the kansas city firemen eventually came to the rescue. sequester for spending cuts, whatever you want to call them. fair game for the crew at "saturday night live" last night. >> i want to show you some of the everyday men and women these cuts are going to affect. people like our air traffic controllers, and our border patrol agents. okay. how are we going to handle the budget cuts? >> well, before we can look at our radar screens, we have to watch a 20-second ad for doritos and no longer have full-body scanners. we are asking everyone to take a photo down the front of their pants and just text that to us. >> and border patrol? >> we're going to ask every tenth mexican just run across the border. >> thank you. >> the cuts also affect our space program and astronauts like major lindsay foelten.

>> thanks to the budget cuts, our space helmets will no longer have glass. so, when we go outside to repair the ship, we'll just have to hold our breath. >> thank you, major. >> i'll see you in space. >> and some employees will be outright let go, including inner city public school teachers. so, who worked in one of philadelphia's worst school districts. this must be so hard for you. >> this is the greatest day of my entire life. so, good luck reading bail wolf, you monsteres. >> and, of course, these cuts will affect our military, our civil servants, federal construction projects and even grants to native americans. >> i'll see you back here at the top of the hour, but, first, dr. sanjay gupta explores the high-stakes battle against bullying with our very 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. now, 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 all play a role in stopping. but, first, i want you to meet a family and a girl who resorted to some pretty extreme measures to make that bullying stop. it's a parent's nightmare. >> i used to be very talkative when i was a little kid and now i'm just shy and i'd rather not talk to anyone. i'm antisocial now. >> reporter: children viciously bullied for their physical appearance. for 14-year-old nadia, the bullying started in first grade.

>> there was this girl and came up to me and said, you have the biggest ears i've ever seen. and i was like, i was speechless. because i didn't think about it until she said that. >> reporter: she's heard dumbo, elephant ears and much, much worse. seven years of torment. so withdrawn, still so hard to talk about. do you remember the worst of taunting or or teasing or whatever, do you remember a day where that happened? >> that happened a lot, well, it happened so many times that it kind of all blends together that i kind of don't remember. >> reporter: nadia was just 10 years old when she asked her mom if she could have surgery to pin her ears back. 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's been very depressing. >> reporter: 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 who say, look, you don't need to do this. this is just who you are. the way you are born. people should love people for who they are. what do you say to those folks? >> i say they're right, but it will never stop. just keep going and get worse and worse. >> reporter: 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 and i'll match the other ear, which is not as lateralized as this ear. >> reporter: in her application she asked to have her ears pinned back but dr. thomas romo recommend 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? we looked at some pictures of some different people and their chins come off just a little more square. that's exactly what we're going to do, too. >> reporter: and there was more. >> when i looked up inside, the whole septum is actually going off this way. as the septum goes, so goes the no nose. >> she never talked about the nose or the chin before. >> she did not. she did not recognize it. >> reporter: with her ears pinned back her nose and asymmetrical chin would be more pronounced. all three surgeries combined are necessary to balance out nadia's features. any last thoughts as we go 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 she tells me she has been dreaming about this day for some time and now it's all happening for her. so what dr. romo is doing is an oat oplasty, a reduction rine rhinoplasty. what might surprise people is 80% of the ears are done on people under the age of 18. this four-hour operation would normally come with a price tag of $40,000. for nadia, it's free. here in the operating room when you see what is happening behind me, how significant bullying can be. kids become depressed and they can become anxious. 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 sees her new self for the first time. >> i look beautiful. this is exactly what i wanted. i love it. >> we are joined now by nadia. thank you for joining us. you know, i tell you, as a parent, i think a lot of parents, grandparent out there watching what you went through, it hits close to home and it's great to see you. it's been about seven months now since your operation. you've turned 15 and started high school. how are you doing? how do you feel? >> i'm 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, i mean, with the plastic surgery now with the operation, has the bullying

stopped? >> yes, it has. i mean, i've 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 apologize for everything they did. >> you can't help but note that this is, obviously, plastic surgery. it's superficial. it's just changing your appearance. i mean, 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 probably thought, wow, it must have hurt you so bad that you wanted to change your appearance and stuff and they just, they felt sorry that they were the ones who caused this. >> you look great. you're so beautiful. you're a young woman and i wish you the best and as i think i

told you, i have three daughters myself. one can't help but think of their own kid when talking to someone with 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 has details on a grassroots movement that is pushing for sweeping change across the country on this very topic. that's next. she keeps you guessing.

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continuing our in-depth discussion on bullying. the bullying effect is an anderson cooper chronicle report the grieving parent and a filmmaker turned activist. each has become a powerful foot selljure in this battle against bullying. >> everything that happened to me on that bus happened every day, if not worse.

>> the bullying got so bad at school that we feared for her safety. >> he sped up and rolled over me. when i fell on to the ground, he drove away. >> my wife and i plan on fighting bullying forever. because our boy, he's going to be 11 years old forever. >> bystanders of the school would get involved, i guarantee you, we can overpower 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, 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 gets slugged on the bus. >> incredible. >> what was it like making this documentary? >> the original movie that kind of prompted all of this by lee hirsh, he really captured something which is rarely captured on film. you see kids being bullied and you see the impact it has on them and their families and on the parents and on the schools. we have to follow up with some of the people we met in his film and that young man who was being punched on the bus, how his life was transformed and seeing what kind of works in stopping bullying and what doesn't work and where we can do more and what more needs to be done. >> the filmmaker, as you mentioned, talked with his own experiences about bullying. any personal, how do you ask them if you were bullying. i hate being asked that myself. >> i wasn't bullied myself.

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

>> "the bully effect" airs sunday night right here on cnn. coming up on sgmd, a big study about the mediterranean diet getting a lot of attention. the best way to prevent heart disease. stay with us. if you think about everything, all of the consumer products. every machine that humanity ever made, you can reach it. it's a completely green space of soft machine. concern would the number of degrees of freedom and how much it costs for each degree of freedom. here is a way that we could really transform the cost of robot robotics. we'll eliminate the pins and the bearings and the joint and we will so you a robot out of fabric and use pressurized fluids to make it work and it will make them ten or 100 times more powerful. the one behind me weighs one or two pounds and yet the size of

your arm. when fully pressurized an arm could lift a human at arm's length. no hinges and bearings there, all done in the fabrics. it is really built like a lot of biological systems that are built. this works more like a fish or a shark than it does like a robot. personally something that excites us a lot is prosthetic applications of this. essentially putting a wearable robot over the human skeleton as a prosthetic device. i think that's a beautiful application.

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mediterranean diet because a study was just published in new england journal of medicine say patients who followed the diet cut their risk of heart attacks and strokes. some basics of this. you want to eat four tablespoons of olive oil a day, at least three servings of fruit a day, two servings of vegetables and fish three times a week, white meat instead of red meat and a lot of nuts and seven glasses of wine with meals every single week. i want to bring in one of our favorite guests kat kinsman. thanks for joining us. >> oh, my pleasure. >> what did you think of the study? >> i love this because this is a boon for food lovers because the basic tenant of it is stay away from processed things and eat real food. essentially, don't eat anything that your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. >> eat real food, that piece of advice. so simple when people put it just like that. i was interested because i know the mediterranean diet well and i want to talk about the study.

i'm always curious, specifically, about breakfast. eat breakfast like a king and eat lunch like a prince and eat dinner like a peasant. i think frontloading your meals is helpful, but what do you eat for breakfast on a mediterranean diet? >> start off your day with something delicious and your world can open up here. i brought in a bunch of things you can have. you can cut some fruit in half and greek-style yogurt and you don't have to have fresh fruit on hand, that is a problem in winter, but rely on dried goji berries, plums. >> you have eggs on here. >> you can have eggs on here and take out the yoke. 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, you

don't have to eat that way. you get to eat that way and a matter of perception. >> esteemious is a way we don't hear enough of on television. but, you're right, a lot more accessible to people. >> we have this whole grain oatmeal that we're all trying to eat more of anyway. >> one thing was interesting. i'm sure you noticed this in the study, as well. is the mediterranean diet better than a low-fat diet with regard to heart disease. 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 eating a standard diet. is it just low-fat diets are just so hard to maintain, or what is it about that? >> a sense of deprivation when you're on a low-fat diet. i'm being punished for this. so, great thing about this, so many of these foods are so packed with flavor, it's a reward. you don't feel like you're sacrificing anything. if you are having a hard time,

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

trash talk. in hockey. >> it's always been in the back of my mind, yeah, i want to be a hockey player when i grow up. >> reporter: he played defense for the amateur hockey team. in april of 2012, he 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 was 1,000 pounds on my shoulders. i sunk into my seat. he approached six months of brutal chemotherapy with a positive attitude. >> the worst pain was during round four when my large intestine ruptured and i wasn't able to eat or drink for 14 days. he took comfort in being 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. now, his cancer is in remission. rumble is back on the ice as a freshman playing defense for the golden griffins. >> a couple points during my treatment that i didn't think i would make it back on the ice, yet alone division i college hockey. >> a win on the ice and in life. now, rumble says he hopes sharing his story will help others keep a positive attitude when times get tough. still ahead, the most important thing dr. coupe ever did. hey! did you know that honey nut cheerios has oats that can help lower cholesterol? and it tastes good? sure does!

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