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The throes of cte. so little is known about cte. and there's no way to determine while the players are still alive if they have it. but a study hoping to change that lost one of its biggest backers just this week. guess who? that's right, the nfl. espn's outside the lines reportreport ed yesterday that the nfl vetoed for the study.eviously set aside i want to talk to christine brennan. christine, we should say this cte study is going to get funded any way. the national institutes of health is going to pay for it, but why would the nfl back out? >> it's mind boggling. embrace it, right? you're ...

>> it was really shocking and very scary. >> reporter: dr. robert stern was part of the team that studied owen thomas' brain. >> number one, he was only 21. and number two, he never had a single concussion. >> reporter: instead, stern believes owen thomas had what are called subconcussions. >> a subconcussion is the same thing as a concussion in terms of the brain cells being temporarily disturbed, not working right. but without the symptoms of concussion. >> reporter: no symptoms make subconcussions particularly dangerous. according to dr. stern, hits add up. the more practices with full cont...

Watching history unfold in ferguson. we see the protests, marches, rallies, and yesterday the st. louis programs players showed the hands up don't shoot pose that's become symbolic of the ferguson protest. young people are watching this unfold and many of them have a lot of questions and maybe no one to talk to. an eighth grade teacher in suburban pittsburgh says he couldn't sit back and not address ferguson after coming into an early kw eerily quiet c the day after the grand jury decided not to indict michael brown so he did the best he could. which brings back that question, what do teachers...

They just need the support to do it. >> so, robert, i can hear parents out there sort of freaking out about this because you don't want -- most parents don't want teachers implanting things in kids' minds. so how should that conversation go in the classroom? >> so one of the things that we thought about in the d.c. public school schools was through the leadership of our chancellor chai ya henderson to think about what that document would be and one of the things that was critical as i put it together was to give students the space to share their feelings without being judged but also give teac...

Times the length of recorded human history and how that can ever be economic is for somebody -- somebody's got to make that case. >> robert stern, i guess you're the perfect man to make it, so come on. just your debunked your entire claim. >> i understand that. the cost thing is a red herring. we haven't built nuclear plants in 0 years in this country. we got a few going up now. you could have said the exact same thing about solar a few years ago. solar plummeted, what, 1,000% in the last decade because we created a market through subsides and mass produce them in china now. the cost has come ...