Thank you all for being here today. Our judiciaryk Committee Ranking member chairman condors because he was the chairman because chairman when we were in the majority. I can refer to you as chairman, but not myself. Thank you chairman for joining us to examine the longterm impacts of repetitive brain trauma, in particular trauma associated with Contact Sports. I look forward to engaging in dialogue about this issue. Playersek, football take the field and engage in a contact and engage in a contact sport they enjoy playing but may be harmful to their health in the future. There are a lot of concerning questions that we will discuss today. At the very least athletes and their families need to know they are being informed about the health risk and the risks associated with Contact Sports are being mitigated to the greatest extent possible. With more and more research coming out, the evidence is becoming clearer and clearer, the effects of repeated head trauma, even those received during o
Live on capitol hill, the house is not in session but democrats on the energy and Commerce Committee holding a meeting looking at a trage. Theyll hear from med looking at traum brain injury. Theyll hear from medical professionals. Its about to get under way. Frank pallone, the Ranking Member of the energy and Commerce Committee, is leading the meeting. Mr. Pallone thank you, all, for being here today. I want to thank all of our participants at this joint energy and commerce and judiciary democratic forum. I want to thank our Judiciary Committee Ranking Member i call him chairman, mr. Conyers. I havent been in this position so i can refer to you as chairman but not myself. So thank you, chairman conyers, for joining us to examine the ongterm impacts of repetitive brain traumatic and particular trauma associated with sports. I look forward to the dialogue. Every week this time of the year Football Players at all levels take the field and engage in a contact sport they enjoy playing but m
Situation in turkey. There was an attempted military coup under way right now. A busy afternoon. My goodness. Thank you. An out pouring of support here in washington for the people of france. And the attacks are hitting close to home for some in our area. News4s chris gordon is outside of the French Embassy in d. C. Chris . Reporter people have come to the embassy of france to show their support and sadness. A local minute ter says people of different backgrounds no longer communicate. We dont talk to each other anymore. And so what is lacking is understanding who we are. The pastor of the frenchspeaking catholic parish of the diocese anger over the loss of lives in nice, especially the children. But he now says his sermon this sunday will focus on forgiveness. Im sorry so sorry for you that it brought his life to that. Reporter he says flying to france now fills her with fear. Im going to travel to france so im hoping that with the help of god that everything goes okay for my trip. Re
This morning on the kron 4 morning news. A stark reminder of fire season a wildfire erupts and rages in the east bay and gets dangerously close to a power plant. San francisco police. Trying to track down the driver who hit and killed a woman. Then took off. Well show you the car theyre looking for. And the First Australian plane returns from an earlymorning Search Mission for the missing malaysian airliner. What crew members say they saw. The kron 4 morning news starts right now. A day after firefighters told kron 4 we should brace for an early fire season. This happens a threealarm fire in pittsburg. Near a power plant, no less. This is video from our helicopter partnership abc 7 news. 40 acres burned. Firefighters were worried about all the dry brush from the drought. Despite the fire burning close to the pittsburg power plant, there was never any danger to people who live nearby. As the plant is not operational. Kron4s jeff bush was one of the first reporters on the scene. The sear
Investors happened around 10 00 eastern time this morning. We had a pretty good rally on the open and then it just fell apart. The dow was up 75 on the open and then down triple digits much the of the day, but were coming back even though we had pretty decent earn from Johnson Johnson and verizon. A lot of the guys are starting to leave to get ahead of what could be nor thanksmore nasty weather. The dow is off about 41 points. Braving the storm and making his way to the New York Stock Exchange is johnson and johnson alex gorsky. A more modest outlook for 2014 is hitting this dow xlonant today today. Apple, a positive report on the company has investors optimistic. Its up 1. 6 now. So is wall street ready to love apples stock again . And is retaking 700 out of the question for this year . Not out of the question. Were at 550 today. Well take a closer look at one of the most owned and certainly one of the most interesting stocks out there, apple. Yeah. And weve got a ton of tech earnings