Kenny the slider retired one away. The patriarch of the family, but statement passed away at the age of 80, college professor, youth baseball coach here in new york. Longtime its been dating back to the days of hodges and add cream pool, he touched the lives of 100 the thousands of athletes. And players are in the new york area. Harold thats great you bring that up, quite a tribute, welldeserved. Kenny with the mets trailing the braves tonight 43 after taking a 30 lead behind the steven matz who was a local product as well. Heres erick aybar. Harold a lot of players out of the northeast were drafted this year. Kenny the fact the braves firstbase coach is eddie perez, speaking of the draft, the son of 36 round pick the braves. Harold to braves number one pick is from upstate new york. High school pitcher. Kenny mets drafted a pitcher in the second round named anthony k out of the same high school as a steven matz on long island. Harold university of uconn, right . Kenny steven matz told
Be the worst. All in a matter of minutes. She says if it werent for another person shielding her from the gunfire, she might not be here. We laid there for hours and hours hoping that someone came and got us and hoping that the police would come through at that point in time and just like save us all. 20yearold patience carter a fox 29 intern describing the horror of being trapped in a orlando nightclub bathroom as gunman goes on wild shooting rampage. Patience and dozens of others shot. Some killed including her friend akyra murray who had just graduated west catholic prep last monday. I looked across and i could see my best friend on the floor and akyra just looking lifeless and at that point i was just like i really dont think im going to get out of here. Patience says at one point the shooters gun jammed. He was like, testimonyn like it jammed. So with my face under the stall looking i could see him put down his machine gun and try to you could hear him trying to click in, fix his
Well torque night former classmates, teachers and alumni are gathering for a vigil in her memory. The flag outside of west catholic prep at half mass tonight. That is where people are gathering as we speak. The vigil just started. The community here is in mourning over the death of an academic and basketball stand out akyra was the youngest victim of the orlando nightclub massacre. She was there on a Family Vacation when her cousin and friend all three of them shot and held hostage by gunman omar mateen. Murray died after being shot in the arm just 18 years old. To night School Administrators will address friends, former classmates, teachers and alumni to troy to make some sense of this senseless tragedy. One of the characteristics of the school is that we are a family. So when this type of situation happens in any family, family gathers together and they get strength from one another. So the Hope Opportunity for our students to speak and be strengthened by one another is the whole rea
2016. Sue serio; this weather going ruin good day plans doing stuff outside later this morning . The question really is about tomorrow. Because we have our northeast good day drivethru tomorrow. I think the chances are better for no rain than they are for this morning. Youre either getting nothing or youre getting some heavy downpours out in lancaster, berks county, chester county, as women. Definitely have the umbrella with you this morning. We look back at the bigger picture, we see more thunderstorms in the western part of the state headed our way as they hold together. But the bottom line, couple of rounds of this rain coming through, well have rainy morning on and off. Just not constantly. So, there you see, montgomery county, as we mentioned, berks, lancaster, chester counties getting some of the heavy rain, thunderstorms rolled through the jersey shore little while ago getting a break at the moment. So, here in philadelphia, it is dry right now. 65 degrees. Easterly wind at 6 mi
Gathered together tonight to come together to pray and real toll make sense of a senseless tragedy that claimed the life of a stand out student athlete. It was less than two weeks ago akyra murray was here graduating third in her class from west cathedral rick prep high school. Tonight, former classmates, teachers and alumni pour into the very same building to honor her memory. As the flags fly at half staff. Everybody wanted to be like her. Reporter monique barracks was murrays teammate on the lady birds basketball team. She would keep our hearts and heads into every game win organize losing, and she just knew the right words to say and how to build us up to as team. Reporter hundreds fill the auditorium in a private vigil led by School President brother Richard Kessler who himself struggled to find the words of comfort for the west catholic family. One of the characteristics of the school is that we are a family when this type of situation happens in any family, family gathers togeth