Announcer please welcome the atlantics margarette lowe. [applause] hello, hello, and welcome to the atlantics first summit on athletes and activism. Im margaret lowe, part of the team that brings journalism to stages across the country. We are so happy to be here in washington with all of you at this brandnew arena, where the mystics will tip off against the atlantic dream this saturday night, the first mystics game ever in this arena. [applause] we are thinking of ourselves today as the happy little warmup act for that. And what a wonderful crowd here today. Thank you, all, for joining us. We are exploring the power of athletes who spotlight injustice and spur change. We will hear from olympians, collegiate allamericans, and people who cover sports. And listen to this, our speaker roster has one world cup soccer championship, eight hockey World Championships, nine olympic medals, and one nfl trophy. So we think we have a pretty winning lineup today. Guiding the conversations on stage
This brandnew arena, where the mystics will tip off against the atlantic dream this saturday night, the first mystics game ever in this arena. [applause] we are thinking of ourselves today as the happy little warmup act for that. And what a wonderful crowd here today. Thank you, all, for joining us. Power ofploring the athletes who spotlight injustice and spur change. We will hear from olympians, collegiate allamericans, professionals and from people who cover sports. And listen to this, our speaker roster has one world cup soccer championship, eight hockey World Championships, nine olympic trophy. And one nfl so we think we have a pretty winning lineup today. Guiding the conversations on stage today is my winning colleague, Atlantic Staff writer jamal hill. Jemele writes about the intersection of sports, race, politics and culture. Now we want to learn more about all of you. Poll, andke a quick answering the question requires a cell phone. Phone andour cell and then type in slido. Com
Hello, hello, and welcome to the atlantics first summit on athletes and activism. Im margaret lowe, part of the team that brings journalism to stages across the country. We are so happy to be here in washington with all of you at this brandnew arena, where the mystics will tip off against the atlantic dream this saturday night, the first mystics game ever in this arena. [applause] we are thinking of ourselves today as the happy little warmup act for that. And what a wonderful crowd here today. Thank you, all, for joining us. We are exploring the power of athletes who spotlight injustice and spur change. We will hear from olympians, collegiate allamericans, and people who cover sports. And listen to this, our speaker roster has one world cup soccer championship, eight hockey World Championships, nine olympic medals, and one nfl trophy. So we think we have a pretty winning lineup today. Guiding the conversations on stage today is my winning colleague, Atlantic Staff writer jemele hill. S
leaving three people, including the shooter dead. and an update on a texas inmate who escaped last month and now in police custody, but not before they say they ve committed more murders. it could be by people, some of them children. we are check tracking full stories for you tonight. a partially defunded police department there there and anonymous that you investigate both cases of sexual assault. trace gallagher is on the case tonight. we begin with the president weighing in on the done debate in a primetime address. kevin couric is tracking the latest for us. declaring and not, enough here president biden urged gres mall lawmakers to ban assault weapons and implement other so called sensible gun control measures to address the string of mass shootings that has struck the country. a plea that may not produce everything he s looking for but might, just might at least this time produce something. for god sake, how much carnage are we willing to accept . and a primetime ad
A family is breathing a sigh of relief. Reporter the dogs got all the way out in the middle of this pond. Where the ice turns to water. Thats where they fell in. Their owner worried because see could not find them and panicked when she found out where they were. This is zoe, back home, back alive. After what happened in the familys pond. Panic. The panic soest in the Police Body Cam video of the incident it was the moment, zoe and the owner saw them in the ambulance, seconds after they were pulled from the water. We are going to transport them in here. Rescued, just in time by a member of the dive team. Right as he got to hill, he he actually reached down just as he went under. He had to scoop him under the water. Reporter both spent more than 15 minutes, tread wag at the here before help arrived. When i saw him in there, i thought there was no way to get him out. Reporter both were rushed to a nearby vet hospital where doctors bumped warm fluids through their little bodies for hours.