he hit the jump and got about 20 feet of air before landing. >> next it's shanna's turn. >> go, shanna, go. >> when i started going down the hill, i wanted to stay on top of the tube. i thought as long as i would have it underneath me i would be okay. as soon as i hit the jump, i started leaning back too far. i knew i was going to have a problem. >> shanna loses control of her position and falls on her neck with the rest of her body following right behind. >> when i hit the ground, my upper thighs actually connected with my shoulders when i felt this big smack of my entire body collapsing in on itself. it was really painful. >> the impact is tremendous. shanna lies motionless on the ground terrified she may be seriously injured. >> i was fairly immobile. i could move my limbs but couldn't sit up. the pain only got worse. i knew i wasn't getting better. i realized i was going to need help. >> shanna's friends call an ambulance and she's immediately taken to the hospital. >> i was concerned that if anybody were to move me or pick me up that i could have a spinal cord injury. >> at the ho

shanna swan. welcome to 60 minutes on cnbc. i'm lesley stahl. we'll be exploring the world of science in this episode. later we'll bring you morley safer's story about the human genome patents being awarded to biotech companies and the proprietary control they now have over part of who you are. and then my report on a ubiquitous chemical called phthalates, which is in everything from perfume to children's toys, but which may also be causing birth defects. but first, steve kroft's story on the enormous amount of money being spent to treat people as they approach the end of their lives. how much money? well, in 2009, medicare paid $55 billion for doctor and hospital bills for patients as they approached the last two months of life. to give you some perspective, that's more than the budget for the department of homeland security or the department of education. and as we reported in 2009, most of those bills were paid for by the government with few or no questions asked and with an estimated 30% of the treatments having no meaningful impact. >> ms.

briganz, who has battled als and has done it courageously with his wife shanna.and you have to talk about veteran ray lewis, who is now retired. and ed reed, one time free safety for years. now going on to the houston texans. the president talking about every one of these players. joe flacco, of course, brought this team together, took them to new orleans and got super bowl xlvii under their belts. two super bowl championships for the baltimore ravens franchise. not bad for a franchise that is only 17 years old. back to you. >> i'm just thankful that ed reed didn't sing today. okay? >> yeah. i don't think the president wanted him to sing today. >> all right. thank you very much, kai. president obama also sang about jacoby jones for his fancy footwork on dancing with the stars. >>> it was back to business for president. president obama names u.s. ambassador to the united nations, susan rice, as the national security adviser. the outspoken rice was at the center surrounding the attack on the u.s. consulate on ben ghazi. president considered submitting her but withd

so i want to start with you, shanna, because again listening to the level of conversation this week ion't talk about some of these things if you can't say it better, just withhold. >> yeah, no they clearly haven't gotten the message. obviously we at ultraviolet are our members are totally upset about the rhetoric coming out of the republican party. i tell you what they're more upset about are the palsies. the policies like rejecting the violence again women right, opposing an equal pay bill getting in the way of gun violence reform which impacts women very seriously. >> you know, april, the other thing that struck me with some of the criticism that we saw sean some of the commentary that we saw from the pugh study that i mentioned earlier was the default always seems to be to blame women, right? it is women's fault rather than looking at a, what's the responsibility of men and fathers. but b, some of these very same people have proposed and support cuts to the very programs that actually help women and mothers, and particularly single mothers which i know you know something about. >>