a lot of same doctors and nurses at umc. we care for the community.ew orleans is a unique community, made up of neighbourhoods, caring about each other and we look about how care. >> i applaud your enthusiasm, i'm an economics reporter. state funding for the hospital has been shaky. louisiana provided 113 million for the new umc than it needed to open. the hospital is open under financial stress in a community that 10 years after katrina needs ta lot of service. starting off in you hole. >> correct, i think you are looking at the numbers. my understand is the legislature fully funded umc, and so you are looking at working with the leadership in new orleans, and on the state level to say we'll fund so we open up the capacity community. >> let's talk about - david ariosto talked about new orleans not being a medicare state. you are providing community care. how does that work and deal with the fact that there's emergency care that community clinics can't deal with, right? >> yes, but we are looking at how to build a system back in a better way, recognis

there is a guy who is a neuroscientist at umc who also is an adviser to the nfl and he's been tryingto get the sensors used in professional football for period of years now and just a couple of weeks ago the nfl announced again that they are not going to use them. the reality is that if they did use them they would immediately know a lot of information about the amount of forces being generated on the field and how many times people are getting hit in the head. it's kind of a no-brainer to use the expression. [laughter] but the reality is the league doesn't seem to want in the players don't want it because they don't want that information to be used in con tract negotiations. where does that leave you v-12 get to the bottom of that? >> what happened was they took the college game two seasons ago and there is a presence of protein marker in the blood if you sustain damage. they found that in again with no concussions, no diagnose concussions, 70% of the players have the marker which is a precursor to long-term injury. it's the protein that gets the brain. c let's go back over here. >>

also joined by the conference's keynote speaker, reverend james lawson, civil rights icon and holman umctor emeritus. dr. martlled lawson "the leading theorist and strategist of nonviolence in the world." we welcome you both to democracy reverend lawson, let's begin with you. can you tell us your memories of august 6, 1945? where were you? how old were you? >> i was 17 years old, a junior in high school, getting ready to start my final year in ohio. i will never forget because shortly after the bomb was dropped on the sixth of august, the national forensic league changed its debate topic for schools across the country from whatever it was already designated to a new topic. and that topic when something like this -- does the atomic bomb make mass armies obsolete? which meant, for as at washington high school, in enormous amount of work of study, of research, of reading. so that was our debate topic from september until june of that 1945-1946. amy: did you have any sense of the mass casualties? i remember the stories, hearing about the stories, especially at los alamos, of the footage that