well, charla nash has appeared several times on "today."t. this morning, we are getting a look inside her recovery, the progress she's made in five years and the battle she is still fighting. >> i feel like i'm locked out. i feel like i'm in a cage. >> five years after the attack that took away her eyesight and most of her face, charla nash is coming forward ahead of an important hearing friday. she wants lawmakers to see her and the struggle she still has. >> i'm hoping that the legislation will allow me to have my day in court. that i will be able to have a judge listen to the evidence that is brought before him about the vicious attack on me. >> reporter: in this seven-minute independently produced video distributed to the connecticut legislature, nash appeals to lawmakers. she wants them to reverse a decision from a state commissioner which barred her from suing the state. she says the state should've seized the dangerous animal. but the commissioner ruled that no law in place prohibited ownership of the chimp. >> i'm trying to work the