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President biden will be back in virginia again. mcauliffe has said that he intends for biden to come back. but all of this is aimed at turning out voters, democratic base voters, those same voters that delivered biden a win in the commonwealth in 2020. there are concerns that democrats are not engaged enough and that s why you ve seen mcauliffe repeatedly turn to tying glenn youngkin to donald trump throughout this campaign. the aim of that, if mcauliffe can successfully tie youngkin and trump together, the aim is to really see whether democrats are still motivated by trump and turn out because of their fear of trump coming back and republicans rising again. dan, thank you so much for your reporting. i want to turn to this, a big development in a story we ve been following closely. a big move by the nfl. the new york times is reporting that the league has agreed to ending the use of a controversial practice known as race norming, to calculate payments to players for past concussi ....
some days are better than others. some days noon still doesn t feel normal. reporter: at first, they were told he qualified to receive part of the settlement, only to have the league appeal the decision. a judge agreed with the nfl, deciding an error were made. the couple were never told what it was. in the summer of 2020, the gordons joined tens of thousands of others, calling for an end to the race norming. there was a different door for african-americans and a different door for white players? brain damage is brain damage. reporter: in june of this year, the nfl together with attorneys for the players announced they would come up with new protocols. the league has denied that the system was discriminatory, but in a statement at the time wrote, everyone agrees race-based norms should be replaced but no off the shelf alternative exists. these experts are working to solve this decades old issue. adding the process would be retroactive for players affected by race norming. ....
reporter: some medical professionals call the process outdated and oversimplified. it s imprecise, it s bad medicine, and it perpetuates false ideas about differences in intelligence by the color of skin. reporter: but it became part of the protocol used in the nfl settlement and effectively meant black players had to score more poorly than white players on cognition tests. the claims process was approved by a judge after the league and the players legal team reached an agreement, but many of the players say they knew nothing about the race norming, including amman gordon he played in the nfl for eight years, retiring in 2012 do you have any sense of how many concussions you may have gotten over that period of time i have no idea. i mean, innumerable amounts. reporter: now he suffers from headaches, anxiety and panic attacks. imagine your brain being frozen until about noon. if we re lucky. some days are better than others some days are ....
Players, so submit a new agreement on how claims will be evaluated. it comes after a controversial practice done by the league was brought to light. the practice known as race norming was being used to evaluate whether or not players had dementia and qualified for dementia on that basis. it had been used since the 90s to measure cognitive decline. now it is being thrown out. stephanie gosk has more. do you have any ens of how many concussions you may have gotten? i have no idea. in 2015 a neurologist diagnosed him with dementia at age 33. i wake up in the morning and ....
It s like imagine your brain being frozen until about noon. he has never received any of the nearly billion dollar settlement for concussion related injuries. you think it s because he is black? i absolutely think it is because he is black. last summer they learned the protocols for the settlement had race norming. the test cores were based on age, education, and race. what it meant is that black players had to score lower than white players to qualify to be paid. even though the process for distributing the settlement was originally agreed on, many players say they didn t realize. they were first developed because blacks in this country on average experienced more social disadvantages than whites. some experts say they re over ....