reporter: but after being sedated to have her teeth pulled, she sounded like this. and you talk to young girls, they think it s a very, very pretty sound. they say oh, i like an accent like this. i say, oh, just go see my dentist. he only charges seven grand. now you open your mouth and everybody wants to know where you re from. she s from toledo, oregon, and sthees never been to any of those foreign places. there s nothing fake about this. it s a medical condition called foreign accent syndrome, very rare, fewer than 100 known cases. for instance, a florida woman named judy roberts who had a stroke and went from sounding like this we ve got fabulous things to this. i felt like i was going bloody crazy. doctors believe foreign accent syndrome is usually caused by some sort of brain injury or stroke. but it didn t affect karen s sense of humor, even when it first happened a your and a half ago.
moment. reporter: after being sedated to have her teeth pulled, we re not pulling your leg, she sounded like this. you talk to young girls they think it s a very pretty sound. i want an accent like that. just go see my dentist. reporter: some say she sounds irish or english or eastern european. now you open your mouth and everybody goes, what s your problem? reporter: she s from toledo, oregon, and never been to any of those foreign places. there s nothing fake about this, it s a medical condition called foreign accent syndrome, very rare, fewer than 100 known cases. for instance, a florida woman named judy roberts who had a stroke and went from sounding like this. we ve got fabulous things. reporter: to this. i felt like i was going bloody crazy. reporter: doctors believe foreign accent syndrome is usually caused by some sort of brain injury or stroke, but it didn t affect karen s sense of humor, even when it first happened a year and a half ago. i sounded more lik
can t come to the phone at the moment. reporter: after being sedated to have her teeth pulled, wie r not pulling your leg, she sounded like this. talk to young girls, they think it s a very, very pretty sound and i want an accent like that. oh, just go so my dentist. reporter: some say she sounds arish or english or eastern european. no, you open your mouth and everybody wants to know, where are you from? reporter: she s from toledo, oregon, and never been to any of those foreign places. there s nothing fake about this. it s a medical condition called foreign accent syndrome. very rare. fewer than 100 known cases. for instance, a florida woman named judy roberts who had a stroke and went from sounding like this we ve got fabulous things reporter: to this. i felt like i was going bloody crazy. reporter: doctors believe foreign accent syndrome is usually caused by some sort of brain injury or stroke, but it didn t affect karen s sense of
coverage on the osama bin laden killing in just a bit. but right now, it s time to take a look at some other news. flood waters from the mississippi river are swamping the memphis airport. it s all part of unprecedented rainfall that one official says is 600% above normal. and there s more to come with the mississippi river in memphis likely to crest weekend, well above flood stage. in d.c., the fbi is investigating a series of suspicious letters sent to 25 schools. police say the mail contains white powder. several schools were partially evacuated because of it. in oregon, imagine waking up from dental surgery with a foreign accent. it actually happened to a woman from new port. listen. when you open up your mouth, somebody says, well, where are you from? where did you get that act september? well, i got it from my dentist in toledo. some medical expert says she may have foreign accent syndrome, a
according to reports, doctors believe the migraine damaged the 35-year-old s brain, causing a condition known as foreign accent syndrome. never heard of that one. yeah, never even heard of that. that s so weird. why would that happen? i don t know. i m kind of gullible, so yeah. apparently it s real, though, from what we understand. yeah. we ll check in with joe a little bit later. joe, let s take time to look at our beat 360 winners, our daily challenge to viewers to come up with a caption better than the one we can come up with for a photo we put on the site every day. picture, treasury secretary timothy geithner talking to ben bernanke talking before house lawmakers about the collapse of lehman brothers. staff winner tonight, steve, has captioned, ben, do you really think we look like toby and josh from the west wing? kara from charlottesville, i m going with volcanic ash for the cause of the collapse. think they ll buy it? still ahead is that a flush the l