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Is doing better, recognizing and treating these Wounded Warriors. But less well known are millions more who are in need but remain hidden. They are the children living with injured veterans. In a profound sense, ptsd can be contagious. Many children have become caregivers confronting depression and fear. And you will hear tonight that the stress can be so great it can lead to attempts of suicide. Youre about to meet two courageous families, who spoke to us so that others can know that help is on the way for americas children of war. In 2011, Chuck Rotenberry was a marine on patrol in afghanistan when an improvised land mine detonated a few feet away. Which sent me down the hill 20, 30 feet, knocked me out, caused catastrophic injuries to the marine behind me and the marine behind him. It was rotenberrys second combat tour after iraq. What happened to the marine behind you, who had stepped on the ied . He lost both his legs above the knee. You and the medic put the tourniquets on him. Yes, sir. You saved his life. I helped, yes, sir. When he came home, his wife, liz, was pregnant with his fourth child. Chuck was suffering with a brain injury from a concussion and ptsd. Chuck was struggling to just be in the house because he was dealing with so many emotions, mentally and physically. He was hiding in back rooms, and id find him crying and he didnt understand why he was crying. I didnt know whether i was coming or going. Chuck kept a video diary, as he dealt with selfisolation, anxiety, depression, and denial. One second im up super high, the next, im not. Chuck, who was that man who came home . In my head, it was me. But i was very far from it, i think. At age seven, his son, kristopher pitched in. Over the years he shielded his dad from triggers that set him off and shield his sisters from the emotional trauma. I just worried about a lot of things, things that i guess kids at that age should not be worried about. And it kind of evolved into kind of like a helplessness. He was becoming almost like my husband. There were times where he wouldnt be able to go to school because he was so stressed internally from everything happening. And i dont think he knew how to process it and understand it. I knew kristopher was starting to struggle with the weight of it all. The weight grew, as kris turned 12. The worst of it was in seventh grade. I think i kind of decided that, you know, my family would be better off without me here. I remember looking back on those days. It was just chaos all the time. And i i remember taking my one of the dogs leashes upstairs and tied one end to the bunk bed that we had, my Little Brothers bunk bed. And i tried, you know, hanging myself. And it was working, and my mom walked in on me kind of, and i think i was, kind of, about to pass out. I was, kind of, you know, losing consciousness. Walking in and seeing what was happening to him and what he was really struggling with, i knew Everything Else had to stop. Everything just had to stop. And my focus had to be kristopher. Liz became the warrior, fighting for her family. Kristopher went to intensive therapy. Then he and his sisters enrolled in a clinic for military children confronting ptsd. Its hard when youre built on such pride, strength, and youre seen as resilient, as the word is in our community. But its okay to not be resilient. And its okay its okay to ask for help. Therapy saved your family. It did. Little was known about families like the rotenberrys until the wife of a Wounded Warrior spent ten months at Walter Reed National military medical center. Elizabeth dole, former senator and transportation secretary, heard these families, while caring for the late senator, bob dole. I met all these young spouses, mothers, dads, who were caring for their Wounded Warriors. I dont think america is aware of whats happening. Most americans have no idea whats happening in these military families. Less than 1 are serving in the military today. Less than 1 are protecting our freedom and our security. And its so important for us to raise awareness of their challenges and their needs and provide them support. Dole created a foundation that commissions studies of military caregivers. The studies discovered that more than 1 million are caring for those injured during the wars since 9 11. Nearly half said they were overwhelmed. They felt guilty really that they were leaning on their children so much, needing their support, and that this was causing problems for the children. There are 2. 3 million military children living in the homes of Wounded Warriors. One of them is elizabeth cornelius. And i just need to make sure everybodys okay because if my mom isnt okay, everything is going to just fall. Elizabeth has helped her mom, ariel, as long as she can remember. Even before she was born, her dad brought terrifying memories home from a combat tour in iraq. Ariel told us his First Episode came with a pizza delivery. The delivery man came up to the door and knocked on the door. And you know, my husband didnt expect it. He had an immediate flashback and threw me to the floor and was yelling, get down, get down, get down, get down. Even with that, he deployed to iraq again in 2007 and to afghanistan in 2011. Ariel is a schoolteacher. Her husband is completely disabled by ptsd. He cant work and wasnt up to speaking with us. 16yearold elizabeth has become something of a coparent to a brother and sister at home in montana, shielding them, she told us, from episodes and arguments. I just try to shield them as much as i can, as my mom did for me. And she did it for a very long time. A lot of it falls on myself, and she goes out and picks up the pieces that i cant. Her husbands worst crisis came on the anniversary of an attack that killed several of his fellow marines. Oh, gosh. He was extremely suicidal because of all the memories that came back. He was barely hanging on. Its just that regret. Its the memories that come in. Extremely suicidal, but ariel found beds for Inpatient Mental Health care can be scarce. You know, helena is an hour and a half to two hours away. Casper, wyoming, is eightplus hours away. And they didnt have a bed. We then looked at idaho. They didnt have a bed. We looked at oregon. They didnt have a bed. We ended up having to wait three weeks before he could get the support he needed in puget sound, washington. And, you know, thats ten hours away. Three weeks during this time you felt like he could commit suicide. At any point in time. And we couldnt get help. Chasing care in a crisis and navigating Government Health insurance raised stress for everyone. Its rough on her because shes been on the phone for hours and hours reading pamphlets trying to find us help. In 2018, Elizabeth Dole watched President Trump sign a law that expanded v. A. Benefits for caregivers of the severely disabled. It offers a stipend, access to Health Insurance and counseling. The Dole Foundation studies found that at least 100 other organizations are providing support, which now include the Dole Foundation itself. Steve schwab is the ceo. How does the foundation help these children . One of the first things that we do is we offer emergency Financial Support to anybody who needs it. Second is peer support. Were building a first of its kind peer support model that will link these children with other children like them for the first time in their lives. We offer on the ground respite care, backup care in the home to provide a Trained Health care worker to come in and back up that mom or dad so that that family can take a break together. One Dole Foundation partner called our military kids paid fees to help keep the cornelius children in sports. Their mom, ariel, says that even the Little Things help her husband. He is an amazing man, and i cant wait for him to get past i know hell never get past the ptsd, but for him to heal enough to enjoy life and to be able to enjoy the Family Dynamics and just being around. You have hope for that . I sure do. Yeah. Today, Liz Rotenberry leads a Dole Foundation initiative to train caregivers to be public advocates, for example, on capitol hill. Husband, chuck, is recovering and works as a dog trainer for the secret service. And son, kristopher recovered and has applied to follow his father into the military. After all the things that kris did to help the family during your troubles, what would you like your son to know . First of all, everybody everybody thats in my life now, i wouldnt be here without them. I tell him i love him all the time. And he replies. 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We wondered how a Company Founded in 1993 to improve video game graphics turned into a titan of 21st century ai. So, we went to Silicon Valley to meet nvidias ceo jensen huang, who has no doubt a. I. Is about to change everything. At nvidias annual developer conference this past month, the mood wasnt just upbeat, it was downright giddy. More than 11,000 enthusiasts, software developers, tech moguls, and happy shareholders filed into san joses pro hockey arena to kick off a fourday a. I. Extravaganza. They came to see this man, jensen huang, ceo of nvidia. Welcome to gtc. What was it like for you to walk out on that stage and see that . You know, bill, im an engineer, not a performer. When i walked out there and all of the people going crazy, it took the breath out of me. So, that was the scariest ive ever been. Im still scared. Youd never know it. Clad in his signature cool back outfit, jensen shared the stage with nvidia powered robots and shared his vision of an a. I. Future. A new industrial revolution. It reminded us of the transformational moment when apples steve jobs unveiled the iphone. Jensen huang unveiled nvidias latest graphics processing unit, or gpu. This is blackwell. Designed in america but made in taiwan, blackwell, he says, is the fastest chip ever. Google is gearing up for blackwell. The whole industry is gearing up for blackwell. Nvidia ushered in the a. I. Revolution with its Game Changing gpu, a single chip able to process a myriad of calculations all at once, not sequentially like more standard chips. The gpu is the engine of nvidias a. I. Computer, enabling it to rapidly absorb a fire hose of information. It does quadrillions of calculations a second. Its just insane numbers. Is it doing things now that surprise you . Were hoping that it does things that surprise us. Thats the whole thing. In some areas like drug discovery, designing better materials that are lighter, stronger. We need Artificial Intelligence to help us explore the universe in places that we could have never done ourselves. Let me show you. Jensen took us around the gtc Convention Hall to show us what a. I. Has made possible in just the past few years. Were making a drink now. Some creations were dazzling. This is a digital twin of the earth. Once it learns how to calculate weather, it can calculate and predict weather 3,000 times faster than a supercomputer and 1,000 times less energy. But nvidias a. I. Revolution extends far beyond this hall. Blue, metallic, spaceship. And this generates something. Pinar seyhan demirdag is originally from istanbul, but cofounded cuebric near boston. Her a. I. Application uses gpus to turn a text prompt into a virtual movie set for a fraction of the cost of todays backdrops. This isnt something thats already planned . No. Were doing it in real time. Its live. Is hollywood knocking at your door . Were getting a lot of love. 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