leaguers suffered concussions. twins catcher joe mauer, dominick brown and tooilg tigers catcher alex avila among them. other players including san diego s nick hundley now wonder if they ll be healthy in retirement. your responsibility is to your family first. if you continue to play through concussions and stuff and you see long-term effects of it, you know, i just had a daughter, you know, that makes it puts in perspective a little bit more. reporter: major league baseball says it s trying to better protect its players. it implemented a seven-day concussion disabled list separate from the normal 15-day disabled list, to encourage more players to admit they have a problem. now that we ve started to identify these injuries, we ll start to focus on ways to reduce it. one thing we ve done is start to study catcher helmets. reporter: mlb is especially concerned about catchers. green also says reinforce the hats are a possibility for pitchers, possibly as soon as next season.
0 time for newsroom with carol costello. take it away. i will gladly. kate hudson, there s a hot chick for you. newsroom starts now. good morning. i m carol costello. thank you for being with me. right now as we speak on capitol hill, lawmakers are getting their first chance to grill the developers of obama care s botched website. the companies will be pressed to explain the crippling problems that plagued the enrollment process and overshadowed the role of obama s signature health care reform. expect it to ricochet in all different distribution. jim acosta is at the white house to start our coverage. good morning. reporter: good morning. health and human services secretary katrihleen sebelius wl not be at the white house. that will be next week. the private contractors that helped build the website will be and they ll be on the hot seat. we re told some of the top health insurers knew about the problems before the site fully launched. the same source tells cnn administrati
for a store security guard. david? reporter: because of this search warrant that we pulled from court, we now know what happened inside this kmart behind me according to police. because of these court documents, we can tell you that inside that kmart according to police the threats against a victim from a security guard continued even after police got involved. we wanted to talk to tabbasum gilani out of jail on a $20,000 bond. we went to his home this weekend but no one answered. he was working as a loss prevention officer. during his shift on june 8th, a shoplifting. the suspect a 23-year-old woman. police say that gilani escorted her to the back of the store and the search warrant we pulled describes what happened next. he tells her that the offense was a felony and she will go to jail unless she does what he requests. the victim repeatedly refused but gilani threatens to make sure the woman will go to jail if she does not give him some sort of sexual favor. police sho
red sox. mark teixeira, the first home run of the year. that wouldn t have gone out of any other park. grand slam in the third. yankees won 7-4. angels struggling to say the least, swept by the astros. worst team in the american league losing game four yesterday 2-1. the angels now 11 games behind the rangers in the west. how is that money spent? i had joe blanton in the fantasy. he did great. if you want to find the hottest bat in baseball, look no further than the philadelphia phillies. dominick brown is on a terror. he hit the national league leading 17th home run yesterday. ninth long ball in the last ten games. impressive. phillies beat the marlins 7-2. barnicle said he s not sold on the guy. i want to point out, i have very few skills in this life. but for some reason i always recognize people that get their haircuts. i can recognize people on the street like i haven t seen since kindergarten. those are two things i do well. i want to good on record.
0 spending will be released later this morning and includes some new details from the agency s now infamous 2010 anaheim conference. that conference featured employees in film parodies of star trek. we haven t seen that one much o of:they costed 50dz,000 dlsh each. a total of $135,000 on that tab. thousands of dollars for speakers including $11,000 for a happiness expert and $17,000 for an artist who created paintings of michael jordan, abraham lincoln and bono. on capitol hill, the new acting commissioner of the irs testified before lawmakers yesterday stressing the need to fix the many problems. hall rogers said congress may impose conditions on irs funding. wikileaks. he s already pleaded guilty to ten charges that carry up to 20 years in prison. prosecutors are pushing ahead with more serious counts that could land manning in prison for life. top military brass are set to testify today about how they ll curve the alarming number of sexual assaults among the ranks of american