individual all around but team usa still bringing home the gold and what a great story this is on top of everything, coy wire, is in tokyo with more. i m smiling so much for suni lee right now. yeah. st. paul as another home town hero, someone other than poppy harlow, the greatest of all time. without the goat competing. it was wide open and it was 18-year-old suni lee stepping up on the sports biggest stage and captured the gold after she and her family have been through so much. she missed two months in 2020 with a broken bone in her foot and two months with an achilles injury and she lost her aunt and uncle due to covid. she felt like quitting at times but she persevered and it came down to the floor routine today here in tokyo. she needed to score a 13.467. she rocked a 13.7. it was hold for the gold. lee started gymnastics when she was 6 years old.
especially in trials, i didn t want to risk any days out. there was the appearance where taking the vaccine you have to deal with some days off. now nick curry os has pulled out of the olympics complete l. he said part of the reason is because there won t be fans now in the stands at all. the 26-year-old tweeting it has been my dream to represent australia at the olympic and i may never get that opportunity again, but i also know myself. the thought of playing in empty stadiums doesn t sit right with me and never has, unquote. and the play of the day coming from padre s relief pitcher daniel camarena, 28-year-old rookie didn t just get his first big league hit, it is a grand slam. and the home town hero did it off one of the best pitchers in baseball, max scherzer. that is her dad getting to witness it from the stands. the san diego native was called up from the minors earlier that
i just one of the thousands of fans lining up to pay for that last respects to everything frankly us soul singers bodies lying in state in our hometown of detroit a private funeral will take place on friday the seventy six year old music legend died this month from pancreatic cancer the w. s my shweta has this report. this is where everything franklin learned to say her father was the head pastor of the new bethel baptist church while she was growing up. with her upbringing here in detroit and her incredible talent franklin grew into a superstar if sam and for me to be here i grew up listening to limerick of franklin my parents listening to the different planet and the fact that she s trying to carry it it is just an honor she s a home town hero we love it she s the queen she was an african-american characters that has. your music for ever it is.
against his attorney general. msnbc s mariana is in the hometown of jeff sessions. what are folks there telling you? how do they feel about all of this? so, chris, jeff sessions is a home town hero here in mobile. most people we spoke with continue to back donald trump. these public insults towards the attorney general are not rubbing people the right way here in alabama. i feel like jeff sessions is probably his greatest advocate. has done the most in his administration so far and accomplished the most. so, i wish he could get off his back. i wish he hadn t said a lot of things that he did. i wish he would move on. stay off twitter. you can t talk down about your own staffers. iodon i don t like at all how bashing on twitter. that should be more of a personal matter. personal insalts on twitter,
saying they would stop this practice. and i think they re rather embarrassed about it. the interesting thing is it was the department of defense, right? they were actually paying for these opportunities. paying big top dollars. and i want to give our folks some of the specifics they were paying for. they were paying for my team, the vikings, for the opportunity to sponsor military appreciation night. paying the atlanta falcons to interrogatory birthday, to recognize our wounded warriors, for national guard members to sing the national anthem. they were paying for the buffalo bills absolute to the service game. they were paying the new york jets for a home town hero video board feature. all the rest us who are home enjoying the football game, baseball game, hockey game, we thought, wow! how great that all these sports teams want to honor our men and women who sacrificed their lives for us. and it turns out not so much. well, let us both say that