We are going to hear from ian heating, High School Senior suffered us of your head injury, across game in the sophomore year. Despite his impressive recovery, later identified as his third head injury, left him with a limited ability to enjoy the activities Many High School students and classmates take for granted. His story should serve as a reminder youth sports injuries could have a devastating and lasting consequences. And we will also hear on this panel from brianna scoury, an olympic soccer cup champion, goalie force from the field after a career and traumatic brain injury. Chris struggle to overcome the cognitive, physical and psychological injuries illustrate even our sports heroes are vulnerable to the worst sports injuries. They should be commended for their courage in their recoveries and their willingness to testify on this critical issue. Dave brewerson, a member of the Chicago Bears tragically committed suicide just over three years ago. In doing so he shot himself in the
College athlete and then went on to play in the nfl and has strong feelings and opinions about these issues and has pointed out very eloquently that we have problems out there as mr. Miller pointed out that need to be addressed. What brought this hearing together was the action of a regional director of the National Labor board who suggested these athletes are employees and therefore could, if they chose, vote to join a union. So we explored some of the possible downsides of that issue. We heard from witnesses here that talked about how would this deal with class attendance and practice times, attending games, how many games, what about walkon players, or universities that are public and dont fall under the National Labors act and a host of potential problems. I appreciate the testimony of the witness today as we start to explore that. I dont think there is a person on this committee that doesnt agree we need to address the issues we talked about. The question is is unionization of som
Birthday leap. The former president celebrates 90 with another jump. Scrunch the human toll, 4400 americans killed. More than 30,000 wounded. The pricetag more than a trillion dollars. Tonight, there are new questions about what the United States accomplished in the nineyear iraq war. President obama is on the spot tonight. Republicans say he was caught off guard. The white house says it will help iraq. The question is how . My team is working around the clock to identify how we can provide the most effective assistance to them i dont rule out anything. In iraq, an alqaedainspired group sieged two major cities and say they are headed for baghdad. Today, the kurds in the north took over the oilrich city of kirkuk. There are reports iran is getting involved battling what the their president calls terrorism. Reporter a Senior Advisor in the Iraqi Ministry of defense confirmed that special forces as well as highlytrained forces he described them as elite forces will carry out military oper
Lucifer in the flesh. Boehner had an interesting comment. He allowed his inner trump to come out. When he called me lucifer hes not directing that at me, hes dr directing it at you. Ted cruz hitting back hard from that lucifer calling. Here is moements ago when he spoke with reporters. I think boehner has made it crystal clear. Boehner in his remarks described donald trump as his texting and golfing buddy. If you want someone thats a texting and golfing buddy if you are happy with boehner as speaker of the house, by the way, donald trump gave boehner superpac 100,000 just a few years ago. Donald trump has been funding boehner and hes also funding nancy pelosi and harry reid. If you like what they have done, donald trump is your guy. I have never worked with john boehner, i dont even know the man. I met him two or three times in my life. If i have said 50 words to boehner, i would be surprise. Nbcs halie jackson was there and as always, she was asking ted cruz the tough question when sh
A Seminole County family is picking up the pieces after losing their home in a fire. The blaze happened on Saturday, on Suzanne Way, and engulfed the place in minutes.