welcome back to the lead, i m jake tapper, in our national lead this evening, she personifies the determination, the spirit, and yeah, the toughness of boston strong. adrienne haslet davis was one of the wounded in the boston bombing last year. but she refused to give up her life as a dancer even after one of those bombs blew off part of her leg. tonight, in just a few minutes right here on cnn our own anderson cooper will share her riveting story of recovery with help from home videos she took along the way and a cnn special report titled the survivor diaries. here is a special look. part of my ptsd recovery was thinking that a bomb would go off at all times. they lit fireworks over the
exploded near the finish line of the boston marathon, adrian davis was just seconds away from the blast when the schrnapel was close by and hit by the explosion. she has agreed to film her everyday life in video diaries. now i m just going to go out into the real world and a world with bombs. and strangers and memories. that i don t know if i m ready to face. took a lot of courage to do that, her videos are part of a new cnn documentary called the survivor diaries hosted by anderson cooper. this must have been difficult, what was this past year like for you? you know, for such a long
i have been in dodger territory. it is really a beautiful thing. it doesn t matter your allegiance. we can all get behind the message of boston strong. john king, thanks so much for joining us. this is just beginning of a few weeks to remember what happened last year. we really want you to watch a cnn special report about this. it has boston strong written all over it. it is called the survivor diaries. it is story of adrian daley, the professional dancer and survivor of the boston bombings and amputee. you can follow her remarkable journey. it will change your day. she rebuilds her life with the help of a cutting-edge medical prothesis. anderson cooper hosts this on tuesday night at 10:00 eastern and pacific on cnn. promise me you will check it out.