funding we can get, how many scientists we can put behind the problem to solve it. reporter: sutton told the doctors he would somehow help make it happen. he wrote checks. he joined the board of directors. john sutton. reporter: he offered himself as a voice of hope for desperate patients. reporter: even though it may never help him, as long as he lives. he is okay with that? there is a chance that that we may not be able to restore his vision. there is a chance on the other hand, we may. if he doesn t get behind it. he does know that we re not going to move it as fast as we could. well it is my pleasure to be here today. as you will hear i almost didn t make it here today. sutton traveled the country speaking at fundraisers using his shock and awe presentation
optic nerve repair. have you done any studies with severed optic nerves. reporter: he peppered them with questions like he was cross-examining witnesses. mike gilmore, president of the research clinic offered sutton a glimmer of hope. we will be able to regenerate an optic nerve not so much a question of can we, when can we? reporter: and it was a good news/bad news sort of day. i do not want to mislead you or provide false hopes. reporter: yes there might be a cure but perhaps not for five, ten years or more, quite possibly too late for john sutton. okay. how soon depends on how much funding we can get, how many scientists we can put behind the problem to solve it. reporter: sutton told the doctors he would somehow help make it happen. he wrote checks. he joined the board of directors. john sutton. reporter: he offered himself as a voice of hope for desperate patients. reporter: even though it may never help him, as long as he lives. he is okay with that?
scientists we can put behind the problem to solve it. so sutton told the doctors he would somehow help make it happen. he whoet checks. he joined the board of directors. john sutton. he offered himself as a voice of hope for desperate patients. even though it may never help as long as he lives. he s okay with that? there s a chance that we may not be able to restore his vision. there is a chance, on the other hand, that we may, but if he doesn t get behind it, he does know that we re not going to who have it as fast as we could. well, it s my pleasure to be here today. as you will hear, i almost didn t make it here today. sutton traveled the country speaking at fundraisers, using what he calls his shock and awe presentation to tell his story complete with his 911 call
these shootings have just become all too common. on this show later, we ll hear from some of the survivors of the october 2017th ma mass shoo in las vegas. we have van in the van, we have two mothers who lived through that massacre. the owner of the gun store who sold the weapons to the sniper who killed. we need hope and inspiration. tonight we ll get a voice of hope. a guy i call a super dad, super human being, nba super star steph curry. we ll hear from steph curry tonight. we need to hear from him. we need that kind of inspiration because even while we re mourning the victims of this gun violence, we have to remember something. breakdowns. you know, even terrible breakdowns can lead to breakthroughs. you know that just looking at your own life. we take the bad and we just try
you know, the nation is still just reeling from this sense less massacre, 17 people high school students, teachers, in florida. our hearts were shattered by the students who died. but luckily we still have some hope coming from the stud entsd who lived, and that s so important. these shootings have become all too common. on this show later, we are going to hear from some of the survivors of the october 2017 mass shooting in las vegas. i m going to get back in my van, you know, i do van in the van. we have two mothers who lived through that massacre. plus in the same van, the owner of the gun store who sold the weapons to the very sniper who almost killed those women. so it s a very powerful conversation. and honestly we need some hope and inspiration. tonight we are going to get a voice of hope. a guy i call a super dad, nba s superstar, stef curry. we ll hear from here tonight. and we need to hear from him and