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in New York, this is

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the CBS Evening News. Good

1:10

evening, I'm Maurice Dubois. I'm John

1:12

Dickerson. What a U.S. Army helicopter

1:14

and an American Airlines plane collided

1:16

midair near Washington in January, killing

1:18

67 people. That was once too

1:20

often. But after it almost happened

1:23

again, a close call Friday between

1:25

an Air Force plane and a

1:27

Delta jetliner near Reagan Airport. We

1:29

decided to investigate. So how often

1:31

does it happen? A close call

1:33

involving a military aircraft. We found

1:36

that over nearly four decades it

1:38

has happened more than 2,000 times.

1:40

Senior transportation correspondent Chris Van

1:43

Cleve is in Washington, Chris.

1:45

Tonight, the NTSB is investigating

1:47

this latest incident near Washington's Reagan

1:50

National Airport, but our data analysis

1:52

finds nationwide the military appears to

1:54

account for an outsized number of

1:57

what the FAA calls near midair

1:59

collisions. Delta Flight 2983 had

2:01

just taken off from Minneapolis with

2:04

136 aboard when its pilots got

2:06

a collision avoidance alert calling for

2:08

evasive maneuvers. The reason? Four Air

2:10

Force T38 jets were streaking towards

2:12

a flyover at Arlington National Cemetery

2:14

at about 350 miles an hour.

2:16

A CBS news data analysis found

2:18

of the more than 8,000 near

2:21

mid-air collisions voluntarily reported to the

2:23

FAA between 1987 and 2021. Nearly

2:25

one in four involved at least

2:27

one military aircraft. And when it

2:29

comes to close calls between the

2:31

military and commercial airliners, there were

2:33

258 reports. 34 deemed critically close

2:35

to a collision. That's despite military

2:37

aircraft accounting for only about 2%

2:40

of all miles flown annually. NTSB

2:42

investigators are looking into the army's

2:44

handling of close calls in the

2:46

wake of January's deadly midair collision,

2:48

Chair Jennifer Homindy. We have found

2:50

so far that a lot of

2:52

the conversation and safety discussion at

2:54

the battalion level is really focused

2:57

on OSHA slips trips and falls.

2:59

Would they, there is a disconnect?

3:01

So Chris, we know that military

3:03

helicopters are now restricted there in

3:05

that area. Are they thinking about

3:07

military jets as well? Some of

3:09

that will depend on what comes

3:11

out of these investigations. One thing

3:13

that's clear is if those jets

3:16

were in fact going 350 miles

3:18

an hour as the preliminary data

3:20

indicates, that's far faster than commercial

3:22

traffic would ever operate in that

3:24

airspace. Chris, what is the FAA

3:26

saying about all that airspace around

3:28

National Airport? Well, the FAA acting

3:30

administrator told Congress just last week

3:33

that they missed warning signs leading

3:35

up to the accident in January.

3:37

They're working to understand how those

3:39

red flags were missed and to

3:41

keep it from happening again. Okay,

3:43

Chris Van Cleven, Washington. Thank you.

3:45

President Trump is set to announce

3:47

the next round of terrorists on

3:49

Wednesday. Many Americans feel he's focusing

3:52

too much on these tactics. which

3:54

will likely raise the cost of

3:56

imported goods and not enough on

3:58

inflation. CBS News polling found that

4:00

when he took office in January,

4:02

42% of Americans expected his policies

4:04

would make them better off financially.

4:06

Well now that same number, 42%

4:09

say they expect his policies to

4:11

make them worse off. Nancy Cordes

4:13

is at the White House tonight.

4:15

Morese President Trump is so confident

4:17

these terrorists will work that he

4:19

has dubbed Wednesday Liberation Day and

4:21

he's planning a big rose garden

4:23

celebration But as we get closer

4:25

economic forecasters are ratcheting up their

4:28

predictions that this move will hike

4:30

inflation and Unemployment and slow down

4:32

growth Just one comment from President

4:34

Trump last night was all it

4:36

took to send overseas stock exchanges

4:38

tumbling tumbling tumbling today He said

4:40

no trade partners would be spared

4:42

from the new reciprocal tariffs he's

4:45

announcing on Wednesday. Essentially all of

4:47

the countries that were talking about

4:49

would be talking about all countries

4:51

that are done and cut off.

4:53

In Japan today, the Nikai fell

4:55

4 percent. The US is Japan's

4:57

largest supplier of food and agricultural

4:59

products. Has the global stock market

5:01

sell off? cause the White House

5:04

to rethink any of these plans?

5:06

The president has always said that

5:08

the dark market is a snapshot

5:10

of a moment in time and

5:12

he's doing what's best for Main

5:14

Street and Wall Street will work

5:16

out just fine in this administration

5:18

just like they did in their

5:21

first time. Many Americans appear to

5:23

doubt it will work out fine.

5:25

According to the latest CBS News

5:27

poll, 72% think Trump's tariffs will

5:29

raise prices in the short term.

5:31

47% think the policies will raise

5:33

prices in the long term too.

5:35

Are they right to be worried

5:37

about that? They are very right

5:40

to be worried. Consumers need to

5:42

expect that prices are going to

5:44

go up and potentially very substantially.

5:46

Jennifer Hillman. is a professor at

5:48

Georgetown law and an expert in

5:50

international trade. We still do not

5:52

know even what these tariffs are,

5:54

who they're going to be applied

5:57

to, or when they're going to

5:59

be applied. Is it unusual that

6:01

we're just two days out from

6:03

this announcement and there's still so

6:05

little clarity? It's extraordinarily unusual because

6:07

everyone in the system needs to

6:09

plan. The custom service needs to

6:11

plan for what goods are they

6:14

imposing tariffs on? The importers need

6:16

to plan for what documentation they

6:18

need to require. Those that are

6:20

buying these goods need to know

6:22

how much is the tariff going

6:24

to be so that they can

6:26

make a decision about whether they'd

6:28

like to buy from X country

6:30

or Y country or not at

6:33

all. Nancy, can I grab that

6:35

piece of uncertainty and wonder when

6:37

are these actual tariffs going to

6:39

go into effect? Don, we have

6:41

no idea. We know that the

6:43

announcement is coming Wednesday. We don't

6:45

know when the terrorists will actually

6:47

be imposed. But what we do

6:50

know from past experience is that

6:52

President Trump doesn't tend to give

6:54

a lot of lead time before

6:56

imposing new tariffs. Maybe a month

6:58

at the most, which doesn't give

7:00

American companies much time to adjust

7:02

their supply chains if they rely

7:04

on foreign parts. For some companies,

7:06

that typically is a process that

7:09

could take months or even years.

7:11

They're certainly not going to get

7:13

that this time. Speaking of the

7:15

uncertainty that you and John are

7:17

talking about, what are you hearing

7:19

about the chances he might pull

7:21

back on these tariffs like he's

7:23

done in the past? Anything is

7:26

possible. It's also possible that he

7:28

could go easier on some countries,

7:30

Maurice, than others. In fact, just

7:32

a few minutes ago, in the

7:34

Oval Office, President Trump was asked

7:36

about this, and he said something

7:38

very interesting. He hasn't said before.

7:40

He said, quote, we're going to

7:42

be very kind. The numbers will

7:45

be lower than what they've been

7:47

charging us. So perhaps it won't

7:49

be exactly reciprocal. We'll just have

7:51

to wait and see. More questions

7:53

to come. Nancy Courses at the

7:55

White House, thank you. And as

7:57

Nancy mentioned, the large majority of

7:59

Americans expect prices to go up

8:02

after these tariffs kick... And one

8:04

place they may soon feel the

8:06

pain is in the car showroom.

8:08

Here's Lana Zach. Steve Mouse, co-owner

8:10

of A. Mouse and Sun, sells

8:12

American cars, Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, Ram.

8:14

So is this an all-American vehicle?

8:16

Yes, but that's actually a really

8:18

good question. Like for instance, the

8:21

Wrangler on the show floor is

8:23

built in Toledo, Ohio, and there's

8:25

a number of parts made in

8:27

Mexico. The reality of the modern

8:29

auto supply chain means a large

8:31

percentage of the parts in those

8:33

cars came from elsewhere. Some people

8:35

are buying very quickly because they're

8:38

concerned that the prices are going

8:40

to go up. During a promotion

8:42

over the weekend 52 people test

8:44

drove a car with him in

8:46

just four hours. Experts warn tariffs

8:48

of 25% on foreign cars and

8:50

car parts could increase the price

8:52

of new cars by five to

8:54

ten thousand dollars. Prices for use

8:57

cars and car parts could go

8:59

up too. How much does five

9:01

to ten thousand dollars more mean

9:03

to your family? It definitely means

9:05

quite a bit. I voted for

9:07

Trump. I trust him in some

9:09

regards, but it's just the uncertainty

9:11

of what's going to happen. An

9:14

uncertainty not only about the price

9:16

of cars, but people's ability to

9:18

afford them and everything else. Is

9:20

this going to be your new

9:22

car? I hope so. Several

9:26

dealerships in the Midwest, including this

9:28

one here in Iowa City, tell

9:30

me that they are seeing an

9:32

increase in the number of people

9:34

using that, looking into now used

9:36

cars, sending prices higher on those

9:38

vehicles before tariffs even take effect.

9:40

Lana Zach Forrest in Iowa City,

9:42

thank you Lana. Now more of

9:44

some of the top stories from

9:46

around the world tonight in the

9:48

evening news, roundup the storm system

9:50

that knocked out power and did

9:52

so much damage across parts of

9:54

the South and the Midwest over

9:56

the weekend, moved into the East

9:58

today. There is a threat of

10:00

hail and tornadoes. Rob Marciana will

10:02

be here shortly. with your forecast.

10:04

The death toll from the earthquake

10:06

in Myanmar has surpassed 2000. The

10:08

State Department says a team from

10:10

what's left of the recently dismantled

10:12

USAID is heading to the scene.

10:14

The bodies of three American soldiers

10:16

have been recovered from a swamp

10:18

in Lithuania where their armored vehicle

10:20

sank last week. The search continues

10:23

for a fourth soldier. And back

10:25

from their unexpectedly long space Odyssey,

10:27

NASA astronauts Sunny Williams and Butch

10:29

Wilmore spoke with... reporters today, including

10:31

our Mark Straussman. Were you ready

10:33

to come back or did you

10:35

want to stay longer? No, ready.

10:37

Absolutely ready. I mean, one of

10:39

the huge parts for me, I've

10:41

been to Space Station, I've had

10:43

the experience, I've done the work,

10:45

and I felt like I was

10:47

taking somebody's place. The last moments

10:49

before we got in Dragon, I

10:51

had a moment to look out

10:53

the cupola and enjoy that view

10:55

and just... you know, a little

10:57

bit sad that, you know, might

10:59

not get that view again. Yeah,

11:01

I was a little sad to

11:03

leave, but ready to come home.

11:05

We'll have more of Mark's interview

11:07

with the astronauts on CBS Evening

11:09

News Plus. Still ahead on the

11:11

CBS evening news, the bat that

11:13

made Milwaukee furious. Now the Yankees

11:15

torpedoed the brewers. And we'll have

11:17

these stories. I'm Scotta Henry in

11:19

Ashville. An AM radio station that's

11:21

been called A Lifeline following Helene's

11:23

devastation is saying thank you to

11:25

its community. I met O'Keefe in

11:27

Milwaukee. Why does Elon Musk, the

11:29

wealthiest man in the world care,

11:32

who wins a state Supreme Court

11:34

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threat where basketball meets culture. The

12:55

voters in Wisconsin go to the

12:58

polls tomorrow to elect a justice

13:00

to the highest state court. The

13:02

job pays $196,000, but more than

13:04

400 times that amount has been

13:06

spent on the race, and that

13:08

makes it the most expensive judicial

13:11

contest in U.S. history. Billionaires on

13:13

both sides are pumping in money.

13:15

The reason the race could decide

13:17

whether the court leans left or

13:19

right on some very critical issues.

13:22

I think this will be important

13:24

for the future of civilization. It's

13:26

that significant. Not quite. It's just

13:28

a state Supreme Court contest in

13:30

Wisconsin. By some estimates, more than

13:32

$80 million will be spent here,

13:35

including from wealthy out-of-state donors, including

13:37

Elon Musk. We even wore a

13:39

cheesehead last night while visiting Green

13:41

Bay. Susan Crawford is the Democratic-backed

13:43

candidate in the sufficiently nonpartisan race,

13:45

who says the state court could

13:48

rule on critical issues. So it

13:50

can be things like fair elections,

13:52

the right to vote, health care

13:54

privacy, reproductive... rights, you know, the

13:56

safety of our water in Wisconsin.

13:58

But as the first big political

14:01

contest since President Trump took office,

14:03

it's become a proxy fight between

14:05

his supporters and opponents. Musk is

14:07

personally donated three million to the

14:09

state GOP and his political action

14:12

committee spending more than 12 million

14:14

to help the Republican-backed candidate Brad

14:16

Schimmel. On the left, billionaire Illinois

14:18

Governor Jayby Pritzker and liberal activist

14:20

George Soros have donated millions. We've

14:22

been in control over all of

14:25

the contributions that our campaign has

14:27

received. And on the other side,

14:29

Elon Musk has pretty much taken

14:31

over. Musk said today he'd give

14:33

Shimmel supporters $20 if they promote

14:35

him online. Last night he gave

14:38

million dollar checks to two supporters

14:40

of his political action committee. Shimo

14:42

says he wasn't invited. The accusation

14:44

that he's spending tens of millions

14:46

of dollars to buy a seat

14:49

and that you're the guy that's

14:51

going to help him do that.

14:53

You say... You'd have to ask

14:55

him why he spent all this

14:57

money. We'd love to. Yeah, I

14:59

didn't ask for it. I didn't

15:02

know that that was going to

15:04

happen. I'm grateful for it. As

15:06

long as... That help isn't pretending

15:08

I'm going to do anything that

15:10

I wouldn't do. That O'Keefe in

15:12

Milwaukee now, so the race was

15:15

high stakes before Elon Musk and

15:17

the billionaires got involved. So take

15:19

us through what's at play here,

15:21

Ed. Well,

15:23

the ideological balance of the seven-member court

15:26

is going to be set by whoever

15:28

wins tomorrow night, which means on issues

15:30

like abortion rights, election issues, women's rights,

15:32

and whether labor unions can organize, could

15:34

all be determined and stay in either

15:36

the liberal or conservative viewpoint for several

15:38

years to come. Ed, is what Musk

15:40

is doing here, is it legal? That

15:44

is a good question, John. The

15:46

Democratic Attorney General of Wisconsin didn't

15:48

think so and tried to sue

15:51

blocking Musk from handing out those

15:53

checks. The issue worked its way

15:55

through the courts of Wisconsin through

15:57

the weekend, got all the way

15:59

to the state Supreme Court. The

16:01

one that has a seat up

16:03

for grabs tomorrow night, they decline.

16:06

to engage on the issue, which

16:08

means for now at least it's

16:10

perfectly legal for the wealthiest men

16:12

in the world to keep handing

16:14

out big checks in Wisconsin. All

16:16

right, Edo Keith in Milwaukee tonight,

16:18

thanks. After those deadly storms in

16:21

the Midwest over the weekend, more

16:23

dangerous weather is coming. Meteorologist Rob

16:25

Marciano is tracking that. Rob? Hey

16:27

guys, this is in the last

16:29

two days. We've had over 500

16:31

damaging storm reports and we're not

16:34

done with this yet. That's the

16:36

satellite. Let's get to the radar.

16:38

The line now is almost to

16:40

the Georgia coastline down in two

16:42

parts of Florida. But the northern

16:44

part of this is lagging. But

16:46

the northern part of this is

16:49

lagging. It's lagging. It's lagging part

16:51

of Florida. But the northern part

16:53

of this is lagging. It's lagging.

16:55

It's 60 miles an hour. 0%

16:57

containment and just off the road

16:59

in Mammoth this is beneficial snow

17:01

as it didn't make it to

17:04

this fire. Either way this is

17:06

the energy that's going to reset

17:08

the stage for severe weather as

17:10

soon as tomorrow in parts of

17:12

Kansas tornadoes there. And then from

17:14

the arkletex across the mid-south all

17:16

the way to the mid-south all

17:19

the way to Chicago on Wednesday

17:21

our computer models really ramping up

17:23

several rounds of not just damaging

17:25

storms but the play throughout the

17:27

week. Okay, Rob, thank you. A

17:29

pair of North Carolina broadcasters are

17:31

using the airwaves to help with

17:34

the recovery from Hurricane Helene. Eye

17:36

on America is next. After Hurricane

17:38

Helene devastated Western North Carolina, we

17:40

introduced you to a couple of

17:42

broadcasters who kept the people informed.

17:44

Now, six months later, they've taken

17:46

on a whole new role in

17:49

the recovery, bringing communities together. Skyler

17:51

Henry has tonight's Eye in America,

17:53

the AM Band of Brothers. For

17:55

the last six months, Mark Starling

17:57

and Tank Spencer have been hard

17:59

at work, expanding their job descriptions.

18:01

This is the first time that

18:04

I've ever been proud to live

18:06

somewhere. They're not just the voices

18:08

of AM radio here in Western

18:10

North Carolina. They have just been

18:12

such a lifeline. They've been the

18:14

voices of recovery, amplifying the message

18:17

of groups such as Valley Strong

18:19

Disaster Relief. Run by Jason Ward

18:21

and his partners. Before Helene, their

18:23

amphitheater was a crowd favorite for

18:25

music. Now it's a

18:27

place where folks can stock up on

18:29

essentials they badly need. We have a

18:32

huge propane set up. We had a

18:34

lot of our food and diapers and

18:36

everything up on the stage. You don't

18:38

really notice until times of disaster what

18:41

your community is really made of it.

18:43

Starling and Spencer are connecting groups like

18:45

Valley Strong with the people who need

18:47

them the most. They're going to make

18:50

sure that everybody in that community that

18:52

nobody wants for anything. Continuing coverage of

18:54

the relief rescue and recovery operations from

18:56

Tropical Storm Helene? It's what they've been

18:59

doing since we first met them last

19:01

October and the aftermath of the storm.

19:03

This is the realest radio has ever

19:05

been. The AM radio host and producer

19:08

manned the phones around the clock for

19:10

days. Picking up food and water. With

19:12

cell towers, down and communications, iffy at

19:14

best, they became a way for people

19:17

to ask for help. The access to

19:19

the information saved lives. The only thing

19:21

that was less standing was AM and

19:23

FM radio. And I think there's been

19:26

a rediscovery of that. This is the

19:28

rundown with Mark Starling. Six months later,

19:30

they're still at it. You guys really,

19:32

the only voices we had coming across

19:35

the airways. There's good that comes from

19:37

the bad. But I love you guys.

19:39

We love you, honey. You're being here

19:41

and keeping us updated on everything. Yes,

19:44

ma'am, we're not going anywhere. Don't you

19:46

worry about that? Like most everyone in

19:48

the area, the last six months have

19:50

been an intense reminder that no one

19:52

gets through this alone. Not the people

19:55

of western North Carolina, and not these

19:57

two. How are they fairing after all

19:59

of this? Because it was pretty bad.

20:01

And it still is. Yeah. I mean,

20:04

I don't think there's a way that

20:06

you can be okay. Yeah, you can't.

20:08

After something like that. It changes everything

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for you. It changes the value of

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everything. Right. The value of this friendship.

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I wouldn't make it a tank sposer.

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And a lot of people might not

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be here without the AM radio station

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where Mark and tank work. that's been

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saving lives with the turn of a

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dial. For ION America, I'm Skylar Henry

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in Asheville, North Carolina. Those guys are

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speaking the truth. In tomorrow's ION America

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from Baltimore, former criminals are being recruited

20:35

to help stop crime. The torpedo bat

20:37

is a talk of baseball after the

20:40

Yankees used it to sink the brewers

20:42

20 to 9. Dave Melkov has the

20:44

story behind the not-so-secret weapon. This weekend,

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it wasn't the players who got all

20:49

the attention. It was the bats. The

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bat works! A three-run home run! That

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short-stop Anthony Volpe hitting one of the

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Yankees' nine home runs on Saturday, a

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team record. Some Bronx bombers decided to

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use a bat shaped a little like

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a torpedo. So you can see where

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on a typical bat where we have

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the largest part of the barrel typically

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is at the end. Well now we've

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taken that and dropped it to slightly

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below the sweet spot. Pete Tucci is

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one of only about 40 licensed MLB

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bat makers. He makes torpedo bats like

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the ones used by the Yankees this

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weekend. And there's a baseball bat. And

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there's a torpedo bat. Like 30 seconds

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later we got torpedo bat. Here's my

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biggest problem with this bat. Guys, my

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team didn't come up with it. That's

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it. If you're a Yankee, the torpedo

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bats seemed to be working and Tucci

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told us. They are on the

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on the up. up.

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There's nothing illegal about

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them. They fit They

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fit rules. In fact,

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there's been fact, the

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last 120 years last

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have been made

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to a similar shape.

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made a normal bat,

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flipped on its

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end. The theory goes

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like this. Moving

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the The won't make

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your best hit better,

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but your worst

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hit could end up

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like this. hit Dave

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end CBS like this. Dave

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Connecticut. CBS News, is next.

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See you tomorrow.

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Have a good night.

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is next. Malkoff.