walter cronkite --morley safer covers his coverage in the past year. this sets a new standard for war reporting in the age of television. morley? morley: thank you, walterthis emphasized one single point, tell us about it. morley: we are at war not only with the viet cong, but at war with a devastating army. full war declarations are not necessary. ahead, even higher casualties, a point that every troop and every general in vietnam is acutely aware of, something that is not fully grasped at home. in this program, we will not try to give the order of battles. what we will try to do is give the mood and the feel of those five weeks. it all started at pleime. it was almost by accident. it looked at first like a routine vietnam attack. this was an outpost in the central highlands held by a handful of american advisers and 350 mountain tribesmen. as it turned out, this was a new kind of attack i in new kind of army. as was a full-scale, sustained assault by two heavily armed regiments aimed at wiping pleime off the map and sucking american troops into an ambush. this is what stopped them from doing it, american air power. the north vietnamese attacked, and o

walter walter i koroshetz ig can we come up with treatments. so not only do we have a mainly health problem but we have a major health flannel panel and we're in for a fantastic discussion. >> rose: thank you. tori, what happened? >> i began playing soccer when i was four years old a little against my will. after my first practice, it was something i immediately loved and something i wanted to do all the time. so i played soccer. since that day until i was a senior in high school and around when i was 15 years old is when i got my first concussion. i really didn't even know it was a concussion. i headed the ball and someone else. when i got home, i had a lot of headaches and trouble sleeping. i didn't think of the possibility of concussion, and i knew i had an important game the next day, so i decided to play anywayt. once i got to my game the next day, it was the semifinals and one of our state cup appearances and i had gotten into a rough tackle and fell to the ground and hit my head on the ground pretty hard. once i got up from the fall, i was kind of confused as to where i was, but i gained that back pretty quickly, but my vision was extremely blurry, my head was spinning, i was doesy, but knowing it was an important game, i decided to push observe. after i finished the game, i went to the emergency room, and turned out i had whiplash in my neck and a concussion. so i had to take probably a week off of school. i was very moody. i couldn't sleep. it was a very tough time for me. >> rose: were you under medical care at this time at all? >> no. when i went to the emergency room, they gave me a muscle relaxer for my neck. other than that, i just stayed home with my mom. she took off work. >> rose: that's the problem there, not identifying the concussion. if, in fact, according to what you've already said, if there would have been some identification, everyone would have insisted she not play till it cleared up. you had how many concussions? >> i've had five. tot what dug did you know something was wrong but you didn't want to leave the field because you realized the team depended so much on you? >> i think at that point i would have tried to push through anything, no matter what my symptoms were. i was so competitive and my passion was incredible for the game to where i didn't want to stop even if i knew something was terribly wrong with me. >> instead of leaving the field when they feel ill -- >> rose: in the n.f.l., a doctor exams anybody who thinks they might have a concussion as soon as they come off the field. so today, how are you? >> today i'm a lot better, but i still struggle with things. with my workload at school, i have about two 2003 headaches a week. sometimes i'll have headaches for five days without any break. my eyes have been struggling since my last concussion which is almost two years ago. both my pupils are not the same size all the time. so with that, it's really difficult for me to be in lecture and be looking at the board and looking at the powerpoint and going back to my notes. that really stimulates my headache. >> rose: are you under the care of neuroscientists and physicians? >> not anymore. i mean, after my last one, i haven't really had to go back to the doctor. i have been telling them i still have headaches and probably troubleshooting every idea we have. >> rose: your case was not known. you were there with the obama summit and the president and you introduced the subject there. >> yeah. >> rose: so you've become a part of the conversation without the impact of concussions. >> which i'm really happy about. it's unfortunate all this had to happen to me but i do think it's something that needs to be talked about and known so i'm glad i could help with that. >> rose: how prevalent are concussions among young people? >> more prevalent than people realize. at high school age, high school-sanctioned reports, last year sf 0,000 concussions among football players, off0,000 among girl soccer players, 45,000 among boy soccer players and 20,000 each among girls basketball players and boys wrestlers, and those are national estimates based on national injury surveillance data. over the last decade, concussion rates increased dramatically over time. now, this is one of those times where some scary-looking statistics might actually be something good. this rapid increase over time likely does not indicate a true increase in the incidence of concussion. high school athletes haven't grown dramatically bigger and faster and stronger over the last decade and most of the rule changes at the high school level in the last decade actually improved player safety. i think what this image actually demonstrates is the dramatic increases we've had in education, in knowledge. the young athletes, their parents, the coaches, the policymakers have become more aware of this issue of sports-related concussion. >> they recognize it more readily. >> exactly. >> rose: is it across the spectrum of sports or primarily football, soccer, those contact sports? >> well, i think awareness was originally generated because of high-profile incidents at the professional level, but now it would be very difficult to find a parent of a high school athlete that couldn't at least explain some of the signs and symptoms of concussion and recognize that it's an important injury that needs to be addressed. another thing this image demonstrates is concussion rates are significantly higher in competition than in practice. >> rose: yes. and part of this may be because athletes, like tori, simply don't want to come out of the game, but it's also because there is more events of athlete contact that occur in competition compared to practice. these differences between competition and practice rates vary dramatically by sport, however. for example, in boys high school ice hockey, competition concussion rates are 13 times higher than practice concussion rates, while in girls softball, computation rates are only twice as high as practice rates. >> rose: how do you explain this? >> a lot of it are just the activities associated with individual sports. across the entire spectrum of 24 sports i study, the most common method of concussion is athlete-to-athlete contact. so collision sports have more instances of athlete contact in competition. >> rose: and more in competition than practice. >> correct. you're much more likely to hit your opponent in a game than you would your teammates in practice. >> rose: let me turn to tom, then, and talk about what happens when there is a concussion. >> charlie, from a clinical standpoint, i think tori described it very nicely, but, basically, as a result of the force and the mechanics that eric alluded to and we'll touch on further, there is a disruption in brain function that is usually described as an alteration in the level of consciousness, which simply means that people may have incomplete memory for the event, they may appear confused, dazed, astory described, and then that's often followed by a variety of other symptoms, such as headache, may have blurred vision, sensitivity to light and noise and dizziness are particularly common, along with headache. the other sort of major domain people will prescribe are problems with thinking and usually the big ones are problems with memory, attention and concentration. the good news is that most times these symptoms gradually resolve over, let's say, seven to ten days or perhaps several weeks. but we've known for a long time that there is a certain group of folks for whom that's not the case, and the symptoms can persist for a fair amount of time. what's interesting is that the way that the concussion happens and the way the brain is designed and the skull is designed and so forth actually predict nicely the kind of symptoms tori described. you can see again two forms, one can be from the brain hitting the inside of the skull and the areas in red on that slide suggest the areas that are particularly vulnerable, and then what's important to know is it's great -- the skull is great at protecting the brain from lots of things. but when you put the brain in motion and it's moving out of phase with the skull itself, it's rubbing up against somewhat a hostile work environment. you can see the cut-away, there are images or rough areas along the skull that make it more likely the brain is damaged in those particular areas, but you don't even have to have that in order to have the injury and symptoms tori described. i think just the very movement of the brain itself, eric described it as a somewhat gelatinous material and not of uniform density, so as the brain is moving, there are shearing forces that result, and that can damage the delicate white matter fibers or ax axons that connecte fiber to another. these are delicate so this twisting or action can damage that and damage the connectivity of the different brain functions. so putting it all together, the next image will show the particular brain regions which are, you know, most likely to be damaged, and what i think makes concussion and brain injury in general a sort of perfect storm for the kinds of neuro-psychiatric complaints tori described, these images are showing the symptoms tori had. memory is the common complaint. the next image shows which brain regions are important in memory function. fink you compare that to the other image, you can see it maps on to that very, very nicely. tori, i think, described some difficulties with schoolwork, and lots of our athletes describe that. they describe it as not thinking as quickly, sort of decrease of speed information processing, so-called executive function, and if you look at areas of the brain particularly relevant to executive function, they map nicely on the regions that are vulnerable to con cuesive injury. and then i thought it was interesting, tori, you mentioned being somewhat moody, somewhat depressed. this is an enormously common complaint from people who have concussion and other type of brain injuries, so the psychological health as suspect is impacted. and brain regions are thought to be important. once more, if you were to design an injury calculated to sort of damage cognition and neural behavioral symptoms, you couldn't have designed a better one, unfortunately. so the point of all this is, i think, the symptoms that we see follow very nicely from what we know so far about the mechanics of how the brain is injured. >> rose: do we know why some people recover better than others? >> well, eric alluded to come of the reasons we know of. folks who have had more than one injury tend to take longer to recover. younger athletes may have a more prolonged recovery. there is also an interesting link between other kinds of behavioral and psychological health issues. so folks who have had struggles with those kinds of concerns in the past, there seems to be an interaction with it. and then as we'll hear from dr. margulies, the bio mechanics, not every injury are the same in how they affect different brain regions and that may play a role. very interesting work suggests genetic factors may impact this. so you and i might differ in terms of the genes that we have for getting better or not getting better after a concussion. >> rose: let me turn to walter and talk about how the young brain is different. >> right, charlie, so i think our brains are always developing, even in adult life. new connections are being made. this is much more dramatic during childhood. the the changes occurring in the young brain are so dynamic. the energy that the brain uses peaks in late childhood and adolescence. the blood flow peaks in late childhood and adolescence. and as eric said, the brain is a massive computer where the connections are just tremendously exuberant right at the beginning. then it's molded over time by activity and experience to make us who we are. that molding period, as eric mentioned, is because connections that are not useful are taken away, the sna synaptic bruining and that's occurring at a peak during this time period. everyone is worried about the injury that occurs during the developmental stage whence things are more dynamic. the myeliniation, the insulation and wires that connect different brain regions goes on into your 20s

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thanks, walter. walter: thanks, david.applause] >> coming up at 7:00, robert kurson talking about his book "pirate hunters" about the quest for the golden fleece that suck off the coast of the dominican republic in the 16 80's. it is part of an encore q and a on c-span2. this holiday weekend, book tv brings you three days of nonfiction books and authors. friday, back-to-back hearings of afterwards. , aei presidentrn arthur brooks discusses the conservative heart. >> the biggest mistake i think we make on the conservative side a lot, the one that tricked people of the most common is the one that should be the easiest, to get happy. >> 8:00 p.m., cornell west analyzes the life of martin luther king jr. in his book. >> martin understood that not just for christians, but for any aman being who wants to reach level of integrity, ice-t, and decency has a -- if to kill something in yourself, fear. kill your obsession with the status of wealth. >> followed by now :00 p.m. eastern, how faithful people can change politics. -- beyond

walter perez at macungie township. walter, it is so warm even the snow making machines can't get to work. >> reporter: that's true, jim. it's getting bad. ideally bear creek liked to open up the slopes by december 15th if not earlier but there is not going to lap this year. a evidence two really cold really lucrative ski seasons in a row this year old man and winter is dragging his feet. it's december, there's no snow on the ground and the ski lifts are idle. >> it's definitely a cause for concern for us. >> reporter: jeff of bear creek's marketing director is talking about the relatively balmy conditions that have rendered their snow guns useless. and while the resort's prime money making season goes from the end of december through thes day holiday weekend in february you cannot underestimate the value of having snowboarders and skiers on the slopes soon after thanksgiving. >> it has a lot of marketing value for people. when the weather is cold and there's snow on the ground there's any other a heck of a lot else to do other than try to get out and try to get outside and do especially. so, for us it builds up for us. this time of year really has a lot of value in terms of building the excitement, the anticipation. >> reporter: and while relatively mild weather in early december in this part of berks county isn't altogether unusual, it's a different story up in the poconos. even though it was a full 10 degrees colder today up in lake harmony, it doesn't really matter. as you can see, there's not a flake of snow at jack frost ski resort. officials here say it's a far cry from last year. >> last year we started making snow in november and we -- we -- we ran like 36 million gallons of water through here and turned it into snow. we had snow everywhere prechristmas. >> reporter: jack frost general manager mark says he's waiting for that first cold snap. >> we'll hit it hard and try and get something ready for the holiday. >> reporter: now to put in it terms of dollars and cents officials here at bear creek say at this pace the drop in revenue from last december to this december could be in the neighborhood of two to $3 million. reporting live from bear creek mountain resort, walter perez channel6 "action news." jim. >> thank you, walter. >>> members of the jewish community are celebrating the second night of hanukkah tonight and in northeast philadelphia, members from different generations joined together to light a big menorah. "action news" was at kleinlife today from very young to not so very young they celebrated the miracle of the oil and took part in the festival of lights. >>> coming up on "action news" tonight, a middle school gym is transformed into a ballroom in bensalem today. ahead, the lessons learned that went beyond dancing. >>> and eagles coach chip kelly talks about the huge win against the defending super bowl champions new england patriots. >> a coastal storm to our south and that will be heading out to sea so that moisture will be missing us. there's some cloud cover tonight but the big story in weather our climbing temperatures. i'm tracking near record warmth on the way in the accuweather forecast. >> those stories and much more when "actio

walters. >> jimmy: yes! that's exactly who it is. [ cheers and applause ] >> well done. >> jimmy: i didn't even have a a barbara walters. i can'do barbara walters that good. >> now you do. >> jimmy: yeah, now i got one. >> you have done barbara walters a million times. >> jimmy: unbelievable. [ laughter ] unbelievable. [ cheers and applause ] unbelievable. >> yeah. >> jimmy: that's the type of stuff i'm not going to sit for, i'm not gonna stand for, either. >> he left his own show. okay. okay, all right. [ audience oohs ] okay. [ light lalahter ] my favorite christmas song is -- [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] [ laughter ] >> jimmy: sofia vergara. >> i can't even put it together to make one good one. [ cheers and applause ] [ laughter ] don't even get me started. about selfie sticks. [ laughter ] don't even get me started about selfie sticks. not even a penguin could use one. >> it's either "slingblade" -- or morgan freeman. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: "slingblade?" i didn't want to hang out with your son. [ laughter and applause ] >> sandler. >> jimmy: that's sandler doing "slingblade." okay. [ gibberish ] here we go. >> okay. there

but in a one-on-one interview with barbara walters, trump disputes the comparision. barbara walters: are you a bigot? mr. trump: not at all. probably the least of anybody you' ve ever met. antoinette: boston mayor marty walsh calls donald trump' s stance on muslims outrageous. >> somebody running for the highest office, embarrassing he is one of our representatives to the world stage. every muslim american -- it is very unfortunate. antoinette: it' s not clear how trump' s comments will impact voters. he will be in new hampshire tomorrow. a poll taken before he announced his proposal shows his lead growing in the granite state. he has 32% of the vote in the survey from our sister station, wmur. with 9%. republican candidates jeb bush and carly fiorina will be in new hampshire today. bush will attend an event for young professionals at saint anselm' s college. fiorina will hold town hall events in lebanon. some heavy clouds this noon, but the sun is trying to peek through. we are looking forward to warmer temperatures. cindy: a few days away. antoinette: 44 right now. cindy: the clou

walters. you know barbara walters is technically retired but she comes back whenever there's a natural disaster. [ laughter ] barbara asked trump a question that i don't know that it needed to be asked but she asked it. >> are you a bigot? >> not at all. probably the least of anybody you've ever met. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: that's a big if. barbara walters has met mother teresa, which means he's even less bigoted than her, and that's good. trump told barbara he's the worst thing that ever happened to isis. and i have to agree. people seem to forget this is the man who once fired meatloaf on television, a force to be conducted with. a poll, a first thing that pops said he's the worst thing to happen to isis. we asked people, donald trump is the worst thing ever to happen to blank, and let's see how long it will take before someone says isis. >> fill in the blank, donald trump is the worst thing that ever happened to? >> the country. >> fill in the blank, donald trump is the worst thing that ever happened to? >> earth. >> yeah, earth, universe. >> fill in the blank, donald trump is the worst thing that ever happened to? >> mexicans. >> fill in the blank, donald trump is the worst thing that ever happened to? >> scandinavia. >> fill in the blank, donald trump is the worst thing that ever happened to? >> donald trump is great man. >> donald

walter , cronkite. you say it walter cronkite and cbs paid him $300,000 for an interview. what was the falling out about? betty: when lyndon johnson left the white house, both johnson's, i think they were the first couple to do this, they signed contracts to write books. you notice that lady bird turned in 1970. lyndon had a little more trouble and gets his out by 1971. that money from those contracts was to go to the lbj library. lyndon had signed to do interviews with walterronkite. it was several hours and that these were to be edited into shorter segments to show the johnson presidency. lyndon johnson he felt it was not a fair presentation of his handling of and presentation of his handling of subjects like vietnam. you will notice i have a picture in the book of lady bird and walter cronkite, after lyndon died. they were boating together off of martha's vineyard. remember, he was a classmate of lady bird. they were both in the journalism school. it is interesting to see the way she keeps this friendship. morrison, cronkite, johnson, after lyndon has broken off. it is a very important role she plays in his life while he is alive, to mend the fences. he could be crude, cruel, make fun of them because of their weight or what they were wearing. there's a famous story of how he criticized jill kelley sondra. he would say he did not like the he said -- he would say he did not like the way someone's tie was tied. lady bird would say, maybe he likes his tie th

walter perez is live at war memorial field where can kim was looking forward to a career as a high school quarterback. walter, a brutal day all around. >> reporter: no doubt, jim, it was a very, very emotional day here in doylestown as a central bucks community came together to honor the memory of a young man with just 14 years on this earth made quite an impact. >> i loved him so much. >> reporter: natalie kim is talking about her little brother steven who died this past saturday. >> he was a great football player. law a great kid and law a great person. possibly the best person i've ever met in my life. >> reporter: earlier today the kim family along with hundreds of students and faculty from central bucks high school and lenape middle school gathered to honor the memory of the freshman football star. this past saturday night the 14-year-old was riding a skateboard across the intersection of south easton road and turk road when he was struck by a vehicle. his friends say the world lost someone special this weekend. >> i want everyone to remember how strong he was and how great of a kid law and how much everyone loved him and how much he impacted everyone's life. i wish he could see how much he meant to everyone. >> reporter: steven was a ninth grader and was a quarterback and captain of the central bucks west high school freshman football team. in his honor the entire team walked out with the kim family in a show of support before today's vigil. freshman football coach says steven may have only been 14 years old but law a natural leader on and off the field. >> no matter what, on the practice field and in games he would always have a smile on his face. some of that -- he was a real team player and i'm going to miss him so much. >> reporter: now believed that steven couldn't slow down his skateboard fast enough before entering that intersection. the driver did stop at the scene and while toxicology and autopsy results are pending investigators believe this whole thing was simply a tragic accident and no charges are expected. reporting live from doylestown, walter perez channel6 "action news." jim. >> thank you, walter. >>> philadelphia police are looking for the person who barged into a home in the burholme section of the city this afternoon and shot a man in the leg. the home invasion happened at 1:52 on the 900 block of shelmire avenue. the 23-year-old victim was taken to the hospital in stable condition. police say nothing was taken from the home. >>> in cape may county, middle township police say a body was discovered today in the 100 block of vermont avenue. that's in the rio grande section of the township. the body was found at 1:30 this afternoon. they have not yet given details about the gender or age of the person. >>> pennsylvania appeals court upheld a sentence today for the first person sentenced under the brad fox law. last november a delaware county judge ordered stacy dawson of chester to spend six to 12 years in prison. prosecutors say she bought two guns for her boyfriend who was a convicted felon. brad fox was a plymouth town

d >> walter iswith calling in frow orleans. hi, walter, go ahead with your n question or comment. >> caller: first of all, thank t you for is accepting my call th mo morning. poi point i'd like to bring is up that i know a few people in the teaching profession and i think the climate in the classroom really dictates as to what they can do.gree. to me they seem like they're bullied to a certain degree. there's certain areas that they won't go in or they won't challenge if it's not severe because they're intimidated by h the people in the class. >> so you're saying the teachers are intimidated or bullies? >> yes, yes. i truly believe -- i know i've spoken to a couple of teachers o who felt thatr certain steps '' the class are -- if somebody is not disrupting the class but aut they're not with the class they won't challenge them because they feel bullied to a certain degree. >> tom snyder, do you include those types get s of statistics your report? >> we do, we have reports from teachers on whether they've been threatened, for example, and s

walters reportedly told bradley cooper in a new interview that she finds him very screwable, making this the 89th consecutive interview in which barbara walters made someone cry. that's right, barbara walters called bradley cooper very screwable. incidentally, very screwable is the single hardest phrase for barbara walters to pronounce. very screwable. [ light laughter ] i'm what? very screwable. i'm sorry, i can't hear you, it sounds like you're saying i'm very screwable, which is super weird. i don't know. a virginia man has been charged with stealing nearly $22,000 worth of five-hour energy drinks from a grocery warehouse. police knew he did it because he led them on a high-speed chase even though he was walking. [ laughter ] the national zoo in washington today held the first official media day showing off its new panda cub bei-bei. and this may not be politically correct, but there's nothing cuter than a baby who's half black and half white. [ laughter ] i'm talking about pandas. anymore? and finally, a london architect has come up with a concept for a floating hotel that is self-sustaining and could potentially move around the world. so congratulations, architect, you just invented t

eastern, economist walter williams, his most recent walter williams, his most recent book is american contempt for liberty. his other books include race in economics and up from the project. saturday evening at 10:00 p.m. eastern on afterwards, carl rove, former white house deputy chief of staff looks at william mckinley's 1896 campaign in his new book, the triumph of william mckinley, why the election of 1896 still, why the election of 1896 still matters. he discusses the political environment 1896 including political gridlock. he is interviewed by the kaiser. >> republican party has been beaten in the 1892 election, grover cleveland is coming to office, mckinley has been the governor of ohio and seen the country ohio is in the country to send in to a deep depression. the republicans think the election of 1896 is going to be the scope of you is to be the nominee but he is not the front runner, his not the favorite. >> directory following afterwards, joined book tv as we attend a book party thrown for karl rove. >> sunday and in depth author will be live with your calls, emails, text

walter perez is live at war memorial field where can kim was looking forward to a career as a high school quarterback. walterno doubt, jim, it was a very, very emotional day here in doylestown as a central bucks community came together to honor the memory of a young man with just 14 years on this earth made quite an impact. >> i loved him so much. >> reporter: natalie kim is talking about her little brother steven who died this past saturday. >> he was a great football player. law a great kid and law a great person. possibly the best person i've ever met in my life. >> reporter: earlier today the kim family along with hundreds of students and faculty from central bucks high school and lenape middle school gathered to honor the memory of the freshman football star. this past saturday night the 14-year-old was riding a skateboard across the intersection of south easton road and turk road when he was struck by a vehicle.