ROMANS: There's been a big jump in the number of American troops diagnosed with brain injuries from that Iranian attack on U.S. bases in Iraq this month. Remember last week president Trump called them headaches and downplayed their severity. More now from Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr.</s>BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT: Christine, Laura, the Pentagon now acknowledging it has 16 additional cases of U.S. troops reporting traumatic brain injury and concussion. Those troops now diagnosed with that. That brings the total of troops injured up to 50. Now, 30 of them have been returned to duty in Iraq. So, that is really good news. But a total of 50 troops injured at the hands of Iran when it launched those ballistic missiles against the Al Asad Airbase in Iraq back on January 8th, that set off this massive blast wave from the thousands of pounds of explosives causing the traumatic brain injury, the concussion symptoms. And in fact, the Pentagon is very much anticipating there could be even additional injuries. They've been assessing about 200 troops that were in the immediate blast area. So they are very prepared to see additional cases come forwards in the next several days, and they very much want troops if they are experiencing symptoms to report them -- Christine, Laura.</s>JARRETT: All right, Barbara Starr. Thank you so much. Well, the remains of two U.S. service members have been recovered from the wreckage of that military aircraft that crashed in Afghanistan on Monday. The victims' names are being withheld until their next of kin have been notified. Pentagon officials tell CNN U.S. forces destroyed remnants of the aircraft and disabled sensitive equipment at the crash site. Reports also indicates there was a distress call from the crew indicating some type of problem.</s>ROMANS: All right. Two NBA legends pay tribute to their fellow Laker great inside the house that Kobe built. Andy Scholes with the "Bleacher Report", next.
50 U.S. Troops with Brain Injuries from Iran Attack