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Feet toe. the host ignited a media firestorm after she and her on-air guests joked about romney's adopted grandson, who is black. yesterday, she apologized on air and said her comments weren't meant to be malicious. a judge has ruled that in two days, a 13-year-old girl who was declared brain dead can be removed from her ventilator. gentleman hi she has been in this state since december 9th when she has had her tonsils removed in surgery in california. now, the family is in a vicious legal battle with the hospital, which wants to remove her from the ventilator. at the core of the issue is th...

Declaring her brain dead. this is no blood flowing to her brain nor is there electrical activity there. the hospital clarifies that as whole brain death which is defined as an irreversible cessation of all functions of the entire brain including the brainstem. on saturday, her grandmother visited jahi and she was met at the hospital by supporters. she gave this update to reporters on the girl's state. >> i said, hi, jahi. she moved her legs and arms. her heart is beating good. she is warm. she looks beautiful. this is the best glow i have ever seen she had. >> she can be moved while on a venti...

And what you do is you tell them the truth. you explain the diagnosis. and it has to be presented in very black-and-white terms which it is in this setting of brain death. but one thing that i know that i would never do is try to force or enforce a withdrawal of support or something like that for family that doesn't want to do it, that can't bring themselves to do it or they're not ready for it, because really all you're going to do is cause a lot of pain for everyone involved. >> part of the confusion also seems to be, dr. mayer, because you hear these cases and we try to be very careful abou...

There's absolutely no chance of any kind of misdiagnosis. this is a black-and-white situation. >> any chance that she could have some sort of recovery which is, you know, obviously what her family is hoping and praying for? >> i understand what they're hoping and praying for, but there's absolutely no chance here for jahi to ever survive the brain injury itself. >> the intersection between just the human tragedy of this and obviously the clinical diagnosis is tough. i mean, you deal with this a fair amount, i imagine. what do you tell families who are in a situation like this? >> i've done it ...

State for years have returned to some level of consciousness. this is rare, but it does happen. but again, brain death is something else entirely. there is no activity in the brain. there is no blood flow to the brain. it is a grim situation, but again, something that a trained doctor can pretty easily diagnose. back to you. >> all right, thanks so much, sanjay gupta. as you can see from sanjay's report, a lot of people have been very confused about what exactly brain dead means, and my guest says we need to talk about that. i'm joined by bioethicist arthur capl caplan, director of ethics at n...