. >> reporter: for brittany dominick it was supposed to be a weekend full of fun, just a group of twenty-somethingse california desert, but in an instant everything changed when the dune buggy she was riding in flipped over and left her without a right hand. >> it sounds strange, but i was hit like a ton of bricks with strength. >> reporter: and she immediately began trying to calm her friends. she was losing a lot of blood, and one of the friends, a former marine, made a makeshift tubande for her. and doctors tried to re-attach her hand but had no success, she would be left an amputee. >> it didn't really hit me until i was out of the hospital, but i didn't realize this is forever until i had gotten home and started doing everyday tasks. >> reporter: just imagine trying to function without a hand suddenly, the things most of us take for granted become next to impossible. holding two things at once, using a computer or a cell phone. >> you can imagine the hand it's involved in everything we do. every functional activity. so, having that type of amputation takes a lot of someone's everyday life. >>

. >> brittany dominick says she's not sure if she'll get back to modeli modeling, but she hopesing toack to school to become a therapist. she wants to work with other amputees especially military veterans and children. she's a strong young woman. >> her smile says it all. >>> big 8-0 today. >> 81. that's not even close to the record. >> in early march. >> in early march. you saw a lot of tops down and saw people in shorts and short sleeved shirts. 81 degrees, put them on tomorrow, too. i tell you what, it's just as warm in many locations as we go out and about tomorrow afternoon. temperatures back to near 80 degrees. out there right now is a very nice evening. it's gorgeous. a lot of people eating outside as you walked around the city this evening. 81 degrees is the high temperature. a low of 56. the low was 1 degree higher than our average high temperature was, and there's the record for today set back in 1990. that record is 87 degrees. current temperature out there right now, a very mild and very warm 67. winds out of the south at 6 miles per hour. right now i don't expect these nu