. >> now a bit of controversy. >> the nfl's image has taken some hits. >> you would think the nfl would clean up its act. >>> good to have you with us tonight. thanks for watching. sometimes in life we witness things we just are never going to forget. i will never forget this night, august 12, 1978. i was a young aspiring quarterback on the sidelines of the oakland raiders when jack tatum hit wide receiver darryl stingily of the new england patriots. and this hit paralyzed stingily. and at that moment i realized just how fast it could end and how fragile life can be in the national football league. >> in a saturday preseason game in august of 1978 stingley was hit by jack tatum. he was almost totally pair laysed. >> when the injury first occurred, i never had a chance to hear what the doctors were saying. i was too busy fighting for my life. as a result of the accident i was able to sit and spend more time in developing a relationship and rapport with may family and friends. >> hits like that take place every week in the nfl, getting players back on the field is the mission of every tea

former nfl players have a different view. the attorney for jeremy newberry spoke with us today. >> all the rules and ethics that you expect to apply when you go to see your family doctor are thrown out the window when you walk into an nfl locker room. >> reporter: jeremy newberry played with the team from 1988- 2006. he has stage 3 kidney failure because of the pain medication he received during his career. the dea is now getting involved to see if the nfl is violating the controlled substances act. >> it could be helpful if there was another flank, you have the government going after the same evidence. >> reporter: he says it is not uncommon for a lawsuit to trigger a criminal investigation. the nfl filed a motion to have the lawsuit thrown out. if it moves forward it has the potential to be damaging. >> if i were in the nfl i would be worried about the future of the game more than the damages. >> reporter: the nfl says the legal will not make any comment on the lawsuit. allie rasmus, ktvu channel 2 news. >> thank you. >> ma

>>> plus, domestic violence and sexual assault have no place in the nfl. >> do nfl football players have a domestic violence problem? or has the media kicked off a crisis? we run through the numbers. and finally -- >> the golden gate bridge is the most commonplace for someone to take their life in the western hemisphere. >> will a suicide barrier at the iconic bridge actually help prevent suicides elsewhere in the bay area? we explore the possibilities. here is tonight's edition of "reality check." and good evening. thank you very much for joining us. i'm sam brock. for the next 30 minutes we'll take on claims, assertions aged projections and vet them for accuracy. that's what reality check saul about, using data, research analysis to celebrate the truth. let's fin with an issue everybody has been talking about, ebola. the fear of an outbreak right now is not the only thing spreading across the u.s. blame and finger pointing have also infected political debate. does the cdc have enough money to deal with this virus and others? and is one party really to blame for slashing that agency's r

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this year the nfl projects to have about 30 arrests total. two, according to blog and stats guru nate silver, nfl players have lower arrest rates by far than the national average for men ages 25 to 29. however, the numbers do show the nfl has a domestic violence problem. when it comes to violent crimes among pro football players, 48% of arrests are for domestic violence. that's more than double the national average. so while the nfl commissioner has promised action and a new culture. >> domestic violence and sexual assault have no place in the nnf nfl. >> the numbers show that it is a serious problem among players but the notion that players are getting arrested more often than before or at higher rates than the general public simply isn't true. and the nfl did just announce a domestic violence training program. but in the days leading up to that announcement the players association criticized the nfl on focusing on how it will react to a violent accident and not how it will prevent the behaviors in first place. the nfl does have a domestic v

. >> what about how the nfl has handled domestic violence?> this is a sport that's living in the past that has no connection, i think, to the realities of the game right now and no real connection to american society. ♪ >> one of the subjects you wrote about more recently is the nfl. you said it will become ghettoized because of concussions with only poor athletes willing to play the game and that the sport will become obsolete. the nfl has been settling with former players. are they doing enough with current players? >> no. i think the sport is a moral abomination. nfl released the actuaries report trying to estimate what number of retired players may well be in need of some kind of medical assistance from the league and they came up with one third. when you watch football on sunday, in the course of playing the game, they're incurring an injury that will significantly impact their life. can you point to another industry in america which, in the course of doing business, maims one third of its employees? this is untenable. we are not talking

the whole ray rice issue was what's wrong with the nfl.hey are completely disconnected from the consequences of this sport that they are engaged in. they are socializing young men into a culture of violence. right? is it at all surprising that you see the kinds of corollary social damage surrounding players that we see? not at all surprising. they are off on this 19th century trajectory which is out of touch with the rest of us. >> your friend, and podcasting partner, bill simmons called the commissioner of the nfl a liar with respect to the ray rice case. he ended up getting suspended for three weeks. espn suspended him. was that the right decision? >> it was totally the wrong decision. if a sports columnist in a podcast can't call the -- can't exercise free speech. calling him a liar is not like it came out of nowhere. one reasonable conclusion from the whole ray rice saga was that the commissioner of the nfl knew about the existence of the videotape and was lying about it. i'm not saying it's what he did. i don't know, but it's a reason

still, the ruling is a major setback for the nfl commissioner. he's been widely criticized for his handling of this and other domestic abuse cases. >> he basically looks like he doesn't know what he's doing right now. and if he was head of a public company, he'd probably be fired. but of course he's running the nfl, which makes a ton of money. so i don't think he's going to be going anywhere any time soon. >> reporter: rice's future is also uncertain. >> this is the nfl. and the players are coming up and some teams are probably so desperate that they're looking at ray rice. but obviously you would think it would be a public relations disaster. >> reporter: today, ravens fans had mixed reaction. >> i think they're trying to, but i don't know that they've done enough. >> i don't think that something like that should keep him from being able to play football. >> reporter: and that reaction will undoubtedly continue to pour in tomorrow when the ravens take on the san diego chargers in baltimore. now, we reached out to nfl officials to see if they had

and that is old in the nfl. and in nfl years. and he had his worst year ever last year. but i do think that the public relations campaign is beginning, as it should. everyone made so many mistakes. as a culture we've made mistakes in not understanding what domestic violence is. this isn't just an nfl problem. it is an international problem. but i don't think -- in other words you're asking me would it matter to an nfl team right now that they are speaking out? i don't know. i think it is going to be hard for ray rice to pick up his career but there bha a team that says let's go for it. >> the ruling underscores the urgency of our work to develop and implement a fair and comprehensive new conduct policy. our focus is on consistently enforcing an improved policy going forward. let's talk about the man at the top. what does this mean if anything for roger god el, rick? >> it certainly means he is under the gun very quickly to create that policy that he promised in september. you are looking at his transcript. and he says that everyone deserves a fair process but we will imp

ray rice has won his appeal with the nfl. he's been cleared to play in the nfl, but right now he's a man without a team. it was ray rice with the woman who is now his wife in that elevator surveillance video, so violent we will no longer air it in its entirety. so violent it caused national and public outrage and led to a huge conversation about abuse. at the time ray rice was a running back for the baltimore ravens, that was before his indefinite suspension from football. and that has now been overturned. big story during a big football holiday weekend. it's where we begin tonight including a portion of an exclusive interview with rice's wife. nbc's kristen welker starts us off this evening. >> reporter: embattled former ravens running back ray rice is cleared to play and can sign with any team effective immediately. late this afternoon former u.s. district court judge barbara s. jones, serving as an arbitrator, overturned the nfl's indefinite suspension of rice, calling it arbitrary. rice and the nfl players union had argue

we're excited by it, and the cash cow is the nfl. it's great to see adam silver do this but in vegas basketball and baseball combined does not come close to the money bet on football every year. football is the cash cow and it's christmas. the more the merrier. that's how he look at it. >> i would be remiss if i didn't mention the ncaa. because they aren't making an average of $4 million a year those fellas. they can't even get an extra pair of sneakers without somebody looking over their shoulder. are they going to have to be carved out in some way? >> that's the biggest issue here. the ncaa, you have people signing autographs for a couple of thousand dollars. you have stories of athletes that--they can't ate real food because they don't make any money even though they generate numbers of dollars for their school. i think it goes along a parallel path. there is already change going on in the ncaa. it has nothing to do with sports gambling. it's hard to tell in five or ten years what the ncaa will look like, and how much that has to

the whole ray rice issue was what's wrong with the nfl.y are completely disconnected from the consequences of this sport that they are engaged in. they are socializing young men into a culture of violence. right? is it at all surprising that you see the kinds of corollary social damage surrounding players that we see? not at all surprising. they are off on this 19th century trajectory which is out of touch with the rest of us. >> your friend, and podcasting partner, bill simmons called the commissioner of the nfl a liar with respect to the ray rice case. he ended up getting suspended for three weeks. espn suspended him. was that the right decision? >> it was totally the wrong decision. if a sports columnist in a podcast can't call the -- can't exercise free speech. calling him a liar is not like it came out of nowhere. one reasonable conclusion from the whole ray rice saga was that the commissioner of the nfl knew about the existence of the videotape and was lying about it. i'm not saying it's what he did. i don't know, but it's a reasonab

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is the nfl complicit, what knowledge do they have?s investigation will uncover answers to those questions and those answers will answer your questions. >> it doesn't matter if a player wants them. if it's illegal, it's illegal. if it's happening to you, keith, you're a former senior editor with espn. from what you've heard from the players, 600 of them filed this class-action suit saying this happened to us, former players saying that. did they talk to you at all about what drives this? if there's a culture of pressure within the league? >> sure, certainly. i mean, listen, you're being compensated a tremendous amount of money and your value decreases tremendously if you're not on the field. so there is tremendous pressure for you to be on the field, not only because of your compensation, but the nfl is a very much next-man-up league. we talk about teams where you've got, you know, there are 53 guys on every team, you know, at some positions there are three guys waiting in line behind you to take your spot. and if you get hurt, and you

coverups involving the nfl but coverups involving law enforcement. that's more frightening than a league that just turns a blind eye to abuse. >> thank you for joining. >>> thank you. >> that's it, we are on facebook and twitter @ajconsiderthis and can you tweet me @amoratv. we'll see you next time. he molecule attached to the ebola virus spinning in cyberspace. >> so we want to design a protein. >> it's a game called "foldit". zoran papovic who developed it calls it a 3d jigsaw puzzle. >> and if it fits in that spot, all of a sudden the virus wouldn't be able to do stuff that it was doing before. >> so it would inhibit that virus? >> that's right. >> players all over the world participate. the whole point for the 700 gamers who have tackled the ebola puzzles is to have a real world impact. dr. david baker runs the university of washington's institute for protein design where the ebola foldit effort has already given scientists new leads. >> we can design stuff on the computer that has never existed and then in the lab be working with it in real life

coverups involving the nfl but coverups involving law enforcement. that's more frightening than a league that just turns a blind eye to abuse. >> thank you for joining. >>> thank you. >> that's it, we are on facebook and twitter @ajconsiderthis and can you tweet me @amoratv. we'll see you next time. he >> two palestinians armed with actiones and knives attack a synagogue in jerusalem. at least four worshipers are killed. hello. in our headquarters in doha with the latest on a developing story out of jerusalem. police fire tear gas in clashes with palestinian protesters. and colombian rebel group confirms it has captured an army general placing peace talks in jeopardy. plus a grand jury decides whether to b

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the whole ray rice issue was what's wrong with the nfl.y are completely disconnected from the consequences of this sport they are engaged in. they are socializing young men into a culture of violence. is it at all surprising that you see the kind of corollary social damage surrounding players that we see? not at all surprising. they are off on this 19th century trajectory. >> l simmons called be commissioner of the nfl a liar. go back to the ray rice case. he ended up getting suspended for three weeks. >> it was totally the wrong decision. if a sports columnist in a podcast can't call -- can't exercise free speech. calling him a liar is not like it came out of nowhere. one reasonable conclusion from the whole ray rice saga is that the commissioner of the nfl knew about the existence of the videotape and was lying about it. i don't know if he did, but it's a reasonable conclusion. i thought sports columnists in expressing their opinions are allowed to draw conclusions. apparently not. i thought it was an embarrassing moment. >> beauty that

the nfl has sought to dismiss the suit. retired super bowl winning quarterback jim mcmahon said the nfl culture led many players like him to addiction and failing health. >> a lot of these guys in this lawsuit have bad kidneys, they have bad hearts. we just don't know what all these medications we're doing to our bodies. >> reporter: an nfl spokesperson said our teams cooperated with the dea and we have no information to indicate that irregularities were found. another off the field headline for the nfl in a year filled with them. ron mott, nbc news, boston. >>> tonight we're getting what appears to be a new look at the malaysia airlines flight 17 crash in eastern ukraine. it was back in july. the video appears to show the initial moments right after impact. u.s. officials believe pro-russia separatists shot the plane out of the sky killing all 298 on board. conditions in the region have further deteriorated since then. stepped up military activity including fierce fighting for control of the nearby donetsk airport. >>> sad

looking for when they raided three nfl locker rooms yesterday? "all in" starts right now. >> good evening from new york. the president of the united states has finally responded to controversial remarks. gruber, he advised on romneycare and led to the affordable care act. conservatives are now being played on almost con stant loop on fox news. gruber is describing key parts of the legislation, essentially, as a grand bait and switch, designed to deceive american citizens. >> it's written to do that. in terms of subsidies, to get a law which says healthy people are going to pay in, you made it explicit that healthy people pay in and sick people get money, it would not have passed. >> basically, call it the stupidity of the american voterover whatever or whatever. but, basically, that was really, really critical to getting the thing to pass. >> combined with weeks of negative ads on my terms have made their mark. a new gallop poll showing approval at a record low of only 37%. speaking of reporters from australia where he's participating the g-20 su

the nfl hopes to have the report, they say, by the super bowl.l owners say when they have it, they will make the findings public. >> quijano: bob orr in washington, thank you. now to black friday. many stores opened while thanksgiving dinner was still in the oven. 140 million americans said they may shop during the four-day holiday weekend. sales this month and next are expected to hit nearly $617 billion, more than 4% higher than last year. don dahler checked out the action at the malls. ( cheers ) >> reporter: for some shoppers, the chaos of black friday has become a near obsession. >> it's going great. i got a lot of great deals. >> my friends and i usually stay up all night during the week before thanksgiving and plan it out, scope it out, map out the stores that we need to go to. >> reporter: the demand for tvs was so intense, fights broke out at several stores around the country. for one hour beginning at 6:00 p.m. on thursday, target stores nationwide reported selling 1,800 tvs per minute. electronics giant best buy slashed prices to compe

coverups involving the nfl but coverups involving law enforcement. that's more frightening than a league that just turns a blind eye to abuse. >> thank you for joining. >>> thank you. >> that's it, we are on facebook and twitter @ajconsiderthis and can you tweet me @amoratv. we'll see you next time. he >>> america stands on the brink of a new cold war with russia. i journeyed to the frontlines in the frozen north where america's nato allies are already locked in a high-stakes standoff over huge deposits of oil and natural gas. tonight i'll begin a five-part special report with a first hand look at how arctic melting has unlocked a wealth of opportunity and fueled new tensions between olden mys. also, iran's controversial nuclear program, i'll lack at how world powers are trying to curb iran's ambitions as a crucial deadline draws closer. >>pl

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the nfl, of course, suspends him indefinitely. the ravens cut him.he question is, did roger goodell fail in his handling of the case? >> i think roger goodell when you watch the press conference. the video was released. the outrage. there was initial outrage. i thought surely the commissioner with the power of the nfl and the power of the commissioner's office, and the nfl securities that he has seen the video of course he has seen all the facts that are, that are going to take place in this case at this time. this is the decision that he made? and we, everybody was shocked about that. >> yeah, totally gotten out of hand the i agree, jamaal, i think the commissioner knew something. saw the video. ray rice told the commissioner exactly what happened in the elevator, that he struck his wife. right from the jump, ray rice should have been suspended a tougher suspension more than two games originally when this first happened. >> what we are talking about now, the credibility of the league at stake. the credibility of the commissioner. what went on in the

his quarterback rating was 15 last sunday, worst in the nfl. jay gruden was asked if rg iii can get back to the player he was in 2012 when the ritz kids went to the playoffs. >> obviously, having injuries, the type of quarterback he was, his first year he had 800 yards rushing. quite friendly, we have not won a super bowl since 1991, which is where we are trying to go. we're not trying to go 10-6 and get knocked out in the first round of the playoffs. >> jay gruden looking at long-term goals. the wizards are now 7-3 after losing last night to the mavericks. with lebron james and the cavaliers coming to town, the good news for the wizards is the return of bradley beal. sharp, taking charges one end, knocking down shots the other. he scored 21 points in 26 minutes, he was terrific. the play of the day, the charlotte hornets, indiana pacers. rodney stuckey pulls up, shoots, air ball. but he'll with the putback, game-winner, time runs out, pacers win. the indiana pacers playing beat the clock, they win the game. how much basketball, the maryland te

teams. >> they've investigated nfl teams before.onths-long investigation. it's not just the dea. it's also the department of justice via the u.s. attorney's office in new york which is a very heavy hitting prestigious prosecutorial arm. >> dave, it appears this gets its start with the civil suit. i want to read one part of that civil suit. this is jim mcmahon, bears super bowl winning quarterback. in 2011 or 2012 he had suffered a broken neck at some point in his career. he believes it happened in a 1993 playoff game. rather than sit out, he received medications and was pushed back on the field. if this is true, that's nuts that they are drugging people to the point they don't know they've broken their net. >> there have been stories about nfl locker rooms handing out prescription drugs like m&ms dating back to the 1970s. this raid happened at all is the real story. 26 full-time lobbyists and spends $1.5 million an election cycle to seep the federal government off their back. this isn't just about the dea. this is the fcc overturnin

do we really want them leading a new war in the nfl?e really concerned, i've been doing some legwork and calling, making phone calls on this one. there is concern at the league level too you have injured players playing on painkillers and could be really severely injured and knocked out of their entire careers. so really interesting thing is why did the government do this on gameday when there is so much scrutiny? doesn't seem like a pretty smart move but there is serious concern t was a shocker though. they didn't expect this lawsuit filed by these players to basically lead to the drug raid by the government. david: it does seem to be a little bit of grandstanding here, j.c. you used to play baseball. you think what same rules apply to baseball have not been applied to the nflu until now. >> i'm a baseball player all my life. that stigma comes around everyone is on drugs. i'm glad they're going to other sports. especially with violent game like professional football i think it is smart. i love it. david: but, mike, my concern is that t

i do expect fully he will play in the nfl again. >> ryan, let's go to how the nfl handled this. we have word this morning from the general counsel, no part of judge jones' decision questions the commissioner's honesty or integrity nor his good faith consideration of the issue when he imposed the indefinite suspension. is that how you see it? >> it depends. i think what they're doing is a little bit of a pr campaign for roger goodell because think about this, it's the owners who have the hiring and firing ability with respect to his job. so what they did was they put out something saying, well, this is what we did and this is what the explanation was, but, hey, he wasn't dishonest. he didn't do anything wrong. i think the proof in the pudding here is they made the distinction between her being hit or being slapped in an elevator but it seems clear to the arbitrator that ray rice had told them everything so to me -- >> from notes, from notes in that hearing. >> exactly, so to me it seems that goodell wasn't telling the full story. >> christine, you say and have been saying all alo

for the nfl, the controversy isn't over. there's another investigation into the league's handling of the evidence in this case. and rice claims he's owed millions lost since being suspended. but for now as rice hopes to get back on the field, the question is, will any nfl team have him? >> and ryan smith joins us now along with "usa today" columnist and abc news contributor christine brennan and espn's jemele hill who's new interview with janay rice was released on friday. welcome to you all and let's quickly get to the question you left us with, ryan, will he play again? word this morning i think from espn that four teams are looking at him. >> right and i think that's common in cases like this. a couple of teams are looking at him considering him. it's near playoff time so some teams need the help of a star like ray rice. but i think at this point nobody is speaking out and saying specifically we are looking to sign him so i think he's got a little ways to go before he gets back in the league. >> christine, will he be back

the average nfl player that even makes the nfl and its one out of 500 high school seniors who played is going to stay in the nfl for three and a half to four years and his money is going to be gone within a few years after that and then where is he going to be? of the real issue is are they really going to get an education? if we are going to make them risk their lives and we are not going to pay them anything, we are going to basically make them indentured servants we might as well honor the mission of not just pretending to care about their intellectual and academic development but actually care about it by putting in a real incentives. >> that's a great point steve. the question about fdr, this is a little more than 100 years ago. fdr would have done away with football. teddy was a manly man and he liked manly sports so it was different but he didn't like the fact the football was 100 years ago like it is today at the point of falling apart. 100 years ago before the forward pass broken limbs were common in games. one game in 10 lead to someone dying. there was very little football