the police officers, the paramedics, the e.m.t.'s and nurses and doctors and neighbors helping neighbors. talked to a woman in tennessee last year during the floods in nashville, and it was this home that was completely flooded. actually it was a week later, and it was being mucked out or cleaned out by again, lutherans and another, i forget the other name of the other faith-based group. there were two groups cleaning up her front home and she's sitting out this 86-year-old woman saying all these nice people are helping me clean out literally what's left of their home and she said i wouldn't have survived if it wasn't for my neighbor that broke my front window out and pulled me out and saved her life. he was a nice young man, a 63-year-old neighbor, the nice young man that saved her life. [laughter] >> but it's neighbors helping neighbors. those are the heroes. those are the people that we need to make sure that they are part of our team as we plan to go forward, not just for response but for recovery as well. it's really important

e.m.t. increases the risk of a person slowly progressing to d.e.m. ma over several decades. the hope is by understanding what's gong going wrong inside brain cells researchers can find treatments to interrupt and repair the damage. >> pelley: jon, there was a study of n.f.l. football players that was released about three years ago that said that they were 19 times more likely to develop dementia like alzehimer's disease than people of a similar age. now, do our troops have to worry about that now? >> reporter: well, i think they do have to worry about an increased risk of dementia. we don't know what percentage increase and alzehimer's disease is totally different than c.t.e. but it tells us what's going on inside of the brain cells and once we know that maybe the treatments for alzheimer's, for example, to get friday of that tau protein we talked about in the piece can be used to treat c.t.e . >> pelley: jon, thank you very much. now an astounding development in the brain that we first brought you on "60 minutes." today researchers are reporting that a woman who is complete

minneapolis airport down in richfield but the problem is that for sure that we know that there were no e.m.t. as there were independent of law enforcement president the richfield site and silly several of the people that went through the program said that they were repeatedly given three marijuana it was important to realize that whether or not they were actually given drugs by the police officers any incentive to take drugs in the presence of law enforcement whether it's money or cigarettes or food and as many people are hungry you know chemically dependent and so forth any incentive is equally unethical and that's part of the core of the issue apart from the you know the shocking claims of the people that were in the program well so tell me what you do have then you know on filmy said that these people said that they were given drugs said that they were given incentives right obviously you didn't go to this facility with them with your camera and get and get that and so you know did you ever see anybody that add to the cop ever approach you and offer you know that you might want to take pa

laced if it was seized from somewhere if you be you know filled with other substances and we know that e.m.t. personnel who are independent of law enforcement were not present at the facility in richfield near the minneapolis international airport and so without emergency medical protection without vetting the quality of any drugs that would be distributed which of course is denied you can see that there is a lack of oversight in checking to make sure that those things are not laced or otherwise dangerous and even if they're not doing that they're still not taking the right medical safeguards to protect everyone and i do want to mention when you when you look at this program the drug evaluation classification program this is not unique to minnesota from what i read i think forty seven states plus d.c. even planted a participate in this program i guess i'm wondering you know what have you heard i mean it has been a success. full program what's going on here well there are you know a lot of criticisms out there the ari officers have been very well known to claim that people are intoxicated whe

if there's an attack, it a natural disaster or man-made disaster therks police and firefighters and e.m.t.'s who will be there long before the federal government. we need to protect them. sure, i'll yield. >> my dad was a policeman in the city of philadelphia. mr. wolf: with my dad, i couldn't say the word cops. because it was a derogatory term. my dad was a policeman, i love my father. when we go to conference, we'll attempt to really deal with this. i think mr. fattah and i agree. nasa is not the police to go. i'm very sympathetic. we're given -- giving a budget, some guys want to take the budget down even more. the republican study committee wants to take it down even more. some guys would have voted for the republican study committee come down here? listen, i'm committed to do everything we can when we go to conference. the allocation was different. mr. pascrell: reclaiming my time. mr. wolf: i will do everything we can as we go to conference depending on how the allocation is to see what we can really do. mr. pascrell: we can't be dependent on the allocation, we have to fight for the