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>> jessie misskelley, sr., is little jessie's father. >> when was the last time you talked to jesse? i met him at his home on a cold winter day to learn more about his son. >> everybody loved him. he loved kids, called him uncle jessie. >> 17 years. >> jessie's father said he had a good heart, but his son struggled in school and he didn't make it past the ninth grade. >> at the time he was 17 years old. he came from a family that was a big family. he was a rough kid. he was low functioning in school. he had been in special ed from the time he started school. >> low functioning. >> i.q. i think...

Of intensive chemotherapy that would require her to be off work, but showed no signs of having gone through any chemotherapy, no side effects, anything like that. no symptoms. show eed no symptoms of actuall having cancer and, on top of that, her colleagues at the school had nominated her for an adult, similar to the make a wish foundation, but for a trip like that. and the trip was turned down because of improper medical documentation. >> now, she's charged with 12 felonies and out right now on $10,000 bond and she has a hearing august 5th. are her friends and those close to her just heartbro...

It was more than a year ago nestly issued a recall of cookie dough. 66 reports of illness spread across 28 states. chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta got an exclusive interview with a woman who is still recovering from that. >> linda rivera was living the good life. a mother, wife, a special ed assistant. of linda has happy and healthy. but all that changed in may of 2009. >> i felt like i had a cold. the flu, something like that. >> in fact, linda got so sick, her husband took her to the emergency room. there she was diagnosed with irritable bowel syndrome and sent home. but the thi...

Gupta. >> she was a mother, wife, a special ed assistant, linda was happy and healthy. that all changed in may of 2009. >> i felt like i had that cold, the flu, something like that. >> in fact, linda got so sick her husband took her to the emergency room. there she was diagnosed with irritable bowel syndrome and sent home, but the thing is, she didn't get better. >> i asked if she was okay, she said, if i have to go through this one more day, i'll die. so we took her in. >> the doctors told her she contracted e. coli 0h157. it can attack the organs. the virus settled in her colon and the docto...

Her confession. a confession her family says she was forced to make. in an open letter to the international community, her two children bleed for in their mother's life to be spared. today we stretch out our hands to the people of the whole world. it is now five years that we have lived in fear and in horror, deprived of motherly love. is the world so cruel that it can watch this catastrophe and do nothing about it? we resort to the people of the world, no matter who you are and where in the world you live. help to prevent this nightmare from becoming reality. save our mother. we are unable to...