finally stopped. by the time they stopped until they recorded the 911 call, it was an hour and a half. reporter: you re counting on their expertise. right. reporter: you entrusted their expertise? right. not to press on regardless for another five miles if you re showing signs of heat and disorientation. reporter: the suit that names the scoutmasters, who declined to be interviewed, and the local church that sponsors the troop and boy scouts of america was filed by attorney mark sylvester who brought this case to our attention. this is not a condemnation of the boy scouts. they re a very worthwhile organization. they instill good morals and values in our children. but at the same time, they have flaws. children are dying, children are being severely injured. this was not the first death on a hike. reporter: scouts put in collectively millions of hours per year in the wilderness. no one getting seriously hurt. not surprising because of the near constant stress on safety. s
put them in harm s way. even leaving one scout dead. here s john donvan. reporter: the motto is first be prepared but first on the list of virtues they memorize is the word trustworthy. mentally awake and morally straight. reporter: including a 17-year-old boy named michael sclawy-adelman who first went into scouting when he was 8 years old. what do you remember? i dropped him off. and that s the last i saw. reporter: the last hike was a 20-miler, bordering the florida everglades. high of 92 degrees. his parents say michael was in fit physical condition and determined to do that hike. i spoke to him on the phone while they were on their way to the church to be dropped off. and the last thing he said was, i love you. reporter: the hikers set off at approximately 9:00 that morning.
was off. reporter: ron reagan says he became so convinced his father was showing early signs of alzheimer s, he decided to shadow him for a day in the white house. you say that he was sitting at the phone making phone calls and he was reading note cards like he had prompts. yeah, and that bothered me. reporter: but now his half brother michael writes on twitter that ron is an embarrassment and accuses him of selling out his father to sell books. so we asked two of the country s leading alzheimer s experts to weigh in on those key moments the two brothers now debate. first, note cards to make calls. i wouldn t be worried about stickies or cue cards. what s worrisome is if there s something that you do every day, you forget how to get to that place you drive to every day. that s when you start to worry. reporter: but what about this? the president seems to struggle to find the answers to a question. we re doing everything we can. we re doing everything we can. reporter: d
safely controlled environment will be monitored and not cause nuisance to visitors and residents of colchester. they make it sound like it s an okay thing to do to put them in a corner and let them drink. reporter: giving them their own place to go and drink, aren t you in a way condoning that behavior? that behavior is going to continue whatever we do. we can put support systems in place and we are working with the primary care trust to do that, but we ve learned over the years that these people are going to continue with this behavior. reporter: michael and mark are both alcoholics. the sort of drinkers this scheme would be aimed at. i feel like we are getting picked on. yeah. you know what i mean? i do feel we are being picked on. reporter: the people who think you re intimidating them, you think they are they re wrong? yeah, i do think they re wrong. yeah. because we have a can in our hand and we have dogs, yeah, we re bad people. it would be a fantastic i
mother of scouts finally offered may or may not satisfy. i think we re saying there s risks involved in everything you do in life. in boy scouts, we take a proactive approach. everything we do is looking at what could happen, what are the risks involved, how do we prepare for that. reporter: but i m asking a different question. are you saying what s that really down to is sometimes things just happen? there are circumstances that are beyond our control. so we all share responsibility to make things as safe as possible. reporter: which is what michael s parents thought he would be that day, as safe as possible and home by sundown. their good-bye that morning never meant to be final, but it was. and michael s family s attorney point to the fact that, yes, there s risks in every situation but the attorney says, more than a dozen cases involve situations that in some ways could have been avoided. for example, someone died during a lightning strike. there were thunderstorms foreca