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America Under Attack: St. Vincent's Hospital in Manhattan Helping Injured

Aired September 13, 2001 - 12:20   ET

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LEON HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR: All right, let's check in now with our Brian Palmer, who's at St. Vincent's Hospital in New York, a hospital that has seen much of the carnage created by this nasty terrorist activity.

Let's go to Brian now live. He's got -- you have some updated information for us now, Brian?

BRIAN PALMER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Indeed. We were just updated by spokesman Michael -- excuse me, Mark Ackerman on the current situation here at St. Vincent's Hospital and Medical Center.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: ... here at our Manhattan facility and one die at St. Vincent's in Staten Island.

There have been a total of 83 fire and police individuals cared for here in Manhattan and we've had 95 admissions. We're pleased that a number of those people who have been admitted here in Manhattan have been discharged and are now home resting comfortably with their families.

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PALMER: Now, in addition, the hospital's medical director, Dr. Anthony Gagliardi (ph) , said that 11 patients had been seen last night -- seen since last night, mostly emergency personnel with cuts and abrasions.

He -- the spokesman announced that a Web site is still under construction that would list patient's names on a citywide basis, being put together by the Greater New York Hospitals Association and the city's of Office of Emergency Management. But it's still not on- line. They said that there are other Web sites out there listing patient names; they're well-intentioned, the spokesman said, but not necessarily accurate.

Now, we would like to show you some rather compelling video that is slightly more upbeat. It's a reunion of two World Trade Center workers who were trapped in the rubble together. They couldn't see each other, but they were trapped in the rubble. Marlanea Cruz (ph), who was a carpenter at the World Trade Center and Artie Delbianco (ph), a 20-year veteran of the World Trade Center, an operations engineer, Mr. Delbianco could hear Marlanea Cruz calling to him in the rubble. His leg was crushed, but they got back together.

HARRIS: That is fantastic. Thank you very much.

Brian Palmer reporting to us there from St. Vincent's Hospital in New York.

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