. >>> alfonso soriano collects a month's worth of stats in just two games. >>> and the study on what kind of cars the biggest jerks on the road drive. "early today" starts right now. >> announcer: this is "early today" for thursday, august 15th. >>> good morning. i'm richard lui. new and staggering numbers of dead in egypt. the government now saying at least 525 civilians and 43 security forces have died. this from wednesday's government crackdown on supporters of the deposed president. newspapers at home and around the world all capture the deadly violence on today's front pages. egypt's vice president and international respected diplomat also resigning. leaders are wondering if today will be another day of chaos. ayman is live for us. it's 1:00 p.n. in cairo. how is the government now explaining the staggering numbers we mentioned of casualties? >> good morning, richard. it's mind boggling and not only tharkts it's expected to rise in the coming hours because as we've been reporting, there are still a lot of bodies being held at a field hospital. actually it's a mosque being used a

he will face alfonso soriano, who is two for three today. now 15 for his last 21.mes to the plate, tim, in today's game without leading off an inning. >> tim: but still with nobody on. >> kenny: two singles for soriano today. facing tazawa for the first time and for more on robinson cano, we head to ken. >> ken: what has happened is the yankees, we can see them being in somewhat of a decaying state. they might not represent as appealing a long-term option far cano as they once did. the other change and a big one is that he switched agents going from scott forest to a partnership of jay z and creative artist agency. if jay z wants to make a huge splash with him, you can have that opening for the dodgers or even another club. but the dodgers have obviously the biggest threat. they might choose, instead, to give extensions to clayton kershaw and hanley ramirez. they don't have unlimited money, but we have yet to see proof of that yet. they could trade an outfielder and maybe robby cano will be in l.a. next season. >> tim: both could be available, at least one of the t

hopefully she can come back. >>> you didn't want to miss the first inning of the yankees/angel, alfonso soriano grand slam and on fire in the fifth again with a home run. >> that's my boy. >> yankees win 11-3. canbatted in, seven that night, six before. soriano is only the third player to do that since records were kept, better than babe ruth or lou gherrig. >> good for him. >>> bat on the field, bat on the field. >> a literal bat. >> the prime time. i don't know if you like those. they got teeth on them. >> they're cute. >> didn't bug the short stop, picked up the normally sleeping toothed creditor in his glove. the baseball bat flops and flips and who do you call, the bat boy of course. the whole incident driving the umpires a little batty in the end. >> we could go on and on with the puns. >> cut. >> never ends. thanks so much, richard. >> yep. >>> it's time for our first look at today's political stories. for that we're joined by syndicated columnist bob franken. >> speaking of batty, right? >> perfect segue, exactly. i want to start with something serious the situation in egypt. yesterday

alfonso soriano, a pair of home rungs, that shot to left. the yankees win it 7-1.at a night. pair of homers. drove in a career high 7 rbis just eclipsing mike barnacle's performance in a softball game. victorino goes three for three and you went what? >> i went three for four with two rbis. the only difference is victorino is faster than i am. >> can't make it down to first. >> keep on going with your sports. >> all right. check this out, the angels taking the field. pitcher c.j. wilson. he just face planted. he was okay, by the way. the angels beat the rays, 6-5. that's funny. the mets, this is great, outfielder marlin byrd. the mets get infielder. it was supposed to be byrd free t-shirt. he would no longer be on the team. you can't script this stuff. by the way, they beat the 0s, 5-6. >> the jets siem graham harrell. he was released. now he's expected to report to the team today. that means mark sanchez, geno smith, greg mcilroy, already on the roster. rex ryan says he may not name a starter until opening day. i don't think he wants to name any of those guys. >>>

later in the eighth inning alfonso soriano hits a towering home run to left field to put the yankees on toronto for good. new york wins, 4-2. >>> in a tough turn of events for braves outfielder jason hayward. he takes a 90-mile-per-hour hit off his face. hayward sustained two jaw fractures and will undergo surgery today. it's unclear just how much time he will miss. >>> meanwhile, the first place braves avoid a sweep at the hands of the mets by winning 4-1. >>> and the women's draw at the u.s. open tennis tournament just got a little bit easier. 2006 championship maria sharapova pulled out citing a shoulder injury. sharapova was seated third going into next week's tournament. she has only played in one match, a loss, since going out in the second round of wimbledon earlier this summer. >>> some sportsmen off the coast of new hampshire got a bite bigger than they bargained for. a group of fishermen caught a 600 pound thresher shark. it took them 2 1/2 hours to reel the shark in. then there was the matter of actually getting the eight foot long fish into their boat. they needed help fr

alfonso soriano earns his 14th rbi in three games. there you go. adding oomph to a slumping is lineup. this amazing it dodge. brandon crawford's defense on point. the giants down the nats 4-3. jason dufner tweeted this of his pga championship trophy. yeah. what he calls the two newest additions to the duffner household and added a little bit earlier that cup can hold 43 cups of beer. >> he has a puppy and trophy. >> and it can hold 43 cups of beer. >>> want arena footballe? arena football takes its affordable ticket prices west. detroit rockers now are the l.a. kiss. yes, kiss, as in rock and roll. gene simmons, paul stanley. simmons says an l.a. kiss game will be like a kiss concert. he said it's going to be thrilling and heart pounding action if you go to that one. >>> in london, trying to save 300 tigers in the world, what do we have here? 300 naked people. >> i think i did something like that in zpleej many people considered that. they ran 900 feet there in the zoo there in london and raised about $93,000, almost $100,000. >> it's a great cause

alfonso soriano. dickey and ichiro used to be teammates in seattle. ichiro got the big hit off of. for davis. mariano rivero gets him out for the second out. >>> rays and orioles. bottom five. there it goes. wow. 46th -- that's headed for ut street. 46 in the majors. ninth inning, rays down 4-2. matt wieters gets kelly johnson trying to steal second. that will end it. j.j. hardy with a bag on johnson. and the orioles win over tampa bay. >>> little league world series. and you have chula vista's grant holman. two hits in this little league world series. a grand slam and a three-run homer that ended up being the winner. wow. they are partying in chula vista. >> i love that world series stuff. >> yeah. >> great. >> thanks, guys. >>> there was a frightening moment in yesterday's braves/mets game. jason heyward was struck with a pitch. it broke his jaw in two places. >> he will undergo surgery today. the team will know more about his possible return after the operation. heyward's grandparents were at the game. they went to the local hospital with him. tough to watch. >> looks like a loa

. >>> alfonso soriano had six rbi on tuesday. this is wednesday. mike trout can only watch it.ankees and angels. and the yankees with a 4-0 lead on soriano's 23rd home run of the season, a grand slam. bottom five, soriano again. off jered weaver. soriano, three for three. two home runs and seven rbi. and the yankees go on to win it, 11-3. he's had a yasiel puig-like effect on the yankees so far. that's 13 rbi in the last 2 games, according to my math. although, i was not a math major. >>> on tuesday morning we showed you an 11-man basketball shot that took all kinds of choreography. this one is a whole lot more straightforward. but it's also our "play of the day." >> this time, just one guy making the magic out there. >> whoa. >> that's a 27-foot trick shot. thrown while doing a front flip off a mini trampoline. >> michael jordan eat your heart out. >> you almost think it's fake, but it's not. >> there's too many angles to say it's fake. there was one of the pause in one of the angles. but that's a straight shot angle. >> he knew he had something good there because he had a lot

later alfonso soriano joins the 400 club. new york beats toronto, 4-1.an francisco's hunter pence with a hulking home run. how far? 476 feet. i think it hit the brick wall. it's the league's longest this season. it didn't make it into mccovey cove though. the rockies beat the giants, 6-1. >>> the air force team, they have nothing else better to do than jump off of hotels and buildings. in denver, jumped off a hotel roof to a parking lot. >>> to a tasty competition. >> that does not look tasty at all. >> what is that? >> that's gravy and those are supposed wrestlers. >> is that a biscuit? >> yorkshire pudding, my friend. they're all supposed to wear costumes. over 3,000 gallons of gravy. 2 minutes per bout. i heard they got hosed off by the fire department. >> you need a really good bath after that. thank you, richard. >>> time now to dig a little bit deeper into a possible strike on syria. joining me is boris epstyn. thanks for being with me. >> thank you for having me. >> we are looking at the u.s. striking as early as tomorrow. can the president do thi

check thought catch by alfonso soriano. what a dive. a-rod went 1 for 2 in the losing effort. incredible finish for the pittsburgh pirates. bottom of the ninth, tied 3-3. a walkoff homer. his reward, check this out. he gets a classic -- here it comes, a class uk pie to the face by a.j. burnett. always fun to watch. trayvon martin's memory lives on in the special edition of "ebony magazine." they're dedicated four separate covers to martin and other sons across the country. miami heat's dwyane wade will be on the cover with his sons all wearing symbolic gray hoodies. >>> andrew shaw is auctioning off, well, a personal momento, shall we say, the actual stitches he got during game six in the stanley cup finals. nasty. after getting a puck to the face. yes, he actually kept them. >> who wants those? >> i don't know. and who is going to save that? he did. he plans on donating the money to cancer research. the auction begins on august 15th on ebay. so get your money ready. >> the nfl's favorite brothers are watching football on the phones. ♪ it's football >> check out that rap. summ

. >>> the yankees hosting the angels, alfonso soriano loving being back in the pin stripes.hit a grand slam over the wall to put the yankees up 4-0. say bye-bye. soriano would tack on another three rbis in the game including a second homer in the bottom of the fifth, that's 13 rbis for the newly reacquired soriano and the yanks' last two games. bombers win 11-37 >>> amazing finish to the nationals/giants game. san francisco's hunter pence drives one to the gap in center, cut down with a diving catch by dennard to save the game. he earned his money. >>> so now for some soccer things looked grim for the 19th ranked u.s. men's national team down 2-0 against bosnia last night. that's until the united states josie altador turned up the heat in the second half, a nice assist to put the u.s. on the board, goal! and in the 85th minute altador completes the hat trick with his third goal of the night. u.s. wins 4-2 marking the first come-from-behind win on european soil for the americans currently on an all-time program record, don't trip, 12-game winning streak. good dismount you mis

four weeks ago alfonso soriano returned to the yankees after reaching a milestone.oriano has hit 11 home runs since being traded back to the yankees back on july 26 president. >>> and it's day three in flushing, new york, on the women's side both advance winning in straight sets but then the rains came delaying the matches of serena and venus williams, and andy murray was scheduled to play today. we'll be back in 20 minutes with more sports. >> united nations troops fired on rebels fighting the congolese army and the democratic republic of congo. they are iowa cuesed of attacking goma, a city of 1 million people near the volume tearwandaand congolese border, g for the violence. >>> the in the death of the bottlenose dolphin is attributed to a virus. the number of dolphins that died this year is nine times than the historic average. >>> in north carolina, a new mandate is dividing some people in that state. ç] >> welcome back to al jazeera. i'm tony harris in new york. 50 years ago martin luther king changed the world with four words "i have a dream." today many gath

who did show a lot of love last night was alfonso soriano.ew proposed system, managers will be able to get involved and will be able to challenge. balls and strikes can never be reviewed, but safe or not safe, that could be reviewed and trapped catches, and this could start next season. and umpires and players vote and then owners have to approval it. >>> sara thomas, she was the line judge. and it was an addition for her to possibly become the first full-time nfl referee in nfl history, and thomas has been working for an official for years and no stranger to being the first, and seven years ago she was the first female to officiate the division 1 football game, and guys this is not a definite guarantee that she will get the nfl job this season, and she will go back to. >> it would certainly be very good pr for the nfl, i would say. a lot of women would be very bg cited to see that. >> there is a couple other women -- >> they are considering? >> yeah, there is 119 jobs and she could get one if one opens up. >>> coming up at the top of the hou

alfonso soriano, on the other hand, well, that guy showing plenty of love at the plate.e had the big bat again. soriano, he's on fire. he's hit five home runs in four games. he's driven in 18 runs over that span, 18 rbis in 4 games. that's ties an ml b record. >>> speaking of the mlb, they're planning to expand instant replay next season. right now only umpires can review boundary calls like whether a home run is fair or foul, but under the new proposed system, managers will be able to challenge calls for review. now, balls and strikes can never be reviewed, but plays at bases, fair or foul balls, trapped catches, those can all be reviewed. before this is implemented in 2014, umpires and players are going to have to vote on it. then owners will have to approve it. >>> sarah thomas is a 39-year-old mother of three. now, she was actually the line judge in last night's saints/raiders preseason game. and this was an audition for sarah to possibly become the first full-time female referee in nfl history. now, she is absolutely no stranger to being the first in this profession

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alfonso soriano back in pin stripes. he's loving it.rand slam, a bomb to centerfield. yankees up 4-0. he tacked down another three rbis including a second home run in the fifth inning. that's 13 runs batted in for soriano in the yankees last two games. they just picked him up a couple weeks ago. yankees win -- >> all is now right with the world. >> yankees win 11-3 and now only 8 1/2 games back. great finish to the nationals/giants game. nats up 6-5, tying run on second. san fran's hunter pens drives one to the gap in center, cut down by a diving denard span. what a play. that saves the game. the nats win 6-5. but they remain 14 games back of the braves in the nl east. up next, mika's must-read opinion pages. you're watching "morning joe" brewed by starbucks. ♪ [ male announcer ] clearly this isn't one of those speed-eating contests. that's a hebrew national hot dog. a kosher hot dog. that means we're extra choosy about the cuts of beef that meet our higher kosher standards. and only a good, old-fashioned slow-motion bite is gonna captu