Thompson reports he escaped the blast calling it a well orchestrated attack it was just after Prime Minister Abu Ahmed spoke to thousands when someone in the crowd threw a grenade according to officials adamant has brought in sweeping reforms releasing political prisoners launching attempts at a peace deal with Eritrea and opening the state to private investment he called the attack cheap and unacceptable. Well the Trump administration has moved to end its policy separating migrant families that has not backed down from its vow to detain and criminally prosecute those caught at the border N.P.R.'s Amy Held reports that we're learning more about the military's potential role in plans to house them while the Navy has not publicly been asked to provide accommodations it is readying itself looking into plans to house tens of thousands of migrants at remote bases in Alabama Arizona and California that's according to Time magazine which obtained a copy of an internal Navy draft memo describing tent cities that are quote temporary and austere one proposed detention center in Concord California would hold up to 47000 people and has already sparked a backlash among residents Here's Contra Costa County Supervisor John Joya this is a crazy proposal we're going to fight it we're not going to let this happen the Navy told n.p.r. In a statement it would be inappropriate to discuss internal deliberative planning documents Amy Held n.p.r. News the Pentagon says it is conducting prudent planning should the Department of Homeland Security ask for assistance both President Trump and vice president pants on the road today Trump set to speak late this morning at the Nevada Republican Party convention in Las Vegas vice president visiting South Carolina today in an effort to produce Governor Henry McMaster ahead of Tuesday's primary election the head of the u.s. Census Bureau expected to face tough questions from look Teano leaders today about the citizenship question added to the 2020 census N.P.R.'s Hansi Lo Wang reports a bureau's acting director is set to speak in Phoenix Arizona a Census Bureau's acting director Ron Jarman has been invited to appear at the conference of the National so she can of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials or no Layo many members have spoken out against the citizenship question including Alex he's a secretary of state for California which is suing to get the question removed we know it has the potential to wreak havoc with the 2020 census damage States with diverse communities and we're going to keep fighting it every step. By the way the Census Bureau's own research suggests that asking about citizenship could discourage non-citizens from participating still conver secretary Wilbur Ross who oversees the census says he approved the question so the Justice Department can use the responses to better and force the Voting Rights Act on too long n.p.r. News Phoenix Arizona and you're listening to n.p.r. News the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights presented its fact finding report on Nicaragua's political crisis at a special meeting of the Organization of American States that also issued recommendations to end the violence in Nicaragua as Maria Martin reports the entire American Human Rights Commission found after visiting me God I want that at least $212.00 people have died as a result of the confrontations over the last 2 months and I know nothing. Of the old idea that the commissioner on the whole a said over a 1000 have been injured and over $500.00 detained the commission also made a long series of recommendations including stopping arbitrary detentions and halting the use of lethal force to deal with protesters he got I was foreign minister Denis Moncada called the reports objective and declared it amended information regarding attacks on government supporters and property for n.p.r. News I'm ready I'm Martin news standoff over migrants trying to reach Europe as e.u. 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Stations other contributors include the Annenberg Foundation committed to supporting educating and engaging communities in the United States and globally for more than 25 years learn more at Annenberg Foundation dot org and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting a lot of scientists are saying our planet has moved into a new geological epoch the Anthropocene there has never been a species that has been able to affect the planet so broadly and so deeply as humans have the age of the Anthropocene and what it means for all the creatures on earth that's next time on the Ted Radio Hour from n.p.r. Saturday at noon m k p.b.s. Where news matters. This is only a game I'm Jason Gay in for Bill Littlefield baseball fans of a certain age may remember Tommy John as a major league pitcher who played significant chunks of his career with the Las Angeles Dodgers and the New York Yankees and won 288 career games but today everybody knows the name Tommy John for a different reason he couldn't be prouder that his names attached to a surgery that prolongs a professional career look what he went through and what he did back then to figure out the model to be able to pitch 14 years after and never miss a start because of his elbow in 14 years he figured that out that's Tommy John the 3rd talking about the revolutionary medical procedure his father Tommy John Jr underwent more than 40 years ago that surgery saved his dad's career but Tommy 3 has word that's become a crisis in youth sports Tommy John surgery is when the all knower collateral ligament that holds the inside of the elbow together when it tears or ruptures and what they do is they replace that broken or torn ligament with a tendon usually the tendon comes from the opposite 4 or they take a piece of your hamstring or they might dive into a cadaver and then what they do is they drill holes into the bone and they loop it and figure it it back and forth and graft that tendon which then acts as a ligaments. Tommy John wasn't just the 1st pitcher to have this done he was the 1st person period that's how you get a surgery named after yourself the 1st surgery was September of 74 and Dr Frank job was the 1st one to do it on a Tommy 3 was born after his father went under the knife but he knows the story very well this is something Dr Job had done on polio patients ankles that's how he got the idea and so my dad being. My dad comes in Ok You know my ligaments gone well what are my options and Frank job doctor job is just like look. I'm going to perform something but it's so that you can continue to be a man and a father and a husband and sell cars after this not the chance you've pitching are slim and my dad goes but there is there's a chance I mean it's literally that Dumb and Dumber So you're saying there's a chance 'd 'd I think Dr Jobe's of one in 100 that he'd pitch again and my dad goes fine let's do it Tommy 3 does remember the steps his father took to strengthen his arm 'd he recalls his father driving the family car with a softball wedge between his fingertips trying to improve his grip if you guys remember the rice bucket as an old martial arts trick to strengthen the dexterity and strength of your fingers he would drive his hand into a bucket of rice Meanwhile Tommy 3 was trying to become a ball player himself I was playing little league baseball I had to be 3rd grade. And I was pitching and my sister was 4 years ahead of me so that she was in 7th grade the fence was lined with her friends all around the back post and they came to watch Tommy Johnson and I remember sweating it out profusely because I could barely keep my stirrups and my cleats I wasn't developed I just wasn't good at all and I was the son of one of the better pitchers of all time. Tommy 3 was far from a prodigy my 1st exposure to varsity pitching as a freshman I struck out 16 times in a row and so I had had my share of oh my gosh I am I am awful this game might not be for me and I'm Tommy Johnson striking out 16 times in a row not only to my senior year of high school did I get really good Tommy 3 wound up being the Minnesota State player of the Year in 1996 moving on to play at Furman University and the Cape Cod League but then he injured his shoulder and needed an am. Did die that they injected into my shoulder sockets got infected and so I had a deep shoulder infection that resulted in 103 degree fever some of the worst pain I've ever felt in my life and my host mom I was living with I'll never forget it she took me to her g.p. Who is John man's brother as it is and so I come in and he looks at me and he's like you don't look good and he pulls some fluid out of the back of my shoulder and it was mustard yellow that infection ate away the capsule of my shoulder making my shoulder very very very loose Tommy John the 3rd moved on to what he thought was the next best thing working with younger baseball players as an instructor I would do 14 hours of lessons on a Sunday that's 28 half hour lessons just strung back to back to back to back like I loved it I loved throwing 3000 baseballs a night that was my average because I through all my lessons some of his clients were as young as 6 years old he liked the kids the parents could be a different story it got to the point where I had to have a closed door policy parents were no longer allowed in the back room we could email we could talk afterwards but I need your son or daughter out without you in in there because I don't get the true them there's they're terrified to be real That's what I started to see you guys besides the injuries it was the mental emotional capacity that was they were just under so much strain for a baseball lesson in November. Tommy 3 began to worry about his place in baseball development culture and I'm like I'm a part of this problem I'm making money on something they don't need. And I've literally lost sleep over this just how I how I am I easily could have just turned a blind eye in. And done you know babysitting at $100.00 an hour but I was just I was a part of the problem and so I shut down my baseball school overnight and I enrolled in card practice school and I was going to be start to be kind of a part of the solution instead of part of the problem. Today Tommy 3 advocates for a more balanced and healthy approach to use sports I think the biggest thing is connecting with your kids again and seeing what they want because they'll know the way we just got to know Jim Every now and then like a growing number of voices in the sports medicine community Tommy 3 is dead set against the culture of specialization in which athletes focus on one sport that they play year round it's really competing in that sport for more than 8 months year some people are like well if I just play a bunch of sports I'll be fixed not that's one of the things you know that's part of it that's the 1st step to it but then there's also that we're. You know my kid just doesn't like any other sports Ok then if it's baseball you're playing in the spring and summer on one team and then when that's over you have a game plan and the game plan is not play more baseball because truly let's face it the the time that we're spending in sports in our grand scheme of life is so short but the decisions we're making in those in those few years is affecting the long haul in the meantime Tommy John is cautioning against the overprescription of the surgery that bears his father's name his father was 31 when he had his surgery now close to 60 percent of all Tommy John surgery is are happening to 15 to 19 year old arms he says so it's happening in a population that it wasn't supposed to a current and that's what my dad is sick about is it's prolonging a professional and big leaguers career for him to provide for his family and seek out a dream but now it's bled down to where it's occurring more in a demographic that should never be talking about having this surgery Tommy 3 calls the amount of Tommy John surgery an epidemic I wish I could say Tommy John surgery was isolated it's looked at to be so common and not a threat it's not looked at as unfortunate it's almost it's almost sickeningly thought of as a performance enhancement where some are looking at it as will you come back to our own heart or let's get it preemptively that literally is what's going on. Tommy 3 knows that Tommy John surgery saved his father's career and revolutionized baseball 'd to have it there sitting in the on the side waiting for that essential time when it's necessary what a great thing to have what a great event history of baseball Tommy John figured out he'd just prefer to see it use less often injuries sometimes are unavoidable but epidemics those are completely preventable Tommy John the 3rd new book minimize injury maximize performance in a sports parents Survival Guide is out now. Ok specialization in your sports is back got it but there are other trends in new sports good trends Here's Deborah Bennett at the age of 6 my brother started wrestling and my mother suffered for his sport lying in bed at night I would hear my father accuse my mother of using my brother's meat as a cover for infidelity if my father was sober the argument stayed verbal as the younger sister I was not allowed to play sports I spent my afternoons in the basement of our ranch home apron on spiral no pad and pen in hand walking from one piece of furniture to another taking orders from imaginary customers in a sub to Raney and restaurant when I wasn't playing a waitress I wore Talum ahead and pretended to be one of the crime fighting beauties I had seen on t.v. Casting my cotton locks over one shoulder weekends were for youth wrestling meets in gym scattered across the county I sat quietly in bleachers for hours I learned to find ice chips my brother could suck on before weigh in I learned the point values for takedowns escapes reversals in near Falls and I learned to hold my breath when he found himself belly up bridging to keep his shoulders off the mat waiting for the clock to run out. I learned to cheer when the referee is my brother's hand is the victor I didn't need to learn to cry when his hand hung limp at his side at the end of a match that came naturally because his dreams were my dreams. When is that a career ended at the district championships his senior year I stormed out of the gym sobbing it didn't matter that I had started to seed my own dreams by then playing volleyball and basketball in the years following my parents' divorce that early spring day I wept for the end of a dozen year journey I wept because I had always known that his dreams mattered more than mine by sophomore year of high school I was on the varsity volleyball team and I went on to play at Syracuse University I didn't know I was the beneficiary of an expansion of opportunities for women through Title 9. The last play of my athletic career came at the Big East championships stunned by Pittsburgh's relentless tip and chip strategy my teammates and I lay sprawled out as the ball dribbled to the gym floor and the whistle blew as it sank in that this was my last match after years of travel team Daily Doubles and conditioning I found comfort in my teammates especially the other seniors no family member was there to cry for me. Now I'm back in the stands as a hockey mom an expert at leasing up skates I'm learning about slashing and icing sitting next to me in those cold drinks is my 8 year old daughter but just as often her older brothers attend her hockey games they all root for each other knowing the next game it will be someone else's turn my daughter asks me uncomfortable questions about sports that I find hard to answer when we attend college sporting events she wonders why there are so many more fans of the men's game than the women's why the cheerleaders are always thin and pretty my boys asked why men make so much money in professional sports and women don't I help my kids never stop asking difficult questions that they challenge the norm for now I content myself with the knowledge that the needle has moved since I was a child and that my daughter's athletic dreams are her own Deborah bet it is a writer based in Boston. 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I'm Jason Gay and for Bill Littlefield it's time for 3 stories you should know at Thursday night's n.b.a. Draft fans of sad sack franchises from Phoenix to Atlanta to New York pin their hopes and dreams on a new crop of teenagers but we're going to focus on a different draft story this week I'm joined by Rachel Bachman my esteemed colleague at The Wall Street Journal. Hey Jason and with us the Chicago Tribune Erin Dru's Welcome thanks for having me Jason All right you were at the n.b.a. Draft Thursday night right was what stood out to you at that great fair there were several things that stood out I guess from a basketball standpoint it was how far Michael Porter Jr felt but aside from sort of the nitty gritty it was the fashion we had Trey Young show up looking like a choir boy and shorts I don't know what this trend is with short suits that is happening right now Jason perhaps you should be rocking some of. Nobody wants to see you know. I mean there is kind of like a whole whole spectrum of things right we had the guys who had their families names written on the inside of the us we had folks who dressed like to challenge from the Black Panther I think that was when the car junior who the Bulls ended up picking because he said you know it's really important to me to show images of powerful black men and his mom said all right I want to see you kind of in body that same sort of power so he ended up doing that Gucci scarf round around his shoulders kind of in the same way so it's reall