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The justice department had requested. the judge was stern in handing down the sentence, offering this blistering assessment, saying the suspect had hunted fanone as prey and delivered him as a trophy to that mob, david. >> pierre thomas on this case again tonight. thank you, pierre. this evening, what our team witnessed inside a hospital in houston today. the stories, in fact, from texas to ohio to seattle, washington. the surging number of children in the hospital, in seattle alone, a field tent now outside the e.r. at seattle children's hospital. nine states and washington, d.c. already ab...

Vaccines are very effective at preventing severe disease, hooptization and death. so we want to encourage people to get them now. >> and talk to me a little more about the rsv thing. >> yeah, so it is something that i know of very well. my 5-year-old who was then 3 weeks old had rsv and had to be hospitalized. and so this is something that even normal healthy children can get. so infants, anyone under 5 years old, infants and elderly can be admitted and develop symptoms such as fever, trouble breathing. and so that is why as dr. jha said earlier, if parents see their children having difficulty...

Pediatric nurse, so when her 4-year-old son jordan's cold-like symptoms got worse, she took him to the e.r. >> any parent seeing their child not being able to breathe properly is very scary. >> reporter: 71% of an estimated 40,000 pediatric beds are now filled -- the highest it's been in two years. >> you have a group of kids that haven't had any respiratory viruses, haven't developed any immunity for the last two and a half, three years, it's adding up to be a perfect storm. >> because the symptoms of rsv can mirror the common cold or flu, it can be tricky, difficult to figure out when to inv...

Not feeling well. they will refuse feeding or other times have a reduction in their urine output, fewer wet diapers. those kind of signs are things parents should pay attention to that may alert them that an infant is more sick than they realize and need to be seen in the e.r. because we have had a shortage of nursing staff and beds, it is hard to place these children. we tend to board pediatric patients. we are not a pediatric hospital, meaning we have to transfer them. it has been hard to find available beds. our wait times in the e.r. go up and these sick children have to stay with us for s...

4-year-old kids getting rsv. you knew how to identify it, but what did you experience as a family and as a doctor with your kids on trying to get them the necessary treatment? what was your journey like? >> it's always hard as an e.r. doc mom because we worry about doing too much or too little. most e.r. docs will not take them in unless it gets pretty serious. for my 4-year-old it got to that point. she did have rsv and she really had a difficult time breathing and got into what i call respiratory disdistress, couldn get her breathing under control at home even though he had a nebulizer machi...