PBS NewsHour

How will ALS ice bucket challenge money be spent?

Clip: 08/22/2014 | 7m 1s

From George W. Bush to Kermit the Frog, scores of celebrities and thousands of others have posted videos of ice water being dumped over their heads. It’s all to raise money to battle ALS, a disease that destroys nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord, for which there is no cure. Judy Woodruff talks to Barbara Newhouse, president and CEO of the ALS Association, the charity at the center.

Aired: 08/22/14

Rating: NR

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