know that pts existed, since civil war, shell shocked, it wasn't legitimized with vietnam war with ptsd, why are there so many cases now. richard freeman excellent article which showed that you can sensitized somebody to be vulnerable with ptsd with unnecessary use of psycho stimulant medication. the wounds of war that have occurred in the middle eastern wars exceeds anything that it would imageable, why is this happening? well, i think in part it is -- there are several factors. one it is more actively diagnosed now than it used to be. for instance, the actual diagnostic category didn't exist during vietnam war. it's something that as my understanding is it's something that arose in the 1980's as opposed to even though people used terms like shell shock and actual clinical category that allowed for this didn't exist and didn't have the actual nature of deployment which is these repeat deployments where people who sign up and particularly lower-income people who are in the military sign up and it's a way to keep getting access to benefits and future in the military or future in going in

if you combine all of these missteps it is a toxic fuel to create ptsd. if you were designing a system to lets over medicate people and let's send them over and over again back into war situations and let's not have appropriate clinicians with trained and cognitive therapy to deal with it and responsible manner. all of these issues are something that is going to create what we have now which is a lot of people with these issues about 30% if you look at the different issues of major wars about 30% of people who have been in active duty have some sort of these issues. force the percentage is buried but -- >> guest: the statistics are staggering but more soldiers dying by suicide then by enemy combatants but the point that i was getting at with this question is the health of our service persons is so important why haven't we figure ou ptsd. the point is it's a known condition and we can model it in animals and when the aids epidemic came about when i was in my training in the late 70s and five years after it first emerged to scientist identified the hiv viru

so, if you combine all of these missteps, it is a toxic fuel to sort of create ptsd. if you were designing a system to, let's overmedicate people, send them over and over and over again back into war situations. let's not have appropriate clinicians who are trained in cognitive therapies to deal with it in response manner. all of these issues are something that is going to create what we have now, which is a lot of people with these issues about 30%, if you look at all the different major recent wars, about 30% of people who have been in active duty have some form of these issues. of course the personals vary but that's an estimate. >> host: the statistics are staggering. at one point there was more soldiers dying by suicide than by enemy combatants. the point that i was getting at with this question is, if the health of your service persons is so important, why haven't we figure out ptsd? you talk about a treatment, but the point is that ptsd is a known condition, we can actually model it in animals. when the aids epidemic came about in the late '70s. in five years a

some veterans dealing with ptsd say medical marijuana is saving their lives. true or not?ven matter? >> and you could have diabetes and not even know it. in fact doctors say it's a lot more common than you think. ♪ >>> a diagnosis of post traumatic stress disorder could qualify you for medical marijuana in many states but one study says no evidence shows that marijuana is an effective treatment for ptsd. or many kinds of chronic pain for that matter and that in some cases marijuana may even make ptsd worse. >> joyce talked with a number of military vets wondering how the va study might affect prescriptions for medical marijuana including a marine corps veteran who says it's saving his life but it's not the only thing. >> i would rather be a little bit anxious than be drooling on myself or want to commit suicide the way that the pills that i was on made me feel. >> reporter: retired marine staff sergeant mike rider came home from iraq and kosovo facing anxiety, depression, ptsd pain. >> over period of five years i was on 40 different medications. >> reporter: now he's down

they're not indicated for ptsd and can actually interfere with effective treatment for ptsd. oftentimes, physicians and other prescribers rely on these because first-line treatments have not worked, so they're hoping to provide some kind of symptom relief. the unfortunate aspect of this as my student found is that in those cases, those veterans with ptsd who received benzodiazepines are almost three times more likely to die by suicide. so there's another risk associated with contraindicated medications where i don't know if they're overprescribed but i'm not necessarily certain that in all cases veterans and their prescribers are aware of all the risks and are able to weigh them with the benefits of those medications. >> right. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you, senator. senator blumenthal, who i would point out is one of the real leaders in the clay/hunt suicide prevention bill and did great work on that in the last congress. >> thank you. thanks, mr. chairman. thanks for your leadership on this important issue. i was indeed the lead democratic co-sponsor on the clay hun

he suffers from ptsd after a previous a run in with police.>> reporter: marquise johnson charged with the attempted murder of officer tinkle. of tenderloins nation bike patrol unit. he agreed to a interview. saying it was not done on purpose. >> that was not intentional? >> no>> it was an accident? >> yes >> you did not see him? >> i did not see nothing.>> reporter: johnson and homeless man who goes by willie flanagan suffers from ptsd. fell out he believes from racial profiling back in 2014. >> he had no reason to assault me. i am being kicked in the face seven times with steel toe boots.>> reporter: he claims he has been accosted by police. >> i have been picked up 10 times for nothing.>> reporter: they say wednesday officers near city hall observed him in a cream colored suv and tried to pull him over.>> they observed the suspect in a vehicle they believed was in position of a firearm. it appears he became aware of the officer's presence and fled the scene.>> reporter: that is when he hit the officer as he was driving out of the parking garage.>> there is no way you can twist the c

but again, the ptsd, this person has stresses. he was looking to relieve stresses. if you know anybody that target practices, they enjoy it because the boom, the report, the concussion, the knockback, this physically removes a small amount of stress. it does. like hitting a baseball or basketball or whatever you like. there's something to do with it physically that helps you reduce stress. however, use market weapons or anything like that, that's meant for one reason, one thing only, and that's destruction. and the automatic weapons have destroyed people. why would you use it to shoot targets? however, i don't know what the lady, his lady friend, whoever is going to luke nature on this situation, but he was 64 years old from some smaller nevada town north of town here, and it just sounds like an angry man, an angry old man who is just filled up with ptsd and snapped. host: ok, jim from las vegas, thank you for calling and

we meet her in her kind of post ptsd.he's really in ptsd but we are seeing her navigating that in a way that's involved and shutting down emotionally and deciding to be her own weapon of war and figured out her own way through without connecting to people. she really cut-off from humanity and protecting herself from a wall. she's as different segment of the experience coming into people we have been getting to know since the moment things went riot. i found it fascinating and a journey for her to take as a character where she reconnects to her humanity and faces the fears and trauma of her past and choose to navigate in the future and fight for one. piecing those things together and knowing that she's going to have to go through the journey as a character but she's starting off very stoic and disconnected and being able to communicate and share her traumas or to connect with other people again, you know, and really being kind of -- she was disarming to so many people. you could not read her. pshy i found her, you know, sh

at times he would lead us to believe that the reason why he left that garage was because of the ptsd. and that officers were after him. but when i asked him the direct question, he would say, oh, you will have to ask my attorney or deflect it to somebody completely different. >> did he give a specific reason again for why he abandoned the vehicle yesterday? >> reporter: he did not. he said he wanted us to refer a lot of the questions specifically about yesterday to his attorney. he only agreed to speak with us because of the 2014 incident but, of course, we had to ask some of these important questions about what happened yesterday. and he gave us little bits here and there. >> all right. tara moriarty reporting in san francisco. thank you, tara. >>> we are following some breaking news right now off ocean beach in san francisco. that's where a surf rescue is under way right now. san francisco fire tweeted surfers told them a fully clothed man was in distress in the water. skyfox was over the scene about 10 minutes ago. we saw a fire response there on the beach near sloat and a fire lad

part of it was undiagnosed ptsd and t.b.i. but definitely part of it was just the total lack of support and not really understanding how to go about getting help anymore. so i think it's important to still engage with your members, especially if they can still carry out the mission and the askings to be reduced to almost nothing was definitely one of the key factors that made me attempting to take my own life. i had been stripped of my dignity, of my job, of my profession and of my blue -- my air force blue, of my family. and to kind of be squirreled didn't kept in secret help. >> from your perspective, i know what happened to you happened in 2012, but as you've seen -- as you've been speaking out and talking to people, where do you see the biggest need for improvement? ms. stolberg: i am devastated to say that at least half of the people i talk to never reported anything. they're not going in your statistics. not even in your restricted reports. they're silent and they've been silenced. i've talked to many people who have bee

he says he was diagnosed with ptsd and the financial pressure of trying to start over only added to his stress. so he turned to fema. >> what did you have, what did you leave down there, what is missing and i told them, you know, and i was excited they cut me a check. >> alan got around $10,000 in disaster assistance which he says he used to pay for on campus housing and a new computer and cloths and we asked for documentation on all this, but he told us receipts or copies were lost or thrown away years ago. >> so fas back on your feet, you think it's all good? >> i think it's all good. i'm working, i'm doing better, i'm an adult. i'm having a good time. it's like 12 years later at this point, and i get a letter from the department of treasury. >> this letter, it said 12 years after the hurricane the government wanted its relief money back. the letter said alan owed fema $12,203. that's the $10,000 the agency gave them plus a 28% penalty assessed by the treasury for having to collect the money. you see, fema said it had been trying to track down alan since 2013 and they sent letters to

. >> reporter: johnson a homeless man who now goes by the name willie flanagan says he has ptsd, fallout he believes from racial profiling in an excessive use of force incident in 2014. >> he had no reason to assault me but here it is i'm being kicked in the face seven times with steel-toed boots and a obvious attempt to break my neck. >> reporter: since then he claims he has been accosted by sfpd. >> i been picked up 10 different times for nothing. >> reporter: sfpd says wednesday, officers near city hall observed johnson in a cream colored suv and tried to pull him over. >> officers observed the suspect in a vehicle they believed was in possession of a firearm. it appears the suspect became aware of the officers' presence and fled. >> reporter: he allegedly hit the officer as he was drying out of a parking garage. >> video footage of the entrance and exits of the garage is available. so there's no way you gonna be able to twist the circumstances reverse the circumstances when police know he was coming against traffic on turk. he didn't see nothing when he ran into me. >> reporter: i as

i have ptsd, but i'm ineligible for these funds. i don't even understand how they arbitrarily chose it. >> reporter: allen called and couldn't get anyone to explain why he was ineligible so we decided to help him get some answers. we started with the only phone number we had, the one on that letter from de the treasury. they said they had no idea why fema wanted the money back and sent us to something called the fema recoupment hotline. it is a special hotline set up specifically for people who have questions about why fema is taking back aid money. at the time, the hurricane harvey had just hit, and irma was on the way. so we expected to be put on hold. but as time dragged on, allen's patience, already tested, wore thin, and so did mine. >> this is painful. >> yes. >> all we want is information about why they want their money back. >> yeah. the waiting game continues. >> reporter: two hours nine minutes after allen first called the elevator music stopped and the line went dead. allen never even talked to a real person. we weren't g

tonight, how she says fleet week causes ptsd. >> and tonight you'll hear tonight. they say this man... fredachi stone. e >>> police are out with a photo of a suspected armed robber on the loose tonight. they say this man, stone, stole a woman's purse at gunpoint. he's 5'9" and known to frequent an area around 81st avenue in oakland. the suspect got off the train at the south hayward station. the victim was not hurt. >>> a convicted felon mistakenly freed from the elmwood jail in milpitas is back behind bars. maria medina shows us he spent his week of freedom shopping, dining, and taking selfies. >> reporter: you can say david lopez hit a hole in one. when correctional deputies released him from jail last thursday. especially when you consider a judge just sentenced him hours before to eight years in prison for robbing an acquaintance, then pistol whipping him. for the last week the felon documented how he celebrated his freedom on instagram, buying new shoes with a caption "new life, new style." eating non-jail food, shopping for new clothes at east ridge mall, and

her father was a disabled veteran who suffered from ptsd. she knew she had to help those who fought for our country in some way and equine therapy was the answer. >> the horse goes along with how you feel and, you know f you're tense and not relaxed the horse will tend to be the same way. they pick up on the emotion and particularly the ones that people have trouble mod lating. >> reporter: marco otto served to combat tours. he's the vice-president of the united war veterans council an organize helping vets integrate back into society. he finds these horses to be very therapeutic. your emotions.really feed off- so if you're one of these people that walks around with a big smile on your face all day long, but on the inside more is going on, the horses will pick up on that and sort of mirror it back to you. >> reporter: for some this was their first time coming into contact with a horse. others have had a session before and say they noticed the benefits the minute they start to interact with these animals. >> they comfort you it's really quite

the other one has opiates and ptsd medicines. both.an't take so the person is either going to die from a mental problem or from opiates. thanks for your consideration. i believe bill bennett addressed the fentanyl illegal fentanyl and illegal -- address the and illegalanyl opiates first. thank you. guest: part of the problem is we have swung the pendulum -- we are swinging the pendulum too hard in the case of some individuals in this country who suffer from chronic pain and may need that. the problem was for a long time we prescribed a very little of this. then we got a big push, and all of a sudden it was pain pills for everyone. medians a happy where we need to nestle. what is lacking is health care in which people are actually treated as individuals. therefore, you devise an individual response to an individual's pain. pain medicine was heading that way in the 1970's and 1980's, treating each person as a holistic being. so you would treat pain with medical counseling, a better diet, as well as pain medication. then the pills t

the full interview with sean jones knowing he had ptsd.the story about potential changes, consultation of the changes, to the way that houses are sold in england and wales. obviously a different situation in other parts of the uk. that is the front—page story on the sunday express this morning. they have a picture here of prince harry and meghan markle, odds—on for an autumn wedding, it says. the royal couple, if that is the right phrase to use at this stage, but certainly prince harry and his girlfriend seemingly now being tipped to tie the knot. i will have my hat ready. this year, more people than ever before will celebrate their 100th birthday, and after 8am, we will meet 102—year—old margaret gilbert, who has lived through events including the queen‘s coronation and man landing on the moon. we are also keen to hear how things have changed during your lifetime, so get in touch with your experiences of getting older. if you are 100, 50 or 20. let us know how life has been for you. margaret will be on the sofar after eight o‘clock and we

beyond ptsd, and i think in a still more important way, more recently, we have developed an additional layer of understanding on top of this clinical diagnosis, which is now being or going by the way of the term of moral injury. moral injury now being defined in some sense as perpetrating or failing to prevent bearing witness to or learning about acts that transcongress deeply held beliefs common among combat veterans who have violated their own moral codes when they kill or witness others killing and being killed. the discussion about moral injury is relatively recent, but i think it is one of the most important developments in national efforts to understand the experience of veterans and their experiences in war and in combat. and it all is based upon this, i think somewhat hopeful idea that all of us live in the world with some fundamental base of a moral sensibility. i leave it to you to decide whether that moral sensibility comes from nature or nurture, an interesting conversation in itself. but the notion that all of us as human beings have a kind of moral grounding, and that the

i do have ptsd. i went and there is hope for.ou just swallow your pride and accept that fact you have a problem and get the help that you need. as for gun-control, i think gun-control -- if they take away guns, we will be vulnerable with other countries and only the gangs and the bad people will have guns. then what are we going to do them? n? if people follow afghanistan and iraq, most of our veterans coming home when did our -- wounded are not from guns. they are from iud's. i don't believe it is guns. i believe it's other stuff. host: npr -- police believe the suspect stephen paddock killed himself in his room where they found in excess of 10 rifles. were lookingallers to see a picture of the shooter. this is an "the new york post." they write that the staggering toll of the deadly shooting in u.s. history has climbed to 50 kills more than 400 wounded. paddock shot himself in the mandalay bay hotel room 32nd floor where he had been staying and they found a cache of 10 rifles and his room. the sheriff said it was unclear how he

there are the people who then died from ptsd related psychological issues, suicides, agent orange, and a variety of long wounds that ultimately led to their deaths. there are also the americans who protested the war, the kids at cannes state or a jackson state orkids at kent state jackson state or a lot of others whose names we don't know that are not recognized in that memorial as explicitly. we are doing a commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the pentagon march what we will do is walk to the vietnam memorial to point out that if the memorial included 3 million cambodians who died, the wings for of it would stretch for miles. it's not to say america memorial should do that anymore, i don't think it diminishes what you accomplished to point out how much is not memorialized. >> i'm going to let it stand right there, you are next. >> bob hathaway here at the center. congratulations on yet another extraordinary book, a very rich entertaining presentation. i would make two very quick comments. jim started out by describing the vietnam war in a way that no one in this room at least visi

raymond johnson, a homeless man who goes by the name willie flanagan says he suffer from ptsd, fall out he believes from racial profiling in an excessive use of force incident in 2014. >> they had no reason to assault me. i'm being kicked in the face seven time with steel toed boots and an obvious attempt to break my neck. >> reporter: since then he claims he's been accosted by as fpd. >> i've been picked up 10 different times for nothing. >> reporter: sfpd said wednesday officers observed johnson in an suv and try to pull over. >> officers observed the suspect in a vehicle they believed was in possession of a firearm. it appears the suspect became aware of the officer' present and fled the scene. >> reporter: that's when johnson allegedly hit the officer. >> video footage of the entrance and exit of the garages available. there is no way you will be able to twist the circumstances , reversed the circumstances when police know he was coming against traffic on the. he did not see nothing what he ran into me. >> reporter: i asked johnson if he realized he hit the officer but he deflected

the long journey home continuing for many veterans afflicted with ptsd.ole new light in the director of "thank you for your service." he will join us live straight ahead. >> we're backed up six to nine months. >> are you kidding? you think these guys can wait that long? >> excuse me? >> i said how many of these guys in this room do you think will make it six to nine months? >> if you're finished. >> i'm not finished, man. we need to see somebody. >> i thought you were fine. you are lying to me. i found your va questionnaire. you are sick and i can't do anything if you don't talk to me, adam. >> i have to be sick or i can't get my benefits. >> so you don't want to die. it was multiple choice and you said you wanted to die. was that a lie? adam. >> i don't know. >> bill: the main character adam, a powerful scene from a movie called "thank you for your service." the new film about veterans with ptsd and the problems they face making it home from far. jason hall is the director from l.a. today. powerful moment there. you also did "american sniper," an incredi

. >> armstrong williams: ptsd is an epidemic. i don't think they need the drugs in the first no, no. i'm talking about opioids. i think there is such, he took what these people going to the parking lots, they're coming to you, they are making these demands, i don't think they need in the first place. what happened before the opioids were subscribed.? people weren't dying. what they do before? >> i think when you have someone that is saying they are in pain, there's an easy solution to the pain. something that i have learned by being a doctor, sometimes you ask how can you come in and scream at somebody? how are you raise that you would come in and scream at someone? i've had someone try to kill me,saying that the drug need to be euthanized, and the drug og was alive. i think the response ability on the doctors. absolutely, to say that there wasn't would be silly. there is also a responsibility in society to this type of behavior, is i think it's new with the opioids, they have been around for a long time, but it's society's insta

this morning" that the weinstein scandal triggered ptsd among actresses she worked with. >> now holly ring wald is speaking out. ringwald told "the new yorker" hen she was 14, a married director stuck his tongue in her mouth on set. she recalls a humiliating incident when she was forced to wear a dog collar in her early 20s to an audition. meanwhile, game of thrones star lena headey alleges the producer made unwanted sexual advances toward her on two occasions. this morning, channing tatum called the women sharing their story, true heroes. and announced his producing team is dropping the lone project he had with the weinstein company. oprah says there's a message in all of this. >> everybody has a story. think this is a watershed moment. and if we make this just about harvey weinstein. we'll have lost this moment. >> well, you can hear more from oprah this weekend on "60 minutes." she's going inside california's notorious pelican bay prison for a report on solitary confinement. >>> now, what happened last night in new york. or shall we say, who happened. jennifer lopez is who i'm talk

i felt tiring in 2004, like i had ptsd. wanted to mention is leadership. organization or company you work for, a leader that is a going to take charge and make sure these things are done. and they can allow them just by turning their head the other way. and in the post office, what they did was transfer these are, they would pick somebody out and harass them. managers. it wasn't a matter of male or harass them would or do hey quit something -- you probably remember the phrase going postal. host: let me leave it there and have jackson katz after you hear from debra. talked about leadership, hear debra has to say debra has to richmond. go ahead, debra. caller: yes, good morning. congregation of pastors all over the world will stand up and say the bible,s wrong in okay. that e horrible things they have to treatment of women wrong.bible is forever.oing to go on host: two interesting thoughts, what do you think? no doubt this is a leadership issue. drumbeen beat thanksgiving for decades. in the military, commend climate. ommander has responsibility, troops have

. >> oprah told cbs this morning the weinstein scandal triggered ptsd among several actresses she wasecently working with. and late this week, lupita nyong'o shared her disturbing story. lupita tells "the new york times" she first met the producer in 2011 three years before winning an oscar for 12 years a slave. not long after, she says weinstein invited her to his home to watch a film. once there, she claims weinstein led her into a bedroom and offered to give her a massage. she declined, quote, i thought he was joking at first. he was not. from the first time since i met him, i felt unsafe. lupita says to get out of the situation, she offered to give him a massage instead. when weinstein informed he wanted to remove his pants, she left. another time at dinner, she says weinstein told her, let's cut to the chase. i have a private room upstair where's we can have the rest of our meal. she also declined that offer. the producer, who is currently in treatment for sex addiction, said through a spokesperson, mr. weinstein has a different recollection of the events but believes lupita is a

after retiring in 2004 a felt like i had ptsd. one thing i wanted to mention his leadership. whatever organization or company you work for, there has to be a leader that is a leader, and is wanted to charge and make sure that these things are not done. and they can allow them just by turning their head the other way. at the post office, what they did was transfer these people. they would pick somebody out and harassed them, the managers. and it wasn't a matter of male or female. --y were harassed them until untilould harass them they quit or something. you probably remember the phrase, "going postal." host: he talked about leadership. let us hear what deborah has to say in richmond. caller: good morning. until a congregation of pastors from all over the world will e isd up and say that rap wrong, in the bible. and the horrible treatment of women, in the bible is wrong. this is going to go on forever. host: two interesting thoughts. what do you think? son: there's no doubt this is a leadership issue. i bee have been beating this drum for decades. in the military there is what

council comrades, he was on the front lines of the columbine shooting and knows firsthand the signs of ptsd. >> i felt like crying a lot. i felt i was on edge. i'd be yelling at people i would never do that before. >> an incredibly impactful night. >> jeff is from vegas, trained to counsel first responders. >> we're starting the healing process now, we take it seriously, and we want all of our members to be healthy after a traumatic event. >> the symptoms can be triggered by stressful events, so a long term support system is key. >> paranoid, you know, even just being in my house alone last night was difficult. noises aren't bothering me. but even coming down here to the strip and just realizing on that night, it was the quietest i've ever heard the las vegas strip. >> after rushing in to care for others, now the caregivers may need help too. dr. john torres, nbc news, las vegas. >>> up next, how the long search for justice may be over in a racially charged murder case. among those arrested, two law enforcement officers. >>> investigators say they have solved a racially motivated murder cas

he says he was diagnosed with ptsd, and the financial pressure of starting over only added to his stress, so he it turned to fema. >> they said what did you have, what did leave down there? what is missing. i told them, and they cut me a check. >> reporter: allen got $10,000 in disaster assistance, which he says he used to pay for on campus housing, a new computer, and clothes. we asked for documentation on all of this, but he tells us, any thrown away years ago. >> fast forward, fema gives you the money. you think it's all good. >> i think it's all good. i'm working, i'm having a good time. it's 12 years later at this point, and i get a letter from the department of treasury. >> reporter: this letter. it said 12 years after the hurricane, the government wanted its relief money back. the letter said allen owed fema $12,203. that's the $10,000 the agency originally gave him, plus a 28% penalty, assessed by the treasury, for having to collect the money. it said fema had been trying to track down allen since 2013, and the state sent letters to two addresses and a former employer trying to l

. >> new tests could help determine if a soldier will suffer from depression or ptsd a predeploymentn identify those who are at risk for ptsd before they even go to the battlefiel soldiers who score worse on the test are more prone to mental illness triggered by their war experience. >> a michigan mother sentenced to seven days in jail because she refused a judge's order to have her son vaccinated. apparently she would not let her nine-year-old be immunized. after initially agreeing with the father to do so. michigan parents are legally allowed to skip or delay their children's vaccinations due to that personal beliefs but she fell foul of the law because she negated to -- she reneged on the agreement with her former spouse dating back to november 2016. >> turning to the nfl wild card game. colorado rockies in arizona facing the diamondbacks. arizona's paul gold schmidt slammed a three run homer and the diamondbacks tripled for times but it was archie bradley's triple that helped lift arizona over colorado. the diamondbacks beat the rockies 11 to eight basketball court. the wnba cham

the ptsd this is real. after the president leaves, this is the first step towards some of that healing that these folks and las vegas are going to be dealing with for a very, very long time. >> katie: the president, when he takes that extra time to speak to law enforcement officials on the ground to ask about and the details on the logistics of the response of what's happening, he has a special respect for people who are in charge. he understands that making decisions in times like these when there is pressure coming from all different angles when you're dealing with people who haven't lost their lives and how to move them forward, how to handle the grief their families are going through, he has a respect for that on another level that he can really connect to those leaders who are in charge who are having difficulties themselves dealing with a in a personal way. >> guy: by the way, we saw the beginning of the day, the white house declaring a pause on politics and watching those scenes just moments ago and

many neurological ben its of er and training benefit to it and there's cardiac benefit and using for ptsd other phobias and for pain management. >> interesting the virtual reality experience offers nearly 100 games. >> that's pretty cool. >> you know technology complain about it because it stinks other times it's amazing. >> helpful. >> amazing advancements when it can done. >> my 92-year-old father what love that. he wants to learn and doesn't know how to. he's always saying do you have time to show me a couple things on facebook. >> and then ten second later he doesn't remember. it. >> aww. >> so cute he's trying. >> he's trying. >> absolutely. >> keep it here 5 at 6:30 next after the break. woo! woo. >> we'll see you ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ >> hi, everybody, it's good to see you. >> happy monday. >> happy monday toy at home. it's columbus day and final face-off for the battle of go. nor of virginia. and as you can see from the run down on the side of the screen these are top stories we're talking about tonight. as usual tweet us use that # 5@630 let's get to it. >> virginia lieutenant govern

johnson reportedly is homeless and told us that he suffers from ptsd. he thinks that as a result of a 2014 excessive use of force incident with police. >>> on our website, ktvu.com, you will find raw video of that jailhouse interview. >>> the alameda county sheriff's office questioning two people in connection with a carjacking and san lorenzo. james figaro junior started his pickup truck outside his home yesterday morning and went back into the house. when he came back out, a man jumped into his truck. figaro i tried to stop him but the man ran him over. >> i think our victim had good intentions to try to stop a person from stealing the car and unfortunately the suspect was intent on getting away and causing harm. >> two people were taken into custody for questioning after the lead deputies on a chase through east oakland. police are hoping someone may have captured the incident on their home surveillance cameras. if you have any information, contact the authorities. >>> now to the wildfires. some people who evacuated in the santa cruz mountains are be

she's got ptsd. she's got acute sexual trauma from her time being on the street.ild thinks that i will not love her. she doesn't want me to hug her, because she's dirty. there's no way that i can talk her out of it. she's got to get professional help. ♪ [ music ] >> >> right now on our website, you can learn more about the social media site, and appses that pimps are using to find young girls, and what you can do to help stop the cycle of sex trafficking in our area. >> it's going to take all of us. >>> remember that security robot that rolled into the waterfront? good news, he's okay. and his owners have a plan to make robots like him a lot more common, not long from now. and we'll introduce you to some relentless young men. triplets who didn't let their disability get in their way to becoming eagle scouts. >> a little bit chilly at the bus stop tomorrow. at 5:00 a.m., it's 41 at gaithersburg. then we get into 8:00, it's leesburg, buoy. even 44 in fredericksburg. we'll tell you just how mild it will be by afternoon, and look ahead to a big change this afternoon.

are dwelling on their near death, having nightmares and physical symptoms, those could be signs of ptsd. >> you also have tremendous headaches. you may not want to eat. you may have stomach aches. although symptoms that happen when you have experienced trauma and also a huge loss. >> reporter: sadness, anxiety and guilt are only motions to be expect it and most people will move through them. if not, counseling can help. children take their cues from parents. they should share their feelings as well. kids experience grief differently than adults do. watch the behavior of your children. spend a lot of time with them and devote yourself to them. >> that's why it's important for parents if they are feeling to talk to somebody. especially if they are feeling anxious. that impacts their kids. >> reporter: for many victims, family is keeping them going. >> my kids. my husband. and keeping myself busy. i can't sit around and cry and do nothing. there is stuff that has to be done and i'm doing it. >>> in most of the north bay the immediate fire emergency is over. now the long process of filing i

role of a real person, the story of adam adam schumann who came back from the war and dealing with ptsdings. >> yes, i think that's what this movie is going to do. even me when i got the script and i was, like, you're going to be playing this soldier, he's got posttraumatic stress, i was, like, i'm going to have to have flashbacks, dig a hole with my pistol in my backyard, flinching whenever there is fireworks, and i don't think that's the case. it humanizes it, personalizes it. it's trauma. these men are out of the country 12 to 15 months and what they're dealing with on a minute-to-minute, day-to-day basis for that long i found to be incredibly tragic and when you see the movie incredibly hopeful. because you see adam come out the other side. when david started this book on him ten years ago, he's really come out the other side. it's a work in progress but he's absolutely not the same person that he was back then. >> trevor: when you met adam and you realized this was going to be the person you were going to be playing, such a profound story, a lot of pressure that comes with that. >>

i spent time in patient at an intensive program for ptsd. in there i was in a unit with all military members. both from combat and from mst. i metet woman and men from all branchs who had experienced military sexualil assault. military sexual trama. and it was resounding across the board that the way this situations were being handled was not very well. i was pulled out of this program despite me saying i didn't think i was ready. the follow lg day i was given an epr by my command by my superintendent, my supervisor and told me that although i may have out performed my peers because i was in patient and unable to work, and the new system that came out i would be docked to a four. because there weren't enough fives to go around and i had been absent for to be in patient. this was on my birthday. and they took me to lunch and gave me a cake and had me side my epr. i went home and attempt td suicide. obviously it didn't work. i'm still here. i didn't have the saving grace was i didn't have access to a fire firearm at the time. i found every pil

we have guilt, ptsd of guilt for still having our homes. >> reporter: a mexican- american soccer team drove in two hours from williams to deliver more food, toiletries and clothes. tom vacar, ktvu fox 2 news. >>> still to come, their homes were destroyed by wildfires. many people in the north bay are searching for new places to live. the trouble they are facing. >> rain returns in the five- day forecast helping air quality and firefighters. introducing fast food's first ever ribeye burger made with 100% ribeye beef, fresh spring mix and provalone cheese on a potato bun. i'm inviting the whole industry to try it. of course i'll protect their identities. like this. try my first ever ribeye burgers. introducing fast food's first made with 100% ribeye beef, fresh spring mix and provolone cheese on an artisan potato bun. yep, nailed it come try my new ribeye burgers. only at jack in the box. >>> lawmakers are warning fire victims about scam artists who prey on vulnerable people. people who lost their home or need to rebuild should watch out for contractors who claim they can get the job do

recovery and then also seeing all these recent storm activities, it -- you know we have a coastline of ptsd. >> reporter: a soup line is still serving people. >> i thought after six months we wouldn't be in business. here we are five years later and i'm still serving the same amount of people. >> reporter: in toms river 10,000 homes were affected. ortley beach section nicknamed ground zero has seen a building boom but you still see some reminders of 2012. >> we've really made a remarkable recovery. >> reporter: that iconic rollercoaster that washed into the ocean in seaside heights, the pier has been replaced and there's a new ride there now. five years out the journey to recover has been exhausting and for some, it's not over. >> it was a life altering struggle for me, it absolutely was. >> reporter: jim, the recovery at the shore has been amazing on many levels but it's not complete yet. live in ortley beach, i'm nora muchanic channel6 "action news." >> thank you very much, nora. >>> let's go live to meteorologist cecily tynan. cecily, we have observed sandy's five year anniversary on sun