to the white house, rawhide is okay. >> we interrupt, there's been a late development, shots reported fired outside the hotel where president reagan spoke a short while ago. here's bernard shaw in our washington bureau. >> okay, my apology. details are very sketchy at this moment. we don't know precisely what happened, we don't know the sequence. first of all, the president is safe. >> safe, yes. but not okay. >> reagan starts complaining of pain in his back, his chest and his side. not feeling so good. >> just then, i coughed. and i had a handful of bright, red, frothy blood. >> and he said, i think i've cut the inside of my mouth. i said, let me look. and it was pretty profuse. >> parr knows this is big trouble. so, he has a decision to make. do i head back to the white house, the safest place in the known universe? or does he avert to george washington hospital, the nearest trauma center, where there's not an ounce of security? >> do we want to go to the emergency room, george