. >> a surgeon just returned to sierra leone after training at san francisco trauma unit. it's the only one of its kind in the country. >> always. >> aid groups help to heal the physical fallout of the war, they are tackling the psychological scars, as well. >> on a beach in the capital city, young amputees have formed competitive soccer teams. rebuilding projects are underway and a decade removed from the violence a new greeted usneration greeted us in every village with shouts of excitement. carolyn johnson, "abc 7 news." >> still ahead, the ultimate, incredible exhibited that s0ú8t >>> an eye popping exhibit on india's royal courts at the asian art museum. don sanchez gives us a look. >> speck spectacle, from artwork to jewelry to clothing. exploring a culture steeped in mystique. >> that is what makes objects come to life. >> great kijs, their lives were extravagant but they were political leaders. >> they had religious duties but had other duties. >> and patrons looking for ex silence, to detailed wedding dresses and even furniture. this is the throne they would ride.

best friend often credited with making people feel better dogs can experience a real emotional trauma. unitedate from canine disorders somehow to retire from service completely reverse in training. for dogs symptoms include hyper vigilance avoiding certain buildings to permit changes aggression soviet withdrawal. for those in law enforcement with a front seat to buy less frightening situations no more likely that people in general public to soaper suffered posttraumatic stress. police up a sweat to draw their weapons or firearms fire on someone to feel guilty and agreed powerless and people sometimes afterwards. but despite the trauma they did not experience long-term damage. if they get help from peers at part of their job to learn effective ways to cope canadian researchers say post trauma counseling makes a difference for a long term it will help. keep your kids in a booster seat until age height and weight surpasses requirements often letting them see to the seat belt wants to beat one criteria for getting past the booster seat by journal of pediatrics reports children of all the weights

. >> reporter: julie this is the poly trauma unit at the palo alto va hospital where the most severe ases of battlefield wounds are seen. tonight a ceremony of honor for one of the patients. >> this is to certify the president of the united states of america has awarded the purple heart. >> reporter: the purple heart was pinned on sergeant jergen tonight. the 23-year-old lost all feeling in his legs. jergens was a combat medic. >> you win right? >> you win. >> reporter: 19-year-old jennifer has been at her husband' side through it all. including a three week coma. >> really it was doctors saying he might not ever woke up. then he woke up. and doctors were saying he might not ever talk. he started talking. he's so stubborn and he just beat all the odds. >> reporter: sergeant ben stemen was in the humvee when it exploded he too received a purple heart. >> it's something you really don't want, but when you do get it you're just glad that you're in my condition where you can talk about it. >> reporter: while jergens injuries are severe, at one point doctors told his wife he might not make

. >> reporter: julie this is the poly trauma unit at the palo alto va hospital where the most severe f battlefield wounds are seen. tonight a ceremony of honor for one of the patients. >> this is to certify the president of the united states of america has awarded the purple heart. >> reporter: the purple heart was pinned on sergeant jergen tonight. the 23-year-old lost all feeling in his legs. jergens was a combat medic. >> you win right? >> you win. >> reporter: 19-year-old jennifer has been at her husband' side through it all. including a three week coma. >> really it was doctors saying he might not ever woke up. then he woke up. and doctors were saying he might not ever talk. he started talking. he's so stubborn and he just beat all the odds. >> reporter: sergeant ben stemen was in the humvee when it exploded he too received a purple heart. >> it's something you really don't want, but when you do get it you're just glad that you're in my condition where you can talk about it. >> reporter: while jergens injuries are severe, at one point doctors told his wife he might not make it. >

jobs that carried health benefits, working stints at a local book shop in austin and a hospital trauma unit. but in 2001, her lupus worsened, and she moved back home to bristol, tennessee, to live with her parents, abandoning her dream of becoming a doctor. she had no health insurance, and her parents say they couldn't afford the rapidly escalating medical costs. ( knocks on door ) her primary care physician was dr. amylyn crawford. >> good to see you. >> good to see you. >> why don't you tell how things have been going? i think one of the great things as being a physician is finding a patient or an individual who is invested in understanding their disease, their disease process, and really wanting to take control and... and be responsible for their own health. and nikki was absolutely one of those individuals. she had hopes and dreams, but just was unfortunate to have lupus. >> narrator: dr. crawford told us that most lupus patients can be treated. >> ideally, her symptoms could be controlled, her lupus could be controlled, and she could go on to do some of the things that she... or we wou

elliott friedman is manning the pediatric trauma unit. >> they were very close to losing their lives.they would have dropped into the critical temperature range. >> but all five of the children do pull through and live to tell about their close encounter with death. >> because my sister was drowning. she was screaming. i tried to save her, but i fell in. i couldn't get up because my book bag was heavy. but he pulled my head up and pushed me to the ice. >> i want to thank all the officers and the police department and the fire department. >> if we didn't get there when we did, that would have been a real bad situation. i think that we could have been doing a body recovery operation instead of a rescue. it was real close. >>> up next -- >> we didn't know how long we had. >> a cruise ship is in deep trouble, and it isn't the officers performing the rescue. >> my job is to rock and roll, not to rescue. >>> also a plane is going down. >> it went from to a -- >> they brace for impact. then, if crashing into the ground isn't dangerous enough -- >> there's a plane that is literally stuck up i

that is where they have the best trauma unit. i got amazing care there.just amazing care. >> you are managing editor of the new york times. you know he's not god to be there forever. what went through your head? >> very nice things. when i arrived bill keller was already there with my husband. he is a terrific friend and a caring boss as well. i was thinking of, my goodness, i've read in a mess. >> i was out of work for about nine weeks altogether. although part of the time i was home, and even my last week in a hospital bill keller figured that the best medicine for me would be edgy story. rupert murdoch had just bought the "wall street journal" and dow jones. and light from my rehab room i was, you know, looking up everything we had done on rupert murdoch been talking to the reporters who were going to work on a big story about him. and he was right. it was a great spirit lifter and a great thing to focus on instead of myself. >> to talk about tumbling 100 feet down to hell and yosemite. >> i did. >> what year was that. >> that was a year ago, a little

we do know that the officer was transported to shock trauma by ground unit. his condition at this time -- it's believed that his injuries are not life threatening. officers are on the scene. they are maintaining a crime scene and conducting an investigation into the shooting. hopefully, we'll know more later. >> captain mike, thank you. a very active scene and we'll bring you new information as we get it. >>> big changes could be coming to a post office near you. first class mail may be a thing of the past. we have more on the drastic cost cutting plan. >> reporter: it's going to take longer for your mail to get to its destination. for the first time in 40 years, the u.s. postal service will slow down first class mail. >> it's not fair. >> i think it's ridiculous. >> half of all first class mail arrives the next day. it will take two days to deliver magazines, mail order medications, and that birthday card to mom. the cuts come as the postal service faces default on a payment for retiree health benefits. and as most people move from snail mail to e-mail, the

as my husband went to this hospital, poly-trauma unit, it was over a year since he had returned from iraq. the air force placed tom on tempary disability retirement status, and told us that he would be reevaluated every six months to find out what they would do with him. over a year later, tom and i had to travel to san antonio, texas from our home in south georgia. we paid for the entire trip minus the flight and waited for the air force to reimburse us. and the total trip was $750, more than our mortgage payment. we had yet to hear what they would do with tom. as of now we travel over two hours one way, to get to the v.a. center that has the right personnel to treat tom's injuries. we have an amazing team of professional that is we work at the v.a. i would love to name them all by names but i will tell you that his primary care doctor is amazing, and he has a psychologist that understands him and does not take his crap. we have a nurse case manager that is helpful in giving us the appointments we need and not making us travel more than the two hours we need to travel. we are blesse

trauma, a lot, being homeless. >> [speaking foreign language] >> she says that the only thing that we act -- that we ask is for those units to be given to the homeless people. she thinks the city will be looking better with less people on the streets, sleeping in the streets. i think that they deserve to have a place that is decent. >> [speaking foreign language] >> thank you. >> hello, good morning. jennifer from the coalition on homelessness. i think that all of us here today think it is a wonderful thing to see how things have changed over the last several weeks. we went from a situation where we had an action plan laid out by homeless families who had no response from the city to a " in the paper claiming a huge rise -- quote in the paper claiming that this huge rise in homeless families was not a crisis, to what was indeed, as we can agree on now, a crisis. this is a testament to the homeless families standing up with courage, side by side with service providers, making sure that the media embraces their voices and here's the tragic stories of the families in san francisco today. has led to this huge outpouring where

trauma hospital. the doctors will not return to work until they have government protection. they cannot operate in the current chaos. the intensive care units full of patients injured not in the liberation of tripoli, but in the violence that has come in its wake. >> all of these cases are from gunshots. why? why is libya like this? >> reining in the gunman responsible is perhaps the biggest challenge facing the new libyan government. >> vladimir putin has formally applied for president of russia. however, demonstrations have been on a smaller scale in the past two nights. >> vladimir putin put pen to paper, making his intentions clear. he wants his old job back. it is official. he will stand in the presidential elections in march. but allegations of corruption in the parliamentary elections have sparked anger among the voters. they're demanding an end to vladimir putin's political career. they're willing to risk jail to make their point. gorbachev says he agrees. he says that it does not reflect the will of the people. on sunday, putin's united russia apart and came out -- brushup party came out with the majority. -- russia party came out

everyone says no sense treating the trauma of the bus hit until we deal with the high blood pressure. it's backwards. the world is happy to lend united states money for 10 years at 2%. i say keep borrowing that money as much as you can. use that money to address the immediate trauma of a country in crisis, incomes collapse. it's not that hard to solve but do it later. solving it now to use one more analogy, the children's riddle, how do you get down off an elephant, you don't, you get down from a duck. we have to come up with useful answers. >> i agree with a lot of that, but back loading, putting america's house in order over 10 years not taking the pain up front is exactly what we need and -- >> is there any evidence for that proposition? all the evidence i see is exactly the contrary. the uncertainty holding back the american economy that doesn't make sense to me. >> how many corporations have you talked to? i talk to companies with trillions on balance sheets and they are holding back, hesitation, that's a big issue. >> there's surveys they ask business owners why are you not investing. uncertainty is not the reason they give. we

trauma, a lot, being homeless. >> [speaking foreign language] >> she says that the only thing that we act -- that we ask is for those units to be given to the homeless people. she thinks the city will be looking better with less people on the streets, sleeping in the streets. i think that they deserve to have a place that is decent. >> [speaking foreign language] >> thank you. >> hello, good morning. jennifer from the coalition on homelessness. i think that all of us here today think it is a wonderful thing to see how things have changed over the last

trauma, a lot, being homeless. >> [speaking foreign language] >> she says that the only thing that we act -- that we ask is for those units to be given to the homeless people. she thinks the city b

trauma, a lot, being homeless. >> [speaking foreign language] >> she says that the only thing that we act -- that we ask is for those units to be given to the homeless people. she thinks the city will be looking better with less people on the streets, sleeping in the streets. i think that they deserve to have a place that is decent. >> [speaking foreign language]

based on the study, childhood trauma may be the leading cause of poor health among adult in the united states. pediatricians are an excellent position to detect and prevent abuse because of their unique relationship with families and experience in child development. pediatricians are trained to identify injuries and behavioral changes resulting from abuse or neglect and to understand the physician's role in treating or reporting abuse. however, there were inconsistencies with what is considered suspicious and sometimes limited understanding of the child abuse reporting process, even within the medical community. as president of the american academy of pediatrics, i can assure you provided the necessary specialized education and training to report abuse in a cloud in serve these children appropriately is embraced at the very highest levels of leadership within our organization. the academy respectfully submits the following recommendations. every one half to report maltreatment to proper authorities could support as you've heard and training is crucial and every adult has his or her res

the unit commander -- >>> emergency crews are on the scene of a crash involving a metros but and a taxicab on 12th street northeast. six people have been hurt. one is a trauma patient. we have a news crew on the way. >>> a government shutdown is looming. maryland congresswoman and d.c. council woman briefed federal workers and urged them to watch their spending until the situation is resolved. lawmakers are at odds over a payroll tax cut extension. thousands of federal workers could face furloughs. >>> african-american clergy and civil rights leaders say they are joining occupy wall street protesters to fight economic inequality in the u.s. jamal dez from baltimore and other church leaders announced a movement called occupy the dream. that movement will mobilize on january 16th. coinciding with dr. martin luther king jr. day. >>> rod blagojevich will enroll in a substance abuse program in prison. but whether he has a problem is up for debate tonight. acceptance into a program can shave a year off most prison sentences. the defense team requested that he be placed in a prison in colorado. he was convicted of trying to sell president obama's former senate sea

trauma violence is inflicting on our globe, the cost of global violence is huge. the cost of just partner violence, $6 billion per year. canada, $1 billion per year. the united kingdom, $23 billion per year. that is only one aspect. imagine if we took the time to record and tallied the global cost of all types of violence against women. it would be astronomical. man, unless you feel left out, don't worry, you are included in this. that america we have the proud distinction of being one of the most violent places for boys. one in five boys will be molested before they are 13. these figures are low because many -- when sexually abused boys are not treated, society has to deal with them later, resulting in problems like crime and more sexual abuse. the suicide rate for boys who have been abused is 14 times higher than a non abused boy. drug use is 12-40 times greater. many experts believe that many boys are sexually abused. after a came out on the other side of my abuse, had to dedicate my work. i completed a short film called flashcards, loosely based on my childhood. it won a international awards, it aired on international public television. the canadian moun

trauma, divorce and anger. today, the troops left with their spirits high. >> it is a great day for not just for me, but for everybody. all the sacrifices the united states made and over the course of the iraq war. >> reporter: a controversial war, perhaps not mission accomplished, but at least now mission complete. also, lester, after all of these years of war, the iraqis have paid a heavy price, about 150,000 iraqis killed since the conflict began. and here it is, lester, the last vehicle. and you can see where the soldiers wrote in chalk, just that, last vehicle out of iraq. all that is left now is to send all of this home. >> richard, you have a good perspective. you were there for the beginning and were there for the end. what does the u.s. leave behind in iraq? >> reporter: the fear is that iraq is becoming a sectarian shiite state. i think it is revealing that the last american base was called camp adder, named after a snake, but as soon as it was handed over to the iraqi government, it was renamed the iman ali air base, named after the founder of shiite islam. >> richard engel in kuwait tonight. richard, thank you. >>> now to washington. a

based on this study, childhood trauma may be the leading cause of poor health among adults in the united states. pediatricians are in an excellent position to detect and prevent abuse because of their unique relationship with families and experience child development. pediatricians are trained to identify injuries and behavioral changes resulting from abuse or neglect and to understand the physician's role in treating or reporting abuse. however there are inconsistencies with what is considered suspicious and sometimes limited understanding of the child abuse reporting process even within the medical community. as president of the american academy of pediatrics i can assure you that providing necessary specialized education and training to report abuse and neglect and serve these children appropriately is embraced at the various highest levels of leadership in the organization. the academy submits the following recommendations. every adult has a responsibility to protect children and to report maltreatment to the proper authorities. support as you heard for education and training is cruc

trauma. they range from 0% to 60% and the average is about 15%. let's compare the 15% figure with those of some state societies. example, the united states in europe through the 20th century, the comparable rate of death from warfare was about 1%. if we try to get the worst possible figure i throwing and all the war deaths, although deaths from genocides and all the deaths from man-made famines throughout the world during the 20th century, the year is about 3%. the figure for the world in 2005 for the most recent decade on the graph is invisible because it is far less than a pixel. it's about 3/10 of, 3/10 of 1%. the second way of estimating the rate of violent death in state societies is by examining ethnographic vital statistics. that is, what percentage of people living in accident or recent nonstate societies, hunter gatherer, hunter horticultural and other tribal societies die at the hands of their fellow humans? again, the graph that i would display if i was displaying graphs shows 27 societies for which such figures are available. here i have plotted them using the conventional criminologists scale of violent deaths per 100

unit or duty location transfer following an assault. this means victims of sexual assault are often forced to live and work alongside their perpetrator, facing repeated stress and trauma due to the constant contact they may have with an assailant that is part of their unit. as unbelievable as it sounds, this is exactly what happened to marine lance corporal maria lauderback who accused her assailant of rape and then spent the next eight months exposed to the accused rapist who later murdered her and buried her with the body of her unborn son in his backyard. although these events happened in 2007, the department of defense has not adopted provisions that would allow victims to escape constant contact with their assailants. we ask men and women who serve in the military to put their lives on the line for our country and they shouldn't fear harm from their fellow service members. we simply must do more to protect them. in may this house passed h.r. 1540 which included strong bipartisan provisions that would allow victims of sexual assault the right to transfer units, the right to counsel, the right to privileged communications between a victim and a victim advocate and

based on the study, childhood trauma may be the leading cause of poor health among adult in the united states. pediatricians are an excellent position to detect and prevent abuse because of their unique relationship with families and experience in child development. pediatricians are trained to identify injuries and behavioral changes resulting from abuse or neglect and to understand the physician's role in treating or reporting abuse. however, there were inconsistencies with what is considered suspicious and sometimes limited understanding of the child abuse reporting process, even within the medical community. as president of the american academy of pediatrics, i can assure you provided the necessary specialized education and training to report abuse in a cloud in serve these children appropriately is embraced at the very highest levels of leadership within our organization. the academy respectfully submits the following recommendations. every one half to report maltreatment to proper authorities could support as you've heard and training is crucial and every adult has his or her res

united states is there. general gus pagonis and elizabeth dwoskin, thank you both. >> you're welcome. >> ifill: still to come on the "newshour": secretary of state clinton; new training to cope with war traumao gets to vote and how and an egyptian elections update. but first, with the other news of the day. here's hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: the stalemate in congress over extending the payroll tax cut continued. senate democrats made clear they will reject a house republican bill. it would extend the tax cut, but would also mandate that work begin on a canada-to-texas oil pipeline. democrats strongly opposed that provision, and senate majority leader harry reid said he wants to dispense with the bill quickly. >> let's get this vote over with. then we can begin serious negotiations on how to prevent a $1,000 tax hike on american families. the sooner we put this useless partisan charade behind us, the sooner we can negotiate a true, bipartisan solution that protects middle class workers. >> sreenivasan: senate minority leader mitch mcconnell blocked a quick vote on the payroll tax cut. he insisted the top priority should be to pass a trillion dollar spending bill that funds government o

based on the study, childhood trauma may be the leading cause of poor health among adult in the united states. pediatricians are an excellent position to detect and prevent abuse because of their unique relationship with families and experience in child development. pediatricians are trained to identify injuries and behavioral changes resulting from abuse or neglect and to understand the physician's role in treating or reporting abuse. however, there were inconsistencies with what is considered suspicious and sometimes limited understanding of the child abuse reporting process, even within the medical community. as president of the american academy of pediatrics, i can assure you provided the necessary specialized education and training to report abuse in a cloud in serve these children appropriately is embraced at the very highest levels of leadership within our organization. the academy respectfully submits the following recommendations. every one half to report maltreatment to proper authorities could support as you've heard and training is crucial and every adult has his or her res

trauma but i think they are evil. i really do. i think all of this is skewed. the internationalists' like if i may say george soros, they want money, they want control of not just the united states, they are thinking about the world. they want to consult the world, and i don't think jefferson and adams and george washington were thinking about the world. i think they were thinking of the best interest of the united states of america and i don't see it anymore. >> you covered a lot of territory. >> you did, too. >> my question is -- >> i write in the book that i still to this day believe in our system of government, the founding of the republic which is why we must preserve the republic and yet what always messes it up, people. yet the system has a lot of rules in which we can play now if it is flexible and you can have something succeed for 200 plus years and not have the flexibility to adapt its flexibility, the need to understand that when we expand power for one party or one president, and you see this. remember george bush whether you agree or disagree there's a lot of conversation about the unity of the presidency come a lot of executive order, signing statements, th

united states military is the finest in the world. but even the department of defense recognizes that there is a deep rooted problem of military sexual trauma. that must be addressed. d.o.d. estimates that there are some 19,000 soldiers who were sexually assaulted or raped each year in the military is a staggering figure. sexual assault in the military is a cans they're is undermining readiness, unes cohesion, and morale, and fixing this broken system will strengthen our military, not weaken it as some have argued. today i want to tell the story of specialist andrea nutsling, originally from a small town on the banks of the ohio river, she served in the army from 2000 to 2004 and then served in the army reserves from august 2004 until april, 2010. she has served her country in korea and twice deployed to iraq. in 2002, while serving in korea, specialist n newtsling was assaulted by a colleague outside the latrine. she reported the assault to her command and her assailent was sentenced. sentenced to five days of base restriction. that was it. in august of 2005, specialist newtsling was deployed to iraq and women gwen one of her fellow soldie