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A doctor stood up. the white house doctor gave the president a clean bill of health but they were relentless with their questions. >> first of all dr. jackson is an emergency room physician, served in iraq and a trauma unit in iraq, president obama's doctor and worked with president bush as well. as nonpartisan as they come. he talked for an hour and all these questions. he said his heart is in great shape. extensive stress test, cat scan of the chest. echo cardiogram and submitted to a cognitive assessment test. >> sandra: the president volunteered. >> he scored 30 out of 30 at the age of 71....

We have breaking news from melbourne, australia. police say the driver who deliberately drove into a group of pedestrians has no known links to terrorism. that crash injured 19 people, including the driver and the off-duty officer who arrested him. officials say the 32-year-old has a history of drug abuse and mental health issues. another north korean soldier defects to south korea, becoming the second in the last two months. south korea fired 20 warning shots as north korean troops appeared to search for the escaped soldier. another elite soldier shot multiple times while defect to the sout...

Case, or a suicide by cop. >> weal keep saying it. we have never seen anything like this. james, thank you for helping us understand this this morning. >> okay. chris. university medical center in las vegas took in more than 100 patien patients. yesterday, president trump and the first lady met with heros and survivors, let's bring in the director of the trauma unit. nice to see both of you this morning. thank for taking time to talk to us. doctor, let me start with you. tell us about the president's visit, what did he see there and what did he do. >> the president came too visit the wounded. ...

Somebody's son. he did not die alone. >> you're hearing storying of people being loaded in pickup trucks and driven to medical centers there. standing by in front of university medical center there. give us an update. as to the status of some of the patients there. over 500 plus victims still being treated from the shooting. sd >> the five 00 plus victims were taken to several hospitals. this is the only trauma unit in the state. the way it was going last evening, this hospital received numerous casualties. many remain in critical condition. still being treated as we speak in the hospital. you...

>> reporter: they sort of reassessing what's gone on here for the last 24 hours. as you've mentioned, it's more than 500 people. that's a war zone. they were all taken to various medical centers. several people are in critical condition. those people are receiving the focus of the medical staff at this trauma unit this evening and this morning. doctors and nurses, medical staff, first responders, have obviously been working around the clock trying to save as many lives as possible. obviously if they had not been here, the death toll could very easily have been higher. now, at this particular h...