dr. sanjay gupta.thletes, young and old, with a special look at football's central role in one north carolina community. >> football in north carolina is really big. >> if you're from around this area, you know rh rose, a four-time state champ. >> pumped up, excited, ready to go. >> that's all i thought, every single day. football, football, football. >> football's a tough sport. you know, it ain't for everybody. there's collisions in this sport. >> here he is, my little brother. he's not moving. he needs help breathing. i mean, i just lost it. >> waller was tackled, walked to the sidelines, and then he collapsed. >> friday night's death of jakwan waller's death is hit hard. >> the trainer was asking me questions and i was answering them all wrong. >> there are a small percentage of impacts that simulate that car crash. >> he does have symptoms of a concussion. >> if a parent came to you and said, coach, my kid really wants to play football, but i want you to tell me that he's going to be safe. >> i ca

dr. sanjay gupta. before we talk about 2012, i wanted to take time to reflect on stories and people that caught my attention and changed the world over this past year. january 8, gunfire at a campaign event for congresswoman gabrielle giffords. six people were killed. >> anyone injured? did you say gabrielle giffords was hit? >> she's hit. she's breathing. >> the congresswoman is shot in the head but survives. >> she was exceedingly lucky, right? when i saw the trajectory of where one hole was and the other hole was, i was like oh, my gosh. however -- >> because it was so far apart. >> it wasn't a little thing it went through a lot. >> three and a half months later the first public steps in the congresswoman's remarkable recovery. in 2011, i tried to put a spotlight on big hits in the brain finding growing evidence that football puts young people at serious risk and professional players as well. in february former chicago bears safety david duerson committed suicide. he left his brain to research. when

. >> dr. gupta, same question? >> you know, i might, surprisingly, but -- and but is, the awareness for sideline exams, trainers at every practice and game, and the idea that they don't have to hit their head 650 times a season. >> thank you very much, lamar, and dr. gupta. we appreciate you joining us and answering all the questions. dr. sanjay gupta's special coming up right now, it is called "big hits, broken dreas"s on cnn. >>> let's go! >> welcome to friday night. >> let's get ready, baby! >> in sportstown, usa. greenville, north carolina. it's a small town with a big passion for sports. these are the four-time high school state champions, the rampants of jh rose. they know what it's like to win. >> coming out here and watching them play, when i was young, i had to play for this team. >> they know what it takes to win. >> you want to be known as the best, the strongest, toughest. survival of the fittest. >> get him! yeah, he's down! >> they also know the painful price of trying to win. >> it's an inherently da

dr. sanjay gupta's special report later tonight.h hall of fame quarterback fran tarkington about the dangers on the field, and we're asking him about next week's super bowl match-up, too. there he is live in our studio. fran, we'll see you in a bit. stick around, everybody. >>> for months cnn has been investigating the dangers of concussion in sports. in his new documentary "big hits, broken dreams" our chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta talk was athletes young and old about what life is like taking hit after hit after hit. and in the case of one retired pro, sanjay asks would he do it all over again? >> reporter: forest greg was part of six nfl championships, including five with the green bay packer dynasty under coach vince lombardi. he was nicknamed iron man for playing 188 games in a row and greg's role on a bruising offensive line won him a bust in the hall of fame. >> from the time you start playing, your coayou are coacheo hit the other guy. he's going to hit you. so -- i want you to hit him. as hard as he hits you

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. >> thanks to dr. gupta and mr. lamar there. i'm don lemon at the cnn headquarters in atlanta. make sure you have a great week, great night and a great week. dr. sanjay gupta reports, big hits, broken dreams. it begins on cnn right now. >>> welcome to friday night. in sports town usa. greenville, north carolina. it's a small town with a big passion for sports. these are the four time high school state champions. the ram pants of j.r. rose. they know what it's like to win. ? whether i was young, i played for this team. >> though necessity what it takes to win. >> you want to be known as the best, strongest, toughest, survival of the fittest. >> get him! >> they also know the painful price of trying to win. >> it's inherently dangerous sport. i mean when football first started, they tried to outlaw it. >> but no one could imagine what would happen to these! pones in 2008. >> to me, that was the perfect storm. you don't know how many times i felt about doing something different. >> it was his first year as head coach. football was always his dream. >> ever since third grade, i've a

dr. sanjay gupta. recently we began this experiment of meeting and profiling what we've been referring to as agents of change. they're innovators who see opportunities where others do not. often facing resistance in the process. and while they had that in common, they come from very different fields. how different? take a look. ♪ >> my name is marco tempest, i'm a cyber illusionist. i combine magic and science to create illusions. >> it's deception, it's science, technology, gadgets, calling myself a magician evokes a certain image. like if we hear magician we immediately know what that is. it's like a guy that does a magic trick. a cyber illusionist requires an explab plan nags. it's a conversation starter. that's what my work is all about. ♪ >> my name is heather knight and i am a doctoral researcher at carnegie melon university and study social robotics. >> they call me data the robot. gosh, i love saying that. >> social robot sist is someone that makes robots that can interact with people in a huma

dr. sanjay gupta is a neurosurgeon, he's treated many gunshot victims.s story closely. it is amazing how far she's come. you can hear, though, she still struggles stringing together multiple sentences. is that typical? >> yeah. it's hard to believe it's been just over a year now anderson. what i would say as a starting point, her recovery was pretty atypical, so many people who have gunshot wounds at close range to the head don't survive let alone have any meaningful neurological recovery. in that sense, she was in the top few percent in terms of recovery. you're right on in terms of her speech, you heard that sort of halting speech, at times searching for words. that is pretty typical. take a look at this animation. you alluded to this in your piece here. a gunshot wound to the head like, the left side of the brain. you can see the bullet went in and out. that's important for a couple of reasons. a lot of the energy from the bullet did not release inside her skull but released into air after passing through. that was probably beautiful to -- beneficial

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dr. sanjay gupta. >> my name is jake shimabukuro. i'm a ukulele player from honolulu, hawaii. ♪ and i started playing when i was about 4 years old. learned from my mom. she was my first teacher. started out playing all traditional hawaiian music until i was about an early teenager and then i just got into different styles of music and play it for the first time. i tell people all the time you don't have to be a musician to play the ukulele because when i was a kid, i mean, clearly i mean, i -- i don't think there was any indication that i would be doing what i'm doing today. >> i started playing the ukulele at the age of 4 and the first thing i learned were the three cords, the hawaiian vamp, which sounds like this. ♪ >> and i was totally happy doing that. and with three cords i immediately could already play 300 traditional hawaiian tunes. ♪ it was great. i mean and i played it all the time. i remember just rushing home from school so that i could pick up my ukulele and play and i never thought of it as practice. it was something i

dr. sanjay gupta found something incredible.nic thing is that nathan didn't start football until he was in seventh grade because he didn't want to get hurt. >> reporter: it was october 28, 2010. the last game of his senior year, the best game of his career. he ran for two touchdown, 165 yards in just the first two quarters. and then two minutes before halftime, he walked off the field. screamed that his head hurt and he collapsed. nathan died early the next morning. nathan died of second impact syndrome. in an earlier game, he got a concussion. everyone, including his doctor, thought he had healed. >> i was here in shock. >> i couldn't look at this book for a long time. >> reporter: the styles would find meaning in nathan's tragic death because of this woman. >> i think the last time you were here we had maybe five brains, now we're up to, we're in the 90s. >> reporter: dr. ann mckee runs the world's largest brain bank. it's a joint project between the veterans administration and boston university. i first met her several years

dr. sanjay gupta, cnn, reporting. >> very nice. , cullen. >>> with the nfl playoff games under way this weekend, dr. sanjay gupta will be talking with a former pro bowl running back suing the league over health and safety issues. don't miss it, 7 tlert :30 a.m. morning. >> one city in need, a very frozen body of water and two nations coming together. a first of its mission of its kind. dad, why are you getting that? is there a prize in there? oh, there's a prize, all right. [ male announcer ] inside every box of cheerios are those great-tasting little o's made from carefully selected oats that can help lower cholesterol. is it a superhero? kinda. ♪ >>> i want to let you know what's going on, give you headlines, an american teen wrongly deported to columbia, hasn't been seen since february of 2010en. she gave police a fake name claiming to be 21 years old and from colombia. that set off a chain that led her being deported in may and her family plans to sue authorities. >>> a new head coach at the penn state football program. bill o'b

here's dr. guptaif you would watch him run, he had a flow about him that was just beautiful. i mean, it looked so graceful. >> nathan's also a starter on the varsity basketball team, a sing singer. >> the 2010 homecoming king is nathan stiles. >> he's the toast of springhill, kansas. the broncos lost that game. and the next day nathan had headaches. no big deal. until five days later when his mom connie received a phone call. >> and i got a call from the trainer at school saying, nathan's telling me he's still having headaches. you need to go take him to the emergency room. so i did. had a cat scan. nothing. >> the doctor kept nathan out of play for three weeks. but he was ready to return, his mom was worried. >> and i remember him looking at me and he goes, "now mom, are you okay with this?" and i'm like -- with him going back to football. i'm like no, but it's his choice. nathan, you want to play? yeah, i'm all right. yeah. i only got two games left. >> but in the last game of the season, right afte

dr. sanjay gupta.ll talk about the dangers of concussions while playing football. >> let's talk about the dangers. it is more dangerous than people think? and can it be made, after all, it's sportsment it's football. you're hitting. that's the nature of it. >> it's a violent sport. it is always going to be that way, i think. there are two things. there are a lot of things in the documentary. one is if you have a concussion and then you get a second concussion while first one is healing, you turn a bad situation into potentially a catastrophic situation. if you have a bruise on your arm and somebody hits you, the next day somebody hits new that same spot, it would hurt a lot more. it's going to heal from the first hit, no doubt. but that second hit hurts that much more. that i of think of your brain the same way. inflame, swollen. but if it gets a second hit, it becomes a really bad situation. and number two, you know, the 650 hits a season when we really dissected a season of a high school football tea

dr. sanjay gupta is back in the house. and about to run a cognitive test on me? as he laughs and walks toward me with a brain. stay tuned for this. i saw that over there and i was like, sanjay's been here. that's when you know. but first, a quick look at what's behind the scenes on the newscast. this is what we do each and every friday. i answer your questions. here's a little piece of our week wind down. >> well, well, mr. j.k.usa, john king asks, where do you hide the uggs when you go on tv? >> he knows not only do i wear my uggs to work sometimes, but on primary night, i'll kick them off right before i go on. they're comfortable and sometimes they hide behind the desk. and christina and i are going to tampa for the big florida primary. looks like monday, tuesday, wednesday, 2:00 live from tampa. we're paying for all spill related clean-up costs. bp findings supports independent scientists studying the gulf's environment. thousands of environmental samples have been tested and all beaches and waters are open. and the tourists are back. i was born here, i'm stil

dr. sanjay gupta. >> we begin tonight with a rare look inside anonymous. >> they're this shadowy and motley group of hackers who answer to none, drawn together by love of internet mischief. >> now they're evolving into this movement of social change. a real driving force behind the wall street occupiers. they're hated by security and hunted by the fbi. >> one of the questions we're asking is who are these people and why are they taking to the streets? to get some answers, amber lions stopped into the shad dose. >> hey, back up! back up! >>er it's a dark and disturbing vision. a world where riot police attack with impunity. >> medic! medic! >> what happened?! what happened?! >> she got shot! >> get back! >> reporter: where democracy is corrupted by greed and dissent is crushed. >> let him go! >> reporter: that's how anonymous sees america, and they say that's why they're fighting back. >> we are legion. we do not forgive. we do not forget. >> reporter: it's a movement that defies description. leaderless, faceless, anarchic. >> this is our space! >> reporter: a loose collective born on the in

dr. sanjay gupta's documentary appears on cnn 8:00 on sunday.preview. >> i remember getting hit hard. that actually rang my bell. >> for the first three week, a headache. >> the trainer was asking me questions, i was answering them all wrong. >> there are a few impacts that simulate a car crash. >> he does have symptoms of a concussion. >> i parent came to you and said, coach, my kid wants p to play football. but i need you to tell me he's going to be safe. >> i can't guarantee that. >> sanjay is out front tonight. you've bone so much reporting on this. 3.5 million athletes in the country get sports related concussions every year. i find that shocking and how much of a long-term effect do these things have? >> i think for a long time, people sort of anecdotely thaukt those hits look hard, like they're bad, but we didn't have the evidence of what it was doing to the brain. that's the average a high school player takes every season. we know over time that can cause something known as chronic traumatic encephelopothy. it's similar to what you would

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dr. gupta looks at toxic schools. that may be making kids sick.nd drew's reporting prescription for cheating. "cnn presents" tomorrow night. 8:00 p.m. eastern. >> still to come, more bloodshed in the streets of syria, and another group joins purpose with a specific purpose. and joran van der sloot learns how many years he's going to get after a guilty plea for killing a woman in peru. for my arthritis, i use new capzasin quick relief gel. (announcer) starts working on contact and at the nerve level. to block pain for hours. new capzasin, takes the pain out of arthritis. >>> i wanted to show you my interview with haiti's president tonight but because of breaking news we couldn't do it. i talked to him in haiti. it's a really interesting conversation. you can watch the interview online. let's check in right now with asha. she's here in the studio. thanks for being here. >> thank you for having me in your very cold studio. a syrian opposition group and the free syria army have joined forces. that led to big demonstrations in the streets with calls fo

dr. sanjay gupta special, "big hits, broken dreams" hosted by dr. sanjay gupta.nd i'm going to be talking with hall of famer fran tarkington. whether it's effective enough in all of sports and whether or not high school football if it's too dangerous to play. that's a question a lot of people are asking. >> there's also the issue where the discussions that have come from more fortified helmets, that is increasing the propensity of players wanted to have contact because they feel like they have more protection. i know you will talk about more of that, but it's a dynamic conversation. >> you have been talking to fran. >> i haven't talked to him but i talked to a lot of people and watch those sports channels. i'll be watching you tonight this time for that conversation. >> thank you. >> thanks so much, don. you never played football, right? i know the answer to that because i have seen him play basketball, too. you never played football. anyway. >> oh, my gosh! >> that was not a slam. i have heard you talk about your own basketball technique. okay, anyway, keep goin

gupta m.d. begins now. >>> good morning, i'm dr. sanjay gupta. here is what we have in store this morning. >>> romneycare versus obamacare. what's the difference? a former heisman trophy winner and proquarterback is struck by a rare, paralyzing disease. and the human lie detector. this man says it's impossible to trick him. >>> first, as you probably know by now, i have reported a lot on concussions in football, particularly in the nfl. i turn my attention to high school players and what concussions can do to their young brains. i met a family who lost their son playing a game he loved. they made the remarkable decision to donate his brain. what scientists are learning from his brain is stunning. number 44, senior nathan styles is a spring hill broncos star runningback. >> if you watch him run, he had a flow about him that was just beautiful. i mean it looked so graceful. >> he's a starter on the varsity basketball team, a singer. ♪ >> the 2010 homecoming king is nathan styles. >> the broncos lost that game. the next day, nathan had headaches. no

all week long we've been talking with dr. guptasions in football, and he's talking about the risk that female athletes face. it's the daughters as well. >> i think girls and women have been largely ignored when it comes to concussions, but over the last few years, there are more women playing more than ever before. we also have learned that women, girls are more susceptible, probably because of that i anatomy, less fluid around the brain. as a result, that's the headline out of recent studies that females have a higher incidence rate of sports-related concussions as compared to males. again, a lot of people don't realize that, but take soccer, for example, you get concussions from often multiple headings of the ball. basketball, girls three times more likely to get concussions as compared to their male counterparts also playing basketball. if you leave football out of the equation, concussions are a big problem for girls as well. >> you mentioned female anatomy is a different from a guy. why is it that they are more vulnerable over

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