And others on Gun Legislation. Senator schumer waiting one. Inute for the mayor senator schumer are you with the mayor . [indiscernible conversation] senator schumer welcome. Great. Ok, lets get started. M very proud to be joined im very proud to be joined by, of course, my friend and colleague, Speaker Pelosi, mayor nan whaley from dayton. Good to have you here. And i want to thank my colleagues senators brown and stabenow and representative scobar from el paso, texas and representative thompson. Too Many Americans are losing their lives to gun violence. Too many families are just weeping because they have lost loved ones. I was at the airport, a gentleman came over to me and said thank you for what youre doing, i lost my nephew to gun violence last year. Americans are suffering from the abundance of gun violence in america. Last month, Mass Shootings claimed 51 lives in el paso, dayton and odessa to say nothing about the daily lives lost by gun violence. Enough is enough. Congress is
And he will perform live in our studio all on our show today. Well, swimming offers a lot of unique challenges, and some swimmers take it even further such as being part of the Youngest Team ever to swim across the bonifacio channel, a 15kilometer stretch of the mediterranean from france to italy. Oh, did i mention the rough waters and jellyfish . Here are the swimming sisters. Mitali khanzode was not only part of that Bay Area Team, but shes also the youngest person to swim the strait of messina in italy at 15 years old, and her sister, anaya khanzode, started young as well, swimming competitively at 6 years old. She was the youngest member of that Bay Area Team and was also the youngest person to ever make the alcatraz crossing. She did that at 8 years old. Both are preparing for the upcoming Golden Gate Bridge swim on september 22nd. Welcome to the show. And i made such a big deal about the alcatraz swim and you guys have both swam it like 50 times, right . Both yeah. Robert you kno
Actually been in space and that is astronaut Leland Melvin and, mr. Melvin, you write that your book is called chasing space and you write that it had all begun with a dropped pass. Yeah, exactly. A dropped path, i pass. I block a lot and we were at a homecoming game. The ball was perfectly thrown in the game and i dropped a touchdown pass in my hands and the thing is a scout was there from the university of richmond looking to see if i could play football for the team. He walked out of the stadium, my coach green believed in me, this time i caught the ball, that one catch resulted in 180,000dollar scholarship to the university of richmond because the coach said he didnt give up, he kept going. That was the grits and the first and the second chance. How did you get from playing from the university of richmond spiders to Space Shuttle missions . I think the turning of season from 010 around to 38 in playoffs brought the College Scout and then all of the hard work and dedication and disc
And no one saw it. I started writing the book and i asked my question again. Why are you requesting that question . And answer became clear to me, for two reasons, the first happened just last year. I think 2016 was the year when we started living 51 of our lives in cyberspace. Thats where we went to get a news, buy a book, buy a car, meet with our friends, find a date, find a spouse, we are now living in the developed world at least 51 of our lives in cyberspace. My definition of cyberspace its a realm where we are all connected and no one is in charge. Its the ultimate god free realm, no stoplights, no police, no ethics code, no 1800please stop putin from hacking my elections. We are living our lives in a realm thats ethics and godfree. And at the same time because of these accelerated powers ive written about, we are now standing at a moral intersections we have never stood at before as human species. One country could kill all of us post hiroshima, im glad it was mind. I believe we
Continue to follow the story on air and online at 6abc. Com. In other news students at Coatesville Area High School staged a protest today following racially charged incidents involving the school in response to a picture of four students from the school posing behind carved pumpkins with offensive images. Vernon odom is live outside of the high school with the very latest. Reporter good afternoon rick, we have been prohibited from coming on to the High School Campus but a lot of tension and strive here that continues this afternoon and black students say they are victims of ongoing racism here at the school and are not going to take it anymore. Hundreds of students at Coatesville High School are boycotting classes protesting repeated incidents of racism from inside of the school like symbols like kkk and swastikas carved in pumpkins and a black doll hanging in the locker room. A recent doll hanging and a carved pumpkin. School officials sanctioned a protest at 10 00. And some went ins