. >> reporter: he said doctors told them now 3-year-old langst langston's birth would be a routine cesarean>> i held up my hands and said, please, look, my wife isn't doing well, and she said your wife just isn't a priority right now. it wasn't until 12:30 the next morning that they finally made the decision to take kyra back to surgery. >> reporter: as critical minutes turned into hours, johnson says he was continually ignored by staff at cedars-sinai hospital in los angeles as kyra's health continued to suffer. >> when they took her back to surgery, and he opened her up, there were 3 1/2 liters of blood in her abdomen from where she had been allowed to bleed for almost ten hours. and her heart stopped immediately. >> reporter: johnson is suing the hospital for the loss of his wife, and with the case pending, cedars-sinai told cnn in a statement they could not respond directly because of privacy laws, but that cedars-sinai thoroughly investigates any situation where there are concerns about a patient's medical care. she was a successful entrepreneur who spoke five languages. this is video

his name is owen langston has an incredible story to tell. he beat brain cancer two times. they honored owen and his family this week. they were introduced to jamie adame and sylvia ramon, the donors who saved owen's life. he's already feeling up to speed since receiving a blood transfusion. >> blood is what keeps your heart running and keeps you alive. it made me feel better. >> i'm not a big crier. i'm not a very emotional guy but i mean, it just -- it just drove me straight to tears to see the joy and to feel the little life in owen when he gave me a hug. oh, my god, that's an indescribable feeling. >> incredible. so much life in that little 6-year-old. and he's already been through so much, he and his family. >> tough little kid. >> yeah, really. >> i think he may have won himself a flight on a blue angel flight when he gets older. >> thank you, janai. >>> still ahead here on "gma" -- a mother appearing in a hawaiian courtroom over the disappearance of her two children. the charges she's now facing. >>> plus, a report overnight that the helicopter pilot involved in the

because at the same time aida, she was at langston university, another lady named clara was at langston university at the time. she was known affectionately as clara looper. clara was at langston university in the 1940's, she finished and got her bachelor's and master degree. she became the youth council leader for the ncaa in 1957 and in 1958, she helped her students, her youth that she worked with do a radical thing to deal with segregation in oklahoma. she talked about nonviolence and she talked about how to be able to step out and take a stand and she and a group of kids went to cat's drug store in oklahoma city and sat down at the counter and ordered cokes, and they sat there all day never being served all day. and it was the first nationwide, what we know of, as the sit-in movement. young men and women, african american, would go and sit down at a place and just wait to be served. and it started a movement that shook the nation into this issue of segregation. those two ladies made a remarkable change for the better in our history. clara looper and what she did, aida fischer and wh