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2-1. the african-american sergeant was in while this was going on. the idea was to bring him down and there have been a qua million arrests made last year. this is one that went bad. if brown had not been resisting -- the reason they are holding him down on the ground, you have to subdue someone to get their hand behind their back. martha: the whole physical part take about a minute of that struggle. im also would be very curious to see the grand jury testimony. there is a number of reasons we a...

Person? >> thats fair. his preexisting obesity and heart condition would have made him more at a risk from dying of asphyxia but he wouldnt have died of asphyxia hadnt been placed on him. >> does it take a lot to do a chokehold on someone to asphyxiate someone? could i have done it? im 53", do i have another pawf to do that or does it take a lot of force. >> it takes a lot of force. because its force on the neck itself that precludes the blood vessels going to the brain as well as the wind pipe....

A risk -- resisting arrest, but then it became illegal, so this move is not supposed to be used by police officers. right? >> okay. there was a whole definition of this was a choke hold because there is a different maneuver that the police department is allowed to -- police officers are allowed to use. i believe its called the seat belt because it mimics the way a seat belt comes across your chest, so its not putting pressure exactly on the wind pipe, but close to the side of somebodys neck to j...

Investigation. there will most likely be a $75 million civil lawsuit filed against the officer and the police department by the family and there could be an administrative disciplinary process that will take place by the nypd. the officer has been suspended but at this point, he will not face criminal charges in this case. shepherd? >> rick outside the courthouse in staten island, thanks. well get back to him and the rest of ur correspondents as news warrants. this from the new york city handboo...

York city today, and weve got the tree lighting ceremony. >> two things. first of all, just watching the video once again, remember i just explained about the seat belt. if you look at the police officers arm, initially for a second it goes around his wind pipe. then his other hand wraps around, and its really around his neck, and just like a seat belt would be on the front of your body to bring someone to the ground. again, i wasnt in the grand jury, but my guess is that that was the police off...

Lived her whole life in a hospital, because she couldnt breathe or eat and then what happened? >> , so she had a procedure in april in which they took a polymer or an artificial material and put her cells on the polymer a hay were able to transplant that and put it in the area of her wind pipe. so far, she has been doing well. >> all right. i saw the story this week and it brought tears to my eyes. as i dove in to this this is ground breaking. what does it mean for the future of treatment of ste...

Jenna: thank you. jon: harrigan has been remote and dangerous places, afghanistan and iraq a lot of times. maybe hell report from mars one of these days. jenna: until then we will rely on curiosity for the eufpl averages. jon: three more suspects in custody facing federal charges with regard to the boston marathon bombing. two of them are college friend of the surviving suspect dzhokhar tsarnaev. breaking details on that coming up. plus, an amazing story, a two-year-old girl born with a rare bir...

Satisfactorsaliva all the time around the tube into her lungs. she was basically drowning in her own saliva and if we didnt sunks out she would die. she was concerned and fearful of when the tube would fallout and fearful of having anything else put in her mouth. she is breathing through her whole in her neck now. we discovered she toes have a voice box and vocal cord. eventually shell be able to breathe and talk we hope once we took things back together. at this point we are teaching her how to...

Dads. or guardians. the f.d.a. making the controversial decision to lower the age to buy plan b, as well as sell it over the counter. teen-agers can get it as long as they can prove their age of 15 at checkouts. >> i dont really agree because its like a really young age and they shouldnt be, you know, having sex in the first place. >> its really ridiculously young age to have to deal with that at all. >> steve: aint that the truth. over the counter sales of plan b are set to happen in just a cou...

Wind pipe so he can breathe on his home, so he can go home and die. they say just removing the tube might cause him to choke and suffocate. >> hes human. he has a right to fight if he dies or not. no one can say, that he say he want to die. >> reporter: they said it would be painful for the 12-month-old boy and are asking the government to give consent to take the child off life support for the since the parents defied a court order to give that consent. the parents are hoping a detroit hospital...