Happening. He said that one ever the trapeze artists had fallen, and he had missed the net and hit the bleachers. Reporter police say the people in those bleachers were not hurt. But on social media a woman wrote she was traumatized watching the fall with her kids. Another said audience members could hear a crack when the perform irhit the group. Ive never been to a circus like this. We have professional performers. Reporter this is a professional video posted to the internet. The universal circus says the artist injured tonight is a part of this group. The video says the circus invests heavily in training and choreography for performers around the world. It was a terrible, awful accident, and my heart went out to the artist who is suffering now. Reporter the circus says wu is stable at the hospital. Doctors are treating a lower back injury. This circus is scheduled to run here in philadelphia through november 15th. Live in fairmount park, drew smith nbc 10 news. A south jersey child i
[ cheers and applause ] as the crowd acknowledges the great championship, lets go to kenny wright. All right, tom. Were still hearing the crowd echo down here. Bob, congratulations. Did you know it was going to be such a spectacular finish . We were hoping. He was doing so well coming up. You know, victor, doing great. He let him roll. Im just proud of my team, zayat, jimmy barns. Well never have another one. People came to see this. Its very rare. I had more pressure this is for pharoah, i wanted him to go out the champion he is. What a horse. Ill never have a horse like him. Great job, jimmy barns, ahmed zayat, excuse me, bodey, justin, what a spectacular finish today. What did you think it was going to be like coming in. In the hands of the master, bob. Were happy with his career. The roar of the crowd a little similar to belmont today. Unbelievable. Once in a lifetime. So in debt. We owe him the whole world. America, my family, everybody. What a horse. What a horse indeed. What an
Hail to thee, blithe spirit. Mister timberlake oh, wilson, you are to be congratulated. The first mockingbird of spring has chosen to live with you. Oh, yes, i am fortunate, mr. Timberlake. Theres his nest, mr. Timberlake. Right up there, see . Illill show him, dennis. Ill show him. What a splendid nest. An excellent location. Hell be safe from all harm. Oh, i assure you, no harm will come to him in my yard. Ill be extremely vigilant as any candidate for your high office should be. Well spoken, wilson. Im sure that if you are elected, youll be a staunch guardian for our little feathered friends. Oh, i will. I certainly will. And im sure that mrs. Elkins, too, will do her best if elected. Oh, well. She will try, i suppose. But it will be extremely difficult for a woman to fill your shoes. Well, mr. Timberlake. Hello, mrs. Elkins. And mr. Wilson, dennis. Hi, mrs. Elkins. Is there something we can do for you, mrs. Elkins . No, thank you. I just wanted to tell mr. Timberlake that when im e
Signed, john a. Boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the chair will alternative recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip limited to five minutes, but in no event shall debate continue beyond 1 50 p. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from oregon, mr. Blumenauer. Five minutes. Mr. Blumenauer thank you, mr. Speaker. There are a lot of talk of cliffs here in our nations capital. We have fiscal cliffs that we faced with the debt ceiling. There was the sequestration cliff. We had obviously the cliff surrounding the government shutdown. This week we face a Homeland Security cliff. Where because our republican friends have been unable to Reach Agreement and they have held hostage the budget of the department of Homeland Security, we face a situation where well either shut down those operations or hopefully people will come to their senses and take a
We will speak with storycorps founder dave isay out the new book called ties that bind. All that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Today in a democracy now special, we look back at a decade of stories from the oral history project storycorps. In 2003, the first storycorps recording booth open in new york citys Grand Central station. Since then, nearly 100,000 people have recorded interviews with their loved ones in storycorps booths across the country. Their voices are burned into a cd for the people who do the interview and their loved one, and then preserved at the american folk like ray center elaborate congress. Today, 10 years and some 50,000 interviews after its inception, storycorps stands as the largest collection of voices ever gathered in history. The leads of people have listened on public radio and online. Today we will spend the hour with storycorps founder dave isay and air some of his favorite stories