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The doctor says he may have found a way using an eye into the brain. >> normally we do not think of an eye an engs r extension of the brain. the back of the eye, the retina, actually developing from the brain itself. so it's brain tissue. >> reporter: a buildup inside the brain can start to develop years before the first symptoms and in fact those same placques develop in eye tissue as well. >> the beauty, a non-invasive repeatable high resolution test to be able to see these protein changes that are the hallmark of alzheimer's disease very early. >> reporter: and joining me now from los angel...

The nation dave, former nfl player who won the super bowl with the tampa bay buccaneers, joy reid and dr. gary small and author of the alzheimers prevention program. it's nice to have you all here on super bowl sunday. >> great to be here. >> i know. all that. i want to start with you, doctor. i want to think a little bit about if we can now diagnose cte in the brains of living individuals, does that create an imperative for the nfl to test players for signs? >> we don't know how much this new test is going to apply to the nfl players until we look at it more. we have to follow people over tim...

League." dave and roman and dr. gary small. i want to come to you first. >> sure. >> first, explain what the rooney rule is. it's actually one of my favorite examples of what i think is affirmative action that works and ought to be implemented in a lot of different systems. >> i very much appreciate being here, melissa. i like the jersey. we are proud of the success of the last ten years. we started this with the late john yn yny cochran. over a dozen african-american or coaches of color have been selected over the last ten years. there's been quite a bit of success. as you noted, the success ...

by a car and everything was turned upside down. how did she recover? she'll teach us. then, the crisis in america. we call it that. it's alzheimers disease. the numbers are alarming and on the rise. this year, there will be an estimated 5.4 million americans living with the disease. a lot of people asking about the numbers all the time. there's a new report out from the alzheimers association saying an ageing baby boomer generation will cause that number to rapidly escalate. you could guess that. they say the number of cases will increase from 5.4 million to 16 million by the year ...

i'm going to introduce you to a model and actress who thought she was invincible. like was great, then she got hit by a car and everything was turned upside down. how did she recover? she'll teach us. then, the crisis in america. we call it that. it's alzheimers disease. the numbers are alarming and on the rise. this year, there will be an estimated 5.4 million americans living with the disease. a lot of people asking about the numbers all the time. there's a new report out from the alzheimers association saying an ageing baby boomer generation will cause that number to rapidly esc...