yospent tens and millions of dollars, which isrobably a low estimate, let s take that out of everything weav gng forward. this is anxample of why we need to provide theresources fo o common good. brch frank, thank you so much for being with us. he brings up the point. politics aside, we have heard from democrats and republicans talking out how we have to co together in this investigation,his recovery effort right now,and, agn, congressman also bngup a good point. the scales of recoveryimmense. mb o iurst this time enhi all at once. some 152 people, now we know recovering from injuries, also the skill of the inveigation, immense. happening on boylston street, a little ways behind mell the way up to rere feiles north ofst. the investigation continuing at this very second. ahead on this special edition of starting point, we ll talk
you see with oth docrse seen on tv, you justwork. you re just going to go for it. op as i can, and there s some great leade ihe who are organizing the areas and having triagen one spot. si ppl he, not as sick people here and do what you can ouer of those first responders we always talk about, not running away from the incident, but running rig in to it. we spoke last night, you snd exhausted. this must have been some kind of some kind of afternoon. tell mebo t nature of t that moment.were seeing rht it was horrific. but, you know, basically what we all agreed on after we talked to each other is basically like the bo took out the legs of everybody. so it was all lower extremities. basically knee down from everybody, and it was just, you know, really, really bad injuries from here down. that was the bulk of the injuries was just, you know 15 or 20 people, all right there, with just, you know what do youav to do to
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because they are. people were dismembered, almost bled out. over 140 people injured, three people lost their lives. hopefully the number sta at three. it could have been much, much worse. take our wordorit. you ctxaere the urgency. ni micorspde alt whyesterday. elizabeth cohen joins us now. elizabeth, you hear what we re talking about. well, people are just injured. they must be okay. no, not at all, right? what is the severity. what is needed to make sure these people can leavehe hospital. chri t severity as you said. u can t stay enough about how bad these injuries were, and what heroes these first reonrswe. son the hospital right now, about 1 ople, 17 ofhe critically injured. amputations have been very,ery common. more than 10 amputations. you can see tt a lot of them are centeredround ms genera bh israel, boston medical, tufts medical center, a
have seen injuries somewhat similar to this before. but they have never seen the quantity or the volume rush into the e.r. as quickly as possible. i also want to give our viewers some new information, john, coming from the boston globe this morning. according to a law enforcement official the boston globe is saying that 30 people were transferred after the attack to hospitals under a code red. that basically means with life-threatening injuries. so that law enforcement official telling the newspaper that could mean that the number of fatalities could rise. we are in the very early stages of knowing how these people will do, even after they get out of initial surgery. some, we re told, will have to after that.multiple surgeries poppy harlow. our thanks to you. those numbers that you bring up are what are so startling to so many people. one doctor overnight i heard say it was just depressing what he was seeing. another word you could perhaps use, chris, i suppose is