unprecedented. reporter: in new england, cases of rsv are down, but flu is up. some hospitals in boston say their pediatric icus are maxed out. the back up begins in the emergency room. we have large numbers of parents in the emergency department awaiting a bed, many for 12, 24 plus hours. reporter: maxwell shoe man waited for a bed. his parents both healthcare workers noticed he was struggling to breathe. he was coughing. wasn t eating and he had a silent cry. you could see him physically crying, but he wasn t making a sound. reporter: he was admitted to the cleveland clinic and quickly intubated. he went into respiratory arrest and was stabilized and is now recovering at home. you saw a hospital system stretched really thin. does this make you concerned? it worries me from people who don t live a couple of minls away from a world class hospital that we had to wait so long for
ronan. when did you first notice something was wrong with him? he was about ten days old, and he started developing a rash. and he got very irritable, was crying a lot. but i checked him like for a temperature, he didn t have a temperature. and he just wasn t eating quite as much as he had been previously. he was breast-fed. i called in to his pediatrician and had him come for a visit. and at that time, the pediatrician reassured me that it was gas and colic. but just less than 12 hours later i was bringing him into the hospital, and he was intubated shortly after arriving. he was clearly very sick by the time that he got there. and it just escalated from there. so after the breathing issues came seizures, and the entire time he was in the hospital he was battling one of the two. and when they told you that he had this virus, what was your reaction? because i mean, look i m a
before. on the day he died his mother took him from the flat here to walk in the health centre. she told a nurse he wasn t his normal self and had a high temperature and he d been sick and wasn t eating. the nurse gave him medicine for a suspected stomach bug. on the outside he appeared well, this was him after the health centre visit stopping for lunch with his mum. then a short time later returning to the flat, a few hours after this he was dead. during the trial, watson and pope said his injuries were inflicted accidentally during rough play. pope had previous conditions for assault, play. pope had previous conditions forassault, burglary and play. pope had previous conditions for assault, burglary and dealing heroin. watson was described as having a zero to 100 temper, both used cannabis regularly. the court heard that kemarni watson darby had been full of personality, that is something that is clear in all of these pictures. a safeguarding review will reveal whether opportunities
i wasn t there. i wasn t present in that crime. prosecutors painted knox as a demonic figure who killed for the thrill. they described the murder as part satanic ritual and part orgy. the trial of conrad murray enters a second week in about 45 minutes. that s the michael jackson trial. the emergency room doctor who pronounced michael jackson dead is expected on the witness stand first. dr. rachelle cooper says that murray never told her that he d given jackson the anesthesia that allegedly killed him. murray s three girlfriends are expected to testify as well. phone records show that he talked to all three in the minutes before and after jackson went into cardiac arrest. protests by the group occupy wall street have spread from new york city to at least three other major cities. police arrested more than 700 protestors on saturday when they marched on the brooklyn bridge. occupy wall street, that group says it wants to draw attention to corporate greed and immorality am
blamed on hurricane/tropical storm irene. more than three million homes and businesses still don t have power. flood warnings still are in effect in five states from vermont to new jersey. all this brings me to my colleague, mary snow, in patterson, new jersey. mary, what is going on there around you right now? reporter: well, evacuations have been going on for the past 48 hours and they are only intensifying because you just mentioned, there are some rivers that have yet to crest. here in patterson, new jersey, which is about three blocks away from the passaic river, that has not yet crested. we are told it s about seven feet higher than it normally is, and there have been boats going out that were with the state office of emergency management, their search and rescue teams have been going out all morning. we are joined by the mayor of patterson, jeff jones. mr. mayor, thanks for joining us. what is your biggest concern right now? well, the biggest concern right now is t