anything to spare gentrie the agony of smelling food but not being able to eat it.

and if all goes according to plan, gentrie will be able to eat and drink when she wakes up. >> i'm looking forward to a drink of some sort. but i'm sure after i get over the surgery i will be looking for good food. >> reporter: a routine wish for many people but the hope for an end to the grueling battle for this young girl. >> and gentrie hansen is here along with her parents lowell and kathy and here also joined again by dr. nancy synderman. so how did that taste? >> really good. >> you know, i imagine that before this diagnosis was maybe the hardest part. when people kept telling you that you might have a eating disorder. >> oh, yeah, that was probably the worst part. of this whole sickness. having people keep telling me, oh, you have an eating disorder. and something else was wrong. >> kathy, did you imagine that it was possible that she had an eating disorder? >> as a parent you hope that you know your children well enough to help them with whatever their problems are. and over time, we started kind of wating for signs that might indicate something different. but our heart was believi

i will follow that or tap the computer gentry. the bayshore freeway is moving smoothly and coming down towards men low park. speeds are above the speed limit. watch the speeds. always 65. >> thank you very much. we are officially in fall. summer is hanging on. >> the seasons can't figure out what to do. it does feel like fall and we feel cool temperatures, but winds are not as strong as they have been. let's look at the temperatures. 50 in livermore and 52 in san mateo. 48 degrees in novato. not a lot of fog being reported. currently we have 46 degrees. the highest wind speed is 14 miles per hour. that's being reported in fairfield and most of us are doing this with calm or light wind this is morning. like laura was saying, fall today, but summer this weekend. our forecast highs make it into the triple-digits in spots this weekend and into early next week. it's time to get ready for the heat. the air quality is great and seeing a lot of green. not seeing a lot of white or cloud cover. no rain to talk about for quite a while. here'

robert gentry to is the principal deputy under the secretary of health. the director of the radiation and the physical exposure service, the secretary is also accompanied by the associate deputy and undersecretary for policy and program management. jack thompson, the va deputy general counsel. secretary shinseki, i want to thank you for joining us today to get your perspective on the department's presumptive disability in decision making process. -- presumptive disability decision making process. we look forward to understanding the process better after this hearing and deal with it legislatively to try to improve it for the future. i look forward to your testimony, mr. secretary. your statement will appear in the record of the committee. please proceed. >> chairman akaka, senator isakson, other distinguished members of the committee, thank you for the invition to appear here today to discuss my decision to address a presumption for service connection of three new diseases in accordance of the agent orange 1991 law. some of it will be repetitive. mr. chai

robert gentry to is the principal deputy under the secretary of health. the director of the radiation and the physical exposure service, the secretary is also accompanied by the associate deputy and undersecretary for policy and program management. jack thompson, the va deputy general counsel. secretary shinseki, i want to thank you for joining us today to get your perspective on the department's presumptive disability in decision making process. -- presumptive disability decision making process. we look forward to understanding the process better after this hearing and deal with it legislatively to try to improve it for the future. i look forward to your testimony, mr. secretary. your statement will appear in the record of the committee. please proceed. >> chairman akaka, senator isakson, other distinguished members of the committee, thank you for the invitation to appear here today to discuss my decision to address a presumption for service connection of three new diseases in accordance of the agent orange 1991 law. some of it will be repetitive. mr. ch