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everyone. poppy is off today. im erica hill. thanks for being with me this morning. lets get started with five things to know for this memorial day, may 29th, 2023. joe biden and kevin mccarthy made a debt ceiling deal. now they have to sell it. can they get the votes before default on june 5 th? >> russia shot down a record number of missiles ahead of the long awaited counter offensive. >> search and rescue operations under way right now after an apartment collapse in iowa. seven peop...

for holiday candies and im missing being with you guys on the couch. pete: i thought you missed us anyway, rachel. we mis-you and wish you were here. theres a big hole in the middle here. i can reach out and touch will. which is a little odd. we just showed it there, theres a some wine c conisour outside d that wine pairing will be a little chilly. will: enjoy the warm weather till you get up here tomorrow. i dont know, what are we going to be for halloween? we are something. pete: id ...

Coach, thank you for joining us this morning. i know this has been devastated for your team that many members of the team are -- have quit and their parents pulled them out. tell us exactly what happened. >> good morning. thank you for having me. normal practice and young gentleman tripped and when he landed he landed on a need and will his teammates came over running and screaming that he was hurt and when i walked over to him, he was in panic. at first he thought he was in trouble and i had to...

Was able to assess what the needs truly were. and were still on alert. and theres talk aut puerto rico, theres talk about the s. virgin islands. ther are multiple teams including through my university hospital in newark, new jersey, theyre sending the new jersey task force down to the virgin island to help them restart their ems system. but look how long its taken to get that. communications have been down, logistics are difficult in those situations. >> jeremy, i wonder what people were telling...

Alerted? >> our hospital was alerted through, obviously, the ems system that we have in the aurora area. we were immediately put on alert and activated our internal disaster program. have two emergency physicians working 24/7 in this department, and then we were able to activate as a level 2 trauma center four total trauma surgeons, two orthopedic surgeons, a neurosurgeon and two emergency physicians to the facility. >> doctor, i want to thank you for your time today. i know its been a very busy...

>> it hurts. im all alone now. somebody that i love and now hes gone and i cant do nothing about it. he shouldnt have had to die the way he died because he was suffering. he shouldnt have had to die like that. >> reporter: this is a list of the recommendations to the ems system from the city public safety director. there are dozens of them after this mans death. also the state health department will be reviewing this incident. at the city-county building, im shannon perrine. just amazing, 11 c...

Officials in the building ushering him out. >> you have been given the standdown yet in terms of receiving new patients? >> we have, yes. we are told that the ems system has returned to normal operations and has left the scene. we are not to expect anymore casualties from today. >> for people who are joining us or dont know what happened here, you are looking at pictures at a building on 9400 block of research boulevard in austin, texas, which is an intersection of research boulevard and the mop...

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