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Security only gives you $1,230 a month and medicare only covers you up to 100 days for an extended period of time in a rehab or nursing facility. that's not much help when today some experts predict the average person will need roughly $900,000 to cover their expenses throughout their retirement. a staggering amount when you consider that the majority of senior citizens have less than $30,000 saved for retirement. if you want to live forever, you better find a way to pay for it. >> no, i want to just kind of hear your thoughts on tootie's financial situation. >> oh, my. >> and where she is. >>...

The woman later died at the hospital. police are not releasing this woman's name but they are conducting a criminal investigation. officials at the hospital say the company policy prohibits employees from performing c.p.r. because they are not a skilled nursing facility. skilled nursing facilities have doctors and nurses on staff. that is the difference. police say they haven't found any laws broken just yet. >> at this point to date we have found no culpability. that is going to take time to sort out the details. there are facts we need to look through. >> authorities say they are reviewing t...

From performing c.p.r. because they are not a skilled nursing facility. police say so far they haven't found any laws were broken. >> at this point to date we have found no criminal culpability of the employees. that is going to take time to sort out the details. there is a lot of facts in the case we need to look through. >>gretchen: the facility says they are reviewing their c.p.r. policy. the victim's daughter who is also a nurse says she is satisfied with how that particular nurse acted in her mother's case. a second sink hole opening up in florida two miles from the one that swallowed a m...

Include c.p.r.? >> do not resuscitate is one thing. if someone is in a coma and there is a d.n.r. on them, that is different than someone collapsing in a nursing facility. >>gretchen: is this what we've come to where people cannot be good samaritans anymore for fear they might be sued if the end of the outcome is not positive? what got me is that 911 dispatcher saying are you human? do you have a human feeling there? and isn't there someone there, a grounds person, someone you can flag down to help out? i would say it is not so much as a lit teupblgs issue but where are we as a society where w...

Bakersfield police are now doing a criminal investigation over a retirement community after a woman died after a nursery fused to give her cpr. >> police aren't releasing the name of that nurse involved in that call just yet. officials at the facility defending her actions saying company policy prohibits employees from performing cpr because they are not a skilled nursing facility. police say so far they haven't found any laws that were broken. >> we have found culpability so that's going to take time to sort out all of the details. obviously there's a lot of facts in the cases we are willing ...