the general said he will not make recommendations on the pace of troop withdrawals until later this year. of course there is growing public pressure for the united states to get out of afghanistan. now. following more than 10 years with no decisive victory and nothing describing what a victory would be. and the recent burnings of korans at the military base and the incredible massacre we know killed not 16 but 17 afghan civilians, another victim than originally reported. jennifer has the news from the pentagon. what led to the updated death toll? reporter: well, when charges are brought against sergeant bales we are told the death toll he will be charged with killing 17 afghan rather than 16. officer what we are told because the afghans were buried in 24 hours, which is part of the muslim tradition it was hard to get a final toll in the confusing 24 hours but we also have learned the $1.5 million
so those are the ptsd symptoms. the symptoms of traumatic brain injury can involve dizziness, headaches, changes in behavior that may be similar to ptsd but also, as nick said, maybe even neurologic symptoms, which may include weakness or numbness or other types of symptoms. now, doctor, you obviously haven t examined sergeant bales but you have examined over 7,000 during the course of your career, soldiers who suffered from ptsd. it was interesting on the campaign trail today, bob kurry, former veteran and medal of honor winner, who is campaigning for senate in nebraska offered one comment to a reporter that he thought that sergeant bales seemed to be suffering from some kind of mental illness. we shouldn t base our entire afghan policy in an overreaction to one man s troubles. what s your gut tell you? do you have any gut instinct about what we may be dealing with in terms of the sergeant bales case?
my gut tells me ttobably mor or pbi or a combination of the two. we don t know, matt, the impact of multiple deployments into an area that s not only dangerous, but it s difficult to deal with the folks there. we don t know the impact of being told you re not going back because you have disabling conditions, and then switched and said oops, you are going back. we don t know the impact of all that plus seeing a friend get their leg blown off, and you add to that stressors at home and stressors we probably don t yet understand, you add all that together and we don t know what happens to people like sergeant bales, but i assume this is more than simply ptsd and tbi. nick, you re involved obviously in representing the interests of veterans from iraq and afghanistan. this must be the talk of that community today.
we are just getting the details of what caused whitney houston s death. as you know, she was found last month in the bathtub of her hotel room in beverly hills. let s go to kareen wynter who joins us live from los angeles. what can you tell us? hi, candy. what i can tell you, the final cause of death has been determined to be drowning from heart disease as well as cocaine. that s right. there was cocaine in whitney houston s system at the time she was found submerged in a bathtub at the beverly hilton hotel back in february the day before the grammy s. the toxicology report also showed while cocaine and other met tab beau lights were found in her system and contributed to her death, what s interesting, marijuana, xanax, the drug fl flexeril and benadryl, they were also found but we are told those weren t contributing factors. there was no trauma or foul play suspected. it us anticipated we could get a more detailed report regarding those toxicology findings in the next coup
paul callen is with me right here on set. paul, let s talk about this first. my question is 17 counts of murder. reports are he had killed 16 afghan civilians. can you help us make sense of that? this is very strange. the original reports were 9 children, 3 women and 4 men were killed in this rampage and now we seem to have another victim, so 17 counts would look like another victim. i suppose they could have indicted him on two theories relating to one count of murder, that s a possibility as well, but we ll have to wait to see the details. would it be if perhaps one of the victims, one of the women were pregnant? would that be another possibility? it s unlikely that that would be the case. you would really you d have to have a fetus that was ready to be born. you know, one of the major problems in this case, and this has been said by the defense attorney, how do we know how these individuals were killed, because this took place in a field of battle, were there autop