Rev. Jesse Jackson on life support in Chicago

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00:00The Reverend Jesse Jackson, one of America's most influential civil rights leaders, remains

00:07hospitalized this morning in Chicago and is now on a form of life support to stabilize his blood

00:13pressure. A family source tells CNN the 84-year-old founder of the Rainbow Push Coalition has been on

00:19medication to regulate his blood pressure after a significant drop over the weekend and that his

00:24medical team is trying to wean him off. CBS News reports Jackson has shown brief moments of awareness

00:30but his condition is said to be weakening. Family and friends are now flying in from across the

00:35country to be by his side. Jackson has been under observation for progressive supranuclear palsy,

00:42a rare degenerative neurological disorder similar to Parkinson's disease.