Old Salina News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Traffic and chaos to get to the hospital. these patients are the lucky ones. so many patients still out there waiting to be found. >> one of the lucky ones, 8-year-old salina. her journey from the countryside taken more than a day. her grandfather explains to doctors that the family house simply collapsed on her. she spent hours in the rubble. before being rescued. selina is dazed, clearly in pain from injuries to her head. xachl m examining her cat scan, reveals. a fractured skull. blood clot. her brain is swelling. without surgery she will have damage. but look so many other earthquake victi...

Rescued, finally found, finally making their way through the traffic and chaos. and these patients are the lucky ones. so many still out there waiting to be found. >> one of those lucky ones is 8-year-old salina. her grandfather explains to doctors that the family house simply collapsed on her. she spent hours in the rubble before being rescued. she's dazed, clearly in pain from injuries to her head. examining her cat scan reveals how dire her situation is. she has a fractured skull, a blood clot, and her brain is swe swelling. as a practicing naeuro surgeon, i'm asking to assist in the operat...

But the county won't pay. >> we can't get to the next level. it is extremely frustrating. >> it is not just this county. there are no places for these girls anywhere in america. all the federal funding for sex trafficking victims has gone to foreign girls. american girls have been shut out. girls like 13-year-old salina, now stuck in jail. >> oh, my god, that's my favorite picture in the world. i love my little sister more than anything in the world. i miss her so much. >> salina wants more than anything else to go home to be with her little sister. ♪ i was searching for a reason ♪ >> toda...

It! >> reporter: why do you keep this on your desk every day? >> because if i had her in-house, she'd be alive. >> reporter: the judge is trying to get funding for an alternative to the jail. a safe house for the girls who cycle in and out. >> it's not a detention center, not an institution. >> reporter: you have bedrooms instead of cells. >> looks like another wealthy homeowner in vegas. this is what we want it to look like. these kids are messed up in a lot of different ways. and they need a lot of help. >> reporter: private donors will pay for the land and the building, all they need is the...