i just want to say to the french people, you guys have been more than kind, the medical staff and the cops and everyone. the surgical team that reattached my thumb and tendons and nerves and everything like that, i want to say thank you. all the nurses, techs, paramedics, they were great. really grateful three young men, but it s the nation of france and beyond there in europe, people thaniking them fr their bravery, so it s going to be very busy for those three the next few days. tomorrow they will meet french president francois hollande along with a variety of dignitaries. sadler is expected to return soon but the other two will head to germany for medical treatment and evaluation at u.s. military installations. let s get more on the heroic actions of these young men on that train. let me bring in lieutenant colonel mark erdling, a former u.s. commanding general in europe and senior international
people and the cops and everyone. the surgical team that reattached my thumb and tendons and nerves and everything like that, i want to say thank you. all the nurses, techs, paramedics, they were great. so thank you. extraordinary, spencer stone, anthony asadler, alec skarlatos in paris just a couple of days after that harrowing act on a high-speed drain from amsterdam to paris. joining me right now is paolo sandoval in new york. paolo, this was incredible. you listen to these young men and they re very modest, they re matter of fact, but at the same time they say just as important as their instinct was that they trusted each other as friends. they go way back, back to their middle school days. it s truly remarkable, fred. what s even more incredible, some of the information that we heard today is they almost didn t end up on that train car to begin with.
this all seems like a movie scene or something. it s like he said, the word to describe it is pretty unreal. thank you very much, gentlemen. please join me. i want to say to the french people, you guys have been more than kind and the medical staff and the cops and everyone. the surgical team that reattached my thumb and the tendons and the nerves and everything, i want to say thank you. all the nurses and techs and paramedics were great. thank you. the police too the day we were there. we really appreciate that. thank, everybody. it s not often you hear applause at a news conference, but we got one at the conclusion of that in paris as americans anthony sadler, spencer stone and alec told the stories about thwarting the train attack.
well. if you look at report that marc did, they see that the blood flow is coming in, and that s the moment where everyone starts to celebrate. dr. siegel, this will grow with him, that s unbelievable. this hand is going to grow with him which also they have to pick the right physique, the right size and the right everything, and, of course, he has to be on all of these immuno suppressants, arthel, which is important and it s not an easy ride, a lot of rehab and occupational therapy. a long road ahead. will he get to a point where he uses the hand? let me see if i can get a word in here. listen, in the first place he was chosen because he was already on immunosuppressants and the techniques they used have been in place for a while and first time they have ever transplanted on a child and they have to reconnect as david said the bones, tendons and nerves, but he thinks the biggest obstacle is the
and plates and that s the structure of the billing. you re actually building a whole skyscraper, a building, so first is the foundation of this, the bone. you put it together with screws in place and then the team will expose all the arteries and tendons. 23 tendons they have to put together and then they bring the microscope and at that time everyone is involved in putting these two major arteries and the vein. it s a very critical. all the veins. all the veins. that s amazing. and now comes the sensation part which people are going to ask. doctor what, happens with the nerves? this is very tricky because every nor-of-has to be connected and i m talking about like we re using sutures that are thinner than your hair. it s a very, very sensitive operation. if you look at the movement of my movement of my fingers,cismle things you do all the time that you take for example, for example, closing your fing es. these are all the tendons pulling the fingers together, the flexor and re