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Cheer every year. >> you don't mind if we -- the legs you have on now, you don't run in those. >> i don't run in these, these are my regular walking legs, cross fitting legs, working out legs. >> you know dame enevans. >> haven't met him. >> met him on the plane to hawaii, both of us going surfing. i said are you taller now? he said i am. asked to be taller. did you ask to be taller? >> had the legs off two times. this was taken by trauma, elected to take this off 12 years later after 26 surgeries. they asked me how tall do you want to be, i said one inch taller man my oldest brother. >> i ask...

>> it is male and female voices that know what i know and they bother me and needle me and push me and sometimes i can handle it, and sometimes i can't. >> doctors and therapists know for many of these patients, there is no cure for their illness. for these patients, their only chance at a so-called normal life here at atascadero or on the outside is staying on medication. >> i have been on every medication that they have and hear voices since 1978. you will stop them for a while, but they will just come back. they always do. >> i enjoy working with these guys, because i believe that people ar...

About 400 of the patients here are called mentally disordered offenders or mdos. they make up the largest population of patients at atascadero, and they have a long history of mental illness and violent criminal behavior. >> i hurt my girlfriend. i hurt my mother. she claims that i knocked her eye out. >> these patients are here on parole. they have already served out their prison sentences, but they are here because they are considered too dangerous to be released back into society. >> it is male and female voices that know what i know and they bother me and needle me and push me and sometime...

and wants to get rid of it. our question of the morning coming your way. goats on a roof. need i say more? news room begins right now. good morning to you. thanks for joining us. this morning we begin with a question both chilling and deadly serious. is someone putting politics ahead of your safety? the fbi is investigating the leaks of classified information and whether the white house is behind them. even leaders of the president's own party are voicing grave concerns about the amount of secret information now being made public. >> avalanche och leaks and it is very, very disturb...

economy overall. don't even get us started on europe or the tax cuts set to expire and spending cuts due to kick in a few short months from now watching it all is fed chairman ben bernanke who is trying to explain to congress -- live pictures right now -- what if anything he plans to do about it without saying too much. felicia taylor is watching from the new york city. felicia, what have we heard and learned so far? >> reporter: it's a careful dance because obviously the federal reserve chairman can't come out right and say anything ahead of the federal reserve meeting which takes p...