six medical facilities in the province were targeted in air strikes. this is the lower level. basically, underground. and this is where they used to do all of the main emergency surgeries. and it s also where right now they are storing whatever equipment they have managed to salvage. reporter: days before we arrived, as doctors were treating the wounded from an air strike in the market, facility was hit again. the dead from the market were outside. now buried not in graves, but somewhere in the crater left behind. this is a population that feels like it s on borrowed time. he was in a make shift underground bunker with neighbors when a strike took place. he vomited and couldn t breathe and thought that s it, my number
ongoing investigation that needs to take place independent. help them do their jobs. there will be plenty of time to second-guess and play politics, but right now is the time to come together as a community and support and comfort one another. i m mark hutchison, lieutenant governor of the state of nevada. on behalf of the state of nevada, i want to thank everyone who has been thanked repeatedly and we ll continue to thank them over and over again, everyone who ran towards the bullets when everybody else was running away from the bullets those who met the victims at the the hospitals. i spent most of my day from the hospitals. i justam came from sunrise. sunrise took care of 214 of the victims. and performed over 90 emergency surgeries, just extraordinary efforts on behalf of our medical community. they happenedled handled
them in this community and as well as supporting the ongoing investigation that needs to take place independent. let them do their job. there will be plenty of times to second-guess. plenty of time to play politics but right now is the time to come together as a community and support and comfort one another. on behalf of the state of nevada, i want to thank everyone who has already been thanked. repeatedly today. we are going to continue to thank them over and over again. everyone who ran toward the bullets when everyone was running away from the bullets. those who met the victims at the hospital, i spent most of my day at the hospital. i just came from sunrise. they took care of 214 of the victims. and performed over 90 emergency surgeries. extraordinary efforts on behalf of our medical community, they handled this tragedy with confidence competence and
can be severed, massive blood loss can occur, the colon can have leakage of toxic substances. is so just as you heard from his surgeons, the primary goal initially is to stabilize the patient. that s often times in shock, as he was, controlling blood loss, doing emergency surgeries to assess the damage, stabilize bleeding if possible and sometimes numerous subsequent surgeries are also required to assess further damage and also help repair additional injuries. arthel: so you explained why there more than likely will be further surgeries. i read that the doctors are going to not remove all of the shrapnel finishing you will, the gun pieces. right. so often times these bullets, when they enter, it s not just i one small bullet that stays contained. it actually sometimes will shatter itself and throw debris that causes lots of damage. sometimes delayed, subsequent
on that very soon. this hospital of course, known for treating trauma cases, emergency surgeries, shooting incidents, victims come here all the time from those shooting incidents. we have a helipad here easily accessible by medevac. that was the choice in this case. the congressman s staff said that he was in good spirits here before he went into surgery. and that he was able to talk to his wife on the phone. interestingly enough, senator jeff flake, republican from arizona who was at the baseball field when the shooting occurred and gave some very vivid graphic accounts of what he saw, he said he was able to grab congressman s cell phone and call his wife to tell her what had happened so she wouldn t have to necessarily hear it on the news. very riveting accounts from the members of congress and others at that ball field with congressman scalise. they said he was lying motionless on the field after he was hit in the hip and that it took some time to get him off but that they were able