does that look familiar at all? yes, it is exactly the same design as the vermont yankee nuclear plant. both plants were made using the exact same ge nuclear reactors. they were designed and built way back in the 1970s. after fukushima happened, lots of attention was paid to potential design flaws in the specific reactor. that is in part what ramped up the pressure in vermont to get vermont yankee shut down. well, now it will be shut down next year. and once it is shut down for good that means there will only be 22 more reactors at plants across the united states using the exact same design and reactor used at fukushima. fukushima, which is still an ongoing nuclear disaster, two and a half years later. for nuclear opponents in this country, it is now one down, 22 more to go. that does it for us tonight. we ll see you again tomorrow night. thank you for joining us. now, it is time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. have a great night.
lisa, the jury found the company at fault only for part of the claims in the lawsuit, saying there was no adequate warning, saying there were no design flaws. the fact that they only found one, will that help in an appeal? adequate warning. the fact they only found one and not the other, will that help in an appeal? well, it will. but let s remember they got hit with a $3 million judgment. this is clearly a victory for the plaintiffs who said that they were harmed notwithstanding wearing this helmet. these are very fact-specific kind of tort cases where somebody on the one hand has been injured, suffered a concussion playing football. and on the other hand a company says there are too many lawsuits out there. but this jury took a look at all of the facts and said there should have been more warnings, that these helmets alone were not sufficient to protect against the concussions. you are absolutely right. there will definitely be appeals. meanwhile $3 million is a lot of money.
a football helmet maker facing lawsuits from thousands of nfl players now has to pay up in a high school case. a colorado jury ruled this weekend that redel owes rhett ra dolphy millions of dollars. he is now partially paralyzed from playing football. his lawsuit had two claims, first that the helmet had design flaws, the second redel did not adequately warn players about the dangers of concussions. but the jury only faulted redel for the second claim, the failure of the warning. redel gave this statement, while disappointed in the jury s decision not to fully exonerate riddle, we are pleased that the jury determined that the helmet was not defective in any way. the company plans to appeal. we want to bring in legal analyst for abu.com lisa bloom and brian silber.
you re in the situation room. it s part economics snapshot, part political football and there s only three more jobs reports coming out before the november election. the latest one released today has something for everybody. the labor didn t reports better than job gains in july. the unemployment rate still picked up a notch. dan, how does all this play out on the campaign trail? reporter: for mitt romney it allows him to say see, i told you so. unemployment still going up. it s still above 8%. what the president is doing is not working. the president was putting the spotlight on what he says is working even though he admitted there s still a lot of pain. thank you everybody. reporter: surrounded by a group of hand picked middle class and workers, president obama defended his policies and emphasized gained in a struggling economy. 163,000 jobs created in july. 1.1 million so far this year. 4.5 million over the last 29 months. those are our neighbors and family membe
the new information is coming to light now, because lawyers for holmes are asking authorities to hand over a package that holmes had sent to his psychiatrist. this package was discovered in the university s medical campus mailroom on monday. and it included a letter that contained references to shooting people and drawings of a gunman and his victims. according to cbs news. we now know the package was addressed to dr. lynne fenton, the director of student mental health at the university of colorado. a resume posted on the university s website says fenton sees between 15 to 20 graduate students each week for medication and psychotherapy. she also serves as a psychiatrist, seeing between 5 and 10 patients according, again, to that resume. in a court filing, holmes public defender said, quote, the materials contained in that package include communications from mr. holmes to dr. fenton that mr. holmes asserts are privileged. mr. holmes was a psychiatric patient of dr. fenton and