Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20100615:18:21:00
In a cliff. so we have seen precedent for this before but it is an extraordinary story. and he said something very casually, he started to smell something, rotting tissue and at that point he probably realized if he had not done that he would have died in that spot. >> doctors had to complete the amputation. >> and the reason that is, if you amputate and you don't know what you're doing, one you amputate in the wrong spot. it's a rough and kind of a sloppy cut. to get someone ready for prosthes prosthesis. >> if he had not had that cord nearby, he cut one of the major arteries in his arm. so t...