along, this story from jim acosta is about how we may no longer be able to afford arguably one of our greatest triumphs. you re about to see what many call a miracle. i could not feed myself. reporter: this woman in africa is dying from aids, barely able to lift her arms or open her eyes. this is me. wow, they ve done a great job. reporter: and here she is again, days later, after treatment with inexpensive anti-aids drugs. talking, walking. it is called the lazarus effect, this astonishing transformation has been repeated all over the continent thousands of times and michael gerson wants you to know the story because you re paying for it. there are good foreign policy reasons to do this sort of thing. reporter: gerson is a conservative columnist with the washington post, a senior fellow with the council on foreign relations and he was
tripoli today. a government official says one of the blasts hit a compound belonging to libyan leader moammar gadhafi. nato claiming responsibility, at least one of the attacks which it said struck a vehicle in a storage area. the airstrikes happened during the daylight which has been rare for nato strikes in libya. president obama arrived back in the u.s. within the last hour. he wrapped up a six-day trip to europe today in poland where he did meet with the prime minister, also met with veterans of solidarity labor movement, credited with helping end communism in poland. the president praised poland s transition to democracy and called it a model for nations across north africa and the middle east now. and in missouri, the death toll in joplin has risen again after last sunday s tornado. 140 people, 42 people, i should say, are confirmed dead from that f-5 twister. another 100 are missing. president obama is scheduled to tour this area tomorrow and meet some of the victims
where jesus raises one of his closest friends, lazarus of bethany from the dead. a great line where word gets out jesus friend lazarus is sick and dies and he cries out this disease will not lead to death. your brother will rise again. people are now and i say people, relief agencies as well as doctors are applying that same idea and theme in a real world way in africa. how? that s right. lazarus effect is this term used throughout civil society in africa, church leaders, doctors, nurses, politicians use it to describe what happens when people get access to these life-saving anti-retroviral therapies, the aids medicines that literally resurrect lives. people for 40 cents a day within 40 days their lives are transformed and they bounce up off their death beds, going back to school and work. we see entire communities transformed. we want people to see what
of it because she had some ratings worries for her new network but her camp fired back telling the new york daily news telling her support for president obama is unwavering. the lazarus effect are you familiar with that? a miracle in the bible and today those who fight aids in africa are reminding churches that a similar miracle may still be possible today. lazarus effect is this phenomenon that happens when people are dying from aids and literally resurrected off their death beds. and when we come back, how a group that was co-founded by singer and activist bono is helping make those miracles happen.