Surgery over; Youssif's biggest scar removed

Five-year-old Youssif underwent his most important surgery Thursday as his doctor removed the most extensive scar tissue on his face -- putting him on the path of being a normal boy again.

Youssif entered the operating room around 6:30 a.m. PT for the three-and-a-half hour surgery.

Just before the surgery began, Youssif began crying.

"I can't do this. I can't do this," he said.

Sedation then set in, he relaxed and Dr. Peter Grossman, the plastic surgeon with the Grossman Burn Center who is donating his services, began to operate.

He removed two saline-filled balloons placed in Youssif's neck and face that provided more good skin by stretching it. The largest balloon was about the size of a soda can.

Grossman then cut out the scar tissue and pulled up Youssif's healthy skin.

The doctor was amazed at how thick the scar tissue was -- about half an inch thick -- and "hard as wood."

When the tissue was removed, Youssif's jaw immediately relaxed, raising hopes that he will soon be able to eat normally again.

"The bottom part of his face looks like the old Youssif. He has a jaw line again. It's unbelievable," CNN's Arwa Damon said after coming out of the operating room.

The surgery ended around 10 a.m. PT.
Ahead of the surgery, Grossman was excited for Youssif. "This will be the most significant of the surgeries," he said.

One of the scars removed extended more than half a foot, stretching from his right ear around to his left cheek.
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Ga. Man Tries to Deposit Fake $1M Bill

A bank teller in Clearwater had a million reasons not to open an account for an Augusta, Ga., man Monday, authorities said. Alexander D. Smith, 31, was charged with disorderly conduct and two counts of forgery after he walked into the bank and tried to open an account by depositing a fake $1 million bill, said Aiken County Sheriff's spokesman Lt. Michael Frank.

The employee refused to open the account and called police while the man started to curse at bank workers, Frank said.

The second forgery charge came after investigators learned Smith bought several cartons of cigarettes from a nearby grocery store with a stolen check, Frank said.

The federal government has never printed a million-dollar bill, Frank said.



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1 year later, 4 Atlantic City prostitute deaths remain unsolved

On Nov. 20. 2006, the bodies of four prostitutes were found face-down in a drainage ditch behind a string of seedy motels on the Black Horse Pike, just outside the Atlantic City limits. One had been strangled with a rope or cord, and another was asphyxiated, although the medical examiner's office could not say exactly how. The cause of death for the other two could not be pinpointed because they had been in the water too long. All four cases are being investigated as homicides.

WHAT HAPPENED SINCE: Authorities have refused to speculate on whether they believe a serial killer is to blame, even though the bodies were placed in the water at different times, based on the rate of decomposition. Three of the four were blonde, and all abused drugs and alcohol. A task force has interviewed several people, but prosecutors have never publicly identified anyone as a suspect or "person of interest." A Salem County handyman who says they accused him of killing the women was jailed in April on an unrelated charge of secretly videotaping his ex-girlfriend's 15-year-old daughter nude. Terry Oleson was allowed to go free last month after pleading guilty to invasion of privacy and will be sentenced in two weeks. He gave investigators DNA samples in June; they still won't say what the test results show, but his lawyer says if police had anything on Oleson, he's still be behind bars.

WHO ELSE?: Atlantic County authorities won't say who they have questioned in the case, but Oleson's lawyer says another man, already in jail, confessed to the killings. The man says he turned over recordings of the alleged confession to prosecutors, but they won't say if they find them credible or not.

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Dog Washing Machine?

What do you think about this? Would you put your doggie in it?

8-limbed Girl has Successful Surgery

I'm glad to hear this little girl is ok and that the operation was successful.