the traumatic brain injuries - tbis - haven't. the way i describe it is you're just afraid. am i going to start forgetting things? [male announce tbi is as serious as any battlefield injury. you're just not the guy you used to be. [male announce thankfully va has made important advancements in tbi seeing it, treating it, understanding it. and they're here to help veterans affected by it. i can see that what we're doing here at the polytrauma unit is to move from survivability to thrive-ability. [male announce if you think you or a veteran you know has sustained a brain injury, get screened. welcome back, we hear philippines lost so many people, their homes and businesses as well? >> reporter: yes, it is a very desperate situation, thousands of people lost family and loved ones and homes and property. the philippine president declared a state of national calamity and i and i and i inn call! damage. they are trying to get people out of the hard hit areas and efforts are underway to bring aid in for those people who are so desperate there now. food water, medical supplies in de

the traumatic brain injuries - tbis - haven't. the way i describe it is you're just afraid. am i going to start forgetting things? [male announce tbi is as serious as any battlefield injury. you're just not the guy you used to be. [male announce thankfully va has made important advancements in tbi seeing it, treating it, understanding it. and they're here to help veterans affected by it. i can see that what we're doing here at the polytrauma unit is to move from survivability to thrive-ability. [male announce if you think you or a veteran you know has sustained a brain injury, get screened. if you have ever considered trading stocks but don't have the entire day to devote to watching the market.a new book : the part-time trader: trading stock as part-time venture-- details how to make it happen. joining us now by skype.. the author- ryan mallory. welcome to the show! > >thank you for having me. > >you started out as a part time trader. so how did you make this work for you? > >i was just like any other person in a corporate job that didn't like what he was doing---was frustr

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[male announce tbi is as serious as any battlefield injury. thankfully va has made important advancements in tbi so if you think you or a veteran you know has sustained a brain injury, get screened. dan deming of stutland equities joins us now to talk about that milestone in the market. good morning dan. > >good morning angie. > >you've been bearish on this market. but it's been good to be a bull. does this change your mind at all dan? > >short term i think we talked about this last time i was on. short term i still think that there's some potential for this market to push a bit higher until the end of the year. right now you're seeing the market deal with the fact that this taper talk is back in the market. initialy it was a little detrimental to the market but yesterday we saw the market rally significantly. it's getting a feel for some of the talk and chatter that's been out there. i think right now you're seeing---at least short term---the market being able to handle it at this point. > >what's happening on the floor with vix trading? > >y

the problem with alcohol and tbi is it's disinhibiting, and that's a problem. because then you start getting into trouble. so treatment programs need to be able to assess for tbi or assess for cognitive dysfunctions. and we need screening tools that will allow us to do that. or when you're talking with family members or buddies or partners, you're able to make those assessments because it will help you address the issue because many people, especially early in the recovery process, aren't willing to acknowledge that they have cognitive problem, or they may say, i understand, when in fact they don't. but you're saying, if i heard you correctly, that there may be 50 different variations of-of disabilities that i need to be able to assess for. how do i as a service provider seek the help in order to be able to assess that and not only that, how do we then create a plan, a treatment plan, with the correct methodology and the right components to be able to-to improve an individual's life? it cannot be a cookie-cutter approach, and i think that's another issue- that

[male announce tbi is as serious as any battlefield injury. thankfully va has made important advancements in tbi so if you think you or a veteran you know has sustained a brain injury, get screened. >>> a proposed merger between american airlines and u.s. airways. the justice department is suing to block the merger because of concerns about a potential reduction in competition. today, eric holder said discussions are ongoing, but stressed that any resolution must include landing and takeoff slots at key airports. holder says he hopes the case can be scheduled before the trial. >>> the justices dismissed oklahoma's appeal of a decision -- the oklahoma supreme court ruled the restrictions violated precedence that bars states from imposing an undue burden on abortion rights first recognized in the roe vs. wade decision. >>> there are questions tonight about the discovery of artistic masterpieces confiscated by the nazis and missing for 70 years. about 1500 pieces of art were found in the apartment of the son of an alleged nazi collaborator in mun

tbi. mst and commanders continue to deploy them. my case i was in the field, so i was out there training, a week after being put on a pretty intense medication. you know, i had tremors and cramps and i was told to keep training. >> wait a minute, so you were active duty, you were put on all these medicine an medicines andt sent someplace to recover and be monitors, you just went back out in the field? >> yeah. it's pretty common practice. you go to approach the medical personnel that's out in the field at the time, and the military culture suggests like unless you are about to die, suck it up. >> were you too medicate today function probably, ryan? >> i didn't participate in any of the training sensually. i was sitting on a cot under a shade. they just wanted me to be out there, you know, with the tremors, stomach cramps and, you know, it got scary. i ended up taking myself off, which is also a terrible idea. but, you know, better than the a.m. alternative. >> doctor, this is another portion of the statement that we got from the v.a

was diagnosed with ptsd and tbi. >> i felt as though my service over there was probably some of my best moments of my career. just how productive and how vital everybody's are service was. >> he was award he the purple heart and airman of the year but privately his life was falling apart. >> i was drinking pretty heavily and i knew there were things going on that could probably be looked into as far as the mental aspects of the effects of the deployment. >> less than six months back from deployment, long was involved in a d.u.i. accident in an altercation at a bar near his base. he enrolled in the military substance abuse program. military staff argued on his behalf but he said his commanders refused to connect his misconduct with combats related injuries. >> the soldiers they may be combat, combat veteran. they're not as sharp as they used to be. they want to get rid of them, the easiest way is chapter. >> america tonight spoke with a command are officer, he asked us to protect his identity out of fear of retaliation. >> if they have someone they don't like, they target him. they set u

he knows more about pts and con chronic pain and tbi than anyone i've met. he's the one who said we've got to tell the rest of the story and the love of the families who have also maeds a great sacrifice. >> ptsd is real. i've met too many guys. are we doing enough to help them? >> no. and one of the things the v.a. has done and you and i have some personal experience is the phone call. do you remember that day? i called you a number of times about individuals. not just once. >> that was very early in the morning. that first up with. look, jack is would tell you, they've overmedicated these guys. they've decided that psych troepic medications are the way to go, when in reality, what really helps the most is having someone who is trained to work with them through the terrible injuries that they've suffered. you can see a severed arm. you can see a prosthetic limb. what you can't see is the damage done inside the brain by stheez massive explosions. a lot of these guys would have died in other wars. they're living today so you're seeing more of it. and the good

have some, apparently, testimony or some indication from some of the secretaries of state that the tbi could obtain -- fbi could obtain corporate ownership information from the irs on a form, i guess, called ss4, but corporations have to fill out those forms to get a u.s. taxpayer id number. does that work from the fbi's perspective to try to get the important information that you describe from the irs instead of from the applications for corporate incorporation? >> >> i don't know enough to say, senator. i just don't know. >> so you're not familiar with the argument that the fbi could get that information from the irs? >> i'm not. >> thank you. that's the only questions that i have and just want to thank you all. >> thank you. >> senator levin, if i could go back to your question with respect to benghazi, the one point i would like to offer to the committee is over the course of the last year and several months since the benghazi attacks, we've presented a number of briefings to members of this committee as well as a number of other members, probably over a dozen briefings that presen