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Welcome back to "the lead." were continuing to follow breaking news in our national lead. a shooter or shooters are on the loose after wounding three students outside rosemary anderson high school in north portland, oregon. lets go back and reset what we know so far. there are at least three victims, all of them students, teenagers. they have been shot. a witness tells us he saw two males and a female being loaded into ambulances. police say the victims were transported from the scene. they were...

Anderson high school outside the school. three individuals, two boys and a girl, were shot. they were wounded. they left the scene, according to portland police, conscious and breathing, were told anecdotally from some witnesses that at least one of them was still talking and the police told andrew theen with the portland "oregonian" that anytime after a shooting you have people talking, that is obviously a good sign. those individuals were rushed to the hospital, nearby emmanuel medical center,...

72 grocery stores have been closed. without a trauma unit. several thousand have been killed the last few years. so we have a crisis at home. maybe abandoned urban america. i dont think its time to slam anybody. we cannot turn our back on the children of the border. not the children loan dale and rosen and austin as well. >> okay. so it its a crisis on the border. everyone is talking about it. no question its making headlines and the crisis in urban america most directly the crisis in chicago, e...

Squeeze. >> it gives residents a better understanding of the kind of wounds they will have to treat at the medical center. >> part of education, in my mind is to teach them more than just how to put an iv in, or how to sew someone up. if you are only in the ivory tower of the hospital you are missing half, if not more, of story. >> the shooting on the south side sends another victim to the trauma unit. >> he has no feeling below his left knee. captain move hi left foot. >> whats your name, boss?...

Deeply affected and said hes not -- i dont know if this is clinically what you can call shocked. its not just physical. >> i think thats right. despite all of the emotional circumstances, this kid today was extraordinary and in his wisdom that he imparted to everyone in that room and his mom, his mom was extraordinary too. all of the things she said i believe, many of us feel and think and both of them expressed their emotions and their thoughts so very well. it was moving. as a participant in t...

They have not yet ruled out terrorism but they say its not looking like that but theyre not ruling anything out at this point. >> sure. we know three dead, 16 wounded. luckily they had a level one trauma unit nearby. >> youre exactly right. that is in temple, texas, not too far away. nine individuals were transported by land and some by air as well the medical facility did, that these patients were coming there. this isnt the first time they had to deal with this. i just got off the phone with t...

Actually my goal right now that i have set for myself is open my own restaurant by age 25, call it the pleasure palate. >> over in little italy, they get ready at cook countys trauma unit. >> i was helping out some guy getting beat up and i got stab. pain just hit me. other than that, i dont feel no pain anymore. >> he got you pretty good, huh? >> yeah. >> were going to get this sewn up. >> can i make one call? >> yeah. this aint jail. you get more than one phone call. >> dr. dennis heads home t...

>> as night falls, violence spikes and some victims get rushed to the cook county trauma unit where they do work that saves lives. >> its friday night. cook county trauma unit. so far we have three shootings, a bunch of motor vehicle crashes. this place can go from zero to 60 quickly. >> treating multiple gunshot victims is just another night on the job. >> july 1st is the day new residents start. look at the way that needle is loaded, george. why are you making life so hard on yourself? >> some...

Congratulations. >> thank you. >> thats a big deal. okay. well, thank you. >> as night falls, violence spikes and some victims get rushed to the cook county trauma unit where they do work that saves lives. >> its friday night. cook county trauma unit. so far we have three shootings, a bunch of motor vehicle crashes. this place can go from zero to 60 quickly. >> treating multiple gunshot victims is just another night on the job. >> july 1st is the day new residents start. look at the way that nee...

For the triggermen. >> hes hiding in there, go in the basement. >> what kind of gun is it? >> it was a black gun. the last words i heard him say, man, ill take your life and mine. >> how many shots did we hear? >> how many shots? >> late friday night, a young man on his front porch has to run for his life when men spill out of a car and start shooting. >> 24-year-old male, one gunshot wound. >> jeremiah millsap is shot and badly wounded and rushed to the trauma unit where dr. dennis is on duty. ...