Good morning, everyone. A busy friday morning. We start with thatover night breaking news. A major scare on the campaign trail. A plane carrying republican Vice President ial nominee mike pence skids off a runway in new york. This was the scene at Laguardia Airport just hours ago. The ntsb is now sending a team to the site to figure out exactly what went wrong. Now, get this, the plane was stopped by a special concrete. You see it there, meant to crumble when a jet speeds over it. The concrete broke apart as its supposed to. That prevented the plane from sliding into a busy highway that runs past the airport there in queens, new york, just yards from that runway. We have an emergency in the airport. Reporter that emergency involving the campaign airplane of republican Vice President ial nominee mike pence, the front wheels of the boeing 737 coming to a stop several feet off the runway after what was a terrifying landing. We saw kind of big bump. They had caused the planes departure fro
Detonated. The detonation was necessary to protect the public, protect the residents in the area, and to protect the officers on scene. Reporter a massive response from castle rock police, the Douglas County bomb squad, the fbi and atf will continue to work through the night to make sure they found all the dangerous explosives inside the house. Its too soon to tell if theres more explosive devices in there, but from cursory investigation we didnt find anymore. Reporter the parents of teens are cooperating. Some of the chemicals are legal, but the explosive materials are not. Investigators stopped short of calling it a bomb. These are devices that were dangerous, but required additional manipulation or steps to become actual bombs. Reporter charges could be possible for the teen, but police say the explosives were ive not seen this level of mist case from a juvenile. Reporter the police mist case from a juvenile. Reporter the police says what they found at this home is in no way linked
Trump for calling the election rigged. And first at 10 00, more than two dozen families in castle rock wont be sleeping in their beds tonight. Investigators still have a lot of work to do after explosive materials were found inside a house in the plum creek neighborhood. Jeff todd is live, and it started with the arrest of two kids . Reporter and one of them could be facing serious charges. The parents were about this 8 00 this morning when the explosive chemicals were found, and about 12 hours later they were detonated. The detonation was necessary to protect the public, protect the residents in the area, and to protect the officers on scene. Reporter a massive response from castle rock police, the Douglas County bomb squad, the fbi and atf will continue to work through the night to make sure they found all the dangerous explosives inside the house. Theres more explosive devices in there, but from the initial cursory investigation we didnt find anymore. Reporter the parents of teens a
Very important. This slide shows that we actually had a big success when it comes to managing High School Athlete concussions. In 20072008 academic year, 30 of athletes diagnosed with a concussion return to play in less than seven days which is a violation of return to play guidelines and disturbingly 8 return to play the same day they were injured, that is unacceptable. Look at how things have improved. Last year in 20142015, less than 2 return to the same day they were injured. This is a result of prevention. Not equipment prevention, but education and regulation prevention. Effective prevention in public health, we talk about three legs of a stool, equipment is one piece in terms of concussion, but educating individuals and providing good, strong policy policy based on evidence are the other two legs. I would love to come away from the efforts of this committee, incredibly important efforts, with the ability to do this work at the youth level. Currently, no one can give you this typ
Complete schedule. Next, house hearing on efforts to protect you from sports concussions. Then a house hearing on the government accessing social media is part of background checks for some employees. After that, pentagon briefing pentagon briefing on the fight against isis and a briefing on the annual report on chinas military. Now, to mothers testify before a house energy and commerce a subcommittee about concussions in youth sports. Their sons died after suffering multiple concussions. The hearing also addressed Current Research and efforts to protect Young Athletes from injury. This is two and a half hours. We are on a tight schedule today with votes. The morning and welcome to the oversight and investigation hearing. Were were here to continue the ongoing examination of concussions. The hearing follows an initial table we had in march but we had a constructive dialogue with leading experts on how to address the challenge of concussions. Well focus on youth sports, specifically the