Us on facebook or twitter. Finally, send an email. We get to your calls, here is some of the news from overnight. Tom coburn will not serve out the rest of his term. On thursday night that he will not serve the rest to steperm and intends down because of deepening health problems. In his statement, he acknowledged that he is battling a recurrent cancer and will continue to fight for his priorities are in the remainder of his time in office. Both carolyn and i have been touched by the encouragement we have been received, he said. As a citizen, he is convinced that he can best serve his children and grandchildren as shifting his focus elsewhere. He notified aides earlier in the day. Earlier in denied the evening. The decision to resign marks a shift in his plans from an interview earlier this month. He said he had believed he was healthy enough to serve out his term, but acknowledged that circumstances could change. The decision will be made in conjunction with family as to how to best i
Host Robert Mcdowell, what is your reaction . Isst i think tom wheeler the type of leader who is going to do what he says he is going to do. I have known tom a long time. He is saying there is that hole in the fence, and he will look at other ounces. Whether it is under the Legal Authority the cap Court Granted him under section 706, i think he will explore that. I think you will explore all his options. ,t may be full court of appeals or an appeal to the Supreme Court and it could be an attempt to try to reclassify broadband under title ii, phone service. I think that would be a huge mistake for the economy. But he could do that. There is a docket that has been sitting there since may of 2010. He has a number of options in front of him. And, by the way, the transparency option. Let me talk about that very quickly. That was left standing. Service provider, needs to, as a matter of law, disclosed to the public, disclosed to the world, what plans are. Act in anns are to anticompetitive w
More stringent requirements regarding when a player with concussion can return to the game need to be implemented. These are my thoughts for your consideration. Thank you for your attention and valuable time. Thank you for your valuable time. You are recognized for five minutes. Thank you. The opportunity to speak on behalf of the safety of our children in this country. I am a pediatric neuropsychologist at Childrens National Health System in washington, d. C. , and the director of the Concussion Program. I would like to take my time to focus my comments on the importance of Public Health education for youth concussion using my expertise as a clinician and researcher. I have worked for the last decade with the cdc on their heads up Concussion Program materials. Ianll know, and i think said it perfectly, the sports and recreation provide important developmental opportunities to enrich the lives of our youth. They teach life lessons. We have to balance those incredible benefits with care
They act as a control over the course of the season. We are finding what occurs across the season in normal players with no history of concussion, their speed of processing does change over the four or five months of training and the season. With the players who experience concussion, we see a slowdown of about 200 milliseconds. That is four times faster than the slowdown in multiple sclerosis, for contrast. Clearly, the brain has changed the way it is processing. We are moving to start intervention programs with the players identified. There is some data with alzheimers that suggest working memory tasks, even one week, can show continual gain and improvements. We are trying to see some of that occurring. Thank you. Dr. Gay, in regard to concussions, many times it is not a direct blow. The head is going back and forth and the brain is sloshing around. You mentioned going back to 1970s type equipment. Describe what you mean by 1970s equipment and how it may reduce concussions. The neck
Discussion, of course, to their domestic agenda. Heres the format for you. Its a 90minute debate and can be divided into six segments of 15 minutes each. Each segment starting with a question followed by twominute answers from the candidates and then a bit of a chat and some discussion. This time theyre going to be seated with the moderator, unlike last weeks town hall and the first debate that was standing behind the podiums. Libya, iran, china, just some of the issues that will come up tonight, no doubt. Were going to break down those issues and whats at stake. Heres White House Correspondent diana keiller, and Foreign Affairs correspondent ellise lavin. Lets start with you, briana. We can expect mitt romney to raise, you know, more questions about the terrorist attack in b benghazi tonight. President obama to portrait mitt romney as unprepared to be a world leader on an international stage. What more do we know about the debate strategy . Yeah, thats exactly what were expecting, mic