and i m still sort of functioning. and so yes, i feel some gratitude to david koch, and i feel much more gratitude to many more people than i will ever be able to thank. the emergency medical technician who got michael out of that taxicab then got me out of that taxi scab, both of us on stretchers. i wish i knew his name. or the napes of the strong men in that neighborhood who rushed from their houses, they rushed in there to help lift our stretchers out of that taxicab. i ve thanked my brilliant surgeon dr. david hellfit many times and i ll never start thanking him. he like many friends in showbiz sent me an e-mail joking about how he can t bring himself to say, break a leg tonight. living among the medical community as i did for weeks was a huge revelation to me. i d never been hospitalized before. i had never seen the extraordinary daily kindness and heroism of nurses up close.
some with high-powered rifles. but then we saw the dedication that is keeping this movement alive. the protesters continued their charge. peering around corners. dodging bullets. diving for cover. recovering their wounded under fire. they paid a price for it. we watched them come back, limping, on stretchers. some unconscious. others dead. the wounded were rushed to a nearby hotel. in the lobby, a nurse tends to one man. another couldn t be saved. it s a makeshift field hospital. short staffed with few supplies. a body left by the front desk. back outside, as the shooting subsided, the demonstrators moved to take new ground while they could. and build new barricades. and stockpile more weapons. molotov cocktails. it worked. the protesters expanded their
suddenly the police were in retreat. protesters in small groups advanced. but they were picked off. this man shot in the leg. police fired on demonstrators. some with high-powered rifles. but then we saw the dedication that is keeping this movement alive. the protesters continued their charge. peering around corners. dodging bullets. diving for cover. recovering their wounded under fire. they paid a price for it. we watched them come back, limping, on stretchers. some unconscious. others dead. the wounded were rushed to a nearby hotel. in the lobby, a nurse tends to one man. another couldn t be saved. it s a makeshift field hospital. short staffed with few supplies. a body left by the front desk. back outside, as the shooting subsided, the demonstrators moved to take new ground while
advanced. but they were picked off. this man shot in the leg. police fired on demonstrators. some with high-powered rifles. but then we saw the dedication that is keeping this movement alive. the protesters continued their charge. peering around corners. dodging bullets. diving for cover. recovering their wounded under fire. they paid a price for it. we watched them come back, limping, on stretchers. some unconscious. others dead. the wounded were rushed to a nearby hotel. in the lobby, a nurse tends to one man. another couldn t be saved. it s a makeshift field hospital. short staffed with few supplies. a body left by the front desk. back outside, as the shooting subsided, the demonstrators moved to take new ground while they could. and build new barricades.
trying to figure out why is it that they were being held in that converted garage against their will. that s what authorities say. and so they re still trying to piece together that timeline, just trying to figure out how long they were in here and what led to all of this, don? talk to me more about the men. what do we know? we understand one of them was 80 years old? reporter: yeah, they might have been, we re told that they might have been homeless and lured here. why they were there is some question as to whether or not they might have been running some sort of out of the house an unregulated home care situation. and, of course, there were i m told by police here in houston that those investigators that focus on those specific types of cases are looking in to this situation as well, are helping out in this investigation, and that that will take some time, but, yeah, we re looking at what we re told four men ranging in ages from 50 to 80 years old who needed a lot of medical