Fault lines travels to cleveland, ohio to look at what is causing these deaths, and to try to find out why the United States has the worst rate of infant mortality in the industrialized world. Its monday morning in clevelands metrohealth hospital. A newborn baby boy has just been rushed into Neonatal Intensive Care Unit known as the nicu. Weighing just over 2 pounds, hes 14 weeks premature it means he was only in the womb for less than six months. Hes really retracting. You see his Blood Pressure . Very low. Theyre right now trying to get urgent care to the baby thats just been born here, literally within the last couple of hours. And right now getting respiration assistance, and an intravenous drip inserted. This is the kind of scenario that happens all the time on this ward. Medical advances have dramatically improved the odds of survival for premature babies, but they havent changed one aspect of this crisis. Almost all of the babies in this ward are black. Just under 40 percent of
Fault lines travels to cleveland, ohio to look at what is causing these deaths, and to try to find out why the United States has the worst rate of infant mortality in the industrialized world. Its monday morning in clevelands metrohealth hospital. A newborn baby boy has just been rushed into Neonatal Intensive Care Unit known as the nicu. Weighing just over 2 pounds, hes 14 weeks premature it means he was only in the womb for less than six months. Hes really retracting. You see his Blood Pressure . Very low. Theyre right now trying to get urgent care to the baby thats just been born here, literally within the last couple of hours. And right now getting respiration assistance, and an intravenous drip inserted. This is the kind of scenario that happens all the time on this ward. Medical advances have dramatically improved the odds of survival for premature babies, but they havent changed one aspect of this crisis. Almost all of the babies in this ward are black. Just under 40 percent of
And to try to find out why the United States has the worst rate of infant mortality in the industrialized world. Its monday morning in clevelands metrohealth hospital. A newborn baby boy has just been rushed into Neonatal Intensive Care Unit known as the nicu. Weighing just over 2 pounds, hes 14 weeks premature it means he was only in the womb for less than six months. Hes really retracting. You see his Blood Pressure . Very low. Theyre right now trying to get urgent care to the baby thats just been born here, literally within the last couple of hours. And right now getting respiration assistance, and an intravenous drip inserted. This is the kind of scenario that happens all the time on this ward. Medical advances have dramatically improved the odds of survival for premature babies, but they havent changed one aspect of this crisis. Almost all of the babies in this ward are black. Just under 40 percent of the babies born are African American but they contribute to 70 percent of the ba
Severe weather later today. We have a crash there. Lp noni i ies. 95 northbound, southbound, youre nice and green. Be careful of the wet roads. ni wtop will have theq latest on the traffic once you hit the road here. 66 into and out of town, same thing, when youre looking at 95 and northbound andfaa5xd southbound. Back at 5 11. Staeather and traffic; thank you, melissa. Anothert te1 white house fence jumper is now facing charges. Lets get right now to news4sni Megan Mcgrath for the latest. Reporter well, eun, you can see j86 white house fence behind me here and the lower temporary fence has been put in place here as an added barrier. The fence of course under scrutiny following a number of incidents in recent months and now it has happened again. Anotherv house fence. This time on the south side of the white house. Now, it happened around 10 30 last night. T eiauu custody by the secret Service Officers andok sharp steel spikes will be bolted to the top of the fence to try to deterc peo
Industrialized world. Its monday morning in clevelands metrohealth hospital. A newborn baby boy has just been rushed into Neonatal Intensive Care Unit known as the nicu. Weighing just over 2 pounds hes 14 weeks premature it means he was only in the womb for less than six months. Hes really retracting. You see his Blood Pressure . Very low. Theyre right now trying to get urgent care to the baby thats just been born here literally within the last couple of hours. And right now getting respiration assistance, and an intravenous drip inserted. This is the kind of scenario that happens all the time on this ward. Medical advances have dramatically improved the odds of survival for premature babies, but they havent changed one aspect of this crisis. Almost all of the babies in this ward are black. Just under 40 percent of the babies born are African American but they contribute to 70 percent of the babies who die in the first year of life. So theres this huge, huge disparity and thats kind of