Much stronger position on tackles. There are strict rules about tackles that prevent a lot of injuries, particularly at the international level. Also, the absence of helmets , ironically, might be a cause cause for fewer concussions. Could you please talk about the difference between rugby union and American Union and american football, whether or not you have looked at that . And if you have not looked at that, take a look at the new Zealand Rugby union seem and maybe open up a dialogue with the National Rugby team to see whether or not you could learn something from new zealand and maybe they could play more games of the year. Thank you very much. Its interesting. I have heard from a number of folks. This issue is raised repeatedly. The biggest. Is the one you hit on about helmets, the absence certainly changes the way players tackle in the game. We we address this in the book. In many ways, the helmet has made the concussion issue worse. It is overpriced piece of plastic that has em
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Complete forecast in a couple of minutes. John we begin with breaking news. An overnight crash in raleigh. On north new hope road at daily road where Gloria Rodriguez joins with the latest. Good morning, gloria gloria. Gloria we are in breaking news one and this is a section that was closed this morning. This whole stretch north new hope between marsh creek road and east hampton in both directions. The accident was reported at about 2 00 this morning and we have video of that. An s. U. V. Hit a utility pole bringing the lines down. The Raleigh Police Department Said the vehicle went off the road down a small embankment, hit a wooden fence and went into somebodys yard. The male driver was taken to the hospital to be checked but no injuries were reported. Investigation at this time. Back live you can see the road is open. They just reopened it recently. It was closed for a couple of hours this morning. So, the commander says it should be going smoothly for the rush hour and shouldnt affe
Murder trial. New overnight, and suv crash shuts down part of a heavily traveled raleigh road. We kick off the work week with unseasonably warm weather but how long will that last . Happy monday, everyone, thank you for joining us. Im renee chou. Im bill leslie. We begin with breaking news out of Cleveland County west of charlotte where a couple died after a crash in a house explosion. It happened around 10 30 last night, it happened around then triggering explosions at their home. At least two people killed, fire crews are on the scene cleaning up debris and making sure the gas is turned on. Two decades after a Shaw University student is murder, a jury could start deliberating against the man accused of killing her. Investigators charged chris mcqueen. Wrals julia sims joins us outside the justice center. Reporter jurors announced it would not present any evidence leaving them to consider results of a new dna test as well as testimony from witnesses about things they recall from 20 ye
, the surviving suspect of the airport bombings. It was also announced that the airport in brussels will remain closed not only through today better tomorrow as well. Meanwhile we sat down with former u. S. Ambassador to belgium, brenda schoonover. She served from 1992 to 1996 and was there again in the early part of this century. Her job was to oversee the u. S. Embassy and serve as the president s representative to the country. Today she lives in chapel hill and of course is very saddened about the attacks. She actually had friends in town from belgium when the news broke. It so happened that the two friends that were here with me visiting live in belgium. And, one is unamerican, and one is a woman who worked tassone is american one is american and one is a woman who worked for the European Union and used to take the subway every day to work. For all of us. I am feeling very, very sad for the people of belgium, and also for the people of europe, in general. I think we are going throu