it is sickle cell anemia. an inherited defect in red blood cells. the sickle shaped cells are blocked from distributing oxygen. if fax other organs. the major symptoms are pain. his hands and feet had swollen and i took him to the hospital and he saidthey said sickle cell anemia. i had never heard of that. it took the lives of two of her sons. i have sickle cell ... one databanks next day not being able to even walk. diagnosed at eight months he has struggled with sickle cell for more than 20 years. the majority of the pain hits me in my legs and back. to be a young kid and not be able to play with other kids is awful. it was mental torture. it was hard pyrrhic devastating to watch your kid and you cannot do anything. doctors have little to offer. blood transfusions help but only temporarily. when a stem cell transplants study showed promise a doctor took notice they've reported that they could do it ... without chemotherapy. the used healthy donors cells that gradually take over the recipients blown bulb marrow to produce normal red blood cells. tr

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testosterone used testosterone, and blood transfusions, and a drug called epo developed to treat anemia. >> it turns on cells that make red blood cells. those cells carry oxygen. the oxygen puts fuel that drives the body. >> armstrong is already being sued by a fellow cyclist. he could face criminal prosecution by the u.s. justice department on fraud charges. he could also be required to pay back some of the more than $30 million he and his team received from their sponsor, u.s. postal service. al jazeera, los angeles. >> protests in the pakistan capital have ended. the government reached a deal with the leader of the demonstrators. farmers in peru are putting the agricultural future of the country in jeopardy. >> if you are crossing the u.k. right now, you know is snowing. that will continue through friday. toward scotland, the tigers are love in the snow. they are meant for this type of weather. temperatures got down to - 4. these tigers can handle up to - 40 degrees because of their thick coat. toward saturday, things will be clearing across the u.k. down here is where the rain is go

and i had anemia and one time i had to get stats like three times a week. i'd think. be a neighbor and if you don't wish it was you know everything everything's heavy you know your legs they have your very weak and you still gotta get in get it out to get these three shots a week yeah that's the way i think that i had three blood transfusions because of it and. so they dealt with an experience of in the self and after living with hiv for over thirty years if i tell you a story you can say that all of it you got to go through. and it's like. everybody's body is different and you know everybody's body is different what i go through you may never go through then again you might go through it twice is worse so don't look at me and say oh yeah i'm opposed to share and not opposed to. some one of them with h.l.v. . i remember when major magazine said this would never be a heterosexual disease it would always be you know in the in the gay community it would always been the drug community it would now have a spread to they had all sorts of community well that was false but wh

they do this program for children, you know, helping to fight anemia. i mean, it's a great program.like -- thank you for doing that. i just wanted to thank you for doing that. >> yeah. [ applause ] >> jimmy: on our show -- we like to play games on our show. >> i love -- okay, i haven't won anything yet. >> jimmy: no, you haven't. >> not -- no, because -- >> jimmy: what have we played? >> no, because you're always doing these ball sports and, it's like, i'm terrible. >> jimmy: ball sports? >> yeah, like -- [ laughter ] >> jimmy: what? hey, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. ♪ oh, my god, yeah. >> beer pong. >> jimmy: yes, beer pong, i beat you at. >> you beat me at that. you beat me at something else. >> jimmy: well, this one -- anyone can win this one. have you ever played rock, paper, scissors? >> okay, stop. [ light laughter ] stop. rock, paper, scissor is like my -- my life. >> jimmy: what do you mean? >> i make major decisions on rock, paper, scissor. >> jimmy: do you really? >> yeah, like am i going to take this show? rock, paper, scissor. two out of three. am i going to eat italian or am

career, juggling it all, not having mentioned the recovery from surgery, the fact you have sickle cell anemiausually you think the last person who is going to do a reality show. >> that's what i was thinking. . i can't believe i'm doing this, but i did it because it kind of fell on my lap, i turned down a lot of other reality shows and for me, i was like this is where i'm at in my life and tlc was interested in following me, not leading me and there's not ten years of technology to tell you about a the brain tumor so maybe i can speak up and help somebody and then you'll learn more about me, tlc and how i became who i am today. >> you said the show is more serious than your real life in a way. >> yeah, because i'm feeling like i never talked about being sick and i don't really like that to be like the focus, like can we laugh, too, like laughter is the best medication, i love to laugh but can we get some jokey jokes, there was funny stuff edited out, it was so funny. >> you're hilarious and at the same time you've had a brain tumor. >> yes. >> many people don't live to tell the tale of their

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how many people know anemia lost their live in a car accident? raise your hand. talk about it for a second. i bet most of us do. if we cothis we have done work to say we would save nearly a hundred live a year. a hundred lives a year each year. there's no price you can put on that. so if you step back and look at this, it's an opportunity to say,let just do the right thing. and invest in our roads, keep our citizens safer, create jobs, and have save a lot of money and not stick our kids with a big bill. so encourage people to work hard on this. i want to give a shoutout to the senator khan who stepped up to be a leader on the issue. i encourage other legislators to step forward in join him in moving this forward. [applause] in terms of another piece just down the road thing, one piece of legislation i'm asking for is automated vehicle registration in terms of saying they're coming up with antonymous vehicle today. google and other places that have vehicles nay not have people in it. i'm not suggesting it now. don't get nervous. california, florida, and nevada pas

>> yeah, it's a fancy name, homozygous hyper cholesterol anemia -- >> a horrible disease. disease. strokes and heart attacks. they can have an incident as early as 10-years-old. >> they can. 8 to 10. >> what's interesting, a couple of things. one, a lot of times it's a tenuous link between bad cholesterol and heart attacks and stroke. and this disease shows you that that can be. again, it's the inherent issues more necessarily than your diet sometimes. >> it is. the majority of cholesterol is produced inside our body -- >> we want it and need it. >> we want it and need it. unfortunately, these kids are born with a defect in their liver. cholesterol's a challenge in the liver. and there's a receptor, a light switch that the statins are a broad platform of therapeutics. >> everyone knows about -- >> everyone knows about. have been treating them effectively. >> lipitor -- >> lipitor and others. these kids have a genetic defect that knocks out the light switch. can't turn it off. the cholesterol they eat goes to the periphery. and this drug works in a unique way. it shunts the dietary

i would say these are anemia our country who are hurting, and they need the money now, and i think you have done a very good of job describing what the requests are to make sure it's needed. there will be future oversight as the funds being given out. i would say this, it's hard to do the kind much recovery and piece mail fashion. people need to know the money is going to be there and plan accordingly, and so we need to step up and do this. we should have done it before we the last congress adjourned. we the opportunity now. we look forward to voting for your amendment. thank you. >> thank thank you very much. >> thank you mr. , mr. chairman. i want to thank my friend for the amendment as well and the hard work on this. i know, how much time you have put in on this, not only helping put together the package but reaching out to members and answering the questions and explaining the needs firsthand. it's very helpful. two specific things i would like you to address. you gave some really, terrifically revealing set of statistics how serious this is, the scope of it. i don't think is for w

in september he had anemia. >> brian: anything but home sweet home in the conference championship gamesed and went on to win the game 28-24. it's their first super bowl sense 1995. they have never lost a super bowl. if they win this, they could tie pittsburgh for most super bowl wins. and ravens linebacker ray lewis' career will come to a close after one more game. on the biggest stage of all. baltimore beating the patriots after trailing at half time by a final score of 28-13 in the afc title game, getting some venge. now look what we have. it's being called the breaux ball. john and jim harbaugh head to head. last year they lost the championship conference games, this year they're both in the super bowl. the new twist to an american national holiday. >> steve: congratulations. you said that san francisco has never lost. neither have the ravens. they've won once. so somebody is going home a first-time loser. >> brian: when they were the brown, they never got there. >> steve: that's right. it's a dozen minutes after the top of the hour on this inaugural monday. straight ahead, phil mick