This is a special edition of nightline. Good evening. Youre about to witness an unforgettable encounter. Pat hartison, a firefighter badly bumped in the line of duty, endured the most extensive face transplant ever attempted. But his experimental surgery over a year later nancy millar is coming face to face with a man whose bravery led to this moment. Oh, lord. Take a deep breath. Reporter just up those stairs is a man nancy millar has never met. Whats going through your mind . Reporter but his face she already knows. Im going to try not to lose it. Reporter it belongs to pat hartis, groundbreaking face transplant. Theres no way to describe the thanks and the gratitude that i have. Reporter the donor, nancys son david. Tonight shes going to meet some of the people whose lives he saved and come face to face with pat for the very first time. Its going to be emotional on both ends. No more tears. Happy tears, happy tears, happy tears. A year since nancy lost her son, david rodibagh. Come
This is a special edition of nightline. Good evening. Youre about to witness an unforgettable encounter. Pat hartison, a firefighter badly bumped in the line of duty, endured the most extensive face transplant ever attempted. But his experimental surgery required a selfless act on the part of one remarkable mother. Over a year later nancy millar is coming face to face with a man whose bravery led to this moment. Oh, lord. Take a deep breath. Reporter just up those stairs is a man nancy millar has never met. Whats going through your mind . Reporter but his face she already knows. Im going to try not to lose it. Reporter it belongs to pat hartison, the recipient of a groundbreaking face transplant. Theres no way to describe the thanks and the gratitude that i have. Reporter the donor, nancys son david. Tonight shes going to meet some of the people whose lives he saved and come face to face with pat for the very first time. Its going to be emotional on both ends. No more tears. Happy tear
Thousands of saiga antelopes in the kazakhstan steppes. The cause an aggressive bacteria. That much was clear. But why was the damage so extensive . A group of researchers are determined to find out, and our reporter inga sieg and her cameraman Axel Warnstedt joined them on their quest. But its difficult to locate the few remaining animals. The antyn dala steppe is vast, and on top of that, saiga antelopes are very shy animals. Inga these researchers have been on the go for days, looking for saigas across the vast grasslands of the kazakh steppe. Steffen the greatest challenge is finding the animals, because their population is now much smaller and we dont know exactly where they are. We sighted them when we took a count two weeks ago, but afterwards they went elsewhere and no one has seen them since then. The territory is just incredibly large. Inga the protected area is as large as france. Its like looking for a needle in a haystack. After the mass dieoff last year, the saiga antelop
Thousands of saiga antelopes in the kazakhstan steppes. The cause an aggressive bacteria. That much was clear. But why was the damage so extensive . A group of researchers are determined to find out, and our reporter inga sieg and her cameraman Axel Warnstedt joined them on their quest. But its difficult to locate the few remaining animals. The antyn dala steppe is vast, and on top of that, saiga antelopes are very shy animals. Inga these researchers have been on the go for days, looking for saigas across the vast grasslands of the kazakh steppe. Steffen the greatest challenge is finding the animals, because their population is now much smaller and we dont know exactly where they are. We sighted them when we took a count two weeks ago, but afterwards they went elsewhere and no one has seen them since then. The territory is just incredibly large. Inga the protected area is as large as france. Its like looking for a needle in a haystack. After the mass dieoff last year, the saiga antelop
That came into town, to try to find them housing, to find them jobs, and to basically get through the war years and all of the fears that existed back then together. For more information on booktvs recent visit to long beach, and the many other destinations on our cities tour, go to cspan. Org cities tour. Tonights program is a presentation of the guggenheimlehrman prize in military history. A 50,000 price jointly administered by the hari Frank Guggenheim foundation and the New York Historical society. It is thanks to the leader shouppe of of great trustee, the lincoln and financial history scholar, lehrman, that we have joined with the hari Frank Guggenheim foundation this year in trying to engage Greater Public discourse in wartime studies. I want to acknowledge mr. Lehrmans vision of the importance of understanding military history for aural educated systems and his work on behalf of our great institutions and its many intellectual endeavors. Thank you so much. [applause] i also wan