In the north, lombardi, the medical system is all but overwhelmed. Too few hospital beds, not enough gowns, masks, a desperate shortage of ventilators. Youve seen whats happened and what continues to happen in italy right now. Yeah. Reporter dr. Maria raven is chief of emergency medicine at the university of californias San Francisco hospital. Youve got me on one gurney and youve got a 25yearold on another gurney. Youve only got one ventilator for the two of us. Who gets the ventilator . Thats a very tough question. I mean, i think the answer that we would use if we were to follow principles from a specialty like transplant is that people that have more life years might get the ventilator. But there are also many other sort of principles that could underlie the decision making. You know, you have to take into consideration underlying illnesses people might have and you have to take into consideration if there are other temporizing measures in one person you could use. You may not need
Not surprisingly, fear is the subject of a school of research all its own as well be hearing from david pogue, in our cover story. Coronavirus fear is normal even healthy right up to the point it gets dangerous. Most dont have the expert knowledge so when are afraid we engage in behaviors like putting on a mask that may not work. The fear is using judgment in ways that arent useful. The rational and the rational, and irrational responses to an invisible threat, ahead on sunday morning. Much as we might not want to think about it a rapid increase in coronavirus cases could soon force doctors to make extremely difficult medical and ethical choices as well be hearing from ted koppel. Hospitals are desperately short of ventilators and as the numbea decisions. So youve got me in your hospital. And youve got a 22 year old, and both of us need that piece of equipment. Who gets it . I think by most the younger person would be assigned that ventilator. Then look in the camera and say, ted, you
exclusively today, wednesday, august 18th, 2010. c-universal tn captions paid for by nbc-universal television good morning, everyone. welcome to today on a wednesday morning. i m matt lauer. and i m meredith vieira. rod blagojevich may not have a lot of time to celebrate his partial victory after being found guilty on only a single count in his corruption trial. almost immediately prosecutors promise to retry the case as soon as possible after the jury deadlocked on 23 other charges, including that the former el notice governor tried to sell president obama s vacant senate seat. what went on inside the jury room? why couldn t the jury reach a decision on those other, more serious counts? we ll ask the jury foreman in an exclusive live interview coming up in just a few minutes. also ahead new details on the death of the accused craigslist killer. philip markoff took his own life and left behind what could be a message for his ex-fiancee. we ll show it to you. plus
here we go with more of those 50s and 60s. we ve got that spin that s givigive giving us the cooler conditions. a couple of gusty winds moving through fairfield and concord, anywhere from 12 to 22 miles per hour, sustained winds. some of the gusts are closer to 30-mile-per-hour gusts through the delta. look at santa rosa, three quarters of a mile novato, three miles or less. get the windshield wipers because of the mist and drizzle. 50s to start to morning, a couple of 60s by noon. by 5:00 p.m., only a couple of 70s and 80s for afternoon highs. we re going to be in the lower 80s today. back to you. still not seeing the 90s. i m not going to complain. as long as the drizzle s gone. let s talk to mike inouye. good morning, kris. good morning, garvin. let s take you out to the peninsula. a disabled vehicle reported southbound 101 around 380. that should be cleared in a few minutes, but that s right also around a construction stozone i want to tell you about, 101 south side
this afternoon. more on your seven-day in just a bit. put your phone down and just drive. the chp is conducting the second phase of its crackdown on folks who are ignoring the driving or talking on the phone and texting law that is now in effect. nbc bay area s christie smith is live at the bay bridge toll plaza. hopefully you re not counting too many folks on the phone this morning passing behind you. reporter: no, not at all. you can give it your best argument today, but chances are if you re caught with a cell phone up to your ear while driving, you re going to get a ticket. on the surface, it doesn t sound like a lot. the penalty is $20 for the first offense. when you start adding in all the court fees, it can easily run over $100. the chp is heading up this enforcement, the second one in about two weeks. really all local police departments are taking part here. last tuesday they wrote about 900 tickets here in the bay area and there s an obvious problem with it. it s