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Been at the nfl negotiating table before. some interesting insights. in michigan, what really should have been a day of celebration turned into a day of mourning. 16-year-old wes leonard suddenly collapsed. there he is, number 35, as his high school basketball team was celebrating a big win. just moments before, the star athlete had made the game-winning shot, ending a perfect 20-game season. doctors tried to revive leonard for nearly an hour and a half before he was pronounced dead of a heart attack. earlier we talked with a sports doctor and he says there is more that can be done to monito...

Healthy or more constructive versus less constructive response as a nation and as a community there to this tragedy, is there anything that we have in terms of lessons learned? >> i think the biggest single thing is we need to address adolescent depression much more aggressively. there have been a couple of really blue collar panels, blue ribbon panels that have studied this. they keep coming to the same conclusion. there is about 6% of u.s. adolescents that are clinically depressed. that's not just sad. it's in a deep state that need help of one type or another. whether it's counseling or dru...

Engages the heart and put some strain on the heart is risk for sudden cardiac death. >> rowing, cycling, football. >> that's correct. >> running. >> anything engaging the heart and putting strain on the heart and unfortunately most of the kids don't present with symptom until the time of death. >> that's one of the real problems with this kind of death, isn't it? this is the old saying often the first symptom is sudden death. >> that's correct. we need better tools the try to scene for this to maybe help prevent it from occurring in the future. >> do you think we are anywhere closer to that ki...