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Football, Steroids; Deadly Force; Interest in Interpreters
Aired April 27, 2005 - 06:30 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Good morning to you. From the Time Warner center in New York, I'm Carol Costello, along with Chad Myers.
"Now in the News."
Would-be millennium bomber Ahmed Ressam will be sentenced this morning in Seattle, Washington. He was convicted of plotting to bomb Los Angeles International Airport on New Year's Eve 1999.
The death toll from Japan's worst train wreck in decades has climbed to 95, and rescuers are still finding more bodies. Four hundred and fifty eight people were injured in the crash.
A former top homeland security official will testify today that chemical plants in the United States are vulnerable targets for terrorists. He'll tell the Senate Homeland Security Committee the plants represent a grave risk to you because of weak governmental regulation.
To the forecast center.
(WEATHER REPORT)
COSTELLO: NFL officials will face Congress today to talk about drug testing in their sport. But some House members are taking it one step further. The Drug-Free Sports Act calls for more stringent testing of all pro athletes, to be run by the Commerce Department. It's based on the Olympic testing standard and calls for a two-year ban for first offenses, and a lifetime ban for repeat offenders.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
REP. FRED UPTON (R), MICHIGAN: Testing policies have been hollow. They've been established more for appearances than actually cleaning up the sport. And enough is enough. And I would like to think that every commissioner of every major professional sport would be supportive of our bipartisan legislation.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
COSTELLO: Hmm. Some called them hollow testing procedures. Are they really, though, when it comes to football at least?
Paul Attner is from the "Sporting News." He joins us live now.
Good morning, Paul.
PAUL ATTNER, "SPORTING NEWS": Good morning, Carol.
COSTELLO: So, right now, I guess the NFL requires two random drug tests during the off-season. But the commissioner is actually doing an end-run. Will the new rules be unveiled to Congress today?
ATTNER: Yes. He's going to come up there and talk about increasing those random tests to six during the off-season. And talk about how the Players Association and the league have agreed to include more drugs in the test and to agree to standards comparable to what the Olympics are doing right now, except for that two-year suspension. That part they're not going to announce, because they don't want any part of a two-year suspension for a first offense.
COSTELLO: Two years, wow!
ATTNER: Oh, I know, it's a lot.
COSTELLO: I know. How serious is the problem within football?
Aired April 27, 2005 - 06:30 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Good morning to you. From the Time Warner center in New York, I'm Carol Costello, along with Chad Myers.
"Now in the News."
Would-be millennium bomber Ahmed Ressam will be sentenced this morning in Seattle, Washington. He was convicted of plotting to bomb Los Angeles International Airport on New Year's Eve 1999.
The death toll from Japan's worst train wreck in decades has climbed to 95, and rescuers are still finding more bodies. Four hundred and fifty eight people were injured in the crash.
A former top homeland security official will testify today that chemical plants in the United States are vulnerable targets for terrorists. He'll tell the Senate Homeland Security Committee the plants represent a grave risk to you because of weak governmental regulation.
To the forecast center.
(WEATHER REPORT)
COSTELLO: NFL officials will face Congress today to talk about drug testing in their sport. But some House members are taking it one step further. The Drug-Free Sports Act calls for more stringent testing of all pro athletes, to be run by the Commerce Department. It's based on the Olympic testing standard and calls for a two-year ban for first offenses, and a lifetime ban for repeat offenders.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
REP. FRED UPTON (R), MICHIGAN: Testing policies have been hollow. They've been established more for appearances than actually cleaning up the sport. And enough is enough. And I would like to think that every commissioner of every major professional sport would be supportive of our bipartisan legislation.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
COSTELLO: Hmm. Some called them hollow testing procedures. Are they really, though, when it comes to football at least?
Paul Attner is from the "Sporting News." He joins us live now.
Good morning, Paul.
PAUL ATTNER, "SPORTING NEWS": Good morning, Carol.
COSTELLO: So, right now, I guess the NFL requires two random drug tests during the off-season. But the commissioner is actually doing an end-run. Will the new rules be unveiled to Congress today?
ATTNER: Yes. He's going to come up there and talk about increasing those random tests to six during the off-season. And talk about how the Players Association and the league have agreed to include more drugs in the test and to agree to standards comparable to what the Olympics are doing right now, except for that two-year suspension. That part they're not going to announce, because they don't want any part of a two-year suspension for a first offense.
COSTELLO: Two years, wow!
ATTNER: Oh, I know, it's a lot.
COSTELLO: I know. How serious is the problem within football?
