[Harris:] Let's do this very quickly now, let's get to our top stories. We have new video just into CNN out of Kabul, Afghanistan. Let's take this video full here and give it a listen. Whoa! Video of Taliban fighters launching a wave of bold attacks, obviously, in Kabul today. The video you're looking at now from an Iranian press TV crew which caught that moment there, the moment of one of the explosions. The reporter I'm not sure if this is the reporter or if this is a member of that reporter's crew. And I think maybe we could is this the explosion about to take place again? Let's take a look. So the reporter was filing a piece to camera at that moment. A huge ball of fire, as you can see here, erupted, just, what, a few feet behind them. We understand the correspondent was injured in the blast. No word on the crew. The reporter injured and taken to an area hospital. In Massachusetts today, Senate hopefuls Martha Coakley and Scott Brown are giving it one final push. Both are hoping to fill the seat left vacant by the late Ted Kennedy. Tomorrow's election extremely critical because it decides whether Democrats will be able to stop a Republican filibuster over health care. And today is the federal holiday marking the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday. Live pictures now from the King Center. Services were held at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. President and Mrs. Obama are honoring King by participating in a community service event today. We will get another check of our top stories for you in 20 minutes. Field hospitals are desperately trying to fill the void for badly needed medical care in Haiti, but they are facing some very difficult challenges right now, as we heard earlier on CNN's NEWSROOM with Kyra Phillips.
[Kyra Phillips, Cnn Anchor:] CNN Senior Medical Correspondent Elizabeth is there. She's joining us from a hospital in Port-au- Prince. Elizabeth, I was listening to your reports. And it's frustrating for doctors as they're saving people, but they're not always able to keep them alive.
[Elizabeth Cohen, Cnn Senior Medical Correspondent:] Right. Exactly, Kyra. They're so frustrated. These people come out of the rubble, and the problem is within a couple of days their wounds develop gangrene unless they get the treatment that they need. I'm at an extremely rudimentary hospital where they're forced to deliver very basic care. These doctors and nurses work so hard. They're sleeping on the floor with the patients. And the question that's on their lips now is they want to know where is that American government hospital? When will it be built so that they can take patients to it?
[Cohen:] They're desperately looking for a place to get this young man to have surgery. Because he needs much more than what they can do here. So we lend the Dr. Prust our satellite phone so that he could try to call some people. He's calling anyone he can think of to get to a more sophisticated hospital. If you don't get him to a better hospital tonight, what's going to happen to him?
[Unidentified Male:] Right. He would die.
[Dr. Jennifer Furin, Harvard Medical School:] Families are obviously going to be upset. They've been sitting here with their loved ones who they were so excited to see alive, only now to watch them die a slow, painful death from their rotting flesh because the infections are out of control and they need surgery. I've been here since Thursday. No one except the Israeli Hospital has taken any of our patients.
[Cohen:] I'm just amazed at what's here. This is like another world compared to the other hospital. Imaging department. I mean, imaging. My god, they have machines here. They have actual operating rooms and it's just amazing. What's the machine?
[Unidentified Male:] It's a
[Cohen:] It's a ventilator?
[Unidentified Male:] Ventilator and monitor. Ventilator, monitor, suction and oxygen.
[Cohen:] I mean, they don't have this at the little hospital that I came from. So the Israelis have set up a field hospital. Have the Americans? Has the American government set up a field hospital?
[Furin:] Currently, not yet.
[Cohen:] The Israelis came from the other side of the world.
[Furin:] It's a frustrating thing that I really can't explain.
[Unidentified Male:] It makes you almost embarrassed to be an American.
[Furin:] The situation is beyond desperate at this point. The disaster was the quake. But this is the disaster that's following in its wake. These patients were so thankful to have lived through the quake. And now they're slowly dying in these hospitals. We're desperate.
[Cohen:] Now, I've been texting back and forth with the spokesman for this American hospital that's supposed to be up. They've been saying for days that it will be up anytime. And the last text I have from them says we hope to have the hospital on the road soon. In other words, they hope to have the hospital up and operating soon Kyra.
[Phillips:] Wow. What about the supplies there where you are now? Do they have enough to get by at the moment? What's the need?
[Cohen:] No, Kyra, they have a lot of supplies. But they don't have everything they need, and they don't always have the right supplies. For example, doctors here tell me that for about 200 patients they have two blood pressure cuffs. So they were sort of excited when they found three boxes. These are blood pressure cuffs. We've all seen them before. Then you'll notice that there's no pump. You know, the thing they pump to get the blood pressure. There's no pump. These are completely useless to them. They also were sent this. This is a kit to do open heart surgery. They're not doing open heart surgery at this hospital. No way. So this is useless to them. Plus, it expired last year. So they don't quite have what they need. They're also missing oxygen, which is huge.
[Phillips:] Wow. Well, that's definitely great information to know as people are sending supplies, Elizabeth. You need to double- check everything to make sure that needs are met properly. You don't want to waste any time, money, energy into things like that, that's for sure, when they can use other things. Elizabeth Cohen, great job for us. Thank you so much.
[Harris:] And once again, back at the International Desk, because this is quite literally where all of the action is right now. Want to give you a quick update on the story we brought you as breaking news last hour. Three Americans wounded in Haiti. I'll just read it to you. A military official in Port-au-Prince is now reporting that three Americans were injured and treated in an incident near the airport. We have no idea at this point how these people were injured, what actually happened. No further details were immediately available. We can tell that the injuries are not considered life-threatening. We will continue to follow this story and all the news coming out of Port-au-Prince. You're in the CNN NEWSROOM.