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Face. you did it. great job, doc. you want to go see mommy? lets go see mommy. he did so well. he did perfectly. its just really amazing to see how in the space of one hour these little childrens lives can be changed and their families and their mothers and everything can be so happy. its just really, really inspiring. obviously, our champion for change, he has done this for 20 years and has no plans to stop because he doesnt want one child left behind with a cleft pallet. >> i dont feel like i ...

You dont think about it when you can smile, but there is something about smiling that makes you approachable to other people. a smile is actually really, really important. hi. im going to see you at the medical center tomorrow. >> i am medical director of operations. im also a plastic surgeon volunteer. when you have a cleft pallet you cannot speak well or eat well. all the food is going through the nose. its really a nightmare. we are right there and we fix it. how are you doing? how are you fe...

Challenges mia has gone through. talk to us what is going on? >> for the last 12 years we had a little bit of a challenge in our life. mia was born 12 years ago with cleft lip and cleft pallet. we were not aware of anything to do with that before it all happened. we had no knowledge of this condition. we were kind of thrown for a loop at the beginning. she had multiple surgeries for the past telephone years. jenna: how many surgeries, mia? >> eight. jenna: eight? >> yeah. jenna: what is it like ...

Surrogate named crystal kelly $10,000 to have an abortion. apparently things werent going well in the pregnancy and thats when things really started to spin off the tracks. more aspects of tht medicthis m elizabeth cohen. the headline sounds like it not real but its very real. >> its very real. its very real. the woman we saw in the video offered $10,000 to have an abortion. when you see the baby you can figure out why. this baby, 20 weeks, in the middle of the pregnancy saw that she had a cleft...

Exactly. >> rebecca raises a good p oi nt. nike came up with just do it a longtime ago. they havent come up with a great slogan since then. >> i think that was enough. how many wheres the beefs? i have no problem simply because gold diggers get -- i love -- many hate gold diggers. i love them. if life was fare every woman i sliest with would have a cleft pallet. the fact that there #r* gold diggers is how i meet women. god bless them. >> where i am disgusted is the sexism of it. they dont make o...

police through a private entrance. her murder conviction overturned yesterday. knox sobbing uncontrollably when this verdict was read. so emotional, she had to be helped from the courtroom. her friends say the first thing she wants to do when she returns home to seattle is lie down on a green field. lets get the latest from becky anderson live in perugia, italy this morning. do we have a timetable for knox departure, becky? >> reporter: yes. we believe shes gone. its now mid-day local ...

out of the court. she could barely walk. afterwards she was reunited with her family and drove away to an undisclosed location, we believe it was a villa somewhere close to rome. since then making her way back home to her hometown of seattle where she can pick up the pieces of her shattered life. she was photographed in romes airport. we dont what plane she got on, but flying back to seattle via london, that has not been confirmed to us. just agency reports saying that. clearly, shes d...

Was put into the clinic until after she had gotten off the phone with my mother and i. and i was not happy about that. >> whose idea was it for him to wear the hair style? its kind of slicked on the sides. its not a mohawk. but whose idea was it for him to have the hair cut? >> its actually his idea. he likes it that way. hes very, very particular about how his hair is fixed. he was born with cleft lip and cleft pallet so his appearance means a lot to him and it was i spoke with someone who knew...

In the past three years, ten babies have been born with birth defects. three of those children have died. small town, troubling numbers. troubling for mothers like maria salcedo and darya hernandez. darias son jarrell was born with a cleft pallet. when you look at these pictures as a mom, how does it make you feel? >> translator: it makes me sad because i look at them, and i remember what we had to go through. it was difficult for him to eat. >> reporter: marias daughter ashley also had a cleft ...

>> and as we listen to teenagers all around this country electing to get cut up it seemed like it was almost a normal part of adolescence to change the way one looks. >> i knew it would make a difference. because that is what i was unhappy about was my nose and if i got it done then i would be happy. >> if you think your breasts are too small or too pig, if you have the money i say why not. >> my stomach, i dont know but i cant wear bikinis and stuff like that. i cant get rid of it. i work out a...