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>> dana bash, a very merry christmas over the one. appreciate it. it is supposed to be a routine tonsillectomy. now a 13-year-old girl is brain dead in an oakland high school. she had her tonsils removed on december 9th. less than 24 hours later she experienced serious complications that led to cardiac arrest. tonight she is being kept alive by a vent lator and her family is fighting to keep her on life support. stephanie elam has the story. >> reporter: it was a simple operation that was supposed to improve her quality of life. instead, jahi mcmath lay brain dead hours after surgery. >> i d...

Breathing on her own. just one week after gabrielle giffords nearly lost her life, husband mark kelley sees more miraculous signs of recovery. >> mark told me that he thought he might have seen a smile. all very optimistic so we could be wrong, but we all want to see the best, and sometimes we -- what we want to see, but if he says she's smiling, i buy it. >> reporter: over the weekend doctors say giffords hit another major milestone. she's off the vent lator and breathing on her own again through a tracheostomy tube. >> we removed the breathing tube from her mouth and placed another breathing...