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but that could rise even higher, as officials carry out more search and rescue missions today and work to access areas cut off from flooding. more than 800,000 customers are still without power in the state. and new today, the ft. myers police department is warning residents to be on the lookout for hurricane recovery scams. ft. myers beach will be closed for the next week. as some are demanding answers over whether lee county ordered mandatory evacuations soon enough. >> every loss of life you have to say to yourself, what could you do differently next time. >> should that have been...

Ukraine. >> those were russian flags torn from the roof of a government building and dropped right there in eastern ukraine, just days after this city was illegally annexed by russia. plus, a week after a scary moment on the told for the miaii dolphins quarterback, the nfl players union fires a neuro consultant who was involved in the concussion evaluation. the changes the nfl is makinto their protocols. [ coughing/sneezing ] [ door knocking ]

Saturday, the nfl and the nfl players association began conversations around the use of the term "gross motor instability" within their concussion protocol. one of the gauges which doctors determine whether a player can and should return to play after head trauma. the nfl has fired the neuro trauma consultant. she was involved in clearing dolphins quarterback tua tagovailoa to return to the game against buffalo after he hit his head on the turf. the dolphins maintain they followed protocols. four case later, his head was slammed to the turf again. he was taken off the field, diagnosed with a c...

More focus can be placed on players health. here he is. >> there is tests you have to take. w we've had to do stuff like baseline tests, long 30-minute tests, all types of crazy stuff. so there is stuff in place to make sure guys are good and guys are healthy. i'm sure he wanted to may, wanted to be out there with his team. he's the franchise quarterback, right? i'm sure the organization wanted him to play. but if he was like in a situation where, mm, like it wasn't smart for him to be out there, i would like to think they wouldn't have put him out there. >> so fred, the question still remains...

Injury. i immediately tweeted, i talked to "the new york times" about it, there's an article saying it's obvious he had a concussion, there's no wiggle room. so it was a dramatic failure on the medical team and the coaching staff to start the players back in with a clear concussion. i thought they would at least hold him out and claim it was the back injury, but to play him on thursday was preposterous. and the worst case scenario happened. >> you tweeted thursday before the thursday game, saying that if he plays, it's a massive step back for concussion care in the nfl. especially after all th...