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A doctor stood up. the white house doctor gave the president a clean bill of health but they were relentless with their questions. >> first of all dr. jackson is an emergency room physician, served in iraq and a trauma unit in iraq, president obamas doctor and worked with president bush as well. as nonpartisan as they come. he talked for an hour and all these questions. he said his heart is in great shape. extensive stress test, cat scan of the chest. echo cardiogram and submitted to a cognitive...

We have breaking news from melbourne, australia. police say the driver who deliberately drove into a group of pedestrians has no known links to terrorism. that crash injured 19 people, including the driver and the off-duty officer who arrested him. officials say the 32-year-old has a history of drug abuse and mental health issues. another north korean soldier defects to south korea, becoming the second in the last two months. south korea fired 20 warning shots as north korean troops appeared t...

Case, or a suicide by cop. >> weal keep saying it. we have never seen anything like this. james, thank you for helping us understand this this morning. >> okay. chris. university medical center in las vegas took in more than 100 patien patients. yesterday, president trump and the first lady met with heros and survivors, lets bring in the director of the trauma unit. nice to see both of you this morning. thank for taking time to talk to us. doctor, let me start with you. tell us about the preside...

Somebodys son. he did not die alone. >> youre hearing storying of people being loaded in pickup trucks and driven to medical centers there. standing by in front of university medical center there. give us an update. as to the status of some of the patients there. over 500 plus victims still being treated from the shooting. sd >> the five 00 plus victims were taken to several hospitals. this is the only trauma unit in the state. the way it was going last evening, this hospital received numerous c...

>> reporter: they sort of reassessing whats gone on here for the last 24 hours. as youve mentioned, its more than 500 people. thats a war zone. they were all taken to various medical centers. several people are in critical condition. those people are receiving the focus of the medical staff at this trauma unit this evening and this morning. doctors and nurses, medical staff, first responders, have obviously been working around the clock trying to save as many lives as possible. obviously if they...

Im mayor carolyn goodman of this great city. absolutely mirror what commissioner sislack spoken to about the great response, rapid, thorough, of the first responders and law enforcement. i spent part of last night and was late this morning with you all because i was over at umc and the trauma unit and its been a very, very difficult time for us. and as we look forward to continuing what our great city does, we offer a safe place. this is a crazed lunatic, full of hate. we dont know much about hi...

The middle of the horror last night in las vegas. the hospitals took them and by the hundreds, think about that. chief correspondent jonathan hunt is light at university medical center with the latest from there. high matt, jonathan. >> martha: the university medical center here is the only level one trauma unit in las vegas and as such it received many of the most badly injured in the chaos of last night. 104 patients in all and as of our last update we are told that 12 of those remained in cri...

Anything that was suspicious. i dont believe there is the type of security that we have to go through at the airport, and so for him to take bags up to his room, im sure just was no matter how many because people come here, theyre entertainers. some of our entertainers have a lot of bags. all they had to look at was he credentials and credit card. the reality, having spent most of this morning over at umc and our number one trauma unit, and the confusion among those who had been shot at and had ...

City. what the mayor had spoken to, about the great response, rapid, thorough, of the first responders and law enforcement. i spent part of last night and was late this morning with you all because i was over at umc and the trauma unit. its been a very, very difficult time for us. as we look forward to continuing what our great city does, we offer a safe place. this is a crazed lunatic full of hate. we dont know much about his background, but it certainly is not an extension of what we believe i...

Victims are still fighting for their lives. people have been called to give blood to save those lives. jonathan, whats new there? >> reporter: well, dana, this is the only level one trauma unit in las vegas. for that reason alone, many of the most badly injured were brought here during an after the horrors of last night. in all, 104 injured people were brought here. four of those died at the hospital. another 12 remain in critical condition right now. behind me in the operating theaters there, t...