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>> theres -- i mean, when you see oil prices go up, you see gas prices go up. thats just the way it works because gasoline is refined out of that light, sweet crude. so even if you dont have demand for oil in the -- crude oil going or for gasoline going up in the u.s., you see prices going up. a year ago today the price for a gallon was $2.67 and its now $3.22 gallon. its up 20%. folks that watch this who say by the time you heat the peak driving season, you could see $4 gas again maybe. there a...

He was fully functional at the time be he really wasnt. how do you diagnose someone who wants to play? they think theyre okay but they have a concussion. >> heres the problem with the concussion and helmets? helmets prevent catastrophic hemorrhage things like that in the brain but the brain can move inside the skull and is floating in a bath of cerebral spinal fluid. thats a big part of the problem. diagnosing is difficult in many cases because most of the time, probably 90% of the time, the pla...

Have to add value. >> that can be young, 22, going into bankruptcy right there. that can affect you for a long time. our next question from ken is im 64 and have been out of work for 18 months. i depleted what was left of my 401(k) and went through 125,000 in personal savings, carry 20,000 in credit card obligations and approximate am about to lose my unemployment benefits. is there a way back? >> if youre 64 and spent that much money in a short period of time in a year and a half, two things po...

Football, if you can walk, you can play. these guys, they want to play. how do you take them off the field when theyre so motivated to be out there. you were a coach yourself. the coaches are highly motivated to get those guys playing again. >> yeah. it has to be done by the doctor. the coach will want the player to play. the player wants to play. i had a concussion, and i played the whole game with it, but when i looked at the film, i dont remember one thing that hatched in the game. i played. ...

Directly but he did to my mother, symptoms about memory loss, blurred version and slurred words, but he did let it down and share those things, his last words in the form of a letter. >> there is a growing discussion about the risk for football players, including young kids in pee wee leagues. joining me now is dr. julian bails, the chairman of western universitys department of neurosurgery, and he studied head injuries among football players. mike ditka, a former player, coach, and now tv analy...