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♪ this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> welcome to the newshour. the nonstop severe weather across the country has run the gamut today from heat to hail. phoenix faced a 21st day of readings above 110 degrees. in the midwest with strong storms brought hail the size of ping-pong balls. western kentucky tried to recover from severe flooding this week.

in eastern north carolina, a pharmaceutical plant lay in ruins after a tornado on wednesday. cities across southern ukraine counted the casualties and damage today after a third straight night of heavy russian bombardment. the latest air rates again targeted odessa, sending entire buildings up in flames. two people died in at least 19 were wounded, including a child. the chinese consulate in odessa was among the damaged buildings. in iraq, protesters stormed the swedish embassy in baghdad because a atheist threaten to burn a copy of the koran. they started a fire while police stood by. signs and the crowd showed a cleric who spoke later at a news conference. >> i call in the countries of the world to enact a law that criminalizes t building of ran and -- of the koran and makes it

a crime. the burning of the koran must be considered a crime. otherwise this would be a double standard area >> the government of iraq also expelled the swedish ambassador. the protester in stockholm kicked and stepped on the koran but did not set it on fire. hackers linked to china may have hacked de miller account of the ambassador to beijing. hundreds of thousands of unclassified emails were accessed. it is broader -- part of a broader cyber espionage scheme. security has tightened in new zealand for the women's world cup after a gunman attacked construction workers in auckland. he killed two people. he was found dead after a gun battle with police near hotels were soccer teams are staying. fans seem undeterred.

>> i think new zealand has done a good job with security. there has not been any other issues besides this morning, which was tragic. they will continue to keep the streets under control and allow people to get to the games. >> the competition open with new zealand upsetting norway 1-0. cohost australia also beat ireal land 1-0. back in this country, new york city will pay more than $13 million in a settlement to some 1300 people who were arrested or beaten by police in 2020. the federal lawsuit focused on protest following the killing of george floyd. if approved by a judge, the settlement would be among the most expensive ever involving mass arrests. the senate judiciary committee approved a new code of ethics for supreme court justices. democrats pushed this after

revelations that clarence thomas and samuel alito failed to disclose ties to wealthy businessman and political donors. and that sonia sotomayor used court staff to help sell her books. republicans unanimously opposed the bill and it is unlikely to pass the full senate. on wall street, tech stocks hit a wall over worries about future profits. the dow jones industrial average gained 164 points but the tech heavy nasdaq fell 294 points. the s&p 500 was down nearly 31 points. still to come, robert f. kennedy, jr. appears before congress as his conspiracy theories draw increased scrutiny. the president of stanford resigns follows -- following student reporting on flawed research. a common industry sidelining female athletes during the world cup. ♪ >> this is the pbs newshour,

from our studios in washington and school of journalism at walter cronkite -- arizona state university. >> the unrelenting heat could last until august. it is not only the hea it is torrential rain in some places. a mudslide in northeast india killed at least two people, with many more missing. special correspondence around the world sent us these reports. >> rome is known as the eternal city. it is now being dubbed the infernal city. temperatures this week have soared over 107 degrees, setting a new capital -- record for the italian capital. we were asking tourists if it is possible to enjoy sightseeing in this oppressive heat. >> now. this is the last place i wanted to be. >> it is hot but the city is beautiful.

you just need to stay hydrated. make the best of it. >> some of the tourist attractions here have cold water for you. you can just refill your bottles. we have been able to keep drinking water. we are still enjoying it. getting to see all of the sites. >> authorities are urging people to stay indoors during the hottest parts of the day. but not everybody is listening. >> they are hearing us, without a doubt. but they are still going around room in shorts, flip-flops, and tank tops. we are giving out water so they can cool down a little bit. are they following the advice? not really. but in principle they are informed about how they should behave in this weather. >> hot summers are nothing new in the italian capital. since the 1870's, locals have been using these traditional water fountains to cool down if they are out and about on a hot day.

what is new however is the intensity of this heatwave and it is set to drag on into next week. >> i am in baghdad, where the iraqi capital is broiling in 116 degrees heat. for the poor, there are few ways to the state. they are cooling-off in the tigris river. there is no electricity. the heat is killing us. soon there may be nowhere at all to go. the rivers of iraq, on whose banks mesopotamian civilization emerged, are slowly disappearing. this fisherman has been alive for 76 years. he tells me he has never seen water levels this love. he is right, wearing to the minister of water resources, this year is the worst drought since the first recording of data in the 1930's. >> before the water used to go

all the way up to the houses. even the army would come and bring sandbags to keep it from flooding. there was so much water. now things have changed. >> changes caused by an existential struggle over water with turkey and iran. both have dammed the tigris and euphrates and their tributaries upstream. the impact has been devastating. >> we do not have agriculture anymore and the fish are dying because there is not enough oxygen in the water. >> while the water receives it, the rapidly growing population tries to survive in this in this biddable environment -- inhospitable environment. >> there is so much dust when the cars passed by. >> most iraqis only get a few

hours of government electricity a day to run air conditioners. most cannot afford to pay for private generators. they are also struggling with widespread electricity outages and a severe water crisis. even as the situation becomes increasingly untenable, the government is doing very little about it. less than half a percent of this year's budget has been allocated toward message needed -- much needed investment in water infrastructure. iraq has been crippled by conflict and rampant corruption. many people do not see a future in what was once the cradle of civilization. leaving may be the only way to survive. >> i am in new delhi. just last week, all that you see behind me was a thriving urban slum home to about 5000 people. now you can barely see the homes and the farms that stood here. for the last couple of weeks,

much of india's capital city has been waterlogged. low-lying areas have been completely inundated. it has the worst flooding that new delhi is seen in more than five decades. this month, delhi received more rainfall than it usually does, shattering a 45 year record. the incessant rainfall led to the river to breach its banks. the indian army and the national disaster response force used boats to pull people to safety. many did not want to leave their homes, staying perched on their roofs for days. 25,000 people were evacuated and most of them are now living in hastily assembled makeshift shelters along roads like this one. this is usually one of the busiest junctions but it has now been shut down for regular traffic. while the incessant rainfall has finally stopped, it will be a

wild before these people are able to return home. officials are warning of waterborne diseases and dengue, so the danger is not over yet. >> more rain is forecast soon. i would rather live on the road until it is completely safe to return. >> i have been living in delhi for 10 years. i've never seen rain and flooding like this. >> climate change has made it more erratic and devastating. it is also making heatwave longer and deadlier. just last month, some parts of the country saw the pictures touch 115 degrees, leading to more than 170 deaths. india is among the countries most impacted by climate change and doctors are warning that such extreme weather events are already pushing millions of indians to the very brink of human survival. >> i am in tokyo. the region has been affected by a series of extreme weather

events this month, from deadly floods and powerful typhoons to sweltering heat waves. here in japan, the country has been experiencing bearing forms of severe weather. western parts of the country were lashed torrential rain, causing flooding and landslides and claiming lives. heat warnings were issued in tokyo and other areas as temperatures near record highs. south korea was battered by heavy rain over the weekend. flooding and landslides swept away entire homes and build more than 40 -- killed more than 40 people. a tunnel was flooded. commuters were left trapped in their vehicles. 14 people died. this prompted the president to call for an overhaul of the response system to be able to better manage the impact of climate induced disasters. in china, temperatures are hitting record levels in some areas. state media reports that a

remote township in the northwest experience of more than 126 degrees. just six months ago, temperatures plunged to record lows of -63 in the north. this week, a typhoon truck, causing widespread flooding and the southern provinces. this is leading to thousands of people being displaced and evacuated. japan has one of the oldest populations in the world. more than 30% of its citizens are over the age of 65. that makes them more vulnerable to heat. not only do these weather conditions impact lives, they also have economic consequences. people are worried. >> the weather changes are scarier than a war. >> there is nothing we can do about nature. but when there is heavy rain, i wish there was not. i hope everyone is safe. >> with extreme weather events

coming more frequent in the region, concerns are mounting over how countries will cope with some conditions over the coming weeks and years. for the newshour, i am in tokyo. ♪ >> a group of texas women seeking to block part of the state abortion law are in court this week testifying that the restrictions of their lives in jeopardy. we have the story. >> more than a dozen women allege that they were denied emergency care because of restrictions that band doctors from --banned doctors from performing abortions unless to save the life of a pregnant

woman. went into effect after the supreme court overturned roe v. wade last year. the senior correspondent for the health news has been following this week's arguments and joins us now. welcome. one of the women in the hearing today described what it was like to find out she was carrying a aegis with a serious birth defect and then not being given the option to haven abortion. she happens to be a doctor herself. >> i felt like my pregnancy was not my own. that it belonged to the state. i no longer had a choice of what i could do. i felt abandoned. i could not believe that after spending my entire life in this state, being a sixth generation texas, practicing medicine in this state, that the state had

completely turned its back on me. and for them, my only choice was to continue the pregnancy. >> i know you have interview doctors. what ended up happening to her and from the other witnesses sharing similar accounts? >> she and her husband did end of going to a state in the east or an abortion. she also has two children so she had to find someone to watch her children for her. she talked about how when she was facing this decision, she did not want her children to see her growing belly, knowing that the pregnancy was not viable. she talked very movingly about how she wanted to be healthy so she could be a mother to her current children so she could be a wife and a physician to her patient. ts. this is not something we have heard before. it was interesting, on cross-examination, attorneys for the state had a really hard time

figuring out what kinds of questions to ask her. there were very awkward moments in the courtroom. at one point the attorney said to the attorney general ken paxton ever tell you that you could not get an abortion? she said i have not spoken to the attorney general. she was asked about the fact that she was over 35 when she was pregnant with this pregnancy that was nonviable. was not considered a geriatric pregnancy? many awkward moments. many of us have had miscarriages. we have had them over 35. it was a cringe worthy moment in the courtroom. >> the fetus had something so serious that basically the baby's brain and skull were not forming. there was a witness who testified to that. she ended up having to deliver the baby. >> it is a type of genetic

disorder where the brain and the skull does not form. it can be very dangerous to give birth. there is no skull to press against the cervix in order to open the cervix for delivery. it is always a c-section. usually within minutes or hours this is a child that dies in a very painful way. there are some women who choose to do that and they do provide palliative care for the newborn. but in this case and in many cases, women have set i want to be able to have a choice for myself. >> as a journalist who has been covering the fallout of the dobbs decision for the better part of a year, what else is a friend that you are seeing? >> this is really extraordinary. up until now a lot of the cases we have watched that we have covered, the mifepristone lawsuit used this very extremist

christian language in the courtroom and in his decision. this is a judge who has overruled the objections from the state many times today and yesterday, allowing witnesses to continue their testimony, even asking her own questions. at one point she turned to one of the experts and said, can you tell me, are doctors in texas required to take a pledge to the hippocratic oath? the witness responded yes. clearly this is a judge that is very engaged in what is taking place. this is in austin, not amarillo, where there was a trump appointed judge. the mood in the courtroom is very different. just to hear these stories from these women, up until this point as journalists we have been covering these stories, recording them, but they have not really been entered into a law -- court of law. the people who are supporting these laws are having to really

answer to the physical, mental, emotional harm that these laws are causing. >> texas is as you know a unique case because even before the dobbs decision, the texas legislature have been able to pass a very restrictive abortion ban. we have been able to see the impacts on women and babies. those impacts have started to be measured. >> that is exactly right. this is called sb8. it was a six week abortion ban. we are all looking at texas very closely. there are couple of data points we can point to. there were some new data released that showed an 11 point 5% increase in infant mortality in texas. many ob/gyns i spoke to say while there are more people in texas, more people have moved to texas, that cannot explain this.

women are being forced to carry nonviable pregnancies. fetuses with anencephaly. you will have an increase in infant mortality. the other thing we see is statistical modeling showing that an increase in about 10,000 additional births, what are being called forced births, these are women who were not normally have carried these pregnancies to term. those are data that we have now. >> it is certainly a case that may have impacts within texas and beyond. we will continue to watch it. thank you so much for your reporting. >> thank you. ♪ >> with the intense focus on the republican primary this election season, one mechanic underdog has been getting attention is controversial,, spreading misinformation on a range of topics.

that was on display in today as robert f. kennedy, jr. testified on capitol hill at a hearing convened by house republicans. we explore what has captured the attention of some voters. >> the first major 2024 surprise, robert f. kennedy, jr. has sparked double-digit support in polls, controversy on the airwaves, and a president -- headache for the president. the 69-year-old environmental lawyer launched his campaign highlighting his famous political family. in massachusetts with a sea of kennedy for president signs. >> i have come to announce my candidacy for the democratic nomination for president of the united states. >> the echoes to the past were impossible to miss. >> i am announcing my candidacy for the presidency. >> the son of robert f kennedy, who was assassinated months

after launching his campaign for president and a few of donna and 80 -- nephew of john f. kennedy, who was killed during president, he leans into his family's legacy with views that are antiwar, proenvironment and talk of ending divide. >> the possibility is still alive. the america that almost was and yet could be. it is time to unlearn fear and blame and find ways to unify ourselves. >> on the other hand, kennedy stokes his own controversy, conspiracy, and at times, racial confrontation. the new york post obtained video of him with reporters saying the coronavirus targets specific racial groups. >> covid-19 is targeted to attack caucasians and black people. the people who are most immune

are jews and chinese. >> the outcry was immediate. the head of the antidefamation league so the idea feeds into conspiracy theories, lacks any factual basis, and is nuts. the jewish group has put out research in the past the bunking racist covid -- debunking racist covid theories. kennedy -- on the idea of ethnic targeting. he linked to a study that does not say any group is targeted by or is immune from covid. instead, it focused on some cell traits that might make it easier or harder for the virus. it is now clear that covid hit brutally across ethnic groups. on the hearing today, democrats blasted him. >> you echo the same historic slander of jews and chinese who somehow managed to avoid a

deadly illness. you do see that, yes or no? >> you are misstating. >> no. i quoted what you said earlier. >> you are slandering me. what you are saying is dishonest. i will defend myself. >> with presented by many of his past statements, he said he was misunderstood. >> my views are constantly misrepresented. i think athletes should be tested with the same rigor as other medications. >> but he has pushed a host of disproven ideas that undermine all vaccines, including the idea that vaccines make people sicker when data shows they overwhelmingly save lives. >> the more he talks, the more he gets himself in trouble. >> she is a political science professor at the university of massachusetts-boston. she has heard him come up on podcast with unproven conspiracies, some debunked.

questioning what causes hiv, alleging that pesticide makes people transgender, and baselessly suggesting that vaccines cause autism. >> everyone will say there is no study that shows autism and vaccines are connected. that is crazy. people are not looking at science. >> the study he has pointed to in the past was retracted. there is no link. but she says kennedy has scored politically. >> the vast majority of us are not scientists. you go to a school for a long time of that and learn a rigorous scientific method. he is smart saying as a politician, i trust you, look at the facts. what he says is google some stuff and don't discern which facts should be believed. >> is he real threat to joe biden? he has stayed in the low teens in head-to-head poles, not

within real striking this to -- distance. >> he is assembled to the satisfaction -- dissatisfaction. many people do not want to vote for donald trump or joe biden. so kennedy right now is the beneficiary of some of that disdain. >> he has struck up interesting corners of both parties. he is a rare democrat who appears regular on conservative idiot -- media. donald trump praises him. they share a goal to defeat joe biden. >> to help put some of his comments into context, we are joined by an author of an fda advisory on vaccines. he is also director of a vaccine center. rfk junior is widely known as an anti-vaccine activist. he has a much larger platform now as he runs for president. he says many of his views are

misunderstood or taken out of nontext. help us out to understand what the science says about it. >> he has been promoting false accusations about vaccines, that the cause autism, which is clearly not true. or they cause other chronic diseases or attention deficit disorder. that is all not true. by putting misinformation out there, he causes people to make bad decisions about their families at risk. >> you point to an episode where he spoke out against the measles vaccine. what was the impact of that? >> in samoa, there was two people that died after a measles vaccine. the way it works there is they have an mmr vaccine in powder form. it needs to be diluted in water. nurses made a mistake, they diluted it in a muscle relaxant. the children stopped breathing and died immediately. they realized what the mistake

was. it was a nursing error. rfk junior seized on that, flooded facebook with the information that the measles vaccine is killing children. he went to samoa and met with anti-vaccine activist. he kept that drumbeat alive. vaccination rates fell from 70% to 30%. in this island nation, there were 57 cases. he had everything to do with that. that shows you have this information can kill. >> he said covid ethnically targets white and black people. not certain jewish and chinese people. is there any evidence to support that? >> there is evidence that does

not support that. he should have read exactly when the paper was submitted. it was submitted before covid ever came into the u.s. researchers are trying to make a prediction based on certain genetic differences in racial, ethnic, or religious groups about who would likely or not likely get covid. but now we know they were wrong. 70 million people died. it did not matter what your background was read the only thing that matters is your age, comorbidities. that prediction made by that paper was wrong. nonetheless he still held onto it. >> he says his views should not be censored. people should be read to do their own research. in your view, what are the problems with that information being on the same playing field with good information? >> the samoa outbreak told you a lot about what it means to have that information out there.

the notion that people can do their own research, the fact of the matter is what he really means is look on the internet and find other people's opinions area most people don't look at the original papers. if you look at the paper that he cited on racial and ethnic differences, you will see how flawed it was. but you do need a scientific background. it is hard for him to put this information out to nearly area he is showing what misinformation can do. as a consequence, children are suffering. >> more than three years after the start of a pandemic, how has misinformation taken hold? >> the problem is social media. people feel that they can go on social media. sadly i think public health officials have been marginalized at some level.

i think we have become a cynical, litigious society, not to our advantage. we pushed back on these public health measures, which only hurt us. >> thank you very much for your insights. >> thank you. ♪ >> the conflict in sudan has entered its fourth month, with no in insight -- end inside. it has killed thousands. more than 3 million people led their homes. three quarters of a million have migrated to neighboring countries. the west darfur region is the worst hit, with allegations of war crimes and a grisly

discovery of a mass grave. some images and accounts in this story are disturbing. >> in the windblown sahara desert, refugees from sudan find little shelter. these victims, mostly women and children, are arriving by the thousands. driven from their homes to cross the border into chad. these families have read the -- fled the brutal violence in west darfur. >> they attacked us. in the roads. they took everything, money, food, clothing. even they killed relatives. that was a difficult time. they did such horrible things. >> she is one of 20,000 refugees

who arrived at this camp in the last week alone. she worries about her children and their next meal. >> the most important thing is the security and health. >> families who have managed to reach this camp have survived a deadly journey. now they have to rebuild what is left of their lives. >> we find dead bodies. they are coming to kill people. with motorbikes, guns, cars. >> darfur is the size of spain. it has been home to deadly violence for over two decades. the current fight extends from a power struggle during factions

of the sudanese army in the capital of khartoum. it has reignited attacks in west darfur. the sudanese government and its militias committed genocide against people here. today it is an offshoot of those same militias who are now accused of killing out targeted killings in the same areas. researchers from yale working with the state department confirmed that they have systematically targeted and destroyed 26 communities, towns, and villages in west darfur. videos obtained show that schools that were once shelters have been burned to the ground. mosques have been attacked and public billing -- building saluted. the person who sent us this video has fled darfur and gone to khartoum.

but he has not escaped the fighting >> there is gunfire. i don't know what is happening. there is a lot of gunfire. >> like most of those fleeing darfur, he has suffered personally. >> our family. there is no way to help. >> following supports of widespread war crimes including mass rapes, the international criminal court is launched an investigation. >> there has been sexual and gender-based violence across the country. >> she was based in khartoum and escaped a week after the conflict began. >> this is increased by a

million women since the conflict has started. these women need support. in some states we are seeing that there has been a 900% increase in women who need support. >> this ongoing fighting has exacerbated an already leak humanitarian crisis. more than half of the country's population are in need of some form of humanitarian aid. >> we are seeing food insecurity. as the days go by. >> she is the east africa emergency affairs advisor to the charitable group world vision. he says reaching those most in need have been the biggest challenge. many aid workers have died trying. >> over 15 aid workers have died

in the line of duty. in this area. a lot has been put into negotiating access. if there is no cease fire, that might be difficult. >> repeated cease-fires and peace talks have failed. both refusing to give up their weapons or their fight. stuck in the middle are the people of sudan robbed of their homes and what was once a hope for a peaceful future. ♪ >> the president of stanford will resign next month over

questionable handing of flawed scientific research. the investigation started last year after the campus newspaper published allegations of research misconduct in past academic papers. the findings cleared him of any misconduct but found he was responsible for overseeing and directing data manipulation and errors from other scientists in five papers he offered. the student journalists has been covering this for months. welcome. you are an 18-year-old rising sophomore. you spend your freshman year as the investigations editor for the stanford newspaper. after just arriving on campus, how did you know to look into these allegations involving the president? >> what is really interesting about the story is where you started, you could've started in 2015 if you knew where to look.

there were already musings of expected photo shopping. i think the earliest one was published six years before i was born. we took these allegations to an image analyst. we verified them. that is where we started our investigation. >> this was over the course of a year? >> that investigation was published in mid-november. the first story involved about eight papers. there were different kinds of allegations inside. five of those papers he had the principle of on the data. they found that he oversaw a lab culture that consistently produce fraudulent results and

he consistently did not avail himself to correct the scientific record by being made aware of these allegations. >> your ported prompt to the board of trustees to launch an independent investigation that led to those findings. what has been the reaction among the stanford immunity? -- community? >> obviously stanford is a research institution first and foremost. it spins a billion dollars a year on research. have a president accused of this misconduct, the board agreed to him announcing his resignation. they said the allegations did not affect his ability to lead. a lot of people are concerned about the culture identified in the org. they waited to release this report until people were not on campus.

>> through your reporting, you took on a university president, you held your university accountable. how does it feel knowing that your journalism has this significant impact. >> the most gratifying thing for me has been to contribute to the correction of the scientific record. i think that is very urgent. it has been made clear that these five papers, the retractions would not have happened if we would know started asking questions. it is nice and then we had that impact. and for the scientific record to be made more pure as a result of our reporting. >> there is a college newspaper investigation at northwestern that resulted in a football coaching fired. what do you see as the role of student journalism? >> i am so proud of this

community. being in the thick of it, i'm so proud of my peers. it is a difficult decision to report on people inside your own community. they are making that decision because they care about the communities. they will always push for transparency. this is hard work. people are not paid. to see the work that my peers across the country are doing, or columbia, to see them doing that is really an inspiration. >> have you settled on a major yet? will journalism figure in your future? >> stanford doesn't even have a journalism major.

i have not decided on a major. >> a little distracted. thank you so much for your time. >> thank you very much. ♪ >> as the world cup kicks off, many of the big names in women's soccer are notably absent from the international competition because of knee injuries. that exudes a u.s. player, and english player, and a netherlands stryker and many more. this is part of what people are calling epidemic among female athletes from the professional level always down to youth sports. >> soccer was my love and my passion. >> in high school, her dreams were on track. she was the star forward on her

team with dance to play in college and then hope late the pros. that all changed in a single moment. >> it was a high school game against our rivals. i was playing forward at the time. the ball bounced in front of my head. >> she was sandwiched between the goalie and a defender. >> i have no clue what is going on. i just knew i was in excruciating pain. >> a torn ligament. one surgery and more than a year of rehab later, she jumped back onto the field. this time for ucla. before the season even starts, she tore the acl in her and other need. another surgery, no year of rehab, another attempt to play. the following year, another tear , followed by a fourth. >> it was like my dreams are getting farther >> >> and farther away. did you see other players around you suffering the same injury? >> a lot of other players.

specifically during my time at ucla. >> we have seen an explosion of acl injuries in young women. although away from 10 years of age up to their teens. >> he sees multiple acl tears every week. >> is not uncommon for some of these girls already come in at the high school level to our collegiate team at ucla and already have this problem. >> girls who play multiple sports in high school have about a 10% chance of acl in three. the highest risk sports are soccer, basketball, and look ross. with more girls and women playing sports than ever before, doctors are seeing more injuries. female athletes are about or times more likely to experience and acl tear then their male

counterparts. that is sparking an outcry from elite athletes. she is one of several players who will not be at this year's world cup because of an acl tear. >> are we going to solve this and figured out? >> megan rapinoe has had three acl tear's over her career. >> i think a lot of the injuries we are seeing is because of an increase in schedule on the plane a lot more games, traveling more, with a fraction of the resources that we really need to have perform at the highest level. >> what will it take? some people are saying if this happened on them inside, this would've been solved by now. >> women definitely need better resources at the team level to try to dedicate to an injury prevention program. i think we certainly are getting better.

we have our finger on some of the risk factors that we can fix. >> some of them have to do with anatomy. the acl is a ligament that helps stabilize the knee. one wrong move and it can tear. >> this is the end of the ligament which is torn off the top. >> researchers have found that less muscle strength in the hamstring, leads -- glutes, and core make women more prone to this. others are discovering whether or moans can play a role. >> there is very little we can do about these risk factors. >> they designed a stock -- soccer warm-up program to focus on what athletes can control. >> when the main mechanisms happens during change of direction. cutting, pivoting, decelerating,

we implement it all of this into the program so athletes can get comfortable with it. >> this helps make muscle memory to move more safely. the result has been a reduction in acl injuries by up to 88%. why are acl tear's still so pervasive? >> part of the problem is that the adherence to these types of programs is poor. >> preventing injuries is personal for her. she coaches the predators girls lacrosse club in new york. she says implementing injury prevention has not always easy. >> in the past it has been a time constraint. there are so many other things that you have to focus on. >> she says there is growing awareness about the importance of injury prevention and how it include performance. >> i think people are finally saying this is a problem.

it is too late if you don't put in the groundwork early on area you could have these injuries and it is really draining mentally at his akleh. it is hard to come back from. >> she and her team are starting to use a newly launched app that shows athletes exercises they can do to help prevent injury on their own time and allows coaches to track their progress and its effectiveness is still being tested, but it is the type of thing she wishes she had before her injury. >> nobody mentioned prevention. not to my second pair. it is more of a reaction than a correction. >> acl injuries are still very common, so expose athletes and medical professionals how to think about long term health risks, including early arthritis. >> what we need to do is a better job of counseling these girls. if they are on their third or fourth acl, we need to sit them

down and say this might not as a dealer be the sport for you. for some of these girls, the sport is their identity. >> it was a decision she had to make. after her fourth acl tear, she stopped and soccer. soon after, she watched from her department as her old college team won the national championship. >> i was very happy for them. seeing my friends on tv. it was amazing. but it was that deep, lingering sadness about what life could have been for me. >> you work on something for so long to reach that point and then you have your career pulled away. i wonder how you look back on it? >> i learned a lot of things about myself. to create a success story for myself. part of me thinks that everything i have learned

through that process is in the transition of change. that might be more powerful then playing soccer. >> she is now on track to go to law school, with a new perspective on life and a new dream to fulfill. ♪ >> some late breaking news in the sports world. an nfl investigation has found the owner of the washington commanders sexually harassed a team employee and oversaw team officials who withheld millions of dollars of revenue from other clubs. he has agreed to pay a $60 million fine. the nfl also improve the sale of the team today to a new ownership group for $6 billion. there is a lot more online including an in-depth look of

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