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Before texas, the city governments of newark, atlanta and baltimore were hit and san franciscos transit authority; the Colorado Department of transportation and clevelands airport. As we first reported in may, 26 of cities and counties say they fend off an attack on their Networks Every hour. Perhaps even worse, dozens of hospitals have been held hostage all across the country. In january 2018, the night shift at Hancock Regional Hospital watched its Computers Crash with deepest apologies. The 100bed facility in the suburbs of indianapolis got its c. E. O. , steve long, out of bed. Steve long we had never been through this before. And its something that i read in the journals. And i say, oh, those poor folks. Im glad thats never going to happen to us. But when you come in and you see that the files on your computer have been renamed and all of the files were renamed, either we apologize for files or were sorry. And there was a moment when i thought, well, maybe theyre not so bad they said they were sorry. But, in fact, they had encrypted every file that we had on our computers and on the network. Divert ergenatients to a to spit 20 miles ay. Pa nothing electronic could be lg . So, this is a virus that has gotten into the computer system. Would it have the ability to jump to a piece of clinical equipment . Could it jump to an i. V. Pump . Could it jump to a ventilator . We needed a little time just to make sure about that. Pelley but time was a luxury not offered in the ransom demand. Long your network has been encrypted. If you would like to purchase the decryption keys, you have seven days to do so, or your Network Files will be permanently deleted. And then it gave us the amount that we would need to pay to get that back. Pelley and that came to . Long about 55,000. Pelley that was the same price demanded of the city of leeds, alabama, three weeks after hancock hospital. Mayor david miller was surprised his town of 12,000 would be a target not much to notice in leeds, at least not since Charles Barkley graduated from the high school. David miller i didnt know that this malware attack was actually a ransomware attack. As soon as we found that out, that took it to a little different level. Pelley how do you mean . Miller well, it was going to cost us some money. Pelley like the hospital, the city of leeds was cast back no access to its personnel files or financial systems. Can all companies and local governments expect to be attacked . Mike christman i think everyone should expect to be attacked. Pelley the f. B. I. s Mike Christman says cybercrooks know governments and hospitals are likely to pay because they cant afford not to. Until his recent promotion, christman was in charge of the f. B. I. s cybercrime unit. Youre waiting for the day that somebody says, we have the 911 system held hostage in a major city, and we need 10 million today . Christman i hope that day never comes, but i think we should prepare for that possibility. Pelley christman says in 2017, 1,700 successful Ransomware Attacks were reported, but he figures thats less than half. Most businesses, he says, would rather pay than admit they were hacked. Christman im aware of one ransomware variant that affected all 50 states, that had some 30 million in losses, and over 6 million in ransom payments. I would tell you that the losses are very significant, and easily approach 100 million or more, just in the united states. Pelley that ransomware variant hes talking about is the one that held hancock hospital hostage. Its called samsam after one of its file names. Experts told steve long, samsam is unbreakable. Long there was nothing that we could do to unlock those files. Our only choice was to wipe the system and hope that we had backups, or to purchase the decryption keys. Pelley to pay the ransom. Long indeed. That is exactly what that means. Pelley but samsam had infected the hospitals backup files. The f. B. I. Advised long not to pay, but after two days, after his staff filled out 10,000 pieces of paper, he paid the ransom. The crooks demanded digital money, known as bitcoin. Ransomware is possible only because bitcoin is so difficult to trace. Mayor miller held out two weeks before he paid his bitcoin ransom after a little bargaining. Miller i just had to grit my teeth and realize that this was a business decision, and that was the way to do it. Pelley so they asked for 60,000, and you paid 8,000. How did you get there . Miller well, ive got a degree in finance. laughs actually, our city inspector, and our city clerk let them know that, hey, youre dealing with a very small town, here. Thats a lot of money to us. And, we think we can scrape together 8,000. Pelley the thieves were honorable. In leeds, at hancock hospital, and in many cases, the ransom buys decryption keys that actually work. The crooks need credibility to keep the ransoms flowing. Did you ever find out . Miller never. Pelley who they were, or where they were . Miller no. Pelley wouldnt you just love to know . Miller wouldnt i love to know. Pelley leeds may have been hit by one of the many ransomware variations that simply scan the internet, blindly, looking for vulnerable networks, wherever they may be. How many targets do they attack at a time . Tom pace you could conservatively say in the thousands, to tens of thousands. Pelley tom pace is Vice President of blackberrycylance, a leading security firm. So this isnt a crook sitting in front of a desktop, breaking a sweat, trying to break into somebodys system. This is something they unleash thats automated, and they sit back and drink coffee until they get the results . Pace that certainly appears to be the rule, not the exception. Pelley making the coffee may be the hard part. Pace showed us a website that offers ransomware for rent. An attacker can use one of many illicit products here, and the website takes a cut if ransom is paid. Pace and Something Else thats interesting here is, they actually provide you with basically a chat room, where you can ask questions to the people who maintain this architecture for you. Pelley frequently asked questions for criminals. Pace exactly. Pelley tom pace logged onto the site and used it to encrypt a network of his own. Pace so, all of the files that are on this system have now been successfully encrypted. Pelley so, this took you just slightly over five minutes, and you didnt write a single line of code . Pace correct. Pelley off the shelf. Pace off the shelf. Ready to go. Pelley pace told us ransoms are typically modest, like at hancock hospital or leeds, alabama 50,000 or so. Pace if youre asking for millions from everybody, thats just, everybody doesnt have millions to pay, right . So, finding that sweet spot and sticking to it has worked well. Pelley and thats why the same ransom was asked of little leeds, alabama and great big atlanta . Pace correct. Richard cox the city of atlanta has experienced a ransomware cyberattack. Pelley three weeks after leeds, samsam slipped into atlantas city hall. Howard shook is a councilman and chair of the finance committee. Howard shook 911 was up and running, but, for a while, the police did not have the ability to do computer checks on license plates, and, you know, cars they were pulling up on, and that kind of thing, which was a concern. Pelley what else crashed . Shook the court system went down, which was a major inconvenience for the thousands of people cycling through municipal court. Pelley samsam demanded 50,000, but atlanta refused to pay. Instead, the city spent 20 million to recover on its own. It took months, and seven years of Police Dashcam video was never recovered. Why did you think paying was a bad idea . Shook at first, it was just instinctive. I mean, if youre being violated, i dont know why you should reward somebody for having done that. Pelley it must gall the hell out of some of your clients to pay the bad guys. Pace absolutely. I mean, we have lots of clients who are incredibly angry. I mean, you have to imagine, this is, for many of them, the worst day of their professional career, and sometimes their life. Pelley a day made even worse by the occasional highend ransom. Pace told us one of his clients paid almost a million dollars. Another paid up after receiving this threat pace would it not be a shame if we leaked all of your internal data about your clients and customers . Sounds to us like a large lawsuit waiting to happen. So, theyre extorting them in two ways. Theyre extorting them by actually encrypting all the files, and then theyre extorting them by threatening to also release the data. Pelley once this transaction is completed and the client gets his files back, how does he know hes not going to be attacked p to y to really prove that il. We t and d of mg sureabities and entry points, but there is no guarantee that they wont come back to the same organization that they just successfully impacted, though we havent seen that happen very often. Though it has happened. Pelley last year, the Justice Department said it unmasked samsam. A grand jury indicted two iranians, neither named sam. The f. B. I. Says the two iranian suspects were in it for the money, not espionage. They collected 6 million before they went quiet after the indictment. Prosecutors say the suspects are in iran, where they cant be extradited. The most threatening ransomware tends to come from countries, including russia, that the f. B. I. Cant reach. Is cybercrime becoming to the f. B. I. What banks were in the isan i think it is. Cybercrime has really become a way of life, and connected to everything we do, and really, every. Every crime we see. And i know that by 2020, we expect to see 50 billion devices worldwide connected to the internet. Pelley so the question becomes, at what point does this ransomware come to our phones, where some crook says, ive got your phone, send me 50 bucks . Christman i think its already on the doorstep for that. I think some of those devices that connect to the internet can not only be compromised, but they can be used to facilitate other attacks, under the command and control of bad actors. Pelley this can be, i have your phone, i have your car, i have your house . Anything thats connected to the internet . Christman absolutely. ticking whos dog is this . Its my special friend, antonio. His luxurious fur calms my nerves when im worried about moving into our new apartment. Why dont we just ask geico for help with renters insurance . 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Maybe thats why most of our clients come from other money managers. Fisher investments. Clearly better money management. Whitaker in the annals of 60 minutes, we have rarely come across a doctor like florida physician Barry Schultz. Prosecutors say he wantonly prescribed and sold massive quantities of highly addictive opioids. As we told you last september,so years for his role in fueling the most devastating Public Health crisis of the 21st century. Last year, more americans died of drug overdoses than in the entire vietnam war. While schultz ended up in jail, mallinckrodt, the Pharmaceutical Company that flooded the nation with tens of billions of opioid pills, paid a relatively small penalty. The question now being debated in congress and in federal court is who is responsible for the Opioid Epidemic . The doctors who prescribed the pills or the opioid manufacturers and distributors who supplied them . Dr. Barry schultz is an inmate at Florida State prison, where he will likely be incarcerated until the day he dies. In this, his only interview, schultz said he wanted to go on camera to explain that he has been singled out unfairly. Schultz im a scapegoat. Whitaker youre a scapegoat. Schultz i mean, i was one of hundreds of doctors that were prescribing medication for chronic pain. Whitaker the prosecutor called you a killer. Schultz i see myself as a healer. In my mind, what i was doing was legitimate. Whitaker in the early 2000s, schultz was a pioneer on the wild west frontier of pain treatment. Doctors, drug dealers, opioid users, and abusers were flocking to florida, where powerful pain pills were being prescribed and dispensed by a new type of business, pain clinics. Aronberg we had more pain clinics in the years 2010 and 2011 than we had mcdonalds, in those years. There was one street in Broward County oakland park boulevard that had 31 different pain clinics on the one street. Whitaker Florida State attorney dave aronbergs office prosecuted Barry Schultz. He told us pain clinics were loosely regulated medical offices where patients could pick up pills, usually for cash. Few questions asked. Aronberg you could get the prescription and get the drug right there on the spot. Onestop shopping. People would race down to florida, because we didnt have the same controls as other states. We fed the entire nations addiction. Whitaker this mob scene, shot on a cell phone in 2009, is inside a florida pain clinic dozens of patients waiting to get their opioids. Schultz operated a clinic like this in delray beach, where he treated thousands of patients. How would you describe dr. Barry schultz . Aronberg he was one of the most notorious drug dealers we had. He prescribed an egregious amount of pills to his patients. The numbers would shock the conscience. Whitaker d. E. A. Records show in 2010, one patient of dr. Wacrl 17,000 of the highest potency oxycodone pills in a seven month period; another got more than 23,000 over eight months. Thats more than 100 pills a day. Business was so good, schultz was making more than 6,000 a day prescribing and selling opioids to his patients. Whitaker the numbers of pills that you were prescribing were astronomical. Who takes that many pills and puts them into their body . What were you thinking . Schultz i was thinking that the patient was a genuine patient who had real chronic pain, whose complaints were legitimate, and that i was prescribing medication that they needed. Whitaker doctor, you prescribed 1,000 opioid pills to a pregnant woman. I dont think most doctors would prescribe 1,000 aspirin to a pregnant woman. Schultz i would like to stop. Whitaker i would just like you to ein schultz i would like to stop. This is not what i expected it. I believe its unfair. Whitaker what is unfair, doctor . Schultz i am just uncomfortable with with these charged questions. Whitaker these are questions that people have. This is why youre sitting here, wearing this jumpsuit. Ultimately, he agreed to continue. He claimed some of his patients needed extremely high doses of opioids for long periods of time to alleviate severe, persistent pain. Schultz and when i started treating people with chronic noncancer pain, i felt it was unethical and discriminatory to limit the dose of medication. And if i had known that the overdose incidents had increased dramatically the way it had, i would have moderated my approach. Whitaker doctor, how could you have not known . All you had to do was pick up the paper. In 2009, more than 2,900 people died in florida of drug overdoses, mostly from prescribed opioid pills. In one 16 month period, d. E. A. Records showed Barry Schultz dispensed 800,000 opioid pills from his office pharmacy. People have become addicted to these drugs. People have died schultz okay. Whitaker because of these drugs. People in your practice died from overdoses of opioids. Schultz a person. Whitaker one is enough. Tain that monster ended my sons life. Whitaker carol tains son, david, went to dr. Schultz for Pain Management after a car accident. Schultz prescribed an assortment of pain pills even after david became addicted. In 2010, david died of an overdose of opioids prescribed by dr. Schultz. So, should dr. Schultz have prescribed these pain pills to him . Tain no. He didnt even examine him. He hadnt seen him in fourand ahalf years. He just just wrote wrote out these scripts. As far as im concerned, hes a murderer and and not a doctor. He murdered my son. He he didnt need a gun. He used his pen to murder my son. Whitaker schultz says he was inspired to prescribe high doses of opioids after attending a lecture by this man, dr. Russell portenoy, who was the influential president of the american pain society. Portenoy traveled around the country giving lectures and made promotional videos, like this one in 2000, touting opioids as wonder drugs urging doctors to use them aggressively to relieve pain. Portenoy the likelihood that the treatment of pain using an opioid drug, which is prescribed by a doctor, will lead to addiction is extremely low. Whitaker but ten years later, as opioid addiction exploded, doctor portenoy said he had been part of a Broad Campaign funded by pharmaceutical companies to encourage the widespread use of opioids. Portenoy i gave innumerable lectures in the late 1980s and 1990s, in which i said things about addiction that werent true. Whitaker he said he believed at the time he was operating in good faith and was not unduly influenced by the pharmaceutical industry, still he has been named in dozens of lawsuits. Dr. Russell portenoy . He was paid by the Drug Companies and has said that there is no proof that these that high doses of opioids are effective in treating chronic pain. Schultz that may be true. But there is a doctor whitaker it is true. So, theres no science to back up what you were doing. Schultz theres only anecdotal information. Whitaker i i guess what i find troubling is. Your lack of acceptance that what you did was wrong. Schultz i dont believe it was wrong. Whitaker when youre giving somebody 60 oxycodone a day, how could they not abuse it . Schultz 60 a day is a large number, i admit. Whitaker thats a very large number. Schultz but if its taken properly whitaker how can you take 60 oxycodone a day properly . Schultz some people need that dose. Whitaker there is no Scientific Evidence to support that claim. With so many opioids prescribed by schultz and other unscrupulous doctors, pills started flowing into the streets and resold for profit what the d. E. A. Calls, diversion. 66 of all the oxycodone in florida came from Just One Company mallinckrodt, one of the countrys largest opioid ld us,etween 2008 and 2012, the company flooded the state with pain pills. Aronberg mallinckrodt sent 500 million oxycodone pills to the state of florida, a state with a population of 20 million people. Were talking about enough pills to give every resident of florida 25 oxycodone pills. Whitaker how is that possible . Aronberg i mean, youre talking about enough pills to create an entire state of addicts. Whitaker internal Justice Department documents, obtained by 60 minutes, reveal that mallinckrodts own data on Barry Schultz indicated that he was purchasing large amounts of oxycodone in a suspicious pattern indicating diversion. Yet, the company kept shipping the drugs to the distributor it knew was supplying schultz. The companys behavior was so flagrant, it triggered a d. E. A. Investigation led by jim rafalski. Whitaker so what role does mallinckrodt play in this Opioid Crisis . Rafalski theyre responsible. Whitaker they are responsible. Rafalski it especially for the conduct in florida. Whitaker thats a big statement. Rafalski how can you not be responsible . How could you walk away from 500 million pills to a Geographic Area like the size of florida, and knowing at the time, this was occurring, there was an Opioid Crisis there . That wasnt a secret. Whitaker rafalski, now an Expert Witness for states and municipalities suing drug identified almost 44,000 orders mallinckrodt should have reported as suspicious, which the government says the company is required to do by law. Rafalski says mallinckrodt reported none. But when d. E. A. Investigators handed their evidence to the Justice Department, government lawyers, fearing a long uncertain legal battle, decided not to pursue the case in court, but to settle instead. Whitaker if youd have gone after mallinckrodt for everything you saw them doing, what would the fine have been . Rafalski 2. 4 billion dollars. Whitaker and the actual fine was . Rafalski 35 million. Whitaker the penalty amounted to less than one week of the companys annual revenue. Mallinckrodt declined to do an oncamera interview, but told us it never sold oxycodone directly to dr. Schultz, only to distributors. In a press release, the company denied it violated any applicable laws, but said Going Forward it would analyze all internal data and identify suspicious sales. Now, call to order. Whitaker now the pharmaceutical industry is coming under scrutiny. Last year, a Congressional Committee called the heads of the five leading drug distributors, the middlemen that ship the pain pills from manufacturers like mallinckrodt to drug stores around the country. Mississippi congressman greg harper asked if they were complicit in causing the drug crisis. Do you believe that the actions that you or your company took contributed to the Opioid Epidemic . Mr. Barrett . No, sir, i do not believe we contributed to the Opioid Crisis. Dr. Mastandrea . Yes. Only one of the five said yes. Whitaker now, this House Committee has launched an investigation into mallinckrodt and other drug manufacturers. The Justice Department has formed a task force targeting opioid manufacturers and distributors. You were convicted of 55 counts of drug trafficking. Whitaker as for Barry Schultz, shortly after our interview, he received a final sentence 157 years the longest sentence of anyone so far in this Opioid Crisis. ticking cbs sports hq is presented by progressive insurance. I am brett stover in our new york studio. Calls today to the u. S. The championship rory mcilroy shot 66 to win the fed ex cup for second time in his career. In nfl news andrew lucks the retirement after seven systems at the age of 29. 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He was an allamerican defensive lineman at Syracuse University and an english major who graduated magna cum laude. He spent eight years sacking quarterbacks for the atlanta falcons, and picked up a law degree in his spare time. And during a decade in the broadcast booth for fox sports, he started writing books. Six became best sellers. Then last september the man who seemed to be able to do anything sent us news he could no longer hide. He is suffering from a. L. S. , lou gehrigs disease one of a growing number of n. F. L. Players to receive that diagnosis. His body is starting to fail, and his voice has lost its timbre. But his story is even more compelling now than it was when we first met him back in 1996, upon the publication of his football memoir the dark side of the game. Tim green you cannot go through an n. F. L. Season without doing serious damage to your body. Kroft 22 years later, tim green spent last fall, as he has most falls, on the football field, coaching the young skaneateles lakers. He wasnt able trch upnd down the sidelines or yell out instructions the way he used to. Tim green hoarse yelling kroft . But he was still out there, encouraging his players, most of whom had little idea what their coach is facingt there was something wrong . Tim green it was a small thing. I couldnt use my nail clipper. Kroft nail clipper . Tim green yeah. I couldnt do that. And then it got hard to open things. Kroft tim green didnt make much of it then. Just a few more battle scars from his days in the n. F. L. The first time we met him, he told us he had a lot of them. Tim green i have enough aches and pains to know that i played the game. Kroft he was three years removed from a playing career in which he roamed the field like a predator, first in college at syracuse. Tim green kroft . And then as number 99 with the n. F. L. s atlanta heas aioackler and a voracious reader, a man who devoured war and peace in the locker room before going into battle. In retirement, he kept his body fit and his mind sharp by writing novels for young and old at the upstate new york home that he shared with his wife and children. But by the summer of 2016, at age 52, he finally admitted to his son troy that he felt something was off. Troy green he was saying to me, you know, my hands, you know, its getting hard for me to hold the weights. And id make a joke, oh, youre getting old. Kroft tim decided to see a prominent hand surgeon. Tim green and he looked. He said, i think you have a. L. S. I said, no, i dont. Kroft that same day, he went straight to mount sinai hospital neurologist. Tim green and, you know kroft whatd he tell you . Tim green get your affairs in order. Troy green he basically said that the end is near, you better get your affairs in order. Kroft not what you wanted to hear . Tim green no. Kroft a. L. S. , the three letters he didnt want to hear, stands for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a rare disease that new york yankee legend lou gehrig gave a name and a face to 80 years ago, and that recently claimed the life of physicist dr. Stephen hawking. It destroys the nerves that move muscles, eventually making it impossible to walk, speak or breathe. Tim understohat ad been vea ath sentence. He also had no interest in doctors, treatments or sympathy. Tim green i said, were not talking about it. Troy green it was almost taboo. Even, even around the house, no one, we wouldnt talk about it, we wouldnt address it. It was just kind of like the elephant in the room. Kroft were you in denial . Tim green no, i knew i had it. Kroft you didnt want to waste any time thinking about it . You just wanted to live . Tim green exactly. Kroft most a. L. S. Patients are given two to five years to live, and tim green wanted to enjoy whatever time he had left with his five kids and wife of 29 years in the beautiful town of skaneateles, which sits at the top of one of new yorks finger lakes. Tim green life can never be long enough. Kroft life can never be long enough. Tim green yeah. Kroft few outside tims family knew of the diagnosis. He continued making public appearances, like this one in march 2017 on cbs this morning alongside derek jeter. They were promoting their collaboration on a baseball book for middle school kids. Theres so much rich messages in the story. Kroft difficult to tell that there was anything wrong with you. Tim green i could still enunciate my words more clearly. But that was a year and a half ago. Kroft tims condition began deteriorating in the months after that appearance. His family finally convinced him to see a neurologist in boston. He was examined by dr. Merit cudkowicz, the director of the Healey Center for a. L. S. At massachusetts general hospital. Whats tims prognosis . Dr. Merit cudkowicz he has one of the better prognoses because he has a slower form. However, everybody with a. L. S. Has a serious prognosis. It is, today, a fatal disease. Kroft and theres no cure . Dr. Cudkowicz theres no cure today. But there are some treatments, and theres a lot of advances in science and a lot of hope for our patients. Kroft dr. Cudkowicz put green on a new treatment can slow the progression of a. L. S. By a third. He says hes noticed the difference. Dr. Cudkowicz your mood is okay . Tim green yeah. Oh, yeah. Kroft no one knows exactly what causes a. L. S. In tim greens case, head trauma is a leading suspect. Scientists caution that the data linking football to the disease is not conclusive, but the n. F. L. Concussion settlement specifically covers a. L. S. , and tim green believes theres a connection. How much of this do you think has to do with football . Tim green i think probably kroft he says he lost track of the number of concussions he suffered playing football. Tim green i used my head on every play. Every play. Every snap. It was like throwing myself headfirst into a concrete wall. Kroft did you ever think about it while you were playing . Tim green no. No. Kroft he even used his head to celebrate on the field. At the time, he says, no one was concerned about possible brain damage. During his n. F. L. Career in the late 80s and early 90s, preseason practices were particularly brutal. Tims wife illyssa remembers the pounding he took. Ilyssa green his head was so swollen, he would put, have to put vaseline all over his head to get his helmet on. Tim green practice was much worse than the games. Kroft and you didnt go easy in practice . Tim green no i was nuts. laughs kroft you seem like such a mildmannered guy. Tim green i am. I am. Kroft but not on a football field . Tim green no, no. Kroft when we interviewed tim green in 1996, he addressed the violence and risks inherent in the game, and seemed to believe that this day might come. You said, i think guys would be willing to take ten to 20 years off the end of their lives, in order to get out there on sunday and play. I dont think that the consideration of your physical wellbeing in the future is in the forefront of any n. F. L. Players mind. Tim green right. I stand by that. Ive maybe taken that much off the end of my life. Maybe more. I dont know. Kroft you dont have any regrets . Tim green no. No. Kroft to fully understand, he says, you have to know what it was like being out there, doing something you dreamed of, and experiencing, even for a moment, the intensity of 60,000 people screaming for you and your teammates, and feeling that energy through every pore in your body. Tim green it was as magical and wonderful as i dreamed it would be. Kroft tim green believes if his football career had started 30 years later, he might not be fighting for his life today. New n. F. L. Rules have drastically cut back helmetto helmet contact in practice, and its penalized in games. He follows those guidelines with the youth team he coaches, limiting contact during practices. His 12yearold son, ty, is the teams star quarterback. Tim doesnt want him to play defense. The trophies from his n. F. L. Career fill his office, but instead of mounted heads of lions, tigers and bears, there are pictures of the big game quarterbacks hes brought down tim green joe montana. Kroft yeah, number 16. 49ers. Tim green he was the king back then. Kroft and that is dan marino . Tim green yeah. Yeah. Kroft i like that. Best time of your life . Tim green no. Best time of my life is right now. Kroft right now . Tim green yeah. Kroft why . Tim green i have everything. Kroft tim green was adopted, so everything to him means family. The greens all live e in the sae neighborhood, and they eat dinner together five nights a week. He works out with his sons almost every day at his home gym to keep his muscles functioning. The kids say their dads not going to quit. Troy green hell never give up. Tessa green i dont think ive ever seen that in his. Tate green never. Tessa green . Things that he does. Hes never. Troy green he doesnt give up in tictactoe, hes not tim green i dont think about, about what i cant do. Kroft and you can still write . Tim green yeah. And i can write. And, you know, that opens up a universe. Kroft writing offers him an escape from his illness. Hes authored 38 books overall, four since his diagnosis. He wrote the last one on his smartphone using his thumbs all 300 pages. So this is a new book . Tim green yeah. Yeah. Kroft his thumbs no longer work that well, but his mind is just fine. Hes using technology to forge ahead with book number 39. Tim green theres a sensor. Kroft theres a sensor in his glasses that he can move to lock on letters on his keyboard. He then clicks on a mouse, and words are formed, letter by letter. How far along are you on this, this book . Tim green im about halfway. Kroft hes a little behind schedule the first deadline hes ever missed. Tim green i apologized to my editor. Kroft i think your editor understands. Tim green she did, yeah. Kroft more scientists than ever are trying to unlock the mystery of a. L. S. And its causes, but its still an underfunded disease. Troy green this is what the website will look like. Kroft thats why tim and his family are starting a social media campaign, called tackle a. L. S. , to raise money for research. Current and former n. F. L. Stars matt ryan. Matt ryan lets beat this. Kroft . Von miller. Von miller lets beat this. Kroft . And brett favre. Brett f at kroft . Have all joined the team. But tim understands that he may not be around to see the benefits. In the time he has left, however long that may be, he is content to enjoy the power of his boat, and the company of his family. He just feels blessed for who he was, and what he has. Tim green people would say tim, god bless you. And id say, he already has. Kroft an update tim green is still hanging in there. And hes almost finished with book number 39. ticking tim green on his emotional interview. Tim green these are tears of joy. Go to 60minutesovertime. Com. As a Small Business owner, the one thing you learn pretty quickly, is that theres a lot to learn. Grow with google is here to help you th into tion. Puttinyo witstomndttin the skills to use new tools. So, in case youre looking, weve put all the ways we can help in one place. Free training, tools, and Small Business resources are now available at google. Com grow makes you feel like somyou can do it all. Disorder but mania, such as unusual changes in your mood, activity or energy levels, can leave you on shaky ground. 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