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October 5th, 2009
07:06 AM ET

Postcard from Norway: Day 2

You won’t believe your eyes when you see Dr. Gupta’s “Postcard from Norway: Day 2.”

He continues to chase the most fascinating medical stories around the world. Right now, he’s on assignment in a city just north of the Arctic circle. The doctors there are among the world’s leading experts on treating hypothermia. So Gupta puts their skills to the test.

We see him dip off a boat into 40 degree waters. Within just seconds, Gupta becomes noticeably short of breath and explains the painful experience he felt as the hypothermia began to set in and he waited…and waited…for the helicopter to rescue him from those frigid waters…


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October 2nd, 2009
10:14 AM ET
September 24th, 2009
07:55 AM ET

New breast cancer PSA is an eye-grabber

We've all seen our fair share of shocking ad campaigns. Flip through any fashion magazine and you'll see all kinds of edgy ads from designers.

But now a public service announcement, or PSA, for breast cancer is really drawing attention to the cause.

It's called "Save the boobs" and you have to see it to believe it.


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August 27th, 2009
02:44 PM ET

Yettaw: 'I had a vision they were going to murder her'

American John Yettaw made headlines around the world back in May when he swam to the lakeside home of Myanmar's detained pro-democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi – sneaking in to see her.

The stunt got Yettaw sentenced to seven years hard labor and Aung San Suu Kyi an extra 18 months under house arrest. Yettaw was released earlier this month during a trip to Myanmar by Virginia Senator Jim Webb.

In an exclusive two-part interview, CNN's Kiran Chetry asked Yettaw what drove him to leave his wife and children and risk his life to travel halfway around the world.

Watch part two of the interview after the jump.

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August 6th, 2009
08:44 AM ET
July 30th, 2009
08:38 AM ET

A child driving NYC Subway Train? Rider says 'It's shocking'

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New Yorkers will tell you they've seen strange things underground on the subway. This past weekend a subway rider saw a child 8 or 9 years old in the train operator’s cab and said it appeared she was teaching the boy how to run the train. He snapped a picture with his cell phone before getting on train.

The subway rider, Jules Cattie, spoke with CNN’s Carol Costello Thursday.

Carol Costello: The story is so unbelievable.

Jules Cattie: Even in New York, it’s shocking.

Costello: You said you snapped the picture because you didn't think anybody would believe you.

Cattie: In New York people say crazy things all the time and you tell friends and people say ‘no, that couldn't happen.’ Well, this actually happened.

Costello: You're sitting on the train. When does this first come to your attention that a child might be in the driver's seat of this subway train?

Cattie: Well I left work, was going home to watch a U.S. soccer game and I heard someone kind of yelling instructions. But it didn't sound like a co-worker to co-worker, like training an MTA employee, it sounded like a mother and a child. The tone was like that.

Costello: So what was she saying to the boy?

Cattie: The words, I heard: ‘green, go, yellow, slow down’ and things like that which I thought that was kind of - the MTA has to have better instructed people if they don't know that green means go.

Costello: And at this time, the train was actually moving?

Cattie: Yes. Yes.

Costello: So was he doing a pretty good job?

Cattie: It’s a rail so I don’t know. It was going and then we eventually - the train stopped at UNION SQUARE and the train was delayed a little bit and all of a sudden the young boy came out, popped the door open and announced why the train was delayed.

Costello: The little boy popped out and said why the train was delayed, the same kid that was driving the train?

Cattie: At this point, I didn't know that. He popped out and made the announcement. Everybody on the train kind of nervously looked around and giggled like ‘did that really just happen?’ And it's kind of shocking and he went back in. At that point I went up to the cab to kind of investigate and see what was going on.

Costello: You went up to the cab to investigate and what did they tell you?

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