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

, 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. they added 115,000 jobs in

wanted his brain to be studied to learn more about the damage caused by concussions. dr. 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 t

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 okay? >> yep. >> seven months af

therapists for helping him push 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 c

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. players who died for various reasons. 18 of them had evidence of cte.

-year-old apparently shot himself in the chest, and our dr. sanjay gupta investigates. >> we don't know for sure if junior seau has what a lot of people are talking about, cte, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, and it's off to talk about but the only way to know for sure is to examine someone's brain after they have died. that's when they know for sure if these dimension-like syndrome affected junior seau but there's a lot of similarities between him and a player named dave dourson. you may remember last year he also shot himself in the chest as did junior, and this is an usual ning thing to do. in deurson's case he left a note saying he wanted his brain examined. he did have cst. i visited the lab in boston where they examine brains for chronic traumatic encephalopa y encephalopathy. 18 out of 19 showed sans of chronic traumatic encephalopathy. the youngest person was 17 years old. this process does seem to start quite early in life. >> that was our dr. sanjay gupta. check out his show, "sanjay gupta, m.d." thanks for watching, everyone. you can continue the conversation with me o

. 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

. lamar, if you had a son -- >> i have a 5-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. so we can describe them to our customers. [ male announcer ] red lobster's festival of shrimp starts now! for just $12.99, pair any two of 9 exciting shrimp creations like new barbeque glazed shrimp or crab stuffed shrimp. the crab-stuffed shrimp are awesome! [ woman ] very creamy. that's a keeper! [ woman ] shrimp skewer. [ woman #2 ] sweet

more at the top of the hour when cnn sunday morning continues, but, first, sanjay gupta m.d. begins right now. ♪ >>> 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? explain. plus, the name game. this could be a pivotal time in the world of mental health. the dsm, the so-called sight bible, gets an overhaul and

possibly from dust particles from the 9/11 attacks. joining us is dr. 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

and one. now, they're creating beautiful and bald dolls. dr. 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

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

all parents should be looking for. but first tomorrow on dr. sanjay gupta's show she's been called a real-life indian jones but she says indy has nothing on her. >> i tell my students on day one, a picture is worth a thousand words. a satellite image is worth a million dollars. my name is sarah parkak and i am a professor of archaeologist. i'm an egyptologist, and i'm a space archaeologist. imagery is powerful. satellite imagery much more so because it is from space. and it allows us to get this perspective. you know, that we wouldn't have otherwise. when you add on top of that the ability to see a little bit differently, all of a sudden you have an amazing scientific tool. [ creaking ] [ male announcer ] trophies and awards lift you up. but they can also hold you back. unless you ask, what's next? [ zapping ] [ clang ] this is the next level of performance. the next level of innovation. the next rx. the all-new f sport. this is the pursuit of perfection. olaf's pizza palace gets the most rewards of any small business credit card! pizza!!!!! [ garth ] olaf's small business earns 2% c

. according to sanjay gupta, he's getting kicked a lot, heading the ball a lot. so that's something to think about playing football. but he's at the sage where he understands daddy plays football. he wants to emulate his father. one thing he will have is the education of what concussions are and to be coached correctly. i didn't have that. >> 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. fantastic team sport, number one team sport. >> 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. l right? i don't want you going out on those yet. mmm-hmm. and just leave your phone in your purse. i don't want you texting, all right? daddy...ok! ok, here you go. be careful. thanks dad. call me -- but not while you're driving.

2012 fit nation challenge. dr. sanjay gupta heads that up right here on thursdays. ]h(éq# >>> all right. this just in to cnn. we had to show you the live pictures. this is near orlando. that would be a giant sinkhole in the backyard of the poor person's home. imagine you are drinking coffee in the morning and look out the back window and whoa! there's a sinkhole. it is about 50 feet wide and 50 feet deep. no evacuations. we will keep an eye on this. this thing has swallowed four trees. if you are the homeowner, you are worried a lot about your house. we will check back. >>> we asked you to talk back on one of the big stories of the day. should the united states help the blind chinese dissident leave china? steve says absolutely not. we need them to keep our country running. this is from eric. we should offer passage to the united states. if he gets here, we should let him stay. this from colleen. we need to acknowledge chinese laws. how would our country react if a home-grown terrorist would escape? and charles said his situation is sad and we need china more than ever to help wit

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

is one of several nfl players who have committed suicide in recent years. we'll speak to dr. sanjay gupta and see if brain trauma played a role. including the ridiculist at the top of the hour. >> all right, looking forward to seeing all of those stories. >>> now our fifth story outfront. 80 rapes in three years for the college town of missoula. so staggering that the u.s. department of justice has launched an investigation. at the heart of the matter is not whether the assaults occurred but how the local police, the county attorney and the university of montana handled the reports of sexual violence. was there a cover-up? a look the oar way? missoula county attorney says he's going to cooperate but he says the federal government is overreaching its authority. >> we find it extremely ironic that the u.s. department of justice, an agency dedicated to the preservation and protection of rights of people in this country refuses to tell us what we have supposedly done wrong. >> in february the university of montana came under fire after a saudi arabian exchange student was notified he wa

her story at the bottom of the hour. >>> all right, t"the next list" with sanjay gupta starts right now. >>> the most exciting moment as an archaeologist happened when i was looking at the great archaeology site

. dr. sanjay gupta, cnn, new york. >> a college band member hazed to death. in just about two hours charges will be announced. so who ordered the cereal that can help lower cholesterol and who ordered the yummy cereal? yummy. [ woman ] lower cholesterol. [ man 2 ] yummy. i got that wrong didn't i? [ male announcer ] want great taste and whole grain oats that can help lower cholesterol? honey nut cheerios. a body at rest tends to stay at rest... while a body in motion tends to stay in motion. staying active can actually ease arthritis symptoms. but if you have arthritis, staying active can be difficult. prescription celebrex can help relieve arthritis pain so your body can stay in motion. because just one 200mg celebrex a day can provide 24 hour relief for many with arthritis pain and inflammation. plus, in clinical studies, celebrex is proven to improve daily physical function so moving is easier. and celebrex is not a narcotic. when it comes to relieving your arthritis pain, you and your doctor need to balance the benefits with the risks. all prescription nsaids, like celebrex, ibu

. 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 that wasn't enough. see life in the best light. outdoors, or in. transitions

. chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta and seven lucky viewers are there for a reason. they are there to train for a triathlon. they enlisted the help of a woman who is no stranger to swimming in open water. >> carol, we're here in cokona training for the triathlon with the lucky seven. one of the trickyest part is swimming in open war. we've asked our coach to join us, give us some tips. for men and women alike, you've probably heard this, this is what they are scared of. >> the biggest thing is stay calm in the water, don't panic. >> staying straight, i have a problem. what do you recommend? >> if you extend your arms straight from the water, if you enter the water this way with your hands, you'll swim in a straight line. >> what about just breathing? people have a hard time certainly breathing both sigh. >> breathing both sides or bilateral breathing encourages a balance stroke, which is also going to help with the straight line. you'll swim less in the race, the triathlon. it makes a big difference. >> try not to get kicked. >> do your best. >> carol, the lucky seven are

sanjay gupta. so we asked sanjay about which part of the brain decided hiding in the sand is there. >> as much as it pains me to think this, i think being smart and having common sense are often inversely proportional. that may be nowhere more true than with brain surgeons in particular. when it comes to, you know, very emotional things like getting engaged, that can be more frightening than even doing brain surgery. >> i love that we interviewed sanjay about this. it does have a happy ending. when a brain surgeon can't get things done, you call in a guy with the metal detector. he saved the day. >> i didn't really care about the expense of it all, i really wanted to be engaged to her at that point. >> so he ring was recovered, the brain surgeon proposed. the girlfriend said yes. >> you have to feel sorry for a guy who's been digging in the rain for a couple hours. how can you say no to that? >> and this mishap won't get the guy laughed out of brain surgeon poker night. this happens to the best of them. >> i lost mywn wedding ring once. i was on the west coast and threw it away in

how to run again, and now matt is motivating others with his amazing story. dr. sanjay gupta has this week's "human factor." >> reporter: december 2005. new york city is in the grips of a massive transit strike. public transportation is completely shut down. new york city fire fighter matt long has no choice. he must hop on his bike to get across the city to the fire academy. so you needed -- this wasn't just training. you needed to get somewhere? >> i needed to get to work. >> reporter: four blocks and then disaster. a bus that had crossed multiple lanes of traffic made a right turn, and in the process slammed directly into matt long. >> he didn't see me, didn't know i was there, whatever, and took me right under the front wheel. >> reporter: in an instant the self-described fitness junk he gone from dominating race courses to barely surviving. >> from my left leg, every bone, compound fracture, tib, fib, femur. the right side of my shoulder was crushed and the worst part was the bike and i became one, and it severed my abdominal wall, severed my femoral artery so i was basically ble

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age of 14, chris became paralyzed from the waist down and today, dr. sanjay gupta shows us how she's using horses to help her heal. >> riding horses has been her passion since she was 4 years old. first came lessons, then shows. she even worked at a barn, but two years ago, all that came to a streeching halt for 16-year-old crystal. >> i was getting a shower. i felt some muscle cramps in my mid back. >> she got out, got dressed. >> i felt a sharp explosion of pain. >> by the time she arrived at the hospital, she couldn't walk. the cause, a ruptured disc in her spine. >> they told me i had a bruised spinal cord and was a paraplegic from the waist down. >> she had con yen jen tall stenoirste stenosis and was transferred to baltimore. >> it is very, very, very intensive therapy for at least two hour, twice a day, every day. >> she pushed herself, hard. determined to walk again and get back on a horse. >> i wanted to get back to my normal life. i didn't want to sit and mope. >> seven months after leaving, she was competing in horse shows again. horse back riding mimics the natural moveme

my wife, and here i am, ready to take on the world again. >> dr. sanjay gupta, cnn reporting. ♪ >>> >>> a whole lot more news to catch you up on. this is rapid fire. roll it. vermont becomes the first state in the union to ban hydraulic fracturing. don't know what that is? you probably heard of it as fracking. it is the practice of injecting water at really, really heavy duty velocity and sand chemicals along with it to try to crack shale rock and release oil and natural gas. energy production in the u.s. is booming because of fracking and there is a lot of critics that don't like it. they say it can contaminate ground water and be responsible for causing mild earthquakes as well. mississippi police are saying that ballistic tests are linking two highway murders that occurred 55 miles apart. investigators say they think somebody is posing as a police officer and luring victims to the side of the road and then shooting them to death. in two cases this is what happened. the wallet of one of the victims, a 74-year-old whose picture was up on the screen missing from the crime s