waking up happy happy as the lucky winners of the $448 powerball jackpot. these two young brothers are believed to have been strangled to death by a python, stunning images of the boys playing in a snake tank as criminal charges are being considered against the snake s owner, we ll ask wildlife expert jeff corwin, could the snake have done this? we ll take you through it. and a cnn exclusive we brought you a story a few weeks ago about this man who was unconscious for days, woke up in the hospital not remembering anything including how to speak engli english. now can he only speak swedish. our dr. sanjay gupta brings us an exclusive interview with this man and talks about what his life is like now. that s going to be a very interesting story, very, very fascinating. first up this morning, several states facing severe
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is this men with hats, men without hats? men without pants. men without pants? i like the song, though, anything about dancing. le welcome back, everybody. this is new day, it s thursday august 8th, i m chris cuomo. i m kate bolduan with michaela pereira. coming up the story of two young brothers strangled to death in their beds believed to be strangled by a python. wildlife biologist jeff corwin will join us to explain how this happened. you see pictures of the boys inside the tank. we ll follow that. a man in florida wakes up no mem me, amnesia but also forgot how to speak english. he was talking swedish and now he s talking for the first time and talking to us, a cnn exclusive. a lot of news, a lot of bad things happening with weather
boatwright, 61 years old, served in the u.s. navy in vietnam. he taught english in china. the only native language he speaks right now he says is swedish. michael boatwright s bizarre story began five months ago when motel staff found him unconscious in palm springs, california. the only clues were i.d.s in his wallet and evidence that he had flown from china to palm springs a few days prior. boatwright was taken to desert regional hospital and he was diagnosed with dissociative amnesia. it s a rare psychiatric condition that s typically associated with a traumatic event. boatwright awoke in the hospital, insisting he had lost his memory and forgot how to speak english. eventually it was a hospital social worker who uncovered his years living abroad, in china, japan, and, yes, sweden. this week boatwright was released from the hospital and now lives at this homeless shelter. in our exclusive interview,
of things? there s three broad categories when something like this happens, some sort of brain injury of some sort, he doesn t appear to have had that and usually causes a short term memory problem as opposed to language loss, you think he s malingering or a hoax, and this dissociative amnesia usually because of a traumatic event people will literally wall off a part of their lives. we met somebody after their honeymoon as they re going to the airport to leave for the honeymoon they disappear and they find him in the forest three days later, doesn t remember who is he, getting married, nothing, and three years later it came back. could he get his memory back and speak english again? if you look at dissociative amnesias, yes, sometimes it s anti-anxiety medications. nobody knows the trauma what