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so he's a good look at some of the other stories making news here after long delay leaders at the cop 27 summit have reached a deal to help vulnerable countries cope with damage caused by climate disasters. they back to fund that would require wealthy nations to compensate poorer ones. they've also been discussing a target to limit global warming. and your friends, i implore you to adopt the draft decisions with her present to you. the world is watching a column, us all to rise to the expectations are thrusted to us by the global community, and especially by those who are most vulnerable and yet have contributed the least to climate change. or malaysians facing a hung parliament up a general elections delivered. no clear winner opposition leader and why abraham says his coalition has enough support to form a government as rival former premier we hadn't yet seen as also claimed victory. the term, his defense minister says it's conducted air rate operations in parts of northern
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syria and iraq. the kurdish lead sirian democratic forces say 2 villages with internally displaced. people were among those targeted. but turkey says it's part of a cross board operation against the kurdish p k. k. the groups being blamed for bombing in istanbul a week ago, which kill 6 people and injured 80 others. the group has denied any involvement pretty soon because visited ukraine for the 1st time since becoming britton's prime minister. he met president vladimir zalinski and keith soon at pledged his government's continued support, including an air defense aid package with $60000000.00. they were captured, ukrainian city of her son has celebrated another milestone for the 1st time in 9 months, a train has arrived from the capital. the railing from keith to the southern city has now been restored. as on was the 1st major regional capital to fall to russia and february and remained under their control until earlier this month. many families and out reuniting for me. yes, president donald trump has a twitter account again. the company's owner,
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when i'd ask him to do something, anyone asked me over and over again. what did i need? again, are driving somewhere and going to the wrong place. said the grocery store, he might be sitting at the stadium. oh stadium thinking it's ready for practice. he accidentally put all the dirty laundry in the fraser and thought it was the wash. she said i told you, i told you i have it. i have it. yeah. what. busy c t. busy busy busy busy busy busy busy michelle hassle ridge husband called an answer. it was an all printing one for the pittsburgh steelers in new york jets in the 1990s. for years he suspected he had chronic, traumatic himself up at the mercy. i want to show you something a degenerate a brain disease,
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the scientists believe is endemic to the came of professional football. i heard so hard wise care. that's your see. ah, oh. he was yelling for his grandfather. oh. and he is bad, which was frank answering who are both deceased i those days, right? there were every day every day, for least 6 months. that bad carlton was one of nearly 5000 and the bill players who su delete more than a decade ago. i am for most part they all the same claim which was like,
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we were not told about this rest. not only were not told about it, but you know, you, the nfl actually like covered up distress when there's been rational harris, i tell us, are you going to pay that? and you had players and their families, but the injuries that they have received and helping you to be a multi $1000000000.00 operation. that's the only question i believe that we will be addressing these matters in a responsible fashion. that will, will be able to come back before you at some point in time and say that we have addressed these in a way that response. he had a fall is like the richest or most powerful sports which united states and american football is also very popular. at the youth level, chick lane, american high schools. you rock, you're fog around it and it's just such a, such a place of exalted america. i think was the front the nfl was under. do you lose
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that place of cultural primacy as america sport? after years of pressure, in 2013, the nfl reached a settlement with carlton and thousands of other players agreeing to make payouts to players of brain to cease charlie. but when a week's top official went on tv to talk about it, he made sure to emphasize it. the nfl was not responsible for c t e among his players. and what we were able to do was all compromise on our physicians. there was no admission of guilt, there was no recognition that anything was correspond football. but the reality is we want to help our players. and when you heard there was a settlement that you think that was a good thing. i did absolutely into carlton. yes we did really did. what do you think was going to happen? mouth nfl had settled that everybody was going to get what was owed to them. but carlton never got any settlement money or medical assistance from the concussion settlement and neither have thousands of other retired in the phil players. the
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settlement was never designed to pay former and i fell players for what they were suffering from. as a result of playing football, never designed that way. it's a sham. if the ass i was gone was like get the south and do cycle. so people aren't thinking about these depressing stories of damaged former players. and also not thinking about general, half of all causes brain damage because us operate for our pot either. if we can take those out, the news. huge when for us as nfl. did the nfl take responsibility for the damage inflicted on its players? or was this settlement intended to deflect public attention and protect the future of america's most powerful sports leak? castle rig in the light blue is ranked number 2 in the country in some way saw that carlton hassle ricks rode to didn't a phil was improbable as he doesn't do it on
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a quick dog that was for he started out as a wrestler, winning 6 individual college championships, the most of any one in history i was offering. well, it's been around caught in the best of the best. there's no doubt about it. you knew there were some special about him when he decided he wanted to play football professionally. caught and tried out and was drafted by his beloved pittsburgh steelers in 1989. a growing up. my early heroes were at that time. all of the pittsburgh steelers bought or were dogs and go to court as it. don't worry by don't worry about it when you play in a value plan in a real. he plays in the nfl despite come from college, with no football program. that's where he became a guy playing the pro bowl. miss amazing. and pro bowl guard calden has already
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great blog. i tell everybody when he was he was michael jordan. what's around here? one of them meant the strongest mentally tough person that out over been around. people were talking about his physical strength is mental toughness was something that i seen that stood alone from other anybody else in an it made you believe in yourself? man carlton had 3 kids. can tara c, j? this is an order. and then carly, he always thanked me so much for giving him these children. he was a good father. he was funny. any thing that i needed him to do, he would do without question. he would play with all the kids in the block. they loved them. he will fix their bikes. he would do anything, he would work on the yard. he was bar b cue. he was just that all american dad carlton left the nfl in 1996 in the years after he was
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a football and wrestling coach. well right now, i'm coaching a high school football for the greater johnstown high school and also assistant wrestling coach for greater johnston high school. i'm just so pleased and happy to be back at home and have the opportunity to work with the kids here. hm. when did you start to notice a change in him? some times carl 10 would go off on his own and he would drink or he would talk to himself or be in the basement. you can hear him like yelling something, but we wouldn't know what. and then sometimes he would just go away and leave and i went to see him for a day. will harris coach rustling carlton and remember seeing the change in him in 2017, when they went to the state championship, every bit of downtime that we had, he spent alone in his room, lights all, you know, no tv, no found no,
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nothing. just you know, just in a, a was it was like he was, it was like, he was sick or he was down for you are super carlton told his family, he played the problems he was having were caused by head trauma. he suffered while playing and nfl. this is carly hassle rings. hellman of from last year he bid, did play for the steals, said the deep gout, his deep girl, just a deep growl, just food. when i looked at it and saw initially, i thought about his in his brain, his head being bruce because of the block force that he got plane a position. the brain itself doesn't have any nerve endings to feel pain and pain receptors. and so would they
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just keep on getting more and more close to the brain concussions or just at the surface of what scene? what about hit after hit after hit with the brain moving around. and all of the research so far indicates that it's the repetitive nature of the blows that lead to risk for later life disease, including c, t, the mode and behaviors. sometimes that are huge. par, sit here, anger irritability side, ality like you can't hold a job because you're explosive now, or all of a sudden like you've been a sober person all your life and now you just love drinking and you're a compulsive gambler and that's come out of almost seemingly nowhere when you talk to the families and loved ones of these guys, and they will say that like he's a toy. different person. i don't know what harvard, how many in the players do you think will develop c t?
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from what we've learned since we started looking for that percentage, that number of the people that do not prefer it seems to be climbing the more we look them when we fun. oh, in our reporting we kind of started the piece something together. and i'm just going to show you what you think of it with us us. we're 74 names terry long. and he's who carlton replaced. he's the one who really right guard comes out. that's right. he drank antifreeze. this to me. this actually this is carlton here. yeah, he played right guard into his right as a media. right. just sterling. so that was his friend. that was friend. you know what happened? a justin. he drove into a fuel tanker 90 miles an hour and died in the car. and i remember the day it
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happened because my husband was ferry, these guys were number 3 and 4 city, but they discovered here they were all together playing the same mind. what does that tell you? and the months before carlton died, michelle began recording videos of him. ok. so i started all these recordings. so people would believe me, nobody would believe me or he had cirrhosis of the liver disease, but he thought he was okay. you brain tells you what to do. so his brain's thinking, telling him that he's fine. so he doesn't want to go to the hospital. he was mad at me because we were trying to make him go to the doctors. so i mean,
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me. oh wow, that's what the and was like. yes, the dar this done was the day of my do oh oh oh oh oh, carlton died a month later on july 22nd 2020 was 54. and was there any doubt in your mind what caused that to climb is no doubt my mind. what caused it recline? what cost it is c t as or any doubt in your mind
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where he would have gotten c t. i know, or he got c t from where papa, the nfl c t e can only be diagnosed definitively once a person's dead and their brain has been examined. since 2200 more than 300 in it though players had been found to have had the disease. michelle don't lead occultist brain to the c t e center at boston university. it was one of carlton's dying wishes. and why did he want it donated to boston c t for the concussion lawsuit? and that we would be taken care of because we were told with a settlement if you had c, t e, there was there who, that was the the most did you would get paid for which was $5000000.00. if his brains tested and if he or c t, his wife, michelle,
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would obviously get compensated since he died of what the settlements really about, right? no, he wouldn't be compensated. but if he died, it's proven that he had c t well, he went to compensate. you had to have died approved, have city betraying. i believe it's 262015. that's the window. i mean, to me, it's one of the great crimes of the settlement that there is, was cut off date. if you have c, t e and did not die before 2015. and they take your brain, i mean, look at her microscope. and they 5 c t, you're out a lot. i'm sorry you didn't die before 2015. good luck to you and your family. how much money did an a bell save? by cutting c t out of the settlement? we imagine that over the 65 year period that this would have been in place anywhere
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conservative estimates are 3000000000 dollars, and moore, probably realistic benefits, are somewhere around $7000000000.00. the settlement has paid out nearly $1000000000.00 to retire players and covers 3 neuro degenerative diseases ale this parkinson, cities, and all timers. 1000000000 sounds like a very impressive number. that is, unless it's supposed to be 8 or $9000000000.00 for former nfl players who believe they have or might develop c t, the nfl concussion settlement designed to set a test to measure cognitive impairment. carlton took these tests in 2073 years before he died. if these tests confirm the carlton was cognitively impaired, he would have qualified for an award from the nfl concussion settlement. he didn't qualify for anything, nothing based on their test. yes. and this is the,
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the test from the neurologist that you shared with us executive functioning. they said his impairment levels, none, language impairment, levels, none. visual perceptual processing impairment level none. learning and memory functioning, impairment the large. this is from true to you. his wife responses suggested that mr. house reg has generally subtle function difficulties in daily life. somebody put in their laundry and a freezer that subtle. somebody doesn't know how to where to go get his coffee. that he been getting it for laugh. 152030 years. that subtle, it would take several years for michelle to learn what happened with carlton's tests in 2019 to former players, sued the nfl for discrimination, claiming leak was factoring and race when diagnosing players with cognitive
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impairment. the used to process called raced. norman carlton and other retired black players had to score significantly worse on their tests to qualify for an award from the nfl. it means that they have determined that if you are born black, that you have less cognitive function from birth than your white counterpart. it is used to deny benefits. ek, not economically for 70 percent of the class. 70 percent of former players had black in an industry where the wealth was built on the backs of black and brown men . we didn't know none of them, like any other neurologists or neural psychologist and explain to you that your scores will be adjusted based on the factor in african american mel the dental. absolutely not. carlton what the day? absolutely not. what is this software specific to the settlement?
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it is a to the settlement using the nfl concussion settlement software. dr. eric watson at the brain injury research center at mount sinai hospital was able to show us the impact race had on carlton's ability to qualify for an award from the nfl in generating the scores. it's easy enough to adjust the scores to see what the scores will look like if you were white. so if we took race norms out, this would be carlton scores here. the data direct changes while labels are of his are totally different. yeah, these are totally different severe impairment that would nothing was severe impairment on the other one. no. i mean this is a quantum difference, not a small difference. that's right. it's almost like a completely different person, right? with one click of a button, you go from a man who is qualified for part of the settlement to man who is not. absolutely no. wow, look at the numbers. not even
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a little from why why did they do this to him? to say that my husband wasn't sick because once they said that and he read that, he believed that he said they know what to do 130 and have failed the good doctors . and how do you think that impacted the outcome? good theory that no mm nearly a year after carlton's death and june 2021. the nfl pledged it would no longer is race norms and testing. the week also said it would review cases of former black
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players who had been raised normed. but a year later, many retire black players in their families are still waiting to hear it. they will now receive an award from the settlement. have you heard anything from lawyers and i feel about them readjusting his scores and reconsidering his case? no, i feel that it should be the easiest case because like from what i'm looking at as paper work, this is proof right here. while he was alive, carlton received a pension from the nfl. this was money, the family depended on for years. that source of income stopped that day. carlton died. talk to me about what's going on while you're waiting. i'm about to be homeless soon. i have nothing. i have nothing. i'm losing everything. but i'm going to be honest with you. right now as we
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speak. i have $5.02 money. that's what it is. the settlement of betrayal of the players. oh yes, doctor charles golden said he evaluated more than 160 former in a bell players for the concussion settlement. given these retired players, the same battery of tests that carlton receipt, dr. golden till fault wines. the inner bills influence goes beyond race. norman, many of the doctors who determine whether a player qualifies for an award or paid by the nfl that he was one of them. they put pressure on us to change their our mind. and when you refused, they put increased pressure on you. they never said we will cut you off, but you're always aware that if you irritate them, you're, you, you may not get refer, no question. i had a case that the neurologist and i agreed on the diagnosis. the nfl came back
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and said, no, you're wrong. you have to change the diagnosis. i said though that was our diagnosis. that was our opinion. and they went after the neurologist and they got the neurologist change her opinion. and as a consequence the client lost all compensation. oh, we asked in the phil about dr. golden delegation and needed the commissioner nor the leak spokesperson responded to our list of questions or requests for an interview. on the verge of losing her home, michelle was making the decision to sell some carlton's memorabilia. or you can sell the metal. i don't want to but it comes with this different cell does with that. ah, michelle ah,
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in september i accompanied michele to the 1st home game of the season for the pittsburgh steelers 25 years later. carlton's name still strikes a court with the fans. how you are my and he said half forward and i turned around and was like, all last my husband, i tell him he was in there is a great man. you have a question. i'm proud that date now. my has been that's what really hurt my feelings today. when most of the people looked at me and shocked when i told them that i haven't received the don. some people don't want to know. they'd rather not know. yeah. they don't want to know why. because they love the game right, hold accountable. all this because we're the ones who are football. we're
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the ones ultimately to make the nfl be accountable by demanding it be safer on the front end of that take care of people who get damaged on the backup. and for the most partly demand never read a man is that football be on our televisions? our 5 us no stance. they play that may be entertained. oh, in just a year the u. s. government sent thousands of asylum seekers back to 80. if you take to the sea, you will not come to the united states portion me back and i don't see the money period in that full bloods follows the lives of some of those
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