are you from this scene we are seeing right now? reporter: we are about three football fields away from the scene there is an irony, we, me and about 150 other journalists from 39 countries are closest. we don t see it the way you see it. it is like an nfl football game, you can see it better on the tvs, but the spirit is here with the historic and heart warming scenes. larry: doctor bales, you treeded randall mccloy. he was the longest known survivor, 41 1/2 hours, 2.5 miles deep. randy made a complete recovery
inside the skull and increasing the damage. the first 72 hours are critical. that s when the possibility of brain swelling really increases. they talked about how they removed a part of the skull which let s the brain swell out. so all these things give us some optimism, i would say. doctor bales, ags we understand it, the bullet went through the left side of the congresswoman s head to the front. some describe the trajectory as fortunate in a situation like this, if we can even use the word fortunate. could you explain how the prognosis could be different if it had gone just a hair of a different direction? absolutely, it could be. if it crossed over to both sides, both helms fierce of the brain, it could be very, very bad. many times that s 100% fatal. the fact it went straight through from the back to the front and exited probably let