person. we don t know if that happened here. i don t think it did. i think she just got pushed up a list. a judge said she had to be added to that list for ten days until we figure out the merits of the rule. she s very sick. that s why she climbed to the very top of the list. i think she probably got a general donation. you want to prevent problems like sarah, very important to sign your donor card. you ve mentioned before, you said you believe that sarah might not be the best candidate for a lung transplant. can you tell me why? there are a couple of reasons. the adult lung will probably be cut back and a piece used. that makes some transplant surgeons it won t work so well. she does have cystic fibrosis
they are trapped at the moment. many, many floors above the city streets in manhattan. we re going to keep a close eye on this. hopefully we can get these two workers up and out and a-okay. we ll follow this for you. again, hearst tower in new york. these two workers trapped. also, some good news on a wednesday. major update on a story we have followed, you have followed very closely with us about this 10-year-old girl waiting for a lung transplant. guess what? she s in surgery right now. she got that pair of lungs. sarah murnaghan in surgery, not out of the woods just yet, though. we re going to talk live to a doctor who will tell us how this transplant works. how does it work getting adult lungs in a child s body? we ve got a lot of questions. that s next. without going to angie s list first. you ll find reviews on home repair to healthcare written by people just like you. with angie s list, i know who to call, and i know the results will be fantastic. angie s list reviews you ca
definitely did poke a hole in a rule that needed to be re-examined. i m not sure the evidence really did show that kids under 12 wouldn t do as well with adult lungs. she didn t get every kid on the list but she got every kid the right to appeal so case by case the system will take a look at that. who lost? there are definitely some adults today who might have benefitted from that organ donation that just took place. they didn t get it. sarah did. i think we have to continue to keep in mind you don t add more lives just because sarah s family managed to get a change in that rule for her. you re just changing who it is that s saved. explain the process here. it s not clear she got the lungs because she was moved up the list or maybe somebody requested their lungs go to her. that s right. every once in a while you get a family that says i want to donate organs. i ve heard about someone through the media. i want the organ to go to that
live pictures, wabc in manhattan. to pennsylvania now, to the day 10-year-old sarah murnaghan s parents fought so hard for. finally has arrived. sarah is in surgery right now getting a lung transplant. we ve been following this story so closely. so much attention on her. but, again, the parents, we ve talked to them. they say this is not just about her. this is about so many kids on lists like these under the age of 12. her story is this. she has cystic fibrosis. but until a judge intervened very recently, sarah couldn t qualify for lungs because she was younger than 12. you have to be over the age of 12 to get adult lungs. well, today she s getting those lungs that she so desperately needs. the donor is an adult. her mother, sarah s mother, announced the news on sarah s facebook page today. here s what she wrote. let me read it for you. quote, sarah got the call. she will be taken back to the o.r. in 30 minutes.
suffering from cystic fibrosis. her family desperate for a year and a half, two years, trying to get her a lung. they basically challenged the system. they sued the system, department of health and human services, because she is under 12 years old. they felt as though she was not treated fairly under the transplant system. their feeling was that those 12 years and older according to health and human services policy had more access to adult lungs, adult lung donations. basically what they did, john, they sued and that was last week, a judge ruled in their favor. earlier this week, united network for organ sharing, the organization that oversees all of the lists, maintained the lists, had an emergency meeting and basically had an interim change to policy. so now that people like sarah, children like sarah, another young man there as well, a little boy is 11 years old in