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What may take place affecting her prognosis. thats the truth when it comes to brain death, we are talking about death. this is just another term for it. >> is brain death different than a persistent vegetative state or being in a coma? >> it is. i know youve done some reporting on this as well, people who have cox and seemingly recovered from comas, this is different. and terms matter here, people can be in a coma and still have brain activity. they can be? a persistent vegetative state. there i...

Years later is not the choice i was going to make. >> she was in a persistent vegetative state. they felt this is what she would want. as difficult as it was, they felt that was the right choice. >> reporter: the familys lower, richard fried, said dr. lily geier with island dentistry for children, when she went in for a dentist appointment, she left with permanent brain damage. >> it was very sad, their only child, totally unnecessary. this was a perfectly normal, healthy, maybe unusually bright...

Girl to a treatment facility. doctors to shivo was in a persiste persistent vegetative state and the family was involved in a battle. jahi mcmath is on a ventilator and the hospital is referring to her as deceased body. >> no one is denying the family right to keep her on life support and the court said this

That is what i am going through. i dont want december 30th at 5 oclock to come. >> lets talk to alex little. is the judge likely doing the right thing? >> i think so. this is a tragic situations and everys heart going out to the family. the judge is making the right call. but the judge is determined that she meets the legal definition of dead. but this case is heart wrenching. >> and we want it make clear, because we get e-mail saying about what shivo. and she wasnt brain dead but a persistent v...

Remains in critical but stable condition in a pretoria hospital. president jacob zuma made the comments amid rampant speculation and other conflicting reports about the 94-year-olds condition which has led to confusion. nbcs ron allen is in pretoria, south africa, with the latest. good day to you, ron. >> here the hospital in pretoria, the crowds continue to arrive at the hospital offering their prayers, singing hymns and paying respects to nelson mandela. the official word from the government i...

4078. at 37 or 38. curtis has the ability to get the anti-sanford votes, but curtis has his work cut out for him. neither campaign has a tremendously well-organized get out the vote campaign. its marks to win. just likes the general election and jamie will cover that in a minute, these low turnout models you have, you can throw a lot of national statistics out the window. only the hard base it going to vote. its sanfords to anyone a tight race, but curtis could catch him. >> jamie, how can curti...

People thats what it all boils down to, because obamas name is attached to this and it was his idea, then they oppose it. when you look at the numbers, it just makes plain sense, as president bill clinton said in the convention, its about arithmetic. 500,000 people in this state would be covered. $11 billion influx into the south carolina economy and thousands of people employed because of this. just makes sense, and the state of south carolina for its first three years would not pay one brown p...

Shall not seek and i will not accept the nomination by my party of your term as president. >> president lyndon baines johnsonen in 1978. he would not seek a second full term. president johnsons withdrawal opened the door for his vice president, hubert humphreys candidacy. a contentious primary that gave us the candidacies of eugene mccarthy and robert f. kennedy. mum fr humphreys managed to win the nomination but lost to richard nixon. flashback, 2005. the issue of right to die had everyone taki...

Huffington post, including governors who lead some of the poorest states in this country, and unhealthiest states in this country as well. nikki haley one thats opposed to extending medicaid at all. why does the south, including our state, date lynn dawson, remain so vehemently opposed to what amounts to free money? >> theres never any free money. craig, what i see in this debate is, and one of the things i seldom agree with former president bill clinton, but right after the election cycle this ...

21st century republican party polit politics, exemplified by romney, george w. bush, santorum, gingrich, too, is theyre not for limiting government. theyre just not. republicans when they controlled everything in washington increased the size of government by 60%, nondefense spending. this is not just an artifact of war. terri shaivo i think was as much a reason for republicans getting their much deserved come up answer in 2006 because we saw what happens. >> the terri schiavo case is a really i...