local doctors, woefully lacking knowledge or experience or equipment, think it s best to transfer the twins, just five days old, 500 miles away to egypt s capital, cairo. they were very vulnerable. so our first main goal was to just keep them alive. quite possibly the twins would not be alive today if it were not for this man. dr. nasser abdel al has spent a career building the biggest and most modern neonatal surgical unit in the middle east. but this, this case is an incredible first for nasser. as nasser begins to explore how he can ever help these boys, he is stunned when he discovers they are a far more complex case than the conjoined twins from guatemala he d heard about who are about the same age as mohamed and ahmed. a c.a.t. scan and mri of the egyptian boys reveal they share not only skull and blood vessels, their brains, though individual and distinct, are
the weak areas on their skulls. but overall, he is delighted with their progress. i think they are very happy children right now. mohamed is more outgoing because he s moving more and making a lot of noises. but ahmed is overcome with shyness. he s getting more and more social. stand up. the right foot forward. and the boys are making great strides with their physical therapy. good boy. this was ahmed when he got off the airplane in cairo. this is him two years later. go. go. go. in the past, ahmed cannot take steps. now he can walk about 10 to 20 feet without support. up, down. the change for mohamed has also been dramatic.
i m chris jansing. here s what s happening. globs of tar are now washing up on three more florida beaches for the first time. and the administrator of the $20 billion fund for victims promises to pay every eligible and legitimate claim quickly. evacuation orders are in place for more than 100 homes and one hotel in arizona as a wildfire rages near downtown flagstaff. it scorched 600 acres so far. police investigating a camp fire. now back to double lives. for a year and a half medical city hospital in dallas, texas, has been home to conjoined twins ahmed and mohamed. it s june 2002 when they arrive from cairo with a dedicated medical team. here in dallas doctors not only question how to separate the twins without sacrificing one for the other, but they also must face the ethical question.
terrorism was going virtually unchecked. in those days, there was never a heads up. now, we have the national security agency out vacuuming the sky, and they re able to tell you that, gee, we think something is happening. in 1985, this came, this was a bolt out of the sky. literally. i was 24, and this was the first flight of my life. we bought the ticket in athens. it was supposed to be a night flight of two hours from athens to cairo. for me, it was a big thing, to fly and to travel. i ve never been abroad before. my plans were to fly from athens to cairo, and then the next morning, flying to vancouver. were you nervous about flying? yeah. i was a little nervous. i was more excited, you know.
side. terrorism was going virtually unchecked. in those days, there was never a heads up. now, we have the national security agency out vacuuming the sky, and they re able to tell you that, gee, we think something is happening. in 1985, this came, this was a bolt out of the sky, literally. i was 24, and this was the first flight of my life. we bought the ticket in athens. it was supposed to be a night flight of two hours from athens to cairo. for me, it was a big thing, to fly and to travel. i ve never been abroad before. my plans were to fly from athens to cairo, and then the next morning, flying to vancouver. were you nervous about flying? yeah. i was a little nervous. i was more excited, you know. i had plans. i wanted to see the world.