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We are going to hear from ian heating, High School Senior suffered us of your head injury, across game in the sophomore year. Despite his impressive recovery, later identified as his third head injury, left him with a limited ability to enjoy the activities Many High School students and classmates take for granted. His story should serve as a reminder youth sports injuries could have a devastating and lasting consequences. And we will also hear on this panel from brianna scoury, an olympic socce...

College athlete and then went on to play in the nfl and has strong feelings and opinions about these issues and has pointed out very eloquently that we have problems out there as mr. Miller pointed out that need to be addressed. What brought this hearing together was the action of a regional director of the National Labor board who suggested these athletes are employees and therefore could, if they chose, vote to join a union. So we explored some of the possible downsides of that issue. We heard...

So transportation ballot measures were a mixed bag. Like youre talking about earlier, the federal gas tax has not been raised in about 20 years. Most states have raised theirs in about 20 years, and states are constantly worried about finding money for infrastructure to pay for road repair and bridge repair. It is an issue that voters really care about. There was good news on tuesday in texas, wisconsin and maryland. Voters approved measures either to increase or protect transportation funding. ...

We appreciate your arguments today, thank you. The court may call the next case. Over the next few hours we will show you congressional hearings on professional and student athletics. Up next house hearing from brain injuries from football, hockey and other sports. Then we will look at scholarships, sex assaults and whether student athletes should be paid. Earlier in year a House Sub Committee looked into brain injuries from football, hockey and other sports. Officials with the nfl and National ...

Then we will look at scholarships, sex assaults and whether student athletes should be paid. Earlier in year a House Sub Committee looked into brain injuries from football, hockey and other sports. Officials with the nfl and National Hockey league talked about how their industries address the issue. We will also hear from professional and student athletes. This hearing is about three hours. All right. I want to thank everyone for being here. We are now at the full Committee Ranking member, the g...

And how best to go about changing our game to reflect that. So thats how we ended up adding creating a unified concussion protocol and returntoplay protocol for our sideline. Thats how we ended up with additional concussion experts on the sideline. This is based on the advice of outsiders who tell us this is the best way to handle your players, this is the best way to treat the game, and if you want a culture of safety, this is what you would do. We followed their advice strictly and meet with t...

Cspans 2014 student cam competition is under way. This competition for middle and High School Students will award 150 prizes. Create a five to seven minute documentary on the topic, the three branches and you. Videos need to include cspan programming, show varying points of view and be submitted by january 20, 2015. Go to studentcam. Org for information. Grab a camera and get started today. Tonight on cspan, American History tv examines spying in the u. S. Well start at 8 00 with a tour of the c...

Todays panel on the crises of the 1970s. So we have a great panel today. I am going to just start up i talk a little bit about what how we kind of framed this panel and how we are hoping what we are hoping to accomplish. We have the roundtable intensely. We are each want to speak about 10 minutes. Just a few roof remarks about the literature on the 1970s and thinking about the 1970s and what this unique time means to us today. And then we would like to open it up for a lot of conversation both w...

Victim of a scam. Complete bay area News Coverage starts right now, this is ktvu channel 2 news at 5 00 p. M. Good evening. I am ken wayne. I am heather holmes. We begin with new developments about the state of a pg e pipeline. The safety of a pg e pipeline. That line runs in san carlos. Ktvus Eric Rasmussen talked with the mayor of san carlos and pg e officials about what is next. Reporter pg e had said it would begin the process of shutting down the pipeline tomorrow or tuesday in san carlos. ...

The American People under obama care. But it all has to begin with a simple discussion. Joining me today editor in chief of buzz feed ben smith, host of msnbcs disrupt, karen finney and Washington Post columnist eugene robinson. Joining us from washington, i forgot, new York Magazine jo jonathan not that im not thrilled, jonathan. You still talking about obama care as a precondition to fund the government. I thought we were passed this point but apparently not. Youre listening to public statemen...