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Disorder called face blindness. his fiance angelina jolie recently revealed she had a double mastectomy because her dna put her at a greatly elevated risk of breast cancer. wolf? >> mary snow reporting for us. mary, thanks very much. up next, president obama defends drone strikes against terror suspects and defends himself against the heckler. and a popular horse farm and petting zoo that was destroyed by the tornado and now people who feel close ties to the place they loved to visit are volunteering to rebuild it.

I've never heard this before. >> it is real. it is a real diagnosis. we were talking to one expert who explained it, ints kind of like dyslexia of the face. you can see individual letters in dyslexia but it doesn't make a word. if i have face blindness i might see pretty green eyes, bright shiny teeth, beautiful woman but i'm not sure who it is even though i've known you for years and seen you every day. it's not being able to make sense of it and put it to the. doctors think it's much more common than people think and there's a continuum. some people don't recognize their own face in the mirr...

Mastectomy made headlines and now her partner, brad pitt, could have a very unusual condition that makes it hard for him to recognize people's faces. you can imagine the problems that would cause in an industry that you could describe as very ego-driven. our senior medical koerpt elizabeth cohen is with me. face blindness, i'm sorry, i've never heard of it. i don't know anything about it and i'm a little baffled by it. what is it? >> i think it is sort of baffling. what it is is it's kind of like dyslexia for the face. dyslexics might see letters but can't put together to form a word. ashleigh...