this is something played in southern india? >> yes, this comes -- this is from southern india.es it sound like? >> well, i'm going to play it a little bit later. it's not like anything that we hear here. it's something similar to a harp. >> it's very cool. >> yeah. >> a central character in the book. let's find out what our guys thought. jack, what's your question for sheila. >> good morning. the central plot of your story is about a vanishing musical instrument, did you play a musical instrument growing up? >> it's a very good question, i wasn't a veena player, i was a violinist and i didn't know anything about it. but my niece plays it and the book was written for her. she inspired the main character. but this i got from india last year and it's now mine. it used to belong to my husband's family. >> can we hear a little bit of it? >> absolutely. i'm going to play just the opening line to a song i'm working on with my teacher. ♪ >> wow. that sounds great. >> thank you. >> how long have you been working on it? >> four months. >> you're doing great. all right. let's check in now

one is a gentleman who is an on the tom tryst in southern india, and in the late 1970s, he retired. he was about 57, and he wanted to do something for his community, and so he decided he was going to try to address the problem of needless blindness due to cataracks. in the united states, it's a minor procedure, but in the rest of the world, there's 1 # -- 100 million people blind because it. dr. v, as he was known, wanted to address. he started the clinic in the home, had 11 beds and family members helped him, got it off the ground. anyway, cut forward not just three great ideas, but hundreds of innovation, tenacity of an entire global team of people involving larry, who is one of the folks who contributed to the eradication of smallpox, a brilliant entrepreneur named david green. they worked together to build this hospital, and to this day, the hospital cured 3 million people of blindness. now, you imagine the entire washington metro area, 3 million people, imagine all of those people blind, and now they can see. that's not -- that's not an obscure story; right? it's not an obscure

india. bangladesh as well as the northern half of myanmar. heading into the americas then a parade of low pressure system has been bringing cold preparation in canada, western quebec. while southernntario is expected to see as much as 20 centimeters of snowfall on your thursday. but down towards the south the weather is likely across central mississippi valley on your thursday. so thunderstorms, gusting winds and even hail are possible. out west an upper cold low is drifting over southern california and nevada, bringing coastal rain and mountain snow. temperatures are above average in los angeles, only 20 degrees expected. up towards the north, chilly in winnipeg with a high of only 7. and below average along the eastern seaboard but hotter than average in the south. 29 degrees expected. i should say 28 degrees in oklahoma city and 31 in houston. all right. finally let's go over to europe. thick clouds are approaching western europe from the atlantic. right now thunderstorms gusty winds and lots of heavy rain are occurring in iceland in part of the british isles where wet and windy conditions will then spread through parts of the south italy over the next 24 hours. out east rains

southerners who were extremists based on seven imams. these were extremists, and they are found right now in some areas in lebanon and yemen and syria and india is a sevenner. they are an offshoot of these people, and they deify allah. so they are really outside the islamic fold. they don't land within any time of normative islam. the shia are -- [inaudible] but these people are just heretics. [laughter] >> any other questions? gentleman here. >> adam -- [inaudible] heritage foundation. i was just wondering your thoughts on, a, to libya and if we're giving enough, or should we give more and what kind of aid. >> it's a great question. -in ya doesn't need any aid because it has all that oil wealth. it needs help in building institutions, it needs experts and trains to build -- trainers to build a good judiciary system, bring in judges. you need to bring in people to move, build up technical capacity that's nonexistent, and egypt -- libya's oil money, it can support all that. anything the libyans need they can get on their own, they just don't have the experience necessary, the government experience. >> barak, you have libyan islamic fighting gr