Monster, the left field wall at bostons fenway park. Im oliver north. This is war stories. Tonight well show you how Americas National pasttime and the people who played it help boost the countrys moral during the war. More than 500 Major League Ball players and 4,000 minor leaguers served in the military. Star players like ted williams, warren spawn traded one uniform for another. War stories sat down with some of baseballs greatest legends to talk about those greatest days. Join us tonight for a special, from the ballpark to the battlefield, baseball and world war ii. It was a different world then, a different generation of people. Boston red sox ace curt schilg have a passion. The generation that fought in world war ii continuing to inspire him. Im playing baseball. Im proud of what i do. You serve in the armed forces, youre putting your life on the line for your country and the freedom of the people that dont even live in your country. I cant put it in the same strots fear. We were
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92 in trenton and 93 in wrightstown. We have heat and we have humidity so it feels like its close to 100 degrees. This evening well see hazy and humid conditions. At about 7 00 oclock still 91. At 9 00 p. M. Warm and muggy 85. And even at the 11 00 oclock hour mainly clear still sticky the temperature 82 degrees. We have that excessive heat warning that continues through friday afternoon for the i95 corridor adjacent suburbs in pennsylvania, new jersey and delaware. It will feel like its over 100 degrees over the next couple of days. I think the heat will be peaking on friday before front moves through. We will be experiencin experiene summertime storms during the heat of the day. The heat will turn dangerous and take a look at the weekend outlook when we catch a break from the heat and humidity. Ill have the seven day forecast from the city to the shore. To a developing story teenaged boy is recovering tonight after being hit by a stray bullet. Police say 13yearold cayenne griffin was
One here for him, uchimura still has another event remaining in rio, thats the floor exercise, but it wont end for him here as his final olympic bow will likely come four years from now in his home nation when tokyo hosts the 2020 olympics. As we say good night, the medal ceremony for uchimura, ukraines Oleg Verniaiev who had gold in his sights until the final restation winds up with silver and britains max whitlock wears bronze. . . . . . . . . . . [ cheers and applause ] and that does it for us. Show from copacabana beach bright and early and well see you tomorrow night from rio. Pride, glory, cultural expressions, it has more flags than the opening ceremony, only than the opening ceremony, only here its all stars and stripes. When people ask me what its like to win an olympic medal, i tell them, you already know. The medals youve earned are all around you. Your bronze. Your silver. Your gold. And Liberty Mutual insures them all. Ike we protect the medals youve earned in life. Libert
Couple of days and a huge change in the weather pattern. Doug, thank you. Now to new developments in rio. It all centers around the Armed Robbery reported by ryan lochte and other members of team usa swimming including rockvilles jack conger. New evidence obtained by the daily mail has some questions of whether that was made up. The judge has ordered passports be turned over by some olympians. Lets get to wendy rieger. You know that ryan lochte is just praying that usain bolt shatters the world record to get some of the attention off of him. Thats all anybody is talking about here, this mystery. Were they lying about being robbed . Dailymail. Com video that surfaced, Surveillance Video of the four swrs the surveillance camera at the athletes village afterwards. That has just added another layer to this intrigue here, if you will. You see the four swimmers, ryan lochte, jimmy phegan, jack conger. They appear to be subdued. If you want to characterize it, they dont appear to have any kin