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Closes down so that limits the amount of blood that can get out. then youve got a real tight narrowing right up here where that vessel on the side takes off, then another narrowing here, then youve got a pretty tight narrowing there. >> all the major blood vessels supplying blood to the heart -- blocked. yes, that is the very picture of a heart attack waiting to happen. >> hes at risk for heart attack just because of the amount of plaque that he has in there. >> like me, bare has a family histor...

>> with a family history of heart disease and a lifetime of bad eating habits, president clinton told me he was a heart attack waiting to happen. but what does someone really look like who is about to have heart attack? you probably wouldnt think this guy. tom bare, 53, thin, seemingly healthy, and one step short of a full-blown heart attack. in fact, hes checking into this hospital in lincoln, nebraska for open heart surgery. its an important lesson. what you see on the outside doesnt always ma...

Much high-cholesterol food i was eating, i still -- without any scientific basis to support what i did was taking in a lot of extra cholesterol and clearly my body didnt dispose of it and clearly thats why i had that blockage. i should have changed after the surgery. >> coming up -- president clinton transforms his diet to save his heart. >> and what is life like after heart surgery? tom bares painful recovery and his complications. >> walked about .3 mile and it was excruciating. >> also, she s...

Trouble ahead. >> little worried back there. my arms starting to hurt. thats gone, now its just hard to catch my breath. >> i spoke to tom bare right before his operation. >> what happened? >> none of the arteries worked. >> did they say that this was pretty unusual? >> never seen before. >> wow. thats not the kind of luck you want. >> no, no, not at all. so the doctors just going to use veins today. >> complications are an unfortunate part of the process for 12% of the people who have bypass su...

Narrowing right up here where that vessel on the side takes off, then another narrowing here, then youve got a pretty tight narrowing there. >> all the major blood vessels supplying blood to the heart -- blocked. yes, that is the very picture of a heart attack waiting to happen. >> hes at risk for heart attack just because of the amount of plaque that he has in there. >> like me, bare has a family history of heart disease. thats why four years ago he underwent the coronary calcium scan that we j...

Threatening complication. one that will soon have him back in the operating room. >> it is nice to be home. you can -- they say you heal ten times faster and you feel 100% better. i didnt have any idea of how uncomfortable i was going to be just doing little things. like getting out of bed in the morning was the hardest thing to do. >> life after bypass surgery. for tom bare means it is three weeks before he takes his first walk outside. and gets a painful warning of

>> im going to actually grab on here and hold myself in position. >> weather reporting can be hazardous for a tv correspondent. just ask al roker. during a "today" show report on hurricane wilma in 2005, a colleague has to hold him down to keep him from blowing away. >> i can hear you now, matt, just for a brief moment. the winds are -- this is how im staying out here. mike, our camera guy, is holding on. >> it doesnt work. our truck operator tom bare said, dont you wish you had your weight back...

>> ambushed. a reporter gets caught in a snowball storm. >> im going to actually grab on here and hold myself in position. >> weather reporting can be hazardous for a tv correspondent. just ask al roker. during a "today" show report on hurricane wilma in 2005, a colleague has to hold him down to keep him from blowing away. >> i can hear you now, matt, just for a brief moment. the winds are -- cornell, pan down. this is how im staying out here 7 mike, our camera guy, is holding on. >> it doesnt w...

On. >> it doesnt work. our truck operator tom bare said, dont you wish you had your weight back. >> are you okay? >> were okay. were okay. were coming inside. >> good idea. one that brian williams should have considered in hurricane isabel. >> we can get 70-mile-per-hour wind effect. >> during a live report, brian discovers what hurricane force really means when he calls over a weather channel colleague to take a wind speed reading. >> allow me to introduce you to mike seidel of the weather chan...

Theyre having a great time as you can see. >> ambushed. a reporter gets caught in a snowball storm. >> im going to actually grab on here and hold myself in position. >> weather reporting can be hazardous for a tv correspondent. just ask al roker. during a "today" show report on hurricane wilma in 2005, a colleague has to hold him down to keep him from blowing away. >> i can hear you now, matt, just for a brief moment. the winds are -- this is how im staying out here. mike, our camera guy, is hol...