loved this song. it's from dr. sanjay gupta's playlist. he introduces us to one who has never given up even under the most difficult circumstances. >> in 2004, they couldn't have been more proud. he was coming to america to purdue university to complete his degree in computer engineering. just a month from graduation, however, his life changed forever. his neighbor two floors below intentionally set a fire with his wife and child still inside. >> by the time my roommate and i woke up, the whole apartment was on fire. >> he and his roommate tried to escape but they couldn't. >> my roommate collapsed in front of me and i started running down the stairs. >> he only made it down a few steps before he collapsed. a fireman found him still alive but on the way to the hospital, he could hear paramedics talking about how badly he had been burned. >> at that moment i was thinking about my family and what hi come here for to get a good education and now this guy is saying that i don't have a chance to survive and i passed out and then i woke up in university of chicago burn unit after four months

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the cnn headquarters in lant. sanjay gupta's "the next list" starts right now. [ bees buzzing ] >> maybe it begins as a hobby and maybe it might work up into a small business and then it's just an obsession and then there's no turning back. it's like crack. >> put them in, shake it. >> i don't know what's so obsessive. i just enjoy doing it. i enjoy doing it, very much, almost everies a%. even the stings have their place. they humble me and remind me of who and what i am. >> reporter: urban bee keeping. >> it's exciting and scary at the same time. >> reporter: it's a surprisingly addictive trend taking over rooftops from chicago to shanghai. a few beekeepers have the global reach of andrew cote. >> andrew has been instrumental in establishing bees in the city of new york. >> reporter: from the heights of new york's most luxurious hotels to the far reaches of the african bush. >> we've kept bees for millennia, thousands and thousands of years. >> reporter: he's spreading his love of these remarkable creatures to people throughout the entire world. andrew cote is a man with a mi

and much more. >>> tomorrow, dr. sanjay gupta is profiling a pioneer in the face of space archaeology on the show the next list. she's using sat liej imagery to preserve ancient treasures. >> i tell my students on day one, a picture is worth 1,000 words. a satellite image is worth a million dollars. i'm a professor of archaeology. i'm a remote specialist and a space archaeology. imagery is powerful, evocative. satellite imagery much more so because it allows us to get this perspective that we don't have otherwise. when you add on top of that an ability to see what we don't, you have an amazing tool. >> tune in tomorrow to watch the next list or set your dvr, 2:00 eastern time. an airline has planes... and people. and the planes can seem the same so, it comes down to the people. because, bad weather the price of oil those are every airlines reality. and solutions won't come from 500 tons of metal and a paint job. they'll come from people. delta people. who made us one of the biggest airlines in the world. and then decided that wasn't enough. with less chronic osteoarthritis

. >>> well, say good-bye to cellulite. our dr. sanjay gupta has more at the fat-fighting weapon. i'll have the day's top stories at the top of the hour, but, first, dr. sanjay gupta m.d. starts right now. >> today we have food for the body and the mind. fit or fat? more than 80% of all women have cellulite. we're going to show you the first fda approved long-term treatment. also, a new idea to get better food on all of our plates. how to make better choices more available to everyone. first, i want to tell you about an incredible experience that i just went through. it began when the scholar henry lou business gates jr., skip, he asked if he would be part of his television series called "finding your roots" on pbs, and i said, sure, absolutely. you see, i was born in michigan, but my parents were born and they grew up in india. like a lot of immigrants, they thought they would never be able to learn their whole family history. that was lost, they thought, in the old country. i always wondered and so i gave professor gates the names of my immediate relatives along with a cheek swab of

approach saves money, saves time, and more important, the history of our planet. i'm dr. sanjay gupta. welcome to "the next list." >> we've only found 1% of the ark lodge cll remains. that means there's 99% of ancient egypt left to find my name is sarah parcak and a professor of archaeology. i'm an egyptologist and a space archaeologist. >> space archaeologist. there's an irony in there that you're going to get further away from the earth to actually learn more about it. >> it is one of the great ironies of what i do and what archaeology is. i can't tell you the number of times i've been walking over an archaeology site and you can't see anything on the ground and pull back hundreds of miles in space and all of a sudden you can see streets and roads and houses and even pyramids. >> underground. >> underground, yes. >> more people are using the technology in archaeology. i think they're realizing just how valuable it is to map our past if the face of war, archaeology site looting, satellites, and satellite imagery have become much more inexpensive. it used to be costs were prohibitive. now you

possibilities in this tragedy, we want to dig deeper and bring in neuron surgeon dr. sanjay gupta. sanjay, several nfl players have committed suicide and brain-related injuries they sustained while playing have been blamed. it's impossible what was going on his mind, but is it possible that past head traumas could have played a role in seau's taking his own life? >> i think we have enough evidence to say yes, because you're starting to see a pattern of exactly what you're describing here, anderson, this idea that the previous blows to the head, trauma, for example, sustained on a football field can accumulate over time and lead to something known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy. a lot more people know this term than even a few years ago. they may have memory loss, depression, anger, those are the cardinal symptoms. what's so striking here, you alluded to this, just like dave duerson, we talked about him last year, in 2011, he shot himself in the chest as well. it's a very unusual way, a rare way for one to commit suicide and it's hard to talk about. but in duerson's cay, he shot the n

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sustained on the field or something else. "360" m.d. sanjay gupta joins us. same great taste. splenda® essentials™. >>> the death of another nfl star is once again raising serious concerns about life-altering and sometimes life-ending brain injuries some players suffer. this morning at his home north of san diego, police say the 12-time pro bowl linebacker junior seau put a gun to his chest and then pulled the trigger. his death, they say, is being investigated as a suicide. the loss is sending shock waves through the teams he played on, especially in the san diego area, where he was a community icon. this afternoon his mother tried to speak to reporters, but was understandably overcome by loss. >> he never say something to me. junior, why you never telling me. i pray to god, take me. take me. leave my son alone. thank you. thank you so much for everybody. god bless you. >> as we mentioned, the apparent suicide is only the latest in a string of retired players taking their own lives, some of whom showed signs of dementia that many experts now suspect could be career related. in a m

. sanjay gupta would have thought the idea impossible a few years ago. here's her story in today's "fit nation." >> reporter: i'm about to introduce to you one of the most inspiring people you may ever meet and a member of our lucky seven. denise. how's it going? >> life is great right now. >> reporter: beautiful. >> it is. >> reporter: people see you are missing below the knee on your right leg. >> yes. >> reporter: tell us what happened. >> in 2008, a senior in college i was sliding into second base and broke my leg and frp that day i just had an infection, and there were problems with surgeries after that. so i ended up an amputee. >> reporter: at that time, so many things i bet were going through your mind, one of which, i may never be an athlete again? >> yes. i remember very clearly being, laying in the hospital and right after the amputation and thinking, okay. you need to pick up the covers and you need to take look at your life now, and, you know it took a lot of courage, but i decided i had to face it head-on and try to regain my life back. >> reporter: you are going to c

been nothing that has been conclusively shown to work. >> reporter: dr. sanjay gupta is cnn's chief medical correspondent and a neurosurgeon himself. he told us, despite the hype and the hope of stem cell therapy, there's been precious little in the way of a miracle cure. in fact, there have only been two fda approved trials so far in the u.s. >> one of them essentially shut down because it was so expensive to do, and another study looking at macular degeneration, which is a cause of blindness, especially among older people, it's an ongoing trial. they've done two patients. they say it's safe. they say those patients had a little bit of return of vision. but the answer is we just don't know yet in terms of what that promise really is going to be. >> reporter: which makes the claims and so-called success stories coming out of dr. geeta shroff's clinic off this busy road in new delhi so hard to believe. >> it's very unfortunate that stem cell operations offshore would take advantage of patients who feel very, very desperate. the idea of stem cells is so appealing. so you think, oh, st

can help lower cholesterol? honey nut cheerios. >>> in today's human factor. dr. sanjay gupta introduces us to crystal greeko, a maryland teenager who woke up one morning with a life changing injury, but was determined not to let it change her life. circle left, twementd meters. >> riding horses has been her passion since she was 4 years old. two years ago, all that came to a screeching halt for 16-year-old crystal greeko. >> i was getting a shower. i felt some muscle cramps in my mid-back. >> she got out, got dressed. >> can felt a sharp explosion of pain. >> by the time she arrived at the hospital, she couldn't walk. the cause, a republuptured disk her spine. >> they told me i had a bruised spinal cord and was a paraplegic from the waist down. >> it's a narrowing of the spinal canacanal. after surgery, she was transferred to baltimore. >> it is very, very, very intensive therapy for at least two hours twice a daise every day. >> she pushed herself hard. determined to walk again. and get back on a horse. >> all i wanted to get to my normal life. i didn't want to sit and mope. >> are you

. sanjay gupta has been investigating this topic it seems like forever. sanjay, there are reports that seau's brain will be examined in boston. what will medical examiners look for first? >> this is a lab that's been in existence for some time although it's still relatively new science. they're looking for something known as cte, chronic traumatic encephalopathy. basically it's an amazing thing and i've seen this myself, carol. they're looking for plaques and tangles in the brain. those are things you typically see associated with alzheimer's disease, except they're looking for it in a 43-year-old man. same story, as you remember last year, you and i talked about dave duerson who also -- it's tough to talk about but killed himself in this rare way, shot himself in the chest and said he wanted his brain studied. in duerson's case they found evidence of what he had been concerned about. >> explain to us how damage in the pran could cause someone to commit suicide. >> i preface again by saying what we're talking about is brand new so this isn't even in the textbooks yet. they are arriving

much, josh. >> thank you, fred. >>> in this week's human factor, dr. sanjay gupta introduces us to a young man who came to america to finish his engineering degree. his future looked so bright until a fire changed his life forever. but he's never given up. >> reporter: in 2004, his family could. have been more proud. because he was coming to america to purdue university to complete his degree in computer engineering. a month of graduation, however, his life changed forever. his neighbor set a fire intentionally with his wife and child still inside. >> by the time we woke up, the whole apartment was on fire. >> reporter: they tried to escape. but they couldn't. >> my roommate collapsed in front of me and i started running down the stairs. >> reporter: he only made it down a few steps before he collapsed. a fireman found him still alive, but on the way to the hospital he could hear paramedics talking about how badly he had been burned. >> at that moment, i was thinking about my family, what i had come here for to get a good education and now this guy is saying i don't have a chance to

, and like us on facebook. also, join me on my live stream. i'm dr. sanjay gupta. thanks for joining us. >>> hello, everyone. you're in the "cnn newsroom." i'm fredricka whitfield. outrage over a civilian massacre in syria is spilling out on to the streets. this was the scene in several cities today, of people so angry over the killing of 85 people in the town of hula, they risked retribution to turn out in force. video of some of 34 children killed in hula has surface ed online. children, some under the age of 10, some with missing limbs and severe head wounds. the u.n. security council is meeting on the crisis right now. cnn's mohammed jamjoom is following this story for us from beirut, lebanon. so mohammed, cnn can't confirm the authenticity of the video. what do we know about what happened in this village? >> reporter: fredricka, opposition activists tell us horrifying tales about what happened on friday in the town of hula. they say that, first, mortars were raining down on town. that the syrian government was with shelling the town and then that after that was over, the pro-regime

, sanjay gupta m.d. begins right now. >>> a lot of people are asking questions, and today i'm going try to answer some of the bigger ones. what you need to know, first of all, about that flesh eating bacteria. also, why one in three schools have become so bad they make children sick, and one of the filthiest spots with the most germs in your workplace. >>> we're looking at this controversial new position. the task force which says men should not be screened routinely for the psa test. as you probably know by now, it it's a simple blood test, and it's the only screen test for prostate cancer, which is the second leading cause of cancer deaths in men. the american cancer society supports these new guidelines and other groups do not. i'm here today with dr. otis sprawly from the american cancer society and also dr. scott miller, who says not screening could cost lives. we'll get to that denit bait, but, first, i want to explain some of the reasoning behind the new recommendations. basically they say that more people could end up harmed by unneeded treatment after a worrisome psa result

a job interview, there's something you should never say. and tomorrow, dr. sanjay gupta is profiling a guy who makes inventors' dreams a reality in the marketplace. >> it's human nature to try to make your life better. it's human nature to try to make the world around you a better place. and they need to execute on all those ideas, it's really hard. good ideas should find their ways onto shelves because they're the ideas of people. it finds them. >> tune in tomorrow to watch the next list or set your dvr for 2:00 p.m. eastern time. [ male announcer ] a car is either luxury or it isn't. if you want a luxury car with a standard power moonroof, your options are going to be limited. ♪ if you want standard leather-trimmed seats, you're going to have even fewer. ♪ and if you want standard keyless access, then your choice is obvious. the lexus es. it's complete luxury in a class full of compromises. see your lexus dealer. >>> good and not so good news on the unemployment front. the unemployment rate has dropped to 8.1%, but economists say many people gave up looking for work.

joining us. i'm dr. sanjay gupta. we'll see you back next sunday on "the next list." >>> hello, everyone. you're in the "cnn newsroom." i'm fredricka whitfield. we begin in syria, where there are reports of more gunfire and terror gripping much of the country. information is limited, because most foreign journalists are not allowed to enter syria. cnn's ivan watson has just returned to turkey after being in syria. ivan, what did you see? >> reporter: well, fredricka, we just got back from syria a couple of hours ago. and what is striking is that it's 15 months now that syrian have said protesting and conducting this uprising against their government. we have seen incredible amounts of violence, by conservative estimates, more than 9,000 -- people killed, with artillery and tanks and helicopters against opposition demonstrators. and they have grown increasingly armed. and despite that incredible loss of life, there is no sign in sight that the population is willing to give up this rebellion. you have people proudly flying the flag of the opposition. we met rebels that are -- that look to

at facebook.com/thenextlist or on life stream at cnn.com/sanjay. i'm dr. sanjay gupta. thanks for watching "the next list." >>> you're in the "cnn newsroom." i'm fredricka whitfield. a major shake-up in political leadership in one of america's biggest allies. you're looking right now at french president nicolas sarkozy who is now -- now conceding to that race. the voters in france just now elected someone else, francois hollande, winning by a narrow margin. a change in leadership in france could delay negotiations on europe's debt crisis and that could impact the u.s. economy. more on that story later on. >>> and then there are the parliamentary elections in greece. state tv says early exit polls show steep losses for the two main parties that have supported painful austerity measures. polls show an ultra right party making significant gains. today's vote is expected to have an impact on u.s. markets tomorrow. cnn's chief business correspondent ali velshi joins us live in a few moments to tell us how the markets might be reacting to this and what impact exactly these two elections

game with indiana. that's going to deit for me. sanjay gupta md is next. we continue at the top of the hour with don lemon. >> the race is on. if you saw somebody collapse in front of you today, no heart beat, would you know what to do? would you be able to do it? >> plus, the name game. this could be a pivotal time in the world of mental health. the dsm, so called psych bible, gets an overhaul. it could mean big changes for doctors and patients alike. first, a look under the microscope. >> i don't want to be fat for the rest of my life. >> i've got diabetes. >> sleep apnia. >> high blood pressure. >> everything is hurting now. >> you saw a clip there from the weight of the nation. a four-part film from our sister network, hbo. all of us are under the microscope this morning. our habits, our behavior, our country. this film was part of an unprecedented push by doctors and government health officials. in part what is driving this this week, we have new numbers, a projection by the year 2030, 42% of the u.s. population will be obese. not just overweight, but obese. now, in some sort

catch our legal guys every saturday, noon eastern and 4:00 eastern time. >> tomorrow, dr. sanjay gupta is talking to a man who creates breast ta breathtakingly beautiful works of art in silver. >> there's no one in the history of the country who has done what he's done. i don't mean just the last 50 years, the last two centuries. the mcarthur foundation prize because there's nobody like him. >> i told my wife, there is a monetary award over a period of five years of $500,000. she said, it's a joke. i hope i can thank them with my work, with my dedication. >> nice. tune in tomorrow to watch the next list. or set your dvr for 2:00 eastern, and then at 2:30 eerb time, join me in the news room. lydia mcalker lost her home and her school to the tornadoes that ripped through joplin, mississippi. >> every time i drive by it, it's really sad. all the memories and the friends i made in the hall ways. >> on monday, president obama will speak at joplin high school's graduation ceremonies one year after the twister struck. she'll be joining me tomorrow to talk about how her family and the to

photos. i'm dr. sanjay gupta. we'll see you back here next sunday. >>> hello, everyone. you're in the "cnn newsroom." i'm fredricka whitfield. the man responsible for one of the deadliest terror attacks against americans has died. abdul bassett al megrahi is the only person convicted of the 1988 bombing of pan am flight 103 over lockerbie, scotland. al megrahi's family says the former libyan and intelligence officer passed away today at a hospital in tripoli. he was 60 years old. his death comes 2 1/2 years after his release from a scottish prison. al megrahi was let go on compassionate grounds because he had prostate cancer. he was expected to live only a few months. at the time of his 2009 release, the victims' families were outraged after he received a hero's welcome in libya. >>> 270 people died when pan am flight 103 went down just minutes after takeoff from a london airport. the plane was bound from new york and more than half of the passengers were american. joining me now from new york, burt amorman. he lost a brother in that attack. he's also a former spokesman of an organiza

the top of the hour. up next, sanjay gupta, md. >>> today, we have food for the body and the mind, and fit or fat, more than 80% of all women have cellulite. we're going to show you the first now fda approved long-term treatment. also a new idea to get better food on all of our plates. how to make better choices available for everyone. first i want to tell you about an incredible experience i went through. it begins with henry lewis jr., skip, asked if i would be part of his television experience called finding your roots. i of course said sure, absolutely. i was born in michigan, but my parents were born and grew up in india. and like a lot of immigrants, they thought they would never be able to learn their whole family history. that was lost, they thought, in the old country. but i always wondered, and so i gave professor gates the names of my immediate relatives along with a cheek swab of my dna. here's some of what he found. >> to dig even deeper, we sent sanjay's cousin to hardwar, located on the ganjy river. it's a place of tremendous jean logical importance to hindus. they

observation before it's overwhelmed by the age of information. i'm dr. sanjay gupta and this is "the next list." >>> i am ubaldo vitali and i am an artist. ♪ >> i do believe that the biggest gift we have is to converse with a work of art. that we interact with a work of art. the great al chemist used to say, it walks through your feet. when you walk into a museum and look at the young people, especially the young people, because they are the future, looking at the works of art and i see their face illuminated by pleasure, part of me wants to perhaps help them to share with them the work that it took and the lessons that i have learned. that is why i tried to give lectures, because this interaction is going to disappear. in recent years, the computer, the great computer age, we are losing, in a certain way, interaction with real objects. i mean, the computer can capture everything, but basically there is one thing that it can not capture. computer doesn't feel any pain. it doesn't feel any joy. it cannot suffer. those things can only be learned through human contact. not through the book

their words, too fat to fly. and tomorrow, dr. sanjay gupta is looking at the buzz about urban bee keeping on his show, "the next list." >> many, many businesses have approached me to put bees on their roofs. but i only work with those whom i feel truly embrace the concept of wanting to be greener, wa wanting to help the environment. wanting to raise awareness. of the environment, and bees seem to be a very good way to do that. >> today, this is the first phase in the chef's garden. we're installing six beehives today and hope to be harvesting honey in a month. knl i have wanted to have bees on the roof and harvest for years. when city counsel finally rep l repealed the law, i was like, i don't know how. that's how andrew and i got connected. >> can't wait to find out, how do you do that. tune in tomorrow to watch the next list or set your dvr for 2:00 p.m. eastern time. and 2:30 eastern time, i'll be ginned by pastors who have different views on president obama's support of same-sex marriage. a route map shows you where we go. but not how we get there. because in this business, th

us and, you know, for us to be able to give so much back. >> joining me now, dr. sanjay gupta, who is also a neurosurgeon. good to see you in person here. >> thanks. >> give us a sense of what they're going to be looking for when they examine his brain. >> i'll preface by saying it's tough to talk about, just how recent this all lab. it's called a sports legacy institute, and they're going to be looking at his brain, looking for these protein deposits that are called plaques and tangles, and typically you think of these sorts of things in conjunction are alzheimer's disease. it's a similar sort of thing that in this case they're trying to make the diagnosis of cte, which stands for chronic traumatic encephlopathy. this is relatively new science, and some of what we're describe, some of what's been happening over the last few years is still very, very early on in terms of what they're finding. >> what do you think they would find in a brain like that? >> i am pretty confident they're going to find cte, in part because of the 19 nfl players' brains that they've already examined. play

through the pain and keep that dream alive. here's dr. sanjay gupta. >> reporter: in 2004, his family couldn't have been more proud because he was coming to america to purdue university to complete his degree in computer engineering. just a month from graduation, however, his life changed forever. his neighbor two floors below intentionally set a fire with his wife and child still inside. >> by the time my roommate and i woke up, the whole apartment was on fire. >> reporter: he and his roommate tried to escape but they couldn't. >> my roommate collapsed in front of me, and i started running down the stairs. >> reporter: he only made it a few steps before he collapsed. a fireman found him still alive, but on the way to the hospital he could hear paramedics talking about how badly he had been burned. >> at that moment, i was thinking about my family, what i had come here for, to get a good education, and now this guy is saying that i don't have a chance to survive, and i passed out. and then i woke up in university of chicago burn unit after four months of induced coma. >> reporter: he

. sanjay gupta reports in this week's human factor. >> jane bingham had bounced between doctors for a year before being diagnosed. >> they say this cancer is always there because it's your limpb system. >> for five years, doctors were able to keep the cancer in check. then that stopped working and doctors told her she would have to start chemotherapy. >> she was 4 when i was diagnosed and turned 9 when i lost my hair. >> the hair loss became a defining moment for her and her daughter. >> she always knew me with long blond hair and said numerous times she missed my hair, wished a didn't have to lose my hair. that was her big focus was the hair. >> it prompted her to petition toy companies to consider manufacturing a bald doll. companies are listening. mg entertainment has created bald moxie and bratz dolls. mattel has promised to manufacture 10,000 beautiful and bald friends of barbie. >> i think it's important to focus your energies outward instead of just focusing inward on yourself. >> dr. sanjay gupta for cnn reporting. >> for this and other story, watch sanjay gupta md on saturd

story is our human factor. here's dr. sanjay gupta. ♪ >> reporter: charlie wilson is best known as uncle charily. as a member of the '80s funk group, the gap band, and now a solo artist. but celebrity status has also had its ups and downs. >> the ride got wild, of course, with success. of course alcohol and drugs. and it just got unbearable. >> reporter: at one point, wilson lost everything. >> i became homeless. i didn't have anywhere to go. >> reporter: he did eventually get sober, went back into the studio as a solo artist and made eight more hit singles. then in 2008, life dropped another bomb on uncle charlie. he was diagnosed with prostate cancer. >> my life was devastated. i thought my career was over. because the word "cancer" just scared me to death. >> reporter: with surgery and radiation he was able to overcome the disease and he quickly realized that talking about prostate cancer was his new life's work. >> i wanted to educate people about this disease. i didn't know what i was going to say, i just knew that what i had went through was very scary and i wanted to share i

. sanjay gupta. check out his show, "sanjay gupta, m.d." thanks for watching, everyone. you can continue the conversation with me on twitter @kyracnn or on facebook. cnn "newsroom" continues now with our suzanne malveaux. >>> live from cnn headquarters in atlanta where it's 12:00 noon, 9:00 a.m. on the west coast. i'm suzanne malveaux. >>> for the first time we get to see what osama bin laden was thinking. letters by him were posted online by the combatting terrorism center at west point. they're among thousands of documents seized by the navy s.e.a.l.s who killed bin laden last year in pakistan. well, they show he worked until his death to organize another major terrorist attack against the united states. we're going to have a live report. >>> he is probably the most famous guy in china today and the biggest headache for the chinese government. chen guangcheng remains in a beijing happen. he says he wants the united states help to get to united states where he believes he will be safer. chinese officials promise to leave him alone, but chen doesn't believe them. he made a perso

sanjay gupta starts right now. ♪ >>> it is human nature to invent. it is human nature to try to make your life better. it is human nature to try to, you know, make the world around you a better place. and what shocks people is to actually do that and execute on all those ideas. it is really freaking hard. >> it is a safe bet every single one of us had one of those lightbulb moments at one point or another, a flash of inspiration for a new electronic gadget, a toy, a kitchen utensil, something to make life easier, maybe a little bit less annoying. but the problem is hardly anybody takes it to the next step. and that's where ben kaufman comes in. he's a founder and ceo of quirky.com, a consumer products company that helps would be inventors see their ideas come to life. from almost the moment an idea is accepted, quirky's community of 200,000 community members and designers work to make that product a success. i went to manhattan's west side to visit quirky's new 30,000 foot headquarters. how are you doing? and i can tell you i've never seen a place quite like this. ♪ >>> thanks for

cnn sunday morning continues. first, sanjay gupta m.d. begins right now. >>> welcome to a very special edition of sgmd. i just arrived here in kona, the big island of the hawaii, and the home of triathlons. we're going to be training our lucky seven for a week. cnn viewers will be joining me getting ready for the malibu triathlon in september. let's get started. ♪ >> we'll get to our fit nation and lucky seven in just a moment. first we have big medical headlines to get to are from the mainland. an h.i.v. test you request do by yourself at home. just got unanimous backing from an fda advisory panel. you get the results in about 20 minutes, and if it's approved this year, as expected, the test would be available in drug stores over-the-counter. the thinking is quite simple. it says that more people will likely be tested for h.i.v. if they can do it in the privacy of their own homes. >> if you are at home by yourself, you are at home with some loved ones and that test does come up positive, you have to be prepared as far as what you're going to do, how you're going to react? wh

. you're welcome. >>> seven cnn viewers have been chosen to train for a triathlon with dr. sanjay gupta. they spent this last week in kona, hawaii, with sanjay at a fit camp. he chatted with denise, who is also a below-the-knee amputee. >> i'm about to introduce you to one of the most inspiring people i think you may ever meet. she also happens to be a member of our lucky seven. denise, how is it going? you're here in kona. >> i know, life is great right now. >> denise, people see you right away, that you are missing below the knee on your right leg. >> yes. >> tell us what happened. >> in 2008, while i was a senior in college, i was sliding into second base and broke my leg. from that day i just had an infection, and there were problems with surgeries after that. so i ended up an amputee. >> did you at that time, i imagine there were so many things going through your mind, one of which was, i may never be an athlete again. >> yes. i remember very clearly being laying in a hospital and right after the amputation thinking, okay, you need to pick up the covers and take a look at your life now.

off of dr. sanjay gupta's playlist. this morning sanjay is introducing us to a guy who went from the brink of death to becoming one of the world's most fit men. it's a firefighter. his name is matt long. he was crushed by a 20-ton bus as he was biking to work one day. somehow he managed to survive. here's a look at his incredible stor story. >> december 2005. new york city is in the midst of a massive transit strike. public transportation is completely shut down. new york city firefighter matt long has no choice. he must hop on his bike to get across the city to the fire academy. this wasn't just training. you needed to get somewhere. >> i needed to get to work. i made it four blocks. >> four blocks and then disaster. a bus that had crossed multiple lanes of traffic made a right turn. in the process slammed directly into matt long. >> he didn't see me, didn't know i was there or whatever and took me right under the front wheel. >> reporter: in an instant, the self-described fitness junky went from dominating racecourses to barely surviving. >> from my left leg, every bone compound fr

sports fan you definitely want to see this. >>> also, each week cnn's dr. sanjay gupta has innovators from all walks of life. it's called "the next list." a preview next sunday, sanjay looks at david peterson who created a new language for one of tv's most popular shows. >> dot d.o.t.racki are a wandering tribe in this imaginary world that the books have created. they're first and foremost warriors. >> in georgia's books the doth racki have their own language. it sounded like gobbledygook. >> i created the language for them and worked as a translator on the show. >> a little skeptical but once we got the language that david created and we saw the actors performing the lines there was no question. it made a huge difference in those scenes. an airline has planes... and people. and the planes can seem the same so, it comes down to the people. because, bad weather the price of oil those are every airlines reality. and solutions won't come from 500 tons of metal and a paint job. they'll come from people. delta people. who made us one of the biggest airlines in the world. and then decided t

storms. this is cool. and every sunday, cnn's dr. sanjay gupta talks to the up and coming inventors and inno va tors. here's a preview of what he's got on his next list. >> many, many businesses have approached me to put bees on their roofs. but i only work with those who embrace the concept of wanting to be greener, wanting to help the environment or raise awareness of the environment. and bees seem to be a very good way to do that. >> today, this is the first day in the garden. we're installing six beehives today. >> i had wanted to have bee on the roof and grow honey for years. then once the law was appealed i thought oh, my god, i don't know how. that's how andrew and i got connected. this is an rc robotic claw. my high school science teacher made me what i am today. our science teacher helped us build it. ♪ now i'm a geologist at chevron, and i get to help science teachers. it has four servo motors and a wireless microcontroller. over the last three years we've put nearly 100 million dollars into american education. that's thousands of kids learning to love science. ♪ isn't

. sanjay gupta. it's a fascinating twist to this very sad occasion. she believed and told friends that she first contracted lung cancer from particles related to the 9/11 attack. what do you make of this? >> reporter: well, she's not the only one. this has been a subject of intense study. as you probably know, people have been looking at this just this last year, which was the ten-year mark after 9/11. there were several scientific studies that came out. the most significant involved the fire department of new york. we spent a year with these guys investigating. what they concluded, and it's a long study, but simplifying what they concluded is there was a 19% increase in all types of cancers among firefighters who had been exposed to toxic dust at ground zero. they did not specifically parse out lung cancer, but all different types of cancers overall, there was an increase at least in that study. >> it is fascinating. how long would these particles, these toxins, be in the atmosphere for somebody like donna summer, who presumably wasn't a first responder, i don't even think she wa

, sanjay gupta's next list" a preview this next sunday, he looks at david peterson who created a new language for one of america's moe popular shows. take a look. >> they're a kind of wandering tribe in this kind of imaginary world that has been created. they're first and foremost warriors. >> we took it from the best selling yeses. >> we took george's books they speak their own language and we thought we could create that physicianal language for a few lines and we tried to do that and it sounded like gobbledegook. >> i worked as a translator on the show. >> once we actually got the language that david peterson created, and we saw the actors performing the lines, there was no question, it made a huge difference in those scenes. [ mechanical humming ] [ male announcer ] we began with the rx. ♪ then we turned the page, creating the rx hybrid. ♪ now we've turned the page again with the all-new rx f sport. ♪ this is the next chapter for the rx. this is the next chapter for lexus. this is the pursuit of perfection. the economy needs manufacturing. machines, tools, people making stu

-year-old son that plays soccer. according to sanjay gupta, he's getting kicked a lot, heading the ball a lot. he wants to emulate his father. one thing he will have is the education of what concussions are and to be coached correctly. >> i've got a great line from andy staples. steinbrenner once said, i learned at the line of scrimmage as i ever did in books. that's steinbrenner about football. >> the debate will continue. thanks. >>> when i am president, i will fight for -- an amendment that will put in place -- >> for it, against it? and a gay staffer out of a job after just two weeks from an uprising on the right. the conservatives are here. i'll ask them if mitt romney really has anyone's back but his own. >>> join the conversation now on twitter. will the real mitt romney please stand up? you've heard the rap against him, that his views on some very big issues have changed over time. so let's take gun control, for example. then and now. >> we do have tough gun laws in massachusetts. i support them. i won't chip away at them. i believe they protect us. we need a president who will

will tell us about us, dr. sanjay gupta. >> these are actually areas of fat that are protruding through the skin. >> reporter: cellulite, more than 80% of women develop it and spend millions of dollars on over the counter creams as a temporary fix. >> i have been working out my entire life. very athletic, have been forever, used to be in the military. i still have issues. >> reporter: so she chose to get cellulase, a fda approved procedure that targets cellulite under the skin. >> there are fibers in the fat that are actually pulling the skin down. and what we're going to do is going to release those fibers. >> reporter: according to a small study of ten women, with one treatment, cellulite is gone and results last a year or more. the patient uses a local anesthetic, and is awake the entire time. >> you feel a little needle there. >> reporter: once numb, a laser is inserted under the skin. >> right this moment i'm melting the fat that is causing the bulges up in her skin. cellulite has bulges and dimples, the cottage cheese appearance everyone complains about. what i'm first doing is me

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whole grain oats that can help lower cholesterol? honey nut cheerios. >>> dr. sanjay gupta introduces us to a young man that came to america to finish his engineering degree and his future looked bright until a vicious act changed his life forever and yet he has never given up even under the most difficult irk ises. >> in 2004 his family couldn't have been more proud. he was coming to america to purdue university to complete his degree in computer engineering. just a month from graduation, however, his life changed forever. his neighbor two floors below intentionally set a fire with his wife and child still inside. >> by the time my roommate and i woke up, the whole apartment was on fire. >> rona and his roommate tried to escape but they couldn't. >> my roommate collapsed in front of me and i started running down the stairs. >> ron only made it down a few steps before he collapsed. a fire man found him still alive and on the way to the hospital he could hear paramedics talking about how badly he had been burned. >> at that moment i was thinking about my family, what i had come here fo