the players here are either completely blind or have severely impaired eyesight. and those who do have limited vision are required to wear a blindfold. but some cheat. like. oh the only people here who can see everything are the goalkeepers and the coach after graduating in sports management. worked as an agent marketing professional egyptian soccer players to clubs in europe but he wanted to do something more fulfilling three years ago he had a friend set up the country's first team with blind players. but the idea was the coach pays for the blindfolds customised balls and picks rental from his own pocket his search for a sponsor has not borne fruit so far out of gondor went blind gradually he compares it to putting on weight at first you don't notice it then suddenly you have a paunch alys blindness was triggered by an illness by the age of ten he had lost his eyesight completely he copes pretty well with his disability the only thing he can do is cook something he was never keen on anyway his wife we had met after he had gone blind is a huge help here and elsew

were 271 window blind associated deaths. most from strangulation after becoming entangled in window blind cords. that equals one child death every month. >> we have known about this problem since the 1940s. we have a voluntary safety standard in this country and it's been updated repeatedly and yet we continue to see these deaths. >> reporter: doctor gary smith says the deaths are preventable and he is going on the u.s. compute -- u.s. consumer product safety administration to manufacture only cordless window coverings. >> what we so children can't gain access to them. that is the solution. >> reporter: if possible this encourages parents of young children to remove blinds with pull cords continuous move chains are internal cords from their home. but if you can't replace all of them all -- right away, start with the with rooms where your child spends the most time. >> if parents would simply watch their children more carefully these wouldn't occur. i call this the myth of supervision. supervision is important but the best ca

he was blind in both eyes. shortly before i left the hospital, some ophthalmologists came around and very bluntly told me there was nothing they could do for my eyesight. i was very unhappy, very upset about the eyesight. did you know right away he was going to be blind? no, i didn't. we didn't even know if he was going to live for a long time. be nice to look into his eyes and know he can see back and see you. it's different. it's different to look at someone who's blind. it's a different expression. keith morrison: though for a long time, any expression was masked by truly dreadful injuries. how many bullets had you been hit by? i had two in my head, in the right temple, and i'm told out the left jaw. one higher towards my ear, and one in the lower part of the jaw. keith morrison: those were only the shots to his head. the tip of his ring finger was blown off. other shots hit his thumb and shoulder. there were six pretty good size bullet holes. keith morrison: when he was well enough to talk to detectives, su

flex your legs agree it's blind since age eight today at thirty three he's a u.s. paralympic athletic champion who currently holds the long jump world record. while his athletic abilities put him at the top of his sport some complex and even common tasks sighted people take for granted often challenge him we met lex at a supermarket in ocean beach california how difficult is it for you to navigate with someone like you would take take for granted as a mundane task a grocery shopping i think is one of those things where a lot of times our stores will have a. customer service area so i would go. that would require me to have a specific list of items and there are those times where. you want to learn more about the product you want to learn what types of ingredients are in them and maybe you want to make a better selection i'm going to fleece so you know a lot of toms i'm very particular about what goes in someone's body recently lex sidestep the help desk for something decidedly more high tech today he shopping with ira i like thanks for calling i wrote this is eric.

window blind cords. >> two children are hurt by those cords every day, and researchers are calling for ban. here's serena marshall. >> reporter: the dangers posed to some children with window blinds has been an issue of concern for consumer safety groups for years. now new evidence that despite all the warnings, hundreds of children end up in the nation's emergency departments due to injuries sustained from window blinds, and when it comes to entanglement injuries, many of these children do not survive. they looked at estimating more than 16,000 window blind injuries, and kids younger than 6 during their -- this period. the researchers finding in separate analysis that two in three of these entanglements ended innet di ended in death. if you have small children, avoid buying them. strangulations are fatal within minutes and can occur silently. i'm serena marshall, abc news. >>> coming up, before they were stars, the presidential edition. >> we're open up the vault next on "world news now." t you in 4 s when your cough returns. one pill lasts 12 hours, so... looks like i'm good all nigh

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it travels around the world treating people who are blind or with impaired vision. rob ross has a close-up look at the flying eye.>> reporter: that is a hospital with wings. stopping here at moffett field. inside is a high-tech teaching hospital. it is a key -- a program dedicated to preventing blindness and under the develop countries.>> our mission is to fight against blindness.>> reporter: it is refurbished from his days as a cargo plane donated by federal express. it has an operating room. with the latest request -- the latest equipment. >> 36 million are blind. 75% of those people could be treated or cured if we had the resources and the people trained to treat them.>> reporter: the flying hospital finish tours in bangladesh. doctors treated hundreds of patients with glaucoma and problems with -- people who are blind.>> when you see their faces. it breaks your heart.>> reporter: the problem -- the program is run by orbis. the doctors medical staff and pilots donate their time and skills.>> hospital areas -- all the standard of care you would have is sterilizati

most happen when the blinds somehow hit the children. the biggest threat is the cords -- especially thousands you can't see. this video from parents for window blind safety shows how hidden inner cords can easily strangle children. cords have killed 271 children since 1990. the window covering manufacturers association wants a safety standard in place by the end of next year requiring blinds to be cordless or have inaccessible cords. >>> new this morning, the holiday season could be the best time to travel cheap, especially if you're flying. when the calendar turns to december, lower air fares start popping up at ticket counters and on line. those who dream of flying to a winter destination can do it at a lower cost. one travel expert says book now, avoids peak travel days around christmas, and try to use rewards programs to pay even less. >>> 5:24 on this monday. is it the future of spending? bitcoins made their trading debut and did not disappoint. this is the cnbc business report. leslie? >> reporter: hey, good morning. bitcoin future

you can watch the full blind date online. we had a number ofa blind date online.nline. we had a number of a listers join us from sport, politics, show business, including kim cattrall, best known for playing samantha in sex & the city, she's campaigning for better roles for women saying ageism is rife in the acting world. it is such a diverse range of roles that you have played but you say actually now the best roles for you are in europe working in europe, why is that? well, i think that europe knows what to do with women of a certain age, more than america does. pa rt certain age, more than america does. part of it i think is just because america's a younger country, it's youth 0riented, so i have been lucky enough to have been born here, my family is all here, so when i come over and work, i feel there's a support there. i now have a lot of friends in the uk. so it's been really my second home for the past almost 20 years now and i'm so happy to be here, i love doing theatre, it's just part of people's lives here, it's not like an occasion or a spectacle like i

>> i am blind and have a guide dog, a service animal. have you reached out to people like me in the disabled community who have service animals and can you tell us about that? >> in terms of access to taxi service or paratransit? >> yes, yes. >> yeah, i would say that we have an ongoing relationship with the blind community and have representatives on our paratransit coordinating council and have specific requirements related to service animals and so, yeah, that's something that has been folded into our program from the beginning. now if you're talking about uber and lyft that's a different conversation but we don't have jurisdiction over uber and lyft. certainly on the paratransit side, yes. >> that's great because there's situations where on the taxi service we have been denied and i won't go into that, it's an ongoing problem. >> well, and what i would say is that i encourage everybody to if -- you have an issue on taxis call 311 and report it and we investigate every single complaint that comes into the office. so please do let us k

it has researchers calling for mandatory safety standards to eliminate window blinds with cords. the study found serious strangulation risk. anna warner explains. >> four-year-old presley marie eastburn loves to sing. >> i miss her holding my face and looking into my eyes and telling me how much she loved me. >> one year ago presley was in the family room watching tv alone. that is when she made her may -- way to the window and became entangled in the court. >> all of the life was sucked out of her. >> presley had been strangled. journals are now calling for immediate action saying in a report window blinds were involved in 16,000 injuries and 271 deaths among children over 25 years. dr. gary smith co-authored the study. >> it is that we continue to see children die from this. we have known about the problem for 70 years. >> this video from an advocacy group shows how easily they can become entangled. manufacturers say that they are addressing the problem, any statement they say that a voluntary process with the product safety commission will result next year and a significant ch

well, there are blind dates and there are blind dates. >> yes, it was definitely a set-up, it was a blind >> it was a blind date for sure. >> because i'm from the states you don't grow up with the same understanding of the royal family. i didn't know much him. little side-eyed skepticism for that sound bite after all, meghan must have been the only woman on the planet who didn't "know much" about this red-headed royal. we have all watched him grow from the fun-loving boy romping around with his mother -- to a 12 year-old shattered by grief. >> diana was on the cusp of leaving public life. and then to a royal renegade whose public fobiles were so often documented for the world to see. >> there's always been two sides to harry. you got the wild child. he was also the harry who was an active member of the military. >> reporter: it is his commitment to wounded warriors which he told us about that steadily changes the public's perception of the prince. >> at the end of the day you're in a war zone and you're responsible. >> prince harry is much more mature. it took h established his role and t

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didn't know where i was going, i was blind, and ijust froze.f deep breaths and said to myself, "tony, this is what you want. if you don't want it, go home." couple more deep breaths, turned down the street and the rest is history. excuse me. this is your stop. this is my stop? you can take... all right, thank you. want any help? i'm good. just trying to get my bearings, trying to work out which way the traffic‘s going, and if i can use any sunlight... i can't sense any sun at all. you have to be patient, you get lost all the time. it's very difficult if you're looking for something specific when you can't see, because obviously you can't pinpoint it. excuse me. you might get ten people walk past, and somebody will stop, "0h, are you lost, or you need help," then you interact with them. that's how it works. excuse me, is this damascus gate? yeah. which way? straight in front of me? no? you want help? yeah. shouting and commotion i like this. i like the atmosphere and the smells, it's all close and compact, feels authentic. shouting and commotion

a mutual friend sets her up on a blind date with a very visible bachelor. >> it was a blind date. >> blind date. >> it's so interesting because i'm from the states. you don't grow up with the same understanding of the royal family. i didn't know much about him. >> reporter: she's received a little skepticism for that sound bite. after all, meghan must have been the only woman on the planet who didn't know much about this red-headed royal. >> met for a drink, then i think very quickly into that we said, what are we doing tomorrow? we should meet again. >> reporter: after just two dates prince harry convinces a smitten meghan to join him on an adventure a little further from home. >> i managed to persuade her to join me in botswana. and we camped out with each other under the stars. >> reporter: the couple is able to keep their budding romance from prying eyes for nearly six months. but eventually the secret gets out. >> the royal rumor mill is going crazy with this news. >> the engagement speculation began almost immediately. like all royal engagements, everyone is so excited and long

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in their case what is it if not night blindness. dr schoenfeld illustrates the problem by testing the are sort of drivers one evening. do you have problems driving at night time sometimes a bit uncomfortable the exit signs are both out of focus and i feel under pressure when cars pass in the other direction in found out as the first test how well can she read numbers in the dark. in five to seven nine four eight and then it's too difficult so your mission is significantly reduced. and indeed for measurements show that the driver short sightedness is slightly worse than the last time she saw an optician. stronger lenses would seem to be in order one step fitted she repeats the test you know well that's a lot better. she now manages the next line down as well a clear improvement. this is a typical case of nighttime shortsightedness the eye adjusts more to closer objects for protection the pupils dilate so you need exactly the right prescription. as we've seen here a stronger prescription results in better vision. so daytime shortsight

mcdonald is blind. >> i enjoy working for myself. as a blind entrepreneur, it's a fun thing.ommunity is greatly unemployed. up to 80% of the blind individuals are unemployed because of the disability. >> in 1936, president roosevelt signed into law the randall shepherd act to give priority for blind people to operate vending machine. the act may have helped him but his years of heartwork kept the doors open. it's not he has five full-time employees including his son. >> the people that work for me have been working for me for 15 years. jonathan: he is from a military family. his dad is a marine. he would have served if he didn't use his vision as a teenager. >> my visual disability did not allow me to serve in the military. so this is a channel for me to serve the military and return to them the favor they return to us. every day they serve in the u.s. >> so with pride he pops his popcorns knowing the customers are doing more than just a job. for his job at 57 he is not even close to slow down. >> a lot of fun. a good place and a fun place to come and visit. i enjoy being abl

notice the bathroom blinds are drawn.phries argued that rick could not have closed the blinds because they were already shut. the prosecutor said the defendant was lying, though he believed rick had told the truth about the murders to at least one other person. the state's star witness, robert mullens. the witness i call the jailhouse snitch, and you call a jailhouse informant. >> no, he's a snitch, no question about that. but at the end of the day, what we learned from robert mullens is that he's been given a fairly detailed account by gagnon of what occurred that evening and what the crime scene looked like. >> in fact, he said mullens was the first to tell police this piece of bombshell news. gagnon had mentioned an accomplice in the killings. >> the only way he can have that information is from someone who knew the crime scene, participated in the crime. >> then the prosecutor tried to spin an inconvenient fact in his favor. those mystery blood drops found at the murder scene had been tested. the dna was not a match t

was he just too gullible or did he fall under the spell of another woman at any rate his wife went blind and spent the rest of her life waiting patiently for his return a woman remembered still as the perfect example of steadfastness strength of will and devotion. later a new fortress the citadel was built on the other side of the harbor entrance directly opposite its old counterpart at night a chain was stretched between the two castles so that no ship could enter unnoticed from then on the city was practically unassailable. than his coat of arms symbolizes the two main sources of the city's pride its position as the key to the new world and its determination to defend this position daughterly. was. the the. plaza view the old square with its hotchpotch of architectural styles and the dilapidated state of its facades and plaster work the square exudes an air of melancholy and. the sun blazes down on to the city two hundred fifty days a year temperatures rarely fall under twenty five degrees celsius during the day. where there is so much light it seems natural to make it a feature to pla

blindness of money and power. you did not heed that. let us look at the g.o.p. tax scam before us. no justice. i urge my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to vote yes on the motion to instruct conferees, to inject some element of fairness and common sense into this destruction, and then to reject this terrible bill. with that i yield back the balance of my time.

, could cause blindness itself. it could go out of control if the driver can't see. >> reporter: a troubling trend for law enforcement that is now being captured on these cameras. >> there are more of them that had them. the interesting thing is it's interfering with an aircraft which is not just a federal crime. >> reporter: a federal crime mixed with the illegal activity has been a bay area problem. at this weekend's attraction, police arrested eight people. marlow hill admits side shows can be a problem and the lasers can be a danger for helicopters overhead. >> it's something that can turnout being worse, crashing into somebody's house. they can do without that. >> reporter: we are finding out tonight that alameda county sheriffs also made arrests and toed away a lot of cars. if you are caught flashing a laser in the sky, you could face federal charges. >>> thank you, cheryl. more crime fighting cameras coming to the east bay. the pittsburgh city counsel allowing them to monitor the roadways to stop the shooting

customers like them, all blind, pay for minutes. plans range if $89 to $329 for unlimited minutes per month. sergio sees a live stream via camera, on the glassesstein is wearing. through steven's phone, sergio guides the 18th-year-old through his grandmother's home. >> the triplets have met their grandmother many times and have been to her west covina home once before. this trim they're seeing and learning about her in a whole new way. >> the technology makes them more independent than ever before. >> experiencing ira, for all of us, it is so good. we have something we can now use to see our lives a little more. >> reporter: abc7 news. >>> food recalls can literally be a life or death matter. >> absolutely. serious business. now fda is taking steps to find out more sooner. >> michael finney joins with us that and more. 6 the the administration is making improvements to its recall process. this comes after reports of more and more people getting sick because of delayed recalls. the fda is putting a team together of senior leaders to

an estimated 10 thousand blind americans use guidedogs.be guides but athletes. canines helping blind runners keep a foot in the race. >> one stride at a time. tom and his guide dog gus inch closer to their goal. the two have been training in local parks like this for over three years with the hopes of competing in an officially sanctioned long-distance race. it's never been done before. >> i have been running my whole life. i ran on my cross country team in high school. and i ran as a young adult. >> panic is the ceo of guiding eyes for the pwhraoeupbgd. it is a nonprofit program that provides guidedogs and services at no cost to the blind community. he lost his sight 25 years ago. and with it his independence. >> when you lost your sight, did you keep running? >> no. when i lost my sight i was too scared to run. >> he began running with a human guide. but it wasn't the same. panic still lacked the independence he once had. >> many people run with running clogs, at the end of the day you're running your own race. and when you're tied to an

total of 10 flashes blinding them. >> it landed us -- a total of 10 flashes blinding them. >> it blindedr a couple of seconds. >> police say he initially denied it but later confessed and said it was just for fun. he did not realize how far that beam of light could travel. >> lawmakers are voting on legislation that would make it against the law to fly a drone while drunk. there are no laws on the books like that right now in our area. the faa already has boules -- operation of drunken done -- drones. >> the school did not have a single student test proficient any -- in any of the exams last year. our investigative reporter has to looking into the system as part of the baltimore initiative. what he has found is not unique to maryland. ♪ >> frederick douglass high school is one of baltimore's oldest and most storied schools. it is produced graduates like a supreme court justice thurgood marshall. that was 1925. school graduates only half of its 900 students. tested one of them proficient in any state exam. douglas is not alone. 016, six baltimore did not have a single student proficient i

. >>> in health check a new study says kid are still being hurt, even killed by window blind curtain strings despite voluntary safety efforts. the manufacturers have known since 40's that kid can easily get tangled in window blind cord and strangled. some co like target and ikea no longer sell blind with cord and wal-mart will stop selling by next year. an average of two kid treated every day, and one a month killed by window blind cord. >>> what we need now is for manufacture tours simply eliminate accessible cord in their products so that children cannot gain access to them. that is the solution. >> and so study of leaders urged parents with young children to remove blind was pull cord or change. if they cannot replace them call right now, start with rooms where kid spent most of the time. >>> in you need a holiday cookie you crunched down on one of those silver spring also that decorate snow flakes to ginger bread men but health experts now is a those silver sprinkles are not actually edible. the f.d.a. says that the suga ry bead were only decorative and should not be considered,

most significant change to the window covering safety standard ever, with a requirement that all blinds sold in retail stores or online be cordless or have inaccessible cords, a change they say should cover more than 80% of products sold. >> i consider this a success story where we're at. >> reporter: cpsc acting chairman anne marie berkle says mandatory standards take a long time to develop. >> the voluntarily standard process is far more nimble and

like you and your wife, rico, this couple met on a blind date. couple met on a blind date. have seen prince harry and meghan markle. prince harry and meghan markle. —— as many people have seen. here in london. so pleased with the response they then added this bonus one. week at frogmore house in windsor. ralph and russo, which is apparently valued at $75,000. very much to the fore. com/news. lovely photos. of taking drugs. and the whole incident was filmed on his body camera. andrew plant has the story. a police officer in florida putting on protective gloves. on protective gloves. pulled over with two suspects inside. inside. needles, and is about to search the vehicle. but the driver has other ideas. it is going to be in front of cambridge... whoa, whoa! the car he is hurtled along at high speed. speed. driver shows no sign of slowing down. down. unexpected ride is only ending 1—way. —— one way. suspects now long gone, but the video camera is still recording. video camera is still recording. you area hero! awesome. pines police force later posted this footage on facebook. footage o

and wejoin the blind backpacker on a mission to visit every country in the world.he biggest challenge i can get. we start in washington, dc. this place claims to be one of the most accessible cities in the world, which makes it a great place to start our special programme marking international disability day. how are you doing, brother? it's an annual drive to raise awareness about the issues faced by disabled people across the globe. i have never let using a wheelchair hold me back in my sporting career or my tv career, but there's no doubt travelling can be daunting. even the great lincoln memorial has its issues. the lift‘s been vandalised. you can go on a virtual tour. i'm not quite sure what the great abraham lincoln would have made of it, though. this week we'll meet travellers who refuse to be restricted by their physical disabilities. first i'm heading half an hour north to the university of maryland, where a yearly sports event has drawn disabled competitors and spectators from all over the world. the working wounded games has adaptive athletes compete acr

has shown that there is a blind. a blind action from the. american administration towards israel and it shows that the israelis do not care about any peace process and they wanted. to gain have gains whatsoever what the. jews who think that from. promise is i continuation of the balfour declaration and it is part of the god's promise is wrong and as you. said. that this promise is a reward to israel for its denial of all the way a resolution and not an end of years in the continuation of apartheid build in settlements and abuse in the law and of course this helps the. extremist groups to wage war within the. region that goes through many decisive wars this decision encourages the abuse under international law including breaches of human rights. it also. takes lightly the decisions and belittles decision there is allusions of the united nations. and it shows that they can break and to national law and impose opinion by force which is a new and you don't mention of abusing and kill national law. also everyone who has been pleased and a celebra

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it travis around the world treating blind people. look at flying eye. >> reporter: it's a hospital with wings stopping here at moffett field. inside is a high-tech teaching hospital called the flying eye. it's a key cog in a program dedicated to preventing blindness in underdeveloped countries. >> it's to fight against avoidable blindness. >> reporter: the md10 plane was a cargo plane donated by federal express and refurbished. it has an operating room for eye surgery with the latest equipment and recovery areas for teddy bears for children who come in for treatment. >> 36 million are blind and 75% of those people could be treated or cured if we have the resources and people trained to treat them. >> reporter: the flying hospital just finished tours in cameroon and bangladesh. doctors treated hundreds of patients with glaucoma, cataracts and problems with retinas, people who are blind one day can see the next. >> when you see their faces of the -- something that almost all the time breaks your heart. you cry out of joy. >> reporter:

b c and other news organizations they're making mistakes because they have a blind hatred for donald trump their blind hatred is throwing journalistic practices and principles out the window and this is damaging the information sphere in the united states and i would say the political process as well go ahead lionel . i would venture to say is an admixture of trump derangement syndrome in full bloom its negligence its malfeasance and also is that amazing isn't it amazing in shocking perhaps that none of these mistakes ever in europe has the benefit of trump already body else or they never deal with hillary clinton or those of the so-called left and progressive left or whatever it's always a unit directional mistake there is never and by the by the biggest problem right now that is facing this country is not this this this this problem geisha in this proliferation i should say of sexual dalliances it's the fact that today's mainstream media today's ted baxter sockpuppet echo chamber rants and ossified media is dead it's through isn't the death throes and the faces an existential threa