susan spencer on the case. ♪ >> reporter: her paintings are bright, often arresting. wow.so brilliant. >> thank you. >> reporter: but the source of those intense colors is intense pain. >> the first thing i feel is pressure in my temples. almost like my head is getting squeezed in. >> reporter: priya has suffered chronic migraine attack most of her life. five years ago, the cincinnati artist began trying to paint them. how do you paint a migraine? >> when i close my eyes, i feel this imagery kind of. it starts around the top, and it sort of floats down. and it's a symphony of colors. >> reporter: but don't be fooled by that peaceful description. so are you painting in the middle of the migraine? >> it depends how functional i am and how painful it is. >> reporter: so sometimes you paint during the migraine? >> yes. >> reporter: sometimes it's overwhelming and you paint what you remember? >> yes. >> i love all your work. it's beautiful. >> thank you. >> reporter: and it's most overwhelming priya has endured 25 attacks in a single month. >> the headache is the dominant sympt

our cover story is from susan spencer. rama's paintings are bright oh my goodness often arresting wow! the colors are so brilliant. thank you. but the source of those intense colors is intense pain thfiel i pressure in my temples, almost like my head is getting squeezed in. priya has suffered chronic migraine attacks most of her life five years ago the cincinnati artist began trying to paint them >> how do you paint a migraine? >> when i close my eyes this imagery starts at the top and sort of floats down and it's a symphony of colors. >> don't be fooled by that peaceful description. >> are you painting in the middle of the migraine? >> it depends how functional i am and how painful it is. >> so sometimes you paint during the migraine, sometimes it's overwhelming and you paint what you remember? >> yes. >> and it's most overwhelming priya has endured 25 attacks in a single month. >> the headache is so debilitating you're unable to do anything and it affects my vision. sometimes it gets blurry. it affects your stomach. >> h

. >> tom married susan spencer was a force to be reckoned with on her own as a television news correspondent. >> trying to think of a career and wonder if there is a way to have a meaningful professional life to see these three that long ago. it was the breakthrough and it remains in a lot of respect you there were a few women covering the campaign and by 80 there were few women covering the campaign and everything changed. >> elizabeth was there from the new yorker. elizabeth rarely came out at that point. i read her when she wrote for the star and i used to watch her because i always thought she was an incredible writer and i was such a poor writer i would be sitting there in the middle of the night and we would be the only ones there and i was just trying to come up with something mundane so that i could convey what has happened and she was flailing away in the middle of the night and i would watch her out of the corner ofng my eye. she had already achieved this status but she was a character, too we were in a press room and since mary isn't here to jump down my throat, she might have had

. >> tom mary susan spencer who is a force to be reckoned with on her own as a television news correspondent long time at cbs news. >> but trying to think of her career if there is some way to have meaningful professional life to see them that long ag ago, it was the breakthrough and sadly it is very male in a lot of respects there were a few women covering the campaign. >> but elizabeth rarely came out and at that point and mary was there. when she wrote for the star i used to watch her that she was an incredible writer. i was such a poor writer i would just be sitting there we would be the only ones there and i was just trying to come up with something mundane just so i could convey what had happened and she is toiling away in the middle of the night working and i would watch her out of the corner of my eye to give her vibes. please. [laughter] >> she had already achieved that status but she was a character. i remember the night of one of the primaries i will take a wild guess and say it was wisconsin. we were in the press room and since she is not here to jump down my throat she may have

women's movement and those who had trouble with women and be with television and then to mary susan spencer and then had her own television news a long time at cbs. >> trying to think of a career or at some point to have a meaningful professional life to be that long ago 1972 it was the breakthrough and in a lot of respects and. >> in 1976 they were uncovering the campaign and in eighties there were fights and then a change and i read her disclaimer but i was such so the two of us would be the only ones there and i was just trying to come up with something mundane so i could gauge of what had happened and she was squirreling away in the middle of the night writing and rewriting and i watched her on the corner of my eye and we said we would take a wild guess and wisconsin. we were in a press room and mary isn't here to jump in she may have had a couple of dinners who was very fastidious about her appearance and her hair was always done. there we were in this room and the return started to come in that night. [laughter] got closer and closer to her hair. [laughter] and all of a sudden it lit

remember an old movie called "state of the union," starring spencer tracy and katharine hepburn, came out in 1948. sorry i am going so far off field, susani find politics interesting. and tracy is running for president in this movie, and he gets sort of co-opted by the wall street types. and he goes off his progressive script. and the denouement of this movie is a live television broadcast in his living room in 1948 in which he speaks from the heart. he is trying to win hepburn back. and the evil campaign manager adolph signals to the technician running the show to shut off either the mic or the tv camera, and tracy sees that. what do you think he says? he says, don't touch this show. i am paying for this show. reagan was a movie actor before he was a presidential politician, and a very good one. and i think while he had a right to be upset because he was paying for this microphone, and it was not mr. green, who was the late john green from the national telegraph, but he wanted to show that he was in charge. and that showed he was in charge. all those guys in back of him, they didn't get to say anything at that event. it was just reagan