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How does this work. >> i can't stop watching that. it's amazing when he sees hears that the first time. >> as you pointed out, anderson, the nerve from his ear to the brain stem is what he doesn't have and that's a specific hearing loss. so what they are trying to do is recreate part of the nervous system. let me show you on my brain model. so this is the right side of the brain. this -- you see the micro phone that's sort of sitting around his ear, that takes sound, processes, distills it into frequencies and there is a quire that goes to the brain stem. know this, that it takes that sound th...

>> that just brings tears to your eyes. so tell us, the implant that was given to grayson, how exactly does it work? >> so this is -- it is an amazing story, carol, i'm sorry. this is a brain stem implant, so typically what you think of with hearing, you have nerves that go from your ear, basically, to your brain stem. that's what grayson doesn't have. so he has a little microphone outside that captures sounds and puts it in all these frequencies, and then takes it directly to the brain stem, this area over here to an area called the cochlear nucleus. you don't really need to remember that. ju...

simply seizing firearms purchased from mexican drug cartels by so-called straw buyers throughout the southwest. instead, says the report, fast and furious was part of a plan to let those buyers and the guns walk in hopes of identifying and busting entire gun running networks. instead, fast and furious guns began turning up at crime scenes in mexico and here at home, including the killing of u.s. border agent brian terry in 2010 right before christmas. his death came at the end of a long chain of mistakes starting at gun shops it the gun dealers were reassured atf was closely monitori...

firearms purchased from mexican drug cartels by so-called straw buyers throughout the southwest. instead, says the report, fast and furious was part of a plan to let those buyers and the guns walk in hopes of identifying and busting entire gun running networks. instead, fast and furious guns began turning up at crime scenes in mexico and here at home, including the killing of u.s. border agent brian terry in 2010 right before christmas. according to the report, agent terry's death came at the end of a long chain of mistakes starting at gun shops. quoting from the report, gun dealers ...

missteps, poor judgment and an inherent ly reckless strategy. that strategy was to go beyond simply seizing firearms purchased from mexican drug cartels by so-called straw buyers throughout the southwest. instead, says the report, fast and furious was part of a plan to let those buyers and the guns walk in hopes of identifying and busting entire gun running networks. instead, fast and furious guns began turning up at crime scenes in mexico and here at home, including the killing of u.s. border agent brian terry in 2010 right before christmas. according to the report, his death came a...