>> they gave me those, tbi, ptsd.ou see everything happening, it effects everything, your sleep, your family, it effects you as a person. it took about three hearts of really fighting on my part to realize that i'm not going to get back to full duty and i'm not going to be the way i was before i deployed and before my injury. and that's something that you kind of have to come to grips with yourself. >> i worry about our staff actually because they're very passionate about what they do. the better is not -- the burden is not getting any being less although we are withdrawing from afghanistan on a regular basis and the force out there is getting smaller all the time. the workload isn't any less for our staff than it was a year or two ago, in fact it's continued to grow. >> do you feel like by participating with this research program with the hyperbaric chamber that you might be helping future soldiers suffering from ptsd? >> that was my goal going into the hyperbaric research program. i know there's no magic solution to

you can find a new normal prayer not just with ptsd but post traumatic gross. i firmly believe it is only because i saw horrible things and experienced than i am able to appreciate how privilege we are in america fully as i do. i am more connected to my fellow humans because i have seen them at their worst. it has given me a better capacity to appreciate them that their best. >> i have a question. talk about the process of reading the book he describes so vividly with a lot of dialogue events that were clearly painful over a decade. were you keep being notes or have a photographic memory? >> i have always ben day journaler writing journal entry santa paulsen when i decided to write this book i interviewed people i was not on the bus when brian got hurt and i interviewed people who were on the bus to get their sense because his memories are a little spotty of that event. he interviewed other friends and family members that were there with us because based on what i have read human memory is fallible. eyewitness testimony is a tory is lee sketchy so rather than a

did they suffer from ptsd? did they consider suicide? if so, what kind of help did they receive to address these conditions? we hope to learn what worked as well as what didn't work and what we in the u.s. senate can do to improve the care of survivors when sex seoul assaults unfortunately occur. on the second panel we have dod and ba officials who will testify about the programs, department of defense and va have in place to address the needs of sexual assault survivors, including medical therapies for ptsd and suicide prevention efforts of these departments. we understand that the dod and the va maintain an evidence-based joint clinical practice -- joint clinical practice guideline on the management of ptsd. we would like to learn more about how this works in practice, and how dod and va ensure continuity of care when victims transition from active duty to veteran status. from dod we have dr. karen guice -- excuse me dr. karen gooust the principal deputy secretary for health affair. ms. jacqueline garrick, suicide prevention and respon

the incident at ptsd is higher for men than women. ptsd as a man. charts, if you screened positive, yet they highlight incident rate of mental health condition. if you been sexually assaulted, your 70% likely to have a mental health condition as a man, slightly higher for a woman. two is that last charts. currently available data. 2002 - through 2008. do you wantt to put the charts up so people can see them? have a statement we are from to add to the record brian lewis. is there objection? is entered into the record. i invited you each to give a statement. good morning. thank you for the opportunity to discuss the intersection of two very important issues, mille military sexual trauma and suicide. we heard of veterans who struggled with the issues we are discussing today. i appreciate your willingness to come today and bring some of the data i'm about to speak about to life and make it more real for us today. stories underscored the issues i would like to speak of. ofis about the health impact sexual military trauma as well as the relationship betwe

. >> the military, to its sdmrfrmths credit, no longer calls this ptsd. they have taken that disorder part out the military is embracing that. >> thank you for the stories this week. fascinating stuff. we will see you next time on "techknow." go behind the scenes and follow our expert contribute orders on twitter, facebook, google+ and more. >>> the jews have a name. sigh simon shama, ethnic people from antiquity to modern day israel. the two books and 5-part series were personal for the award winning teacher, film maker and author. >> a palestinian, a jew, you suck the oxygen out

we don't know if the ptsd could return. i've talked to veterans whose symptoms either recurve or developed when the iraq war came back. so exposure to a new trigger could bring his ptsd symptoms back in full raging force at any point. there's still shrapnel in his brain. it could be shipped. we don't know. they didn't close the hole in his skull. he still has a hole in his skull and pretty well protected by muscle but that is still a literal weak spot. so long term future 30 40 years out, i have no idea. it might not be the best prognosis but i'm going to stay hopeful and hope that with all of the unfortunately high numbers of people that have come back with traumatic brain injuries that they there will be more research and we can learn more and maybe the dod or va would develop treatments that can help stave off things like dementia. other questions? shall we wrap up? we have time for at least one more. yes, sir. >> if you could talk more about the problems women have in the military. they seem to have been pretty well neg

you can find a new normal prayer not just with ptsd but post traumatic gross. i firmly believe it is only because i saw horrible things and experienced than i am able to appreciate how privilege we are in america fully as i do. i am more connected to my fellow humans because i have seen them at their worst. it has given me a better capacity to appreciate them that their best. >> i have a question. talk about the process of reading the book he describes so vividly with a lot of dialogue events that were clearly painful over a decade. were you keep being notes or have a photographic memory? >> i have always ben day journaler writing journal entry santa paulsen when i decided to write this book i interviewed people i was not on the bus when brian got hurt and i interviewed people who were on the bus to get their sense because his memories are a little spotty of that event. he interviewed other friends and family members that were there with us because based on what i have read human memory is fallible. eyewitness testimony is a tory is lee sketchy so rather than a

goes to show that some of the mental legacy is more than ptsd.ou have symptoms, trying to overcome things from combat mentally and emotionally, and may not have, you know, diagnosisable ptsd. >> and you spend a long time diagnosing the effects of them coming home. what did you find? >> they're not doing so bad. the unemployment is not much higher. they look like most americans for debt and the same financial struggles. >> do they feel like they should be given a special chance if they're up for a job? >> yeah, they do fell a sense of entitlement, i think is one word for it. which is sounder intuitive to some of the notions of service we have. more than 60% feel like they should be given special consideration when applying for jobs. on the whole, 80% feel like they should be given special consideration. so i think they feel a greater sense of debt to them. >> two questions i want to show the audience. when you ask for each, tell me how often if at all you have experienced the following with feeling disconnected from civilian life. 55% say often or

it's that simple. >> traumatic brain injury also ptsd.rd to tell where ptsd ends and mild traumatic brain injury begins because there's so many overlapping symptoms. we've got over 300,000 warriors coming back with ptsd over 300,000 dealing with traumatic brain injuries. the numbers are staggering. and the two of those things are more disabling than most any other physical injury. and that's not to minimize the physical injury in any way. but i would gladly trade my leg for my not having a brain injury and not having serious combat stress or ptsd. those unseen wounds can impact families marriages, ability to work and hold relationships more than any physical wound. at least it's what i've seen. >> it's hard to accept that you're disabled now. it's hard to accept that you no longer can do the things you used to do. it's hard to accept the fact that i'm no longer in the military now because i didn't want to be there. all because of my medical condition. i tell you what the feeling is. it's like you're an artist and you draw and all of a sud

only one hospital in new orleans screens patients for ptsd.l trauma centers do assess patients in the hospital for acute signs of stress. san francisco general's wrap around project connects patients with mentors. but the american college of surgeons believes hospitals should do more. they plan to recommend trauma centers nationwide evaluate, support and treat patients for ptsd. >> i still have those nightmares. >> reporter: two years later, ethan is still recovering. [ inaudible ] experts say a uniform investment in screening will pay off in the prevention of future violence so civilians caught in the trauma won't repeat it. >> i just try to find a goal every day, and do something for that. i just stay out of trouble. >> reporter: experts say screening is a form of preventative medicine that can limit other health problems linked to trauma. to see more of the national data looking at how hospitals deal with ptsd in the civilian population and what some bay area hospitals are doing, go to our website, nbcbayarea.com, and click on investigation

did they suffer from ptsd? did they consider suicide? if so, what kind of help did they receive to address these conditions? we hope to learn what worked as well as what didn't work and what we in the u.s. senate can do to improve the care of survivors when sex seoul assaults unfortunately occur. on the second panel we have dod and ba officials who will testify about the programs, department of defense and va have in place to address the needs of sexual assault survivors, including medical therapies for ptsd and suicide prevention efforts of these departments. we understand that the dod and the va maintain an evidence-based joint clinical practice -- joint clinical practice guideline on the management of ptsd. we would like to learn more about how this works in practice, and how dod and va ensure continuity of care when victims transition from active duty to veteran status. from dod we have dr. karen guice -- excuse me dr. karen gooust the principal deputy secretary for health affair. ms. jacqueline garrick, suicide prevention and respon

eros and making progress in treating the ptsd. the evidence based therapies have been shown in the literature to be successful in a amelya rating the symptoms of ptsd. but you mentioned something that is important to us to be dealing with this group of veterans in need of services so badly. how do we measure how well we're doing? how can we tell that the $7 billion you are giving is to provide care is actually improving the health of these people? we have embarked on a series of outcome measures which will be looking at now over this year and being the talk about this time next year that measures the influence of care on the symptoms of ptsd, measure the influence of care on the depression scale administered over time. we will be looking and out comes in anxiety disorders, depression , more carefully at people who aren't risk for suicide have we actually improve the chances. >> you are telling us that you think -- >> we believe that we are having an impact on the mental health of the people we're treating. >> mr. chairman, let me

if we don't do anything, their ptsd won't go away. so they may develop self-injurious behaviors of substance abuse as self medicating. so if ptstd is avoided, it gets worse. >> the teacher has seen positive results. >> i've seen tremendous growth in students from being in mindfulness, from, like, kids that have attitudes are quick to get upset about something, breathing and taking it slower and then saying, you know, i didn't like that or please don't do that as opposed to lashing out. >> brown: for the principal, all of this is very personal. her sister was murdered when as a teenager she got caught up in a fight. she says, today, keeping emotions in check can keep children safe. >> if we can get kids to the point that they realize, oh, i'm getting hot headed, my adrenaline is flowing, i am not thinking clearly, i need to stop, step back and reassess, and then maybe we have a chance. >> brown: the stanford team is gathering data from students about the effectiveness of the mindfulness program. >> ifill: we'll be right back with a loo

behavior issues that could be ptsd. so we have about 73,000 names at, and we are running those names against our registry of homeless veterans and thus far we found about 6500 name match. and so we are pulling those individuals into our review to see whether or not we can provide benefits and care. and we are in the 65 and cases we are. i think here shortly we have either written 73,000 letters to folks on that list or will complete doing that shortly. for those that we don't get a response from by this summer we will turn around and go try to follow-up on that. again, trying to close this loop on folks who have been denied benefits and services that they earned. >> let me make one last comment, which is to thank you for a gain expanding the circle. i think it has been a mark of your leadership, that you have sought to increase the circle of accessibility and eligibility whether its agent orange or other disability claims rather than kind of circling the wagons more closely with the courage to try to increase the availa

they found only one hospital in new orleans systematically screens patients for ptsd.und that some like john muir do assess patients in the hospital for acute signs of stress. san francisco general's wraparound project matches pay shaepti shents with mentors. >> i still have those nightmares. >> reporter: two years after he was shot, he still is recovering with a case manger. experts say a uniform investment in the ptsd screening will payoff so that civilians caught in the trauma won't repeat it. >> i just try to find a goal every day and do something for that. and i just stay out of trouble. >> reporter: experts say ptsd screening is a form of preventative medicine that can help other problem tins linked trouble. go to our website and click on investigations. >>> if you have a tip for our investigative unit, give us a call or send us an e-mail to the unit at nbcbayarea.com. >>> to the crisis in ukraine. president obama will meet with the acting prime minister of ukraine in washington this week to talk about ways to peacefully deal with the invasion of that country by

. >>> posttraumatic stress disorder, you normally hear ptsd connected to troops coming back from warearch is showing another group of people may not be getting the help they need after a traumatic event. we're talking about victims of violent crime and the lack of treatment could cost all of us. investigative reporter vicky nguyen explains what she found. >> reporter: the bay area is home to several cities that see some of the highest incidents of violent crime but what surprised us is what happens to people after they are shot and stabbed and end up in the hospital. in partner ship with propublic, patients not treated for ptsd can be more likely to carry weapons, leave their jobs and end up back in the health care system. >> in there and then out there. >> reporter: 23-year-old john ethan still has the scars, wounds from a bullet that passed through his right leg. it was me years eve two years ago at 10:0 0 in the morning. he was in a friend's car. >> next thing i know, i started hearing shots. i'm hanging there with my foot caught, and i remember seeing the blood splatter, and i ju

in partnership with nonprofit journalism organizations we learn patients who are not treated for ptsdeave their jobs and end up back in the health care system. >> in there and out there. >> reporter: 23-year-old john ethan still has the scars, wounds from a bullet that passed through his right leg. it was new year's eve two years ago at 10:00 in the morning. he was in a friend's car near this intersection in oakland. >> next thing i know i started hearing shots. i'm hanging there with my foot caught and i remember seeing the blood splatter and i just laid down on the street. paramedics came and i ended up in the hospital. >> reporter: when ethan was released from oakland's highland hospital he said he felt depressed and lost, plagued by nightmares. >> the dreams kept going. i kept hearing gunshots going off. >> reporter: these were signs of posttramatic centers disorder and growing research shows people like ethan that suffer traumatic injuries that are shot, stabbed or beaten are developing it at rates comparable to veterans of war. >> somewhere between 10% and 40%. >> reporter: doug

we don't know if the ptsd could return. i've talked to vietnam vets whose symptoms either recurred or developed with the iraq war kicked off. exposure to a new trigger could bring his ptsd symptoms back in full raging force at any point. they're still shrapnel in his brain. it could shift. we don't know. they didn't close the hole in his school. he still has a hole in a school. pretty well protected by musso, but you know, that is still a literal weak spot. long-term future, 30, 40 years. i have no idea. might not be the best prognosis, but i'm going to stay hopeful and hope that with all of the unfortunately high numbers of people that have come up with germanic brain injuries that there'll be more research and we can learn more and maybe the dod or va will develop treatments that can help stave off things like dementia. >> thank you. >> thank you. other questions? shall we wrap up? we have time for at least one hour. i don't know what time it is. we have time for one more if anybody has any other questions. yes, sir. [ina

the question was am i involved in the training of service dogs for veterans with ptsd. right now the answer is no. there are a number of groups i've been introduced to and have spoken with in the last 18 months or so that do that and i would love to get to the point where we have an involvement in some capacity. i will see the type of dog that is going to be a good personal protection or military dog etc. is usually not in the same category as a dog that is good for a fellow soldier with ptsd. there are two different missions in terms of how the dogs perform with their temperament and character trait but obviously it's a very important thing and we are taking it one step at a time doing the providing and retiring. it's not to beat a dead horse but it's a whole different animal. anybody else? >> do the enemies target the dogs and how do they view that whole issue? >> they do. here's the short answer to what our enemies do. they target everything we have. they don't use any discretion in prioritizing necessarily. if we have something whether it is a truck, weapons truck,

. >> to ptsd. well, i'm glad you're here. >> probably the last question. >> thank you. i read mr. finkel's book, i haven't gotten around to ms. jones'. it seems to me that the last treatment facility that adam went to was the most successful, yet it was privately funded and as with a lot of problems in this country, money seems to be a factor. do you have any suggestions on what we can do to try to generate money, have our country fund this as as opposed to a private endeavor having to fund it? >> i don't, i'm sorry. you know, i get asked this a lot, different versions of it. not specific to money always, but, okay, so i've read your book, and i'm quite affected by these people's stories, and what do i do about it? the book isn't prescriptive, and i don't know. i don't know what you do except other than, as i said a minute ago, the fact that you're even paying attention, that's a big deal. and then it's sort of up to you. if these people who have opened themselves up, if they continue to reside in

we don't know if the ptsd could return. abductive vietnam veterans whose symptoms either returned or develop when the iraq war came back. exposure to a new trigger could bring his ptsd symptoms back in full raging force at any point. they're still shrapnel in his brain. it could shift. we don't know. they didn't close the hole in his skull. he still has a hole in his skull, and pretty well protected by muscle but that is still, you know, a literal weak spot. long-term future, 30, 40 years out, i have no idea. might not be the best prognosis but i'm going to stay hopeful and hope that with all of the unfortunate high number of people that come back with traumatic brain injuries that there will be more research and we can learn more and maybe the dod or va will develop business that can help stave off things like dementia. thank you. >> other questions? shall we wrap up? we have time for at least one more. i don't know what time it is. we have time for one more if anyone has any other questions. yes, sir. [inaudible] >> probl

. >> the stories of veterans' lives up ended by ptsd are all too familiar to us.he struggles of their children practically unknown. >> i would get so angry, i would just think, this is what iraq did to my father. i'd start blaming it on america's military, you know. i would be like, you guys stole my father. and -- yeah, i developed depression over the time and a lot of anxiety. >> did your school understand? >> no. all of my -- i guess depression and anxiety help has come from other places. i mean through our family doctor. >> abigail barton iceboater, alexs 18 and uncomfortable speaking on camera. a year ago he attempted suicide. and spent four days on life support. what's it been like for alex? >> devastating. to see the changes in his dad and to be so helpless. >> wendy barton is alex and abigail's perth. >> i don't think that america is intentionally negligenting these kids by any means. but i any that they need to wake up. because this is a real problem and it is certainly not just my children that are suffering. >> it's estimated that as many as five millio

s website says it's greater ptsd and undermining patients. i read it why did my opening statements -- i don't know if you are all here, but if you can give me the v.a. website, it says many victims are reluctant to report sexual trauma and many victims say there were no available methods for reporting those experiences to those in authority. that's a perfect example of what our first witness that. she couldt feel like tell everybody because everyone in the chain was retaliating against her. any victims are reluctant to report sexual trauma and many say there was no available method for reporting those experiences to authority. many indicated if they did report harassment it was not believed. or they were encouraged to keep silent about the experience. reports have had their ignored or have been themselves blame for the experience. type of and validating experience after a sexual trauma is likely to have a significant negative impact on the victims post trauma adjustment. how do you view that analysis? i would offer to you the system we have i

he had ptsd, to bring up he couldn't carry a weapon. he actually had a profile, you get a special piece of paper in the military if he can't do anything like you can run for a while. on his profile it said he could not carry a weapon. and so his leadership said, well, you can't wear headgear, you can't carry a weapon, you are too screwed up to do job and you're freaking out all the new guys when they show up so why don't you just stay home. this is not the army that i knew where you had to show up every morning for a candidate formation and people make sure you were where you're supposed to be. i was surprised nobody was checking up on him. they told him to stay home. he lost his identity as a leader of soldiers. he lost his job. he lost his place, and he was questioning his ability to have a future. he spiraled deeper and deeper into depression, host of extras to sort them and everything just fell apart. he was not cognitively able to pay his bills or take himself to manage his own life and he was trying to self medicate. the pain he w

how do we take the stigma out of ptsd?ives and willing to pay it forward. explain how are you not suffering from ptsd? >> i would say both of us do have our challenges. we both have been working with providers to work on our own personal things. i think most importantly we have to realize that ptsd is a termt that was in the '80s came about. the first recorded instances of post traumatic stress go back to 3,000 b.c. we have been dealing with this for a long time without the stigma as a community issue. >> what you both are showing is that you can live with ptsd and actually there is a life you can have even after war which i think the problem here with 22 a day is that there are too many veterans who don't know that. the film, does it give themt that hope? do you think it will help in a way that can be constructive in terms of not combatting ptsd, that would be too big of a goal, but dealing with it? >> yeah. that's the thing. we want to convey that there is nothing wrong with these, these people. ptsd is perfectly normal

this will be the first avril study to look at the -- federal treatment to look at the treatment of ptsd. the districtin sent letters to cbs, right way, kroger, and other stores, saying that they should follow the example of cbs, after that company announced it would stop thisco sales by october of year. >> winter weather affect and the nation's capitol and the race to d.c.'s s mayor -- mayor. >> spring means baseball. has begun. virginia, washington -- the american all-time ticket. plus -- some of this just in from fairfax county. they will operates on a two-hour delay tomorrow. we have a complete list of the school system running on a delay right now at our right, -- on our website,. website,ht now on our wjla.com. vincent gray has been a critic of the current chief thorn be. >> the winter weather slowed down a lot of business across the district. sam ford is live where many voters did not let the snow get in their way. sam? >> yes, maureen. well, early voting is still 7:00 thisere until evening. it is day one of early voting. the primary takes place april 1. here and around the city,

severe ptsd set in when the army blamed her.he is now 100% disabled. >> the president, the congress, everyone has made it clear that this is a national embarrassment. >> the va said they are addressing the unique problem which leads female vets into homelessness. >> female veterans do present with more depression, anxiety disorder and trauma, ptsd. these all sort of combine to form a perfect storm that does put these women more at risk. >> the veteran's administration is playing catch up and is now building housing for women with children and those who live alone, including homeless facilities with locked quarters separated by gender for safety. >> this is my bed. >> this is nice. >> no more sleeping in the car. [♪ singing ] >> this summer with the help of the g.i. bill erica will graduate with an accounting degree. >> i feel like nothing can stop me, like i'm going through life. >> with thousands more women like erica coming home from war the v.a. has promised to end homelessness by 2015 is going to be a challenge. carol mckinl

patrick' ptsd. it's been with me since '69. >> but this vet wouldn't trade honest for world. >> would i do it again? yes, in a heartbeat. >> in a heartbeat? >> in a heartbeat, yes. >> to you sir. sheila macvicar told us sergeant morris was one of the first to wear the green beret, permission granted by president kennedy. he still has that beat up beret. he still has all the sweat and tears of the service and he wants to dedicate it to the president. we'll have more of plairnt coming up tomorrow. aintain coming up tomorrow. beings -- "america tonight" coming up tomorrow. president putin takes another step to bring crimea into the russian federation. ♪ hello i'm sammy and you are watching al jazeera live from doha and ahead relatives of chinese passengers aboard flight 370 threaten to go on hunger strike 11 days after the jet vanishes, more talks on iran's nuclear program and meaningful progress. plus. >>> a big breakthroug

ptsd is real. i can't tell somebody i am so tough that i didn't suffer from ptsd. i would be lying. >> this military man would not trade it and the honors for the world. >> i don't regret anything. would i do it again? yes. >> in a heart beat? >> in a heart beat. uh-huh. >> america tonight, sheila mcvicker with a real american hero. looking ahead next week on america tonight, stunning recollections of an often history. >> they were asleep by the time they got to the operating room. i remember one week, we could do seven male sterilizations and the next week, we could only do two female sterilizations because it took much longer to do the females than it did the males. >> the stolen futures of thousands of americans as explained by a nurse who details her own role publically for the first time. she speaks only to america tonight, laura jane guihau about what she did and the patients who changed her life. the story on america tonight. up next in this hour an american tonight exclusive report about sexual assault and the men and women in uniform who are victims. >> jo

severe ptsd stepped in when the army blamed her, she's 100% disabled. >> president. the congress, everyone made it clear. >> the va says it's addressing the unique problems leading female vets to homelessness. >> female vets present with more depression, anxiety disorder and trauma, ptsd. they combine to form a perfect storm that puts the women at risk. >> the veteran administration is playing catch up. . >> no more sleeping in the car. erica will graduate with an acting degree. i feel like nothing can stop me, like i'm trained, working through life. thousands of women like erica working through. it will be a challenge. >> now to president obama's trip to europe. he held a strategy meeting with e.u. and n.a.t.o. leaders, met with n.a.t.o. secretary-general , the two pledge help to ukraine. >> russia faces further sanctions if the situation in crimea intensifies. >> we want the russians to live in dignity like everyone else, proud of their history. that does not mean they can run rough shod over their neighbours. >> president obama is in rome and has a meeting with th

. >> i have ptsd.what teep kooep kee levelheaded. >> anybody makes any contact, get on the radio and let us know you've got a group so we can get other people there quicker. >> chad switches the start location for the shutdown. >> no, no, that's not where we're going. >> some things we're hearing is that the overall thing is d canceled. some say there's 180 riders. you just don't know. >> reporter: you set up decoys online. >> you got to. >> be safe, be careful. spread out on the interstate, please. >> i feel good. it's a beautiful day. out riding motorcycles. can't beat that. >> cops have arrived. [ bleep ] helicopter. >> their helicopter is slow. we're a lot faster. got about 15 cops waiting on us. we have cops that way waiting on us. but we're just going to switch up the route. >> reporter: chad seems to be making it up as we go along. >> we don't know where with we're going? this is seriously a concentration. >> if they block traffic, you all take care of that. >> the police can't arrest them for s

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more and more research indicates another group is developing ptsd. we're talking about victims of violent crimes. we investigate what happens to people after they are shot and stabbed and land in the hospital. facientes who are not treated for stress and depression may be more likely to carry weapon, leave their jobs and end up back in the health care system. a growing group of experts say the nation's hospitals need to address the epidemic of violence in our cities. >> it's the intersection between public health and gun violence. our study don't throw away the under class. we can help these folks. >> watch the full report about civilian trauma at 11:00. hear what some bay area hospitals are doing to end the cycle of violence. >>> san francisco takes a strik stand against plastic water bottl bottles. >>> the sharks are back on the ice tonight. why fans will be seeing extra security. >>> how a new job will make you bay area proud. >>> at 6:00, a new twist involving those gold coins found in the ground. could they have been stolen in a turn of the cent

and this past couple years i've been on the commission i've been focused on the care of ptsd. i actually traveled to [speaker not understood] [speaker not understood] that happened every year since world war ii. and last year we had over a hundred pilgrims, mostly from the east coast and i'm hoping to actually bring some californians, specifically san franciscans to that [speaker not understood]. and pbs is going to be showing that sometime this year. i can't announce the date. that's not been made public yet, but it was filmed last year so it will be showing this year. my passion this past year has been incarcerated veterans. [speaker not understood] a couple times, a few times. they asked me actually to come back. and [speaker not understood] that really got to me was they wanted the veterans treatment court. [speaker not understood]. they kept saying it's been years since we were asking for this and it's not happening. lo and behold [speaker not understood] and it was approved. so, it's just been a great time to be able to see that. and yesterday i sat in court and it was s

patients to use marijuana medicinally and has approved more than a dozen studies to treat illnesses like ptsd, crohn's disease, even cancer. >> hopefully this would prove to be the best medication. i really hope so. we're not there yet. >> the answers might come from places like this. it's a state-run nursing home outside of tel aviv. residents here are using marijuana for pain, loss of appetite, parkinson's disease, and dementia. moshe root is one of those residents. he was 77 when he smoked his first pipe of marijuana. he is 80 now, and he smokes a couple of pipes a day. it's to help with the pain and the hand tremors caused by stroke. >> it's a mixture of tobacco and marijuana. >> he even decided to light up during our interview to stop his hands from shaking. >> you are saying your hands are steady because of the marijuana? >> it also helped ease a deeper pain hidden from sight. you see moshe is a holocaust survivor. when his wife died a couple of years ago, he was haunted by nightmares of his childhood hiding from the nazis. the marijuana, he says, took him out of the darkness. >> you dr

mental health, they could be systemic conditions, long-term illnesses, they could be mental health, ptsd, all sorts of things. i want to be careful that, i would like you to be careful when, i want to ask you if you are careful, are you cognizant of that when you are dealing with folks that might, for instance people that have very good reasons for using drugs. they keep you warm, they stave off hunger, cure pain, and loneliness. as a culture we have to realize that and there would be thinking along those lines and that people don't necessarily need to be fixed because they are hanging around on a corner. >> great. i'm glad you brought that up. the san francisco mental health provided training on that. we are very much aware of a lot of the stigma around mental health issues and homeless in general. a good amount of our ambassadors have experienced this at all. we are really just facilitate the role of information. our primary concern is if somebody is a danger to themselves physically or to the public. >> okay. my other question with regard to displacement. they have cleaned out my neig

of men and women who came home from iraq and afghanistan, dealing with traumatic brain injury and ptsd. you know what? that's tough stuff. those are tougher illnesses to deal with, the numbers and magnitude extraordinary, and that's an issue to focus on today, but just the mag magnituf that problem, hundreds of thousands of men and women dealing with ptsd is just a huge issue. we have seen 2300 families, 2300 individuals suffer wounds in war making it impossible to have kids. how do we respond to that? we have seen a situation dm which in the va and throughout the country there is a feeling that too many patients are over medicated, what kind of alternatives are out this, and va, by the way, is doing cutting-edge work in trying to respond to pain and other problems through compliment ri and alternative medicine. how do we address that? we are dealing with an issue that several years ago we, the united states congress, passed a very, very important piece of legislation making sure that people who served in iraq and afghanistan have the ability to go to college. that's worked, by and lar

talk about mental health problems, the police created that mental health problem that young man has ptsd now. how is he going to feel safe? i asked him how does it feel for you? he says i don't feel safe in a room where i should feel safe. that is troublesome to me. i work very closely with police commissioners in training young people on knowing their rights. we are not going to tell them, okay, now that you know your rights, now you are going to have to drop everything that you have, don't do anything and sit still. how do we educate that they feel it's going to be okay. it's not possible. i have another question. what is the definition of justice for all of you. i want to know that. because if we are talking about justice i want to make sure that we are all on the same page about what that means. can we have a definition for justice. that's a real question. i would really like to hear an answer. >> they can't respond. >> good evening, my name is jeff. alex had many best friends. i have very little friends. he was my best friend. i have a lot of emotions right now but i'm trying to ima