it comes back at 73 miles per hour with a wood bat. 5 miles per hour faster with aluminum. i m sick of seeing people get hurt. cole was hit in the head with a line drive when he was 14 years old and his parents say in a fraction of a second, their son s life changed forever. he couldn t talk or walk or swallow or anything. so he had to relearn all that. now they re pushing for more helmets to be available on little league pitching mounds. i don t want to have to go through what i ve gone through. for most pitchers young and pro alike, these may not be enough. 115 miles per hour off the bat, how hard is that relatively speaking? it s lightning lightning quick. oh, that s so hard to watch. you ve done a lot on this story. i flinch every time i see that. there s a couple of different things here. in the little leagues using the aluminum bats, there are different studies that say different things. a lot of people think the ball comes off faster.
31-inch-long bat to reduce the risk of injuries to potential users or third parties. the little boy fractured his jaw, but do the parents have a case or is this going too far? joining us for a fair and balanced balanced debate is kevin schwartz. david, too far? the aluminum bats are dangerous instruments. the speed of the ball comes off the bats at an artificially high rate and there s no notice or warning. so there s negligence on the part of the manufacturers of the bats. you have to bring the lawsuits in order to put them on notice. all right. paul lawsuits gone crazy? valid or not valid? many tests have been done on the bats to determine whether or not they are dangerous. and the tests have demonstrated they are not. it may be somewhat mobile velocity coming off the bats, but the warning labels are there for everyone. and it s a dangerous sport.
jenna: everyone once in a while the discussion about aluminum bats come up. you see something like that, and you wonder how can we even have that debate? jon: well, yeah. talking about whether to use them in major leagues? jenna: right. jon: yeah. nna: with a wooden bat like that and that type of danger, pitchers are already in some risk simply by standing there at that distance. so we ll keep you posted as we hear more from him. he s on twitter, seems to be doing okay. jon: good news is he s doing well. jenna: new details about the nsa s surveillance program. our next guest will tell us what he thinks president george washington would have done. what would have happened if this had happened under george washington s rule? jon s going to get into it with our guest coming up. plus, how the u.s. should respond to iran s new president. all of that coming up just after the commercial break. ready? happy birthday!
go to cnn.com/kyra and share your comments with us. if you take over-the-counter pain medication, you ll want to hear about this. frequent use of those drugs can actually cause a headache. doctors call it a rebound headache. a low-grade headache that you might get three times a week usually in the front of your head or by your neck. it comes when you don t follow the directions on the label and take more medications than recommended like an aspirin in the morning for the hangover and maybe a sign us medication and lunch and something to help you sleep at night. when the medication wears off you undergo a withdrawal pain and then you reach for a pill and the cycle starts all over again. are aluminum bats too powerful to play with? the answer is so important that california may temporarily ban them from high school games. safety of aluminum bats came into question after a 16-year-old pitcher suffer ada major brain injury from a line drive hit off an aluminum bat. a commit of californ
those lies over and over again, what do you do after that lying job? how do you get another job? how do you market yourself? i think if you look at the iraqi people, the iraqi people are overwhelmingly pleased with the fact that the united states has helped them to get rid of the saddam hussein regime. that was clear from the way they tore down the statues. who tore down the statues? after his job as white house press secretary you may think the only subsequent job for ari fleischer was something like acting in fiction, but after he left washington he became a full-time paid proponent of using aluminum bats in little league. that lovely ping sound instead of the crack of a bat. that sound, worth every concussion. after tackling that cause fleischer s job is plotting media strategy for tiger woods.