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>> tonight, for the first time in almost 20 years, there's a new drug just approved to treat people in the early phases of alzheimer's disease. >> reporter: in june, the food and drug administration green lit the first new drug approved to treat alzheimer's disease since 2003. now, according to the fda, the drug can reduce alzheimer's signature tangles and plaques of attorney proteins that block the neural pathways. but the approval was controversial, which many researchers, including the fda's own advisory committee, saying the evidence wasn't there to show it slows down cognitive decline. ...

Ago. >> now it's, you know, we play russia. we don't play the soviets. there's not that, you know, rivalry between the two countries from a political end, and the professionals play now versus the amateurs, you know that we were in 1980. so i think the whole thing is very, very different from the players to just the scope of the game and what the game bhent to meant to a nation back in 1980 versus what it means today. >> wow. from 34 years ago today, but feels like just yesterday. in fact, i guess in a way -- it did just happen all over again. see that was cool stuff. >> it is cool stuff, and ...

>> from now on, we're going to look for a brighter fuehrer. we're going to look for a united community, a prosperous community, and the negativity over the last two years will go away in no time. in afghanistan today, three american service members were killed by a gunman wearing an afghan military uniform. it happened here in the unstable helmand province. we heard a few details and about a couple of attacks on coalition forces this week alone. chris lawrence is at the pentagon. chris, what happened today in the helmand province? >> we're told the soldier was part of a coalition f...