[ background talking ] [ music ] >> roma downey: sut just took a look at the operating room. i guess he's having second thoughts! but he's in very good hands. [ music ] >> dr. lawrence kurtzman: i got involved with operation smile way back in 1987, just a few years after it started. i thought i'd go for a few trips. i thought i'd see another culture and here i am, 15 years later, 20 missions later, 500 children later, and still loving every child that i take care of and still planning on going for the next 15 years and operating on 500 more children. >> roma downey: sut's mom is waiting right outside the door. this must be very frightening for her. [ music ] >> dr. lawrence kurtzman: we come to these countries halfway around the world and we do not sacrifice quality. we bring everything, from the equipment for the anesthesia, to all the sutures, and all the equipment we need, we want to make this absolutely, 100% as safe as the united states and the quality we want just as high. it's incredible, in 45 minutes, i can operate on a child and take him from someone who's shunned f

i can't think of another word but phenomenal. [ music ] >> roma downey: as a mother, i would do anything i could to help my child live a normal life. and i'm sure you would, too. but what if you couldn't do anything? what if you were totally helpless? that's the situation for hundreds and thousands of parents in developing countries whose children are born with cleft lip or cleft palate. in the united states, these deformities are corrected shortly after birth. but in many countries around the world, these children are left untreated and are shunned. [ music ] [ children's voices ] >> roma downey: i'm in le loi hospital. the volunteer operation smile medical team has come from all over the world to perform surgeries, and parents have brought their children here, hoping that they'll be selected.

i can't think of another word but phenomenal. [ music ] >> roma downey: as a mother, i would do anythingo help my child live a normal life. and i'm sure you would, too. but what if you couldn't do anything? what if you were totally helpless? that's the situation for hundreds and thousands of parents in developing countries whose children are born with cleft lip or cleft palate. in the united states, these deformities are corrected shortly after birth. but in many countries around the world, these children are left untreated and are shunned. [ music ] [ children's voices ] >> roma downey: i'm in le loi hospital. the volunteer operation smile medical team has come from all over the world to perform surgeries, and parents have brought their children here, hoping that they'll be selected.

i can't think of another word but phenomenal. [ music ] >> roma downey: as a mother, i would do anything help my child live a normal life. and i'm sure you would, too. but what if you couldn't do anything? what if you were totally helpless? that's the situation for hundreds and thousands of parents in developing countries whose children are

because roma downey was just here with us the other day and her husband mark burnett has grown a beard. >> she hated. >> it like moses for a year and she wanted it off. there were things nesting in. >> it she doesn't have to worry about that because i can't grow a beard. that's all i've got. >> that's all you've got? >> and my son said to me yesterday "thanks a lot." he wanted to do something and he doesn't have anything, either. >> how old is your son? >> my son is 26. he just turned 26. >> so he's making up for it with the the long hair. >> he's got a lot of hair. >> are your kids musicians like you and your brother. >> my son is a musician and my daughter is an actress. >> i remember her from the golden "boston globe"s. >> yeah, she was miss golden "boston globe." " globe. >> beautiful girl. how did you feel about it when your kids wanted to go through the arts? >> i was comfortable with the music thing because he came out -- basically guitar was his first word. it was obvious he wasn't going to do anything else. that's what he did. he just played and played and played. my daughter,

sometimes whether it's roma downey or mark burnett's magnificent drama of the bible, the got more viewers than anything on cable, whether it's the extraordinary response to reality shows that her whole some like duck dynasty or 19 and counting, with my good friends the dugger's window very well from arkansas. that's ahead scratcher to a lot of people who live in the bubbles. they just can imagine who are the people who watch the stuff? but it's also true of films, i remember when i remember when the movie the blindside came out, it was a film that those of us who lived out there in bubba bill, we watch that and said yeah we get that, we relate to that we understand the language, the whole love of football, we get it all. there are a lot of people in hollywood who could just figure out how that movie was a huge success, it was a sleeper for them, it was an obvious choice for us. look at films look at films recently like heaven is for real, or or god's not dead, those are films that's really play to a niche, we understand it in bubba bill folks in the bubble not so much. i remembered. >> i