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matt is trapped. matt, my asked you to move your finger, can you move your finger? no. trapped by a disease narcolepsy with cataplexy. matt, sitting, he's not any pain. but he's fully awake. but a trigger has left him paralyzed and matt's trigger is love. love for trish. love for his stepchildren and their children. that basic, positive human emotion, becomes a prison for him. if matt's eyes are open. >> he's opening them up. >> reporter: things that most of us long for, having our grandchildren and children, all of things that most of us live for, are things that you have to avoid. >> yes. i have to limit those things very quickly. >> the brain is behaving as if it's asleep while matt is awake. >> reporter: she has seen many similar cases similar to matt. matt's particularly extreme case. >> specifically the brain is behaving as it would in this state of dreaming. that switch gets turned on. that inhikts the muscles at night so that you can't get up and start running in your sleep, turns on during wakefulness. and suddenly, you're paralyzed. >> reporter: strong emotion

and matt's trigger is love.

matt is trapped. >> so matt, if i ask you to move your finger, can you move your finger? no? >> reporter: trapped by a disease called narcolepsy with cataplexy. >> he's not dead. i'm sorry but -- >> it's scary. >> it is scary. >> reporter: sitting there, matt's not in any pain and he is fully awake. but a trigger has left him paralyzed. and matt's trigger is love. love for trish. love for his stepchildren, and their children. that basic, positive human emotion becomes a prison for him. >> i love my wife. >> matt's eyes are open. >> yep, he's opening them up. >> so things that most of us long for -- having our grandchildren and our children, having our spouses tell us they love us, all of the things that most of us live for are things that you have to avoid? >> yes. i have to limit those things very carefully. >> reporter: the everyday emotional moments that most of us cherish are land mines to matt. the walls of their oregon home are nearly bare. only a few family pictures remain. but mostly out of sight. it can be a hellish existence. we witness how even the simplest things

yeah, when matt and i were, like, 20, i said, "matt, how can we be honored someday for anything?" and we figured, "let's do a cartoon and go that route." so it's-- "how can i be in the same room with oliver stone-- and not at the playboy mansion?" [laughter] where would i be? norman lear was here earlier and talked about how much he enjoyed your show. and he sits down with a nephew, i guess, and he says the bonding experience-- and it was the highest praise. he said what he felt most positively by your show is that it's evocative and people talk about it afterwards. and he said that's all he ever hoped for with his programs. and that's the highest praise possible. yeah-- no, and it was really-- and coming from him, because we were definitely influenced by him as well. and when we saw-- you know, we grew up sort of more with sitcoms like diff'rent strokes and hello, larry and facts of life, 'cause that was supposed to be our comedy, and so it wasn't until a little bit later that we saw syndicated runs of all in the family. and we were, you know, really, like, "wow, this was-- what

matt? >>> al, thank you very much. it was five years ago that this neighborhood and this city were brought to their knees by hurricane katrina as that storm roared ashore. and the historic city of new orleans took a body blow. >> this is just an unbelievable scene. >> thousands who didn't evacuate were forced to take shelter at the superdome and the convention center. there was not enough help. frustration and anger overflowed, and the catastrophic breach of the levees caused the worst damage, devastating the ninth ward. an estimated 1,800 people in louisiana and mississippi died in the aftermath of katrina. hundreds of thousands more were displaced for months or years. five years later some residents are still living in trailers. ray nagin was the mayor of new orleans during hurricane katrina. michael brown was the federal government's point man as the head of fema. gentlemen, good morning. nice to see you both. >> good morning. >> the first time you've seen each other in quite a while. >> five years. >> if i ask you

yes, matt. absolutely. the way this is dealt with and of course we're going to learn more as time goes on, sounds as if this was a very tragic case that was not handled well. it is true there's bullying going on without question. i think that this is a great opportunity for us to reflect on why is bullying so rampant. how are we going to deal with it? >> what defines work place bullying? you can be a tough boss without being a bully. what is difference? >> it's repeated, matt, and it's all about undermining someone. it is about -- and this is the problem with bullying. sometimes, it's very covert, very passive/aggressive, gossiping about people, not letting them into important meetings. you know? it's treating them meanly andnd poorly but, you're right, it's tough. what's the difference between a tough boss. >> he also had a history of clinical depression and that may have influenced the way officials viewed this. >> absolutely. >> they may have thought this was something more in line with his depression an

i'm matt lauer alongside ann curry. meredith will be back tomorrow. >>> stunning new research that american girls are entering puberty younger than ever, some at the age of 7 or 8 years old. what's going on? we'll get into that coming up. >> that's actually very dangerous and makes them vulnerable to diseases later in life. >>> also coming up, we expect criminals to cover their faces when they're about to commit a crime, but this is ridiculous. take a look. bank robbers dressed up as everything from darth vader to catwoman to commit their crimes. we'll have more on what appears to be a trend just ahead. >>> also ahead, a moving family reunion more than 34 years in the making after a bitter divorce back in 1976, vickie just wanted her children back, but she says she actually received a call that they had been killed in a car accident. well, now more than three decades later, they are finally together again. we're going to talk to them in an exclusive live interview to find out what went on for these past 34 years. >> wow

matter of fact matt mcintyre, san jose state, opening his schedule next week. dallas braden reminding nehme still has a shot. >> she ain't singing yet so i'll see you at the end of this. >> gio did his part giving up 2 runs in 6 innings, picked up his 12th win of the year. 1-1 game, mark ellis goes deep for the first time since mid- -june. only the third of the season for ellis. the a's would combine to hit 5 railroads this weekend, kevin kouzmanoff hits one half-way to corpus christi, the a's win 8- 2, they pull to within 7 1/2 games of the rangers. but the season opener just two weeks from today it is uncertain whether or not the raiders will have their starting quarterback and running back healthy enough to play. michael bush broke his thumb on his final carry of the game and jason campbell has a right wrist injury that tom cable says is more serious than the stinger that knocked him out of last night's gym. >> in the heat of the battling so it got a lot worse, felt worse at the time it happened. thank god. we don't think it's anything going to be really rea

matt newcomer. all right, matt, who is our second place winner in the amateur category? >> our second place winner is the team from abc 7. >> abc 7 come and get it! couple of words? >> thank you so much. if you watch abc 7 at 3:00 p.m. um see this trophy on tv. >> ok, excellent. all right. and to announce the first place winner, mr. wes tyler of union square. wes? big mystery. who's the winner. >> by the process of elimination, it's koit! >> koit. mr. scotty bastopol for the third year in a row. love this city. thank you. >> runners up. the 47th not -- annual cable car bell ringing competition, no particular order, mr. trini whitaker. sullivan philips. ken lunardi. and joseph hsu. come up and get your trophies. thank the judges. [laughter] now it's time for what you've been waiting for, third place, ladies and gentlemen, mr. howard woo. howard woo. again, they're not booing you. all right. mr. ken mcdonald. chief of muni operations officer, please come forward to help me present the second place trophy. second place, ladies and gentlemen. mr. frank ware. and before we an

. >> matt, good morning. the cdc says it hasn't seen any big increase in m numbers of people who have become ill with salmonella maybe due to a lag in reporting or could mean the worst is over. investigators still have more questions than answers. fda investigators at the two farms in iowa say they still haven't found the source of salmonella that has force ad recall of more than half a billion eggs. but the top poultry vet yaern at iowa state university says the prime suspects have to be mice. if they invest a henhouse their droppings can quickly infest the chicken feed. >> if the chicken consumes the feed with the mouse fec fecal pallet, the chicken becomes infected and subsequently will transmit it into its own droppings to other birds. >> reporter: from there che can transmit it directly to her eggs. from the henhouse, the eggs go to grocery stores and restaurants like this one in kenosha, wisconsin, where nearly two dozen were sick kenned with salmonella. this attorney is representing one victim suing th

matt? >> al, thank you very much. now to that bizarre incident on a jetblue flight that ended with a flight attendant deploying that plane's emergency evacuation slide and then heading home. following an argument with a passenger. tom costello is back with more on this story. tom, good morning again. >> reporter: this was a plane that was on the ground when this happened, and none of the passengers was in any danger, but one jetblue flight attendant was apparently having a very bad day. for 38-year-old flight attendant steven slater, it appears to have been one flight, one passenger too many. jetblue flight 1052 from pittsburgh with 100 passengers on board landed at new york's jfk airport at about noon on monday, when slater was struck in the head with a piece of overhead luggage, a passenger was trying to retrieve, slater demanded an apology and the two got into a heated argument. that's when he pulled the emergency exit chute, grabbed two beers, slid down the chute, ran across the tarmac,

matt? >> thank you very much. >>> more than two months after his mysterious disappearance the search for kyron horman is the biggest missing child search in oregon history. miguel, good morning to you. >> reporter: matt, good morning. days can feel like weeks for kane horman and desiree young, but they have never given up hope. >> i look at his pictures all the time because they make me smile. i stay focused on that. >> reporter: staying focused has never been so difficult. their son kyron disappeared back on june 4th. his search, the largest in oregon state history, and still no sign of their little boy. >> i just open his bedroom just to see his toys, his pictures. >> it's just hard to go in there and know that he's not with us. >> reporter: now eight weeks have passed but you're confident he'll come home? >> yeah. >> reporter: although the couple separated when kyron was a baby they have been united through his disappearance and in their suspicion of terri horman, the last person to see

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trey and matt can get laughs doing anything at all. they're the best among us so it's not a question of doing it for the laugh. there is a moral element to this. >> but didn't, also, comedy central then step in and sort of monkey around with that episode in a way that they were unaware of when they put it on the air? >> there's no way to tell. i mean, if -- there's no way to know. if it were me and i was in the situation, it was like, well, do i -- again, is this worth getting shot? >> right. >> is it the funniest joke anyone's ever written? >> but did they know that going in? do you think they knew that going in? >> i believe it's in the koran. i believe that information is available, that you're not supposed to do that. >> but do you think that they really thought that this would be something that would be -- that their life would get threatened? i mean, i think if they -- >> larry: well, why would they do something that would -- >> i would doubt it. >> i think -- obviously wouldn't do it. >> i don't know about that. when you do some

leave in san jose, i'm matt bigler for -- live in san jose, i'm matt bigler for cbs 5. >> if you want to catch matt's later reports, he is on kcbs radio reporting from mineta. thank you, matt. >> thank you. >>> 6:41 now. new figures are out this morning on personal income and housing sales. your moneywatch report when we come back. >> plus some cranes on the move. oh, i was expecting the animal cranes. those are a little bit bigger aren't they? we'll tell you why these engineering structures are leaving oakland and where they're headed. ,,,,,, dad, sometimes i feel like we're different. are we? we are different, son. we serve teriyaki bowls. delicious steak or grilled chicken on a bed of steamed rice, with broccoli, carrots and teriyaki sauce. you bet we're different and proud of it. but aren't we different in another way? we serve anything on our menu anytime of day. that's my boy. >>> westbound 37 near the 101. change. it was an accident involving a motorcycle. the accident was cleared to the shoulder quickly. but then fire crews got there and they are blocking the connector ramp ri

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tomorrow, though, on the "today" show, bullock talks the matt lauer about her work in new orleans. >> when this hit i thought, i've taken away so much from this city and meeting arthur and all the people you saw so hurt and impassioned and wanting so much to fix a they o -- they wanted to rite a wrong and they did it with such power and integrity. >> matt will continue his interview with sandra bullock tomorrow morning. >>> up next on "the nightly news," brian williams reports open the many faces of hurricane katrina. five years later, where are they now? thanks for joining us. see you at 6:00. [ male announcer ] when meg whitman arrived at ebay, they had 30 people and an idea. meg's job was to make it happen. it took leadership. focus. and the ability to bring people together. meg whitman delivered. named one of america's best ceo's by harvard business review, she grew ebay 15,000 strong and made small business dreams come true. now meg has a plan to create jobs. fix sacramento. and deliver results. meg whitman. for a new california.

matt? >> charles, did anyone know about this -- it's been described from what i've heard as almost a sinkhole, this 18-foot-deep sinkhole. did people in the area know that it was there? were there any posted warnings, anything like that? >> reporter: most people know the red river is a dangerous place to be. it separates the would cities. it's a recreation area, though. people do swim in it. it's not advised because of the ever changing sands along the bank, matt. >> charles hadlock with just a terrible story. charles, thank you very much. >> our hearts go out to those families. so sad. >>> let's get a check of the other top stories. carl quintanilla is filling in. >>> a key test in the gulf of mexico that hopefully the beginning of the end of what is officially the world's biggest oil leak of its kind. nbc's chief environmental affairs correspondent anne thompson has more. anne, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, carl. bp is trying to fix a leak in the cap on top of the blow-out prev

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. >> and i'm matt lauer. this ruling that overturned california's ban on same-sex marriages is probably going to have major implications from coast to coast. >> it certainly seems that way. this is the first time that a federal judge has declared a ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional. opponents are already working on appeals this morning and it all but sets up a supreme court showdown on the controversial issue. we're going to have the latest straight ahead. >> a little later in the show we're going to talk about a dangerous decision that more americans appear to be making. we're talking about people choosing to cut back on important medical services and doctor visits, apparently to save money. coming up we'll get into why that can be so dangerous. we'll also run down the medical tests that are okay to skip, and which ones you should never, never avoid. >>> plus, a lot of people are talking about the case of he said, she said. on tuesday we talked to a woman who claimed to have stumbled across pictures

. >> and i'm matt lauer. just as u.s. combat forces are preparing to leave iraq, one of the deadliest attacks of the year rocks that nation's capital city. >> a man detonated an explosive laden vest as people lined up outside an iraqi army recruitment center. the scene there has been described as chaotic and bloody. body parts strewn everywhere. the death toll has climbed steadily throughout the night. we're going to go live to richard engel in baghdad straight ahead. >>> and nicole bobek was one of the most celebrated athletes in u.s. figure skating back in the 1990s. she was a national champion by the age of 18 with endorsement guys and a promising future. then her life began to spiral out of control and on monday she was sentenced for her involvement in a crystal meth drug ring. coming up nicole bobek speaks out in an exclusive live interview. >>> and michael douglas has a tumor in these throat and now must undergo radiation and chemotherapy. we'll get the latest on that, as well. but let us begin with that breaking ne

matt garza on the mound. 0-2, in pitching no-mo. curve to molina. powerless. hamilton goes down swinging. garza, seven innings pitched, five, zero earned runs and ten strikeouts. bottom tour. two on for evan longoria. sees that bad boy. could not make the grab. and longoria, three for four on the day, as the rangers end up getting crushed, 10-1. >>> jim thome, sporting a brett favre shirt as he and the twins take on the white sox. twins down 6-5. tomey, deep, gone. take your pick. a two-run blast. not a cheapy, either. walkoff home run. and the twins win in thrilling fashion. >>> and that will do it for this espn news update. remember, you can always see espn news on hd. now, back to "america this morning." >>> now, one more story in the sports world will be talking about today. >> could a star quarterbrbrbrbrh >>> and now, a look ahead to the stories we'll be watching on this wednesday morning. federal prosecutors in chicago begin preparing for a retrial of rod blagojevich. the former illinois governor was found guilty of just one count of lying to a federal

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good morning, matt. what investigators want to do now is talk to the four survivors that are recovering from the hospital. two of whom have just had their conditions upgraded. here in alaska with so many communities reachable only by air, flight is a way of life. so is extremely changeable weather and so are accidents. >> reporter: in alaska, nature is a giant and where the skies positively buzz with tiny planes, the jagged peaks shrouded in clouds are a constant caution. but this crash has shaken the best of them. two legends died and both had been in crashes before. senator ted stevens, here in a photo taken the day before this disaster, was working to improve air safety. he survived a 1978 accident that killed his wife and four others. reportedly, he talked about having a premonition his life would end this way. and the pilot, terry smith, whom every pilot here seems to have known, was named a legend by alaska air. he flew 28 years for them. his name graces this 737 in a museum. so how did this happen

they can be more accurately treated, ensuring that matt's legacy lives on. karen brown, cbs news, los angeles. >>> this morning on the "early show", dave price has the latest tracking for hurricane earl. i'm betty nguyen. this is the "cbs morning news." i'm iris cross. bp has taken full responsibility for the clean up in the gulf and that includes keeping you informed. my job is to listen to the shrimpers and fishermen, hotel and restaurant workers and find ways to help. that means working with communities. we have 19 centers in 4 states. we've made over 120,000 claims payments, more than $375 million. we've committed $20 billion to an independent claims fund to cover lost income until people impacted can get back to work. we'll keep looking for oil, cleaning it up if we find it and restoring the gulf coast. i was born in new orleans. my family still lives here. bp is gonna be here until the oil is gone and the people and businesses are back to normal... >>> >>> the developer behind plans to build an islamic center near ground zero is speaking out about the

, matt, but not this. that's true. a lot of issues are divisive. but if you want to claim to be the healer, then you're not on the side of the person who is pushing those issues. >> let me play you something you said on our program, "meet the press" back on december 22nd of 2002. so about 14 months after 9/11. >> if you think about the attacks on september 11th, i think everyone will acknowledge that part of the core of that attack was the fact that we have freedom of religion in america. that -- that part of why america was founded. it's part of what we're all about. it's one of the most prominent things about us, that you can be a catholic, a protestant, a jew, a muslim, or no religion at all, and no one's going to interfere with you. >> and no one's going to interfere with you. by saying that these people shouldn't build their mosque where they plan to build it, isn't that interfering? >> no, of course not. first of all, they have freedom of religion. they can build it. they have every right to build it

matt? >> if music is the soundtrack to your life, one canadian pilot could not have picked a more appropriate song to be playing during his miraculous survival from a fiery crash. in a moment, we'll talk to him exclusively, but first his story. when canadian forces captain brian bews took to the skies last month in a cf-18 fighter to practice for an upcoming air show "staying alive" was playing for spectators on the ground. ♪ staying alive >> reporter: no one could have guessed that would foreshadow what was about to happen. he was rehearsing an alpha pass when something went terribly wrong, his plane went turbulence and began to plummet. with moments to spare he hit the eject button and was thrown from the jet as it crashed into the ground and burst into flames. just four seconds passed between the time bews ejected from the cockpit and the time he hit the ground. luckily, the wind carried him away from the wreckage of the jet. the veteran pilot said his training and instincts saved his

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good evening, matt. >> reporter: good evening, george. those two studies challenge the government estimates about how much oil is still out there. they say the oil's been broken down into tiny particles, tiny, but still toxic. very different picture from the one painted by the white house just two weeks ago. university of georgia crunched government data and found up to 79% of the oil still lurks in the gulf. the government has said only 26% remains on or below the surface. >> my suspicion would be that a large fraction of this oil is in the system. >> reporter: a stark contrast from this white house assessment earlier this month. >> the vast majority of the oil appears to be gone. the vast majority of it has been collected. >> the vast majority of the oil has either evaporated or been burned, skimmed and recovered from the well head or dispersed. >> reporter: of continuing concern to scientists, a toxic jigsaw of nearly invisible clouds of oil thousands of feet down. >> the concentrations that are currently out there in various locations

matt gutman is on dauphin island, alabama, tonight, where some of the first oil came ashore. matt? >> reporter: that's right, diane. you can see, they built the berms behind me to block the incoming oil. but tonight on these beaches, some good news and relief. a new government report says that 75% of that oil has been cleaned up either by man or mother nature. it now seems this war against this oil is coming to an end. tonight, the fight to stop the oil has been won. making use of the largest armada of ships since d-day, engineers pumped into the top of the well a two and a half mile-long column of mud that forced the oil back into the earth. scouring the well, research teams found no sign of a leak. it worked. no more oil will ever spill out of this well. >> so, the long battle to stop the leak and contain the oil is finally close to coming to an end. and we are very pleased with that. >> reporter: the nail in the coffin? a column of cement nearly two football fields long poured in on top of the mud. a decision on that could come as early as tonight. >> we want to make sure it is

this day, matt has a job interview. he went through the program frank created -- project vacant streets, a sort of intense class at the shelter. >> need to be ready and have examples. >> reporter: it reintroduces confidence. frank then persuaded or begged employers to give his folks just a chance. >> nice to meet you. >> so, tafari, what are your major strengths? >> reporter: tafari is transformed. he lived in an abandoned hotel. now, going for it. >> happiness. complete happiness. it's weird that a job will give you happiness. for me, it will. >> reporter: monique bane understands. two years ago her marriage shattered and she was homeless with two children. today, after frank's program, she is completely self-sufficient. >> so how does it feel to be off the streets? >> oh, my gosh, magnificently wonderful. >> so how did it go? >> reporter: matt got the job. customer service at one of miami's best hotels. in a guest survey, he got the highest score. tafari is with a mobile restaurant company on a management track, just

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it is a very proposed by an author named matt ridley. we will hear more from him, but now gulf shores, alabama. caller: i had to start laughing when i heard this. sounds like typical scientific poppycock mindset combined with absolute euro-centric thinking. i cannot know if your listeners have traveled. you mentioned africa. a quick aside. the suffering we see. traveling much outside the slums of rio, born as ours, squatter communities of manila in the philippines, certainly africa, as you mentioned. it is so euro-centered to say that things are improving for people for a tiny fraction of the wealthy that the united states represents a large portion of. perhaps things from a material standpoint are improving but from a spiritual standpoint, things are tragically wars around the world. now, i can go material with the author. suicide,ploding, exploding, particularly in the west, the collapse of families, genocide, rates of abortion by any measure a failure if anyone has to have abortion, whether you are for it or against it, it is a failur

matt gutman is in louisiana covering that story. matt? >> reporter: good evening, dan. the president continued to celebrate his 49th birthday with a barbecue on the white house lawn and to make the point that these guys are still safe to eat, gulf shrimp were on the menu. next week, the president will vacation here along the gulf coast with his family at just about the same time that this well could officially and finally be pronounced dead. more optimism from the federal official in charge of the spill response. >> we need to drill into the area outside the casing pipe and the well bore and do that with the relief well, and that will be happening this week. >> reporter: a few days earlier than anticipated, it would be the final chapter for this doomed well. a well that he says bp could not have plugged sooner. something that's sure to upset locals. today, a full-court press from the white house to assure gulf residents that the cleanup will continue, but also, that the seafood here is safe. >> the tests show nothing of concern. we're going to continue to test. we're no

a's matt carson knows exactly which way it was. and he catches him looking. and wheels fell off in the fifth. here is his revenge, a sinking wider and matt carson misplays it a bases clearing triple a four run fifth gives them 4-1 your final. >> victoria who turned 21 was the first event defeat maria sharapova. the she couldn't handle the 21-year-old from belarus. and we go to set point. and sharapova, hits it wide. and took a toll and victor yar had sharapova on her heels and she wins in straight sets, taking home the $107,000 first prize. >>> facing atlanta but they had other ideas. we go to san leandro and atlanta they can't find the back of the net. it was almost a solo effort. she was knocking down everything that came her way. great day by solo and atlanta had a shot but it was a gimmeeko but could not make it. game ends in a 0-0 tie. they will make the playoffs but just not today. >>> british open, youngest woman to win it. she ends up paring the hole. here a birdie putt on 18. slides by and she finishes ten other but she needs a five-footer and 21 yea

matt? >> reporter: and earlier today we took a boat out to the marshes to try to find crews cleaning up the oil. we found the oil, but also anger. these guys were furious about this government report saying the vast majority of oil has disappeared. well, we learned that the well may be dead, but the spill is not over. yesterday, federal officials reported 75% of the oil was cleaned up either by man or mother nature. >> the vast majority of the oil has either evaporated or been burned, skimmed and recovered from the wellhead, or dispersed. >> reporter: it's a conclusion scientists today are challenging. >> i believe that most of it, at least 50% of the amount released is probably still in the water. >> reporter: and then there's the 25% of the oil, the equivalent of five exxon valdez spills, that everybody agrees still lurk in the water. and in the marshes. riding out here today, we saw a rib been ribbon of black, painted for miles across the reeds. these workers have spent weeks here vacuum