in the 2010 game legrand was paralyzed from the neck down.sses a year later during an emotional commencement speech, he told his fellow graduates to never give up. >> don't never let somebody tell you you can't do something. don't ever let somebody tell you you can't do something. don't let anybody ever tell you you can't do something. if you put your mind to something, anything is truly possible in this world. >> legrande received a degree in labor relations. now, the rutgers grad wasn't the only football college player whose life was forever changed during a game. jeff glor takes a look at the inspirational story of devon walker. >> reporter: devon walker was a senior safety for tulane university when in 2012 he collided with a teammate and went down. >> definitely concerned about devon walker. >> reporter: the impact fractured his spine, leaving him paralyzed below the neck. >> i tried to shake it off and say, okay, next play, let's go. but i couldn't move. >> reporter: walker spent three months in the hospital. the courage and endurance h

legrand wasn't the only player whose life was changed forever on the football field.r who inspired this weekend. >> devon walker was a senior safety for tulane university when in september 2012, he collided head on with a teammate and went down. >> definitely concerned about devon walker. >> jeff: the impact fractured his spine, leaving him paralyzed below the neck. >> charges say okay, next play, let's go. but i couldn't move. >> jeff: walker spent three months in the hospital. the courage and endurance he once applied to the game, he now used for his recovery. >> just being able to get out of bed and get dressed, you know, something that might have taken me 20, 30 minutes takes two hours now. >> his comeback winning him new fans along the way. this weekend, only a year and a half after his injury, walker was back in front of a packed stadium. devon walker, congratulations. >> he graduated from tulane with a degree in molecular biology. then he was invited to a mini- camp tryout for the new orleans saints where he heard his name called for a second time. >> we're sig

for the very latest, we go live to new jersey. >> reporter: well, eric legrand admits that he was hurt initially when rutgers took back an invitation to speak at commencement, but he understands it was a miscommunication and he was just happy to be able to speak today. it has been a long road for eric. the rutgers star defensive tackle had nfl hopes until october 16th, 2010, when he was paralyzed from the neck down during a tackle of a kick return on that game. but since then -- today eric spoke in front of the class of 2014 in a pakd football stadium, he recalled how doctors told him he had a # 0% to 5% chance of ever walking again. >> they told me i wouldn't be be able to do this, wouldn't be able to do that. but i'm doing so many different things now, living a normal life. i'm living my shoulders and moving myself. just know every single day when i get up out of bed, i try to get up and walk again and i continue to fail and fail. but that has not stopped me to continue to believe in myself that one day that is truly going to happen, i'll be able to take care of myself again and walk

la legrand was severely injured after diving into a tackle but didn't give up. years he continued his education while going through physical therapy. >> this is me delivering a message to everybody else and hopefully leaving them with a good lesson that i'm pretty much teaching them how to handle adversity. >> legrand was chose on the replace former secretary condoleezza rice. rice dropped out following weeks of protest saying she didn't want to turn the focus away from the graduates. >>> and enormous dinosaur fossils were discovered in argentina, but just how big is this guy? >> what was that? this. >> a tyrannasaurus. >> i don't think so.ds bigger. >> we have discovered a jumbo bone from the largest animal to walk the earth. the largest species was taller than a six-story building, two tractor-trailers weighed 180,000 pounds. he was an herbivore. >>> vegetarian diet? >> i feel your pain, anna, i'm reading to my kids about dinosaurs and it is like paleontologist. >> you think it would be named something that the parents could read. and i hear they are making a

today, legrande graduated. the degree in labor relations. he was one of the commencement speakers telling fellow grads he's proof that anything is truly possible in this world. former new jersey governor tom keen also spoke. keen a last-minute replacement for condoleezza rice who pulled out of the ceremony after rutter. >>s students and staff protested her selection. >>> to politics now. the race that's long way from getting started and the candidate washington can't stop talking about, hillary clinton, she looms over the democratic feel as odds-on favorite. erin mcpike reports, most favorite status can also work against her. >> reporter: some top democrats are growing concerned, hillary clinton is so far ahead, so early. >> i do worry about the in inevitability thing. i think it's off-putting to the average voter. i think that was an element of her campaign the last time. >> this is hard for me because i did talk with her and thought it would be better that she not get out there early because her favorability was so high that all that could

so, again, eric legrand is set to speak here at rutgers university on the football field in front oftes, a truly inspirational journey coming full circle for him today. shannon. >> he is truly one of the most positive, determined, inspirational people i know i've ever met. sounds like you feel the same way. hopefully that will mean a lot to the students today. brian, thank you. >>> well, conservative values cost them a tv show on hgtv and now there's a new twist. >>> and she's pregnant, christian and sentenced to death in sudan. can anything be done to save this woman? >>> and the deadly mers virus pops up in the u.s. again. an update from the cdc straight ahead. all stations come over to mission a for a final go. this is for real this time. step seven point two one two. verify and lock. command is locked. five seconds. three, two, one. standing by for capture. the most innovative software on the planet... dragon is captured. is connecting today's leading companies to places beyond it. siemens. answers. dso i got dr. scholl's massaging gel work insoles. ired. they absorb the shock of

after condoleezza rice canceled, rutgers then called former rutgers football player eric legrand and him the speaking gig. this man is legender there. he became a paraplegic while playing for the school. then we heard the school called him the next morning and said, oh, we're going another way. tonight after that controversy broke, we're told he's back in the ceremony along with the former new jersey governor. what a mess. isaac woodward is the president of the -- well, we did put it in here, isaac, at rutgers university. he wanted miss rice to speak. thank you both for being here. me start with you on this, isaac. what a hot mess they've turned the commencement into. >> we just think this is the latest example in a chronicle of liberal intolerance. basically where when you get to campus, you realize there's a certain set of political beliefs which are okay to espouse and which are not. we received e-mails from faculty members encouraging teach-ins with represent one side of the issue. it's a real tragedy for those of us looking forward to hearing an accomplished woman. >> why couldn

yesterday he legrand spoke at commencement in the same stadium where he sufficiented his injury. >> i'msed to be in the situation i'm in today. i never take anything for granted in my life. there are so many things i can accomplish if i believe in myself and man above and anything is possible. i want you guys to remember that as you go through this work world. eric: he says after earning his degree, his next goal is to walk once again. amazing inspiration and remarkable young man and we salute him. martha: also, from new jersey over the weekend the governor, chris christie, calling for a more aggressive foreign policy. his comments coming as russian president vladmir putin says he is pulling troops back from the ukraine border in three different regions. governor chris at this says the cries there there is another example how president obama failed to defend american core values abroad. here is what he said night is unthinkable that the america that has led in the way it has always led this world would permit that to happen. yet we are sitting in a world, we are watching, the vacuum tha