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Sometimes some docs even just go out to the waiting room and try to see some kids in the waiting room. >> reporter: brian mata rushed his 7-month-old son beckett to the hospital last week with rsv. >> when he's getting better and his fever goes away we think it's over, it's gone, and then it comes back again and it's just like hitting the restart button. >> reporter: while wait times at many pediatric ers are stretching into multiple hours, doctors advise taking your child to the e.r. when he or she has to work to breathe, they are dehydrated and/or lethargic. to make sure you get good care fr...

Happened to him? >> no. no. >> heather says when she got outside, she didn't see the party bus or any of the people in costumes. but joel, the good samaritan who had gone to help a stranger, had himself been the victim of a savage beating. >> i remember hearing the ambulances coming and the cops coming. their sirens. >> joel lovelien was rushed to an e. r. in the same hospital where he worked as a computer tech.

>> it's somewhat evident on the photos. >> an e. r. doctor who examined travis and concluded that travis'hands would have been far more battered and scuffed if he'd used them to beat joel. >> do you find the injuries to mr. stay's hands consistent or inconsistent with having delivered the blows that did that damage? >> inconsistent. >> prosecutors had argued that the party bus, along with all those theoretical suspects in it, was long gone at the time of joel's murder. but the defense countered that the broken drum security tape proved just the opposite. on that same tape was something importa...

Although it's children we're talking about, kind of reminds me of, you know, the peak bad days of covid when the hospitals are overwhelm give us context in terms of capacity and how worried we should be in terms of our health system being able to handle this increase in respiratory illness and children coming into the e.r. for that. >> well, you know, i don't want to cause panic. i mean, we're able to handle what is coming in, because, you know, it turns out that folks that work in children's hospital, like ours, you know, here on long island, is -- you know, they're amazing, and we're doing t...

Hardest. cnn's adrienne broaddus has more. >> reporter: good morning, amara and boris. patients who show up in the e.r. will have to pack some patience. a visit to this emergency department might leave you waiting hours. >> a few hours unfortunately. we do our best to shorten that, but with the overall surge of patients we're seeing at this time, it's very difficult to see people seen immediately when they get to the emergency department. >> reporter: dr. kim quail is the director of st. louis children's hospital emergency department. she said the number of children treated here is concerning....