baseball commissioner rob manfred now vowing to redouble efforts on this important issue after the 2015 recommendation to increase netting to the near end of the dugouts and within 70 feet of home plate. ten teams have gone even farther, but not the yankees. this is at least the third time this season a fan's been injured here. a boy with a piece of bat. this man with a foul ball. and now the little girl. >> i don't care about the damn view of a fan or what. it's all about safety. >> reporter: the yankees offered

the yankees blew the whistle and rob manfred acknowledged the league is investigating, but refused to elaborate. >> to the extent there was a violation of a rule here, it was a violation by one or the other that involved the use of electronic equipment. >> to make it clear, sign stealing is legal in major league baseball, but only if done by the human eye. the "times" is also reporting that the red sox have also filed a sign stealing complaint against the yankees. >>> and safer helmets are now part of the uniform for high school football players in livermore. they aare inflatable air chambers. they cost more than $100,000 to outfit the whole team. the school district president who is also a former fire chief and football coach convinced the board to buy them after hearing a lecture about concussions. a state official tells the bay area news group livermore and gra 234enadas wills may be the in california to use these high the teb tech helmets gloop and michael finney is here to explain what is going on with food labels. >> it's beginning to make the news and more and more people are b

baseball commissioner rob manfred now vowing to redouble efforts on this important issue after the 2015ecommendation to increase netting to the near end of the dugouts and within 70 feet of home plate. ten teams have gone even farther, but not the yankees. this is at least the third time this season a fan's been injured here. a boy with a piece of bat. this man with a foul ball. and now the little girl. >> i don't care about the damn view of a fan or what. it's all about safety. >> reporter: the yankees offered thoughts and prayers for the child but no word on whether they'll do more to protect fans. anne thompson, nbc news, new york. >> we're pulling for that little girl, and hopefully that that she's going to end up being okay. >> yeah. we all are. >>> just ahead, "snl" reveals its fall line-up. plus why caffeinated soda is all the rage in one college campus. you're watching "early today." . when i look in the mirror everyday. everyday, i think how fortunate i am. i think is today going to be the day, that we find a cure? i think how much i can do to help change people's lives. i may

baseball commissioner rob manfred now vowing to redouble efforts on this important issue.fter the 2015 recommendation to increase netting to the near end of the dugouts and within 70 feet of home plate. ten teams have gone even farther, but not the yankees. this is at least the third time this season a fan's been injured here. a boy with a piece of bat, this man with a foul ball, and now the little girl. >> i don't care about the damn view of the fan or what. it's all about safety. >> reporter: tonight the yankees offer thoughts and prayers for the child, but no word on whether they'll do more to protect fans. anne thompson, nbc news, new york. >>> tests conducted on former nfl star aaron hernandez, who was convicted of murder, showed that he had the degenerative brain disease cte. those tests found that the new england patriot's tight end had a severe form of the disease. hernandez committed suicide in april while serving a life sentence. the disease has been found in more than 100 former nfl players and is linked to repeated head trauma. >>> just 140 days now before the

davet they say that --rowski and rob manfred not involved?ichael: the question is how far do you want to push the investigation, do you want to figure out if they knew about it? does it matter? if it were to come out that the manager and front office know about it it would give an even bigger conspiracy, cast a bigger shadow on this. it's justx says look the player, it's part of the game, the manager didn't know. withess is that will fly the commissioner's office, but manford once-- if they could.r, there was a similar allegation about the patriots and they moved quickly to penalize the patriots. hem, took away draft picks. and then new allegations came out and new questions were raised about did they do this in the super bowl, how did it help them, different things like this. it looked like he had covered up for the patriots and made the decision before he knew the findings to get out of the way and move past it. this is something that has haunted him until today. when he suspended tom brady people said oh, look, you're going hard on brady t

the commissioner of major league baseball, rob manfred, confirmed that boston used this technology inery elaborate process to record and decode the signs that the yankee pitchers and catchers used, and then relayed that information to their batters in the middle of the game. for more on today's unfolding scandal, and the decades-long history of outwitting the rules in baseball, we turn to joshua prager. he's a journalist and author. his 2008 book, "the echoing green," chronicled the sign- stealing secret that helped the new york giants win the 1951 pennant. welcome to the newshour. >> thanks for having me. >> so help me break down what the allegation is against these dafterdly red sox. what are they accused of having done? >> so they are accused of using mechanical means to alert a batter to what kind of pitch is coming. and there are about 20 or so seconds that pass between every pitch of every game-- 280 pitches or so, 20 or so seconds between every pitch. and that might seem like not a lot of time, but it's actually plenty of time to do all sorts of stuff to alert a batter what kin

while this is still under investigation, baseball commissioner, rob manfred was asked if boston's wins be vacated. he has the authority to do that. but t the a.l. east. got to wonder if this is not something that's happening -- >> all over. >> we were trying to understand this earlier. it's okay to find out what the signals are. it's not okay to transmit the >> you have to use your eyes. and you can't even use bin particular for that matter, just your eyes. >> as a lifelong yankee fan i will recuse myself from this discussion. >> exactly. you are not neutral on this topic. let's go over to al. >> unfortunately we have another tropical system behind irma. we have got tropical storm josÉ out there, right now 1,255 miles east of the lesser antilles, 60 mile per hour winds, moving west at 13. it is expected to strengthen to a hurricane, but the difference is this looks like it's going to curve out into the atlantic and not affect the continental united states just yet, but we continue to keep an eye on this. now, we've been talking a category 1 storm between 74 and 95 miles per hour, cat 2

while this is still under investigation, baseball commissioner, rob manfred was asked if boston's winsbe vacated. he has the authority to do that. but the red sox, number one in the a.l. east. got to wonder if this is not something that's happening -- >> all over. >> we were trying to understand this earlier. it's okay to find out what the signals are. it's not okay to transmit them electronically. >> you cannot use binoculars, for that matter. >> as a lifelong yankee fan, i will recuse myself from this discussion. >> exactly. you are not neutral on this topic. >>> let's go to al. what's shaking? >> unfortunately we have a tropical system behind irma. tropical storm jose out there. 1,255 east of the lesser antilles. 65-mile-per-hour winds the moving west at 13. it is expected to strengthen to a hurricane. this looks like it will curve out into the atlantic and not affect the continental united states just yet. but we continue to keep an eye on this. we've been talking about categories of hurricanes. category 1, 75-90 mirm. cat 2, 96-110. cat 3, 1111-129. cat 4, 130-156. it increases ex