the head but survives. she was exceedingly lucky, right? when i saw the trajectory of where one hole was and the other hole was, i was like oh, my gosh. however because it was so far apart. it wasn t a little thing it went through a lot. three and a half months later the first public steps in the congresswoman s remarkable recovery. in 2011, i tried to put a spotlight on big hits in the brain finding growing evidence that football puts young people at serious risk and professional players as well. in february former chicago bears safety david duerson committed suicide. he left his brain to research. when it came back it had telltale signs of injury. when stories like this rolled in, the nfl put in new rules to try to protect its players. that was march. i witnessed the aftermath in japan. right here in the middle of the street our first hours on the ground were just scary. so we are going to move at this point. there was no tsunami. we were saved. more t
campaign event for congresswoman gabrielle giffords. eight people are killed. was anybody injured? did you say gabrielle giffords was hit? she s hit. she still has a pulse. reporter: the congresswoman was shot in the head but survives. she was lucky. when i saw the trajectory of where one hole was and the other was, i was like, my gosh. reporter: because it was so far apart? yeah. it went through a lot. reporter: three and a half months later, the first public steps in the congresswoman s remarkable recovery. in 2011 i tried to put a spotlight on big hits on the brain. trying to find evidence that football puts young people at risk and professional players as well. in february, david deweson committed suicide, and he left his brain to scientific research. when the findings came back, his brain had tell tale signs of chronic injury. as stories like this rolled in, the nfl tried to put in new rules to protect players. ah! reporter: then it was march. i witness
santorum, gingrich, ron paul, rick perry and mitt romney all have campaign events this hour and we will dip in and listen in where we can. speaking of moving, michele bachmann s campaign is moving on without the former chairman of its iowa operations. he left to work for ron paul and bachmann claims she knows why. i had a conversation with kent sorenson. in the direct conversation i had with him he told me that he was offered money. he was offered a lot of money by the ron paul campaign to go and associate with the ron paul campaign. no one else knows about that conversation other than kent sorenson and myself and i know what he said to me about that. what does sorenson say? stick around. in just a few minutes he will join me live to explain himself. it is his first tv interview since he changed camps. don t miss it. poll numbers have not been especially encouraging to president obama but the pew hispanic center finds by more than a margin 2-1 they favor the president
if you take all gunshot wound to the head, only 5% to 10% of the patients survive. but there s something about those patients who survive that makes them more likely to do so. that s one of the things i wanted to get across in this documentary. to take a look at how things unfolded for her. reporter: the bullet was fired from a glock 19 9 millimeter semiautomatic handgun. it traveled the entire length of her brain and exited the back. it was a focused wound, meaning the damage was concentrated to one area of the brain. she was just exceedingly luc lucky, right? when i saw the trajectory of where one hole was and the other hole was i was like oh, my gosh. you sknow? it was so far apart? yeah. it went through a lot. it wasn t a glancing shot. yeah, it wasn t a glancing
glock 19 9 millimeter handgun. it entered from the left side, traveled the entire length of her brain and exited the back. i was a focused wound, meaning the damage was concentrated to one area of the brain. she was exceedingly lucky, right? when i saw the trajectory of where one hole was and where the other hole was, i was like, oh, my gosh. because it was so far apart? yeah. it went through a lot. because it wasn t a glancing shot. yeah. it wasn t a glancing shot. so, suzanne, the bullet as you heard there was through and through. that s important because, you know, you have a finite amount of energy from one of these bullets. you want that energy to be dissipated into space as opposed to within the skull here. important. also, there was a relatively small exit wound in the bullet likely did not tumble, did not explode. very important points, as well.