this is my kid's father just completely devastated. >> reporter: corinne never lost hope and talked to. >> so when you would go into his room and talk to him, what would you say? >> i would tell him that he needs to get out of his coma. just prayed read to him, told him how his daughter was doing and how i was doing. i was pregnant with our second daughter at the same time. >> something as simple as telling stories can help heal. >> reporter: neuroscientist teresa pape believes in the healing power of human voices. she performed brain scans on 15 coma parents including godfrey cad muss. when they heard close relatives calling out their names or talking, the scans lit up. >> verya very severely injured brain can be worked with and it can be rehabilitated. >> reporter: pape's team asked the family to record stories and tell them. the stories were played for eight of the patients including godfrey godfrey. the other seven only heard silence. the eight patients who heard the stories recovered significantly faster. >> just like doing jumping jacks over and over again, there's a reconnection

i want to thank paul and our five children, nancy corinne jackson, paul junior, and alexander and our magnificent , grandchildren, for their love and support and for the confidence they gave me to go from the kitchen to the congress. [applause] and i thank my constituents in san francisco and to the state of california for the privilege of representing them in congress. st. francis of assisi is our city's patron saint, and his "song of st. francis" is our city's anthem. "lord, make me a channel of thy peace. where there is darkness, may we bring light. where there is hatred, may we bring love. where there is despair, may we bring hope." hope is what america is about and it is in that spirit that i serve in the congress of the united states. [applause] and today i thank my colleagues. by electing me speaker, you have brought us closer to the ideal of equality that is america's heritage and america's hope. this is an historic moment and i thank the leader for acknowledging it. thank you, mr. boehner. it is an historic moment for the congress. it is an historic moment for the women of am

inside, they find corinne rey, a cartoonist for the paper. and her young daughter. they force her to give them the office security code and enter. their targets -- the staff of a newspaper that has long skewered radical islam and other religions. the masked men, walking into an editorial meeting. gunning down the editor, stephane charbonnier. and then nine others. you're describing an excuse. >> yes. >> reporter: they knew each person they wanted to kill. >> they called their names and shot them in the head. it was not ary riot. clearly an execution. >> reporter: five minutes later, the gunmen racing out, shooting at police and shouting -- >> allahu akbar! >> reporter: allahu akbar, god is great. and according to witnesses, "we avenged the prophet mohammed." they shoot and wound one policeman, and then, running towards him, they execute him on the ground. sprinting to their car, they speed off. in their wake, a chaotic scene. the wounded on stretchers, neighbors shocked something like this could happen here. i can still hear the shots ringing through my ears, this w

gunmen stormed the corinne thee ya' hotel in tripoli yesterday. a french citizen and three people from asia are among the dead. two attackers were killed after an hours long standoff. >>> new video shows the president and first lady arriving back in the u.s. this morning. they're back from a trip to india and the four hour visit to saudia arabia to pay respects after king abdullah's death last week. president obama met with the new saudi leader. the president's schedule includes a visit right here to philadelphia. he's scheduled to attend thursday's session of the house democratic caucus retreat and philadelphia sees it as a chance to showcase the city which is one of the finalists to host the 2016 democratic national convention. >> that would be good for business. time for your first look at business. uber is getting some competition in philadelphia. list l-y-f-t will begin operating on friday and just like uber x this app based ride sharing service will be in violation of current city law. now list says it will pay its drivers for any citations

corinne inman is carol glover's mother. she says she hopes her daughter's death will lead to some safety changes in the metro system. >> her purpose was to make a change somewhere in somebody else's life and this is a change that's coming. the change is coming. >> reporter: do you think her death will result in a safer -- >> yes. i really do. >> reporter: a safer subway system? >> yes. >> reporter: there were scores of people injured on that yellow line train on that january 12th day. there are a number of civil suits in play. live on l'enphant plaza, pat collins, news4. >>> metro is running smoothly this afternoon. a problem at the east falls church station is fixed. service slowed on the orange and silver lines because of a broken rail. metro was single tracking trains while the rail was replaced. officials say everything is fixed now and service is back on schedule. >>> and a young woman who was charged in the murder of virginia teenager is about to be sentenced. prosecutors tell us that deander samuels pled guilty to se