an investigation is under way into the death of an elderly california woman who died after a nurse at her senior living facility refused to perform cpr. even though a 911 operator begged her to help. the employee said company policy forbade her and anyone else there from saving anyone s live. miguel marquez has the tape. we need to get cpr started. that s not enough, okay? we can t do cpr. then hand the phone to the passer by. if you can t do it, hand it to the passerby. i ll have her do it. or if you have any citizens there. beyond shocking, a nurse at this bakersfield independent care facility for the elderly flat out refuses to 87-year-old lorraine when she collapsed on the dining room floor. is there anyone who is willing to do it? are we going to let her die? that s why we called 911? we can t wait. she s dying.
87-year-old woman living that facility collapsed on a dining room floor. the nurse on duty called 911 and was immediately told by the dispatcher to perform cpr.
if you ve got any senior citizens there, i ll have them do it. no. reporter: beyond shock, a nurse at this care facility for the elderly flat-out refuses to help 87-year-old lorraine bailless when she collapsed on the dining room floor. is there anybody that workings there that s willing to do it? we want do that we re just going to let this lady die? that s why we re calling 911. we can t wait. she can t wait right now. she is stopping breathing. reporter: the 911 operator practically begs the woman at the facility who identifies herself as a nurse, to either help or find someone who can. no, it s not anybody there can do cpr. give them the phone please. this woman s not breathing enough. she s going to die if we don t get this started. do you understand? i understand okay. i am a nurse but i cannot have our other senior citizens who don t know cpr i will instruct them in the dining room i will instruct them. is there anyone there who s wi
she s yelling at me and saying we have to have one of the other residents perform cpr. i m feeling threats and i m not going to do that and make that call. is there anybody that works there that s willing to do it. we can t do that. we re going to let this lady die? that s why we re calling 911 we can t wait right now. she is stopping breathing. she can t wait for them to get there. a little more than five minutes into the call, bayless remains untouched, barely breathing on the dining room floor. he s saying we don t. so you can talk to my boss and i m okay they re refusing cpr, they are going to let her die. by the facility, yeah. when will the fire department be here? when will the they ve been on the way all this time but we can t wait. this lady is going to die. okay, well, then if if you get anybody, any stranger that
to have health insurance. it s scheduled to take effect in 2014. it imposes a financial penalty for not having health insurance. let s get right to today s hearing. what went on inside the court. our senior legal analyst jeffrey toobin and our congressional correspondent kate baldwin were both inside the courtroom. jeff, you said based on what you heard in the courtroom, you think the court is likely right now to overturn this individual mandate. you just tweeted, i was looking at your twitter, you tweeted this was a train wreck for the obama administration. what happened? well, you saw right out of the bofrm three conservative justices just go after the solicitor general donald ver rilly. anthony scalia not a surprise. samuel, and anthony kennedy also who is usually the swing vote, expressing nothing but skepticism about the constitutionality. clarence thomas didn t say anything. john roberts to my surprise was the most sympathetic of the conservatives to the obama adminis