the city of los angeles is using a new tactic to get registered sex offenders out of neighborhoods by building three new parks. california's so-called "jessica's law" bars sex offenders from living within 2,000 feet of a park or school. city officials say offenders who live near the new parks will have no choice but to move. more than 80 offenders live near the site of just one of those parks. and these stories are trending now on the web. some terrifying moments for passengers on a bus in polled poland. look at the images there. the driver passes out. the bus starts to swerve all over the road, while passengers there struggling to steer it clear of disaster after a couple of minutes, the driver regains consciousness, and presses the

brake pedal, which his feet apparently had been blocking. no one, miraculously, was hurt. and it's the country's newest dance craze. you know what i'm talking about. yes. the harlem shake. okay. doing it on an airline, apparently, isn't such a great idea, because the faa is now investigating this incident. pilots call it a serious safety and security problem. they say an airline isn't a dance hall. and look out. if you head to this park in sacramento, california -- ooh, oh, my gosh, what's going on? two angry geese just might attack you like they did him. they have been named frizzel and frazel. oh, that's so embarrassing. well, apparently they're really just defending their territory. so don't go near that park. that's going to do it for me, i'm fredricka width whitfield. aleah cho in for don lemon.

a high stakes battle against bullying with our own anderson cooper. hey there, thanks for joining us. i want to start today with a disturbing number. parents pay attention to this. estimates are that one in five children is bullied at school. most of the time, it's verbal abuse. relentless name-calling that leaves emotional scars. we know those scars can last a lifetime. it's something we can play a role in stopping. i want you to meet a family and girl going through extreme measures to make the bullying stop. it's a parent's nightmare. >> when i was a little kid -- now i'm just shy. >> children for 14-year-old nadia, the bullying started in first grade.

>> there was this girl, he came up to me and -- just -- speechless. because i didn't think about it until she said that. >> dumbo, elephant ears and much, much worse. seven years of torment. so withdrawn, still so hard to talk about. what is the -- do you remember the worst sort of taunting or teasing or, you know, whatever -- do you remember a day where that happened? >> it happened a lot. well, it happened so many times, it kind of all blends together, that i kind of don't remember. >> nadia was 10 years old when she asked her mom if she could have surgery to pin her ears back, also known as an oat owe plasty. she wanted them to stick out less, all in an effort to stop the bullying. it's been sort of a dark place for you for some time, it sounds like. >> yeah, it's been very depressing. >> her mom, desperate to help,

turned to the internet and stumbled across "the little baby face foundation," the nonprofit organization offers free plastic surgery for children, like nadia who are bullied because of their physical appearance and can't afford an operation. >> there may be people, nadia, who say, look, you don't need to do this. this is just who you are. it's the way you were born. people should love people for who they are. what do you say to those folks? >> i say that they're right. but it will never stop. it will just keep going. get worse and worse. >> the foundation flew nadia and her mother from georgia to new york city for an all-expense-paid trip to this hospital. >> this will be our target ear. so i'll match the other ear, which is not as lateralized as this ear. >> in her application, nadia had asked to have her ears pinned back. but dr. thomas romo with the little baby face foundation recommended she change more than just her ears.

>> i love thin chins. but i don't want them as pointy as that chin. we talked about that, didn't we? >> uh-huh. >> we looked at some pictures of some different people. and their chins come up just a little more square. so that's exactly what we're going to do, too. >> and there was more. >> when i looked up inside her, the whole septum is actually going off this way. as the septum goes, so goes the nose. >> she never talked about the nose or the chin before, right? >> she did not. because she didn't recognize it. >> dr. romo says with her ears pinned back, her nose and a symmetrical chin would be more pronounced. he said all three surgeries combined are necessary to balance out nadia's features. >> any last thoughts as we're going into the o.r. here? >> nervous. excited. >> so in some ways, this has been seven years in the making

for nadia. she just went under but tells me she has been dreaming about this day for some time. and now it's all happening for her. so what doctor romo is doing is an oto plasty, reducing the size of the nose and here on the chin. what might surprise a lot of people, 42% of otoplasties on the ears are done on people under the age of 18. this four-hour operation would normally come with a price tag of about $40,000. for nadia, it's free. here in the operating room, when you see what's happening here behind me, gives you a good idea just how significant bullying can be. kids become depressed, anxious. and nadia's case, she told me it changed her entire personality. but surgery alone won't wipe away the pain from years of all that bullying. nadia's mom hopes counseling will be the final step in the healing process. 72 hours post-op, nadia is still

swollen, but cautiously optimistic as dr. romo removes the bandages and she says her new self for the first time. >> i look beautiful. this is exactly what i wanted. i love it. >> and we are joined now by nadia ile. thank you for joining us, nadia. i tell you, as a parent, i think a lot of parents, grand parents out there, watching what you went through, it hits -- it hits close to home. and it's great to see you. it's been about seven months now since your operation. u turned 15. you started high school. how are you doing? how do you feel? >> i am feeling great. changed my whole outcome of life. my whole outcome, what i think of life. >> it was bullying, and you were very candid in just how tough that bullying was on you, and i'm curious. with the plastic surgery now, with the operation, has the bullying stopped?

>> yes, it has. i mean, i have changed a lot. a lot of people are now treating me with respect, and they actually talk to me now, and they say that they're sorry and they -- and they apologize for everything they did. >> you can't help but note, this is obviously -- it's plastic surgery. it's superficial. it's just changing your appearance. how do you feel about -- is it superficial that they're apologizing, just because of this change in your appearance? >> no, they probably apologize because they have probably thought, like, wow, it must have hurt you so bad that you wanted to change your appearance and stuff. and they just -- they felt sorry they -- that they were the ones who caused this. >> you look great. you look so beautiful. i mean, you're a young woman. i wish you the best.

and as i think i told you, i have three daughters myself, so one can't help but think of their own kids when talking to someone like you. thank you for being so candid and talking about this. >> thank you. we want to continue this discussion. i'm going to be talking with my friend, anderson cooper. he's got details on a grass roots movement that's pushing for sweeping change across the country on this very topic. that's next. ♪ none of us think bad things are gonna happen to us. i'm here at my house on thanksgiving day, and i have a massive heart attack right in my driveway. an artery in your heart, it's called the widow maker. and mine was 95% blocked. they took me to the hospital, and the doctor put me on a bayer aspirin regimen. [ male announcer ] aspirin is not appropriate for everyone, so be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen. i'm a blue-collar worker. to me, bayer aspirin is another tool.

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>> the bullying got so bad at school, we feared for her safety. >> rolled over on me. when i rolled on to the ground, he drove away. >> my wife and i, we plan on fighting bullying forever. because our boy, he's going to be 11 years old forever. >> the bystanders of the school get involved, i'll guarantee, we can over power any bully. >> i really found -- i want to say my purpose. >> let's get this rolling. >> i'm telling you, i believe in you. you believe in you. tell me. of i am somebody. raise this roof! >> i am somebody! >> that is what i'm talking about.

>> and anderson joins us now. thanks for joining us. watching that kid get slugged on the bus. >> incredible. >> what was it like making this documentary? is. >> it was -- the original movie, "bully" that prompted this by lee hirsch, he captured something that is really captured on film. you see kids being bullied and you see the impact it has on them, their families, on the parents, on the schools. and we wanted to follow up with some of the people we met in his film. and that young man who was being pump punched on the bus would see how his life was transformed and seeing what works in trying to stop bullying, what doesn't work, and where we can do more. and what more needs to be done. >> the film maker, as you mentioned, talked about his own experiences with bullying, as well. is this something that you had any sort of personal -- how do you ask somebody if they were bullied? i hate being asked that myself. >> i wasn't really bullied in school at all. i was lucky.

my school was very tended to. there was certainly bullying going on. but i think anybody -- i think we all can remember what it's like to be a kid. and i think all kids feel a sense of alienation, feel a sense of not fitting in. certainly if you are a gay or lesbian child, that's exacerbated all the more. and so i mean, i'm very kind of everyone lettic to what a lot of these kids have gone through and are continuing to go through. and just as a reporter, you know, i've done so many stories and interviewed so many parents who, you know, who found their child, 10-year-old child, 11-year-old child hanging in their closet in their bedroom, and the parent didn't know or didn't think it was as serious or kind of thought, look, this is what happens to all kids. but it's really -- the nature really has changed and there is kind of a cruelty that the anonymity of online presence allows. and i think that's something that a lot of parents sort of have finally started to come to understand. >> yeah, that anonymity as you mentioned, as well. i'm really looking forward to watching. >> really fascinating series. >> thank you for being here.

it's called "the bully effect," sunday night 8:00 p.m. eastern here on cnn. there is a big study about the mediterranean diet. i'll tell you what it says about the best way to prevent heart disease. stay with us. >> if you think about everything, all of the consumer products, the -- rigid. completely green space of soft machine. the robotics energy is concerned with the number of degrees of freedom and how much it costs. here is a way we can really transform the cost of robotics. we'll eliminate the server motors, the pins, bearings, joints. and we will sew you a robot out of fabric and use pressurized fluids to make it work. and it will reduce the cost of robots 100-fold and make them 10 or 100 times more powerful. the one behind me weighs 1 or hundred pounds, the size of your

arm. when fully pressurized, i could lift a human at arm's length. no hinges and bearings there. it's all done in these tensile fabric. so built the way biological systems are work. this works much more like a fish or shark than like a robot. personally something that excites us a lot is prosthetic applications. essentially putting a wearable robot over a human skeleton as a prosthetic device. and i think that's a beautiful application. ♪ you know my heart burns for you... ♪

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big topic this week. a lot of people talking about

the mediterranean diet. that's because a study was just published in the "new england journal of medicine" which says patients who follow the diet sharply cut their risk of heart attacks and strokes. there's some basics about this. you want to eat at least four tablespoons of olive oil a day. at least three servings of fruit a day. two servings of vegetables. fish, three times a week. white meat instead of red meat. a lot of nuts. and here's the one everyone always pays attention to. seven glasses of wine with meals every week. i want to bring in one of our favorite guests, catkinsman. your managing editor of cnn's eat ocracy blog. >> i love this. this is a boon for food-lovers. the basic tenet is stay away from processed things and eat real food. essentially, don't eat anything that your great grandmother wouldn't recognize as foot. >> it's so so simple. when people put it like that. i was interested, because i know the mediterranean diet. i want to talk about the study.

but i'm always curious specifically about breakfast. one of my big things, eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, dinner like a peasant. i think front-loading your meals is helpful. but what do you eat for breakfast on a mediterranean diet? >> again, it's -- i think a lot of people get up in their head too much about what breakfast food actually is. first of all, start your day with something just delicious. and your world can open up. so i brought in a bunch of things you can have. you could maybe cut some lovely fruit in half, serve it with some beautiful greek style yogurt. have some -- you don't always have to have fresh fruit on hand. i know that's sort of a problem sometimes in winter. but you can always rely on wonderful dried goji berries, raisins, dried plums. >> eggs on here. >> you can have eggs on this too. and you don't have to be all -- take out the yolk. back it up with a little bit of spinach or whatever else happens to be in season. but really, you're not -- the great thing about this diet is, you don't have to eat that way.

you get to eat that way. and it's a matter of perception. >> yeah. and obsteamous we don't hear enough of on television. it's accessible to people. >> and whole grain oatmeal, we're trying to eat more of anyway. >> one thing was interesting and i'm sure you noticed. the question they were trying to answer is, is it a mediterranean diet better than a low-fat diet with regard to heart disease. and what they found is that the people who they put in the low-fat diet group, they couldn't stay on it. they were supposed to get very low fat in terms of their consumption. but they pretty much were eating a standard diet. what -- what did you think of that as a person who focuses on this? is it that low fat diets are hard to maintain? >> there is a sense of deprivation. something in your brain saying i'm being punished. so great thing, so many foods are packed with flavor, it's a reward, you don't feel like you're sacrificing anything. and if you are having a hard time staying on a low-fat diet,

put some hot sauce on there, smoked paprikaa. anything you can do to amp up the flavor and you're not going to have that little signal in your head, thinking that you're going to rebel later by having some cake or something like that. >> which happens a lot. >> it does. >> they will trash it all when they get home with the ice cream or cake or whatever. >> think of this, this is the food where if you were on vacation, you would be delighted if they served this for breakfast. so -- vacation every day. >> it's good to see you. thanks -- good to be with you in person on the set. >> i know. >> and we get great food. what happens with the food now, do we get to eat it? >> get to eat it. >> love it. thanks for joining us. >> my pleasure. chris was a promising hockey player, fierce competitor, on his way to a professional hockey career. but last year he was forced to confront an opponent he didn't know he could beat. >> on three, one, two, three! >> chris rumble loves the hard hits. of the camaraderie, and the

trash talk. >> hey, do you whine the entire game. >> and hockey. >> always in the back of my mind, yeah, i want to be a hockey player. >> in high school, rumble played defense for the wild amateur hockey team. in april of 2012, rumble noticed his glands were swollen. his energy level was low. and then came the diagnosis. >> i knew leukemia was a form of cancer. and kind of felt like i had 1,000 pounds on my shoulders and i just kind of sunk into my seat. >> reporter: rumble approached his six months of brutal chemotherapy with a positive attitude. >> my largest intestine ruptured so i wasn't allowed to eat or drink for 14 days. >> reporter: he was a patient at seattle children's hospital. he was a role model for the younger ones and tried to cheer them up with another passion, making music videos. >> this camera. ♪ >> this video went viral.

registering millions of hits. ♪ stand a little taller >> reporter: now his cancer is in remission. rumble is back on the ice. as a freshman playing defense for the golden griffins. >> there were a couple points where i didn't think i would make it back on the ice, let alone division 1 college hockey. >> reporter: a win on the ice, and in life. rumble saying he hopes sharing his story is going to help others keep a positive attitude when times get tough. and still ahead, the most important thing c. everett koop ever did. ♪ ♪ if loving you is wrong

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