a lot of victims make connections closely and don't make the very clear connection 1963. >> dr. stiff, one of the things you just said, as time goes on, he becomes sanitized. i find that an interesting thought. when you think back, you're trying to go back to the '60s when he was living. he was kind of scary to people. sanitized now. talk about the difference between then and now. the image we see. >> man: i think the fact that he's as esteemed that he is, is a good thing. it says something about how far america has come when you have folks on the light end of the political spectrum who will quote martin king now. that's good news. that's also the bad news. down the message and meaning of martin. he was a radical and he was challenging our society in very very fundamental ways. i think if he were alive today, he would be very much disturbed where we are. despite the election of an african american president, which is huge, given america's tangled history around race. but when you look at every social and economic indicator, african americans are worst off today than we were ten years

dr. gerald coleman didn't give up, refusing to pronounce his him dead he and his team performed cpr for two hours as they slowly started warming his stiffd body. over the next few days, doctors say his brain went from show nothing activity to normal activity. >> we knew we needed a big, big miracle. >> using a special machine that pumps, warms and provides more oxygen to his blood, his heart started beating on its own. >> i've never even heard anything like this. it's amazing, something i've never heard of. >> smith lost all his toes and both pinky fingers but has since made a clear complete recovery. >> it's like i woke up from a treem but it wasn't a dream you know. >> t.j. holmes, abc news, new york. >> he was in a coma for 15 days after that but doctors were shocked because he woke up without any signs of brain damage. >> amazing. he's making a recovery. >>> coming up, getting back into shape can't wait for this one. >> i caught up with staun teal who told me how even insomniacs can have a ball getting in shape. next on "world news now." i am just out of rhythm there. >> there? >> announcer: "world news now" ♪ >> that's what we went

dr. gerald coleman did not give up refusing to pronounce him dead. he and his team performed cpr for two hours as they slowly started warming his stiff, cold body then over the next few days doctors say his brain miraculously went to showing no activity to normal activity. >> we knew we needed a big, big miracle. >> reporter: using a special machine that pumps, warms and provides more oxygen to his blood his heart started beating on its own. >> i never even heard of anything like this. it's amazing. it's something i've never heard of and i can't thank everyone enough. >> reporter: smith lost all his toes and both pinkie fingers but has since made a near complete recovery. >> it's like i woke up interest a dream but it wasn't a dream, you know. >> lara, you asked what was he doing out in the first place. he was walking home from a party, a walk he' made a million times. thinks possibly he slipped, hit his body was frozen solid. as morbid as it sound, meat in the refrigerator, preserve it, you put it in the freezer. that's the part they can't figure out. it seems as if his body was growsen solid so it was preserved essentially when the body heated up,

dr. kelly, who has been a great leader on the issues dealing with health care. and i just want to cite to her a lady that came to this congress more than a decade ago , deborah stiff. you maid mayweather have read her writings -- you may have read her writings. she pronounced during that time that gun violence was a health crisis. and that was so many years ago. and unfortunately with all of her writings, we still couldn't get movement. i'm going to take a slightly different perspective and, if i could just take these few moments to give you an he can dose tal story with -- anecdotal story which many you might find with a great deal of shock, if you will. and that is the limit to which gun rights advocates who mislead the american people on any ideas for gun safety or gun regulation as taking guns away. i was in a meeting where someone was trying to understand why president obama in his excellent presentation about securing america and protecting our children from gun violence was being associated with the idea of taking over 345 million guns. this is what is represented to be president obama's message. he will confiscate through his process of gun testing or maki