dr. sanjay gupta starts now. >> i live in this village for 15 years. i came forward with trash. >> susannah was also regarded as a little bit crazy. first of all, she looks like this wild person. >> i said, you are crazy, you are totally crazy. you want to build with this? and then on october 5, we had first big hurricane here, and 25 houses were ripped right out. >> and then there was suddenly this huge need for rebuilding, and there were those empty bottles filled with those little papers that the children had been stuffing and stuffing and stuffing. >> plastic bottles stuffed with trash. unlikely building material. >> it is a container for trash. >> but when a hurricane demolish demolished an area of ghana, they saw its value. >> we said, i can't believe it. do you need help? >> that was in 2005. today you can find the so-called ecobrick in almost every continent. >> i've heard of a similar type building in thailand. >> it's all because of sue san a -- susannah haisan. >> if she wasn't doing trash -- >> she's unconventional by any standard. but toda

dr. sanjay gupta starts now. >>> essentially the lesson of modern neuroscience is that you are inseperable from their brain, so when you see someone commit a senseless act like a school shooting or the theater shooting like the one in colorado, we can see there is something wrong with that person's brain before we actually see what that is. >> whether he's in the mind of a mass murderer or spinning a tail of the afterlife, david is messing with some area of our existence. >> there isn't an area david doesn't know about, isn't interested in. >> what is time? what is consciousness? how does the human brain construct reality? >> we dropped people from a 100-foot-tall tower. >> he'll go to almost any lengths to test his theory. so strap in. you're about to meet neuroscience and best-selling author david eagleman. he's a wildly creative thinker that will blow your mind just by explaining how it works. i'm dr. sanjay gupta, and this is "the next list." >>> the brain is a massive network made of tens of billions of cells shooting information back and forth, many times per second, every single cel

dr. sanjay gupta, thanks so much. >>> for more on what is at stake for health care, watch dan jay gu -- sanjay gupta md this weekend. he'll show access to the largest cancer center of the world. that's 4:30 eastern time saturday and 7:30 eastern time on sunday. >>> the search for jimmy hoffa. what crews pulled from under a shed today in this decades old search for the former teamsters boss. ing to my best friend. i told her i wasn't feeling like myself... i had pain in my pelvic area... and bleeding that wasn't normal for me. she said i had to go to the doctor. turned out i had uterine cancer, a type of gynecologic cancer. i received treatment and we're confident i'll be fine. please listen to your body. if something doesn't feel right for two weeks or longer, see your doctor. get the inside knowledge about gynecologic cancers. knowing can make all the difference in the world. but i'm still stubbed up. [ male announcer ] truth is, nyquil doesn't unstuff your nose. what? [ male announcer ] alka-seltzer plus liquid gels

dr. sanjay gupta is a classic over-achiever, but he says it is time to make time for exercise.ing for him, he is taking on the nautica malibu triathlon. he is waking up bright and early in the morning, but before he does that, he is taking dr. gupta live, in malibu. so what is coming up in your show? >> well, it is all health and fitness related. one thing we're going to do is talk to mayor bloomberg in new york city. people may have heard of this, but the idea of banning the soda and sugary drinks that are larger than 16 ounces, it is controversial, passing in march. we'll talk about that, and also very -- we call them the lucky seven, they are people who didn't dare dream of doing a triathlon, even a year ago. well, they will all join me tomorrow, it has been a transforming year for them. can't wait to meet them. also, a friend, five years ago, he was 50 pounds overweight. a couple of years ago he was one of the 25 fittest men in the world. what can we all learn from him? we'll have more on that in the show. >> oh, my goodness, we'll learn from all of you, the magnificent eig

dr. sanjay gupta in san francisco. welcome to "the next list." >> i found through design a way to tell stories, a way to bring people to new places, a way to get them to adopt new ideas. for me, design is very much a form of communication, a form of writing. the intent to tell a story is probably behind every single one of our products. my name is eve behar, i'm designer, father, surfer. i think the most common thread i would find is the desire to humanize a product, a desire to make it more approachable, to make it more magical, to make it exciting. over the last ten years, we've designed this jam box, headsets, the herman miller chair, lights, eyeglasses for children in mexico, this watch, swarovski chandeliers, water bolts, new york city condom, bmw miniwatch, local bicycle. >> reporter: how do you begin? would you take a bike and say how would i change it to make it work with me? >> i think we begin with the idea, this notion of how would we have a locally based form of transportation. i get inspired by how our liv

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dr. sanjay gupta got exclusive access inside the lab of the m.d. anderson center. >> can you translate?: rosalyn austin is 23 years old. she was halfway through her last year of college last december when she noticed something strange in her left breast. >> something was not right, and i knew it wasn't. it just -- i just felt like it was something not good. >> reporter: two doctors told her not to worry, but a biopsy revealed the truth. it was cancer. rozlyn lives outside dallas, but her father, an x-ray technician insist they'd drive six hours to houston and m.d. anderson. the first thing you notice when you get here, this place is big. in fact, a whole city devoted to fighting cancer. hallways, like highways here. and if you're walking, stick to the side. that's the part with the blue stripes. more than 100,000 patients every year. nearly 20,000 employees, more than a thousand clinical trials, all of it going on at once. and now dr. ronald depino, m.d. anderson's president says we are at a turning point. >> we're in a position to make dramatic impact on cancer mortality in this decade

dr. sanjay gupta joins me live. i'm brooke baldwin. the news is now. >>> congress is about to adjourn. >> thank you very much. >> but why isn't anything getting done? huge issues are left hanging. >> shame on them for abandoning our farmers, our economy and families who need us to act. >>> plus, a desperate call to 911 to help a stranger. >> she's banging on the windshield for him to stop. oh, my god. >> drivers work together to help a woman clinging to life on the georgia interstate. >>> and if you live in los angeles, keep watching us, but make sure you peek out your window, you're about to see this for the last time ever in the air. we'll take you live with the space shuttle "endeavor." there's a health company that can help you stay that way. what's healthier than that? ...and we inspected his brakes for free. -free is good. -free is very good. [ male announcer ] now get 50% off brake pads and shoes at meineke. >>> so many governments around the world have feared, friday, the day of prayer in the muslim world has also turned into a

dr. sanjay gupta reports... reece isn't letting that top him.m --reporter pkg-as follows -- nat sound at baseball game.he can hit, field the ball, even slide into home pllte. nat sound... gooo reece, give me 5. all the way around the bases six-yeer-old reece holloway wants to play in the big leagues ssme day, just like plays third base for the atlanta braves. but, when reece was born, his parents were shocked to discover that he didn't have left hand and baaeball was the furthest thing from their minds.they weren't sure if he'd learn to crawl without a second hand so they got him a prosthesis. but little reece didn't want it. he did learn tt crawl and remarkable happeeed. reece taught himself howwto hit aa ball when he was jjstttwo. he got plastic balls and he would hold them under his chin and drop it and swing thee at. and he would hit the baal, no problem. he's a natural, and he's been playing on a team since he wassjust 3-years-old. as far as the holloway's are concerned, reece doesn't have a disabilitt. i was born like that. and they try to

dr. sanjay gupta, cnn, reporting. >>> high end professional athletes that can rake in millions of dollarssorships. and now here's a new nba program that helps teach them how to manage their wealth. >>> it's gotten to the point in syria that when people look down they often see blood stains on the streets. when they look up, they often face something even worse. constant deadly shelling. today alone opposition activists say 163 people were killed, many wounded, and when syrians get hurt in the city of aleppo they go to a place that is under siege itself. the hospital. cnn's nick walsh goes inside and tells the story of some of the youngest patients and a warning you what are about to see is very graphic and very disturbing. >> this hospital is where many in aleppo run when caught by the constant shelling. even though the hospital and the area around it have also been fired upon. >> still this dy we see many civilians flooding here for treatment, some very young. doctors telling us that children's hospital has been closed by the government. some terrified. some starving. muhammed age 8 was

dr. sanjay gupta is coming up, and we'll go live to malibu where he has been training with a group that heeven. hmm, it says here that cheerios helps lower cholesterol as part of a heart healthy diet. that's true. ...but you still have to go to the gym. ♪ the one and only, cheerios >>> all right, the triathlon, a tough test of strent and endurance. and dr. sanjay gupta's next challenge as he explored the human factor of getting and staying fit, he's joining us live from malibu because tomorrow is the big nautica triathlon. so picturesque out there. sanjay joining us now. this is finally getting under way joining us n now, this is finally getting under way after how many months of training with you and the lucky seven? >> well, you know, we started really officially in january, so it has been about eight and a half months or so. and a lot of this, fredricka is sort of practicing what we preach. we talk about fitness and what is happening with obesity in the country, quite a bit. with the stories, called the lucky seven, we show viewers what is happening and what people can do about it. it h

dr. sanjay gupta, and this is "the next list." >>> sustainability is basically using resources but not compromising them for future generations. we as a human race have not been very sustainable. hello, everyone. my name is juan saftein and i am the owner. >> it's about all you have to do in your baby life in a way to prolong life on earth. >> it's a living university in so many ways. basically we produce our own food, we make our own furniture, we produce our own energy, electricity and cooking gas. we make our own soaps from residuals from our kitchen. we compost waste and heat water with it. >> people who come here, they don't have a positive effect. they actually have a negative effect because they're making more carbon releases. >> we produce a luxury environment for people to come and enjoy themselves. we have beautiful bungalows where people can relax and be part of nature. >> and if you're into more rugged things, it's like a playground. >> you have yoga, you have massage, you have horseback riding, and it's all within an environment that you just say, wow, i can't believe i'm not doing any

dr. sanjay gupta has her story. >> memorial day weekend 2008.rp and her stepdaughter are headed out of town on a 14-minute flight from long beach, california to catalina island. >> there were four of us traveling with two of the helicopter company's staff, and life changed. there was a mechanical failure, and we lost power. >> three of the six aboard died in the crash. laura's stepdaughter, badly injured herself, saw her unconscious mother and dragged her from the wreckage by her hair. critical care specialist dr. andrea fineberg assumed responsibility for laura's treatment. >> she had literally fallen out of the sky and every part of her body was either fractured or suffering in some way. i wasn't sure how she would survive everything. sdp >> laura suffered burns to more than half her body, severe brain trauma, dozens of fractures and collapsed lungs, not to mention severe psychological trauma. >> i am newly configured from head to toe. they did such a beautiful job putting me back together. i'm like humpty dump by. it definitely took all the k

dr. sanjay gupta will join me to explain what we can do to reduce the exposure next. across the u.time i've ever had a break is when i was on maternity leave. i have retired from doing this one thing that i loved. now, i'm going to be able to have the time to explore something different. it's like another chapter. has oats that can help lower cholesterol? and it tastes good? sure does! wow. it's the honey, it makes it taste so... well, would you look at the time... what's the rush? be happy. be healthy. actually... that way i could split my payments into little bite-size chunks. i mean you feel me right? yeah. uh, sir... ah... [ male announcer ] layaway's back. shop now and have more time to pay. walmart. silverado! the most dependable, longest lasting, full-size pickups on the road. so, what do you think? [ engine revs ] i'll take it. [ male announcer ] it's chevy truck month. now during chevy truck month, get 0% apr financing for 60 months or trade up to get the 2012 chevy silverado all-star edition with a total value of $8,000. hurry in before they're all gone! >>> there was a p

dr. sanjay gupta has an update.ird baseman for the atlanta braves saw the story and wanted to meet this remarkable young fan. >> he can hit. throw the ball, even slide into home plate. and all of the way around the base. 6-year-old reese holloway wants to play in the big leagues just like his idol chipper jones who plays third base for the atlanta braves. when reese was born his parents were shocked to discover he didn't have a left hand and baseball was the furthest thing from their minds. they weren't sure if he'd learn to crawl without a success hand so they got him a prosthesis, but little reese didn't want it. he did learn to crawl and walk and then something remarkable happened. reese taught himself how to hit a ball. he was just 2. >> he got plastic balls and he would hold them under his chin and drop it and swing the bat and he would hit the ball, no problem. he's a natural and has been playing on a team since he was 3 years old. as far as the holloways are concerned, reese doesn't have a disability. >> i wa

dr. sanjay gupta, cnn reporting.he writer's desktop and the coordinator's phone are working on a joke with local color. the secure cloud just received a revised intro from the strategist's tablet. and while i make my way into the venue, the candidate will be rehearsing off of his phone. [ candidate ] and thanks to every young face i see out there. [ woman ] on of his bigst supporters. [ female an with cisco at the center... working together has ner worked so well. the ones who make us laugh, onesng shlder to lean on, the ones we're named after, and the oned after us. it takes all kinds of good to make a family. at n york life, everything we do is to help you keep good going we know yo krisenow yoearly... and work late,with not enough sn between. how you sometimes need to get over to that exit, like, rit w. and how things aren't... st younymore. ucinthe all-new,ren't... smaring. >>> i know they're out there chanting at his events four more years. let me ask you this. do you want four more years with 23 million people

dr. sanjay gupta is live with me now. sanjay, i'm so glad you're here on this remarkable headline.his is going to resonate. first before i get into the what? how could they be so confident. i want to know why. what cancers are we talking about here? which ones? >> i'll tell you the specific cancers. let me preface by saying that we, they call this a moon shot program ashleigh. for people who know about this and think of what john kennedy brought to the moon program at that point trying to get a man on the moon, it was -- that same energy, that same passion i felt when they gave us the access into the center it was really remarkable. there are a few cancers they're specifically targeting in on and that's based on lots of research, looking most likely what they can impact on in the next few years. you can look at the list, melanoma, lung cancer the biggest cancer killer, prostate cancer, triple negative breast cancer. that's an incredibly hard cancer to treat. these are some of the cancers where they think within the next few years they can dramatically reduce more tal toy rates. the

dr. sanjay gupta. we'll see you back here next sunday. >>> you're in the cnn newsroom. i'm fredricka whitfield. it could be a critical point in the presidential race. the first big showdown just three days away and both president obama and mitt romney are busy preparing. cnn takes a look at what's at stake. >> reporter: both obama and romney are looking to lower the stakes at this week's debate. >> mitt romney has prepared more than any other candidate in history. >> president obama is a very gifted speaker. the man has been on the national stage for many years. he's an experienced debater. he's done these kinds of debates before. this is mitt's first time on this kind of stage. >> beth myers said president obama is widely regarded as one of the most talented political communicators in modern history. the obama camp likes to remind voters that the president hasn't had as much time to prepare for the debates because he's busy being commander in chief. when it comes to just how much debates matter, it depends. >> most often debates don't make that big a difference. very f

dr. sanjay gupta. >>> you're in the cnn newsroom. thanks so much for joining us. i'm susan hendricks for today fredricka whitfield. the eighth highest mountain in the world had a deadly avalanche. at least 11 people are dead and a desperate search for more people is happening right now. a whole camp may have been swept away by that avalanche. it happened at 5:00 a.m. this morning. there are some survivors that have been airlifted to local hospitals. we are told over 204 mountaineers broke up into teams of 25. they were apparently attempting to climb the mountain. at least 38 people are believed to be still missing. we're going to follow that, of course. >>> libya's militias have 48 hours to leave tripoli or else. that is the warning from the army. the military says it will use force if needed to push those militants out of bases, public buildings or property belonging to the former regime. the threat follows passionate anti-militia protests like this one in benghazi. libyans who are determined to show they are not standing for the violence that left four americans

dr. sanjay gupta got an exclusive interview at the world's largest cancer research center. >> we're in a position to make a dramatic difference on cancer mortality in this decade. >> you're saying if we do everything right, in five years from now there will be far few people dying from cancer, right? >> correct. i think with existing knowledge and the application of what we now know, we can see existing reduction in mortality and set control of the disease. >> they are awfully confident. let me free face this by saying, randy, you almost got the sense that they had the energy of when president kennedy talked about season sending a man to the moon, that they're calling this the moon shot project to raise that same passion about that particular project they've taken on. you can take a look at the list of the various cancers, they're big ones, melanoma, lung cancer is the biggest cancer killer overall. you have triple negative breast cancer, often a very difficult cancer to treat. in many of these cancers on this list they say withins next few years, not a long time in the future but within

dr. sanjay gupta. thanks for joining us. see you back here next week. >>> hello, everyone. you're in the cnn fredricka wh. it's been an extremely deadly weekend for folks in afghanistan. afghan police turned their guns on u.s. forces in a so-called green on blue attack. four american troops were killed. cnn's anna koran is in kabul, so what else can you tell us about this attack? >> reporter: well, it's been, as you say, a very deadly weekend here. two green on blue attacks over two days. four u.s. soldiers were killed early this morning when an afghan police officer turned his weapon on them, killing them. these green on blue attacks are afghan soldiers turning on the coalition troops, i should say, that are training them. yesterday it was british troops that were killed, two british troops killed by an afghan police officer. fredricka, we are seeing an uptick in these attacks. there have been 51 coalition deaths to date. that is a rise from 35 last year. so it certainly is alarming coalition forces who are in the process of transferring power to the afghan forces. fredric

dr. sanjay gupta got an exclusive interview at the world's largest cancer research center. >> we're in a position to make a dramatic difference on cancer mortality in this decade. >> you're saying if we do everything right, in five years from now there will be far few people dying from cancer, right? >> correct. i think with existing knowledge and the application of what we now know, we can see existing reduction in mortality and set control of the disease. >> they are awfully confident. let me free face this by saying, randy, you almost got the sense that they had the energy of when president kennedy talked about season sending a man to the moon, that they're calling this the moon shot project to raise that same passion about that particular project they've taken on. you can take a look at the list of the various cancers, they're big ones, melanoma, lung cancer is the biggest cancer killer overall. you have triple negative breast cancer, often a very difficult cancer to treat. in many of these cancers on this list they say withins next few years, not a long time in the future but within

dr. sanjay gupta, cnn, reporting. woman 1: this isn't just another election. for... the future of our medicare and social security. man 1: i want facts. straight talk. tell me your plan... and what it means for me. woman 2: i'm tired of the negative ads and political spin. that won't help me decide. man 2: i earned my medicare and social security. and i deserve some answers. anncr: where do the candidates stand on issues that... affect seniors today and in the future? find out with the aarp voters' guide at earnedasay.org >>> 48 days before the e llecti day, and president obama still holding a lead in the national polls. cnn's wolf blitzer joining me live with that as well as a number we don't hear a lot, a weight of the candidate, and we will get to that in a moment. wolf, start with the horse race and the latest numbers. a poll from the "wall street journal" and nbc is showing that the president has a five-point edge among the so-called likely voters burk we have the poll of polls averaging eight ationwide nonpartisan survs done after the conventions, and it

dr. sanjay gupta looks at an offshore fish farm on the show "the next list." dr. ay profiles brian o'hanlon president and founder of ocean blue. >> can you just tell us where we are right now? >> we're flying over some jungle here, which is covering a mountain chain. that is panama. i mean, panama is essentially this string of mountains that comes running down from as far as north america. pretty much untouched part of country here. i think you do find some indian tribes in the jungles here but other than that there's no infrastructure, no development at all. >> how did you decide how far that -- to put out the farms? >> you see how far out the farm is. we're 12 kilometers off the coast. this is really like the new definition of offshore farming. from land we're pretty much over the horizon. it's very deep water out here, about 220 feet deep. >> wow. pretty extraordinary. tune in tomorrow to watch "the next list" or set your dvr for 2:00 p.m. eastern time. then tomorrow 2:30 eastern time i'll be talking to pro tennis player sloan stevens up and coming. we'll be tal

dr. sanjay gupta, cnn reporting. >> good luck to everyone. watching sanjay gupta m.d. live from malibu, california, 4:30 p.m. eastern. >>> as we get word of arrests made in the lib why attack, the attack that killed a u.s. ambassador, we're told that an american battleship is being moved. marines are being deployed. you're about to hear from someone who knows how these decisions are made behind closed doors. general wesley clark joins me in studio at the magic wall, next. hmm, it says here that cheerios helps lower cholesterol as part of a heart healthy diet. that's true. ...but you still have to go to the gym. ♪ the one and only, cheerios . >>> welcome back, everyone. breaking news we're hearing out of libya and the attack of a couple of days ago and four americans died. we are hearing that arrests have been made. we are getting more information on that and will continue to follow. but as we have been reporting here, the united states is sending two u.s. navy destroyers to the water off libya, it is a response, of course, to the attack there

dr. sanjay gupta. thanks for watching. >>> you're in the "cnn newsroom." i'm fredricka whitfield. >>> tomorrow may not be a school day in the third largest public school system in the country. chicago teachers are threatening to go on strike in the morning if the school system doesn't agree to better pay and improved work conditions. the walkout could affect 400,000 students at 700 schools and involves 29,000 unionized teachers. let's go live now to cnn's ted rowlands who is outside one of the schools that could be closed tomorrow. ted, how are negotiations going? is there still a slight chance that school might be on tomorrow? >> reporter: yeah. they're at it right now at this hour, fredricka. and yesterday they worked into the evening and after that session, both sides seemed cautiously optimistic. that said, they are going forward with plans, are the teachers, they're picking up signs today and red t-shirts and the plan is to start striking at 6:30 local here. they are going to continue to, as i said, negotiate into the night and the hope is that they c

dr. sanjay gupta, thank you. >> you got it. >>> to get more advice from dr. com/ourmobilesociety. you can also find other stories about how mobile technology is changing our world. thanks, sanjay. >>> packers fans might call is monday night fusoof fiasco. saying they were robbed. we'll talk about it. >>> neurolaw is where the rubber hit the road. i'm a neuroscientist. we incarcerate everybody. we treat jail as a one size fits all solution. for some people incarceration is just right. for some they're addicted to drugs and there are ways to help them break that addiction. that's one of the things we're doing in my lab right now. using something called realtime feedback in the mri to help people take control of their addictions and break them. if this works, it's going to be a game changer, because it gives us a way of saying, look, instead of just jailing somebody because they're addicted to cocaine, what if we gave them a way to break that? ♪ [ male announcer ] introducing a stunning work of technology. introducing the entirely new lexus es. and the first-ever