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Of emphasis not only on damar's recovery, but also the medical professionals there on the field to tend to them right away. a doctor was there within a minute. do you think the nfl is doing enough to make this sport as safe as it can be? >> the buzz is always going to be inherently a dangerous game. it's a violent game played by grown men who work every single day to hit other grown men as hard as they possibly can. but within that, there's going to be injuries. there have been changes to the playing surface, equipment changes, the way guys are taught, the nfl is doing everything they can. if ...

Whether it college or the nfl, every single day until right before thanksgiving. that is a christmas gift for bob costas. thank you so much for sticking around, bob. i want to ask you, it's been a couple weeks since the nfl put their new concussion protocols into effect. as a parent of a football player, my boy, my 13-year-old is now playing tackle football. he's in seventh grade. do you think we're still taking baby steps when it comes to head injuries? >> i think there have been significant steps taken. it used to be denial. the nfl treated it the way the cigarette companies treated the conn...

Time. they denied that there was any connection between football and cte. now they openly acknowledge, and they do everything they can within the nature of the game. equipment changes, protocols put into place, et cetera, but as someone once said, the biggest problem with football is football. it's the very nature of the game. injuries in other sports are by and large incidental, although they obviously have been. in football, it's just fundamental. it's a contact sport on every single play, and these sub concussive hits, especially the lineman, lineman collide on every play. that does not res...

Congressional delegation, so we're all on the page. but my conversation with the governor was very much focused on making sure this never happens again. because the panic was real and people being afraid was real. >> senator, as authorities try to get to the bottom of all of this and implement new measures which we were told there looking into equipment changes being one of the possibilities here. what did you learn about the state's ability to respond, should there be a real missile emergency? is hawaii prepared? >> i think the question is would any state be prepared? the fact that hawaii ins...

>> this would be my fault because it is my responsibility. the change of shift briefing, they each have to understand what is the process. we will take action to prevent this from happening again. having more than one person there to do this type of decision with equipment changes. there is an investigation. but this is my fault and we are working so that this does not ever happen again. >> they have it.we are getting another player involved there hearing that they're taking responsibility. someone at the state level coming in and talking about exactly what happened fearless bring in jonathan ...