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But i'm hoping by the hearing yesterday those problems have been taken care of and we'll be in a position to transfer her. >> this is really focused on whether jahi is or is not dead. here's part of the uniform deck willration of death act, an individual who has sustained either irreversible cessation of circumstance toir and respiratory functions or irreversible cessation of all functions of the entire brain including the brain stem is dead. why continue this fight? >> we're standing with the family. we think this diagnosis was made very quickly. there's other cases out there where people hav...

We don't know exactly what he hears, if he hears everything we hear, some of what we hear. >> reporter: doctors are confident grayson will eventually hear and speak like any other child. his parents say he's already made great progress, although they won't soon forget what that first moment was like. >> hi grayson. talk to him, daddy. >> daddy loves you. daddy loves you. >> yes, hear. >> i can't stop watching that video. so fun to see his expression as he hears his dad's voice for the first time. let me show you something quickly. first of all, we're not talking specific lish about a cochlear ...

The case of grayson. instead, the doctor essentially put an implant that goes straight to where that sound should go. it's called the cochlear nucleus. it's on the brain stem. you don't need to remember the names here. essentially they're recreating part of the central nervous system so he can take that sound and actually hear. now, the goal obviously is to see how much sense he can make of that sound. we know he's listening to music and will turn it up when he sees the radio or something like that. the doctors are very optimistic he'll be able to process that sound, understand it, turn in the...

It's impossible. it happened while we were still in the woman. 3-year-old boy grayson clamp's first sound was captured on video. take a look. >> daddy loves you. daddy loves you. daddy -- >> yes. he hears. >> can you hear daddy? >> it's an incredible moment, obviously, for grayson and his family. he was born without the nerves to process sound. he is the first child to get what is called an auditory brain stem implant. a device studied in clinical trial. he had the surgery if april in north carolina. joining us is our chief medical correspondent sanjay gupta. it's remarkable to see his face li...

Part of his nervous system. let me show you on the brain model. this is the right side of the brain. this, you see the microphone that's sort of sitting around his ear. that takes sound, sort of processes it, distills it to various frequency, anderson, literally, there is a wire that goes straight to his brain stem the cochlear. nuclei. it takes that sound and shuttles it through the brian, allowing him to have that reaction there. one of total surprise, what is that as he heard his dad's voice for the first time. >> this is different than the cochlear implant. >> it is, you have something def...