June 4, 2017


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FIVE CREDIBLE TERRORIST PLOTS UNCOVERED IN ENGLAND SINCE MARCH. I WONDER WHY THEY ARE CONCENTRATING THEIR JIHADIST ATTACKS ON ENGLAND. OF COURSE, IT HAS BEEN WORSE IN FRANCE, USA AND OTHER PLACES AS WELL. IRRATIONAL HATRED IS ON THE RISE; UNFORTUNATELY, IT IS A CONTAGIOUS FORM OF INSANITY. MAY SPOKE IN THE NEWS YESTERDAY ABOUT FINDING WAYS TO CONTAIN THESE EVENTS. I NOTICE THE LONDON POLICE RAIDED A NEIGHBORHOOD IN LONDON AND ARRESTED SOME DOZEN OR SO SUSPECTS OF PLOTTING AND AIDING THE ATTACKERS ON LONDON BRIDGE. WE NEED A WAY TO SPOT THE MOST LIKELY ASSASSINS BEFORE THEY COMMIT THE CRIME. WHAT THEY NEED IS MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENT.

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CBS/AP June 4, 2017, 6:11 PM
ISIS claims responsibility for London attack

LONDON -- The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) on Sunday issued a claim of responsibility for an attack that killed seven people in a busy area of Central London.

In a statement more than 24 hours after the attack, the group's Aamaq news agency quoted a "security source," saying, "A Unit of Islamic State Fighters carried out London attacks yesterday."

London Bridge attack timeline as it happened and reaction
Prime Minister Theresa May on Sunday called for tougher measures to contain Islamic extremism in Britain.

May, facing an election Thursday, said the recent attacks, including an earlier one outside Parliament in March, are not directly connected, but that "terrorism breeds terrorism" and attackers copy one another. She also said five credible plots have been disrupted since March.

"They are bound together by the single evil ideology of Islamist extremism that preaches hatred, sows division, and promotes sectarianism," she said.

The events unfolded Saturday night around 10 p.m. GMT when a van mowed down pedestrians along the London Bridge. Three men fled the van with large knives and attacked people at bars and restaurants in nearby Borough Market, police and witnesses said. The attack unfolded quickly, and police said officers had shot and killed the three attackers within eight minutes.

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London Bridge terror attack




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CBS/AP June 4, 2017, 7:44 AM
British PM calls for tougher measures to contain Islamic extremism

LONDON -- Prime Minister Theresa May called Sunday for tougher measures to contain Islamic extremism in Britain in the wake of an attack that killed seven people in a busy area of London.

The assault began Saturday night when a van veered off the road and barreled into pedestrians on busy London Bridge. Three men fled the van with large knives and attacked people at bars and restaurants in nearby Borough Market, police and witnesses said. The attack unfolded quickly, and police said officers had shot and killed the three attackers within eight minutes.

Police said counterterrorism officers raided several addresses in Barking, an east London suburb, and arrested 12 people there Sunday morning in connection with the attack. Armed officers also conducted a raid in the East Ham area of the city.

Emergency officials said 48 people, including two police officers, were treated at London hospitals and a number of others suffered less serious injuries. Twenty-one remained in critical condition Sunday. Among the wounded were German, French and Spanish citizens, officials said.

The death toll of seven did not include the three attackers. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said a Canadian was among the dead.

Britain was already on edge after a suicide bombing two weeks ago at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, in northwest England, that killed 22 people and injured dozens of others. Grande and other stars are scheduled to perform a benefit concert for victims Sunday night.

The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the Manchester bombing, but there has not yet been a claim of responsibility for the London attack, which the prime minister linked to Islamic extremism.

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Members of the public, wrapped in emergency blankets leave the scene of a terror attack on London Bridge in central London on June 3, 2017.
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May, facing an election Thursday, said the recent attacks, including an earlier one outside Parliament in March, are not directly connected, but that "terrorism breeds terrorism" and attackers copy one another. She also said five credible plots have been disrupted since March.

"They are bound together by the single evil ideology of Islamist extremism that preaches hatred, sows division, and promotes sectarianism," she said. "It is an ideology that claims our W [sic] It was the third attack to hit Britain in as many months.

In March, a British convert to Islam ran down people with a vehicle on Westminster Bridge, killing four before fatally stabbing a policeman on Parliament's grounds.

Then came the May 22 Manchester concert bombing. After that attack, Britain's official terrorism threat level was raised from "severe" to "critical," meaning an attack may be imminent. Several days later it was lowered again to "severe," meaning an attack is highly likely.

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May called on international communications companies to do more to block cyberspace to extremist groups who use it for recruitment and for encrypted information about plots. She called for international agreements to regulate cyberspace and said Britain needs to become more robust at preventing the internet from being used to the advantage of extremist groups.

The British government has long sought more help from internet companies like Facebook and Google in the battle against extremism.

May spoke defiantly about protecting Britain's democracy -- and vowed the election would go ahead as planned -- after the violence turned a balmy summer night in an area packed with revelers into a scene of bloodshed and chaos, with officers running through crowded streets screaming for people to flee.

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Boats on the River Thames helped evacuate the area, which is popular with tourists. It remained closed off Sunday as police urged residents and tourists to stay away.

May said the men attacked "innocent and unarmed civilians" in crowded Borough Market with blades and knives. She said they were wearing what appeared to be explosive vests, but police determined those were only meant to sow panic and fear.

Major parties suspended national campaigning Sunday out of respect for the victims, although the rightwing UK Independence Party said it would keep campaigning to show the extremists they couldn't sidetrack democracy.

May's Conservative Party had been expected to win by a wide margin but recent polls have showed the race tightening considerably. It is unclear how the unprecedented violence in the run-up to the election will impact voter sentiment.

Mayor Sadiq Khan said Londoners should remain vigilant but added: "I'm reassured we are one of the safest global cities in the world."

Khan said some of the injured were in critical condition. French and Spanish citizens were among the wounded.

Assistant Metropolitan Police Commissioner Mark Rowley said that while police believe all the attackers were killed, the investigation is expanding.

"We believe three people were involved, but we still have got some more inquiries to do to be 100 percent confident in that," he said.

U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted about the attack early Sunday, saying, "We must stop being politically correct and get down to the business of security for our people. If we don't get smart it will only get worse."

"At least 7 dead and 48 wounded in terror attack and Mayor of London says there is 'no reason to be alarmed!'" Mr. Trump tweeted.

"Do you notice we are not having a gun debate right now? That's because they used knives and a truck!" he posted.

Hours earlier, as authorities responded to reports of a string of attacks, Mr. Trump argued in favor of his embattled travel ban.

"We need to be smart, vigilant and tough," he tweeted. "We need the courts to give us back our rights. We need the Travel Ban as an extra level of safety!"

He also tweeted a message of support for Londoners: "Whatever the United States can do to help out in London and the U. K., we will be there - WE ARE WITH YOU. GOD BLESS!"

As dawn broke over London Sunday, a large area on the south bank of the River Thames remained cordoned off. Police told people to avoid the area, leaving tourists and revelers struggling to get home. London Bridge and the adjacent train station, as well as nearby Borough subway station, were still closed.

Only hours before, bursts of gunfire echoed through the streets -- likely from armed police -- and at least three blasts rang out as officers performed controlled explosions after sweeping the area for possible bombs.

One witness, identified only as Ben, told the BBC that he and his wife saw a stabbing at Borough Market. "I saw a man in red with quite a large blade -- I don't know the measurement, I guess maybe 10 inches," he said. "He was stabbing a man. He stabbed him about three times fairly calmly."

Before fleeing the scene, Ben said he saw someone throw a table and a glass bottle at the suspect.

Another witness, identified as Gerard, told the BBC that he chased the suspects and threw bottles, glasses and other objects in an effort to stop them.

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"They were running in all the pubs and all the bars and they were stabbing everyone," he said. "I was throwing bottles at them, pint glasses, stools, chairs."

Bartender Alex Martinez said he hid in a garbage bin for a half hour when a man stormed the nearly full restaurant where he worked. "I saw that man with a knife in his hand and after that a man started screaming so I knew something wrong was happening," he said.

Medics treated the injured near the market as shocked people cried and shouted around them. Police officers yelled at people to run from the area.

Simon Thompson told Sky News that he was just outside Borough Market when he saw crowds fleeing.

"We ran for like 100 meters and then saw loads of police cars turned up and there was kind of a period of quite intense gunfire," he said. "I hid in a restaurant basement for about an hour... Police told us to get out and then there was more gunfire."

Police received the first call of reports of a vehicle hitting pedestrians on London Bridge at 10:08 p.m.

Soon after, reports started coming in of stabbings at Borough Market, a nearby area full of bars and restaurants surrounding a popular food market.

Photographer Gabriele Sciotto said he was on his way home from a pub when he saw a man running toward him telling him to turn around and run because there was an attack. As a documentary filmmaker, though, his instincts were to keep going.

The 25-year-old said that at first, "it didn't look too dangerous."

The men went into Borough Market, but then turned around and ran toward the Wheatsheaf Pub after being confronted by a police officer, he said, and suddenly a lot of police came from the other direction.

The attackers "had no clue what they were doing. They were scared. The police were scared," he said.

After one of the men was shot, Sciotto captured a photo of the suspect on the ground wearing what appeared to be canisters.

Police initially said officers were also responding to a third incident, in the Vauxhall neighborhood, but later said that turned out to be an unrelated stabbing.

Police tweeted a warning telling people in the area to run to safety, hide and then call police if it was safe to do so. They asked Londoners to "remain calm but be alert and vigilant."



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Photograph -- British Prime Minister David Cameron is pictured as he listens to a speech by Mayor of London Boris Johnson on the third day of the annual British Conservative Party conference in Birmingham, central England, on Sept. 30, 2014.
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LONDON -- Britain's interior minister has proposed new powers to bar people with extremist views from appearing on television or publishing on social media even if they are not breaking any laws.

Home Secretary Theresa May told a conference of the governing Conservatives that if re-elected next year the party will introduce powers to disrupt people who "spread poisonous hatred" even within the law.

May said Tuesday that only a minority of extremists are violent, but there is "a thread that binds" nonviolent extremism to terrorism.

May says tougher powers are needed to stop young people becoming radicalized. She says at least 500 Britons have travelled to Syria and Iraq, mainly to fight with militant groups.

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Tuesday morning, speaking to the BBC, David Cameron said, "the problem that we have had is this distinction of saying 'we will only go after you if you are an extremist that directly supports violence' it has left the field open for extremists who know how not to step over the line."

Cameron spoke on the heels of the release of radical Islamic preacher Anjem Choudary, who was picked up along with eight other men on Sept. 25 and held for just one day.

Choudary, who had faced similar detentions in the past, and the other suspects were arrested on suspicion of encouraging terrorism.

Civil libertarians, and some Conservatives, call the proposed measures an unacceptable restriction on freedom of speech.

Conservative lawmaker David Davis told the BBC that "we have to be careful we don't end up like the people we are trying to defeat."



PORTLAND, OR: MORE THAN 60 SEPARATE GROUPS, SOME TOUTING “FREE SPEECH,” AND OTHERS AN ANTI-HATE MESSAGE, BRINGING OUT THOUSANDS. PORTLAND IS, I GATHER FROM THIS ARTICLE, A LIBERAL CITY, AND A RIGHT WING ADVOCATE TRIED TO GET APPROVAL STIRRED UP FOR TRUMP BY THE RALLY. HE SAID HIS GOAL IS TO “WAKE UP THE LIBERTY MOVEMENT.”

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CBS/AP June 4, 2017, 5:12 PM
Portland protest: Arrests made as thousands gather for opposing rallies

PORTLAND, Ore. -- Police say five people were arrested in Portland, Oregon, Sunday as thousands gathered for opposing rallies following the fatal stabbing of two men who tried to stop another man's anti-Muslim tirade.

Five arrests were made throughout the day, but that number was expected to rise, a Portland Police Department spokesperson tells CBS News.

A pro-Donald Trump, free speech rally was organized by the conservative group Patriot Prayer that was met with groups of anti-Trump and anti-hate protesters.

Officials shut down at least one counter-protest at a public square in Chapman Square, because they say demonstrators were hurling bricks and other objects at officers.

Police said people gathered by Patriot Prayer and other counter-protesters at City Hall were not involved. They said they used "less-lethal chemical munition" such as tear gas to disperse the crowds.

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Rally organizer Joey Gibson told the crowd that the goal was to wake up the liberty movement. "It's OK to be a conservative in Portland," he said. Demonstrators chanted "USA" and held banners in support of President Trump.

"We build our hope and our stamina for justice by showing up," Rev. Diane Dulin of the United Church of Christ said in a statement ahead of the rally.

More than 60 separate groups have gathered outside Portland City Hall, CBS affiliate KOIN-TV reports.

"Portland will take a deep breath and realize this is a moment we need to stand up for," Nico Judd, a protester with Portland Stands United Against Hate, told KOIN-TV.

Mayor Ted Wheeler unsuccessfully tried last week to get a permit for the event yanked, saying he feared violence after the May 26 killings. Counter protesters organized by religious and labor groups are also expected to show up downtown.

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Police Sgt. Pete Simpson told CBS News that suspect in the light-rail stabbings, 35-year-old Jeremy Joseph Christian, attended a free speech march in April with a baseball bat to confront protesters. Simpson said the bat was quickly confiscated by officers.

Authorities say that on May 26 Christian killed two men and injured another on the light-rail train when they tried to help after he verbally abused two young women, one wearing a hijab. Christian is charged with aggravated murder and other counts.

Mat Dos Santos, the legal director for the American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon, has said it was wrong and unconstitutional for Wheeler to try to stop the demonstration based on the viewpoint of the organizers.

The concerns over the Portland rally come amid a wider debate in the U.S. about the First Amendment, often in liberal cities like Portland and Berkeley, California, and on college campuses, where violent protests between far-right and far-left protesters have derailed appearances by contentious figures.

Wheeler previously said that he will attend the rallies from the police command post. "The goal is to keep everybody separated, respect First Amendment rights for everybody to speak their piece," the mayor told KOIN-TV.

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Dozens of officers in black protective gear and others on bicycles are in downtown Portland were working to keep groups separated on opposite sides of the street.

Officers say they want protesters to stay with their groups and not cross the street to escalate tensions. They warned people to not bring weapons or weapon-like objects to the rally and posted images to Twitter of objects they confiscated, including hockey sticks, a knife, batons, a homemade slingshot and a makeshift shield.

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"Police working to keep all groups separated. Protesters should stay with their groups, not attempt to cross streets to escalate tensions," the department said on Twitter.



WHAT A FEW ANTIBIOTICS AND A LOT OF COURAGE AND KNOWHOW CAN DO – THE MOUNTAIN GORILLA IS MAKING A COMEBACK IN THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO.

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Saving Africa's endangered mountain gorilla
When the first Gorilla Doctor began helping mountain gorillas, the species was almost extinct. Today, they're the only population of great apes that's growing
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Lara Logan

There are only about 950 mountain gorillas left on Earth. Habitat loss, poaching and disease have made them one of the most endangered animals alive. But, as we first reported last fall, their numbers are rising, thanks in large part to a group of veterinarians called Gorilla Doctors. Their team has 16 doctors who operate all across the gorilla's territory, a vast rainforest that spans three countries: Rwanda, Uganda and the DRC, the Democratic Republic of Congo. We went to Africa to meet them, and not long after we arrived, we got to see how difficult their job can be. An adult female gorilla in the DRC had caught her wrist in a poacher's snare.

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Mike Cranfield: Have you got a 10cc syringe there?

With the wounded gorilla close by, the Gorilla Doctors prepped their medical gear on the floor of the forest.

Mike Cranfield: Martin, if you could get betadine ready too.

Finding her had not been easy and they didn't want to lose this chance to treat her.

Mike Cranfield: And then you're going to use that volume of decametatodomyne. Yes.

Dr. Mike Cranfield has been running Gorilla Doctors for 18 years. Dr. Eddy Kambale is his right hand and Dr. Martin Kabuyaya, one of his newest field veterinarians.

Lara Logan: Mike, what is the plan right now?

Mike Cranfield: So, right now, Eddy is getting the anesthetic ready because it's a snare we know we're going to do a knock down, he'll dart the first chance he has.

Lara Logan: Are you a good shot Eddy?

Mike Cranfield: He's an excellent shot.

Eddy grabbed his dart gun that was loaded with anesthetic and went with the trackers to find the wounded female who'd hurt herself when she picked up a snare poachers had set for a smaller animal.

They had to cut a path through the forest as they went. She was with her group and they were moving fast.

Thick vegetation gave way to a clearing where they spotted her. Then Eddy stepped forward and prepared to take his shot as soon as it hit she took off. And the team followed. They knew she had to be close.

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From left: Lara Logan, Mike Cranfield and Eddy Kambale CBS NEWS

It was an unforgettable sight. Now, they had less than 40 minutes to assess her wound and treat it before the anesthetic wore off. They call this an intervention.

Mike Cranfield: Eddy and I and Martin have done probably 15 interventions together. It's the team, it's always the team and we have some of the most important patients in the world right? If something doesn't go right, basically you can almost count on it being known almost worldwide.

Lara Logan: How would you rate the quality of your work as an organization?

Mike Cranfield: I think it's very good actually.

When they're not doing emergency interventions, Mike said his doctors are out making "house calls." And in the 10 days we spent with them, we went on a few. This one in the DRC where Eddy and Martin are based.

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Eddy Kambale: Activity…

Lara Logan: All the signs are normal.

Eddy Kambale: Yeah.

Lara Logan: So that means she's still healthy.

Eddy Kambale: Active, moving, she's using all limbs. I can just see how she's breathing.

Lara Logan: Right.

Eddy Kambale: I can count the breathing rate like now you see -- one, you can see how the abdomen is moving, two, three.

These gorillas live in Virunga, the oldest national park in Africa and from the air, some of the most forbidding landscape you'll ever see. When the Gorilla Doctors began working here, the mountain gorillas were almost extinct. Today, they're the only population of great apes that's growing.

Mike Cranfield: They're increasing at four percent a year, which is about the maximum that they could. That's as fast as the human population is growing on the face of the earth. And that's veterinarians are credited with 50 percent of that growth or two percent a year.

Lara Logan: You're talking about Gorilla Doctors, your veterinarians and you.

Mike Cranfield: Yes, yes, we're the only veterinarians that are working on the gorillas in a clinical sense.

Over the years, Mike told us, he's had a few run-ins with his patients.

Mike Cranfield: He came flying towards me for about 30 yards and just punched me right in the face.

Lara Logan: Did it hurt?

Mike Cranfield: Little bit.

This is Umoja. Mike calls her "a miracle baby." Part of her intestines were hanging out of her body when the Gorilla Doctors got to her.

Now, eight years later, Mike wanted us to meet her, which meant hiking through a bamboo forest, layers of vegetation, and up to more than 9,000 feet.

There on the steep volcanic slopes in northern Rwanda, we found Umoja's family. And here she is. A new mother. Her baby boy, only a month old.

Mike Cranfield: Umoja is probably the most spectacular case that we've ever had. And that brought a lot of pride for Gorilla Doctors.

Lara Logan: So it's not just the animal that you save, it's the future generations.

Mike Cranfield: Correct. You're actually influencing not one life but multiple lives.

In Rwanda, where we met one of Mike's senior veterinarians, Dr. Sosco, the mountain gorillas have become a national symbol. He was 14 when his country was torn apart by genocide in 1994. More than 800,000 people were slaughtered in 100 days.

Lara Logan: What do you remember of the genocide?

Noheli Jean Bosco: Darkness in the whole country. At that age you don't have much thinking but you can see that this is over, the whole country is over.

In 22 years, Rwanda has risen from the ashes and the gorillas are at the center of that transformation. Close to 30,000 tourists come every year for the gorillas and tourism is the biggest source of foreign income for this tiny nation.

Noheli Jean Bosco: The connection makes everybody feel "OK, these guys are very important to us.."

Lara Logan: These gorillas are important.

Noheli Jean Bosco: These gorillas they're important to us. Everyone feels that.

Mike, who works with the UC Davis Wildlife Health Center, was at the Gorilla Doctors headquarters in Rwanda, when he got the call about that wounded gorilla in the DRC.

[Mike Cranfield on phone: Oh dear, and how long has the snare been on?]

Before long, we were rushing for the border.

Lara Logan: From the moment you get that phone call, is there a pressure to move as fast as you can?

Mike Cranfield: Yea, speed. Speed is everything. Twenty-four hours can make a difference to having full function in the hand.

Lara Logan: That's kind of tough here sometimes because…

Mike Cranfield: It is.

Lara Logan: Speed matters. But to get there, ya have to take the slow boat.

Mike Cranfield: Yea, right.

Dr. Eddy Kambale was waiting for us at the slow boat on the other side of the border, on the shores of Lake Kivu. Amidst the crowd and the chaos and struggling to hold onto our gear, we boarded with minutes to spare. And settled in for the long journey, a 12-hour odyssey across one of Africa's great lakes. We woke as the sun was rising, and pulled into the harbor at Bukavu, with the hustle and bustle of the early morning.

Lara Logan: And then we still had to get to the animal.

Mike Cranfield: That's sometimes the most difficult part!

A bumpy ride and a broken bridge took us to the edge of the Kahuzi Biega National Park. From here, we went on foot, hiking deep into one of largest forests in the DRC. Every time we went down, we had to come back up and the hills were steep. We walked and walked with no sign of the gorillas, stumbling and falling into the night.

Martin Kabuyaya: It's not easy to find the trail at night.

Lara Logan: Was hard walking in the dark?

Both: Yeah.

Lara Logan: Even for you?

Eddy Kambale: Yeah, please.

Lara Logan: That wasn't normal?

Eddy Kambale: That was not normal. It was really hard.

With worn feet and low expectations, we tried again the next day. This time the trackers got lucky and led us right to them. That's when Eddy darted her and she ran into the forest.

From that moment, when she was in the hands of her doctors, there was a sense of urgency. The first thing Mike did was check her breathing and heart rate, to make sure she was tolerating the anesthesia.

Eddy's job was her injured wrist. He had to cut away her hair to get to the wound. The snare was dug in, her flesh infected.

Eddy Kambale: Bad smell.

Lara Logan: Bad smell,

Eddy Kambale: yep

Nats Mike: I'm giving the Kitiprofin.

Lara Logan: What did you give her, Mike?

Mike Cranfield: Painkiller. About to give the antibiotic.

That's her snoring. Mike said she was in a deep sleep and couldn't feel anything. From her worn teeth, they estimated she was at least 20. She's an eastern lowland gorilla - not a mountain gorilla - but also critically endangered. Eddy used wire cutters and removed the snare.

Lara Logan: Eddy, Eddy, how does the hand look? Oh my gosh, that's really deep huh?

Eddy Kambale: Yea it's very deep. And you can see how deep it it.

Lara Logan: So it won't need to be amputated?

Mike Cranfield: No, this is gonna be a perfect scenario. Very, very pleased.

Martin was gathering samples while they worked. They study these and share them with scientists all over the world.

Mike Cranfield: I'm gonna put the blood in a tube.

Eddy cleaned the wound, tested the movement in her hand, and decided she didn't need stitches, while Mike did a physical exam.

Mike Cranfield: OK, she's starting to wake up. OK, so we need to move back a bit. OK, she's going to have to have a reversal..

Lara Logan: 34 minutes.

Mike Cranfield: OK, everybody back up everybody! That's a little faster than we like.

The doctors won't leave her until they know she's OK.

Mike Cranfield: You can see the respiration has picked up. And as long as we don't stimulate her, she'll probably stay that way and that's the way we would like her to stay until the ketamine's worn off a bit.

For the next 15 minutes she struggled as the drugs wore off. Her wrist, they said, would now heal on its own, and they'd be back to check on her.

Eddy made sure she headed for her group until, not far from her, he saw the group's leader, a silverback, in the grass. Instinctively, she moved towards him and disappeared into the forest.

Produced by Max McClellan. Ali Rawaf, associate producer.



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