Number 1 in just 60 secondsds we start here with the issue of concussions and professional sports. Not football this time but pro wrestling. While many people maythink the sport is fake, the hits are often very real, and tonight we havehe story of daniel bryan, a wwe champ whose life is now taking an unexpected and painful turn. Heres abcs kayna whitworth. Reporter hes the now former professional wrestler best known for dishing out moves like the missile drop kick. The fairy tale has come true this is my first time growing peach trees. Its really good. Reporter daniel bryan is speaking out for the f fst time with his wife brie bella, a professional wrestler herself, after bryan announced 4iz retirement last week. I took a test that said maybe my brain isnt as okay as i thought it was. Hea butts on top of the ladder. Reporter the 34yearold wwe champion says he made the choice after years of suffering blows to the head and many concussions. Of my wrestling career id already had three concussions. And then it gets to the point when youve been wrestling for 16 years, that adds up to a lot of concussions. Reporter the decision wasnt easy for the yes man. Yes yes reporter who had wrestled and kicked his way to the worlds biggest stage before understanding the effects the highimpact sport might be having on his brain. The more concussions you have, the more susceptible you are to them. Reporter he is just the latest athlete to take a stance in what has become a gathering storm surrounding the repercussions of repeated trauma to the head. Trauma that can lead to cte, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, the brain disease linked to years o o repeated hard hits to the head. Its identified only after death and has been found in numerous nfl players like hall of Famers Frank Gifford and junior au. Last year San Francisco 49ers linebacker Chris Borland said he was retiring from football after just one season because of concerns about his brain. He spoke with espns outside football is an elective. Its a game. Its make believe. And to think that people have brain damage from some madeup game is, yeah, i i think the meaninglessness of it, you draw the l le at brain damage. Reporter bryan says some of the concussions he suffered led to seizures, which at the time he tried to keepprivate. At first not even telling brie. I was with him withh one of his seizures after a concussion. And i mean, it scared me so bad i just i lost it. I just implored her, please dont say anythinin to anybody. Yeah. If i tell them if i have a concussion theyre n n going to let me do what i do anymyme. I think a lot of people think that pro wrereling is fake. Real . Fake. So the when you get slammed, you really get slammed. Im helping him slam me. But youre getting injured. Yes. Reporter last year he was sidelined with injury. The wwe took him offheir roster. Wwes doctor said i cant in risk yourself like that. Athletes are like thoroughbreds. Someone has to pull the reins because they will run themselves in the ground if given that opportunity. Reporter but some former pro wrestlers say the wwe hasnt always been as protective. In 2015 veto lagrasso and Evan Singleton filed suit, acougs the wwe of failing to diagnose concussions and sending people into the ring injured. En citing a case of wrestling superstar chris benoit, famous for his head butts, who after his death was found to have suffered from severe cte. The wwe told us, wwe has never concealed any medical information related to concussions or oerwise from our performers, and in fact wwe has beewell ahead of the nfl and other sports in implementing Concussion Management procedures and policies. E wwe implemented a Talent Wellness Program that now includes impact concussion testing, a protocol instituted in 2006. For wwe, which was 2000, there wasnt a whole lot of concussion testing or anything like that. But there wasnt in any sports. Somethings wrong. Reporter that change in converuation coming about partly through the determination of the doctor receny played by will smith in the movie concussion. Tell the truth. Dr. Bennett omalu. Were look at a microscopic slide, a microscopic picture of the brain of a normal individual. The same region of the brain in a Football Player about 40 years old. And what you can see, t e brownish spots. Reporter a forensic pathologist, omalu first discovered cte while performing webster. A fourtime super bowl champ who died from a heart attack while homeless, broke, and alone. Mike webster died today. A heart attack took his life at the age of 50. Reporter believing that by trauma to his brain, dr. Omalu performed websters extensive autopsy. What struck me, what everybody was talking about how he did not do so well after football. I had torovide an explanation for that. Reporter he analyzed websters brain and uncovered a new medical condition. Thats when he called it cte and weechbtly told my ly recently told my colleague brian pitts about his findings. The most significant contributory factor to ct sechlt exposure to Blunt Force Trauma of the head. Are we talking like gentle slaps to the head . Violent slaps that wld make your brain move forward and backward, sideways in your skull, causing shearing injuries. You have to think about hits to the head like we think about smoking and lung cancer. You start young enough, youre going to open up the door to lung cancer, just like if you get hid in the head thousands of times every year while your brain is still developing youre opening up the door to cte. Reporter today more afraid to speak out about the toll Contact Sports is taking on them. Manning. Ben utek. Reporter a former tight end for the Indianapolis Colts and cincinnati bengals. For me it has revolved more around memories and, you know, cognitive my cognitive abilities. Reporter the nfl released this report in the days leading up to super bowl 50, saying diagnosed concussions in the league increased 58 this season, with a staggering 271 players sidelined since preseason. Compare that to the 206 concussions reported in 2014. The nfl told abcbc news the reason for an increase in concussions are unclear but it will look at any significant trends. I think theres no question that the cte discussion and respect that were developing is going to lead to better outcome for people. We need to embrace this disease from happening in the next generation of athletes. Reporter for bryan he hopes that being proactive will make the difference but still worries about his wife, brie, whos in the ring. Theres a specific incident, it was a couple months ago, she got she was standing on the announce table and she got swiped off and she just took a big fall to the floor. A little bit ago shed gotten a concussion in the ring. So she had to take a week or two off. Shes strong, but you still sometimes shes my wife, you know, a a you want to protect her. Right . Reporter both are hoping to start a family. So for wwe fans that might mean another retirement announcement and soon. Feeling andeeing everything he went through with his retirement, i just feel that its t te for me to hang up the boots. Its going to be hard on me as well. But that day is definitely very close. Reporter for nightline im next, the wealthy town with a skyrocketing teen suicide rate. What parents, teachers, and students are doing to stop it. Shopping for an suv . Well, this is the time. And your ford dealer is the place, to get 0 financing for 60 months on a ford suv. Thats right. Just announced. Ford explorer. Edge. E. Eape. And expedition. Are available with 0 financing for 60 months. Ford suvs. Designed to help you be unstoppable. No wonder ford is americas best selling brand. But hurry, 0 financing for 60 months on ford suvs is a limited time offer. See your ford dealer today. If you have moderate to vere Rheumatoid Arthritis like me, and youre talking to a rheumatologist about a biologic. This is humira. This ihumira helping to relieve my pain this is humira helping me reach for more. Doctors have been presibing humira for more than ten years. Humira works for many adults. It targets and helps to block a specific source of inflammation that contributes to ra symptoms. Humira can lower your ability to fight infections, including turculosis. Serious, sometimes fatal infections and cancers, including lymphoma, have happened, as have blood, liver and nervous system proems, serious allergic reactions, and new or worsening heart failure. Before treatment get tested for tb. Tell your doctor if yove been to areas where certain fungal infections are common, and ifouve had tb, hepatitis b, are prone to infections, or have fluke symptoms or sores. Dont start humira if you have an infection. Talk to your doctor and visit humira. Com. This is humira at work. What do doctors from leading Cancer Centers in the country have in common . Many of them now call Cancer Treatment centers of america home. Expe medicine works here. Deep in the heart of Silicon Valley something is going terribly wrong with young people. My nightline coanchor byron pitts takes us to an affluent Iconic Community that now has a teen suicide rate five times the national average. This is a story every parent needs to see. Reporter sunkissed and treelined, palo alto, california. Silicon valley is the most innovative place in the world. Today can change the world tomorrow. So lets do this. Reporter houses here sell for millions, and the high schools are top notch. Bubu the limitless potential that palo alto projectstsas another side. A socalled hot spot for suicides p. Because of the sheer number it was just ssive. Reporter just last year four palo alto teens took their own lives, enough to be considered a suicide cluster. Andd this was the second one to rock this community in six years. We were losing a child about every six weeks. Obviously theres like a crisis. Reporter now with the teen suicide rate five times the national average, prompting the cdc to announce today an investigation as to why so many kids here have chosen to end it all. A 16yearold boy took his own life. Reporter on the night one of her classmates died, student martha cabot took to youtube placing blame, what she called her towns Pressure Cooker environment. It went viral. The amount of stress on a student is ridiculous. Reporter for Christian Leong juniors at the other Public High School in town, word of his death stunned them. It was really sad for me because i didnt ever think that that kind of thing is even possible fororomeone our age. Reporter what does it, do you think . For your peers and people suddenly realize it is an option, when someone they know takes that option. Well, with the whole nature of suicide clusters, we see that when one person does it other peopop who considered it as an option may consider it more seriously. Which is really frightening. I cant even figure myself out . How on earth am i to expect anyone else to . Reporter so last summer they made this documentary called unmasked unmasked. Their classsstes revealing their own struggles with anxiety and depression. Through my struggles with depression i selfmedicated a lot with alcohol and drugs. I was suffering anxiety tacks. Theyre trying to take off the happy everything is okay mask that our community has and problems that were going through. Reporter where does that pressure come from . Does it come from classmates . Does itome from teachers . Does it come from parents . I think if we knew the answer then it would be a lot easier to solvehe problem. Reporter dr. Madeline gould, an epidemiologist at columbia university, was invited to palo alto to study what could be causing the Alarming Number of teen suicides. There are many communities that have high stress levels and are economically advantaged and they havent experienced a suicide cluster. Reporter she cautions that one teen suicide can have the frightening and unintended consequence of signali to other teens that its a real option. They practically dont occur in any oth age group. So between the social influences and the biological influences it makes them much more vulnerable to being influenced by somebody elses suicide. Reporter and what they cant see at thatime is that there are other ways out of the pain, feel grateful for. It still to this day i struggle with the terminology atte]uted suicide. Reporter the now graduate of Palo Alto High School says the pressure during her freshman year to achieve was too much. It was just insane. I did almost all of the a. P. Classes i could take. Reporter taylor says sleep was the one thing she didnt make time for. For a long time id been feeling like i was drowning. I didnt know how to say that i needed a break. Reporter it led her to one impulsive moment of desperation. What i was trying to achieve was this separation from my reality that i couldnt face. Reporter her parents got her into treatment. And with the help of her teachers she made changes to lessen her load. But julianna tachabanas brother ben didnt get the help he needed. He was a sophomore when he took his own life. The message these two women who have overcome enormous pain want to spread life is worth living. That kind of keep reminding you that it is going to get better. Things are really look up. Reporter mark vincenti, a former english teacher at Gunn High School who mourned the loss of some of his own students, sees a need for change in the classroom. There is a lot that classrooms can do to make teenage despair more bearable and more survivable. That the School Environment is crucial. Reporter he believes smaller class sizes and, yes, less homework. Students feeling like they can say enough could make a difference. Whats so challenging about going to high school in this part of the country . The thingsshat are challenging about going to high school here i believe are infecting high schools across the country because we see now a National Discussion about overstressed, burnedout teernlgds. Reporter Gunn High School has taken action, implementing the yes program to teach students positive coping techniques to deal with stress. The thing that im most proud of is that were not doing just one or two things. Plans to sort of build a web of support for our students. Reporter in suicide clusters are definitely not just a palo alto problem. What we found is that it characteristic. Communities have been impoverished, and weveeen them have a suicide cluster. Verydriven, wealthy communities have suicide clusters. Reporter and it turns out some 15 to 20 of all teens have considered suicide. But reducing stigma around depression and creating dialogue about Mental Health are crucial steps toward preventing these deaths. It rlly is a community effort. Its really everyone has a role, everyone has a part. It could just be noticing someones sad and going over to them and saying hey, are you okay . Do you want to talk . And those little instances of reaching out i think go a long way. Reporter for nightline im byron pitts. Our thanks to byron for that important report. And if you want to find resources about Mental Health including dne sawyers recent interview with sue klebold about her book a mothers reckoning you cano to our website at abc. Com. And ahead something very different. Well take you to the super bowl of dog shows. The beauty routines, diets, and the dog who just took home best in show at the Westminster Dog Show tonight. What happens when lobster gets grilled, baked, and paired with even more lobster . You get hungry. And you count the seconds until red lobstes lobsterfest is back with the largest variety of lobster dishes of the year. Like new dueling lobster tails with one tail stuffed with crab, and the other with langostino lobster macandcheese, its a party on a plate and you know every bite of lobster lovers dream lives up to its name. Hey, eating is believing. The bold nissan rogue, with intuitive allwheel drive. Because winter needs a hero. Now get a 189 per month lease on the 2016 nissan rogue. Nissan. Innovation that excites. If your family outing is magical for all the wrong reasons. You may be muddling through allergies. Try zyrtec for powerful allergy relief. D zyrtec is different than claritin. Finally tonight, we have a new top dog. Pointer, won best in show tonight in the Westminster Kennel Club dog show. It all looks so seamless and so cute out there on the stage, but wait until you see how much work goes into these dogs behind the scenes. For that heres abcs jesse palmer. Reporter the contestants may be cute. What a beautiful mover. Reporter but the competition is always fierce. This is like the super bowl. Its like the world series for us. If you get here and you win i is like nothing else in the world. Reporter im at the 140th Westminster Dog Show. There are over 3,000 dogs here. And theyre all competing for onon thing and one thing only. Best in show. Like any pageant, the competitors beauty routines are complex. They have as many products as you wowod. Shampoo for an hour. Wow. And then it takes five hours to forcedry every cord to get it dry. Reporter there are plenty of divas on hand. This dog can not only just he can take down a gazelle. He looks so nice and docile and sweet and gentle. She likes mcdonalds. Thats her favorite. Whats the order normally . Plain cheeseburgers and chicken mcnuggets. Me too. Reporter and there are also some newcomers in the crowd. Seven in total. Including the french briget picard. They jump out of their skin to just being here. Reporter and the spanish water dog. This is wirefox terrier. Reporter then there are the tried and true favorites. The wirefox terrier is often top dog. The breed has won best in show 14 times. And this time around classic German Shepherd rumor beautiful. Reporter is a crowd favorite. In the end only one dog could be best in show. Best in show dog tonight 2016 is the german shorthaired pointer. The german orthaired pointer, c. J. reporter but i can safely say all the contestants are pretty adorable. This makes my day. Jesse palmer in new york. Even as a cat guy id have to agree. Jsee, ee jesse, thank you for that report. And thank you for watching nightline tonight. Tunen to gma in the morning and youll be able to see the winner of the Westminster Kennel Club dog show c. J. Live on the air. In the meantime were online 24 7 on our Nightline Facebook page and at abcnews. Com. Thanks again for watching and good night. Also hot pursuit, quite the keys. Anchor we begiven font with breaking news. Where a plane has had to make an emergency landing. Anchor that aircraft using a roadway as a runway. Local 10 news reportser live on details. Lets taker his report anchor we are going to check in with andrew in just a moment, but we have more developing news. A flood of concern in the ft. Lauderdale community, after a sewer main break. Spilling sewage on to the ground. Neighbors say the smell is just terrible and the sewage is up to a foot in some places. Crews have been working to repair the break for hoursp. Anchor sky 10 was over that scene at the recall trace apartments. Ft. Lauderdale city leaders are now warning everybody just to avoided standing water and to avoided water related activities. Anchor severe weather, moving in quickly. The wind must have been 50 miles an hour, 60, i couldnt see much. Didnt matter. I knew there was trouble trees uprooted, roofs blown off, havoc, all signs confirming the and new tonight, while residents continue picking up the pieces, crews are working overtime to restore power go counties two twisters and a whole lot of rattled nerves. But the good news, nobody was seriously hurt. We have Live Team Coverage for you tonight. As well l right here in our studios. Live carlos . Calvin and lori, we are on the corner of federal highway, which is one of the hardest hit areas in you ward,d, am standing atop a sidewalk that was ripped out, now if you be bear with me, i see one of several trees that litter a strip mall we were at. You can see efforpas of it have bun cut down, but it will take crews another day to remove all of this. Parts of a sidewalk were snapped into the slabs of concrete where no match for a massive tree that was ripped from the ground. All of it, the work o mother