the ceo of the new york stem cell foundation. >> you don't want to run, you know, a one-legged potato sack race. you really want to have, you know, every possible tool that you can in your arsenal. >> reporter: don reid, whose son roman is paralyzed from the waist down, vows to continue fighting. >> every day of delay is research denied, is cure denied. people are suffering now. we've got to get this political nonsense out of the way. >> reporter: since president obama signed the order last year, the groups of cells that can be used for research has nearly quadrupled. rob and vinita? a new report says the pentagon needs to do a better job of preventing military suicides. an independent task force ordered by congress suggests creating a new office to set strategy across all service branches. more than 1,100 troops killed themselves between 2005 and 2009. most were in the army or marines, the two branches most stretched by the wars in iraq and afghanistan.