Arizona walks in on an unexpected bash just after losing a young patient

Callie thought Arizona would be pleased with her surprise birthday party. It wasn’t her fault the timing was horrible.

Elective surgery: Arizona, on her birthday, was looking after a young cancer patient named Wallace who had become something of a favorite. When his parents asked for a meeting with Arizona, the Chief and the board guy, Arizona was terrified that she was about to be read the riot act. It turned out, however, that Wallace’s parents wanted to contribute $25 million to the hospital.

When Wallace’s condition worsened, Arizona didn’t recommend any more surgery, but his parents insisted. The Chief wanted her to go ahead — in part, perhaps, to keep the planned gift on target. When Wallace died during the operation that she knew he might not survive, Arizona bitterly told the Chief and Jennings (the board guy) exactly what she thought of them forcing her to, in her mind, kill Wallace. Unfortunately, when she went home devastated, she walked in on the world’s most awkward surprise party, which gently dissolved itself after she fled. Later, she comforted Wallace’s parents and they affirmed that they would still be giving the money, but she still felt awful, and went straight home to Callie, where they exchanged “I love you’s.”

Up on the roof: Meanwhile, a 15-year-old girl came in with many, many broken bones after getting high and falling off the roof of her house. When Owen operated with Avery, Cristina and Callie all helping out, the patient developed an embolism. Owen ordered Cristina to wait for another doctor, but Cristina ignored him and plowed ahead — with Avery’s help — eventually removing the embolism herself. This caused a huge fight with Owen. Cristina was still feeling low at Arizona’s party when Avery laid a big kiss on her, which she pushed away after allowing it to linger for a bit longer than she might like to admit.

Poor Alex: In the week’s other pediatrics case, a pregnant woman was in a car accident, and Alex, Arizona, and Derek had to deliver her baby, 10 weeks premature. The baby was initially in very bad shape, and Alex feared that she would not survive the night. But when Alex gently cradled her, Bailey noticed that the baby’s condition improved, so Bailey insisted he remove his shirt and provide skin-to-skin contact. Alex sat for long hours holding the baby against his chest, and eventually, her condition improved. Bailey encouraged Alex to consider pediatrics, for which he seems to have an odd affinity.

Unfortunately, as if Alex didn’t have enough to worry about, it turned out that Izzie also didn’t pay $200,000 in medical bills before she left, so those, too, are now Alex’s problem. He did continue to forge an uncomfortable semi-friendship with Reed, who halfway admitted her crush on him to Avery, then sat with Alex until the baby improved enough to be given to her mother.

FORT HOOD, Texas - Military officials were starting Friday to piece together what may have pushed an Army psychiatrist trained to help soldiers in distress to turn on his comrades in a shooting rampage that killed 13 people and wounded 30 in Texas.

The suspected shooter, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, was on a ventilator and unconscious in a hospital after being shot four times during the shootings at the Army’s sprawling Fort Hood, post officials said. In the early chaos after the shootings, authorities believed they had killed him, only to discover later that he had survived.

In Washington, a senior U.S. official said authorities at Fort Hood initially thought one of the victims who had been shot and killed was the shooter. The mistake resulted in a delay of several hours in identifying Hasan as the alleged assailant.

The commander of the Fort Hood Lt. Gen. Bob Cone told NBC’s TODAY on Friday that Hasan was in a “stable condition.” He said he would be interrogated as soon as possible.

Cone also said he heard first-hand accounts from witnesses on the scene that Hassan shouted “Allahu Akbar,” which means “God is Great” in Arabic, before he opened fire at the Soldier Readiness Center at Fort Hood.

‘Friendly fire’
Authorities have not ruled out that Hasan was acting on behalf of some unidentified radical group, the official said. He would not say whether any evidence had come to light to support that theory.

The official spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity to discuss matters that were under investigation.

Officials are not ruling out the possibility that some of the casualties may have been victims of “friendly fire,” that in the mayhem and confusion at the shooting scene some of the responding military officials may have shot some of the victims.

The gunfire broke out around 1:30 p.m. at the Soldier Readiness Center, where soldiers who are about to be deployed or who are returning undergo medical screening. Nearby, some soldiers were readying to head into a graduation ceremony for troops and families who had recently earned degrees.

‘Sir, they are opening fire over there!’
Pastor Greg Schannep had just parked his car along the side of the theater and was about to head into the ceremony when a man in uniform approached him.

“Sir, they are opening fire over there!” the man told him. At first, he thought it was a training exercise — then heard three volleys and saw people running. As the man who warned him about the shots ran away, he could see the man’s back was bloodied from a wound.

The post went into lockdown while a search began for a suspect and emergency workers began trying to treat the wounded. Some soldiers rushed to treat their injured colleagues by ripping their uniforms into makeshift bandages to treat their wounds.

Fort Hood’s Cone praised the soldiers for their quick reaction.

“God bless these soldiers,” Cone said. “As horrible as this was it could have been worse.”

Cone made special mention of Amber Bahr, 19, an army nutritionist who was wounded during the attack. He said she helped wounded soldiers during the rampage. Only after the attack did she realize that she herself was wounded. Cone said.

Her mother, Lisa Pfund, told the Sheboygan Press that she spoke briefly to Bahr after she was taken to a community hospital.

“I actually got to talk to Amber and I talked to her for about 30 seconds and she was in a lot of pain,” Pfund said. “She couldn’t tell me nothing, either.”

Shock
Video from the scene showed police patrolling the area with handguns and rifles, ducking behind buildings for cover. Sirens could be heard wailing while a woman’s voice on a public-address system urged people to take cover. Schools on the base went into lockdown, and family members trying to find out what was happening inside found cell phone lines jammed or busy.

Singer Beyonce has landed a trio of trophies at the MTV Europe Music Awards in Berlin.

The singer fought off rivals including Leona Lewis to win best female, plus best song for Halo and best video for Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It).

She dedicated her best video award to rapper husband Jay-Z, saying: “There’s only one person I want to thank and that is Jay for putting a ring on it.”

Singer Katy Perry hosted the ceremony for the second year in a row.

The singer - who is dating comedian Russell Brand - performed a medley of the five best song contenders, including Halo and and Kings of Leon’s Use Somebody.

Katy Perry also helmed last year’s show in Liverpool

She set the tone for the evening by asking the crowd: “Are you feeling sexy, Berlin?” and managed to squeeze into seven separate costumes during the ceremony.

‘Great deal’

The ceremony was held in the city to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

U2, who won best live act, played a free open-air concert at the Brandenburg Gate to coincide with the event.

As well as performing One - inspired by the fall of the Berlin Wall - the band played Sunday, Bloody Sunday, on which they were joined by Jay-Z.

Their concert had run into controversy - after organisers built a two-metre barrier around the venue.

But MTV insisted the fence was part of a “comprehensive security plan” to ensure safety.

Singer Bono said: “Live is where this band lives. It’s all that counts … If you have given us this award I guess that’s what you’re thinking and it means a great deal to us.”

Jay-Z won the best urban award, but told the crowd: “I go to the studio just like the Jonas Brothers, just like Green Day, and we’re all just artists at the end of the day.”

German band Tokio Hotel were named best group, while Eminem won best male, fending off Robbie Williams and Mika.

Best world stage performance was won by Linkin Park, while Pixie Lott was pronounced the inaugural MTV push artist.

Lott said, via video: “It has been a very amazing, crazy year so I want to say thank you to everyone who has voted for me.”

Former X Factor winner Leona Lewis, who had been nominated for best female, performed Happy.

The show was broadcast to more than 500 million homes around the world.

Witnesses to Thursday’s massacre at Fort Hood said alleged shooter, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, was calm as he opened fire at a crowd of young soldiers, pausing only to reload before he was taken down by a female officer that many hailed as a hero today.

It was very deliberate in his approach, they said that he was calm,” Lt. Gen. Robert W. Cone, the base commander at Fort Hood, told “Good Morning America” Friday. “Several soldiers shot multiple times and were recounting how they were shot.”

The attacker killed 13 people, mostly military, and wounded 30. The Fort Hood Web site today addressed the tragedy with a line reading, “Friday Is Day of Mourning! — The duty day will begin no earlier than 0900.”

Sgt. Salvatore “Rico” Sanchez told “Good Morning America” that he treated a captain who was nearby when the shooting started. Covered with blood that wasn’t his own, the captain escaped unscathed with only a mild case of shock.

Military incursion deployed to help neighbor’s growing Shiite rebellion

F-15 warplanes of the Saudi Air Force fly over the capital, Riyadh, during a graduation ceremony at King Faisal Air Force University on Sunday. Saudi Tornado and F-15 warplanes have bombarded targets inside Yemen since Wednesday afternoon.

SAN’A, Yemen - Saudi Arabia sent fighter jets and artillery bombardments across the border into northern Yemen on Thursday in a military incursion apparently aimed at helping its troubled southern neighbor control an escalating Shiite rebellion.

The Saudis — owners of a sophisticated air force they rarely use — have been increasingly worried that extremism and instability in Yemen could spill over to their country, the world’s largest oil exporter. The offensive came two days after the killing of a Saudi soldier, blamed on the rebels.

Yemen denied any military action by Saudi Arabia inside its borders. But Yemen’s president is a key ally of the Saudis, making it highly unlikely the kingdom would have launched the offensive without tacit Yemeni agreement.

The offensive immediately raised concerns of another proxy war in the Middle East between Iran and Saudi Arabia, a key U.S. ally. Shiite Iran is believed to favor the rebels in Yemen while Saudi Arabia, which is Sunni, is Iran’s fiercest regional rival.

The same dynamic has played out in various forms in Lebanon, where Iran supports the Shiite militant Hezbollah and Saudi Arabia favors a U.S.-backed faction, and in Iraq, where Saudi Arabia and Iran have thrown support to conflicting sides in the Sunni-Shiite struggle.

‘Sustained operation’
A top Saudi government adviser confirmed “a large scale” military operation underway on the Saudi-Yemeni border with further reinforcements sent to the rugged, mountainous area.

“It is a sustained operation which aims to finish this problem on our border,” he said, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue. He said Saudi troops were coordinating with Yemen’s army, but Yemen’s defense ministry denied the Saudis were inside the country.

The northern rebels, known as Hawthis, have been battling Yemeni government forces the past few months in the latest flare-up of a sporadic five-year conflict. They claim their needs are ignored by a Yemeni government that is increasingly allied with hard-line Sunni fundamentalists, who consider Shiites heretics.

The rebels said the Saudi airstrikes hit five areas in their northern stronghold Thursday but it was not possible to independently verify the reports. They said there were dead and wounded, and that homes were destroyed.

“Saudi jets dropped bombs on a crowded areas including a local market in the northern province of Saada,” Hawthi spokesman Mohammed Abdel-Salam told The Associated Press. “They claim they are targeting al-Hawthis, but regrettably they are killing civilians like the government does.”

He said the attacks were followed by hundreds of shells from the border, but there was no reliable information about casualties.

Assault on northern rebels
The fighting is more than 600 miles from Saudi Arabia’s oil fields on the kingdom’s eastern Persian Gulf coast. But northern Yemen overlooks the Red Sea, the world’s busiest route for oil tankers.

Two Arab diplomats, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Saudi Tornado and F-15 warplanes had been bombarding targets inside Yemen since Wednesday afternoon, inflicting significant casualties on rebels. The diplomats spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not allowed to talk to the media.

A US major believed to have killed 13 people in a gun attack at a Texas army base was due to be deployed soon to Afghanistan, a military official said.

Major Nidal Malik Hasan, 39, a US-born Muslim, opened fire on soldiers at Fort Hood on Thursday.

Relatives of the army psychiatrist said he had strongly opposed his deployment and had wanted to leave the army.

US officials said investigations into what prompted the attack had continued through the night.

At an early morning news conference at Fort Hood, military officials said 12 soldiers and one civilian had been killed.

Of the 28 people who remained in hospital, 14 had required surgery but all were in a stable condition, Col Dr Steven Braverman said.

There was no comment on what might have triggered the attack.

“We’re not going to speculate about motives. We’ll let investigators find that out,” deputy base commander Col John Rossi said.

Maj Hasan was shot four times during the attack and is currently on a ventilator in hospital, under armed guard.

The policewoman who shot him first is in a stable condition in hospital, officials said.

President Barack Obama described it as “a horrific outburst of violence”.

He said: “It is difficult enough when we lose these brave men and women abroad, but it is horrifying that they should come under fire at an army base on US soil.”

‘Could have been worse’

The shooting began at about 1330 (1930 GMT) on Thursday at a personnel and medical centre at Fort Hood.

Initial reports said that the gunman - armed with two handguns, one of them a semi-automatic - had been killed. However officials later said that the suspect was in custody.