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Gab procurement and transplant network, to immediately cease application of the under 12 rule as to sarah murnaghan so she can be considered for receipt of donated lungs from adults based on the medical severity of her condition, as compared to the medical severity of persons over the age of 12. now, wolf, this basically means for the next ten days, sarah will compete for a donor lung based on how sick she is, not her age. she does have late-stage cystic fibrosis. for the past 18 months she has ...

Intervene. >> somebody needs to stand up and say this isnt right. this is a human issue. this isnt politics. this is a human issue. >> reporter: even though sarahs at the top of the childs transplant list in her region and has been waiting for 18 months, federal guidelines disqualify her for an adult lung until shes 12, unless every other adult on the waiting list turns down a donor lung. in an e-mail obtained by cnn, health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius told sarahs parents, she...

Override, sarahs parents fear shes been left to die. heres susan candiotti. >> reporter: sarahs lungs are getting weaker and weaker. the 10-year-old with cystic fibrosis is now in intensive care. wise beyond her years, sarah knows she needs a transplant and is in a battle for her life. >> no, im never going to, never, never. >> reporter: sarahs parents also are not quitting, frustrated because friday, the federal government refused to intervene. >> somebody needs to stand up and say this isnt ri...

After she declined to interview on sarahs behalf. >> she did. when sarahs mom got the e-mail on friday from the secretary to tell her of her decision and she told her she was very sorry, all she could do was review the policy, she asked for a phone call, and the secretary did offer to speak with her but not until tomorrow. >> whats the familys next step? can they do anything else at this point? >> of course, sarah is not the only child in this predicament, but she is at the very top of the list ...

>> reporter: health and human services up assisting the secretary did not directly solicit funds from anyone regulated by the department. of course the administration say sebeliuss actions were authorized by law. this is while the implementation keeps on growing the congressional budget office estimate it is will cost more than $5 billion to implement obamacare and democrats appropriated one billion dollars for implementation. bill, back to you. bill: elizabeth, thank you, live in washington on ...

The garden state says they started cracking down and have saved around $235 million. martha: back to this story now, two lawmakers are fighting to help bypass a federal regulation that prevents this dying ten-year-old girl from getting a lung transplant that she desperately needs. sarah is her name, and she is suffering from cystic fibrosis, and the doctors have said that she has only weeks to live at this point. because of her age she can only receive a donor lung after all the adult candidates...

Hes 17-yearold, grant acord appeared in court yes by way of web cam. according to court documents t d had written plans to place bombs throughout the school. they found explosive devices hidden under hisroom floor at home. he is being held on $2 million bail. martha: a family of a dying ten-year-old girl is now fighting federal organ donor rus that are preventing they are dates from getting a lung transplant. she may the doctors say only have weeks to live at this point from cystic fibrosis. she...

Dirty up the deceased, and the courts work very hard not to a i lou that to happen. martha: it will be starting in a couple of weeks. >> im sure youll be here a lot chatting about this. martha: lets go to this case as well. the parents of a little girl, she is ten years old and she is fighting for her life right now as she nights federal organ donor rules that plea convenient this little girl from receiving a lung transplant. her name is sara and she has cystic fibrosis and is said to have weeks...

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