Most Victims Home from Hospitals
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Earlier this morning, we got some good news out of Boston. Most of the people injured in the bombings have been released from the hospital. That's not to say there are plenty of people still in the hospital being treated. Let's head to Boston to find out more. Good morning, Don.</s>DON LEMON, CNN ANCHOR AND CORRESPONDENT: Yes, yes, good news, but still again, a long way to go, Carol, as you said. Of the 183 people hospitalized in Monday's attack, at least 100 have been sent home. At least 100 of them. CNN's senior medical correspondent is Elizabeth Cohen. She is at Brigham and Women's Hospital with an update on the very latest for us. So how many survivors are still being treated there? And what are their injuries, Elizabeth?</s>ELIZABETH COHEN, CNN SENIOR MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: Don, the injuries are of a wide range. There are some people who aren't very severely injured. And as we've noted, they have been discharged. And then there are some people who unfortunately have had to have a leg amputated or even both legs amputated. We know, for example, at one hospital, Boston Medical Center, yesterday they had 10 patients in critical condition, now they have only two. So people are on the road to recovery. And I want to tell you about one couple who shared their story. They were only 10 feet away from the blast. Their names are Nicholas and Lee Ann Yanni. And they managed to get to a store that sold clothing. And the husband looked at the wife, saw blood gushing from her calf, and he tore shirts off the racks of the store and made a tourniquet for her. She told him she was doing OK and he went outside to help other people. He then noticed his wife was being taken to an ambulance and he said let me on that ambulance, that's my wife. They went on the ambulance together to Tufts. She had surgery for a shattered bone in her calf and this is what he had to say after the surgery.</s>NICHOLAS YANNI, BOMBING VICTIM: You know, it was like -- like -- you know, like home, like -- you felt safe, you know, because, you know, the people you love are there with you, and you know they are OK.</s>COHEN: Nicholas Yanni said that his wife was as cool as a cucumber through the entire ordeal and now husband and wife are recovering together in the same room at Tufts Medical Center. Tufts is one of about 11 hospitals that are taking care of the wounded -- Don.</s>LEMON: And, Elizabeth, you know, we heard about -- just how crude these particular bombs were. Ball bearings. And we understand many of the victims were hit with shrapnel, maybe some of the debris from things that were near these bombs. How is that treated? How is that being treated?</s>COHEN: You know, we've been told by doctors that most of these little pieces of shrapnel really went just below the skin, and so they had to be cleaned out. But they said really the big injuries here, the things that they're worried about the most aren't from the shrapnel, they are from the explosion itself.</s>LEMON: All right. Senior medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen. Thank you, Elizabeth. Back to Carol in Atlanta now -- Carol.</s>COSTELLO: We'll have much, much more to come on what happened in Boston and the latest information on the investigation. We'll be right back.