Page 152 - Puberty News Today

Hundreds injured. they have been taken to two hospitals in peshawar that are just overwhelmed in treating those who have arrived. the taliban, through a spokesperson to cnn, has confirmed that they are in contact with the remaining suicide bombers. two have been killed. the one blew himself up. one was killed by paramilitary forces. that leaves four. they have been instructed to spare minor children, but to target children who have reached the age of puberty. this is just a horrific attack that ...

Told by sources in the taliban they were instructed the attackers were instructed to leave children who were underage but to attack and look out for kids who had reached puberty. so most of the children who have come out of the school who are injured are boys and this operation is still under way with par are military troops cordoning off the area. errol. >> sophia, tell me what else -- i.d. i understand its the pakistans taliban behind this providing or suggesting why theyre deciding to hit a t...

Welcome back to our viewers in the united states and around the world. im wolf blitzer reporting from washington. lets get back to our top story. slaughter in pakistan. after one of pakistans bloodiest days, there are defiant pledges to strike back against terrorism. but we must remember, this is a country that has been gripped by an insurgency now for more than a decade. the pakistan taliban, other terror groups, theyve killed tens of thousands since pakistan joined the united states in the war...

Pakistan. a school. gunmen have stormed the school in peshawar. at least 20 people dead, including 17 children. this is according to the health minister of pakistan. lets get to amanisha with the story. >> reporter: this is turning out to be a horrific attack. taliban has claimed responsibility saying it sent in six attackers with suicide vests. those attackers were given orders to target anyone in that school who seemed like they might be, you know, reaching puberty and up. they were supposed t...

>> christianne 126 people. how does slaughtering school children advance any groups agenda? >> well you can well ask that and we all ask that and we wonder how -- they dont care, alisyn. they do not care. theyre not bound by any of the norms that the international law and humanity and normal human emotion would actually demand. they see it as a quid pro quo. and you saw their chilling attempt to differentiate between very young children and so-called you know children reaching puberty. they dont...

Qaeda or any of these other terror groups? >> the pakistani taliban are a conglomeration of fighters that were formed in around 2007. and since then theyve been in a campaign of violence right across pakistan which has claims tens of thousands of lives. theyve also launched attacks against more than a thousand schools in that period in pakistan. this is a group with close ties over the years to al qaeda, offered al qaeda sanctuary. it is also a group itself that has launched plots against the we...

84. there are reports surfacing that it may be more than that. we are doing our best to check on these numbers. we also understand that two of the attackers are now dead. one apparently blew himself up. the other was killed by paramilitary forces. this is the information we have from the chief minister of the province of peshawar is situated. the city in the north of pakistan. it is an area. we have seen a lot of intensification in the operations of pakistani taliban. the taliban in a chilling s...

Children who seem to be reaching around the age of puberty and up. we know that more than 60 or some of those are children. we know children injured are between the ages of 12 and 16. this is a shocking attack in peshawar. >> lets make sure we have the details. an ongoing situation in peshawar. a hostage situation. pakistani taliban storming a school. at least 84 people killed. more than 100 at this point injured. attackers wearing suicide vests in the situation where they are holding hostages. ...

Pitch counts are at historic lows. these injuries are set in motion in the developing elbow. so this is something where the groundwork is set by micro tears 18 ligament when the elbow is developing. during puberty, when the arm is growing. what were seeing at the major league level is something that can be preventsed at the major league level. it has to be prevented in the developing pitcher. >> you say before they even get to the big leagues they show up as good as they may be they show up perh...

All-time high. so, how do you reconcile those two things? >> thats right. theres no question that major league pitchers are pitching less than they ever have before. pitch counts are kind of at historic lows. but these injuries are set in motion in the developing elbow, right? so, this is something where the groundwork is set by microtears in the ligament when that elbow is developing, you know, during puberty when the arms growing and so what were seeing at the major league level is something t...