pee wee players, nfl players. what do you do to keep kids safe? i think all of the things we have done since the nfl instituted new guidelines all of the way down to youth sport. i think it s really understanding the signs and symptoms of concussion, realizing you have to pull a player out if he or she has symptoms, err on the side of being conservative. evaluate the player and then get a health care professional or physician to make the diagnose of whether or not they actually had a concussion. dr. bals, coach ditka, thank you very much. a very important subject and a lot of people paying close attention to how to protect our kids and those impacted by these type of injuries. thank you very much. thank you. disweekend, dr. sanjay gupta will take a closer look on this issue. tune into head games, truth about concussions on saturday
in high-impact sports. coach, i want to start with you. how big of a problem is this? well, you know, football is a violent game. people hit hard. you put a helmet on somebody and it becomes a security blanket. people don t have fear striking with the head or in the head because the helmet provides protect but when you collide helmet-to-helmet, a lot of things happen to the brain. you can t legislate hitting out of football because it is a physical sport. what the league is doing on concussions, they re doing a good job because they re holding a guy out with a concussion for at least one week, has to be passed by an outside doctor, not a team doctor. if he passed that, he can play the following week. can they stop it? i doubt it because football is football. how do you stop this thing? i want to bring it to the doctor because we take it off the field here.
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ground it s very unpredictable, and then you also have the leader who is unpredictable. at this point no one is saying that there is any direct threat to those americans. okay. thank you for clarifying that. thank you, jill. we want to go across country for stories that cnn affiliates are covering. our first stop is mount vernon, washington. a familiar site this winter. there is heavy snow taking traffic from slow now to just stopping. a lot of folks have just left their cars where they were along a 30-mile stretch of i-5. the interstate re-opened late last night. in orange county, california sheriff s deputies are trying to find an apparently disorganized robber. it took him six very long minutes to pull a gun on the convenience store clerk. he eventually took off with cash and cigarettes. now to nashville where things got a little rowdy at