family never thought they would see again. the business major was in a devastating five-car pile-up in october, he sursurvived, but barely. his odds of survival were slim. his family even thought about what they would did do if they had to take him off life support. they didn t actually talk to us about donating his organs or anything directly, but john and i knowing sam he would want to help other people if he was actually not going to be with us. reporter: but his doctor wasn t quite ready to declare sam brain dead. i said let s get one more mri scan. based on what he saw he told the family to give it one more week and that s when sam took matters into his own hands. that very day he responded to a command, holding up two fingers. that s s huge thing. when you think about it, it means that you can hear. it means that you can interpret what you re hearing. sam remembers what he saw when he opened his eyes in the