And another room for entertaining. The billiard room. Likeining room feels youre eating on the water because of the unobstructed views of gorgeous miami bay. Also features handpainted ceilings, the perfect ambiance to wined and dined wine and dine. Venetian plaster, painted ceiling and a gorgeous chandelier. Among the highlighted features is the master bathroom which features a walkin closet and a marble jacuzzi. The outdoor space features and an affinity pool, jacuzzi, and outdoor Summer Kitchen with views that go on forever. Thank you for joining me on the tour of palazzo leonardo. Designerthe break, the brings a touch of hollywood the palm beach when we return. we are wrapping up florida with a final stop and palm beach. We are taken inside their clients, they bring a bit of hollywood glamour to the sunshine state. Welcome to palm beach, florida. We would like to show you this glamorous hollywood regency we designed. Making a statement in the entranceway as important. You can do it with mirrors or wallpaper. Here we are in the formal living room. We went for a very soft pink like on the inside of the shell. In a room of this size, it is important that people not feel intimidated. What we chose to do was to move the furniture into small and intimate conversation areas. We found these beautiful daybeds and we felt they were much too pretty for a bedroom, so we modified them and turned them into corners of the living room. Reinstalled these vintage chandelier is that had a shimmer of of the plaster. For a minimalist approach to use it as a gallery space as she saw fit. The chandelier kind of brings back glamour want to get into the room. It gives them a relaxed approach. It kind of brings more excitement to the room. The overall feeling that we went for was a glamorous regency style. We used to the furniture, the desk, the pair of chairs, and the beautiful can that be bad. Canopy bed. We hate to see a tv when it is not in use so we went for hiding it in the bench at the foot of the bed. A predominant feature is custom embroidery. It is in carpets, pillows, and chairs. We think we can give it to something that will be replicated. Lets head outside. Project,e started this she was not sure about keeping the pool. Our inspiration for the fountain was to work with the architecture of the hollywood regency style of the home. You really do think it is a fountain but when you walk around to the other side, you see the steps are there and it is a fully functional pool. What we love about this project is we were able to create a apoachable interior, keeping with the history of palm beach. Thanks for stopping by. You enjoyed our tour of some of the luxurious homes of south florida. If you want to see these fabulous homes again, had to openhousetv. Com. We will see a next week with more Beautiful Homes and designs. Im sarah gordon, thanks for stopping in gore, thanks for stopping in. Captioned by the National Captioning Institute www. Ncicap. Org this sunday, the race to fix the president shealth care plan takes on new urgency as a key deadline is reached. There are thousands of people every single day who are Getting Health Care for the first time. And by the way, the website is continually working better, so check it out. But is it working as well as it should be . With president obamas promises to fix healthcare. Gov, will the website be fixed well enough to handle the millions of people that could sign up this month . And what will be the impact of obama care on the 2014 elections, and even perhaps the 2016 president ial race . Plus, an historic week for pope francis with his first major statement, attacking what he calls, quote, the idolatry of money. What continues is a whirlwind change for the vatican. Ill go one on one with Cardinal Timothy dolan of new york. He is one of the leading cardinals in america. He talks about why the church has turned against obama care and why the church has been outmarketed on gay marriage. Nbc correspondent harry smith with the story of the survivor of the Boston Marathon bombing. He represents the true meaning of boston strong. Im David Gregory onand this is meet the press on sunday, december 1st. Good sunday morning. A big weekend for the future of president obamas Landmark Health care legislation, two months to the day since the troubled launch of heal healthcare. Gov, they put out a report this morning saying theyre making dramatic progress and the team is meeting with private sector velocity and effectiveness. Thats how the website apparently is working. It also says the sites capacity has been expanded to handle 50,000 users at once along with improved response times and decreased error rates. But the Obama Administration has downplayed expectations in the past week saying the man could actually outweigh capacity, and todays report indicates there is still more work to be done. The real test lies ahead when millions of uninsured americans could try to enroll by an initial december 23rd deadline. We have mike rogers of michigan. He also sits on the on us and Commerce Committee over the jurisdiction of health and human services. Welcome to both of you and welcome to meet the press snoochlt. Just your reaction to this report. Dramatic progress, private sectorlike velocity. The promise was for the website to be fully functioning by now. Are you satisfied . Overstated. Have they made some progress and they brought in some folks to try to bring the functionality up. It still doesnt function right. Their own cio said he believed that if they had the ability to get up to 80 functionality, that would be a good day for them. So, a, the functionality is right. Heres a part of this discussion that nobody talks about. The security of this site and the private information does not meet even the minimal standards of the private sector, and that concerns me. I dont care if youre for it or against it, republican or democrat, we should not tolerate the sheer level of incompetence securing this site. But the hub accesses would expose the peoples information which is bad. Congressman van hollen, the claims being what they are today still indicate a truth. The washington editorial points it out this morning that while progress has been made, the site is still not today where it was supposed to be two months ago. And yet the promise is to be fully functioning. Are you satisfied . Well, david, the administration has hit the big benchmarks they set out, right . 50,000 people at one time, 80,000 people in one day. This is going to take some time before its up and kicking in full gear. I think what we have to look at is those states where you have well functioning web sites like california, like new york, like kentucky. All of them are signing people up. All of them have a good mix of people but your own state site not furn functioning very well. Maryland is a mess. There is no doubt about it. The question is are we going to Work Together to fix those problems, and there will be additional problems, or are we going to do what the republicans want to do, continue to sabotage the entire effort, even though they dont have an alternative. Yes, we should continue to fix it every day. The underlying concept is good. Congressman rogers indicates this is also where the president is going to go. Hes going to go on the offensive. Hes going to argue that republicans are trying to sabotage this instead of getting it right, that they have no ideas of their own. Is that whats going to help improvements here to people . This is unprecedented con physician indication of Peoples Health care. Heres what i think theyre missing. Theyre trying to make this a political fight. When you have someone who just lost their insurance, and there are millions of people who got cancellation notices, and the next goround on the business side is 80 to 100 people will get cancellation notices. Heres why i think theyre missing the boat on trying to make this a political fight between democrats and republicans. A guy grabbed me the other day whose wife is expecting a baby end of december. They got a cancellation notice. If she has the baby in january, he is absolutely apoplectic about how to pay for it. If she has the baby in december, there is no compassion in that. This is happening hundreds of thousands of times all across the country. Theyre getting ready to close highrisk pools that have cancer survivors, people who are trying to fight cancer are getting thrown out of their highrisk pools at the end of this year. As a cancer survivor, you want your whole focus to be on beating the disease. Theyre making a horrible mistake by trying to meet this when real people are are getting hurt. There are people who will get insurance who never had insurance, and you have a small piece of the market who may lose plans. Many of those may get better plans. You made your argument. Heres the bottom line question which goes to, will this be fixed . Look at this poll back on november 18 to the 20th. Will current problems facing the new Health Care Law be solved . 54 do believe it will be solved. Thats a level of credibility and belief in the system that presumably is very important. But let me ask you, congressman van hollen, we have seen delays in the still of the night. Here are some of the headlines. The wednesday before thanksgiving now saying Small Businesses will have extra time before they can actually start signing up for health care benefits. Should the individual mandate be delayed . This is the big part of health care. Should that be delayed if you want this to work as well as it can . As you know, they already moved the deadline twice. They moved it to the end of march for the original mandate. Weve extended this to december 23rd for people to sign up. We need to adapt. We need to make sure we address problems as they come up and try to work on them on a bipartisan basis. Mike says its not political. In my pocket, eric cantor issued this playbook against obama care the other day. Theyre not trying to work with us on these issues. Yes, there are problems, theres no denying that. Lets work to fix them. We know when its fixed it looks like california, it looks like new york, it looks like kentucky. Youre not saying its the president s job to execute, right . This is his president s idea and its his responsibility to execute, the federal governments responsibility to execute. No doubt about that. You have a lot of groups out there running ads telling people not to sign up. You have efforts tonavigators, trying to sign up. Democrats worked with republicans to get the job done. Should the original mandate be delayed if thats what it takes to get the program right . As of today, no. If you cant sign up, but right now, it looks like were making progress. Congressman van hollen, its really important if the original mandate should be delayed. Youre punishing these people. The number one reason people didnt have insurance was cost. What this has done is increase cost. So, again, theyre making it political. As a matter of fact, they tried to get people to talk about politics at theanksgiving table by talking about the president s Health Care Law, and at their own family table. If that isnt political, i dont know what is. Heres the problem. You have 15 of the population didnt have Health Insurance when this started, roughly. We think that number was high, closer to 10. What theyve done is disrupt it for the 85 who had health care, and their costs are going up significantly. So weve broken the system to help a few. Nobody would fix a problem that way. And think of the people who are going through all of the anguish today for getting that pink slip on their medical insurance who have cancer, who have a wife thats pregnant. Those folks are absolutely apoplectic. Thats why i think its crazy to say if we just tweak it a little bit, well take care of the problem. These are real life problems, and these folks are already having a hard time in the economy, and their Health Care Insurance is going up and they have to figure out how to get it. He just put out so much misinformation in two seconds that he cant answer. The reality is it hasnt messed up 80 of the market. The original market, which has already been broken, represents 5 of the market. A lot of those people were losing their health care on an annual basis before. Were trying to fix that. All the information about compromising your personal data, one of the great things about the Affordable Care act is were not dealing with preexisting conditions. Were not going to settle this here and now. Were out of time, but obviously this gives you some indication to our viewers about where this debate is and how political it will remain as we move ahead perhaps into the new year. Congressman rogers, congressman van hollen, thank you very much. Lets get a reality check. I want to turn to dr. Ezequiel emanuel. Welcome to both of you. The reality test. Heres the report saying dramatic progress, substantial progress, more work to do. You wrote in an oped some weeks ago that this is the time. This thanksgiving weekend, the deadline is here. Is it good enough progress . I think its good enough progress. Clearly, just like google and facebook and all the internet sites are constantly tweaking their sites, constantly improving them. This one still has a way to go. But it certainly is working reasonably well, i, in particular, want to shop and compare. The white house said it will improve either late tonight or tomorrow to the key area where people can see whats available, what the prices are. N working that well, but theyre promising to have it improved. I think we are going the right direction, and for the first time, most importantly, we actually have effective management overseeing. We have an integrater who is over it. Do they have enough young people to go and actually sign up . There are three things to getting folks to sign up. On the one hand, sir subsidies. The Congress Said one of the reasons they dont sign up is cost. Theyre going to get hundreds and trillions of dollars in the market for subsidy. Thats the reason theyll go in and be part of it. Another piece of it is the individual mandate. You guys were talking about this a couple moments ago, but at the end of this year, youre going to be paying a percentage of kwo your income if you dont sign up for Health Insurance. That gets them in the market, too. The other thing that hasnt launched yet, but a couple months ago before the Obama Administration believed that the fall would be all about it not working, they thought it would be about a massive outreach effort they were going to launch usingmayors, using governors, trying to get their mothers involved to get folks to sign up, by getting trusted valuable dar validaters to talk about it. In california the website is working and up, and there the portion of kids signing up is a portion of the population. So it does look like we are going to have enough if you have that data point. And if we can get the word out, well get enough young people. When you hear the politicians that were just talking, and you hear the political debate, a lot of viewers have to be hearing that saying, what about the bottom . When is this actually going to get solved . The website no doubt is going to get solved. Tae thats a technical problem. There are other tests down the road. Of course, there are other tests down the road. In the long run, in the next few years and end of the decade, this is going to have dramatic improvement. Youll have competition in the exchangers. Were already keeping costs down and will keep them down further. You have improvements in the health care system. Hospitals have to work on infections, readmissions. But there is a more pessimistic case, which could be what . The more pessimistic case would be you have insurance moving to the exchanges. The funny thing about this debate is republicans believe that over time would be great. All of their plans, including paul ryans 2010 plan, was about breaking down the base and moving people over. One of the things frustrating about this debate is weve gone to a place in politics where weve refused to accept the fact of this reform. The individual market is a place where the recent prices are what they are as we discriminate against the sick and the old and women and people who cant read the fine print of insurance. We are fixing that and its going to be important that we fix it. It doesnt mean no one will have a tough time in the changeover, and we need to help those folks, but we also need to recognize if were going to make things better, there is a process of difficulty to do that. Im out of time, but this is really where i think the administration wants to argue the plus side that youve already seen on the Affordable Care act and argue the real peril of the status quo. I have to leave it there. But thank you both for being here. 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Hes becoming the first noneuropean pontiff this last march, he has broken many deals of his predecessors, but what does the pope think about controversial issues such as obama care, gay marriage and abortion . Before the popes manifesto, i spoke one on one with one of the most influential triggers of the United States, Cardinal Timothy dolan, archbishop of neyork. Welcome to meet the press. Thank you, david. Happy thanksgiving. You bet. I want to talk about some faith, some politics, but lets start with the church. What a remarkable year its been with pope francis and the pope francis effect. His humanity has touched people the world over, not just catholics, and has made him an internet sensation, among other things. How do you describe this francis effect on the church, and as i say, on humanity more broadly . All i know, david, i thank god for it, thats for sure, and i see it every day. I cant walk down the streets of new york, which i do a lot, without people stopping me and saying, cardinal, im not even a catholic, im not even a believer, but i love pope francis and thanks a lot for voting for him. Because they love him. You put the finger on it when you spoke about his humanity. His sincerity, his complicity, his generosity, his hilarity. I think jesus is coming to us as catholics and humanity of the world through pope francis. The Church Doctrine remains the same, but you have described it as a change of tone. I would say a change of tone, a change of strategy. A pope by his nature cannot make doctrinal changes. He can make a lot of changes in the way, the style, the manner in which its presented. You know the best analogy of that . John xxiii. By the way, theyre saying pope francis reminds them of john xxiii. He was pope in 1953. But he can do it in a way that makes it more radiant. Could it get confusing if you do that . It could, but one of the appeals of francis is we have to take some risks. If were just timid and afraid and afraid to go out and engage people and meet people and take some chances in presenting the faith, were going to shrivel up and die. But he said we cant worry about Birth Control and abortion, that we worry too much about those issues. Is that a problem for you, that he believes that . That he would say that . No, not at all. I gave him a standing ovation when he said that. Most of the time i say, i dont know that its so much the church obsessed with that, its the world obsessed with those things. Theyre always asking us about it. I look at myself, david, in my almost 37 years as a priest. Rare would be the times that i preached about those issues. So francis is right. Hes saying first things first. First lets talk about god, about his mercy, about his love, about his forgiveness, about his invitation, about his embrace, about his promise for life eternal through his son jesus. You talk about that and then morals, doctrine, that will fall into place. But some of the moral debates, this is where there are debates, this is where there is tension. Sure. What is the Natural Evolution of a change in tone, a change in the packaging of this pope to actual change in Church Policy on some of these matters . Yeah, i dont know if thats too new, though. I would say since the time of jesus christ, there has always been tension, difficulty, conflict in the application of the teaching. I mean, i look at my jewish neighbors. They have the torah. Theres the law, pretty clear. The application is always going to bring some debate in conversation. We christians, we catholics have the sermon on the mount. The application, thats where the rubber hits the road. Thats where there will always be conversation and a little bit of disagreement. What is his effect on american politics, for instance, on some of these issues, be it abortion or gay marriage . What is the impact . On politicians or on catholics . Well, on the public debates, on the political debates in this country around these issues. I will tell you this. I would say for committed catholics, and thanks be to god there is a lot of them. I love them, im grateful for them this thanksgiving weekend, they would say what pope francis has done is reminded us of the latitude of catholic believes and catholic principles. Those who would try to closet us, maybe, and just in what you might call below the belt issues be that gay marriage or abortion or prostitution. Thats important and the teaching on that is unwavering. But pope francis has said wait we forgive, the way we help the poor, the way we reach out to the sick, fort gthe forgotten, on the side of the road, that is as strong an imperative as anything else. What about obama care . You have voiced your displeasure with certain aspects of it in terms of man dates for hospitals and so forth. What about the overall goal of it . Do you think it will ultimately prevail . Would you like it . Do you think its important for the country that universal Health Care Insurance is available . Yep. And im glad you allow me to make that distinction, david. We bishops have really been in a tough place because were far universal comprehensive lifeaffirming health care. The bishops of the United States, can you believe it, in 1919 came out for more affordable, more comprehensive, more universal health care. Thats how far back we go in this battle, okay . Were not johnny come latelies. Weve been asking for reform in health care for a long time, so we were kind of an early supporter in this. Where we were bristling and saying, uhoh, this is excluding the unborn baby so we began to br bristle at that. And secondly we said, wait a minute, we catholics are kind of among the pros when it comes to providing health care, do it because of the dictates of our conscience, and now were being asked to violate some of those. Thats when we begin to worry and draw back and say, mr. President , please, youre really kind of pushing aside some of your greatest supporters here. We want to be with you, we want to be strong, and if you keep doing this, were not going to be able to be one of your cheerleaders. That, sadly, is what happened. Are you disappointed on another debate on immigration, that it appears that republicans in this case dont see a pathway any longer toward getting this done . Immigration would be one of those issues that shows that those who try to pigeonhole bishops pastors catholics are wrong. On health care we might be upset with the democrats, the administration. On immigration were saying to the house of representatives, which is dominated by the republicans, you guys got to get your act together. This is the best chance weve had in fair and just immigration reform. Its in your lap and doesnt seem to be going anywhere, and were not going to let you off the hook. So yeah, were disappointed there as well. Let me touch on gay marriage. This week illinois is becoming the 16th state, including d. C. , to allow samesex marriage. Do you think this is evolving in such a way that ultimately it will be legal everywhere, or is it the opposite, that there will be a backlash and the status quo will be maintained . I would be a pollyanna that there doesnt seem to be a stance of doing this. Sometimes weve been caricatured as being antigay, and as much as we say were pro marriage, were not anti anybody. I dont know, when you have forces like politicians, when you have forces like some opinion molders that are behind it, its a tough battle. I do think, though, to get back to your question, david, back in 1973 with roe v. Wade, everyone said, this is a fargone conclusion. Its going to be backburnered. To this day it remains probably the most divisive issue in american politics. If you look at some of the changing attitudes you say, wow. Were beginning to affect the young with the prolife message. You dont think the gay marriage debate is over . No, i dont think it is. I think of thanksgiving as i think of the holidays generally as a wonderful opportunity to separate from our lives and to think about gratitude. However, i dont have to tell you how commercial these holidays become and we think more about recipes for the holiday. Let me ask you, your eminence. Whats your recipe for expressing gratitude . By the way, im not against recipes. I kind of like them myself. The right recipe is this. I think it comes down to hue millty, which is the key, both the people of the book, jews and christians, would say hue mimil is the key virtue. Without god, were nothing. With god, everything is possible. We realize every breath we take is an unmerited gift from a lavishly loving god, that prompts us literally to fall to our knees and say thank you. It also reminds us were not the center of the universe. Its not about me, its about him and his people. Thats gratitude, thats faith, thats humility, thats thanksgiving. And there could be we laugh about it often, but there could be family pain and dysfunction, but its an opportunity, again, to separate and say, where is my perspective in my life . Is it a paradox every year that there is pain at thanksgiving. Oh, my god, my family is dysfunctional, but you wouldnt be anywhere else at thanksgiving. Youre already looking forward to going back there, and thats the beauty of family and community. Good to see you. You, too, david. Happy thanksgiving. When we come back here, the politics of health care and a term we havent heard in a while, hillary care. David brooks, andrea mitchell, we know why were here. To chart a greener path in the air and in our factories. To find cleaner, more efficient ways to power flight. And harness our technology for new energy solutions. 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Does someone have to be fired before americans think were on the right track . If this doesnt turn out to be the fix, if this website fix doesnt turn out to work as well as theyre promising right now on various conference calls, what theyre promising as far as the public is concerned, then i think you would see republican accountability and some demand for action. All of these reports and all of this weekend sort of placement of where the website is at this point, all of it seems irrelevant to me because we havent had a real test of the system. They say it can handle up to 50,000 at one time. Okay, lets see what happens. Theyre hesitant to market it this week, and theyre not going to this is a soft launch, this is a beta test. Its also the fact of what happens when people actually start enrolling and insurers start interacting and bills have to be paid when people put claims in . All those larger tests are so far down the road. It seems to me to put out a fact sheet today and say they have 400 bugs fixed, what kind of bugs . Big bugs, little bugs . But the bigger question is also going back to how this happened, what is the management inside the white house . How much is the president reaching out to outside advisers . Is he only consulting with friends who are his top advisers inside the white house, or is he really getting the best opinion behind the Management Consultant trying to fix this. Heres something put out in the Washington Post by dan balz. By almost any measure, this has been a lost year for obama on the domestic front. The flawed rollout of the Health Care Law, the most Important Initiative of his tenure, has been a huge setback. I think thats a bit of an overstatement. A lost year . Focusing on trying to get more people Affordable Health care . At the end of the day, everyone knows, we can all agree the rollout could have been, should have been better. But underneath all that is democrats and the president trying to make sure the people have health care. That is the side that we should be on, not this sort of is it right, is it wrong, should he be mad about it, should he not be mad about it . This is about making sure people can live. Can government be nimble, can government learn from its mistakes . I would say the website is just a small symptom. Government slik an offensive lineman. It can do blocking, it can create order. When you ask the government to be a wide receiver, youre asking them to do things they cant do. Republicans win elections when the Government Asks them to do things they cant do. Page three of the report it says here, the team is reacting with High Pressure velocity and effectiveness. Thats an acknowledgment that, you know what, this was a government operation for a long time and it failed. Now were bringing in the private sector folks. That is an indictment on the whole idea of government as a solution, frankly, when you look at this. And the president as a manager, and people around him who can get the bureaucracy to move in a particular direction, which is not easy, but this is your point on how nimble government is. The challenge is i think the goals are laudible, mayor, and its something the president articulated brilliantly as an election and reelection mantra. But this is a tough bet, and he had a responsibility to make sure the rollout was not this disastrous in order to achieve these goals. Because now theyre at risk of losing the credibility of government as an agent of change. Republicans are insist he en relentless pursuit of failure. We have democrats, we have republicans, nobody is rooting against each other. We know that when cities succeed, the country succeeds. In congress, we have people that are standing on the sidelines rooting for failure. We know the rollout was botched. But democrats are focused on trying to build and trying to fix it. Im just saying the president gave his opponents, and you can certainly make the argument that he has had this monolithic Republican Opposition in congress, and thats a good and valid excuse. But he gave them a weapon against him. Youre conservative about saying, look, you have a big idea. You have to execute. People said that about iraq, too, so weve had a couple execution failures. I asked president obama, what did you learn being president that you havent learned before . He said there is a passive government. Government can do things really well, social security, move checks here and there really well. This sort of nimbleness, this is a lot tougher. Adjustment to failure, a lot tougher. It doesnt mean youre hating government all the time, but there are a lot of roles. Ive been studying america and the enlightened period of the individual liberty as a real source of the government experience, and yet in more modern times that government should, as you were saying, mayor, play a role to do good, to use its power to actually fix big societal problems, but we do have this in conflict because the goal to do good to a lot of people feels like telling them what to do. Thats right. Theres always been this retrenchment of collectiveness on one hand, and especially youre bringing up the early period. You know, this country was divided. Sort of the northern part you had the initial settlers were okay with collectivism, but the folks that integrated and migrated to the south werent that way. Health care is just the icing on the cake. Where is immigration . His push for guns . Rebuilding trust in government . There were all these things that he thought in the second term, this his election to validation of a second term was going to do, and its not just a lost year, its a setback. Heres another aspect of it. We look ahead to 2016. Hillary clinton and health care. Weve done some checking on this and hear republicans talking a lot about Hillary Clinton in this context. Listen. If you like your plan, you can keep it . That was not accidental. That was following the lessons from the fight over hillary care. What took hillary care down is that people realized, holy cow, i might lose my Health Insurance, i might lose my doctor. Who ever thought this was going to work . But i have to tell you, this is really hillary care. We cant forget she was the original author of hillary care back in, i believe, 1983, and that would have been a disaster as well. I would think they would be a little more artful. The leading candidate is clearly obvious. I dont think it shows them being agile in putting forth what they would do, because they have offered nothing. Theyre sticking to the playbook. Theyve tried 50 times to repeal it, and for what . We know the system is broken. Whats the fix . The republican really messed up with the government shutdown, we have the obama website. Suicide will be a concern next. Well see. What the government worries about in terms of the website, if were talking about this in the same way come january, then all of a sudden, the candidates out there, a lot of democrats have taken tough votes. Theyll be hard pressed to go out there and do the same thing. This is republicans hoping that if she say hillary care, shell step in. They almost want to divide the party. Coming up, the roundtable is going to be coming back. 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Its almost similar to what im going through right now, and facing the hill to me meant facing my own challenges. Last spring mary was near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, a favorite day in the city she loves. This energy of happiness and togetherness, i wanted to be there. I wanted to be part of that. Reporter she would awaken days later in the hospital to learn she had lost her left leg. Doctors were doing all they could to save the right one. Yet she had no anger, no selfpitity. Im very thankful and grateful. But im also grateful for life to be able to even see this thanksgiving. I came close to dying, and that is something to celebrate. Reporter we wanted to tell marys story this thanksgiving because mary herself is a kind of modern day pilgrim. She came to america from haiti, a teenager who couldnt speak a word of english. In the u. S. Youre offered a lot of opportunities, and if you work at it, if you apply yourself, you can actually achieve whatever you want to achieve. Reporter she studied bio chemistry at umass, got her medical dreegree in europe and became a u. S. Citizen. I can dare to believe, dare to dream, dare to disagree and dare to be whatever i want to be. Reporter do you still believe that . Yes. Reporter mary is the person we wish we were more like, undeterred even by the biggest obstacles. There are challenges we have to face and overcome. It might be losing a limb for me, it might be Something Else for someone else. Reporter and you feel like what happened to you is no different from any other challenge any of the rest of us face on any given day . Yeah, thats what i feel. Reporter positive but not pollyannaish. Maybe you could call it oldfashioned american optimism. My first step was very phenomenal. I was so happy when i took my first step. Reporter and then the second . And now i dont know how many. Its easier uphill. Where nothing was imism forged taken for granted, an immigrants life. Does some of it have to do with where you came from . I think so, and i think it could be part of my culture that prepared me for this. Reporter you see a lot of people who could be really despairing, right . Yes. But theyre smiling. Reporter mary, in case youre wondering, did get her cup of hot chocolate atop that hill in vienna. She told us she expects to complete her medical boards in a year or so. We have no doubts. Then she said shes headed to colorado next month to learn how to ski. Happy thanksgiving. Thank you. Happy thanksgiving to you, too. I love that. The Boston Herald wrote about the courage of the survivors of boston. The eloquence of some of these survivors, i think, is what had a huge impact. That story sin kris incredib inspiring. What gratitude we have to her. We have so many people who are maimed and get that idea that theyre humbled by the fact theyre still alive. Their strength is amazing. You see them and you ask yourself, if it were me, would i have it in me to be that strong and to look at it as an opportunity to live differently, to change. Great story. Were going to come back with our roundtable. Well talk a little about foreign policy, the challenges facing the u. S. Overseas at the moment. Iran, afghanistan just this weekend opportunities arent always obvious. Sometimes they just drop in. Cme group can help you navigate risks and capture opportunities. We enable you to reach Global Markets and drive forward with broader possibilities. Cme group how the world advances. Maestro of project management. Baron of the buildout. You need a permit. To be this awesome. And you. Rent from national. Because only national lets you choose any car in the aisle. And go. You can even take a fullsize or above, and still pay the midsize price. aaron purrrfect