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Pee wee players, nfl players. what do you do to keep kids safe? >> i think all of the things we have done since the nfl instituted new guidelines all of the way down to youth sport. i think it's really understanding the signs and symptoms of concussion, realizing you have to pull a player out if he or she has symptoms, err on the side of being conservative. evaluate the player and then get a health care professional or physician to make the diagnose of whether or not they actually had a concussion. >> dr. bals, coach ditka, thank you very much. a very important subject and a lot of people payi...

In high-impact sports. coach, i want to start with you. how big of a problem is this? >> well, you know, football is a violent game. people hit hard. you put a helmet on somebody and it becomes a security blanket. people don't have fear striking with the head or in the head because the helmet provides protect but when you collide helmet-to-helmet, a lot of things happen to the brain. you can't legislate hitting out of football because it is a physical sport. what the league is doing on concussions, they're doing a good job because they're holding a guy out with a concussion for at least one we...

Lips, he says he's willing to die as what he calls a martyr before giving up rule. if things continue the way they're going, he might have no choice in how he goes out. it's going to be crucial in the next day or so how the paramilitaries, not the mercenaries, bae hav. they have no qualms about shooting people in the streets. >> appreciate it, mike. now is your chance to choose the news. we'll tell you about three stories and you vote. by text message what you want to hear. in the tent with moammar gadhafi. jonathan mann visited libya twice to see him. small business owners, they're trying t...

30-mile stretch of i-5. the interstate reopened last night. in orange county, california, sheriff's deputys are trying to find a disorganized robber. it took him six long minutes to pull a gun on this convenience store clerk. he eventually took off with the cash and cigarettes. now to nashville, where things got a little rowdy at the vanderbilt/tennessee game. a student wound up with a bloody nose when the vanderbilt mascot moved through the crowds. school officials are looking into it. this question is facebook founder mark zuckerberg a villain or hero? that depends on who you ask. we e...

Ground it's very unpredictable, and then you also have the leader who is unpredictable. at this point no one is saying that there is any direct threat to those americans. >> okay. thank you for clarifying that. thank you, jill. we want to go across country for stories that cnn affiliates are covering. our first stop is mount vernon, washington. a familiar site this winter. there is heavy snow taking traffic from slow now to just stopping. a lot of folks have just left their cars where they were along a 30-mile stretch of i-5. the interstate re-opened late last night. in orange county, cali...