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Seriously hurt. >> shes hurt. yes. >> reporter: for the chapas, the wait was excruciating. and then their daughter returned with the news they had been praying for. >> she comes back down. and she tells me, "mom, its kris." >> reporter: family and friends took turns at kristenes bedside wondering if she would ever regain consciousness. >> i could see her little heart, you know, rise and fall. i got her hand and i was talking to her, telling her that i was there and that we loved her. >> howd she...

Daughter that grim task. >> so the best youre going to hope for here is that its your daughter but shes pretty seriously hurt. >> yeah. >> the wait was excruciating and then their daughter returned with the news they had been praying for. >> she comes back down and she says mom, its chris. >> fall and friends took turns at christines bedside wondering if she would ever regain consciousne consciousness. >> we told her we were there and we loved her. >> how did she look? >> it was bad. it was so b...

Its a year later. these people are terrorists. kim and his regime intentionally injured otto. >> help me understand, because looking at the doctors, they said suffered extensive brain tissue, was in a state of unresponsive wake fullness, didnt know what caused his brain damage. they say he didnt show any obvious indications of trauma or evidence of either acute or healing fractures. why opt out of an autopsy? >> thats a really good question. >> absolutely. otto and our family have been through e...

Nauseas, confusion. >> it goes up to your nose, through the nerve fibers into your brain tissue. within two or three days you start seeing inflammation in the covering of the brain. nauseous nausea, headaches, thaf stuff. doctors are going to be thinking a lot about patients that come with these types of symptoms and regards, especially in areas that have been devastated by the water. you have to think about all the potential contaminants including this amoeba. >> julie: may be stay out of the w...

Chemotherapy. in the past radiation has diminished brain function but they have improved the techniques to the point where healthy brain tissue is spared. folks at mayo clinic want to do this, want to do that, up to you. >> they removed it, they found out what caused it and that is this so john mccain was able to talk to lindsey graham, some said he was on speakerphone when they were going over health care. for john mccain this is another one of his hurdles, the best plane crash, no he was jaile...

Part of the brain. just seven hours after the first indecision, we check in with the family. its 5:00 p.m. >> really? whats waiting in my stomach is for that phone call. okay. were into -- i call it the land of the unknown. really were into that area that we just dont know are we going to be separated today, or are we not? >> around 10:00 p.m., 12 hours since the operation started, doctors hit that land of the unknown. >> so i was at a point that i was wondering whether we were going to lose bot...

>> you want to go through that doughnut. >> the boys share more brain tissue than expected, 6 to 7 centimeters, not 2. the crucial vein that brains blood from each brain is more complex than goodrich expected. if he injuries it or just kinks it, the blood wont drain and both boys brains would begin to swell. that could be devastating. >> this is the venous complex. >> then at 1:30 a.m., goodrich and his team see a way through the land of the unknown. >> should be 1 centimeter away from it. >> yo...

>> better. >> yes, much better. >> and to separate the boys, dr. goodrich dissected more of anias brain tissue. in particular, the area that controls motor function. the concern, he might not be able to move his arms or his legs. but his parents faith is still undeniable, unshakeable. >> i knew god got him this far. why is he going to let him go now? >> finally around 1:00 p.m., 27 hours after the operation began -- >> you want to kiss him? >> -- it ends. anias is finally reunited with his paren...

Passing over drugs, for the rest of us trying to give one kid a drug, the other picks it up. it is an enormous ordeal. >> give me a little more. >> the clock officially starts at 9:45 a.m. plastic surgeon dr. oren tepper makes the first incision. cutting through the scalp to the conjoined skull eed skull. then removing the bone that hell save and use later to rebuild each boys head. >> all right, sir. >> 10:15 a.m., dr. goodrich takes over and begins the process of exposing the delicate brain ti...

Ordeal. >> give me a little more. >> the clock officially starts at 9:45 a.m. plastic surgeon dr. oren tepper makes the first indecision. double skin hooks. >> cutting through the scalp to the conjoined skull and then removing the bone. >> get some bone wax ready. >> that hell save and use later to rebuild each boys head. at 10:15 a.m., dr. goodrich takes over and begins the process of exposing the delicate brain tissue. he starts with the parts of the brain he worked on before, opening them up ...