Were told with his death that ed snider left a very large endowment to keep his philanthropic efforts secure. Friends of ed snider say this is his legacy, his youth hockey foundation, a 4 million a year project focused on 3,000 kids. The hockey is the focus. The goal is to help kids with everything from homework to winning at life. Hockey is a terrific sport to use for that because it engenders hard work, honest effort and teamwork. Reporter ed snider arrived in philadelphia in the mid 60s as part owner of the eagles but soon his focus was on an nhl expansion franchise. Then in 1974 came the stanley cup. The flyers win the stanley cup. The flyers win the stanley cup. Reporter the next year sniders flyers did it again. Thank you fans. Youre the greatest. Two years in a row. Reporter a player snider but tough brutal teams that fans loved. He understood i think that this was blue collar lunch bucket town where people enjoyed a hard play and hard hitting and he thought he could build a hoc
With these types of weapons. They do have high powered and sniper rifles on the roof of the white house. Jim miklaszewski is in the White House Briefing room, temporary mandatory home for a lot of members of the media. Jim . The lockdown here in the white house has been lifted. Reporters and camera crews are now permitted to go outside onto the white house lawn. And since were able to move here from the building itself, one would imagine that we could also exit the white house grounds proper and get outside the fence onto pennsylvania avenue. But id like to stress again that the white house itself and anybody in the white house, was not in any apparent threat, because the shooting occurred at a guard post, a secret Service Guard post on the opposite side of the Old Executive Office building, which, as you walk, is about at least a block and a half to as long as two blocks from the white house itself. And while we are told that this individual had a gun and was apparently at least brand
Williams. Certainly an unpleasant story were covering. For this baseball diamond across the Potomac River all in preparation for an annual baseball game. Garrett haake has been standing by at the location for the last 90 or so minutes. What can you tell us . Reporter brian starting at the beginning here, weve got witnesses, members of congress who describe a gunman carrying a long gun and a handgun opening fire on this Congressional Republican baseball practice here around 7 00 this morning. By 7 09 someone had called the police but by then there was a shootout going on between the gunman and Capitol Police officers who were there to protect the highest Ranking Member of congress this morning, who was here this morning, the whip, steve scalise, who we know was one of the peoplenjured in this shootout, really about 15 minutes this was over. Five people shot according to the police chief in alexandria, virginia. We shad senators and congressmen coming out to describe the chaotic scene on
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