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Balance out great performance against breaking the rules. where do the fans stand on that one, mark? >> well, listen, i think there are fans quite upset with alex rodriguez and this steroid era. but i go back to my previous point. i think baseball profited. home runs were up. runs per game were up. baseball somewhere in 98, books were written. the sport was rejuvenated. i think there was time where baseball fans looked at the record books and cherished those records. unfortunately, the steroid e...

Million player, you know what? i might go do that. >> mark, the way to promote more home runs. you narrow the strike zone. you shrink the strike zone. make it tough on the pitchers. bring in the outfield run walls if you want more home runs. youre making it sound like baseball was in cahoots on the drugs. >> no, im not saying they were in cahoots. did they turn a blind eye? there is no doubt about it. they did. and i understand it had to be collectively bargained with the players association. an...

Degrees for your high temperature. parts of the southwest could be dealing with fire danger because of the heat and dry conditions. >>steve: thank you. patrick mcenroe has become a powerful force in the world of tennis, competitor like his brother john, then a successful coach and broadcaster. he joins us right now. youre focused on helping young kids, kids this size learn how to play tennis in a different way than we learned how to play. >> we got the message in tennis. weve got a kids-sized te...

We saw a lot of damage on the way in. a couple of overturned semis, and first responders were helping them out and there was lots of debris on the side of the road. we are outside of the canadian valley technical center, which appears to be the center of the strike zone, or at the very least part of the area that got hit hard. you see debris all up along side of this structure in the back and you see another structure with half of its roof torn off. and on the way here, we saw first responders g...

>> not as far as im concerned and my crew is concerned. my cell phone hasnt worked for hours. some of the data can get through at times but no cell service. when you talk to the survivors that are on the ground here and clearly still in shock, theyre asking do you have a cell phone i can use? do you have a cell phone that works? i need to let someone know were okay. you just cant do it from this area. weve seen a stream of city buses come through within the last couple of hours. im talking about...

Preliminary indications with winds over 200 miles an hour. >> all i remember is hitting my head and trying to get into the bathtub and picked it up, threw down to the ground. after i hit my head, i was on top of the dog. i just could not believe that we actuallily survived this thing. >> in a region that is battered and still in shock tonight. >> anyone with a badge thats ntz the strike zone here tonight, police officers, fire fighters, sheriffs deputies helping in the effort to try to find anyo...

Through. theyre loading up survivors and taking them to shelters and getting them out of the strike zone to be reunited with family members or friends. still a very active, very fluid situation here, lawrence. >> jay, this is melissa. youre absolutely right. where youre standing, maybe you can describe it for people at home, the tragedy of this, so much of oklahoma is rural. it hit one of the most well populated suburbs in the state, literally, in the state, just southeast of oklahoma city, your...

Of the pictures. if you take a look, you can see some of the knapsacks that were hanging if you look up there near the right. there it is near the right-hand part of your screen. they were just there as this tornado, an ef-4 were told by the national weather service with speeds of 166 to 200 miles per hour. it ripped through this area of moore, oklahoma, right outside of oklahoma city, and literally leveled, leveled, this elementary school, the plaza towers elementary school. this is what it use...

Partisan. early voting doesnt supposedly favor one party or another. and it shouldnt matter what party youre in or what state youre in. thats why whatever happens with this presidential commission which is just going to be making recommendationes it local and state officials, theres really no substitute, i think, for minimal national standards set by congress for things like that. >> lets get back it what is sneaky and look sneaky. in baseball they play around with the strike zone. too many home...

Another and that -- and it shouldnt matter what party youre in and shouldnt matter what state youre in. thats why whatever happens with this presidential commission which is just going to be making recommendations to local and state officials, theres really no substitute, i think, for a minimal standard for early voting registration and things like that. >> lets get back to what is sneaky and looks sneaky. im not a baseball expert but every time they start playing around with the strike zone, to...