dr. sanjay gupta's playlist.e introduces us to one who has never given up even under the most difficult circumstances. >> in 2004, they couldn't have been more proud. he was coming to america to purdue university to complete his degree in computer engineering. just a month from graduation, however, his life changed forever. his neighbor two floors below intentionally set a fire with his wife and child still inside. >> by the time my roommate and i woke up, the whole apartment was on fire. >> he and his roommate tried to escape but they couldn't. >> my roommate collapsed in front of me and i started running down the stairs. >> he only made it down a few steps before he collapsed. a fireman found him still alive but on the way to the hospital, he could hear paramedics talking about how badly he had been burned. >> at that moment i was thinking about my family and what hi come here for to get a good education and now this guy is saying that i don't have a chance to survive and i passed out and then i woke up in univ

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dr. sanjay gupta has more at the fat-fighting weapon. i'll have the day's top stories at the top of the hour, but, first, dr. sanjay gupta m.d. starts right now. >> today we have food for the body and the mind. fit or fat? more than 80% of all women have cellulite. we're going to show you the first fda approved long-term treatment. also, a new idea to get better food on all of our plates. how to make better choices more available to everyone. first, i want to tell you about an incredible experience that i just went through. it began when the scholar henry lou business gates jr., skip, he asked if he would be part of his television series called "finding your roots" on pbs, and i said, sure, absolutely. you see, i was born in michigan, but my parents were born and they grew up in india. like a lot of immigrants, they thought they would never be able to learn their whole family history. that was lost, they thought, in the old country. i always wondered and so i gave professor gates the names of my immediate relatives along with a cheek swab

dr. sanjay gupta. ay, several nfl players have committed suicide and brain-related injuries they sustained bhiwhile playing have been blamed. is it possible that past head traumas could have played a role in seau's taking his own life? >> i think we have enough evidence to say yes, because you're starting to see a pattern of exactly what you're describing here, anderson, this idea that the previous blows to the head, trauma, for example, sustained on a football field can accumulate over time and lead to something known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy. they may have memory loss, depression, anger, those are the cardinal symptoms. what's so striking here, you alluded like this, just like dave duerson, we talked about him in 2011, he shot himself in the chest as well. it's a very unusual way, a rare way for one to commit suicide and it's hard to talk about. but in duerson's case that paul was alluding to saying i shot myself in the chest, i'd like my brain to be studied. his brn was studied and he did

dr. sanjay gupta would have thought the idea impossible a few years ago.ory in today's "fit nation." >> reporter: i'm about to introduce to you one of the most inspiring people you may ever meet and a member of our lucky seven. denise. how's it going? >> life is great right now. >> reporter: beautiful. >> it is. >> reporter: people see you are missing below the knee on your right leg. >> yes. >> reporter: tell us what happened. >> in 2008, a senior in college i was sliding into second base and broke my leg and frp that day i just had an infection, and there were problems with surgeries after that. so i ended up an amputee. >> reporter: at that time, so many things i bet were going through your mind, one of which, i may never be an athlete again? >> yes. i remember very clearly being, laying in the hospital and right after the amputation and thinking, okay. you need to pick up the covers and you need to take look at your life now, and, you know it took a lot of courage, but i decided i had to face it head-on and try to regain my life back. >> reporter: you

dr. sanjay gupta about dr. for success. >> we just don't see any data coming from any of these other labs. if it works, if you've proven that it's safe, it's a pretty simple thing to publish it and have it looked at by your own peers. >> reporter: this woman is either a miracle person in terms of embryonic stem cell research, or a fraud. >> it's concerning no matter how you look at it. you can inject cells that are not pure in some way and you could potentially cause harm. if it's working and she's doing it the right way, she should write it up. i mean, that's what scientists do. that's what we've been trained to do. >> reporter: in fact, dr. shroff said she tried to submit some scientific papers on her work. you've tried to present this to the international society of stem cell research? >> yes. twice. >> reporter: they said don't even bother coming. >> yeah. i sent one presentation last year, 2010. or was it 2009? i'm just mixed up a bit. and one in 2006. both times they said no. you can't come. you can't acc

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dr. sanjay gupta introduces us to a young man who came to america to finish his engineering degree.nged his life forever. but he's never given up. >> reporter: in 2004, his family could. have been more proud. because he was coming to america to purdue university to complete his degree in computer engineering. a month of graduation, however, his life changed forever. his neighbor set a fire intentionally with his wife and child still inside. >> by the time we woke up, the whole apartment was on fire. >> reporter: they tried to escape. but they couldn't. >> my roommate collapsed in front of me and i started running down the stairs. >> reporter: he only made it down a few steps before he collapsed. a fireman found him still alive, but on the way to the hospital he could hear paramedics talking about how badly he had been burned. >> at that moment, i was thinking about my family, what i had come here for to get a good education and now this guy is saying i don't have a chance to survive and i passed out and i woke up in university of chicago burn unit after four months of induced coma.

dr. sanjay gupta introduces us to a young man who came to america to finish his engineering degree.nged his life forever. but he's never given up. >> reporter: in 2004, his family could. have been more proud. because he was coming to america to purdue university to complete his degree in computer engineering. a month of graduation, however, his life changed forever. his neighbor set a fire intentionally with his wife and child still inside. >> by the time we woke up, the whole apartment was on fire. >> reporter: they tried to escape. but they couldn't. >> my roommate collapsed in front of me and i started running down the stairs. >> reporter: he only made it down a few steps before he collapsed. a fireman found him still alive, but on the way to the hospital he could hear paramedics talking about how badly he had been burned. >> at that moment, i was thinking about my family, what i had come here for to get a good education and now this guy is saying i don't have a chance to survive and i passed out and i woke up in university of chicago burn unit after four months of induced coma.

dr. sanjay gupta. >> these are actually areas of fat that are protruding through the skin.ore than 80% of women develop it, and they spend millions of dollars on over-the-counter creams as a temporary fix. >> i've been working out my entire life. very athletic. have been forever. used to be in the military. i still have issues. >> so she chose to get cellulaze. it's awe new fda procedure that targets cellulite from under the skin. >> there are fibers in the fat that are actually pulling the skin down, and what we're going to do is we're going to release those fibers. >> according to a small peer review study of ten women with funding by the company, with just one treatment, cellulite is gone, and the results last a year or more. the patient uses just a local anesthetic is awake the entire time. >> you feel a little needle there. >> once numb, a laser is inserted right under the skin. >> right this moment i am melting the fat that is causing the bulges up in her skin. so, remember, cellulite has two things. it has bulges and dimples, and that's that cottage cheese appearance

dr. sanjay gupta. welcome to "the next list." >> we've only found 1% of the ark lodge cll remains. that means there's 99% of ancient egypt left to find my name is sarah parcak and a professor of archaeology. i'm an egyptologist and a space archaeologist. >> space archaeologist. there's an irony in there that you're going to get further away from the earth to actually learn more about it. >> it is one of the great ironies of what i do and what archaeology is. i can't tell you the number of times i've been walking over an archaeology site and you can't see anything on the ground and pull back hundreds of miles in space and all of a sudden you can see streets and roads and houses and even pyramids. >> underground. >> underground, yes. >> more people are using the technology in archaeology. i think they're realizing just how valuable it is to map our past if the face of war, archaeology site looting, satellites, and satellite imagery have become much more inexpensive. it used to be costs were prohibitive. now you can buy a satellite image as few as a couple hundred of dollars. >> what

dr. sanjay gupta. we'll see you back here next sunday. >>> hello, everyone. you're in the "cnn newsroom." i'm fredricka whitfield. the man responsible for one of the deadliest terror attacks against americans has died. abdul bassett al megrahi is the only person convicted of the 1988 bombing of pan am flight 103 over lockerbie, scotland. al megrahi's family says the former libyan and intelligence officer passed away today at a hospital in tripoli. he was 60 years old. his death comes 2 1/2 years after his release from a scottish prison. al megrahi was let go on compassionate grounds because he had prostate cancer. he was expected to live only a few months. at the time of his 2009 release, the victims' families were outraged after he received a hero's welcome in libya. >>> 270 people died when pan am flight 103 went down just minutes after takeoff from a london airport. the plane was bound from new york and more than half of the passengers were american. joining me now from new york, burt amorman. he lost a brother in that attack. he's also a former spokesman

dr. sanjay gupta is talking to a man who creates breast ta breathtakingly beautiful works of art in silver. >> there's no one in the history of the country who has done what he's done. i don't mean just the last 50 years, the last two centuries. the mcarthur foundation prize because there's nobody like him. >> i told my wife, there is a monetary award over a period of five years of $500,000. she said, it's a joke. i hope i can thank them with my work, with my dedication. >> nice. tune in tomorrow to watch the next list. or set your dvr for 2:00 eastern, and then at 2:30 eerb time, join me in the news room. lydia mcalker lost her home and her school to the tornadoes that ripped through joplin, mississippi. >> every time i drive by it, it's really sad. all the memories and the friends i made in the hall ways. >> on monday, president obama will speak at joplin high school's graduation ceremonies one year after the twister struck. she'll be joining me tomorrow to talk about how her family and the town are rebuilding. a party? [ music plays, record skips ] hi, i'm new ensure clear. clear, huh?

dr. sanjay gupta and this is "the next list." >>> i am ubaldo vitali and i am an artist. ♪ >> i do believehat the biggest gift we have is to converse with a work of art. that we interact with a work of art. the great al chemist used to say, it walks through your feet. when you walk into a museum and look at the young people, especially the young people, because they are the future, looking at the works of art and i see their face illuminated by pleasure, part of me wants to perhaps help them to share with them the work that it took and the lessons that i have learned. that is why i tried to give lectures, because this interaction is going to disappear. in recent years, the computer, the great computer age, we are losing, in a certain way, interaction with real objects. i mean, the computer can capture everything, but basically there is one thing that it can not capture. computer doesn't feel any pain. it doesn't feel any joy. it cannot suffer. those things can only be learned through human contact. not through the books and not through the computer. art fulfills a specifically aspect of li

dr. sanjay gupta, thank you. >> don't miss your appointment with sanjay gupta, tomorrow 4:30 eastern andjohn edwards trial. he said he nor the donor knew the money would cover up the affair with rielle hunter. >>> remember this guy? drew peterson, the former chicago area cop accused of killing his third wife under investigation in the disappearance of his fourth at the bottom of the hour, in 20 minutes, he's due in court. his first such appearance in two years. ted rollins is in joliet, outside chicago, what kind of hearing is this? >> reporter: well, carol, it has been two years since drew peterson has been in a courtroom. what is going to happen today we're expecting relatively short. a status hearing on the heels of an appellate court hearing and decision which has cleared the way for the process to move again, has been held up for two years because the appellate court had to weigh in on hearsay evidence, that has been done. now we'll find out who is the judge in the case because the judge that was overseeing it retired and then we made get a trial date can expected that this trial wi

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dr. sanjay gupta. we'll see you back next sunday on "the next list." >>> hello, everyone. you're in the "cnn newsroom." i'm fredricka whitfield. we begin in syria, where there are reports of more gunfire and terror gripping much of the country. information is limited, because most foreign journalists are not allowed to enter syria. cnn's ivan watson has just returned to turkey after being in syria. ivan, what did you see? >> reporter: well, fredricka, we just got back from syria a couple of hours ago. and what is striking is that it's 15 months now that syrian have said protesting and conducting this uprising against their government. we have seen incredible amounts of violence, by conservative estimates, more than 9,000 -- people killed, with artillery and tanks and helicopters against opposition demonstrators. and they have grown increasingly armed. and despite that incredible loss of life, there is no sign in sight that the population is willing to give up this rebellion. you have people proudly flying the flag of the opposition. we met rebels that are -- that look to b

dr. sanjay gupta and this is "the next list." . >>> i have my hands in many hives. i help run the new york city beekeepers' association. i help run bees without borders. i am a paid consultant, by restaurants and hotels. i have my own private hives, from which i extract and bottle honey, and sell at union square. you need to kiss a beekeeper. that's what you need to do. i sleep from time to time. my name is andrew cote and i'm a beekeeper. many, many businesses have approached me to put bees on their roofs. but i only work with those whom i feel truly embrace the concept of wanting to be greener, wanting to help the environment, wanting to raise awareness of the environment, and bees seem to be a very good way to do that. >> today, this is the first phase in the chef's garden. we're installing six beehives today and hope to be harvesting honey within a month. >> a lot of people do wrongly assume cities are places with no flowers, no trees. but here we are in manhattan and you see what's around me now. central park is right over there. it's almost a thousand acres of

dr. sanjay gupta is profiling a pioneer in the face of space archaeology on the show the next list. she's using sat liej imagery to preserve ancient treasures. >> i tell my students on day one, a picture is worth 1,000 words. a satellite image is worth a million dollars. i'm a professor of archaeology. i'm a remote specialist and a space archaeology. imagery is powerful, evocative. satellite imagery much more so because it allows us to get this perspective that we don't have otherwise. when you add on top of that an ability to see what we don't, you have an amazing tool. >> tune in tomorrow to watch the next list or set your dvr, 2:00 eastern time. an airline has planes... and people. and the planes can seem the same so, it comes down to the people. because, bad weather the price of oil those are every airlines reality. and solutions won't come from 500 tons of metal and a paint job. they'll come from people. delta people. who made us one of the biggest airlines in the world. and then decided that wasn't enough. with less chronic osteoarthritis pain. imagine living your life with le

dr. sanjay gupta is profiling a guy who makes inventors' dreams a reality in the marketplace. >> it's human nature to try to make your life better. it's human nature to try to make the world around you a better place. and they need to execute on all those ideas, it's really hard. good ideas should find their ways onto shelves because they're the ideas of people. it finds them. >> tune in tomorrow to watch the next list or set your dvr for 2:00 p.m. eastern time. [ male announcer ] a car is either luxury or it isn't. if you want a luxury car with a standard power moonroof, your options are going to be limited. ♪ if you want standard leather-trimmed seats, you're going to have even fewer. ♪ and if you want standard keyless access, then your choice is obvious. the lexus es. it's complete luxury in a class full of compromises. see your lexus dealer. >>> good and not so good news on the unemployment front. the unemployment rate has dropped to 8.1%, but economists say many people gave up looking for work. they added 115,000 jobs in april, but that's fewer than expected. >> every week, we focus on

dr. sanjay gupta. thanks for watching "the next list." >>> you're in the "cnn newsroom." i'm fredricka whitfield. a major shake-up in political leadership in one of america's biggest allies. you're looking right now at french president nicolas sarkozy who is now -- now conceding to that race. the voters in france just now elected someone else, francois hollande, winning by a narrow margin. a change in leadership in france could delay negotiations on europe's debt crisis and that could impact the u.s. economy. more on that story later on. >>> and then there are the parliamentary elections in greece. state tv says early exit polls show steep losses for the two main parties that have supported painful austerity measures. polls show an ultra right party making significant gains. today's vote is expected to have an impact on u.s. markets tomorrow. cnn's chief business correspondent ali velshi joins us live in a few moments to tell us how the markets might be reacting to this and what impact exactly these two elections, both in france and greece, just might have on the u.s. eco

dr. sanjay gupta. thanks for joining us. >>> hello, everyone. you're in the "cnn newsroom." i'm fredricka whitfield. outrage over a civilian massacre in syria is spilling out on to the streets. this was the scene in several cities today, of people so angry over the killing of 85 people in the town of hula, they risked retribution to turn out in force. video of some of 34 children killed in hula has surface ed online. children, some under the age of 10, some with missing limbs and severe head wounds. the u.n. security council is meeting on the crisis right now. cnn's mohammed jamjoom is following this story for us from beirut, lebanon. so mohammed, cnn can't confirm the authenticity of the video. what do we know about what happened in this village? >> reporter: fredricka, opposition activists tell us horrifying tales about what happened on friday in the town of hula. they say that, first, mortars were raining down on town. that the syrian government was with shelling the town and then that after that was over, the pro-regime militias entered the town and started indiscriminat

dr. sanjay gupta is looking at the buzz about urban bee keeping on his show, "the next list." >> many, many businesses have approached me to put bees on their roofs. but i only work with those whom i feel truly embrace the concept of wanting to be greener, wa wanting to help the environment. wanting to raise awareness. of the environment, and bees seem to be a very good way to do that. >> today, this is the first phase in the chef's garden. we're installing six beehives today and hope to be harvesting honey in a month. knl i have wanted to have bees on the roof and harvest for years. when city counsel finally rep l repealed the law, i was like, i don't know how. that's how andrew and i got connected. >> can't wait to find out, how do you do that. tune in tomorrow to watch the next list or set your dvr for 2:00 p.m. eastern time. and 2:30 eastern time, i'll be ginned by pastors who have different views on president obama's support of same-sex marriage. a route map shows you where we go. but not how we get there. because in this business, there are no straight lines. only the twists and turns

dr. sanjay gupta, who is also a neurosurgeon.u in person here. >> thanks. >> give us a sense of what they're going to be looking for when they examine his brain. >> i'll preface by saying it's tough to talk about, just how recent this all lab. it's called a sports legacy institute, and they're going to be looking at his brain, looking for these protein deposits that are called plaques and tangles, and typically you think of these sorts of things in conjunction are alzheimer's disease. it's a similar sort of thing that in this case they're trying to make the diagnosis of cte, which stands for chronic traumatic encephlopathy. this is relatively new science, and some of what we're describe, some of what's been happening over the last few years is still very, very early on in terms of what they're finding. >> what do you think they would find in a brain like that? >> i am pretty confident they're going to find cte, in part because of the 19 nfl players' brains that they've already examined. players who died for various reasons. 18 of

dr. sanjay gupta talks to the up and coming inventors and inno va tors.> many, many businesses have approached me to put bees on their roofs. but i only work with those who embrace the concept of wanting to be greener, wanting to help the environment or raise awareness of the environment. and bees seem to be a very good way to do that. >> today, this is the first day in the garden. we're installing six beehives today. >> i had wanted to have bee on the roof and grow honey for years. then once the law was appealed i thought oh, my god, i don't know how. that's how andrew and i got connected. this is an rc robotic claw. my high school science teacher made me what i am today. our science teacher helped us build it. ♪ now i'm a geologist at chevron, and i get to help science teachers. it has four servo motors and a wireless microcontroller. over the last three years we've put nearly 100 million dollars into american education. that's thousands of kids learning to love science. ♪ isn't that cool? and that's pretty cool. ♪ >> welcome back. what an heirist gave

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dr. sanjay gupta about dr.hroff's claims for success. >> we just don't see any data coming from labs, if it works if coming from labs. if it works, if you have proven it is safe, it is a pretty simple thing to publish and have it looked at by your own peers. >> this woman is either a miracle person in terms of embryonic stem cell research or a fraud. >> it is concerning no matter how you look at it. you can inject cells that are not pure in some way and you can potentially cause harm. if it's working and she is doing it the right way, she should write it up. i mean, that's what scientists do, it is what we have been trained to do. >> reporter: in fact, dr. shroff said she tried to submit some scientific papers on her work. you have tried present this to the international society of stem cell research? >> yes. twice. >> reporter: they said don't even bother coming? >> no. i sent one presentation last year, 2010, or was it 2009? i'm just mixed up a bit and one in 2006, both the times they said no. you can't come.