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Get the help they need so they dont continue the cycle and become abusers themselves? >> jeff, as we try to make some sort of sense of what was behind what happened here in this horrible captivity of these three women, talking to people here in cleveland, some of them have said to me they hope that these women, being that they are so young, that they can go on and have important moments in their life and really, i guess, recover from this horrible thing that they have been through. what do you t...

Ignore what other people were saying and really live through our experience with it. >> you know, we are the media to some extent. to the extent people can learn something from this, its part of the reason we continue to talk about this. but, you know, what do you think is the most helpful thing for these women now? if people are talking to them about it, is there a right way, a wrong way? how do they approach this? >> the most important thing i have seen people like alicia, jaycee duggard, eliz...

Reports that amanda berry is in good spirits and she said shes feeling well. i think thats a fleeting phenomena right now. i think shes doing okay right now because of the new freedom that shes facing. the likelihood shes going to experience nightmares, flashbacks, feeling unsafe, being hypervigilant, constantly worried about her safety around her. theres a great deal of likelihood shes going to deal with that for a prolonged period of time. you know, fortunately, these are really rare experienc...

Like this in the past. where do you begin? >> its a complicated question. were not dealing with one isolated discrete episode of trauma. were dealing with ten years of psychological and physical abuse. one of the first things when we talk about healing is looking at the medical issues and nutritional deprivation and medical consequences of being in the situation and dealing with psychological and looking at post-traumatic stress disorder, hallmark, three key features are intrusive thoughts, flas...

Everybody handles stress differently and has different coping mechanisms. so looking for intrusive thoughts or disturbing images of the events that took place, nightmares, flashbacks, looking for depression and suicide ality, withdrawal and how are they taking care of themselves? are they able to connect and share feelings? a lot of times people end up withdrawing. people deal with stress and trauma differently. >> right now they need to be pickled in love and support. kraig, i want to give you ...

Honorary captain, as a you see. the black and gold flag waved boston strong. it was an incredible comeback at the kentucky derby. jeff fischel is here with the bleacher report and it was a career crowning achievement, but a pretty messy one. >> christi, it really was. it started with lots of rain and tears and joy, lots of them. 139th kentucky derby was so rainy and muddy they were having woodstock flash backs. at the halfway point of the race, orb was fourth from last and then he took off and...

Type of medications may work. theres also studies on a drug that i would use for the heart, but it also helps people to distance themselves from very traumatic events. studies show that they have less flashbacks, that they have less nightmares if they take a drug called a beta blocker. >> eric: you just mentioned some medicines. what if you have xanax or at van or this sort of thing? do you ask your doctor for that, and at what level? >> the experts will tell you whats necessary, and i think the...

Potential senders but their investigation continues. last night we herd democratic senator claire mccaskill from missouri say, her understanding was that investigators were zeroing in on someone who is known to send in the past lawmakers a lot of letters. sources have told us that authorities have a general idea where this person might be. we dont know their identity. we know now two letters, jon, one sent to senator wicker, one sent to president obama. now were awaiting a final tests from what ...

Everybody out, immediately evacuate. >> you watch as a commentator for the atlanta olympics in 1996. did images of what happened today bring flash backs to you? >> absolutely. i remember thinking of janet evans. she was doing an interview. and i forget who it was for. ill never forget her reaction when that bomb went off. such a beautiful competition. peace and play and sportsmanship and all of that. and this morning, you know, i was walking down the street in front of the buildings and it was a...

>> bill: lazy, lazy, lazy. >> jessie: im having flashbacks now. >> alisyn: great job. thanks so much for being here. lets get to the top story. president obama tour in jordan. play tourist and visit the ancient city of petra. ramp up criticism of syrian president bashar assad. >> ed henry is live this morning in amman jordan with the very latest. good morning, ed. >> good toe sue i goose, interesting. because as you know you have got syria on jordans northern border. and there are hundreds of th...