Today in an unprecedented move for major league baseball, the orioles will play in front of empty seats at camden yards in the interest of fan safety. Now yesterday, president obama condemned the violence and looting but said, this isnt a new problem. This has been a slowrolling crisis, this has been going on a long time. This is not new. And we shouldnt pretend that its new. Nbcs tracie potts is live in baltimore with the very latest. Tracie, good morning. Reporter things were fairly quiet overnight compared to the night before. Certainly throughout the city. Schools are reopening, orioles are playing, although to an empty stadium and police are trying to keep calm throughout the city. Baltimore police say there was relative calm on the first night of the curfew less than a dozen arrests compared to 200 monday. We do not have a lot of activity or movement throughout the city as a whole, so the curfew is in fact working. Reporter officers in riot gear cleared the streets with smoke can
Carla wasn’t diagnosed with COVID-19, but she’d been recently hospitalized with deteriorating health issues related to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and diabetes at Life Care Center of Sarasota. She passed away on Saturday morning.
Inducted into the Circus Ring of Fame in 2018, the youngest child in the Karl Wallenda dynasty was born at Sarasota Memorial Hospital in 1936, eight years after John Ringling persuaded Karl to join his circus in Sarasota. Carla parlayed those entertainment genes into a career that spanned 78 years, which concluded three years ago after an appearance on Steve Harvey’s “Forever Young” show and a cameo on Miley Cyrus’ “Younger Now” video.
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From then on, she became a part of The Flying Wallendas, appearing alongside her father and mother as the troupe toured with the Ringling Bros. Circus.
Carla spent seven years with the famous traveling show before her family opened the Wallenda Circus in 1947. At the time, she appeared in several aerial acts.
In 1951, she joined the family s high-wire act after her father challenged her to do a handstand on top of their famous seven-person pyramid. She performed the daring feat during a show in Cleveland, becoming the only woman from The Flying Wallendas ever to accomplish the stunt successfully.