so it is a type of traumatic brain injury. the other misconception -- which i'm not sure everybody agrees with -- used to be said with a concussion if you looked in the brain, you would not see anything. i think that's not true. i think with modern evidence and the ability to use with microscopes into the brain at the time of a concussion in an animal, there is a symphony orchestra of changes that are occurring in the concussive event. so i think the bliology of concussion, it is not well known but i think that we will learn a lot more over time. so is it's not a purely functional abnormality. there is a lot going on in the brain during these -- during a concussion. the other one which was already mentioned which was 20 years ago people would take a sniff of ammonia, go back out and play. now it is recognized pretty widely that that's not the case. so thanks to the cdc work, the work of multiple other groups like the academy of neurology's guidelines committee, put out guidelines for return to sports. i think those have been t

veterans in minnesota, texas and possibly nationwide have been denied benefits and treatment for traumatic brain injuries after exams by it is part of an investigation we call invisible wounds. >> reporter: traumatic injuries have been called the signature wounds of the wars in iraq and afghanistan. often invisible but debilitating. this veteran suspected lingering effects from a blow to the head in the navy turned to the minneapolis v.a. for help. the v.a. policy says they must be diagnosed by specialists, neurologists. anton wasn't seen by a specialist. he is one of hundreds of veterans in minneapolis, many misdiagnosed and denied treatment by doctors who were not qualified by the v.a.'s own rules. some examined by a nurse practitioner not a neurologist. now there is evidence it is happening at other v.a.'s. >> the issue other unqualified doctors is happening here? blowing the whistle because of these internal v.a. e-mails saying that before he started his job of the unit in amarillo, texas last may as many as 70 veterans in amarillo alone had exams done by unqualified doctors. >> trauma

the guy traumatized you and traumatized a lot of people, but it--it just-- we have to do our best to stay positive. >> abigail: stay positive? what's there to be positive about? everywhere that i look, ben is there. the hotel, chicago. [sighs] here staring back at me on our wedding. i mean, it just doesn't make any sense. how could he be out there following me and no one can find him? >> chad: i know, i know. i don't understand it either. >> abigail: what i do understand is that he is some kind of evil genius.

he was injured and his family is traumatized by what happened. in 2014, another baltimore city school police officer was seen on camera hitting a female student with a baton. the officer later pleaded guilty to assault. the city school's police chief said he's also troubled by what he saw. >> according to our use of force, definitely excessive force was used. >> reporter: in a statement, the state's attorney's office said it takes this matter very seriously and is working closely with the city's police department and school police to investigate. those forces operate separately. law enforcement in baltimore once again making headlines. ron mott, nbc news. >>> still ahead tonight, slashing doctor bills by thousands of dollars. the website making discounts on medical services as easy as booking the cheapest flight online. >>> also, story time. kids testing out their >>> there was a new way to combat the skyrocketing cost of doctors' bills. it's easy as a few clicks on a computer. a startup saving thousands of people by letting them browse for medic

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over 30% much the calls are medical an those can be as traumatizing for firefighters. >> a man called himself at 44, on 44th birthday, at 4:40 in the afternoon, by shooting himself in the head. apparently his father had done the same thing at 44. >> calls like these can be seared into a firefighters memory for weeks and sometimes years. >> parents discovering children, 15-year-old hung themselves, and when the mom and dad got home they immediately saw -- >> you come back here how do you deal with it? >> you don't. you're on to the next run because there's always one more call. we don't get the same time off. you don't get to say, oh i'm sorry, i don't want to go to the next one this was a really crappy day, crappy call for me. they see things on television, the disasters just recently the family shootings all of these things. and any time there's one of those incidents lap anywhere in the world, there's a firefighter incidents that happen anywhere in the world, that hidden element that's involved in win of these that ha has to deal with the aftermath of somebody else's choices. >> peo

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nearly 40% of all documented traumatic brain injury were to motor vehicle accidents. those 6i-5 and older had highest rate of tbi related deaths. which brings us to our task today. chapter ingin a new the national dialogue on concussions. we are not here to cast blame or point fingers. we are here to take a step back to gain perspective and begin a conversation on solutions. are joined today by some of the most prominent experts in the field. this is a wonderful opportunity for members to sit back and listen from the -- to these individuals. they are here to help educate members and the public about the science of concussions. know, what are the gaps, how do we address those gaps to achieve meaningful short and long-term solutions. we are here today to make one thing clear, this is not a sports or military issue only. this is a public health issue. millions of americans not playing sports or in the military suffer concussions. it can happen to anyone, anytime, anywhere. some will recover with no noticeable effect. others will have debilitating symptoms. why the differ

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so it is a type of traumatic brain injury. misconception -- which i'm not sure everybody agrees with -- used to be said with a concussion if you looked in the brain, you would not see anything. that's not true. i think with modern evidence and the ability to use with microscopes into the brain at the time of a concussion in an animal, there is a symphony orchestra of changes that are occurring in the concussive event. so i think it the biology of concussion, it is not well known but i think that we will learn a lot more over time. so is it's not a purely functional abnormality. there is a lot going on in if the brain during these -- during a concussion. the other one which was already mentioned which was 20 years ago people would take a sniff of ammonia, go back out and play. now it is recognized pretty widely that that's not the case. so thanks to the cdc work, the work of multiple other groups like the academy of neurology's guidelines committee, put out guidelines for return to sports. i think those have been taken up by co

. >> they're traumatized. >> what the family says happened in the moments leading up to the murder. >> tensions high in brussels. police use water cannons to control the crowds. >> and a hopeful easter message from pope francis. words of support for the victims of terrorism. fox 5 news at 10:00 starts now. thanks for joining us tonight. i'm marina marraco. >> and i'm jim lokay. first on fox tonight a young life cut short. we are hearing from the family of the teen shot dead at the metro station. >> his mother and two young sisters were there when the murder happened. alexand alexandra limon spoke to the grandfather. >> reporter: yes, the victim sisters are young so it's awful they had to witness this shooting and now the family is left wondering why this happened. they say a stranger walked up and tried to pick a fight with that 15-year-old and then shot him. >> it was hey i'm his mother and his two younger sisters. and according to her, she just came up and shot him for no reason. >> reporter: 15-year-old devon washington died from the gunshot wound. now instead of celebrating easter

i mentioned mild traumatic brain injury guidelines.including clinical decisions support tools within electronic health records, children's hospital of philadelphia has been leading the way in this area where they're integrating across -- moshing across their health care settings from their eds to primary cares to urgent cares. all of the clinicians whether or not advanced medical education in concussion management. protocols are built in to their clinical decision support. the care, regard office the setting they show up for care in, is identical or near identic identical. i think that's critical. the other thing i wanted to mention another active area of inquiry for cdc, mr. miller mentioned earlier all 50 stated having return to play laws. we're very much interested in the best practices within the return to play laws as well as return to learn protocols. we're actively evaluating go they work, how they work, what are the components of laws that need to be in place. those are a couple of thins. >> dr. gioia? >> to recognize what bria

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some were suicidal so we can't underestimate this argument that jackie might be so traumatized she can'tyou've got to look at her medical history. in fact, one of the first questions i asked of my client is, are you able to give your testimony today and you're not under any medication that will stop you from getting your best and most accurate testimony? so if she's under some medication for depression and can't give meaningful testimony, that's an issue. heather: they gave her an out. they say you don't have to be deposed. >> i lose patience with all these arguments saying look, we have to protect victims, we have to Ãi agree with that when you have legitimate victims. but the reality is we have what i think is approaching an epidemic in this country of false sexual assault claims. we're just seeing them way too often, defense attorneys like me see them at an alarming rate and what you consistently hear from prosecutors and lawyers saying, even though the claims are found to be false, were not going to go after the victim because we don't want to traumatize the victim, we don't want to

rick armstrong/rppa: 12:51:51 it's extremely traumatic, in fact its one of the most traumatic situations an but as of this morning i spoke with him and he's doing okay right now. :07 rick armstrong heads the raleigh police protective association. 29-year-old officer dc twiddy, who was involved in monday's deadly shooting, is a member of the group. 12:51:32 he has our full legal representation. our behind him. :08 we he will be exonerated when all the facts will come out. :13 the facts are still being reviewed by the state bureau of investigation and raleigh police. raleigh police have said officer twiddy denkins, who was wanted on a felony drug charge, on foot on bragg street. the officer fired his weapon and denkins was killed. investigators found a gun close to denkins' body. 12:52:15 very unfortunate circumstance, it was a terrible situation, but we believe the officer did what he had to do defend himself, and protect himself. :10 wake county district attorney lorrin freeman will decide if the officer's deadly force was justified under the law. 9:39:23 da: unfortunately these events o

he lost his left leg and suffered post-traumatic stress. he triumphantly came back to take five medals in swimming in the 2014 games. what does it mean to have prince harry here encurbing youal every step of the way? harry's been a legend. he was literally boosting everything, pumping everything, getting everyone going, really encouraging, drumming up support. >> i understand you have a bit of a tattoo. do you mind sharing what that says? >> i'll miss my friend. an arrow pointing left. >> that's the humor you were talking about. >> more training, come on. no one wants sympathy. all they want is an opportunity to prove themselves. that's what this is all about. >> reporter: the next invictus games will be held this spring in orlando. another place that brings back memories of his mother. >> weirdly, actually, it will be my first time to florida, to disney world. i ended up going there with her. it's one of my very, very happy memories of going to disney world with my mom. went on space mountain 14 times. that's the best thing ever. our siste

. >> when you hear things like cte, traumatic brain injury, these are real.se are long-lasting. >> out of the 307 brains donated to boston university's cte center so far, only seven belonged to women. that's according to a report from "usa today." they include two from other well-known athletes, olympic singer jenny thompson and former soccer star cindy lupone. >>> and president obama revealed the first family will stay in washington after his second term is over so his younger daughter sasha doesn't have to switch high school. >>> and getting bird poop wasn't enough. that was an the nuclear reactor in new york. apparently it was bird poop hitting the wires that caused the reactor to shut down for three days. >>> while the fbi and apple duke it over in court over whether the tech giant can be forced to hack into iphone, the families of the 14 families in san bernardino killed by farouk and his wife have asked apple to open the phones. >>> and during a shooting rampage in february, initially pronounced dead in the hospital is reportedly improving. her conditio

a and it is important to think about concussion as part of the spectrum of traumatic brain injury. it goes from the mild to the severe and it is not as though there are distinguishing costs in the progression of the stage. and the other misconception that needs to be said if you look in the brain you wouldn't see anything i don't think that's true. ended brings into the brave. so i think the biology and we will learn a lot more overtime there is a lot going on in the brain during a concussion and. thanks to the cdc and the work of multiple groups in those have been taken by those around the country and that is important. that we don't know enough to cancel parents. it is that repetitive concussion that gets the kids in trouble initially it can be bad because there is a spectrum of head injury, but the kids that i have seen and heard about to run into trouble the first concussion their bad a couple days the second couple weeks the third is a couple of months. then it is clear so getting that out is important. it is important when there is a huge allegiance as they take themselves ou

. >> it is an extremely traumatic situation for any officer who takes another life. it is extremely taxing emotionally on you. officers, quite a lot of officers pull together. >> armstrong declined to say what evidence shows the officer was acting in self-defense but he says he does not expect twiddy to face charges. to be transparent in the investigation. >> it calls attention to poverty and unemployment in southeast raleigh. community activists say it's time for the city to focus on this area and provide more opportunities for the people living there. michael phillips owns men at work car care center. he's made it a point to hire people who other businesses may not consider for jobs, including people with criminal records. >> we just need more business folks to give out opportunities. there are some wonderful guys out here. there are some wonderful guys. >> southeast raleigh assembly just over half of the people in southeast raleigh live below the poverty line. unemployment is considerably higher than wake county as a whole. our coverage of this case continues on w

through their challenges. >> reporter: every 13 seconds, someone in the united states sustain as traumatic brain injury for jose diaz, the moment that changed his life came on the evening of september 11th, 2012. >> i got my first car, i was 16, immature enough, i don't remember anything k my friends said i was going 45 miles per hour. the roads were slippery and wet and i switched lanes and hit the brakes, the car hydroplaned, lost control and hit a pole. >> reporter: he crashed the car in west kindle, his best friend both seriously hurt, jose was in a coma for ten days. >> there were many doubts if i was going to survive. there was a nurse at the hospital. i told my mother, i don't know why you are so worried about this, he is going to pass away or be a vegetable. >> reporter: he woke up with no recollection of what happened and limbed ability to do basic tasks, walking and talking and feeding himself. he started intense occupational speech therapy at the brain injury program. i'm fortunate in a position to observe miracles. >> reporter: he is one of their standout patients. because of h

. >> it is an extremely traumatic situation when you take another person's life. it is extremely taxing emotionally. quite a lot of officers pull together. >> he declined to say what evidence to show he was acting in self-defense. he called on the police and fbi to be transparent about the investigation. >> the shooting has also called attention to broader issues in southeast raleigh, including poverty and unemployment money community activists say it is time to focus on this area and provide more opportunities for the people living there. southeast raleigh and owns men at work car care center. he's made it a point to hire people other businesses may not consider for jobs, including people with criminal records. >> we just need more business folks to give out some opportunities. there's some wonderful guys out there. let me tell you there are some wonderful guys. >> southeast raleigh assembly over half the people live below the poverty line. unemployment also considerably higher there in wake county as a whole. our coverage of this case continues right now at wncn

they say it's not as traumatic as it sound.as been in monthly contact, visits and trading messages. but the flip side, this poor little girl is taken screaming, crying saying i'm afraid, i'm scared, from this loving flame that fostered her since 17 months of age. she is 6 years old. how can you $say that's not damage to her. there will be traumatic injury and emotional trauma. they made a compelling case. if you ask the child, where do you think she'll want to be? she wants to be with her foster family. kennedy: when you ask how will this affect you emotionally. there is no way of knowing. you can see it's the most traumatic thing a child can under go at the hand of the government. it reminds me of elian gonzalez. >> if this home turned out to be not suitable for this girl, it will be impossible to overrule the ruling of the tribe to say we believe she is of our tribe and she should be with this family that has this connection. they almost never overturn those decisions. so i think that the foster flame in utah is going to be i

a leading researchers testified that she believes there is a link between chronic traumatic enof lopfyying the game of football. from mckee says 90 or 94 players had cte, as did 45 out of 55 college players and 6 out of 56 high school players >> do you think there is a link between football and degeneratetive brain disordered? >> certainly dr. mckee's researcher shows that a number of nfl players were diagnosed with cte. so the answer to that question is yes. but there are also a number of other questions that come with that. >> you are speaking for the nfl, right? >> i think certainly based on dr. mckee's research, there is a link. >> reporter: and with that answer he became the first official to admit there is a link. the league has stanchly maintained that no proven link exists. >> i feel that, you know, that was not the unequivocal answer three days before the super bowl by dr. mitchell berger. >> well, i'm not going to speak for dr. berger. >> reporter: the league has been defending itself and ultimately settled a lawsuit by former players saying it knew of the dangers and didn't