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Can you explain these issues how serious they are, what it means? >> they're very serious for the fetus. actually just the fetus. we don't have that many studies of fetuses living in mothers who are brain-dead that actually do well without any problems at all. usually because of the setting, it's very different to replicate the female physiology with machines. and so they're usually born with -- if they're born alive, they're usually born with some kind of deformities, anyway. so the fact that it's starting off with these things that they've seen, they can also do blood tests and they can also...

Are deformed to the extent that gender can't be determined. apparently the fetus also suffers from water on the brain, hydrocephalus. and it appears there are further abnormalities, i think it's a possible heart problem. i think fluid on the brain not water. can you explain these issues how serious they are, what it means? >> they're very serious for the fetus. actually just the fetus. we don't have that many studies of fetuses living in mothers who are brain-dead that actually do well without any problems at all. usually because of the setting, it's very different to replicate the female phys...

The first baby ever to survive this diagnosis. congresswoman jamie butler found out when she was five months pregnant that baby abigail had pott potter's syndrome and had no kidneys and little to no amniotic fluid and the lungs shrink and does not allow the baby to develop. the congresswoman and her husband were stunned? i don't know anything can prepare you for that kind of diagnosis it floored us. on the one hand we're first time parents, excited. we get this news. it was devastating. >> one of the difficult things was it wasn't there was a slim chance of survival. there is zero chance of su...

I actually didn't know what was happening either. i thought -- i honestly thought -- she could have gotten away with saying when she said wieners are making me sick, i thought she was talking about hot dogs. i really did. >> i went right to the dirty stuff. >> did you really? >> yes, of course. and i think moets of the audience did. >> i think they were laughing at the fact that she said weiner. using it as an excuse to say it because she said it so many times. >> do wieners make you sick by the way? >> no, hot dogs don't make me sick at all. but i just think jessica simpson has an issue with ...

Machinery on the red planet. heather: basically the size of a small suv to put it in perspective. >> that's right the previous mars rovers were the size of a bicycle. this is ten feet long, contains ten times the instrumentation of the previous mission and it weighs five times as much as the previous probes. this is the godzilla of space probes. heather: tell me about some of the instruments that are on board it and what we hope to learn from them. i know one them being a laser gun. it can apparently zap a rock from 23 feet away. >> right they placed the mars rover right next to a crater calle...