there s word from afghanistan tonight that two american service members were killed in action today. the military says their names are being withheld pending family notification. this marks the 14th american killed there this year. on tuesday president trump said talks are continuing with the taliban to end the nearly 18-year war in afghanistan. an 11-year-old boy says he s lucky to be alive tonight after getting attacked by a shark on a florida beach this morning and a woman in hawaii is recovering after she was bitten twice nbc s steve patterson has their stories of survival reporter: with every new step he takes, 11-year-old christian mariani will be reminded of just how lucky he is to walk it off. the scariest feeling that i think i have ever experienced in my life the patient has a fish bite to the leg reporter: that call came in from ft. lauderdale this morning, tourists sunbathing by the beach when they heard a chilling sound the boy was screaming, just jumped
best surgeons who are trained to take care of this type of situation. please thank them. thank all of the surgeons and the doctors, the nurses and the medical personnel at the university medical center of el paso for what they re doing. they re saving lives. will do, wolf. please ask your viewers to say a prayer for the families. we ve been telling our viewers that blood you have a crisis right now. you need blood, people to volunteer and provide blood, is that right? that s correct.o donate, by the way, wolf, we are going have a press conference at 6:00 p.m. eastern standard time to provide an update. well, we ll, of course, monitor that as well. ryan milke for what you and those at the medical center are doing. unfortunately, the news is awful right now and presumably as we get more information it will get even worse. we will continue our special coverage right after this. . . . i want it that way. .
[ speaking foreign language ] by now. so there will be identification and then, of course, family notification which they clearly want to do before and you will just have an issue about whether people have identifications. what was their legal status? this is a border stcity. this is a community that is racially diverse and actually the sargence had alluded to this, and i just have a help! recommendation to local officials that they re worried we need cpr! that the wounded either walked help! help! away and they are reunited we need cpr! we need cpr! help! because of the immigration status. there will be no immigration enforcement at either the family unification centers or the army trooper! hospital. because as the sergeant said this is a concern. it s clear there are people that help me turn him over! are not unifying with their help me! ? it was just outside of the mall family and that there are people at that walmart outside in the that are worried and injured that did
come to us. say something because you re going to save lives if you do again, we ve had citizen. that, perhaps, we ve got to take this stuff serious and right now, quite frankly, i don t we have had one fatality among think we do. our elected officials have those 13, but for the most part, totally dropped the ball. our surgeons and staff are doing they are totally worthless, as the very best they can to help. far as i m concerned when it are you there? comes to trying to effectively yes, i m here. deal with this? go ahead. and i know authorities are already very, very concerned sorry for interrupting. about potential copycats out there at the same time. i lost you for a second. let s take a quick break. what was the last part you heard? resume all of our special you were telling us that of coverage. lots on the breaking news. the 13 who were taken to your very sad breaking news out of el hospital the university medical center of el paso, one person, paso, texas, a mass killin
do you have a description of the person? i do not at this point. motive? do we know anything about i don t have any information on the suspect yet. that will take a bit of time. with the victims as well. that will take time before we identify them and make family notification. as i said we have assistance from two counties. we have teams working to try to track down and identify leads regarding the second suspect. we re very hopeful with the witnesses and statements that people give us that will help us do that. do you have security cameras at the festival? security cameras? no. not posted.