alana shevanel spent three months at boston's children's hospital.he need all those organs replaced because of an aggressive cancerous tumor that caused stomachaches for years. doctors say that tumor even affected alana's eating because it was blocking her esophagus. >> the only way to take out this tumor was to remove all the organs that were involved. and this included the esophagus, the stomach, liver, intestines, and the spleen. >> she's fought hard. you know? they gave her something back. they gave her back her life. >> now, the entire surgery took 14 hours. but alana's all better now. and that's really the most important part after all. just a reminder that kids are so resilient. >> lucky little girl. >>> it was a jaw-dropping sight for people in north texas who just happened to be looking up at the sky last night. they saw a bright light streak across the night sky. the faa has confirmed that it was in fact a meteor. the video was captured by a dash cam on a texas patrol car. and sightings were reported actually as far as kansas. there were al

. >> reporter: alana thompson even has a nickname she came up with on her own that seems to be, well,cking on the hit show "toddlers & tiaras." >> reporter: but perhaps what honey booboo or alana has become best known for is how she gets all this energy. >> here, here. drink, drink. two big gulps. >> reporter: her mother june is stirring up controversy with a concoction she created to give alana a kick on those long pageant days. >> we kind of just -- an empty bottle of the mountain dew, and then we take the mountain dew -- >> reporter: they named it go-go juice. part mountain dew, part red bull. the two drinks combined have about the same caffeine as two cups of coffee. >> she may drink to about right there, maybe. >> reporter: june says she first tried giving her daughter two bags of pixie sticks to prepare her for the kiddie catwalk. but the candy also known as pageant crack wasn't enough to keep her alert all day. so they turned to the go-go juice. she says the sugar highs and caffeine fixes are a staple on the pageant circuit. >> it doesn't refer to hey, we're giving our kids dru

do you worried that alana may get addicted to sugar, or get overweight? >> i don't.children regardless. >> reporter: she claims alana is a well-adjusted 6-year-old who normally eats healthy and is always on the move when she's not competing. >> how you get down red neck style. >> reporter: she gave us a look at her life far away from the glitz and glamour with some good old mud-bogging. hmm. maybe i asked a few too many questions about the go-go juice. >> how did you like your first spin? >> reporter: well, i look like i just came out of a mud bog. for "good morning america," andrea canning, abc news, new york. >> "toddlers & tiaras" tonight on tlc. robin? >>> they're country music's king and queen. faith hill and tim mcgraw are here with us together. they've ruled the charts, produced the highest-grossing tour in country music history. now with vatten tine's day just around the corner, they're collaborating on a new, live show and a new fragrance. we're going to talk to them in just a moment. so excited to have them here. >> good morning. >> first, a look at this dy

alana shevanel spent three months at boston's children's hospital. need all those organs replaced bause of an aggressive cancerous tumor that caused stomachaches for years. doctors say that tumor even affected alana's eating because it was blocking her esophagus. >> the only way to take out this tumor was to remove all the organs that were involved. and this included the esophagus, the stomach, liver, intestines, and the spleen. >> she's fought hard. you know? they gave her something back. they gave her back her life. >> now, the entire surgery took 14 years. but alana's all better now. and that's really the most important part after all. just a reminder that kids are so resilient. >> lucky little girl. >>> it was a jaw-dropping sight for people in north texas who just happened to be looking up at the sky last night. they saw a bright light streak across the night sky. the faa has confirmed that it was in fact a meteor. the video was captured by a dash cam on a texas patrol car. and sightings were reported actually as far as kansas. there were also r

alana, go ahead with your first question. >> a topic that you considered holding a hearing on as the solyndra scandal was becoming a political football. are you now considering a more public investigation into the program? >> there have been a lot of investigations. i do not know if it would be appropriate for our committee to try to do another investigation. we want to know what the new report says and what conclusions have been reached and what actions demonstration is going to take. we have secretary chu testifying on his new budget proposal for the department of energy on thursday. we need to figure out what additional steps we might take. there has been a lot of politics and not a whole lot of new substantive in sight -- insight in the coverage so far. everyone wants the loan guarantee program to work in the right way. we do not want to waste taxpayer money. as far as i can tell, you have professional people making judgments on the basis of the information they had. with 20/20 hindsight, we can say they made some mistakes. they committed money to companies they should not have c

but alana's all better now. and that's really the most important part after all.ust a reminder that kids are so resilient. >> lucky little girl. >>> it was a jaw-dropping sight for people in north texas who just happened to be looking up at the sky last night. they saw a bright light streak across the night sky. the faa has confirmed that it was in fact a meteor. the video was captured by a dash cam on a texas patrol car. and sightings were reported actually as far as kansas. there were also reports of a sonic boom, but there's no word on whether the meteor actually hit the ground. >> that's a cool-looking sight there. >> like a movie. look at that. >>> here's a look at your weather. morning showers in d.c. heavy fog from des moines and >> half the country will be popping antacids. >> if we're eating a billion chicken wings. i would hope so. >> how much beer? >> gallons of beer. and antacid sales go up 20% after the super bowl. >> back across. >> from utah, all right, on the weekend of the super bowl there are fewer of what important events than any other time the

nine-year-old alana underwent a transplant of six organs in october to remove a tumor that was spreading through her abdomen. doctors replaced her stomach, liver, spleen, small intestine, pancreas and parts of her esophagus. it's thought to be the first transplant of an esophagus and also the largest number of transplants. is still swollen from all the things that they had to use from the beginning from the initial rejection. she has not rejected since then. >> the family was told there was a 50% chance that she would not survive this procedure. she battled infections and complications from the surgery for three months before finally being discharged from the hospital. >>> it there has been a big drop in the unemployment rate. a surge in hiring in january pushed the nation's jobless rate to 8.3%, down from 8.5% in december. the labor department says them employers added 243,000 jobs in january. that's the most in nine months. and it's a sign that the u.s. economy is slowly improving. stock futures have been trading higher this morning ahead of the opening bell on wall street which happen

. >> next up, we have a question about long-term relationships from alana. >> so i've been dating myfriend for a little over five years, and there's no engagement, no proposal. how long do i really need to wait? >> you have already waited five years. >> one more week! a week from today. watch the "today" show. don't do it. >> he's going to see her saying this. how is that going to affect that relationship? >> that's going to be weird. >> yeah. >> real weird. >> he's going to feel pressured, right? >> she's got to wait as long as she wants, though. it's up to her. he's going to do whatever he's going to do. it's all about choices. if you're willing to wait longer -- my brother waited i think -- well, like eight years and now they're happily married with kids. >> unless of course you live in his basement and he lets you out occasionally. unless you have that kind of a relationship, no one is forcing you to be here. so you wait until you feel like, all right, i got to go. >> one from facebook. since when does card giving have to be on a holiday or birthday? i used to get them out of the

extent because a great deal of the public discussion today in the united states, either about domestic alanawere about our foreign conundrum reflects extraordinary the extremist propositions, get rid of the government. free america from the clutches of washington and stuff like that. what does it mean? as key members have profoundly l. to have some medical care. what does it mean for people who have jobs in the areas of design alternatives? it's not responsive to some of the basic problems of human existence in america. it's about basic social dilemmas. >> host: juiciest moral folklorist, were polarized than in the late 70s leading up to the era of ronald reagan? i mean, obviously was a tough fight between reagan and carter, very different views. >> guest: i think that was the last. the discussion for all of the shortcoming was a generalization i think is a higher level than in the discussion we've been listening to recently, where everything is present at and the president is accused of not being bored in the united states have been a crook of marxists. we didn't have that, even in the shar

una niÑa acaba de escribir una asombrosa historia de supervivencia en el libro da la ciencia, alana llevago, hÍgado, pÁncreas, los intestinos y el bazo, y el tratamiento con quimeoterapia no mejoraba pero recibiÓ la llamada de un don anterior esperan que tenga una vida normal. para saber lo que nos espera el dÍa de hoy en cuanto al estado del tiempo estÁ lista nuestra paola elorza. >> este segmento de despierta amÉrica es presentado por: >> en pensylavania, a muchos le -les dÁ lo mismo si la marmota ve o no su sombra. ahora hay un sistema frontal que deja algunas precipitaciones. pero estas precipitaciones desde nuev yersey el de las calorÍas sin embargo en otros puntos del globo, es vida no ha sido realmente crudo, mientras mucho frÍo, tremendas nevadas ocurre en europa, en asia, hasta el mar negro se congelÓ, en los estados unidos hemos condiciones mucho mÁs benignas e incluso riesgos de alerta porque la primavera estÁ llegando por adelantada, asÍ eque condiciones bien beningnas, sin embargo viene una tormenta invernal este fin de semana, las temperaturas van a continuar cÁlidas en el s

actress alana stewart quit hgh, concerned about a possible link to cancer. >> if there is a slight possibility contribute to cancer cell growth i wouldn't put it in my body. >> reporter: back at barry's ot camp this 29-year-old trainer says he wouldn't take chances either. his solution -- >> sweat every day. that's your hgh. just sweat. >> reporter: supporters of hgh say there are some adults who need to replenish natural levels of the hormone that decreases as we age. find more about the story in the march issue of vanity fair, matt. not that you need to look younger. >> amy, thank you very much. up next, a young girl with the remarkable talent to repeat any word backwards instantly. she'll demonstrate after this. why did you buy my husband a falcon? thanks for the falcon. i didn't buy anyone a falcon. sure, you did. you saved us a lot of money on auto insurance. i used that money to buy a falcon. ergo, you bought me a falcon. i should've got a falcon. most people who switch to state farm save on average about $480. what they do with it, well, that's their business. oh, that explains a lot, a

when alana was 5, she was diagnosed with a massive tumor that doesn't respond to chemotherapy.r esophagus, pancreas, liver spleen and small intestines. she waited 15 months for a donor. her surgery lasted 14 hours. >>> and griz the dog is heading home to montana but it's been quite the journey. 1200 miles actually for this 1-year-old. a couple moving to texas picked him up thinking he was a stray, but by the time they got to kansas, they decided that they couldn't care for him and left him at the spca. well, guess that, that microchip that sometimes you contemplate should i get it in that chip told where volunteers came from. now a volunteer is driving him home to be reunited with his owner. >>> a big turn of events in the gop race for president. the buzz was that donald trump would endorse newt gingrich today but we're live from tampa where trump apparently is expected to throw his support behind mitt romney. and actually, it's not going to be tampa. he'll be in las vegas, and that's where we'll take you right after this. goodnight, stuffy. goodnight, outdated. goodnight old l

this story, nine-year-old alana is home from a boston hospital after a record six-organ transplant.estroyed a number of organs from her esophagus to her intestines. she is now in recovery. a brand-new planet to tell you about, over four times the size of earth, complete with three orbiting suns was just discovered 22 light years away. what makes it unique is that scientists say it has conditions which have a strong ability to possibly support life. i think we hear that all the time. the planet's name is gj667cd. bill: we'll be there by morning. at least 18 members of the house and senate all doctors and dentists cosigning a letter to the aarp asking the largest senior advocacy group to help congress draft concrete plans to save medicare. congress must act soon to save our medicare for our patients because inaction itself would end medicare as we know it. georgia republican phil gingry is a tea party caucus member, he's a doctor. good morning to you. you helped draft this letter. what was your message to this group. >> thank you very much, good morning to you as well. the message was

>> i think we should -- it is an unbelievable the alana. we have to do everything we can to persuade the egyptians to find a way out of this and the way out of it is to pursue the prosecution's which is indefensible and inconsistent with what they say they want in terms of the transition to the civilian leadership. .. >> that seeps into the bloodstream zero eject bereday haft devin space for continuing competition and the elections that are repeatable and freedom of speech and assembly. nidal criminalize the private sector. we need to repeat the standards because he will find the public will hold whether is seeking to govern. >> but those countries to whom they give the most assistance pakistan, egypt israel, we seem to have the toughest time of influence when we really need it. yes. and will you introduce yourself? >> you indicated it would be in israel's rational self-interest two best -- bolster the palestinian authority at this time but there was a major prisoner release and has given hamas credibility and i have never been particularly

. >> alana not so sure that the obvious is not the answer that this is a delivered attack on the religious freedom. this is not an isolated incident with this administration to lead its part of a pattern. for example, just working backwards from where we are right now the administration in the case that i talked about a second ago, the minister real exception case the supreme court decided, the administration sent a general there to make an argument about the autonomy of the religious organizations to hire and fire ministerial employees that managed to unite chief justice roberts, justice scalia and justice kagan that brought everyone together in incredulity of this kind of argument. the administration said well a religious organization doesn't have any more right than a social club who professes its messages. so, that is the notion that the administration looks at the religious argument and doesn't see it. the administration cut the grant for, benjamin trafficking -- kunin trafficking because they wouldn't agree to review the victims of human trafficking to the abortion services. now that

alana tire of the elites like and culture and chris christie and the rest of them telling me who to vote. i'm tired of holding on those and voting for somebody that i don't think is a conservative. john mccain didn't do it as soon as they when they are going to beat up on one leg they do every one else. >> let me jump in at that point because it is time for new gingrich to come forward to talk to the supporters after his second place finish in florida. colin who is a statewide supporter an organizer, former congressman is now talking to the crowd. let's listen. >> then he created gopac and we trained local candidates that came along to serve the local government seats and the state legislatures to get ready to become congressmen. and then i was in the house elected republican leadership with him. i was the vice chairman of the republican commerce. one of the republican leaders during the presidency of push 41. and i remember coming and i can tell you for a fact i was on the campaign trail in 1994 when we took the house back. i didn't go quite as many as newt gingrich that almost as many,