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Developed countries need to take into account. now, our own phil black is at cop21 and he earlier filed this report. >> many of the world leaders gathered here in paris declared this to be an historic turning point, an opportunity to save the world and future generations who will judge them harshly if they dont reach an agreement here. countries have come into them having already pledged what theyre prepared to do to fight climate change. those declarations taken together, broadly seem to be a g...

While memorial day stands as a tribute to fallen soldiers were also aware of the men and women who serve and come back with scars, physical and emotional. tonight, dr. marc siegel looks at new ways to diagnose and treat one of our veterans most insidious ailments. >> reporter: up to 20% of iraq and afghanistan veterans are suffering from post-traumatic stress. unlike other illnesses, we dont have a method to diagnose and treat it. >> the best thing we can do at the moment is to take a careful hi...

Hispanic voters and say republicans hate people like you. >> rubio was hoping to convince hispanic voters that immigration is not good for anyone and the first priority has to be with the border. republican candidates at least need to try to get a foot in the door to have that conversation. shannon? >> thank you, john. up next hunting for new ways to diagnose and treat pts. first, this is what some of our fox affiliates are covering around the country tonight. mat mathematician john nash and...

What the left does is it goes to hispanic voters and say republicans hate people like you. >> rubio was hoping to convince hispanic voters that immigration is not good for anyone and the first priority has to be with the border. republican candidates at least need to try to get a foot in the door to have that conversation. shannon? >> thank you, john. up next hunting for new ways to diagnose and treat pts. first, this is what some of our fox affiliates are covering around the country tonight...

While memorial day stands as a tribute to fallen soldiers were also aware of the men and women who serve and come back with scars, physical and emotional. tonight, dr. marc siegel looks at new ways to diagnose and treat one of our veterans most insidious ailments. >> reporter: up to 20% of iraq and afghanistan veterans are suffering from post-traumatic stress. unlike other illnesses, we dont have a method to diagnose and treat it. >> the best thing we can do at the moment is to take a careful hi...

>> reporter: with their former leader at the head of the pack 17 servicemen and women hit the trail for the annual w-100k bike ride. now in the fifth year the ride part of the bush institute military service initiative honors injured post 9/11 veterans. this years ride focuses on traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress the invisible wounds of war. >> were here riding with people who got hurt. they are injured. and yet they refused to allow their injury to consign them to you know a dull...

Also called pts. for shawn, it was the u.s. army, the jungles of panama. he saw too much after the u.s. invasion when riots and ambushes and casualties were a regular occurrence. >> theres the sad time of losing friends and people who you served with, and you start to question everything. >> questions that lingered when he got home. despite having a beautiful wife whom he loved very much, four kids, a lucrative career in banking, shawns life was full of darkness. he was described dozens of medic...

Every day. theyre not going around doing bad things doing illegal things and hurting people. you deal with it. you learn to live with it. just like anybody else that was in a traumatic car accident. you know you live with it. it may affect you behind closed doors, but out in public youll never know the people that have true legitimate pts. and so thats why chris started that foundation guardian for heroes. and along with beast mode for the brave, were bringing awareness to that. >> what is that ...

Want you to talk youre trying to find a way to carry your brothers legacy with you and that belt buckle i want you to describe. because there will be a reaction where people will say, the pts, theres no such thing and we keep hearing about how these guys are messed up afterwards theyre just like anybody else. that is not how you feel. you want people to know about how damaging this process can be. so how do you, what do you do with that? >> you know pts is a real thing. definitely but not every ...

As far as getting the right care, obviously -- and this is what happened with clay. in the mental help area, there just was not a seamless transition from active duty to v.a. when he was active duty he was injured and diagnosed in 2007. so for two years, he received care for post traumatic stress while he was active duty. and that was -- seemed to be fairly good. he seemed to be doing okay. it was when he got out and went to the v.a., it all went downhill. he had to be such a proactive advocate ...