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Your alma mater darthmouth, interesting study showing cause for concern around football and hockey, that you may have some effect oning the brain not from ma concussions but repeated strong hits.se >> is this the professional level? >> college students. what youre saying is if were going to try to take risk out of competitive tak sports, youre maybe getting rid of hockey along with football. when you go deeper into ncaa data, football is high on the concussion rate but people may be surprised to...

Its a complicated picture. your alma mater dartmouth showing causing concern around football and hockey, you may have an effect on the brain from repeated strong hits. >> are these at the professional level? >> college students. what that means is, okay, if youre saying we are going to try and take risk out of competitive sports, you may be getting rid of hockey along with football. when you go deeper in ncaa data, you see football is high on the concussion rate. people may be surprised to see h...

Conviction motion under 2255. what most do when the defendant decides he doesnt want to testify they will cole kwie the defendant to make sure and satisfied that it is the defendant making the decision not to testify and not the attorney. >> it should be. agree with that. and i think it is just from the defenses point of view, i think it will be far too risky to do it. heres two reasons why george zimmerman should not testify. one jodi arias. she testified and testified and testified and was con...

Giving people advice about risk, if youre doing risk analysis, this is way down the list. >> lets talk about one of those things, especially if you live in cities like chicago. >> or manhattan, right here. >> lets talk about guns. >> lets go there. >> you are in law enforcement and let me ask you. we were just talking about background checks last block. do you support -- >> i support background checks. i support universal background checks. i have no fear as some people do the government is goin...

Want to know the truth. they dont want to be pate ro niz -- patronized by a doctor who thinks he knows it all. they want to say, doctor, what are the chances? and if he hem-haws around, thats not good. they want to know the truth. >> to use the example that peter was talking about, for risk intelligence so you can do a good job before you go with x prize or whatever else, you make better decisions. >> exactly. youll take this information and weigh it in your mind, and youll be able to say, ive g...

What scares you more? who is scared of flying? who is scared of driving? one person. [ laughter ] >> i ask people outside about that. people say, they know driving is risky but its flying that scares them. >> i pick flying i can control my car but i dont have control of the plane. >> flying even though i know the odds of being in a plane crash is much less than a car crash. >> he knows his odds are better in the plane but he still worries more about that. david a former director of communication...

♪ what sounds like a good thing, a wealth of donations made to charity. the contributions are the result of a major hacking attack. the group that calls itself anonymous claims it stole credit card numbers from a security firm and use the information to take money from bank accounts and give that money to charity. pete williams is live with the latest on this story. pete? >> most of that money given to the charitable organizations cant keep of course because it was stolen and not given volun...

Major improvements. first of all, there are two different companies providing oil containment and capping systems so if we have another loss of oil control it can be attended to much more quickly than last year. the department of interior and united states coast guard are jointly reviewing response plans. i think that needs to be embedded in legislation and probably new rules, so i think there has been a major step forward in reducing the amount of risk and improving safety. but i think this nee...

Conflicting information complicates, severely complicates our effort to understand the depth and riches of japans nuclear crisis and adding to alarm statements from top obama administration officials that they too are getting mixed signals and conflicting information from japan. and those new u.s. assessments that the crisis at the fukushima daiichi complex is more grave u.s. officials say than the japanese people are being told. >> we believe that there is no water in the spent fuel pool known ...

These plants anywhere else in the world no sweat or do you ask serious questions tonight? >> the mark one containment has been flawed since it was built. its been known since 1972 the nrc expressed reservations about the mark one containment. in risk analysis in the 80s they felt there was a 90% chance that mark one containment would fail. my opinion is that this is a flawed design and you cant turn all 32 of them off tomorrow, but we should go about eliminating those mark one reactors. >> we ap...