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♪ ♪ hello, everybody. thank you for joining us. i'm fredricka whitfield in atlanta. my colleague boris sanchez is in ft. myers, florida. we'll get to you in a moment. ian's death toll in florida is rising today. that number climbing to 67.
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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 done differently? >> unfortunately, we can't bring anything back. we'll look and find out. i want to know because it's an issue i had as governor trying to stay what did i learn to make sure we don't lose a life? >> "the new york times" had one of the six models, one model
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said 40% probability. and that's what they're hanging their story on. we have done everything we can from using state resources, federal resources. >> boris sanchez is in ft. myers, florida, continuing our live coverage from there. have you been hearing from a lot of residents, people trying to recover and find loved ones, just assess the damage, have they been uttering complaints about should there have been a mandatory evacuation that came sooner? >> reporter: fred, i spoke to a couple of people yesterday who said that they would have likely left the ft. myers area had they known that the hurricane was going to go in their direction. obviously, the evacuation order was issued tuesday morning by county officials. there were indications as soon as sunday night, according to documents obtained by "the new york times" and reviewed by cnn that indicate that in the
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destructive pathway of a hurricane, the plan here in lee county is to leave if there are indications that the storm surge was going to be over a certain height at a certain percentage. it appears as though, according to all review of the documents, that an evacuation order should have been issued by officials potentially sooner than it was. we are going to dig in and continue demanding answers from officials as folks tell us that they are having a difficult time trying to recover from the damage done by hurricane ian. we're standing just a few short miles from ft. myers beach. we're still in the area of ft. myers. that area inaccessible as recovery efforts continue there. notably, it's no longer a search and rescue in that area we're told. it's now a recovery. that has an enormous implication for the number of fatalities. that number expected to go up.
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at least 67 people killed here in florida because of hurricane ian. i can tell you, where we are standing in this marina, it was essentially washed back into the waterways. several buildings here totally destroyed. i counted at least a dozen vessels lifted out of the marina and strewn through this community. i came back from walking through several hundred feet of m mangroves with one gentleman who had been working here since 1986. his boat was lifted out of the marina, and it wound up -- i believe that's it right there. he wound up having to cut through these mangroves. it turns out it was in tact. one minor abrasion to the vote that led to a leak. other than that, his boat was in tact. he was in tears telling us how
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he built that boat with his father. just one example of so many property that has been destroyed here. of course, keeping in mind that so many lost so much more. the death toll, at least 67 in florida. flooding, of course, remains a major roadblock for these recovery efforts. as we said before, getting to ft. myers beach sim pocket. getting to captiva island, also extremely difficult. we want to take you to one area there's been hard hit and is seeing issues with infrastructure. cnn's nadia romero is live for us in arcadia, florida. when we spoke to you earlier this morning, we saw that the road behind you was blocked because of water. people there say they feel stuck because of the flooding. has the water receded more? are supplies finally coming in? it looks like folks are getting stuff handed to them behind you. >> reporter: yeah, boris, finally more supplies have been
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coming in all morning. there are four boats that just arrived moments ago. this last boat now is being up loaded by volunteers, community members, and members of the national guard who have the mres here that they are loading up so people can have access to them. people who need it here, whose roads have been blocked. so highway 70 here has been blocked since the day after the storm. and that's why you have to use boats to get water, mres, pet food, medical supplies, diapers, all of the above, to get here. if you look down the road, this should be highway 70. you should be able to take this road, pass over two bridges, and make your way to palm beach or ft. myers. obviously you can't do that any more. we spoke with the emergency county manager of the country here about what it takes to run this operation. take a listen. >> we have a semi truckload
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full, trying to get over here. what we're trying to do is the national guard and with the help of the community, they are bringing these mres to the other side. these smaller boats that you see coming back and forth, are helping bring mres back and forth. because the boats are so small, it's taking a lot of trips. >> reporter: it takes a lot of trips because you have to think about these boats are small, so there's not a lot of space, and weight becomes an issue. once you pile on the cases of water, the weight rises quickly. so there's multiple trips that have to happen. that can only happen starting when there's daylight. as you know, there's no electricity, it's very dark. there's concerns about gators and snakes. once we have daylight and they can start these distribution operations up again. behind me, they have started to file up the mres and bottles of
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water. just yesterday, the supplies were going to people's truck and they were off and on their way. now they're able to pile up some of these resursresources for an who needs them. coming up, we expect florida governor ron desantis to make his way to arcadia. we'll bring you his comments coming up. >> i'm sure he'll be asked whether evacuation orders in places like lee county were issued when they should have been or perhapings they were delayed. there is obviously a tremendous amount of need. we're feeling that too here in ft. myers. at this marina, we heard from one man who rode the storm out here at his business, which is effectively leveled. it's barely standing. he came up to us this morning asking for food, saying he hadn't had anything substantial
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for several days. this is the kind of devastation that joe biden and jill biden will face when they travel to florida and puerto rico also to survey damage caused by hurricanes ian and fiona respectively. we want to take you live to the white house to jasmine wright who has details about these upcoming trips. bring us up to speed what joe biden plans to do. >> reporter: it will be a busy week for the president and the first lady who go to puerto rico on monday to survey damage after hurricane fiona and then florida on wednesday to survey dam after hurricane ian. we don't know exactly what they plan to do on the ground or where they will go. but a lot of planning and consideration goes into these trips when the president goes to survey damage on the ground. just because of how large the foot print that he leaves behind. of course, not only does he bring the secret service, but local officials have to redirect to protect the president, tour
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around with him, that could be doing other rescue and recovery efforts. yesterday, right before the white house announced these two trips to puerto rico and florida, the white house and joe biden was at the congressional black caucus dinner. he vowed for his administration to do everything it will take to put together these rescue and recovery efforts in both the locations. take a listen. >> our hearts are heavy after the def vastating hurricanes an storms in puerto rico, florida and south carolina. so we owe puerto rico a hell of a lot than they have gotten. we're working to do whatever it takes to help search and rescue recovery and rebuilding. it's going to take a long time, so we cannot tire. >> reporter: we just heard from the president. on saturday, before he gave that speech, he received an update on
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hurricane ian, focused on power and water restoration in florida and the damage reports from south carolina. something i think we can expect when he's on the ground in puerto rico and florida this week, he becomes that kind of consolidator in chief, really engaging as we have seen before, at sites of tragedy, with those who have lost a lot in this situation. we don't know exactly what officials he will be meeting on the ground, but we know over the last week that he has had three separate conversations with governor ron desantis. they have had their political differences over the last year over a multitude of issues, including immigration. but for the last week, we have seen them provide support for the people of florida. as this week, if the president would meet with desantis while he was on the ground, he said that it was not about politics. he said if desantis wanted to meet, he would meet with him. of course, we're waiting to hear
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more details from the white house whether or not that happens. boris? >> jasmine wright, we know you'll be watching closely and will bring us the latest from the white house. thank you so much. let's send it back to fredricka whitfield, who is in atlanta. fred, obviously, there is so much devastation here in southwest florida. so many stories to share and communicate. but i think one of the things we want to remind viewers of is there is a tremendous amount of need, and every little bit that they can contribute goes a long way right now. >> a variety of stories. just the gentleman approaching you all asking for food, that is a microcosm of what day-to-day struggle has been like for so many for many days. thank you so much, boris. for more information on how you can help victims of hurricane ian, go to cnn.com/impact. still to come this hour, a major military victory for
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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 ]
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strategic victory for the ukrainians. but the city that we entered after president volodymyr zelenskyy said the city had been cleared of russian troops, it is ghostly. very few locals still there. in fact, very few ukrainian soldiers even on the streets. many of them have been told to move on to the next objective, another part of the russian supply line further to the east. significant damage done. certainly to the railway. the railway station. many key buildings across that particular town. but one thing that we did not find that we had been expecting to see, they felt that possibly hundreds of prisoners had been taken and a large number of casualties have been inflicted on russia there. we did not see signs of large numbers of russian dead or any russian prisoners. it may be that perhaps they had been taken away and cleaned up already. but some locals said to us, the
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russian withdrawal had been relatively orderly. it had in fact occurred about two days ago, so sometime during friday. the russians got up, got on their armored vehicles and left. the suggestion had been some of the outcry on social media by russian social media users linked to the military may in fact, have been designed to create a smoke screen that there was chaos and panic. but there is one extraordinary thing about that timing, that if they did indeed leave on friday, then just as vladamir putin was standing up in the kremlin signing pieces of paper which he falsely claimed where i am standing that is now part of russia, as he stood in red square chanting about victory, his military was conducting a withdrawal from lyman. so it might suggest he wasn't getting the full picture of how badly his forces were functions. but lyman certainly in ukrainian hands. the occasional rattle of small
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arms fire on the outskirts, as there may still be some russians in areas of the town, but locals are just bewildered how fast their lives have gone back and forth. one woman saying, we don't know what's happening. one day i wear one hat, the next day another hat, and burst into tears at how hard it's been for them to go through the violence in the past months. but certainly the strategic hub of lyman fully in ukrainian hands. very few people on the streets at all. no sign of russian troops there at all. minimal ukrainian numbers. but a phenomenal strategic victory for the ukrainians that will likely have a roll-on effect to russian positions in the days ahead. >> nick paton walsh, thank you so much. it is extremely unbelievable endurance and, you know, real resistance that so many
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ukrainians continue to demonstrate. thank you so much. let's bring in ivo daldor, he was the u.s. pafambassador to t united nations during the obama administration and also an author. ambassador, so good to see you. >> glad to be here. i was ambassador to nato, not the united nations. >> sorry about that. big direction. thank you. ambassador, despite the military losses piling up, putin is pushing forward with this illegal annexation. to whom is he sending this message, is it the region or the world? >> well, first of all, he's sending the message back to the people in russia. he's not had a very good week. he had a partial mobilization that's really gone terribly wrong. more people are leaving the country that have been able to be mobilized so far. he's lost a key strategic area that nick just talked about in
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lyman, an area that was necessary for the defense and taking control of the entire donbas region, which he is now losing, as well. and he is finding that the continuation of this war is not leading to where he wants it to lead, which is the control of -- declaring the control of parts of ukraine, annexing it. but is losing on the battlefield, and that's his biggest problem right now. the military side is not on the same level as what he's trying to achieve politically. >> so what or who can stop putin? >> well, ultimately, only vladamir putin and those around him can stop him. it's clear that this is a man who has not learned the first law of holes, which is you stop
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digging. it's not clear that he's ever going to stop. unless people around him can tell him, we need to shift course and perhaps we need to have new leadership. my fear is that he's going to continue to push and push and push. and that's one of the concerns we have. he has one big weapon left, nuclear weapons. he continues to threaten the use of these weapons. he did it again in his speech on friday, saying that this is a possibility. and there is this worry that now he's declared part of ukraine russian territory, he might be tev tempted to use nuclear weapons. the good news, the president of the iunited states and everyone else made very clear the consequences would be catastrophic for russia, for him, and as a result, we hope that saner minds will prevail. but it is a dangerous time. >> on the issue of that continued nuclear weapons
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threat, here's the u.s. defense secretary lloyd austin telling cnn of his assessment of putin's willingness to use nuclear weapons. >> there are no checks on mr. putin. just as he made the irresponsible decision to invade ukraine, you know, he could make another decision. but i don't see anything right now that would lead me to believe that he has made such a decision. >> so, somewhat are your views on that? >> i think he's right. all the intelligence that he wear about indicates that there was no signs of imminent or possible use of nuclear weapons. but secretary austin said this is a decision that really one man has in his own hands, it's vladamir putin's decision. once and if he makes that decision, the consequences would be horrific. the key for us is to make it
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absolutely clear that the west stands united, is fully behind ukraine. ukraine is going to recapture in one form or another, through diplomacy or military means, the territory the russians have occupied. and the threat or use of nuclear weapons is not going to change course. that's fundamentally the message that needs to be sent to vladamir putin. and it is being sent, i think, by nato, by the united states, by all of our allies in europe. as long as we're united on that, i think in the end putin is going to find he's on the short end of the stick. >> all right. former ambassador to nato, big apologies for our error at the very topop. thank you so much. >> my plpleasure. all right. next, we'll return to southwest florida where the daunting recovery effort has just begun. stay with us. moving his money into his investment account in real time and that's... how you collect coins. youroney never stops working for you with merrill,
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welcome back to the cnn newsroom. i'm boris sanchez coming to you live from ft. myers, florida, where recovery efforts are underway. as searchers are combing through the rubble, trying to find those still unaccounted for. slowly officials tell us search and rescue effort is turning into a search and recovery effort. as of today, hurricane ian's death toll in the state stands at 67. we understand that number likely to climb in the next few hours as teams get entry into areas that were previously cut off. for folks now able to access
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places like this marina in ft. myers, they are surveying the damage done by hurricane ian. in the last hour or so, actually trudged through hundreds of feet of mangroves, swamped with a bot captain that operated out of this marina since 1986. this is lewis mcdonald. he ran mac attack, a ship he built with his father and used to run his business for decades. he would go fishing for shark in the summer and all sorts of fish, as the winter months came on. we were able to get access to his boat. he became emotional talking about the fact that even though his boat got lifted up by this storm, a storm surge that was in the tens of feet, 20, if not more feet high, his boat was still relatively in tact. there was only a small hole, and the way it landed on the mangroves, he believes he can
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salvage it. he calls it a miracle. i want you to listen to part of my conversation with captain mac this morning. we're standing in a mangrove. i counted a dozen plus boats around us, and yours is relatively in tact. >> yes. it's not damaged compared to the rest of them. >> how does that feel? >> that feels great. now my nervousness is getting it out with the crane. >> you have been at this marina since 1986. >> correct, right out of hool. >> you were telling me this is blood, sweat and tears. >> yes, my father and i built the boat, not the hull, but everything you see, the cab, the bridge, the decking, some of the stringers for the engines, we put all that in ourselves and a few laters he died of cancer. but i know a lot of people lost their boats. i'm not trying to make my boat better than theirs. but for me personally, it's not
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just my boat and my business, it's part of my family. and i was close to my dad. real close. >> it's a america lt. >> yes, a miracle. >> what would you say to the folks having to rebuild? >> take your time. we have to find a place that allows us to do work on boats. there's not going to be any place. don't overdo it. i'm not a young kid any more. i would like to say i'm in good shape. maybe it was emotions. but you work a couple of hours, take an hour break or something. cool yourself down, drink some water. >> this may come off as a weird question, you don't have to answer. but i wonder if your dad was
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looking down on you now, what do you think he would say? >> i'm proud of you. i prepared for at least a ten-foot storm surge, and i tied the boat up to lots of different pilings. i want to say over 16 dock lines way away from the boat. i did a video for insurance to show everything was being done right. i tied everything down so it wouldn't blow away. and it worked. >> so this is the dock. how far away are we from the marina right now? >> i would say 600 feet from where the boat was initially tied up. and it came of the power lines, because they're all still standing. it had to float over top of them. so these high water. >> so overall, this is one of the best possible outkocomes. >> right.
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i had a hole about the size of my thumb on the star board side. that's where i was near early this morning with tools, ground out the hole, patched the hole, in case the water does rise. that's some damage on the railing. but other than that, the mangrove trees, which was nice the way the water settled, the speed it did, kind of like a sponge, i guess. as the boat settled -- >> incredible. >> since my dad and i built the boat and i've been doing this since '95, to me, it wasn't just a boat or a business. it's part of my family. sorry. so i'm thankful that god spared
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it and let it come down like this. now i just need a good crane operator to get it from here to the road without destroying it. >> our thanks to captain mac and his wiwife loretta for sharing their story. still much more to come from ft. myers and across the region affected by hurricane ian. stay with cnn. we're back after this. who create your new bath, it just fits. bath fitter. visit bathfitter.com to book your free consultation. dry skin is sensitive skin, too. and it's natural. that's why aveeno® daily moisture lotion and body wash are formulated toe gentle on dry skin. together this duo locks in moisture all day. for softer, healthier looking skin. proven on skin like yours. aveeno®. healthy. it's our nature.™
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the nfl's concussion policies might be changing following two very scary injuries to the dolphins' quarterback. this past week was a devastating week and a devastating hit for the player. the national football league and nfl players association releasing a joint statement saying both sides agree modifications are needed to enhance player safety. here's more. >> reporter: at least one change is already being made, fred.
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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 concussion. he was cleared to fly back to miami with the team later that night. he remains in concussion protocol. star defender jalen ramsey says while safeguards are in place,
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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, why was tua tagovailoa allowed to go back on the field in the game last sunday? he's expected to be interviewed as part of the ongoing joint investigation by the nfl and the players association in the coming days. >> all right. thank you so much. let's talk more about all of this. i want to bring in chris
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nuwinski for more. a neuro scientist and the author of "head games, the global concussion crisis." chris, so good to see you. there is so much to evaluate here, especially for those of us, the laypersons, but you are an expert in this field. so i would love your perspective on what you are observing, starting with the sunday game against the bills when he took that hit to tua tagovailoa. taking that hit and then your thoughts were, what did you see? >> so tua showed five distinct signs of concussion, and should have been held out for the rest of the game. he grabbed his helmet, he stumbled when he got up, he did a shake the cobwebs, and he fell. and then he had to be held up by his teammates. so i was certain he wasn't coming back. i was in absolute shock that the dolphins claimed it was another
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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 that has been learned. and publicly learned over the last few years. so help us understand all the people surrounding this player and other players. there's the neurologic consultant who might be on the
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sidelines, who would weigh in. so who or -- who failed tua? there were all of these people to observe, just like you did through the television set, who failed him? >> everybody in the dolphins organization and the nfl failed tua. you have the team doctor and the unaffiliated doctor, both i don't know what their training is on this, but they blew it dramatically. this has happened before. that's why the nfl requires them to view the video, just in case they didn't see the play live. so they have no excuse, and i'm glad to see the doctor was fired. i don't think the team doctor should be in charge of nfl players any more. the dolphins will be slow to let him go for legal reasons. and the coaches can overrule the
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to doctors. they saw what they saw. so that was just a lack of guts. and then we're talking about the ownership and the coaches making that mistake on monday, tuesday, wednesday, saying we'll just let it slide. the reason i tweeted before the game, i saw the nfl promoting the game as a big thursday night game. i was like now they're complicit. i thought the nfl would be smart enough to call the dolphins and say are you out of your mind? someone has to protect tua, but no one was listening. now we all have to wonder will tua ever play again and what will happen to him in 20 years? and heads need to continue to roll on this. this is someone's life. people die from this stuff every year. they die from the complications years later. and it's -- i'm furious that the example they're trying to set for the country for all the 40 million kids playing the sport. >> you've also called out nfl
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commissioner roger goodell for putting tua at risk for second impact syndrome. explain the implications of sis. elaborate further. >> it happens to a handful of football players and other athletes every year. if you take another blow to the head, it causes swelling to the brain. if you don't get to a trauma center right away, you die. half the people die, half the people survive, but most of them are impaired for the rest of their life. so roger, six years ago, you're running around the country taking credit for this law. you should know better. he's got to have the guts to call down to the dolphins. he knows what a concussion looks like, too. so i always hear this football builds character, i played
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myself. but there's no character anywhere up and down the line for the people who could protect tua. thank god he didn't die, but it's not over. >> it is so sad. it really is so sad. of course, we're hoping and praying for tua and his recovery. short term and long-term. because as you said, you know, it is impactful. one concussion makes an impact for the long term. now you're talking about multiple or even a tight sequence between. it's really sad. chris, thank you so much. appreciate your expertise. >> thank you. > coming up, tonight on cnn join cnn's farareed zakaria as goes inside the highest court in the land after recent controversial decisions. hear why america is losing faith in the u.s. supreme court. fareed's new investigation "supreme powerbegins tonight at 8:00. i got rapisymptom relief with rinvoq. check.
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