correspondent trace gallagher is live in los angeles with the latest. this happened at 7:12 a.m. tiger woods was driving north on hawthorn boulevard going to the rolling hills estate. sources tell the los angeles times that the genesis s.u.v. tiger woods was driving was at a high rate of speed. tiger apparently lost control before he struck the center median. he then hit the center median, struck a sign through rolling hills estate and crossed over opposing traffic. investigators say he rolled once or twice and ended up on the embankment. firefighters said when they found him, roughly six minutes later, he was conscious and talking. because of the situation and the way you found the vehicle, he wasn t able to open the door and come out. we extracted him. we helped to assist him out of the vehicle. experts say that he was able to tell first responders to call his manager to come and grab his things. he was then taken to ucla harbor trauma center where he is now undergoing su
good evening, i am erin burnett. outfront, breaking news, tiger woods taken to the hospital in serious condition. the golf champion suffering multiple fractures to his legs in a one car crash. we know he has undergone surgery, officials are not revealing how many surgeries he had in the past hours or whether he is still undergoing surgery as we speak. officials say woods was traveling at a high rate of speed when he lost control of his car. it rolled multiple times, the air bags tdeployed. extensive damage to the front end of the car. emergency crews had to arrive within moments. we used a tool used for prying, and used an axe to pry him from the vehicle. he was conscious and that s the extent of that. what about evidence of impairment? there was no evidence of impairment. officials telling reporters that woods was not able to stand on his own when emergency crews arrived. from what you re hearing, it is pretty clear tiger woods is really lucky to be alive. report
look, there is a little bit of controversy in some of the states also about how they re allowing people to get it or not, but it is a point of frustration. so i m with you. the bigger problem for me is, what do you get for getting the vaccine other than the personal satisfaction of knowing that you re way, way better off personally? shouldn t that already be in place, like, these places can open up, but you can open up this much more with vaccinated people? right, or if you have health care, like what i got from my health care person or agency or whatever you want to call it, is that when it s you re turn, we will let you know. i m just patiently waiting, but i m wondering, as i talk to friends who live in other states and they re my age or younger and healthy and in the gym every day, i m like, how did you get the vaccine? i don t really get it. we don t have a national plan. one of the things i d like to see one of my to-be in-laws, they re getting it this week and
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right leg. that s what they re talking about in this. open fracture. that basically means it was open. the bone actually coming through the skin. comminuted, different areas of the tibia and fibula, the two bones of the lower leg. at least a couple of different places where those bones were fractured. so there was a lot of energy that was absorbed into the ankle that had a lot of fractured bones and then into the lower part of his leg. so that s what we know. we also know that the muscles around those bones became quite swollen and if you think about if you feel your own leg, the muscles, you feel the muscles and they re encased by a harder layer of tissue, tougher layer of tissue known as the facie. if the muscle starts to get swollen, it has nowhere to go. that s a compartment syndrome. the danger with that is that, as the muscle swells, the blood supply to the muscle starts to be diminished and the muscle can actually start to die. and that can be a real question of whethe