pat collins, news4. >> as pat just mentioned ed ie reference, the second time in just a matter of months someone was killed in a hit and run crash outside of united medical that woman named faith pipes hit and killed when she tried to cross southern avenue in april. she had been to visit a friend at a hospital. and a woman who worked at a nearby apartment complex is charged in that case. see pat's previous story abou

two bus stops moved to make room for the crosswalk at the united medical center. they will be flashing pedestrianing signs and by december, they say a pedestrian acti pedestrian-activated light. they will get a crosswalk and when they get that traffic light here, safe. live in southeast, pat collins, news4. >>> reeve out, kirk cousins n one surprise after another. jason pugh here with what this means for the team and for robert griffin iii. jason? >> reporter: yeah vance, hard to believe how far robert griffin iii has fallen since his rookie season. his career with the redskins maybe coming to and enbefore it gets a chance to start this year. kirk cousins named quarterback by jay gruden today. kirk named the starter after jay gruden pegged griffin for the job back in february. rg3 not cleared for contact after the concussion. neither that nor his performance bayhed into the decision. >> not so much what somebody didn't do, just what kirk has done. and i think what he has done in practice and otas has opened our eyes and proven to be the best quarterback on our ros

we're talking about southern avenue in front of united medical center. in the past few months we have seen two women killed in hit and run crashes. >> why is there no traffic light and crosswalk at the united medical center here? there have been two fatal hit and runs here since april and the daughter of one of the victims says a traffic light has made a big difference. >> do you think there was a traffic light at the entrance of the united medical center your mother might be alive today? >> i do. i really do. >> last friday, another woman, a physicians assistant at the hospital struck and killed trying to cross the street at the very same spot. you see, unlike other hospitas s if you want to get from there to here, you're on your own. and she cannot understand why there is no traffic light here. >> what would you tell them? >> you need to get out there and put a stop sign out there or a stoplight to save those people's lives. >> they take publicses transportation to the hospital. >> would you put one there? >> we're going to look at it. >> can you promi

see that in front of the united medical center? it's a crosswalk. you see, up until now, this is the only hospital in our city that didn't have a crosswalk at its entrance. this year, two women have been struck and killed by hit and run drivers as they were leaving the united medical center trying to cross southern avenue. and for years, people here have been waiting for some crossing help. david thompson is with the united medical center. >> this is like a blessing and the short -- the short way to say it's a blessing because we need a traffic light here, a crosswalk, we need something that's gonna help the people cross to come to the hospital, employees and patients and visitors. >> reporter: now they have deployed a small army of people to make this happen. two bus stops are being moved to make room for the crosswalk, which will be ada compliant. robert hort isn't ddot project manager. this is on the fast track? >> yeah. boy say it's on the fast track. the good thing about this, it will make it a lot easier for the residents and folks who visit t

patients and coworkers at united medical center are heartbroken. she had worked at the hospital for years. dozens of friends and family members, many overcome with grief, came together to mourn the sudden loss of their friend. >> i lost my partner of 31 years. my wife, my best half. a wonderful person. roz: friday evening, she was hit and killed by a hit-and-run driver. she had just left work. she was crossing southern avenue, on her way to metro. supervisor said she worked at the hospital for 10 years as a physician assistant, often caring for the indigent. >> she was so dedicated to all the underprivileged patients. i'm so humbled to have worked with her. active inas also their ethiopian community, often helping others get settled. >> she made america beautiful. she was like a mother to the second generation. z: friday, police released this photo of a person of interest. wasvehicle that struck her a newer model black chevy tahoe. her family now wants to see justice served. >> i don't want people to die senseless. we are human beings. roz: d.c. po

many of you were worried about crossing the road outside of the united medical center in southeast washington. hundreds of you including many hospital employees attended a vigil last night, calling for a crosswalk to be installed there. a 56-year-old died friday after a driver hit her on the busy southern avenue. the driver did not stop. it is the second fatal accident this year. the mayor's office told news4 earlier this week they'll try to get a crosswalk installed by early next year. >>> 4:48 your time now. the presidential race stopping in our area today. maryland governor larry hogan is holding a fund-raiser for new jersey governor chris christie in annapolis this afternoon. christie is running for president or the republican nomination. he was a big supporter of hogan last year. hillary clinton opening up about the possibility of joe biden joining the race. he has a difficult decision and that she always expected a competitive campaign. she said she made a bad choice using a personal e-mail for work while she was secretary of state. in a new report from the associated press, the a.p. sa

. >>> new tonight, hundreds of people came together to call for a crosswalk outside the united medicalr in southeast washington. 56-year-old emma bet kabiti died friday after a driver hit her on busy southern avenue. that driver did not stop. it's the second fatal accident this year. many hospital employees attended the vigil tonight, say thanksgiving have to fight the traffic to get to work every day. the mayor's office told us yesterday, you saw, that they will try to get a crosswalk installed by early next year. >>> for the first time in a week, we're not talking about calming your financial fears. wall street had its best day since 2011 today. the dow closed up more than 600 points. the s&p and nasdaq jumped up about 4% each. it follows six straight days of massive declines, and there is still a lot of ground to make up. the dow lost more than 1900 points over that six-day slide. >>> this week, the gulf coast is pausing to remember hurricane katrina. tomorrow president obama will mark ten years since the storm ravaged new orleans. more than 1800 people were killed, and a million ot

mayor muriel bowser now says tonight she hopes to add a stoplight and crosswalk in front of the united medicalcenter. the mayor's office tells us tonight they hope to get it installed on southern avenue by early next year. right now, there is a bus stop across the street, but the closest traffic light and crosswalk about two blocks away. >>> next at 11, a healthy local mom makes a decision for the good of her family. >> i couldn't even handle or even think about my kids growing up without a mom. >> why she says that meant having her stomach surgically removed. >>> a hero's return to america. hear from the family of one of the men who stopped a potential massacre in france. >>> seems quiet. but we're talking about a nice stretch followed by a heatwave and the latest on tropical storm erika. >>> one of the americans who helped wrestle a gunman to the ground on a french train is back home tonight. college student anthony sadler and his family were flown to oregon on a private jet owned by the ceo of columbia sportswear. he is now back in his hometown of sacramento, california. before leaving, sad

there's no crosswalk or stop walk to the entrance of united medical center on center avenue. you can see from this video, people just dart across the road. and she died friday night trying to do just that. news4 took this issue to muriel bowser. and she said she will consider adding a stop light to the crosswalk. >>> the 14-year-old held 27 classmates hostage. you can see the school went into lockdown. police then negotiated with that teenager. he let everyone go and no one was hurt. >> when they took us to the football field, that's when i realized this was actually happening. >> thank god that none of our students was hurt. it's been a drying day for schools students and kids. >> it's not clear whether the teenager will be charged with anything. >>> curtis smith was shot and killed in chester county courthouse in pennsylvania. smith was facing similarly, assault, and harassment charges after jumping the white house fence back in had march. there's no word on why he was at district court yesterday. the deputy hurt his arm and hand but is expected to be okay. >>> it is 6:36.

two women died walking near the united medical center in southeast. there's no crosswalk or stop light. people just dart across the busy southern avenue. you can see from this video. police say a vehicle hit and killed one of the victims friday. other victim's daughter has this message for city leaders. >> you need to get out there and put a stop sign out there or stop light to save those people's lives. they're going to work, they're trying to get the bus. you need to do something. >> we asked muriel bowser about this issue, and she said she will consider adding a stop light in front of the medical center. >>> in news4 your health, what you wear to visit a newborn may be dangerous. researchers in australia found that clothing worn to neonatal care units may put babies to respiratory problems. respiratory virus, rsv as it's known, officials agree anyone visiting a newborn should be asked to wear a separate sterilized gown. >> treatment beds will be added for addicts on the shore. the state will spend $10 million to the initial state response on the gr

. >>> well, many of you are worried about crossing the record outside of the united medical center in southeast d.c. hundreds of people including hospital employees attended a vigil last night, calling for a crosswalk to be installed. 56-year-old emebet kebede died after she was struck. it's the second fatal accident there this year. news4 was told that a crosswalk will be installed by next year. >>> a man who fly a gyrocopter inside the d.c. restricted air space is headed to court. he is asking a judge if he can hire a special first amendment lawyer. hughs said he flew the gyrocopter as an act of civil disobedience back in april. he was protesting special interest money in politics. >>> an oklahoma day care closed for allegedly drugging children to help them go to sleep. this woman says herb 6-month-old son could barely keep his eyes open after coming home from the day care. it turns out that day care was allegedly giving children benadryl. benadryl should not be given to infants unless ordered by a doctor. it can cause small children to stop breathing. >> what she was doing was mess

it happened just outside the united medical center on friday evening, an area where there is no crosswalk and there is no stoplights. the victim's daughter called her mother an incredibly kind and hard working woman. >> her only goal in life was to see her family happy and to see her family be able to live well and to help as many people as she could. >> police did release this image of a man considered a person of interest in this crash. we are told they have identified him. they have recovered the vehicle that's involved but at this point, no one is facing any charges. >>> stopping a possible terrorist in his tracks, how three americans were honored today overseas. >>> a major fast food chain announces it is going to be hiring thousands of workers in the coming weeks. we will tell you how you can get your foot in the door. >>> and we are on panda watch. why caring for the new cubs is touch and go. >>> we are now following some breaking news in new york. a casino bus has crashed into a building in queens. our sister station in new york says six people have been injured. the chopper saw s

on top of that 51 inmates are being observed at the prisons medical unit. five of the six inmates are being treated at outside hospitals. cooking has stopped at the prison and boxed food as well as bottled water is being brought in for the staff and prisoners. legionella bacteria can grow in water so officials are taking as many precautions as possible. symptoms of the disease are typically high fever, chills, and coughing. folks in the easbay are on edge tonight. a gas station was robbed in pleasant hill this evening. it happened in broad day light and near a busy road. now police say they are busy looking for the man responsible. kron 4's emily turner has the story. if >>:right now a man hunt is in full affect it happened before six oclock this evening. polce say he went into the store put the gun into the clerks mouth and took the cash from the register and took off in a getaway car. but not before hefired a shot and hit the clerk in the mouth, injuring him. he was taken to the hospital and is going to be okay. in the meantime, police are now looking for

this involved the united medical center southern avenue, we saw the channel 4 broadcast of people dodging cars. i was amazed that this was the only hospital in the city that didn't have a crosswalk so that people could get back and forth across a major thoroughfare. >> i think what the video did and what the unfortunate story of two people being killed trying to cross that street does too, it sort of isolates and maybe supports those in ward 8 who say, listen, we're not getting is the services or the protection or the attention that the other wards are getting. i know that muriel bowser one of her big issues when she was running for mayor was, listen, i'm going to have a representative in ward 8. i'm going to know about the issues going on there. channel 4 had to press her about getting a light there. it will happen. still, how quickly can it happen? it doesn't sound any time immediate. >> you know what i like about this story is what we saw on channel 4, the legendary pat collins doing performance art as journalism. showing this was a problem, putting a spotlight on it and then making th

disease, bringing the total to six. 51 inmates are under observation for the illness in the prison medical unitlegionnaire bacteria grow in water and spread through water molecules. all cooking at san quentin has stopped. inmates are being fed boxed meals. all running water has been halted. >>> contra costa county fire says a car fire sparked a vegetation blaze in martinez this morning. the fire broke out around 9:30 at franklin canyon road near alhambra road. here's what it looked like from our highway 4 camera pointed toward martinez. you can see the plume of gray smoke in the hills. about 7 acres of grassland burned. >>> highway 101 on the peninsula is set to shut down once again tonight so crews could replace damaged power lines that came down during a construction accident on friday. all lanes of highway 101 in burlingame were closed friday night after a crane hit a high- voltage pg&e tower near the broadway accident. the accident sent live wires onto the highway and cars. traffic was backed up for miles. tonight at 10:00, the highway patrol will close all lanes of 101 at broadway again so

nelson says his girlfriend, alexandra dire is disfigured and undergoing treatment at the burn unit at cornell medical center. the 59-year-old was leaving her job in sunny side queens wednesday evening when a man called to her, then tossed a chemical gel-like mixture in her face. >> open the ice. she can see. you know. literally like nothing. >> her face is burned. >> yeah. bad. maybe going to need some operations. >> dire is the executive director of healing arts initiative. a nonprofit that brings art to the less fortunate. she also became ordained under the roman catholic women priests. >> she said she has been called to the priest hood since she is 7. she is highly significant to the nonprofits she serves and significant to the people. >> as police continue for the man who put dire in the hospital, her neighbors in queens say keeping her in their thoughts. >> she can keep pushing through it. yeah, her parents may be altered, but she is still, hopefully she still has that heart to love. >> in sunny side queens, channel 7 eyewitness news. >>> there are new calls tonight for changes in times square.

have contracted legionnaire disease, another 51 inmates are under observation at the prison's medical unit prison has stopped, because bacteria grows in water can spread through water molecules. inmates are now being served box meals. also, portable toilet, bottle water and large water tanks, were brought in to serve thousands every inmates and employees. >>> renounded neurologist, and author, oliver sacks, whose life was portrayed by robin williams in the movie awakening, he's passed away at the age of 82. cbs news correspondent brewer takes a look back at his life. >> in 1973, doctor oliver sacks came to fame with his book awakening. documenting how he freed patient that bronx hospital, from a cat tonic state. >> what i believe, what i know, these people are alive inside. >> the book inspired in 1990 movie, robin williams, playing the doctor. in 1996, morally safer sat down with the actor and the scientist, for 60 minutes. >> incredible combination of this incredible gentleness combined with this curiosity. >> that curiosity drove sacks to explore the outer limit of the human mind. >> i

they will be taken up to our classification unit, processed, medical and classification does what they have got to do. >> this the first time i've ever been to the penitentiary. i've been here before visiting. but for the first time, i don't really know the emotion. maybe i'm a little numb in my head, but i'll be all right. >> need you on the scale there, please. >> 32-year-old jason rogers is about to begin a 24-year sentence for aggravated robbery. >> you're about 171. i need you to step right here and footprint. face the camera. >> i never thought i'd end up in any penitentiary, much less brushy mountain. that's not the type of person i am. you know. i might get thrown in jail for drinking or something, maybe a barroom fight or something like that, but not penitentiary stuff. >> once the offenders are identified and fingerprinted, they undergo an in-depth psychological exam. >> i just need to ask you a few routine questions. want to get a little history. jason, how did you get yourself into something like that? could you just briefly tell me what happened? >> well, basically, it was

my guest tonight-- he's the medical correspondent for cnn and traveled with the us navy's medical unitnjay gupta. doctor! [music playing] how are you, sir? thank you. come on up and sit down. how are ya? -i'm doing great. thanks for having me. oh, please, doctor. listen, thank-- well, welcome home. i'm glad you're home safe and sound. yeah, nice transition. sitting in a tent in the desert, and now here with you guys. and now in a basic cable tent in the middle of manhattan. [laughter] where were you? you were stationed with the us mash unit-- the navy mash? right. they're naval doctors who work with the marines. they travel. they're a mobile surgical unit, so they-- jon: on land, though. it's navy doctors, but they're not-- they're not ship-bound. they're with the-- -that's right. they're on land from northern kuwait into baghdad. ok, and where-- did you follow them from kuwait all the way into baghdad? all the way, yeah. we stopped at various places along the way and set up camp and took care of the patients that were coming, iraqi and coalition force members, and then eventually made

. >>> meanwhile, the united nations has condemned the shutting down of some of iraq's life-saving medical services. last month around 80% of health programs provided by the u.n. and its partners were forced to close. the reason? not able to raise the half a billion dollars required to fund services which it described as devastates and inis mritable. thousands of children won't be immunized now. we went toe one hospital in baghdad to see how the doctors are coping. >> reporter: at this hospital this doctor doles out medical care and dispenses hard truths. >> this is a tough challenge. living in a city with violence, daily violence, a city with -- living in a city with low infrastructure and trying to do our best to give the best to those patients is not easy. >> reporter: while this government-run facility is cleaner and better stocked than many other hospitals and clinics in iraq's capital, it's certainly not immune to the crisis spreading through a health care system here many consider declaying and diseased. the shortage of supplies and well-trained staff is nothing new in iraq. things

the medications stored inside here must stay constantly reference refrigerated and why the cooling unitseep refrigerated and at a time when there is power cuts the hospitals and others are relying on back-up generators and back inside patients find on a relatively slow day wait times are long. >> translator: if i had a critical condition and needed immediate surgery, i'd have to wait a month to get my turn and that's not practical at all. >> reporter: going to a private hospital would be far too expensive for this couple. the ministry of health isn't the only institution in the country struggling to deliver medical aid. the united nations recently announced a funding gap forcing 80% of front line services in iraq to shut down. one million people are affected. >> it means that all the kids who are going to be immunized are not going to be immunized and means all the pregnant women who needed help during birth and before birth and afterward are not going to receive that as cyst answer. >> reporter: three million people are displaced inside iraq. >> it's painful, it hurts and the people who

disease the san clemson is now up to six on top of the 51 inmates are being observed at the prison's medical unit five of those six and being treated with the disease of the entry that outside hospitals could be has been stopped at the prison and boxful this was bottled water are being brought in to the prisons and for the staff the bacteria can grow in water they're taking those precautions and more an efficient producer of the disease are typically high fever and chills and coughing. >>mark: federal court argument on whether california's death penalty is unconstitutional because of excess of the latest they ruled that the delays of mount to cruel and unusual punishment they noted the more than 900 you of the sentence to death since 1978 off yet only 13 have been executed. >>darya: he's a 27 year-old cameraman who was shot and killed on live tv last week there host a public memorial today for him and he graduated from high school 2007 and played football for two state championship teams of the school fare been asked whether the high schools in virginia tech colors those were his two favorite tea

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on top of that 51 inmates are being observed at the prisons medical unit. five of the six inmates are being treated at outside hospitals. cooking has stopped at the prison and boxed food as well as bottled water is being brought in for the staff and prisoners. legionella bacteria can grow in water so officials are taking as many precautions as possible. symptoms of the disease are typically high fever, chills, and coughing. an alarming crime in one pleasant hill neighborhood tonight. an armed violent robber is on the loose after attacking a clerk at a gas station. it's a story you'll only see on kron 4. emily turner joins us live from the scene. emily, what can you tell us about the manhunt? >> emily : the man hunt is in full effect right now in fact i just saw police officers go to search more yards around the gas station. here is a video from around 6:00 this evening and just before that is when police say that a man walked into the gas station in pleasant hill and he held the gas station owner up for money and put the gun in the owner's mouth after takin

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>>> with more than 700 medical personnel, 5,000 units of blood, and 12 operating rooms, you're standing in one of the largest trauma facilities in the united states. except, this isn't your average hospital. and we're not even in the united states. i'm dr. sanjay gupta, and this is "vital signs." right now, we're on the usns comfort, part of a mission called continuing promise. in fact, we're in jamaica. this is the third of 11 stops that will take place over the next five months, and the staff will take care of more than 100,000 patients. we've decided to go along for the ride. ♪ >> marlene maxwell hopes to be one of those patients. she's 56 years old from kingston, jamaica. passionate about her family and her faith. for eight years now, she's been dealing with an overactive thyroid. the thyroid is a gland near your windpipe that helps produce hormones to keep your body in check. >> it pains on this side. sometimes it will come up, like it will block off an airway. >> marlene says the health care in jamaica is good, if you can get it. >> well, i would say it's good health care, but it'

the ministry of health isn't the only institution in the country struggling to deliver medical aid. the united nations recently announced a funding gap forcing 80% of front line health services in iraq to shut down. 1 million people are affected. >> it means the kids who were going to be imknew niced aren't going to be. the pregnant woman who needed help, they are not going to receive assistance. >> three million people are displaced inside iraq. >> it's painful, it hurts. the people who need us the most right now, we are walking away from them. when you are in a clinic that yesterday was providing antibiotics and today is closed because we don't have the funding, you have nothing but shame. you are ashamed. >> reporter: another blow to a country whose people need more help but are receiving less and less. >>> peru's congress passed a law allowing military to shoot down any aircraft suspected of smuggling drugs. peru is the world's top producer. small planes are used to transport cocaine abroad. >>> the speaker of brazil's lower house of congress and the former president have been charged in t

and much of it came to a head when the shah was permitted into the united states for medical reasons.mobs of students are protesting outside the u.s. embassy. >> imagine a quarter million people chanting death to america. people knew that tensions were very high. >> on the morning of november 4th, 1979, ten months into the protest, rocky sickman, a 22-year-old marine security guard, gets a stress call that iranian students are storming the embassy grounds. >> over the gate came these individuals. i took off running back to the main embassy building. >> many of these students started to shake the main gate and to climb over or use cutters to cut the chain. >> sickman and another marine make it inside the building just as a group of students makes it through the gate. >> your adrenaline is pumping. but at the same time, you're trying to load your pistol. you're thinking, here is rocky sickman from missouri. this is where it's going to end. >> sickman says he and his colleagues are ready to shoot but receive an order to stand down. >> our orders are don't fire, don't antagonize because h

. >>> with more than 700 medical personnel, 5,000 units of blood, and 12 operating rooms, you're standingone of the largest trauma facilities in the united states. except, this isn't your average hospital. and we're not even in the united states. i'm dr. sanjay gupta, and this is "vital signs." right now, we're on the usns comfort, part of a mission called continuing promise. in fact, we're in jamaica. this is the third of 11 stops that will take place over the next five months, and the staff will take care of more than 100,000 patients. we've decided to go along for the ride. ♪

flow of traffic during chow and also during the course of the inmates returning back to the units because of medicalal appointments or mental health appointments they have. go back. get an escort. you've got to be escorted. you've got to be escorted this time of day. welcome to my world. i'm the eyes and ears of this south block rotunda. here, everybody is looking at me as the point man, hey, which way we got to go? that's it. that is the completion. we are done. we are done. successful. well, here we go. i'm regrouping now. i rethink everything. i look, and i do the same program with another unit. dining hall one, this is yard five, let me know when you are done, chow house clear. make sure my officers are safe when we first start. make sure we have adequate coverage to get the inmates in, safe, seat them, bring them back. you'll see that. during the course -- now we got an alarm. control, we have an alarm, south block. >> officer brucell must secure all surrounding areas to ensure the other inmates and officers' safety until further information on the alarm is received. >> all inmates return to th

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today we are going to spend the next hour and a half talking about advancing medical innovation for a healthier america. united states has been a global leader in medical innovation for decades, yet tens of millions of americans have neither cures nor effective treatments for their diseases, patients with alzheimer's, parkinson's. we have about 10,000 known diseases that have been defined that have names and have science and symptoms but for those 10,000 we only have 500 treatments. we have a lot of to do. u.s. has invested over time, 20 years 1.5 trillion. not billion, $1.5 trillion. if you look at those investments they have not resulted in progress in that whole process of discovery and development in approval of medical products. expensive and lengthy developments end up slowing down that advancement of medicine and slow down access to new and effective treatments. we all know and hear statistics that a new drug today takes about two billion dollars in terms of an investment and takes about ten years for the drug to reach the marketplace. for those individuals or those patients who are facing a life threat

legionnaires' disease and outside hospitals on top of that 51 inmates are being monitored at the prison's medical unit the disease to grow in water so right now no cooking is taking place at san quentin box food and bottled water are being brought in for the employees and for the prisoners a manhunt is underway and cousin hill this morning. >>james: a gas station is rotted in broad daylight they show us police need the public's help to track the suspect down. >>emily turner: he went into the store into the cash from the register and took off in the getaway car they said he fired a shot at and hit the clerk in the mouth of the gun and drink him he was taken to hospital and is going to be o.k. but in the meantime there are now looking for the man who did it he is a black man and his spurs with a bald head about 59 now they need the public's of finding him. >>: i encourage the residence to be vigilant with your gas station or shopping for groceries be aware of your surroundings for law enforcement will be is following up on this case there's a valens videos and the store and it will be using that to help

the medication stored inside here must stay constantly refrigerated. that's why these cooling units have to keep working. and this is during a time there are so many power cuts that this hospital and others are relying on back up generators. back inside patients find on a relatively slow day wait times are long. >> if i had critical condition and needed immediate surgery, i would need a month to get my turn, and that's not practical at all. >> going to a private hospital would be far too expensive for this couple. the ministry of health isn't the only institution in the country struggling to deliver medical aid. the united nations recentlily announced a funding gap forcing front line health services in iraq to shut down. 1million people are affected. >> it means that all the kids who are going to be immunized are not going to be immunized. all the pregnant people who need birth, before birth and after, they're not going to receive that assistance. >> 3 million people are displaced inside iraq. >> when you're in a clinic that yesterday was yesterday was providing antibiotics and toda

. >> carter agreed to allow the shah to come to the united states for medical treatment.it this conflagration. >> the american embassy in tehran is in the hands of muslim students tonight, spurred on by anti-american speech by ayatollah khomeini, they stormed the embassy, fought the marine guards for three hours, overpowered them and took dozens of american hostages. >> the iranians burned the united states flag and denounced the u.s. government saying they would stay until the u.s. sends the deposed shah back to iran. >> what i remember, this was the second day, was that the provisional government of dr. bosergon, the prime minister, which was essentially the people we dealt with, had resigned. at that point i remember thinking we are definitely in the soup because there was no one to talk to. there was no government for our government to talk to. >> in tehran it is tuesday morning. the hostages at the american embassy more than 60 of them have spent another night. their ninth as prisoners of the iranian captors. and today president carter made his first public response

medical innovation for a healthier america. how do we accelerate that innovation to the future? the unitedtates has been a global leader in medical innovation for decades. yet, tens of millions of americans have neither cures nor effective treatments for their diseases. this includes patients with alzheimer's, parkinson's disease, certain types of leukemia. etc., we have about 10,000 known diseases that have been defined, the have names, science, and symptoms come up but we only have 500 treatments. we have a lot to do. the united states has invested over time, over the past 20 years, approximately $1.5 trillion -- not billion, but trillion. however, if you look at those investments, they have not resulted in a commensurate level of progress in that whole process of discovery and development, and approval of medical products. expensive and linked the development processes and up slowing down that advancement of medicine, and also slowing down the access to new and effective treatments. we all know, we hear the statistics that a new drug today takes about $2 billion in terms of investment,

officer white radios for backup and medical units. >> if i can have another unit, in fact, two more unitsnjuries. because at that speed they could have sustained some injuries. >> luckily the driver and passenger are uninjured in the crash, but there's still one more bit of unfinished business. >> once i confirm there's no injury to the people in the car, my next concern is do i have an impaired driver? >> officer white asks the driver to get out of the car for a standard dui test. the results of the test lead to the forgone conclusion, an arrest on suspicion of dui. as for the passenger. >> i find out that's actually the driver's wife, and she was shouting at him, certain expletives that i can't explain here at this time. but certainly she was upset that a, he was driving and b, he just crashed into a prius. >> the dash cam video is later used as evidence to help convict the driver of drunk driving. >> just showing the video alone to his defense attorney made the point that he was not going to try to fight the dui. >> a police officer who has seen it all has one of the strangest encounte

he has been hospitalized in the intensive care unit at university medical center in stony brook where doctors have struggled to keep him alive. this is the head of team. >> as of right now his liver appears to be improving, his kidneys being supported by dialysis that we provide, but we are not going to know for days or even weeks whether his kidneys will ever come back. >> reporter: experts say nicholas' case of heat stroke was caused by extremely hot temperatures and dehydration. james pacey is the team physician for stony brook university. >> it falls back on the athletes at some point. the athletes have to take some stake in this game and they have to speak up when something difficult. we have a warrior code culture with our athletes for sure and athletes don't want to be seen as a complainer and trying to get off the field. but they have to realize that they have to take some initiative here and look out for themselves and look out for their teammates. >> reporter: heat stroke begins with muscle cramps in the legs or abdomen, a headache, very heavy sweating, cool, moist skin, it

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. >>> hundreds of cuban medical professionals hoping to reach the united states are stranded in columbia's capital. the doctors fled to capital from venezuela expecting to take advantage of a u.s. government initiative granting them visas. >> reporter: sporting white gowns and showing their diplomas, these cuban medical workers are caught in limbo. they were rehn tiesed to do so by the 2006 cuban medical professional parole program. a u.s. government initiative that promised them a fast and safe passage to the u.s. >> translator: we expected our cases to be resolved within 15 to 90 days. some have waited seven months without response or have been turned down. >> reporter: dozens are cram in small apartments. their savings running out and saving deportation. this nurse fled five months ago with $600 in his pocket. >> translator: facing true hardship. we left our families and jobs for something that was 99% certain. now we don't know what will happen us to. >> reporter: this dentist is six months pregnant, unable to pay for a hospital, she's being visited by one of her colleagues. >> i will

then her daughter in reaction to the desperation had to be taken to the medical unit for wanting to commit suicide. it's my hope that dhs's new policy means families like these will no longer be detained and no longer subject to such unreasonable bonds. secretary johnson, could you describe how the agency will implement this new policy and how long you expect the review to take? >> well much of the reforms that we announced and that i directed, have -- are under way already. in terms of the review of the cases, the older cases that review has already been undertaken. and it has produced results. in terms of the new bond policy i believe also that that policy has in fact been implemented, and is under way. the review that director saldano directed of the facilities themselves, the advisory committee, i would have to get back to you in terms of the exact status of that. >> in fact -- >> thank you also, for visiting the facility and thank you for meeting with me after you did so. >> thank you. in fact, i wanted to get more clarity on the bonds for the families. will i.c.e. continue using bond

also contracted legionnaire's disease, another 51 inmate are under observation at the prison's medical unitight, inmates right now being served box meals. portable toilet, bottled water and large water tanks, also being brought in to serve thousands of inmates and employees. >> on your health watch, new guidelines about whether to talk to kids about the danger of alcohol. pediatric group is suggesting parent and doctors should have that talk by, listen to this, age nine. new report finds up to 06% of high school student admit to binge drinking, that's three or more at drinks in a two-hour period for girls, four to five drinks for boys. doctors say binge drinking increases risk every death and serious injury from car crashes. also, speaking of alcohol, doctors in canada and the netherlands studying the science of hang overs, yep, really is a study, they found that no amount of food or water consumed during bouts of heavy drinking apparently can't provide any hang over relief. the only way they say to avoid a hang over, is just to drink less. >>> great video for you, young athlete take on som