the operation lasted for several hours warrick was worried about whether the new device would be rejected by his body but the surgery was successful as a result the scientist could subject him self to more experimentation. one of the experiments i did was to drive a wheelchair around just from my neural signals so it's the sort of thing that a paralyzed person could they could drive themselves in a car just by thinking about moving if you like. robyn f. ecan system a swede lost his right arm a few years ago it was he who was the first patient to test an experimental device called the smart hand scientists connected more than forty sensors from this artificial device to his arm then able him to move his bio nick hand and feel the touch of objects. that precious even can be transposed to a specific area the skin of the remaining head and if you find the right spots to stimulate we know that also that correlates to areas of the brain called case would be activated. it took robin only one day of training to learn to control the artificial limb as he would his own arm to start with he made the

have a real hand if you but the fact that i can feel it again it's indescribable meanwhile kevin warrick the.

have a real hand if you but the fact that i can feel it again it's indescribable meanwhile kevin warrick the volunteer cyborg has undertaken an even more ambitious task this time a symbiosis of living organisms and.

she says houston's mother, cissy, and her cousin, dion warrick, are coordinating the service. >> they are like the two matriarchs of the family. >> reporter: these new tmz photos show houston in the days leading up to her death. lounging by the pool wednesday at the beverly hilton. and abc news has also learned that the doctors and pharmacies where houston obtained several prescriptions will be subpoenaed in the coming days as part of the investigation into what caused her death. linsey davis, abc news, newark, new jersey. >>> still ahead, something new in the skies in this country. is there an eye in the sky looking down at your backyard? >>> and the secret of jeremy lin's success. lessons for anyone who has ever been told, you can't. you're not good enough. okay, team! after age 40, we can start losing muscle -- 8% every 10 years. wow. wow. but you can help fight muscle loss with exercise and ensure muscle health. i've got revigor. what's revigor? it's the amino acid metabolite, hmb to help rebuild muscle and strength naturally lost over time. [ female announcer ] ensure muscle heal

counterparts but it's obvious that the first surrogates are a combination of man and machine kevin warrick has volunteered to be a human cyborg. first imply that i had. here we go this is show you what it looked like so this was the first implant. that's right e.o. frequency identification device and that was implanted in my left arm just up here so pushed in that point and what we use this for was simply as i moved around my building here in reading in england and the computer knew where i was at particular points so i would open doors for me and switched on lights and said hello and having studied the experiences of those who use cybernetic limbs work agreed to more surgery this time a more sophisticated chip will be implanted into his arms nervous tissue operations like. little bit nervous but i think much more a lot more exciting than anything else i really feel love with doing now is the big day. but. it's actually doing some soil where i actually have a choice in the way i think. the operation lasted for several hours rick was worried about whether the new device would be rejected by

have a real hand if you but the fact that i can feel it again it's indescribable meanwhile kevin warrick the volunteer cyborg has undertaken an even more ambitious task this time a symbiosis of living organisms and. the experiment was based on the neurons of a rabbit brain they were grown in a special incubate or the result was a mini brain consisting of a network of neurons fused together finally the miniature brain was connected to a robot now the robots brain is learning to solve simple tasks. as the robot moves around we can look at what's happening in the brain under the microscope so as the robot learns to avoid obstacles but sort of thing we can see her oh the brain changes the connections between the neurons strength or weaken reactions to such experiments vary from country to country life styles have not changed in abkhazians regions traditionally inhabited by long livers the old men believe you can't live a long life unless you stick to the right lifestyle they view any attempts at immortality based on combining man with machine with open hostility. they seem to be set on compe

warrick who in his book on the triple agent this was the bombing in khost talked in specific about the the funeral drone targeting that you just mentioned and he had incredible sources for that book so to then say that you know this funeral targeting practice is made up by by the bureau of investigative journalism is nonsense because nobody is at the same time questioning where it's reporting so you know it is credible work has done some of this before we had david wrote it in the new york times who was held captive by the taliban talking about drone strikes but you're right nobody's putting it together in a database with actual dates and numbers and names attached to each attack and i think that's where we really need to get to force the government to give us that same kind of data also in that sense that we do you think of this is finally something that might turn the tide you know or change the tide a little bit that we we hear obama finally acknowledging this publicly which i think you could say was a big move but now if you have more reports if you have more investigations done by

we'll address some of those subjects now with one of whitney houston's old friends, diane warrick. she was at the pre-grammy party at the beverly hills hotel. she joins me now. i could hear you reacting to some of the things don was saying there. what were you reacting to? >> fans being robbed. it's up to her family to do what they're going to do. that was strange there. >> do you feel there is any duty if you have a star of the magnitude of whitney houston to give the fans something? >> she gave the fans something, her amazing music and voice and records that will be there forever, best performances of all time. she's given everything. she's done giving. >> when did you hear the news of whitney's death? >> i heard it saturday. i didn't think it was true, the twitter pronounce someone dead, last week, it was cher and jon bon jovi. i got the call from a friend and said whitney died. no, it's probably a twitter stupidity. >> you wrote some of her greatest ever songs. >> i wrote some good ones. >> what are some? >> i wrote her comeback song "i didn't know my own strength" and "kiss fo

well, we found out -- 'cause he's so likeable, the real warrick -- >> jimmy: yeah. >> that we have to 'cause it's not -- it's not laughing at him 'cause he's small. it's laughing at him because he's sort of arrogant and, you know -- and manipulative and -- >> jimmy: yeah. but he drives a giant car. >> so he falls out of it all the time. [ laughter ] you know? >> jimmy: no man in his real -- right mind would drive it. >> he won't let people help him so he has to has to climb up shelves and things. [ laughter ] his own ego won't let him do it. and -- and it came about -- i actually met warwick first. i called him and said, "would you like to be kicked in the face -- for 'extras'?" the film. >> jimmy: yeah, he jumped at the chance. >> he did, yes. >> jimmy: and -- and then he brought out an autobiography and he asked me for a quote for it and i gave him the quote, "pound for pound, warwick davis is one of the funniest people i know." right? [ laughter ] and he used that. and he gave me a copy of the autobiography. and it's really funny. just the things that has happened to him because --

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and dion warrick as well. she really did a beautiful job i thought. >> for those of us who were fans of whitney's singing voice had hoped one day she would go on to record some great gospels like aretha did after her pop career ended. two of her best albums are gospel. and we were hoping to see whitney houston continue touring post pop vocal. it was a poignant ending. i think like elvis, if she had lived longer, it would have been great to see that other career. >> thank you for helping us out over the weekend and the week before as well. >> thank you. >>> we have other headlines making news. alina has that. >>> good morning. three skiers are dead after an avalanche at a resort in washington state. authorities say they fell about 1,500 feet. a dozen skiers buried in snow had to dig themselves out. all of them accounted for now. the area was out of bounds for skiers. heavy snow fell in the area about 19 inches in the past 24 hours. a fourth skier was saved by an inflatable safety device that kept her from going