the study of brain tissue of a former soccer pro, patrick grange much grange died at age 29 from lou gehrig's> they found his frontal lobe was riddled with cte, the same repetitive head trauma disease found in many football players. this is the first time a soccer player has been diagnosed with cte. >> headers as a youth under the age of 14 should not happen. >> getting hit in the head hundreds or thousands of times is not a normal part of life. it does not happen outside of sports. >> many doctors even some soccer coaching clinics are now advising against kids practicing headers until the age of 14. >>> in san francisco, a dramatic rescue of three teens. they fell down a steep cliff. two of teens both boys may have been trying to help a girl in the water. rescuers couldn't reach them from the ground so turned to the coast guard and sent in a helicopter that took the girl to the hospital. she's expected to be fine. >>> a central florida man has survived an attack by a bear. the victim's wife says her husband managed to fight off the bear in the road outside of the couple's mobile home. he was

.-- lou gehrig's disease. >> you had two doughnuts!porter: he wants to give away doughnuts at schools and parks, cancer wards and children's hospitals all over his hometown of durham, north carolina, for no other ran than to make people smile. because if i can't impact people, then this whole thing is a waste. >> reporter: since that first airing, chris' wisdom has been quoted on church signs and celebrated on social media. a lot of people wanted to know how a dying man could be so full of life. and one of those people was chris rosati. >> i really wanted to know, though. am i crazy? >> reporter: which brings us to part two of his story. >> you're not crazy. well, you are crazy but not in that way. >> reporter: chris is now working on a documentary he's tentatively titled "the blessings of my disease." he's interviewing other a.l.s. patients like anne fortier to see if anyone else has found the same silver lining. >> the love that you feel for all the people in your life. you really -- it overflows. >> reporter: turns out, chris is not

patrick grange died at age 29 from lou gehrig's disease.er his death his brain was studied and was found to have signs of c.t.e. soccer has long been thought of to be safer than football or hockey. >> if you really know what you're eating it turns out hundreds of foods we're eating every day have the same chemicals used to make yoga mats. subway sandwiches made headlines after it said it would no longer be using it to make its bread but now the environmental working group says almost 500 other products contain the same substance. companies including ballpark, jimmy dean, little debbies, wonder and nature's own are some companies that use the substance. while the f.d.a. approves small amounts of it there are reports some workers who came in contact with it developed asthma and skin problems. >> katy perry feeling the heat after muslims complained about symbols used in her video saying they are offensive to her religion. ♪ ♪ >> but the singer taking a break from the spotlight to help deliver a baby. perry announced on twitter she assisted in

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. >> the result of a study from a former soccer pro who died of lou gehrig's disease at age 29. >> asies may be more widespread than originally thought. >> american kids love to play soccer. long seen as the safe alternative to u.s. football. for the first time, a soccer player has been diagnosed with cte. the very same repetitive head trauma disease found in some pro football players. >> our son, patrick, was doing headers at age three. >> patrick grange died nearly two years ago, his brain donated to scientist at boston university, studying cte, doctors announcing the frontal lobe of his brain was badly damaged. riddled with the same mind-numbing disease that leads to dementia and depression. >> getting hit in the head hundreds of thousands of times is not a normal part of life. it does not happen outside of sports and abuse. >> it is this move, the header, so dangerous for youngsters. players typically head the ball up to 12 times in a single game. watch again. that black and white sphere traveling up to 50 miles an hour. while football players are typically protected by a helmet,

can -- if you can potentially help bring forward treatments for alzheimer's or parkinson's or lou gehrig'ssease, any of these things, that's a wonderful prospect. so hopefully out of the basic research we're doing at me brane institute there will be some treatments that will be brought forward. >> let me stay back with seattle. when you look at this team, what is it you like about the team? >> well, there's -- i guess there's a number of things. it's -- we're a very young team. but the team that pete and john have built there, again, it's -- a lot of it is about speed and grittiness and determination. and fearlessness. and pete kind of uefeekly gives the players the ability to express themselves, to be who they are. and i think that's really a trend more and more in sports. i think today's players do much more of that. you see much more of that activity on everything from social networks to the omnipresent coverage that you get on all the different sports channels. so pete kind of uniquely celebrates that. and yet, within a framework that -- because you have to have the -- the discipline t

involved so if you can potentially help bring forward treatments for alzheimer's or parkinson's or lou gehrig's disease or any of these things, that's a wonderful prospect. so hopefully out of the basic research we're doing at my brain institute there is will be treatments that will be brought forward. >> rose: so what's possible, do you think, in the next four or five years in brain science? >> well, i think you've done a lot of shows on -- in discussions, deep dives into brain science with dr. kandel who i'm a big fan of. and i think you find out that all science progresss -- progresses incrementally and then every once in a while off breakthrough. so what i tried to do with our initial work at the brain institute was to understand the genetics of the mouse brain and then the human brain and we finish those projects and try to understand how the brain really works in detail. and that is an amazingly challenging -- it's going to be -- hopefully we'll see some results in the five years. but all of these threads of research, you're looking at decades of research, many decades of research to full

instances those guys with the musical instruments had a little bit higher levels of parkinson's, lou gehrig's disease. in other words, what is happening to a very small subset of players at an elite level, there is no evidence that is happening at a high school level. there's a couple thousand guys that play in the nfl, according to this study, of the 3500 guys they looked at, 12 of them died of neurodegenerative diseases. less than a half of one percent of all the guys they're looking at. 12 guys. the rate was higher than anticipated, but we're still talking a very tiny, tiny fraction of pro players. is there something there? if you're playing a certain position, like linebacker or defensive back, at the nfl level for years, there might be something year, but that doesn't mean every kid playing pop warner is going to be condemned to a brained aled existence and it's reckless to put that forward and that's what the lawsuit did. the irony of the nfl lawsuit was that the players hurt every league they weren't suing but didn't hit the league they were suing. the nfl is approaching 10 bill -- $10

. >> part of this elaborate fantasy he crafted after he was diagnosed with als, lou gehrig's disease.> he wanted to give away donuts to schools at parks, cancer wards and children's hoops all over his hometown of durham, north carolina. for no other reason than to make people smile. >> because if i can't impact people, who whole thing is a waste. >> since that first airing, chris' wisdom has been quoted on church signs and celebrated on social media. a lot of people want to know how a dying man could be so full of life. and one of those people was chris risotti. >> i want to know, am i crazy. which. >> which brings us to part two of his story. chris is now working on a documentary he's tent sievely titled the blessings of my disease. he's interviewing other als patients like anne to see if anyone else found the same silver lining. >> the love of everyone in your life. >> turns out chris is not alone. >> i am happy. >> bob anderson can't even speak any more but even he can relate. >> once you reach acceptance it is a fun rise. >> watching the interview almost like they share a secret.

retired numbers mean more, they made more money than anybody, and there is a history, going back to lou gehrig, jodi nacchio, mickey mantle -- no other team has a, not even close. >> is trying to get into the theater? to get thet trying loyalists? >> we would like to get normal theater people how to we want to get women to bring their husband or boyfriend, or other or father -- we see that all the time. >> men that might be more likely to see a show about baseball. >> you may not want to go see mary poppins, but you will comes the "bronx bombers. hear "bull durham" was going to be made into a musical. at the end of the day, it's important to put on a show and get a return on your investment. what are you doing to be different? >> we are learning that social media is a big thing. facebookeeting and on talking about the show. we had people signing autographs like bucky dent -- >> it's got to be good. >> it's not that easy. >> it's just got to be good. sales righticket now on broadway in general? >> with this weather, i can't imagine it's great. people are coming, we do have a good time but if it

lou gehrig's disease, spinal aggregate,rophy, in there are somewhere between 300-600 neurological disorders. it depends on whether you are a lump or to use the larger number, or a splitter -- a lump or will give you the smaller number or the splitter will give you the larger number. in the u.s.people suffer from a neurological disease? guest: many. stroke, as i said, is the force most common -- is the fourth most common disease. it is a very large number. if you put together all the brain disorders, including mental illness, drug addiction, neurological disorders, it is the largest source of int: what kind of progress the last 30 years have we made in this country on strokes? extraordinarye progress. the rates of strokes have significantly decreased. we now have treatments where if you have an acute stroke, it can get theu -- if you right treatment, there is a one and three chance -- one in three chance he will leave the hospital with no consequence from that stroke. the decrease in incidence is due to the recognition of the same factors we recognize for heart disease, hypertension, diabete

>> babe ruth is the greatest yankee, lou gehrig, mickey mantel and joe dimaggio, he is the fifth.leads all of baseball in postseason base hits, that certainly could elevate him on that list a tad. >> hall of fame certainty. >> he is he will go bible in 2020 and i don't think there's a sports writer, a voter alive who's not going to cast a vote. never say never, crazier things happen, but i can't see anyone not making him a unanimous first ballot hall of famer. interesting to note, not only is he a sure hall of famer, he's also sure to have his jersey number retired by the yankees. that would mean the only number not retired from one to 10 would be number six and they've said that the yankees are going to retire joe torre's number six soon. no one through 10 for the yankees. >> there is as growing movement valentine's day to call attention to a global issue. millions of people coming together just to dance all in an effort to stop violence against women. we caught up with the organizer who hopes her very personal message continues to spread. >> the 1 billion rising. >> 1 billion ri