aboard a c-17 u.s. military aircraft. this flight will have special medical personnel on board as a precaution. kerry fell broke his leg while cycling in the french alps on sunday. his injury could impact several critical discussions including the ongoing nuclear negotiations with iran and international talks on how to combat isis. our global affairs correspondent elise lab bot is joining us from outside the boston hospital where kerry is expected to be treated. secretary kerry s personal physician from boston he flew over to geneva to be back on the return flight aboard this transport plane. tell us what s going on. what s the latest you re hearing? that s right, wolf. dr. dennis burke who actually did a hip replacement for secretary kerry a few years back flew over there to make sure that he could assess the situation and accompany the secretary back to the united states where he will set his leg. secretary kerry broke his femur
attend by remote. the doctors are taking the lead. the doctor from boston like in over here dennis burke on his way here it s not uncommon for us here. we have covered secretary kerry, a few months ago, march, we saw him take cycle rides. taking a break from the talks. it s a very unfortunate accident. it may have a long lasting impact.- this sort of injury takes a long time to recover. secretary kerry key in the iran negotiations substantial issues on sanctions, access the sites 30 days now to go into the talks. secretary kerry s relationship with the iranian foreign minister has been so effective to pushing the talks where they re at right now, chris. nic, thank you very much. we will stay on situation, his health and the situation, a nine-year-old girl is in serious condition after a car slammed into laxt. car plowed into a girl on the sidewalk before crashing dmoo a utility room. police are still looking into what caused that crash.
of the month this new reality could be six months of rehab. nic robertson is in geneva where kerry is being treated now. but i want to get back to elise labott who has new details on how the secretary will be getting home. take it away, elise. carol, i m in boston where secretary kerry will be coming back to massachusetts general hospital with his surgeon dr. dennis burke, who traveled overnight and just arived on the ground i m told by senior state department officials. we re told that he ll be traveling back to boston on a u.s. military transport plane. a c-17. that will be outfitted with medical equipment for his transport, in addition officials tell me that there will be a small amount of u.s. military personnel as a precaution along with his surgeon. now if you remember dr. dennis burke was the one who did secretary kerry s hip replacement. he will be bringing secretary kerry back here to boston to set his leg and to help him get going on his recovery carol.
will be. i think you heard lease report a little bit ago there will have to be something done to set the bone but exactly what that will entail we don t know. we ll let dr. burke decide and speak to that. there will be a recovery period that will require some physical therapy. there s no question about that. anybody who breaks the thigh bones has to go through that. thetary knows that and he will follow the advice of his physicians, of course, but i can tell you he plans to work his way through that regiment aggressively and stay at work throughout it. what exactly happened? because i ve heard conflicting reports he was driving along sort of a mini tour de france and all of a sudden he hit a curb and spilled over? is that what happened? yeah. he was in the early just the beginning of a ride that was going to take him on a leg, one leg, of the tour de france in the french alps. they didn t get very far before he did bump into a curb and fell and that s where the break occurred. h
physical therapy, he s going to have to work through recovery. he will approach that aggressively. i can tell you and he made this clear this morning, he s going to be actively engaged just as he has been. deputy secretary blanken go over and physically be present for the meetings with zariff? well we haven t made that many final decisions about the arrangements or follow-on talks. we know june will be a busy month with respect to the negotiations but there hasn t been any really final details set on locations, times, places. we ll work that as we get to it. secretary kerry will stay in the lead for the negotiations on the united states side. is he going to need surgery? i guess that s the key question because if he needs surgery that s going to keep him out of commission a little longer right? well like i said, he s coming back tonight. dr. burke is with him and will do follow on analysis this evening and tomorrow and make whatever decisions he needs to make in terms of proced