BERMAN: It's a legal battle no parent wants to imagine, the family of 13-year-old Jahi McMath, scrambling to find a facility now that will take her after a judge ruled that a hospital can disconnect her life support machines at 5:00 p.m. today. The teen was declared brain dead just three days after she suffered complications from tonsil surgery earlier this month. CNN's Dan Simon is live outside children's hospital in Oakland. Dan, is her family still holding out hope that they can find a place for her?</s>DAN SIMON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: They really are, John. This is such a heartbreaking case for this family, and it's going to be even more difficult today because barring any kind of successful appeal, we don't know if there is going to be an appeal filed in this case, doctors here at Children's Hospital are set to remove the ventilator that has been supporting Jahi McMath's body. As we've been reporting for several days now she has been declared brain dead, and according to the mainstream medical community it is the same thing as being dead. So, one can empathize with this family, though they've been trying to secure a facility that can take her for, obviously, a very long time, and unfortunately, they've been unable to locate such a facility.
Brain Dead Child to be Taken Off Life Support, Pending Appeal