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Moment. spraying -- i know. my perfume has a lot of alcohol in it. it will sting your eyes. that would be one second of delay. but it could help. >> if youre going to have to fight for your life, it has to be no hesitation whatsoever. this is a needle point pen that i carry when i travel on airplanes. it takes 2.5 pounds of pressure, about that much pressure to penetrate the skin. experts say go for the eyes. >> why is that not to go for the eyes? >> its a natural reaction. you go for the throat...

Done a more recent one. but what they said is no obvious signs of violent trauma. thats a quote from the d.a. poisoning has not been verified. no obvious signs of violent trauma. >> larry, continue. >> there could be other explanations. without the soft tissue, its difficult to say what happened to her. but it all comes together with dna. now that they have her mother, but not the biological father, they can verify that the i.d. is correct. im sure that since can go further, but a tip like what ...

Cant do a comparison. that bullet could have gone into the wood and be gone forever. if the bullet hid bone, like the sternum or skull, it could have been so severely deformed, that a ballistics check with the gun that fired it cant be made. so there are circumstances, the bullet has to hit soft tissue, has to not be too badly damaged, removed during the autopsy, then examined, at least against the gun that was recovered to determine. we learned today there may even be more potential evidence ...

Condition. how is he doing? >> hes in fair condition at a hospital. the panthers have just announced he has two transverse process fracture, he has two fractures horizontally across his spine. so he doesnt have any more serious injuries than that, soft tissue injuries, bruising but two fractures to his lower back. obviously thats not good. however when you look at these pictures from the crash, it is pretty amazing he didnt suffer much worse injuries. the driver of the other car, also not life-t...

I think that all football players out there of any kind should have these head impact measurers on the helmet. the helmet has cut down on brain injury dramatically since the 1950s, but lets face it, the philosophy of football is lower your head and charge forward. that head is not supposed to be an impact device. younger people even more so. >> its a good point, because the helmets they wear, and they think are basically protecting them, it only protects the soft tissue, not real brain damage, w...

I think that all football players out there of any kind should have these head impact measurers on the helmet. lets face it, the philosophy of football is lower your head and charge forward. that head is not supposed to be an impact device. younger people even more so. >> its a good point, because the elmets that they wear, it only protects the soft tissue, not real brain damage. there are more and more studies coming up with mris and cats scans that theyre finding out certain proteins thats res...

It was still intact. so it had never been opened at the time of the first autopsy. >> reporter: and there is no mention of those bruises in the states official autopsy or the local crime labs report. >> there was hemorrhage indicating trama to the area and that trauma causes blood to come out into the blood vessels, the soft tissue. by looking at that we can say there was blunt force trama to that area. >> reporter: so he took blows to the neck? >> he took at least one blow to the neck. >> repor...

>> with a blast, you have to first think about the injuries from the blast itself, and so youd be looking there for burns. you could be looking at broken bones, injuries to soft tissue, just from the explosion. when you add in the chemical ammonia, and you worry about what kind of breathing protection people have who are really close to that blast. ammonia can have a number of different impacts on your body. its very irritating and corrosive. weve all smelled ammonia and know how hard it is to j...

Generally were the latter, but, yeah, in patients, we involve them in their care as much as we can. they get better when they are involved. they get better better. >> what was the most dire injuries you saw? >> its hard to classify them. the major ones that were life threatening involved large amounts of soft tissue. the vascular system was needed to be repaired. if we dont get to those quickly and the ems is not on top of things that they can bleed to death and that was some of the issues that ...

He was in his office during the marathon. when he heard about attacks. what did he do when he heard about it? he ran to the emergency room. doctor, thank you for joining us right now. so you were in your office when your wife called? >> thats right. i was in my office, and i heard about the blasts, and then i -- i spoke to one of my colleagues and went to the emergency department. >> what did you see when you got there? >> a number of highly injured people who were coming into the emergency room...