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Years ago, now experiencing troubles again, is it safe to say that as we have seen with the former vice president dick cheney that if you have heart problems essentially you will deal with heart problem it is rest of your life and complications and things that will continue to be a challenge to this president? >> reporter: once you are a heart patient, you had bypass surgery, you are always going to be a heart patient. and in so many ways. there are a lot of patients that have heart bypass surge...

There were several coronary blood vessels. lots of blood vessels on top of the heart. my understanding was -- correct me if i am wrong, back in september of 2004, he had four blood vessels bypassed. there was blockages and they did a bypass around those blockages. typically sometimes those areas that were bypassed can be blocked themselves. and stepts may be placed in the coronary vessels. more than one area blocked. you have to put in more than one stent and thats whats happening there. again, ...

Heart disease. the fact that he was -- what i found, the only thing that was a little bit of a wrinkle is he had the chest pains two days ago, and went in today. i guess well find out more about this in the hours ahead. >> exactly. but it also indicates it was not a terribly serious problem. he wasnt to the point he could barely get up out of a chair, or walk across a room. it was something that was coming on slowly. he recognized it. and of course, once youve had any kind of heart problem, whet...

Sounds like he is, from listening to your reports on the show here. he was governor of arkansas and i had a chance to serve him as president in the senate. i cant think of anything worse for your heart problem than running for governor in arkansas four or five times as he did. think of all the barbecues he had to eat. then moving on to the presidents job. you cant quantify the stress of the presidency. obviously hes been through a lot. but hes in good shape. or else he always appear to be in goo...

Exception of a mitral valve prolapse. >> larry: what is that? >> that is a heart murmur. >> larry: that must have led you to think it was a heart problem? >> i knew it was arrhythmia. when she had a cold she couldnt take anything that would excite the heart. we knew the rules. we had taken her to the best cardiologists. we had workups done, they said its a heart murmur, thats it >> 30% of women had it, its natural, its nothing, you just take antibiotics before you get your teeth cleaned. nothing...

>> we knew before that. you saw the life go out of her. >> larry: this is a 32-year-old, previously healthy woman? >> previously healthy with the exception of a mitral valve prolapse. >> larry: what is that? >> that is a heart murmur. >> larry: that must have led you to think it was a heart problem? >> i knew it was arrhythmia. when she had a cold she couldnt take anything that would excite the heart. we knew the rules. we had taken her to the best cardiologists. we had workups done, they said i...

And i said, no. i dont. the power of medicine is so strong now. >> larry: you wanted him to keep going? >> if there was life, we would find a way to keep going, keep going, keep going, keep going. then at 10:04 they came in and said she didnt make it. >> larry: 10:04 a.m.? >> 10:04 a.m. >> larry: were you there when they said she didnt make it? >> three people came in. sharon and i were holding each other and they let us know at the same time that she hadnt made it. >> we knew before that. you s...

Said she didnt make it. >> larry: 10:04 a.m.? >> a.m. >> larry: were you there when they said she didnt make it? >> sharon and i were holding each other, and they did it at the same time she hadnt made it. >> we just saw the life go out of her. >> larry: this is a 32-year-old. previously healthy woman? >> previously health with the exception of a mitral valve prolapse. >> larry: what is that? >> its a heart murmur. >> larry: that must have led you to think it was a heart problem? >> i knew it wa...

Investigators still searching for possible victims. david, this investigation, of course, has just begun. i spoke with a woman, though, who lives in the neighborhood. she said its very common for planes to fly at that hour, but this one sounded so low, she wanted to duck inside her own home and when it crashed, her house shook. david? >> all right, kayna whitworth on the breaking news out of las vegas tonight. kayna, thank you. in the meantime, we move on now to the coronavirus here in new cas...

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