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well. i'm going to demonstrate in a bit. i'm going to hit on something touchy in our world. paula deen announced she has diabetes. some say i told you so. it's what you get for cooking such rich food. we love her. i want to take a different approach. sam, a finalist on the show "top chef" has had diabetes for most of his life. he's learned about eating healthy and we are going to learn and share with you today. first, like a lot of people, i was shocked to get the news of whitney houston dying the night before the grammys. it's going to be weeks before we know the cause of death. g...

Positive excitement. and a little germ of hope lodged itself in his stubborn mind. and you were thinking maybe they can do it for you? >> i said, i am in the right spot. >> he talked to the leading researchers, working on optic nerve repair. >> have you done any studies with severed optic nerves? >> he peppered them with questions, like he was cross-examining witnesses. mike gilmore, then the president, offered sutton a glimmer at least of hope. >> we will be able to regenerate an optic nerve. it's not so much a question of can we, but when can we. >> and it was a good news/bad news sort of da...

His head. the tip of his ring finger was blown off. other shots hit his thumb and shoulder. >> there were six pretty good sized bullet holes. >> when he was well enough to talk to detectives, sutton told them what he could, the story of a man who barely witnessed the attack that killed his wife and almost killed him. he was a former college swimmer, so he was watching an olympic diving event in the master bedroom, he said. >> next thing i know, somebody was standing there in a black hat or visor, black shirt, black pants, face shaded by the visor, and opened fire. all i really remember was one...

I can't even think what that would be like. heavy. >> memorizing things, and going into court when -- he's a pretty determined guy. >> yeah. it's great. >> but adapting, even successful adapting, using a talking typewriter, for example, wasn't enough for john sutton. as he waited for his son's long-delayed trial, he pursued with something like an obsession a quest to regain his eyesight. most people might have given up by then, you live with it. >> not even close. i won't take no for an answer. >> some of the best hospitals in the country, sutton had been told there was nothing that could be d...

And doctors are worried that explorers could go blind during the long mission like the kind that would take you to mars. with us now, dr. stephen garner, with new york methodist hospital and was also an air force doctor and knows about these kind of issues. >> with air force at least we're dealing with the atmosphere. when you go up to space you with problems with what the body is exposed to, at the least of which is the eye but your bones become brittle, they don't have gravity pulling them, the muscles, they get atfe, the heart has to work harder because the fluid accumulates and you don't h...