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Into the emergency room, and i saw the first five casualties there, i felt like i could have been back in afghanistan. it looked exactly the same. >> were these young kids? adults? all of the above? >> the patients we received at the massachusetts general hospital varied. we had no children come to us. our youngest was in the 20s. and the oldest in the 70s. a large spectrum. >> will they survive? >> no one can predict the future. but i can tell you that today we removed the breathing tube for the last patient who was on a breathing machine. are awake and can talk our to us, and no one is on a ...

May be unstable, they are in an intensive care unit on a breathing machine so they are the ones that are obviously the most critical but they are also literally fighting for their lives tonight, so we hope those numbers don't go up. but those are the patients that everyone is focused on. >> sanjay, thanks. i want to bring in chris cuomo, who is live in boston. chris, bring me up to speed with the latest developments. >> here's what we know, piers. obviously this is a very fluid situation. you had local police here working, city and state authorities, now you have the federal authorities here, ...

My spleen was so badly ruptured they had to take it out, and i had hemorrhages in both my eyes. >> with his parents back in england, family friends living in the area rushed to the hospital. he's unconscious for more than 12 hours and in critical condition. >> when i next woke up, i was on a breathing machine, had seven or eight tubes coming out of me, and i was the most scared i've ever been in my life. they said, thank god you got to the hospital when you did. >> nearly two months later his parents bring him home. painfully, he relives the nightmare by watching the video of his accident. >> ...

It was upper staff management. and i have to say because i was up here and the status quo i was in, it didn't allow me to go to the wake, to the funeral, the viewing or even to the hospital. because at first her brain died. and they had her on a breathing machine, you know, just to see if they would let me go up there, but when they didn't let me go, you know. and my spirits kind of like dropped, you know, and i didn't eat. i lost a lot of weight. you know, and i looked like a raccoon. my eyes was, you know, all black and stuff. but then i thought about it. i said, you know, that's just anothe...

I'm like, "it's kiara"? i said, "what's wrong?" is she in the hospital?" she's like, "no, she's dead." i freaked out. they did everything they could to at least let me go to the hospital, but it was out of the prison's hands. it was upper staff management. and i have to say because i was up here and the status quo i was in, it didn't allow me to go to the wake, to the funeral, the viewing or even to the hospital. because at first her brain died. and they had her on a breathing machine, you know, just to see if they would let me go up there, but when they didn't let me go, you know. and my spir...