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The conversation here. ill talk to the europeans but you guys are secondary players. i dont know which one won here, but i certainly dont think macron did. at most, at best for macron is a draw. >> interesting. phil mudd, always appreciate talking with you. you always bring interesting tidbits to the conversation. all right. new details in bob sagets autopsy report offering even more insight into his death. fractures to both the back and front of his head. but the big question is, how did that...

65-year-old had fractures around his eye sockets and enlarged heart with 95% blockage on one side and two prescription medicines in his system, c klonopin and antidepressant trazodone and tested positive for covid-19. >> chloe melas joining us now. a lot of this is personal information including about what medications he was taking, but tell us how the family is reacting to this th. >> theyve released a statement saying they have closure now and remember bob for his happiness and the laughter he...

Backward fall injury, strikes impact fracture on the back and contra-coup, opposite injury to the brain because the brain is surrounded by spinal fluid, by fluid. the brain doesnt fall as fast as the skull bone and the front of the skull strikes the brain. causes brain damage, subdural hemorrhage and impact on the orbital bone, they are the thinnest bone in the body, the brain striking the front of the head causes the fracture over the eye. that is typical counter-coup falling injury because the...

Feel like im okay? >> right. so the thing to watch out for are symptoms, right, if you have a headache that just wont go away in a reasonable amount of time, if you have a seizure, start vomiting or feel nauseous. if you can feel like a depression in your skull, or if you have some focal deficit, my arm doesnt move very well, or, oh, im feeling very nauseous or tired, these are reasons to go into the emergency department to get looked at. >> the autopsy report also said he had some fractures in ...

They hit here, abrasion over here, significant blow, like falls down, significant blow, fracture extends into the right side of the head over here. thats all possible from one mechanism, but then also fractures in the front over here just above the eyes. if i didnt know anything else about this, i would say is this someone who was unrestrained in a car accident? is this someone who fell down a flight of stairs, for example, or something like that? when we look at this from a neurosurgical perspe...

When you read this autopsy report, that may be the case but it was a significant blow to the head. just to give you an idea. in yellow of all the bones that were fractured. it takes a lot of force to do that. let me show you on this skull model. there were fractures here and also an abrasion over here. clearly, there was some sort of, you know, impact over here. that fracture extended into the right temporal bone over here. that was a hard blow to do that. what was noted is there were skull frac...

Trazodone, it can cause drou droudro drowsiness. its hard to predict whether these would play a role at all or whether or not they would play a role in his going to sleep. we know the blood in his head or the injury itself could promote an injury where he would have difficulty arising out of consciousness over time. >> and just one final question to you. when you saw this, is there anything that still stands out to you -- i know you said theres still so little we know so you would have many ques...

President biden promising swift and decisive action. if russia does choose to invade. but the white house has no progress to report after an hour long phone call with vladimir putin over the weekend. a doctor who reviewed bob sagets autopsy says his head injury was consistent with a baseball bat attack or 20 to 30-foot fall. the actors injury throughout his entire skull and fractures above his eyes. the full house actors death in a florida hotel room last month was ruled an accident. but a docto...

This someone who was unrestrained in a car accident? is this someone who fell down a flight of stairs, for example, or something like that? when we look at this from a -- from a neurosurgical perspective, there is a few different things you are trying to figure out. what was the mechanism of injury? again, fall? car accident? what was it? but also, the energy of the injury. how much energy was actually put on the skull and the brain? and what we can say from that pattern of injuries as outlined ...

Theres people protesting and theres been at least one lawsuit filed. there was a lawsuit filed by several unions representing firefighters, police, sanitation workers, teachers and the like. they asked for a temporary restraining order. that was denied to them by a judge. so there is some pushback. people argue in order to lift other mandates, its important to have vaccine mandates so as many people are vaccinated as possible. >> and the vaccine mandates have proven effective in getting those va...