R. I. M a mental patient at Saint Elizabeths hospital in washington, d. C. For ages, People Like Us have been hidden in darkness. Families dont like to talk about their members in a Mental Hospital. People think there is something worse about being mentally hospital them mentally ill than being sick with pneumonia. It is not true. And tonight, mental patients from around the country are gathered together to strip away that dark this. And in a moment you will see others like me. You will learn from us how mental patients used to be treated. The conditions of our hospitals today and the new hope that we have now to get well again. Lets take the first part. How we used to be treated. I am standing on a stage. Behind me, my fellow patients at Saint Elizabeths are celebrating our centennial. They are performing a play written by ourselves. It is about our founder, dorothy lynn dix who lived back when lincoln did and fought for better treatment for People Like Us. Each person in the play is
With the latest. Reporter this is the focus really of the entire country at this point. This rescue of this one girl, so much hope is riding on this because of how grim these last few hours have been, and now were in a situation in which were nearing 48 hours, a very crucial time when it comes to a rescue effort. 21 young students, elementary schoolers were killed when this building collapsed during the earthquake. That 7. 1 devastating earthquake, four stories, folded on top of each other, trapping the people that were inside. Another four teachers were caught in that as well. So 25 total killed. They identified that young girl inside the rubble. Shes about 12 years old. In an area where they do believe there may be a pocket of survivors after they managed to find her vital signs and got down to her. So what theyre trying to do is to pull the debris off, but they have to do is so carefully, so delicately because they dont want to cause another situation in which more rubble comes and