he is profoundly deaf and legally blind. he and his wife, who is also deaf, have two children who are hearing and sighted. paul lives on long island and commutes daily to manhattan, where he works at columbia university. paul learned he had usher syndrome while attending college when he was 19 years old. at this point in his life, he has only a pinhole of vision left and uses a cane to assist him with travel. with usher syndrome, your vision is always changing, especially as you get older. some of these changes will have a significant impact on your life. i call these changes hits. for example, in your teen years, you start to experience night blindness where you lose the ability to travel independently or safely at nighttime. narrator: lauren is 13 and, like others with usher syndrome, is experiencing early night blindness. often, this is exhibited by a child tripping or bumping into things or, in general, being viewed as clumsy. i did notice that what i thought was her balance wasn't where it should be and that she seemed

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if i use a cane, i'm basically telling myself, "you're blind. you can't see," and i don't feel that way at all yet. translator: deep down inside, i feel silly, embarrassed... because i feel like i've done something wrong or missed something, like i've messed up and everybody noticed. i can see it on their faces, and i don't like that. i wish they would just ignore me and let me walk right along. i'd like that better. as your vision continues to decline, how you communicate with people becomes an important issue. for myself, i use visual sign language, but in places that are dark or difficult to see, i need to use tactile sign language. tactile signing is when the person puts their hand on you and sign and you feel the sign instead of seeing it. for myself, i don't know if i'm 100% comfortable with that yet because i'm not sure if i'm ready to give up my visual language. narrator: up until now, we have seen young adults struggling with adaptations required by their decreasing vision. jelica is an adult who has reached a high level of adaptation.

they were not blind trusts.were open to his involvement and knowledge. >> chris, this is the big issue. it's kind of puzzling. he's had many years to think about this. mitt romney and his campaign can't figure out how he should talk about his own wealth, whether it's his taxes. he should just get up there and say, listen, i've done well. i have a gazillion dollars. i don't even know how many. i have people who manage these funds for me. some in a blind trust and some are not. i don't know what goes on. if you tell me there's freddie mac money in there, i'm going to tell them to get rid of it. i don't want it anymore. that's how he should handle this. every time we get to this issue, he somehow muffs it. it's kind of perplexing. >> thank you, david. thank you, susan. >>> up next, newt gingrich picks up the endorsement of duke cunningham, who's doing time for bribery. i guess you get endorsements where you can get them. that's probably not one he's hoping to get. anyway, you're watching "hardball" only on msnbc. s

with anybody so wealthy as to have a blind trust. associated press fact checker came up with this. they found this quote. not all of his investments have been in a blind trust. romn romney's personal financial disclosure forms show he owned between $250 thoirks and $500,000 in the fed rated government obligation fund, which contained freddie mac and fannie mae. an addendum says certain assets, including that fund, were outside the scope of his blind trust. so there you have it, david. it's clear. according to the associated press, he did have investments in fannie mae and freddie mac. they were not blind trusts. >> chris, this is the big issue. it's kind of puzzling. he's had many years to think about this. mitt romney and his campaign can't figure out how he should talk about his own wealth, whether it's his taxes. he should just get up there and say, listen, i've done well. i have a gazillion dollars. i don't even know how many. i have people who manage these funds for me. i don't know what goes on. if you tell me there's freddie m

he's also blind. michael and his guide dog survived the world trade center attack on 9/11 but that is just the start of their remarkable story. in tonight assignment 7 report blind man teaches us what vision really means. michael and his guide dog have no problem with east ka laytors. he has been blind since birth but can get along fine anywhere. he's speaking to the california state association of counties today. he's telling the government leaders how he finally convince add computer company to hire him as a sales man. >> because as blind person i have had to sell all my life just to be able to fuchtion. i have had to sell to be able to ride a school pwuchlts i have had to sell to be allowed to go on an airplane with my guide dog. >>reporter: he eventually became regional sales manager for the coy. i ran the office. i had staff. i had their people call my people and we did luchl every so often. >>reporter: 10 years ago he was working on the 78th floor of the world trade center when terrorists flew o

he has been blind since birth.e is speaking to the california state association of counties. he is telling the government leaders how he finally convinced a computer company to hire him as salesman. >> because of a blind person, i have had to sell all my life to be able to function. i had to sell to be able to ride a school bus. i had to sell to be allowed to go on an airplane with my guide dog. >> i ran the office. i had staff. we did lunch every so often. >> ten years ago he was working at trade center when terrorists flew one of those planes into the building. his co-worker could see fire out of the window. >> we said goodbye to other. >> dan: the guide dog was there, too. people begin to panic. >> i knew something else that nobody was observing that my dog was not acting afraid or she was nervous in any way. >> dan: that was enough to help calm other workers. he told the story down the stairs hundreds of times. one of the worst moments when they finally got outside. >> we heard a rumble. >> tower two collapsed.

and in so doing, i overcame a lot o my deficits, not ju face blindness. but i was able to give myself a situation in which i, overwhelmed with the whole. u know, i sit there and i know every day is a positive y. every day i add to what i already had. i leave the studio at the end of the day, look over my shoulder and say oh, i got that-- so i made my life which is chaotic, which is confusing, in which i don't remember things, i can't mem orize. and yet i fnd a way that i add positively every day for what i did. and i don't have to reinvent the wheel. today i'll do what i did yesterday. and tomorrow i am going to do what i do today. and if i just stay there long enough, i'll eventually have a paintin well, it removes all the anxiety and all those other things that used to drive me nuts. >> there are several things that you see that i find so interesting. you said to me one time that you never tried to hide your handicap so when kids had dyslexia oring proathosia they would sit at the back of the room and hope they never got called on. you always sat in the

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. >>> deadly pileup, a mile long stretch in florida turns into a death trap when drivers are blinded by fog and smoke. >>> facebook is expected to make blinded by fog and smoke. >>> facebook is expected to make a big announcement this week. captioning funded by cbs >> this is the "cbs morning news" for monday, january 30, 2012. >>> good morning everyone. i'm terrell brown. the race toward tomorrow's florida primary has been topsy, tipsy turvy. but this morning, it looks like mitt romney has the upper hand. a fading newt gingrich is aggressively fighting mitt romney's tactics. this poll released saturday night showed romney with a double digit lead. gingrich, says no matter what he'll fight to the convention. susan mcginnis who is somehow freezing in tampa, florida has the latest. good morning. >> reporter: it is cold here. good morning terrell. looking at the polls, it appears romney will clobber gingrich in florida. he's outspending him knife five to one in advertising. that has him slamming for carpet bagging his record. mitt romney is trying to pump up florida voters ahead of tues

. >> a blind trust, they have one of those. i have a trustee that manages my investments in a blind trust. that's so i would avoid conflict of interest. he said that he wanted to diverse i didn't have. i paid full taxes. there's nothing wrong with that. >> it seems really rich, powerful people have blind trusts. usually the people that set up blind trusts are involved in some kind of political or government position where they might be in a situation where they'd have some inside scoop or be ail to influence things, and so in theory, the blind trust means you don't get to see exactly what's inside it, and somebody else is making all your investment decisions. >> do you get a monthly statement every month? you have got to be really rich to say i have no idea what's going on with my money. >> you have to be very trusting of the trustee. >> basically you would get a monthly statement that you would open up and say hey you're still rich. >> brian kept asking, i want one of those too. we all look at it, yeah, how do i pay less taxes

the blind trust what it can and cannot do.d trust rules. >> now let's be clear. there's nothing to suggest governor romney's answers were anything but the truth. but truth is, you're on the record about giving a blind trust rules, you can't complain if someone else raises a politically controversial investment. let's begin there with our political pros. senior romney adviser -- to those points there, he knows he's on the record saying this about ted kennedy. shouldn't he be just maybe a little bit more briefed on this and be a little more transparent? or should he maybe have issued rules saying let's get out of fannie and freddie? >> first of all the fact remains the governor when he sat down and discussed where he was going to place his finances when he decided to run for governor, i think going through that course of consideration with whether it was lawyers or other financial advisers, particularly also as well as ethics advisers about the best way to do that, they probably suggested to him and i suspect the best way to do

now, watch the the reactions of these blind individuals. i love it. >> she's so tickled. >> look how gleeful they are. they are smiling and laughing. this is the first time they have experienced food like this, with a message on it. >> something they read and were just going to eat. >> right. because all these people had such a positive experience with their wendy burger they put information in their news letters and things they sent out to the visually impaired community. these 15 burgers ended up reaching 800,000 different people in the blind community, letting them know the burger had these braille burgers and is very supportive of the community. >> videos of strange sounds are creating a stir on the internet. but what are these creepy noises? will you be able to crack the case? find out what happens when an innocent >>> welcome back to the show. don't forget to check in at rightthisminute.com. great videos all day long. >>> put on your detective cap because we've got a bit of a youtube mystery on our hands. this video is from an area in

and they were not in a blind trust. were open to his involvement and knowledge. >> chris, this is the big issue. it's kind of puzzling. because he's had many years to think about this. mitt romney and his campaign can't figure out how he should talk about his own wealth. whether it's his taxes. or holdings. he should just get up and say, i have done well. i have a gazillion dollars. i don't even know how many. i have people who manage these funds for me. some are in a blind trust. some are not. i don't know what goes on. if you are telling me there's freddie mac money in there iwill tell them to get rid of it because i don't want it anymore. that's how he should handle this. but every time we get to this issue, he muffs it. it's kind of perplexing. >> last word, susan. why can't he talk about his money? >> because he's setting himself up to be the poster child for the 1% in a general election. that's why. >> he's doing a good job. thank you. up next -- newt gingrich picks up the jailhouse endorsement of duke cunningham.

by the blind trust.ing the hispanic vote. because florida is a winner take all, there's a lot at stake here. that's why the candidates have packed their schedules full of campaigning here between now and tuesday. that's the latest from here. back to you. >> nbc's ron mot. we'll be right back. [ female announcer ] if whole grain isn't the first ingredient in your breakfast cereal, what is? now, in every box of general mills big g cereal, there's more whole grain than any other ingredient. that's why it's listed first. get more whole grain than any other ingredient... just look for the white check. you could spend as much as $200. olay says challenge that with an instrument that cleanses as effectively as what's sold by skin professionals for a whole lot less. new olay pro x advanced cleaning system. and it's surprising what it goes through in the course of a day. but what's even more surprising is that brushing alone isn't enough to keep it clean. fortunately, you've got listerine. unlike brushing which m

blind trust is an age old ruse if you will, which is to say, you can always tell a blind trust whatt can and cannot do. you give a blind trust rules. >> getting back to today, speaker gingrich also has some consistency problems. before last night, he was turning to boycott any debate that didn't allow audience members to cheer or boo or applause. >> i wish in retrospect i would protested when brian williams took them out of it because it was wrong. because the media is terrified that the audience is going to side with the candidate against the media. and we're going to serve notice on future debates, we're not going to allow that to happen. that's wrong, the media doesn't control free speech people ought to be able to applaud if they want to. >> that was tuesday. today, his campaign is complaining about the audience. his senior adviser telling the huffington post that the romney campaign, quote, definitely packed the room. keeping them honest, there's simply no evidence of that. first, governor romney and speaker gingrich got plenty of cheers. here's a romney moment. >> it's simply

blind trust is an age old ruse if you will, which is to say, you can always tell a blind trust whatt can and cannot do. you give a blind trust rules. >> getting back to today, speaker gingrich also has some consistency problems. before last night, he was turning to boycott any debate that didn't allow audience members to cheer or boo or applause. >> i wish in retrospect i would protested when brian williams took them out of it because it was wrong. because the media is terrified that the audience is going to side with the candidate against the media. and we're going to serve notice on future debates, we're not going to allow that to happen. that's wrong, the media doesn't control free speech people ought to be able to applaud if they want to. >> that was tuesday. today, his campaign is complaining about the audience. his senior adviser telling the huffington post that the romney campaign, quote, definitely packed the room. keeping them honest, there's simply no evidence of that. first, governor romney and speaker gingrich got plenty of cheers. here's a romney moment. >> it's simply

it claims movie rental service red box discrime face against the blind.ttorney michael said red box kiosk are difficult to use if not impossible for those who are blind and visually impaire impaired. >> have neither tactile button nor any other screen reed they ar allow allow blind people to in gate their way through the indicate of course. >> it's so important for technology. aka red box and the future screen technology be accessible to everyone. >>reporter: martinez points to bart ticket kiosk as system using morey intuitive technology for blind people. red box didn't respond to our call asking for comment on this lawsuit. entertainment news. artist walk away with the first big win of the hollywood award season. black and white took top honor as the 17th annual critic choice award took place tonight. artist won best picture best director best score and costume design. the help best selling novel followed with 3 wins. miss davis best actress. spencer for superioring actress and whoingt cast as best actingen some pwechlt george clooney top honor as best a

a new campaign controversy over blind trusts.mitt romney really have no control or knowledge of his own investments? we're digging deeper. also, political rivals and a closely watched senate race follow a super pac cease-fire with unusual conditions. >>> plus, disturbing new details about the kidnapping of an american aid worker. cnn learned she was betrayed by someone hired to protect her. standby, you're in the "situation room." >>> all that coming up in the next hour. but back to our top story. the aftermath of our major republican presidential debate here in florida last night. today, a new florida poll taken before the debate shows rick santorum far behind the two top leaders mitt romney and newt gingrich. santorum and ron paul are in a close fight for third place here in florida. and joining us now from miami, senator rick santorum, the former senator from pennsylvania. senator, thanks so much for coming in on this day after our debate. you know you -- you're getting strong reviews from the debate. you're probably getting a

it claims movie rental service red box discrime face against the blind.lisa and attorney michael said red box kiosk are difficult to use if not impossible for those who are blind and visually impaire impaired. >> have neither tactile button nor any other screen reed they are would allow blind people to in gate their way through the indicate of course. >> it's so important for technology. aka red box and the future screen technology be accessible to everyone. >>reporter: martinez points to bart ticket kiosk as system using more intuitive technology for blind people. red box didn't respond to our call asking for comment on this lawsuit. entertainment news. artist walk away with the first big win of the hollywood award season. black and white took top honor as the 17th annual critic choice award took place tonight. artist won best picture best director best score and costume design. the help best selling novel followed with 3 wins. miss davis best actress. spencer for superioring actress and whoingt cast as best actingen some pwechlt george clooney top honor

. >>> deadly pileup of a florida interstate turns into a death trap when drivers are blinded by fog and smoke. >>> facebook is expected to make fog and smoke. >>> facebook is expected to make the big announcement this week. captioning funded by cbs this is the "cbs morning news" for monday, january 30, 2012. >>> and good morning everyone. i'm terrell brown. the race toward tomorrow's florida primary has been topsy, tipsy turvy. this morning, it looks like mitt romney has the upper hand. a fading newt gingrich is attacking his politic and tactics. several polls released saturday night shows romney with a double digit lead. gingrich says he'll fight all the way to the convention. susan mcginnis who is somehow freezing in tampa, florida has the latest. >> it is cold. looking at the polls, it appears romney is going to clobber gingrich here in florida. he's outspending him five to one in advertising here. that has gingrich slamming romney for "carpet bagging" his record. mitt romney trying to pump up florida voters ahead of tuesday's critical primary. >> get out and voeft, vote on tuesday.