Temperatures tomorrow will be a little bit better and they are much better by sunday. We will talk about t t weekend in just a few minutes. Patrick happening today, the official kickoff for the gateway project. The project is meant to improve the safety and make the interchange more efficient. More than 190,000 vehicles every day travel, and or change. This is the second largest project in sd in scdots history. Allyson excitement continues to build for super bowl 50. Patrick in the middle of it all in the bay area is geoff hart, who joins us live this morning from santa, clara california. Patrick it is a cold morning here in santa clara, california. Temperatures are in the low 40s. Temperatures will be perfect for the ballgame on sunday in the the headline this morning is ticket prices for the super bowl are super sized in a big way. Usa today reported that someone bought two tickets for 27,000. Here is brad fralick and marc dopher with more. Brad the super bowl is a big and expensive
The president on the Foreign Policy choices, both around as weve talked about with isil, but also in terms of being stronger against putin in russia. Start calling early in march for these kind of stronger opposition to his activities in ukraine and around europe. And its that reason that virginians know my record. Its that reason why, again, in this campaign im so proud to have the support of more republican, former republican legislators than when i ran the first time. If his claim had merit, i dont think that would be the case. What it is, though, is the kind of political sound bite attack charge that comes from somebody who spent their career as a partisan operative. We have two more live debates tonight on our companion network, cspan. Friday night live at 7 30 eastern from the 17th Congressional District of it gets under way 8 00 eastern. And in the debate with harkin and ernst, thats live on cspan. Then sunday, michigans governor rick snider will face mark shower. That will be l
United states roughly about 75 of traumatic brain injuries. It is a brain injury. There is damage to the brain. Theres a discussion about whether its permanent or temporary. In the military the rate is 77 . So it turns out that youth sports are a good model for also looking at concussion in terms of the military. In fact, most of the military concussions occur in situations most like they do with the rest of america. Some certainly occur in theater, but the majority occur outside of theater, in accidents like youth are prone to experience. If we look at brain injuries overall, there are estimates these are all estimates, of course, and they vary across the literature. Were looking at somewhere probably in the neighborhood of 4 million traumatic brain injuries per year in the United States. A sobering part of that is our birth rate in the United States is also roughly about 4 million. This does not count other ways that children are exposed to head injuries. Perhaps a disciplining irate
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Concussion history the person may not think they have. How many of us have bumped our head getting in and out of the car. We have a quick Rotational Movement and that could produce, perhaps, a concussion. How does the brain recover from tbi and finally how we improve and recover, accelerate recovery. We really have no scientific basis for any interventions. Thank you. Thank you. Dr. Johnston, youre recognized for five minutes. Thank you for inviting me to testify alongside this illustrious panel about our experience. Pull the microphone better . Is that better . Following the passage of concussion legislation as well as work were currently doing at the university of alabama birmingham to improve safety. As in Nebraska Youth sports and football are an important part of our culture. As a result we take the safety of our children seriously as well. Its gained prominence over the past decade thanks to research and advocacy work by scientists, physicians, Public Health Centers Across the Un