>> this naib --neighborhood may be typical now, two families with autistic children, aiden, who lives here, is one of about 30,000 bay area children diagnosed with autism. two hours ago, nine-year-old aiden stepped off the bus. he goes to a special school. his mom says he was diagnosed at two years old. >> he was 26 months. didn't talk. through -- threw tantrums all day long. screamed, cried. he was miserable. i couldn't reach him. >> reporter: 1 in 88 children now have diagnoseable autism. that's a startling increase in a decade. >> there's a sense of urgency now. >> how much of the increase is a result of better tracking and how much of it is the result of an actual increase? we still don't know. >> scientists discovered several genes associated with autism. experts point to external triggers. >> we're talking about infections, social conditions, and we're talking about exposures to toxicants, things in the environment. >> intensive treatment, if begun early, can significantly help children. the problem is, autism-related costs have tripled in a decade. now $126 billion a year, acco

and interns, and we also have a youth commission, partners we collaborate together with including naib, and we developed a youth agenda so we have a youth webpage or our website, we can connect to youth in many ways and will continue to connect with youth. we have a great agenda for this year. we've already developed it. one last question here. so can i have a question from the audience here? yes? >> hi, jim myers, the tulsa world. you speak of the bipartisan approach that's taken sometimes in congress on different pieces of legislation but that doesn't always translate into success. can you identify two pieces of legislation you believe must be passed by the upcoming session of congress before it can be viewed as a success by the indian country? >> i think the most pressing need that we have is the criteria fix. that's been the priority for indian country for the past several years. captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2008 captioning performed by vitac

and naib as an organization that represents those individuals in its own right. >> what about the jurisdictional question, why is that so important? >> whether the anti-injunction act is jurisdictional? well, the government in this case is affirmatively arguing that the anti-injunction act doesn't apply. so every party to the case thinks the anti-injunction act doesn't apply. they are the sole beneficiary of the statute even they don't think it applies. so ordinarily the court would not have to consider the issue at all. the only circumstance in which they would have to consider it against the wishes of all of the parties is if it were jurisdictional. and the court has cut way back on what counts as being jurisdictional. exactly because it produces these very weird circumstances where courts have to consider issues that nobody wants them to consider. >>> was there anything that surprised you at all that came up. >> no, not hugely surprising. we spent a lot of time trying to think through all of the contingencies. >> you got the question from the justice you thought you would get questions from?