the inhibitor for treating als and other conditions and could potentially expand to tbi in the futureanging from car crashes to simple falls some 69 million people around the world are believed to suffer from traumatic brain injury every year stephanie holden who worked on the gladstone team believes a post injury treatment could be life-changing and the hope that there might be a potential. went for the symptoms that they experience would be really really powerful in san francisco stephanie sierra abc 7 news. and besides als the annexonnnexn biosciences is also conducting trials of its inhibitor for huntington's disease an autonomous vehicle company is rolling into the south bay and bringing hundreds of jobs with it crews is a division of general motors that focuses on driverless cars it plans to open a tech hub in sunnyvale next year employing about 400 people cruz is awaiting final approval from california's public utilities commission to launch a fleet of driverless. robo taxis in san francisco all right. well we dried out a little bit today, although i think i randomly got hit by

. >> platoon sergeant was diagnosed with tbi after living through this.assad, a u.s. air base in iran. it was iran's revenge for the killing of cupsalm sul mony days later and the largest missile attack against american forces in u.s. history. 11 warheads, each weighing 1600 pounds. >> everything shook, the whole earth shook and then just pressure moving through your body. >> reporter: almost two years later. >> these are my hearing aids. >> reporter: he can no longer do his job as a drone operator. he suffers from a long list of ailments. headaches? >> yes. >> reporter: vision and balance issues? >> yes. my brain operates at a limited capacity all the time. >> reporter: based on the rules that met the rules for the purple heart. it was launched by a hostile foreign force and persistent impaired brain functions. but cbs news learned he and dozens of other soldiers, who appear to qualify, have not been recognize would the award and been denied the medical benefits that came with it. did your soldiers meet the criteria? >> absolutely. >> reporter: he helped

. >> in other words, major symptoms of tbi, the blocker they used was an antibody, being developed bying about the study is that even 24 hours after the injury, she found she could use our treatment to block this process. >> the company is already conducting clinical trials of the inhibitor for treating als and other conditions and could potentially expand to tbi in the future, and with causes ranging from car crashes to civil falls, some 69 million people around the world are believed to suffer from traumatic brain injury every year. stephanie, who worked on the gladstone team, believes a treatment could be life-changing. >> the hope for the treatment for the symptoms they experience would be really, really powerful. >> researchers say the antibody being tested has already been shown to be safe in humans. >> we are drying out from the storm that has been with us since yesterday. since yesterday. spencer has an lot ♪ christmas music ♪ ♪ ♪ if your dry eye symptoms keep coming back, what?! no! over the counter eye drops typically work by lubricating the eyes and may provide temporary re

went to tbi. protocol.eadaches were just horrendous to the point i couldn't even go outside for the light so bad. colonel ellison was also in the tbi area doing his thing. and he was ready to go home. and he basically said i'm not going home. i've got to get back to the fob. and they also wanted me to go home. and i'd gotten friendly with the other nurses. so they were doing all the paperwork and basically they came up to me and they said well, we're getting you ready to go to lan stool, i said what for? you got hurt. you got -- you know, they don't want you out here because you are hurt. i said i'm fine. and they said do you still have ringing in your ears? that was one of the big things. of course i did. i lied i said no. they're gone. i can hear you. and he said how is your headaches. i said they're just mild now. they were bangers but i'm fine. i'm cool. you know get the other ones out of here. don't waste your time. i got to get back to the fob. so they talked to the doc and the doctor said all right,

and so i feel the people inson africa are paying for this tbies, win they are not vaccinated and nowunish them further only implementing travel restrictions which we already know don't work. they haven't worked this entire epidemic, why would they work now? >> let me ask you this question though, this is really confusing i think for a lot of people in and around the variant, a two part question. number one, how do we know or do we know where this variant comes from, because people say south of can variants or not but it was sequenced as i understand in south africa, nobody knows where st from, and the second part of that is are we not only discovering a variant now but not where the variant is, like if people start testing all over the world and they now understand what to test for aren't we just going to see, you know, omicron popping up everywhere as if it is spreading like st already there. >> of course, that is always my first talking point when people are ringing their hands about the omicron-- omicron variant they are saying it in is in multiple european countries, australia, a

. >> breaking news, an amber alert now issued by the tbi for a missing 5-year-old girl. >> announcer:>> they turned to social media for help, but online bullies began accusing them of having something to do with her disappearance. you didn't do anything to hurt your daughter? >> no, sir. >> do you know what happened to summer? >> no. >> do you know who took summer? >> no. i can't do this. i'm being interrogated again. there's nothing more to remember. >> we did see some interesting body language. >> i want to go home. ♪ ♪ >> dr. phil: it has been almost four months since 5-year-old summer went missing from her home in rural tennessee on june 15th.

. >> breaking news, an amber alert now issued by the tbi for a missing 5-year-old girl. >> announcer:turned to social media for help, but online bullies began accusing them of having something to do with her disappearance. you didn't do anything to hurt your daughter? >> no, sir. >> do you know what happened to summer? >> no. >> do you know who took summer? >> no. i can't do this. i'm being interrogated again. there's nothing more to remember. >> we did see some interesting body language. >> i want to go home. ♪ ♪ >> dr. phil: it has been almost four months since 5-year-old summer went missing from her home in rural tennessee on june 15th.

a double-blind study confirmed the effectiveness of treating ptsd and tbi. the majority of combat veterans who have used this therapy have helped restore their executive function and well-being. most important, the return of hope that they have lost that is responsible for the elimination of suicidal ideation. i'm not saying this will help everyone, but research shows it does help a statistically significant population. our veterans who have valiantly served our country sacrificed so much, deserve every remedy possible to reduce the suffering caused by combat. i believe every veteran if needed should be afforded the opportunity to get hyperbaric oxygen therapy to them. i introduced the injury act, if passed, my legislation will go to the secretary of the v.a. to create a program for veterans suffering from ptsd. i encourage committee members to become a cosponsor on this important legislation. it is already bipartisan, and we are working with senator tuberville. he introduced similar legislation in the senate. while i serve in the house of representatives, i