SAN LUIS OBISPO — The largest fitness, health and running festival on the California Central Coast will bring out over 3,000 athletes of all ages and abilities, and over 6,000 spectators, to Madonna Meadows in San Luis Obispo this weekend, April 26-28. Presented by Pacific Premier Bank and produced by the local endurance sport leader Race SLO, the weekend activities will kick off on Friday, April 26, with the new YogaMusic Fest and continue with a 5K and kids races on Saturday, and a half-marathon and relay races, including the new Corporate Challenge presented by Morris and Garritano Insurance on Sunday.
Many people speculated that LeBron James chose the Los Angeles Lakers in free agency more due to the opportunities and business that he can conduct in Los Angeles over Cleveland. His Barbershop show called "The Shop" on HBO hasn't necessarily been a hit as far as ratings in a day of who you know, he managed to have Antonio Brown and Anthony Davis on while both of them were embroiled in controversy and not talking to any media. That alone shows the power and reach that LeBron has with celebrities, or at the very least, sports stars. It has also been reported that LeBron is starting production on a "Space Jam 2" and I am here to tell you that I have absolutely no idea who is going to be in the movie but I can tell you who should be.
With the NBA playoffs starting on Saturday it is officially the end of the NBA regular season and what a season it was. There were some crazy things that happened that we have all but forgotten about due to the daily freight train of information that blasts into our faces via our various devices day in and day out. Hello, does anyone remember when Rajon Rondo asked Chris Paul what the five fingers said to the face? Or how about when Marcus Smart kicked dirt behind him with his feet like a cartoon bull before he charged into Joel Embiid sending him sliding across the floor?
PASO ROBLES — The Paso Robles Bearcats and the Atascadero Greyhounds have played three times this season but only two of them counted for league games. Now in the Central Section, the Central Coast has gone back to an old style of league play where teams will get a one-game look at their opponents earlier in the season before playing a two-game series against them, meaning with Thursday's 4-2 win the Hounds swept the season series.
ATASCADERO — The Templeton Eagles have had a rocky start to the beginning of the season having already gone through a coaching change before ever taking the field. Cesar Ortega who was hired in mid-December was let go by the school after those close to the situation say he tried to reschedule the Eagles' first game of the season against the Paso Robles Bearcats the day of the contest without going through the appropriate steps.
ATASCADERO — The Atascadero Greyhounds hosted their annual Memorial track meet on Saturday, but it was the Paso Robles Bearcats that dominated taking home first place in 13 different events. On the boys' side, the Bearcats ran away with the point total with 151, 60 more than the next closest team, and took home second place on the girls' side with 117.5 total points.
LOS ANGELES — Sabrina Degnan left Atascadero High School as one of the school's most decorated and accomplished student-athletes and has only continued her to achieve things no one else can as she will soon leave Occidental College as one of their most decorated athletes as well. Degnan is the first and only 12-time varsity letterman to don the orange and grey playing volleyball, basketball and track and field and also took home Athlete of the Year and Scholar Athlete of the Year. While most athletes are forced to choose one sport when they enter college Degnan played two, volleyball and track and field, excelling at both while still maintaining academic excellence.
Former Paso Robles Bearcat Josh Oliver, who helped lead Paso Robles to a CIF Championship in 2015 while earning All-State Division 3 first team and CIF Southern Section, Northern Division, and PAC 5 defensive lineman of the year, has been invited to and will compete in the NFL Combine following his 2018 season for San Jose State, which begins Friday.
TEMPLETON — The Templeton Eagles softball soared to 2-0 on the season on the arms of Ashley Daugherty who recorded more hits and runs on offense than she surrendered toeing the rubber all afternoon. Daugherty no-hit Santa Maria on Tuesday and launched a two-run homer in the bottom of the first inning to give herself some insurance early and lead the Eagles to a 7-0 victory.
PASO ROBLES — The Atascadero Greyhound baseball team is off to a slow start in their first season under new head coach Joe Davis and have fallen to 0-4 in the early part of the season. The Hounds have been close in their last two games dropping both in extra innings. Early season defensive errors have hurt Atascadero but the biggest factor seems to be their inability to practice regularly due to the weather because they have pitched well.
LEMOORE — The Atascadero Greyhounds sent eight wrestlers to Lemoore at the end of last week to the CIF Central Section Masters wrestling tournament and only one, senior Anna Resco, advanced to State. Only a year removed from her previous trip to State, Resco wrestles in the 133-pound division and finished third at Masters on Saturday after going 5-1.
TEMPLETON — The Templeton youth soccer all-star programs just concluded a season of mythical proportions. Following the end of the regular youth season in November, all of the coaches in the leagues get together and determine who should be in all-stars and the teams are drafted. From this Templeton created five "A" teams who collectively posted a 74-1-3 record en route to 19 tournament victories all while outscoring their opponents, 353-26.
PASO ROBLES — The Templeton Eagles girls varsity soccer team hosted Orcutt Academy in a fight for the league championship and emerged victorious in a wet and wacky two overtime game last Friday night, 4-3, to earn the title.
PASO ROBLES — The Templeton Eagles boys soccer team has claimed the league title in the inaugural season of the Ocean League and did so emphatically by steamrolling Orcutt Academy last Friday night, 5-0, and followed it up with a 3-0 win in the opening round of the playoffs.
ATASCADERO — A 23-2 fourth quarter led the Hounds to a huge comeback win on senior night Tuesday as they beat Santa Maria, 56-44, to finish the regular season at 13-14 overall and 7-3 in the Ocean League.
TEMPLETON — There are families that represent royalty in certain sports. In football, it is the Manning's, whose father, Archie, played for the New Orleans Saints before his son's Peyton and Eli began running the NFL one Papa John's Pizza commercial at a time. In tennis, it is the Williams sisters of Venus and Serena who have combined for 30 grand slam titles and the next royal sports family might reside right here in Templeton, the Gordon's. While Gordon is a famous name in racing, this family doesn't race in a circle, they go in a straight line as fast as possible, the Gordon's are a family of drag racers.
ATASCADERO — The Atascadero and Templeton boys basketball teams played game two of the renewed rivalry on Friday night, this time playing in the den of the Greyhounds, with major league implications on the line. Home court advantage has been the key to this matchup this season. The Eagles controlled the first game at home winning by 18 and on Friday night the Hounds never trailed winning 48-41.
PASO ROBLES — For the second time this season the Templeton Eagles boys soccer team accomplished something that no other team in the Ocean League has done, beat Atascadero. The Eagles have given the Hounds, who currently sit in first place with a 6-2 league record, their only two losses in the Ocean League and just put an end to their six-game winning streak, 1-0, thanks to an early goal by junior Rusty Cohen and a strong defensive effort.
About once a year I get to my breaking point with kickers in the NFL. Surprisingly, after watching one eliminate the Chicago Bears, who I hate, in the most brutal double-doink fashion, I reached this moment Sunday night but not after I sent my fair share of gifs in group chats to members of my family, who are all Bears fans.
TEMPLETON — Tuesday night saw the first meaningful game between the Atascadero Greyhounds and Templeton Eagles boys basketball teams and the team in green left no doubt in their home gym.
ATASCADERO — The Atascadero High School girls soccer team (9-4-4) have almost wrapped up the first round of Mountain League play and sit in a good spot as the second half begins next week. On Friday night the Hounds dismantled the Pioneer Valley defense in the second half as they exploded for four of their five goals in a 20-minute span in the second half beating the Panthers, 5-1. Atascadero is currently ranked No. 9 in Division 1 of the Central Section of CIF, according to Maxpreps.com.
ATASCADERO — After a brutal four-game stretch through their own Christmas Tournament in which they went 0-4, the Atascadero High School boys basketball team responded at home on Friday night showing their grit and winning their Ocean League opener against Morro Bay, 63-55. It wasn't always pretty as the Greyhounds saw their established lead shrink more than once and go through foul trouble including an odd technical, but when the scoreboard hit triple zeros it was the Hounds who started the second part of their season undefeated.
While I haven't seen it be nearly as big of an issue this year, and that could easily be because I stay as far away from Facebook as I can, with players skipping bowl games I still get a chuckle out of the fans that still criticize players for being, "selfish" and "not team guys." I know most people that make those argument are more set in their ways than the sword of Excalibur but for some reason, I enjoy spewing my opinions to a brick wall.
ATASCADERO — The Atascadero Greyhounds hosted their 54th annual Christmas boys basketball tournament at the end of last week and into the weekend. The Hounds did not fare as well as they might have hoped, going 0-4 over the weekend, but with the preseason now behind them, it is time to look forward as league play begins this evening.
ATASCADERO — The Atascadero Greyhound Foundation, which was founded in 1994 as a way to fund facilities and programs for Atascadero High School athletes, has taken on a new project as they have begun trying to raise money to potentially bring a new pool facility to Atascadero.
SAN LUIS OBISPO — Joe Protheroe is more than just an All-American. On Thursday, the Cal Poly senior fullback was honored by the Football Championship Subdivision Athletics Directors Association, not as just another All-American, but as Running Back of the Year for the 2018 season.
TEMPLETON — The Templeton Eagles baseball team will enter the Central Section and more importantly, the Mountain League, this year with a new head baseball coach in Cesar Ortega. Ortega was introduced to the team on Wednesday afternoon, Dec. 19, and the team had their first practice together shortly after.
Cross country dominance, a pair of firsts and a few league champions made 2018 a year of sports the North County won't soon forget. Below is a list of five of our favorite stories, in no particular order, that made 2018 a great year.
ATASCADERO — For some reason, somehow, everytime Paso Robles and Atascadero meet it always comes down to wire in an instant classic type of game. In the final game of the football season, two teams that underperformed according to their standards played the best football game of the year that literally came down to the last play.
SAN LUIS OBISPO — Cuesta College women's water polo's 2018 campaign ended in the first round of the CCCAA Regional Playoffs against the eventual champion in a heartbreak overtime loss to Golden West, 9-8.
If you have been watching the NFL, and let's face it, you have. Then you have seen the Grand Canyon size differences in innovation for offenses like the Los Angeles Rams, Kansas City Chiefs, New England Patriots and the New Orleans Saints from teams like the Jacksonville Jaguars, Green Bay Packers and the Buffalo Bills. It is really quite simple, innovate or get left in the past like the dinosaurs. While some coaches cling to their remedial offenses of fullbacks and two-man routes that worked in the '80s, '90s and early 2000's others are utilizing presnap motions, passing on first down, jet sweep motions, run-pass options (RPOs) and it seems that no NFL record is safe any longer.
SAN LUIS OBISPO — The 2019 Cal Poly football schedule, released Wednesday by Director of Athletics Don Oberhelman and head football coach Tim Walsh, is highlighted by a visit to Oregon State and five home games.
TEMPLETON — The second of Templeton High School's volleyball stars has now committed to play volleyball in college as Cheyenne Rice signed her National Letter of Intent to play beach volleyball at Texas A&M Corpus Christy on Wednesday night in front of friends and family at Nino's Grill.
PASO ROBLES — The Paso Robles Bearcats and Atascadero Greyhounds opened league play on Wednesday night as the spotlight was turned on in the Gil Asa Gymnasium setting the scene for gladiators to battle it out. The match was not very competitive with Paso Robles winning 68-6, both sides had fun and are less concerned with wins at this point in the season and more worried about improving.
SAN LUIS OBISPO — It was a slow start for Women's Volleyball in 2018, but the Cougars ended the year on a roll with a three-game winning streak that put them in contention for a playoff berth. The Cougars ended the year with their third consecutive 3rd place finish in the Western State Conference (WSC) and, after starting the season 1-6, an 11-14 overall record. Cuesta's strong finish and narrow miss of a playoff berth was recognized by the Western State Conference as four players earned all-WSC recognition; including first-team selection Kaylie Griffin (Atascadero HS).
TEMPLETON — The Templeton High School Athletic Department on Wednesday announced Don Crow will be the school's next varsity head football coach.
ATASCADERO — The Atascadero Greyhounds opened their boys' soccer season in a new section, in a new league and with a new head coach in Gary Setting. The Hounds hosted their first home game on Monday against Pioneer Valley and lost 2-1 but played well for all but three minutes at the end of the first half when they let two goals get by them after jumping out to a 1-0 lead late in the first half.
Here are the 2018 CCAA Mountain League All-League selections as voted by the coaches.
Here are the 2018 CCAA Football Mountain League All-League selections as voted on by the coaches.
SANTA MARIA — The Allan Hancock College Bulldogs football team was crowned champions of the American Championship Bowl on Saturday night when they defeated San Bernardino Valley College, 38-35. The score was not entirely indicative of how the game went, a number of questionable calls allowed the Wolverines to stay in the game in the second half after trailing 28-7 at halftime.
SAN LUIS OBISPO — All seven of the high schools that make up the Mountain League for cross country met Wednesday afternoon at the Cuesta-Fairbanks cross country course for the final race of the regular season. Just two weeks ago on Oct. 25, the boys cross country team from Paso Robles claimed their sixth straight countywide title which meant that barring something catastrophic a win on Wednesday was all but a certainty. The Bearcats were in front at the beginning of the race, in the middle of the race, and by the end, they grabbed each of the top three spots and four of the top five with one lone Atascadero Greyhound Xavier Gonzales separating the Bearcats from sweeping the top four.
BREA — Cal Poly swept the Big West Cross Country Championships on Saturday morning, as the Mustang men's squad started the meet by claiming their third consecutive team trophy before the women's team followed by recapturing the conference crown, their third in a four-year stretch.
TEMPLETON — The Templeton Eagles girls volleyball team blasted their way through the first round Thursday night as they dismantled the Bullard Knights 3-0 winning 25-14, 25-14, 25-20. The Templeton gym looked like a rally for a Duck Dynasty reunion as the theme for Thursday's game was camouflage and every kid in attendance was wearing various shades of green and brown.
TEMPLETON — The Templeton Eagles volleyball team concluded their first season in the Mountain League by winning nine straight games to storm back and earn a tie for second place with San Luis Obispo, winning on the tiebreaker. Templeton will host Bullard on Thursday night, Oct. 25, at 6 p.m. and are 7-1 at home this season with their lone loss coming early in the season against Arroyo Grande.
You know that scene in "Dumb & Dumber" when the two main characters are on the way to return the briefcase and Lloyd takes a wrong turn on the way to Aspen and drives throughout the night into Nebraska? When Harry wakes up he is so mad that he gives up on the trip and decides to walk home. The next time we see Harry, he is walking down the highway, thumb out, hair blowing in the wind as a tumbleweed blows in the desert behind him, and sad music is playing in the background as Lloyd pulls up next to him up on a small, rickety motorcycle.
COLORADO — Robbie Berwick graduated from Atascadero in 2014 and left this small town as one of the most decorated athletes in school history. Berwick was on the boys varsity basketball team for all four years he was in high school and led the team in scoring every year except his first. When he left Atascadero, he also held several football records such as passing yards in a season and led the Hounds to their highest scoring offense since 2005, and before that 1995, which was a CIF Southern Section Championship season.
ATASCADERO — The Atascadero Greyhounds water polo teams hosted the San Luis Obispo Tigers on a busy day at Atascadero High School that saw four water polo games and three volleyball games all within 100 yards of each other.
ATASCADERO — The Atascadero Greyhounds girls volleyball team, fresh off a weekend tournament championship, hosted the Templeton Eagles on Tuesday night in a big league matchup early in the season.
ATASCADERO — The Atascadero Greyhounds fell to 0-3 on the season Friday, Sept. 7, after losing to Bakersfield-Frontier at Memorial Stadium, 29-19. The score was not indicative of how close the game was played, the Hounds battled through early fumbles and penalties taking points off the board to bring the game within one point in the fourth quarter but could not complete the comeback.
ATASCADERO — The undefeated Atascadero Greyhounds girls volleyball team opened their Mountain League play Tuesday night by hosting the undefeated Righetti Warriors. Atascadero came into the game 3-0 after defeating Pioneer Valley in straight sets, Morro Bay in straight sets, and St. Joseph, 3-1, and had a chance up 18-17 in the fifth set against Righetti to begin league play with a victory but just barely lost what will undoubtedly be one of the best games of the year.
SAN LUIS OBISPO — Atascadero High School, Cuesta College alum, and current Cal Poly junior Miranda Daschian was selected as the Big West Conference Cross Country Athlete of the Week on Tuesday, in addition to also being chosen as Cal Poly's Coca-Cola Student-Athlete of the Week.
SAN LUIS OBISPO – On Saturday, September 1, Dairy Creek Event Center at El Chorro Park welcomed SLO Ultra trail enthusiasts for the third annual event produced by the Central Coast's endurance sports leader Race SLO. 700 runners and hikers savored the exclusive opportunity to access the private trails of Camp SLO, Cal Poly, and SLO County Parks to compete in a Road Runners of America (RRCA) 50K State Trail Championship, cross country half marathon and a trail 5K. Children enjoyed a half-mile race at the Dairy Creek Golf Course. Epic scenery and warm weather made for a spectacular day of outdoor activities. In addition to the races, the public was invited to a free Race SLO Dirt Festival, with live music performance by Cuesta Ridge, expo with vendors from running industry, hot BBQ and cold Lagunitas brew. Camping was available for the participants in El Chorro Park. The 2018 race beneficiaries of SLO Ultra included the Land Conservancy of SLO, SLO County Parks and Team Red, White and Blue.
PASO ROBLES — It was announced on Monday morning that the first league game within the Mountain League for both the Greyhounds and the Bearcats would be moved from Atascadero High School to the Municipal Pool in Paso Robles due to problems with the pool at Atascadero. Athletic Director Sam DeRose told the Atascadero News that the pool would be fixed by Wednesday.
SAN LUIS OBISPO — There was not a single open seat or blade of grass that wasn't covered by a blanket at Sinsheimer Stadium on Tuesday as the Blues began warming up for their game against the Arroyo Seco Saints. The game sold out because after the 54th out the Blues were setting off fireworks in an early Fourth of July-type celebration.
DAVIS — Atascadero alum and former Greyhounds football coach Evan Hicks accepted a job to become part of the University of California, Davis coaching staff working as a quality control coordinator on the defensive side of the ball.
ATASCADERO — The 20th season of the Atascadero All Comers track and field meets kicked off Wednesday at Memorial Stadium and will continue every Wednesday night in July, excluding the Fourth of July, with the last one taking place on Aug. 1.
SAN LUIS OBISPO — The San Luis Obispo Blues had their first fireworks night last Friday in an absolutely packed house at Sinsheimer Stadium. More than 1,400 fans filled the chairs and grassy area located just behind the seats, but unfortunately saw the Blues get shutout 5-0.
Central Coast Elite (CCE), a local cheerleading training facility in San Luis Obispo, sent their team C4 to the D2 Summit in Orlando, Fla. and they returned as the No. 6 team in the nation. The team is comprised of 13 girls: Alexandra Allen, Alexandra Caballero, Emily Tobin, Grecia Bernal, Lauryn Gardner, Leah St. Arnaud, Makena Armstrong, Mariah Von Achen, Mandilyn Cusimano, Natalie Slayter, Riley Schwan, Rylan Troup and Sydney Abney. The girls are of all different ages, some as young as 11 and ranging all the way up to 18, and are from as far north as Paso Robles and as far south as Arroyo Grande.
Central Coast Elite (CCE), a local cheerleading training facility in San Luis Obispo, sent their team C4 to the D2 Summit in Orlando, Fla. and they returned as the No. 6 team in the nation. The team is comprised of 13 girls: Alexandra Allen, Alexandra Caballero, Emily Tobin, Grecia Bernal, Lauryn Gardner, Leah St. Arnaud, Makena Armstrong, Mariah Von Ache, Natalie Slayter, Riley Schwan, Rylan Troup and Sydney Abney. The girls are of all different ages, some as young as 11 and ranging all the way up to 18, and are from as far north as Paso Robles and as far south as Arroyo Grande.
TORRANCE— The Atascadero Greyhounds fought until the very end against West Torrance on Tuesday afternoon but came up just short. Down to just their final out, trailing 2-3 in the top of the seventh, Atascadero's leadoff and most consistent hitter all year, Claire Lohayza stepped into the box. Rather than letting the pressure build with each passing pitch, she opted to crush the first one she saw over the fence, giving Atascadero a 4-2 lead and more importantly giving the Hounds three more outs to play.
LOS ANGELES — The Templeton Eagles are heading to the CIF Southern Section Division 5 semifinals after defeating Harvard-Westlake 6-1 this afternoon. The game started with absolute fireworks. Bella Backer batted in the leadoff position for the Eagles and after getting up 3-0 in the count she blasted the first of her two home runs into left field (Backer hit a second home run, this time to right field, in the third inning). The next batter up was Katie Murphee, and after fouling off a couple pitches she cranked her own home run to left field giving the Eagles a 2-0 lead in the blink of an eye.
ATASCADERO — The Atascadero Greyhounds softball team defeated Woodrow Wilson High School yesterday in the second round of Division 3 CIF Southern Section playoffs by a score of 5-1 to advance to the quarterfinals on Thursday. Atascadero scored their first run in the opening inning and then added three more runs in the third inning thanks to doubles from Riley Jones and Bailee Crawford. Atascadero registered nine hits total and Bailey Doherty got the win, surrendering one run on six hits while striking out 12. Atascadero (22-3) will travel to Riverside on Thursday to play Patriot High School (20-6) in the CIFSS quarterfinals. The game begins at 3:15 p.m.
SAN LUIS OBISPO — Coming into the final series of the year, the Greyhounds had a chance to lock up the PAC 8 league title, but in order to do so, they would need to sweep the No. 8-ranked team in Division 3 of CIF, the San Luis Obispo Tigers.
SAN LUIS OBISPO — All of the schools that make up the County of San Luis Obispo made the trip out to Cuesta College on Saturday morning to measure themselves with the rest of the county before entering their league meets next week. The Arroyo Grande Eagles won on both the boys and girls side of the meet, proving that they will be the team to beat in the PAC 8 Finals which will be on May 3 at Atascadero High School. The Eagles scored 127 points on the boy's side, edging out the Bearcats (who beat them in a tri-meet earlier this month) by just nine points and ran away with the meet on the girl's side by scoring 188 points. In fact, the seventh-place team was closer in points to the second place team (San Luis Obispo) than the second-place team was to Arroyo Grande.
MORRO BAY — Last Friday, the Atascadero Middle School wrestling team traveled to Morro Bay High School to take on three other teams in a wrestling tournament. The Saints were put up against Mesa Middle School (Arroyo Grande), Laguna Middle School (San Luis Obispo) and Los Osos Middle School.
The Old Printery Building that has stood sentinel over the city of Atascadero for more than 100 years, as a focal point of the community and a center of local industry now stands empty. The once grand building has been repeatedly vandalized and is now boarded up. The Atascadero Printery Foundation, a local non-profit organization, is looking to bring a little life, and some much-needed funds, back to this ailing structure. Tent City Marathon is hosting a 5K, 10K, Half, and Full Marathon, right here in Atascadero, to raise money for the historic E.G Lewis Printery Building.
Bakersfield — For the first time this season the weather was clear long enough to allow the Greyhounds softball team to play their scheduled games. On Thursday, the Hounds hit the road to Bakersfield to play in the Bakersfield High School Lady Drillers Tournament and returned home champions. Atascadero played two games on Thursday, one game on Friday and two more on Saturday, and won them all. The Hounds outscored their opponents 22-3 over the five-game tournament and were led by sophomore Bailey Doherty and junior Claire Lohayza.
Chris Farris is the ambassador for scootering on the Central Coast and this summer he will get his shot at a world title in Barcelona, Spain, something that has been a long time coming for the 19-year-old pro. Farris has won countless scooter competitions and travels the world putting on shows with action sports collective Nitro Circus. He has moved from Atascadero to San Diego and accomplished almost everything a professional can in the scooter industry except one thing — winning a world title.
ATASCADERO — This Saturday, March 3 will mark the 20th running of the annual Hares 'N' Hounds 5K fun run and family festival. The race began as a fundraiser for the athletic department at Atascadero High School but has since evolved into a fundraiser for the entire community by allowing groups and programs to use the event to raise money for their causes.
SAN LUIS OBISPO — The end of football season only means one thing: it's time for pitchers and catchers to report because baseball season is upon us. The Templeton Eagles are coming off a second-place finish in the Los Padres League last season where they made it into the second round of the playoffs before falling to La Canada. Templeton opened their season with a scrimmage against PAC 8 foe San Luis Obispo on Wednesday night and played in front of one of the most beautiful backdrops a high school venue can offer. The silhouette of Cerro San Luis laid still as the pastel colors of the night danced around it until they were drowned out by the fluorescent beams from lights above the playing field.
ATASCADERO — Last time the Greyhounds and Bearcats met, they played the early game before the girls played under the lights at War Memorial Stadium. Friday, it was the boys' turn to take center stage as the warm tones in the winter sky faded into darkness and were replaced by the beaming lights of the Atascadero High School field. The Bearcats started the season as one of the top-ranked teams in the division and rolled through an almost perfect run through the first half of PAC 8 play. After starting the season on fire, the Bearcats lost three straight games and now find themselves in fourth place in league, fighting for a playoff berth at 7-4-1.
ARROYO GRANDE — Six of the schools that make up the PAC 8 league converged under grey gloomy cloud cover at Arroyo Grande High School Tuesday for the first round games of the league tournament. The Hounds entered the tournament as the No. 1 seed in pool B, which also included Righetti and Pioneer Valley, while pool A contained Arroyo Grande, Paso Robles, and San Luis Obispo.
ATASCADERO — The Greyhounds and Bearcats met each other for the second time this season with major PAC 8 implications on the line. With the Bearcats defeating Arroyo Grande on Wednesday, Friday's game was for second place in league. The Greyhounds are 16-4-1 on the season and 9-3 in league. Atascadero came into the game riding a three-game winning streak after defeating Righetti, Mission Prep and St. Joe.
TEMPLETON -- The Templeton Eagles girls basketball team has been on fire as of late. After defeating Santa Maria at home on Wednesday, the girls have now won four straight games and nine of their past 10. Overall, the Eagles are 16-4 on the season and 10-1 in league. Offensively, the Eagles swing the ball around the court beautifully and their shooters have started to get hot. In Monday night's game against rival Morro Bay, Junior Camryn Roth exploded for 37 points in what turned into a 20-point blowout victory.
ATASCADERO — The stage was set perfectly for a Cinderella ending. The team with the 130+ game league winning streak comes to play the small school that hasn't won league in at least seven years. The small school's team is made up primarily of seniors who joined the varsity as sophomores vowing to take down the juggernaut someday, and in the last game of the season they meet on senior night.
While many were at home huddled around their television set watching the National Title game between Georgia and Alabama, the Atascadero Greyhounds men's basketball team was warming up for a game against one of the top two teams in the league. Senior guard Kyle Colvin is the unquestioned leader of the first Mission Prep Royals who is currently undefeated in league with a 3-0 record and a 9-5 record overall. The stage was set on Monday for a showdown between the Royals top offensive weapon and the Greyhounds top dog, Kyler Warren.
The Atascadero Greyhounds and Templeton Eagles men's basketball teams faced off last Friday in their final game of the 52nd annual Christmas tournament. Both teams came into the game after losing their first three games of the tournament and were looking to gain confidence before starting league play on Tuesday.
This was a fantastic week to be a Greyhound, especially one who supports Atascadero aquatic sports. For the first time in recent memory the Atascadero Women's water polo team are the top dogs in the PAC 7. On Monday afternoon the CIF Southern Section office released its rankings of the top women's water polo teams in Southern California and the Greyhounds came in ranked No.10.
Thursday marked the beginning of the San Luis Obispo Holiday Classic Women's basketball tournament that will run through this weekend. The opening round of the tournament began on Thursday as cross-town rivals Atascadero and Templeton squared off.
This past weekend Barney Schwartz Park hosted the Cats and Hounds High School Soccer Tournament. Teams from around the area and from the valley made the trip to the Central Coast to play in the tournament Friday and Saturday. The Greyhounds headed into the tournament fresh off a 2-2 tie against Orcutt Academy on Thursday night and two games into the six games they played in just a five-day span last week.
The girls finished 13th overall while the boys finished 18th, however only the top seven teams advance to State. This was the second consecutive weekend that the Greyhounds were forced to make the five-hour trek to Riverside for the CIF Southern Section prelims and finals. It will also be the last because the Greyhounds will be moving into the Central Section next season where travel will be much more manageable.
TEMPLETON — Tuesday night in front of a group of her own friends, parents, and coaches, Amanda Wilson committed to swim for the University of California Davis. Wilson graduated from Templeton in 2017 and originally signed a letter of intent to swim at the University of Hawaii. She was one of the most talented swimmers in the county during her time in the pool and is unquestionably the most decorated Eagle swimmer.
ATASCADERO — Atascadero senior baseball player Nolan Meredith signed his letter of intent to play baseball for the UC Davis Aggies on Monday morning in front of a gathering of his friends, coaches, and faculty.
Both the Greyhounds boys and girls cross country teams qualified for CIF finals and will be competing this weekend in Riverside. The girls team, led by Claire Livengood who set a season record on Saturday, raced in the second heat of the Division 4 race and finished in ninth place overall. The boys team went out in the first heat and placed sixth overall behind another monster performance from Xavier Gonzales, who finished third with a personal best time of 15:33.
The Coyotes of Madera High School traveled to Memorial Stadium Friday for their 7:30 p.m. matchup with Atascadero. It was a tense game for all in attendance and the Greyhounds were in it until the very end but the advantage in situational football went to the Coyotes and so did the victory.


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'The Princess Bride' Is Rumored to Be Getting a Remake and Absolutely Nobody Wants It
Lucy Linford
The Princess Bride was hands down one of my favorite movies growing up - I put that movie on plenty of times when I was skipping school as a kid. As soon as I would hear the door go, confident that my mom had left for work, the video would be out of its box and into the player.
I don't know what it was about The Princess Bride that made it so good... maybe it was the perfect mix of romance and sword-fighting, maybe it was the quotable lines or exciting thrill that the Princess Bride couldn't recognize her love, Westley, when he had his tiny little mask on... or maybe it was because the whole thing was narrated by Peter Falk...
Whatever it was that made The Princess Bride the classic that it remains today, one thing's for sure: a reboot is as necessary as Britain leaving the EU.
No one knows why it's happening, no one wants it, and everybody is angry.
Here's the story...
No one could play Westley like Cary Elwes.
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I know he's wearing an eye mask, but this isn't A Cinderella Story, you can't just stick any good looking guy in a mask, draw on a little mustache, and call him Westley. Cary Elwes is Westley.
The ultimate grampa.
Seriously though, I can't think of a better scenario than the late Peter Falk playing the grampa that reads the story of The Princess Bride to his grandson. Why would you want to change that? It'd be like remaking Labyrinth with... I don't know, Ed Sheeran playing the Goblin King...
Nobody wants to see that.
And nobody wants to see anyone else playing one of the great Peter Falk's final roles. I mean, which great TV detective could you replace him with? David Suchet? Don't mess with Columbo, don't mess with The Princess Bride.
The fans will not go unheard!
"There may be a Princess Bride reboot!" Me; https://t.co/T7qhsK9CnU
— 🖤Savannah Lee🖤 (@🖤Savannah Lee🖤)1568852557.0
Plenty of fans have reacted to the news that Sony plans to reboot the movie. Taking to Twitter, these fans are not downplaying their feelings by any standards...
Not my princess.
SO I HEARD THERE MAY BE A PRINCESS BRIDE REBOOT AND HONESTLY HOLLYWOOD CAN FUCKING BURN! #Hollywood #notmyprincess
— CanItCryptid? (@CanItCryptid?)1568854622.0
We don't even know who could possibly be cast in the rumored remake yet. but we don't care. Not my princess!! Hollywood can burn!!
Everyone is hitting out at the Hollywood idea factory.
If Hollywood cant think of any new original stories to tell on the big screen , I stead of all these reboots remake… https://t.co/o0cRQO1Vvt
— Paul Duncan (@Paul Duncan)1568799233.0
I mean, to be fair... have they really ran out of good ideas? There does seem to be a whole lot of reboots running about at the moment... Maybe the human race really has just burnt out. Too much time spent on our phones, trying to keep up with the irrelevant information being shot at us from left, right, and center may well have stunted our imaginations.
Apparently, there are writers out in the world with new ideas...
A reboot of Princess Bride? Hollywood stop the maddness and just get new stories. I and all my writter buddies have… https://t.co/OOKqown3Zs
— SilentWillows (@SilentWillows)1568766998.0
Why not give some of these guys a call @Hollywood?? And leave our precious Princess Bride alone.
Don't f*ck with perfection.
Twitter user, Jo Vice, puts it plain and simple... The Princess Bride was perfect. Why mess with a movie that took a script and made it as good as could be?
Don't make them cut off their ankles!
The princess bride is a cinematic masterpiece and I will personally destroy the ankles of anyone trying to reboot it
— 📌moved accounts (@📌moved accounts)1568819808.0
Sony seriously peeved people off with the suggestion of this reboot. If it does go ahead, there will rioting in the streets, trust me.
Even people who are normally up for a reboot do not want this.
Usually I'm for reboots/remakes, but this time: NO, DON'T TOUCH PRINCESS BRIDE Cary Elwes, Robin Wright, Mandy Pat… https://t.co/viYGxXCBpj
— Warrior of Nora Tribe (HZD) (@Warrior of Nora Tribe (HZD))1568772712.0
Frankly, it's plain to see that nobody is excited about the possibility of a The Princess Bride reboot. Even with Sony hinting that they have some big names attached, people quite clearly believe that the original cast was as good as it could get.
The CEO of Sony Pictures has spoken out about the reboot.
When they want to reboot "The Princess Bride" now https://t.co/e0umfME8c3
— TrivWorks (@TrivWorks)1568761693.0
Hoping to incite some kind of excitement about the picture, Tony Vinciquerra spoke to Variety and teased that some "very famous people whose names I won't use" are attached to star...
If the little boy from the original played the grampa...
The only way A Princess Bride REBOOT works is if its Fred Savage retelling the story from memory to his kid and tha… https://t.co/M6dQDlxxUf
— Derek Ruiz 🇵🇷 (@Derek Ruiz 🇵🇷)1568804853.0
...frankly, even then I wouldn't want this movie to happen - but I can see what Derek from Twitter is saying. Besides, Fred Savage, (the actor that played the little boy) is still only forty-three-years-old. It wouldn't make sense for a "dad" to be telling the story, it's got to be cigar-puffing grampa. Maybe, just maybe, they could remake The Princess Bride in 2056. Savage will be eighty-years-old and I might be ready to see a remake then.
No classic movie is safe.
One day The Princess Bride will be remade. And a reboot of Back To The Future. So will Jaws. Neverending Story Netf… https://t.co/YUxmiIJ2O8
— Eddie Bowley (@Eddie Bowley)1568793274.0
Twitter user, Eddie, warns that, with this news, it's clear that none of our beloved classics are safe. Do the cinematic picture people not appreciate that making a reboot can destroy the legacy of the original movie? Don't they appreciate that we want to introduce our children to Jaws and be like "this movie changed things," without them biting back with, "oh I saw that, I saw the newer one on Netflix 2.0 aaages ago." Christ, the future is scary.
It truly is inconceivable to think that they can do this to us.
And there's literally nothing we can do. Is there no way that we can protect our most beloved movies from being pillaged in this way?
Daniel Radcliffe will always be Harry Potter...
Considering the reboot of The Princess Bride and the upcoming LotR series, I bet Harry Potter will get a planned re… https://t.co/h9zWBRmSSb
— Philip (@Philip)1568796970.0
That is, of course, until they get some Charlie Cheese right out of kindergarten in to play Potter in the remake. You watch my words, one day, the Potter franchise that we know and love will become more diluted than my the cola they sell at McDonald's.
I was so mad when I heard that they were remaking Overboard .
I was also really irritated that they wanted to reboot Overboard, but nobody saw it and it will soon be forgotten.… https://t.co/qSJAznW8Lr
— Amelia (@Amelia)1568767537.0
But, as Amelia points out, who watched that, right? I haven't heard one person discussing the Overboard remake since it came out in 2018. That's probably because it tanked. Do you know why it tanked? Because you can't mess with perfection.
Overboard (2018) is the reason that they shouldn't remake The Princess Bride.
via: IMBd.com
Even though the new Overboard movie absolutely sucks and has none of the charms that the original does, anyone looking for the old movie will have to sieve through this trash on the internet. When you Google "Overboard," do you know what comes up first? This terrible reboot! Film critic, Peter Travers, from Rolling Stone, rightly put it: "Goldie and Kurt forever. No substitutes accepted." In this version, they swapped around the roles (with it being the guy that loses his memory) but, still, it fails to catch. And now it's hidden the 1987 original from those that might be discovering it for the first time.
The original, 1987 Overboard was perfect.
The casting was perfect, the romance between Kurt Russell's Dean and Goldie Hawn's Joanna is palatable (I mean, the two actors actually fell in love for real while shooting it) and the locations, clothing choices, and little moments made this a little gem of a movie. Do you remember the golf course? Messing with Overboard was like your mom taking a drawing that you'd done as a kid out of its frame, shredding it, and buying a crappy stock image of a frog or something to replace it. Uncalled for is an understatement.
Is this what we are going to have to brace ourselves for with The Princess Bride?
Why would you even try to recreate the onscreen romance of Robin Wright and Cary Elwes?
Oh look, and now you've upset Jamie Lee Curtis...
Oh really? Well, I married the six fingered man, obviously why we have stayed together for 35 years and there is on… https://t.co/RATDQzf4sb
— Jamie Lee Curtis (@Jamie Lee Curtis)1568733825.0
Nice one Sony, well done. Curtis is indeed married to Christopher Guest, who played Count Rugen in the movie. It's unsurprisingly upsetting for the original cast to hear about a reboot. It's basically like erasing them.
Cary Elwes is refusing to be erased in this way.
There's a shortage of perfect movies in this world. It would be a pity to damage this one. https://t.co/5N8Q3P2e5G
— Cary Elwes (@Cary Elwes)1568768166.0
I mean, he can't exactly prevent the reboot from happening, but the actor can certainly slate it on Twitter and put up the good fight! Rewording one of his famous quotes from the movie to attack the reboot is a good start.
I mean, there's plenty of lines for him to choose from.
I sincerely hope that Cary Elwes starts a Twitter thread that is a full-on attack on Sony Pictures done solely through The Princess Bride quotes.
Cary, I don't know either.
I feel like whoever suggested The Princes Bride reboot isn't a true fan of the original. A true fan would have left it alone. Someone that is interested in making a quick buck, that's the kind of person that would do something like this.
Surely it would be a risky move to work on this reboot...
If any of the supposed "big names" that Sony Pictures have claimed to be attached to the reboot knew how unfavorable doing so would make them, would they still do it? I mean, if being part of the reboot would be career suicide for anyone that was in it, maybe it won't get made?
Everyone: please, keep attacking Sony Pictures on Twitter.
You've fallen for one of the two classic blunders! The first being never get involved in a land war in Asia but onl… https://t.co/N84X4t04gQ
— Adam Lance Garcia (@Adam Lance Garcia)1568751251.0
My theory is that, if enough people slam Sony Pictures for even considering doing The Princess Bride reboot, maybe they won't do it. Shooting hasn't begun on this remake yet so, come on, one and all, get on Twitter and tell Sony Pictures how much we do not want this to happen. The people will be heard. If you want to hear about another reboot that simply shouldn't be happening, continue scrolling. Sadly, this one is definitely going ahead...

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Carl Johan Grimmark (* 4. Oktober 1978 in Göteborg, Schweden) ist ein schwedischer Neo-Klassik-Metalgitarrist, -komponist und -sänger. Er ist vor allem in der christlichen Metalszene aktiv.

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Grinmark ist Mitbegründer der Band Narnia, in der er von 1993 bis 2010 als Gitarrist, Keyboarder und Songschreiber tätig war. Daneben war er Mitglied von Saviour Machine und Rob Rock. Seit 2006 spielt er bei Beautiful Sin, sowie seit 2008 bei Full Force, die sich aus Mitgliedern der Bands Hammerfall und Cloudscape zusammensetzt.

2008 veröffentlichte er sein erstes Album Grimmark.

Grimmark ist seit 2014 wieder mit seiner Band Narnia aktiv und hat mit ihnen das siebte Studioalbum eingespielt.

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[ Diskographie bei Allmusic]

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Rocket attack on Egyptian security forces in Sinai tied to ISIL
By World Tribune on April 20, 2016
Islamic State of Iraq and Levant's (ISIL's) affiliate in Egypt is suspected in an April 19 rocket attack that killed three Egyptian security personnel.
Egypt's Interior Ministry said a police vehicle was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade fired by jihadists in the north Sinai town of Sheikh Zuweid. Three riot policemen were killed and eight others wounded.
Dozens of security personnel have been killed in attacks since the beginning of this year. Sinai Province, the ISIL affiliate in Egypt, has claimed responsibility for most of the attacks and the Interior Ministry said the April 19 attack bore the hallmarks of the ISIL affiliate.
Sinai Peninsula has been under a state of emergency since October 2014, following a terrorist attack that claimed the lives of 33 Egyptian soldiers.
Rocket attack on Egyptian security forces in Sinai tied to ISIL, Sheikh Zuweid, Sinai Province, WorldTribune.com
Rocket attack on Egyptian security forces in Sinai tied to ISIL added by World Tribune on April 20, 2016


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Terror Attack in London. Aired 11a-12p ET
Aired March 23, 2017 - 11:00 ET
[11:00:14] BECKY ANDERSON, HOST: You're watching a special edition of Connect the World. I'm Becky Anderson, broadcasting from the heart of what
is this bustling British capital. This place, as you can see, behind me down at Westminster, is still in lockdown. That is because almost exactly
24 hours ago, the worst terror attack London has endured in more than ten years caused carnage just meters from where I am standing right now.
A news agency linked to ISIS is now calling Wednesday's attacker, who caused these scenes a, quot, soldier of the Islamic state, though ISIS
hasn't provided any evidence of that.
While they boast, parliament quietly remembers, opening with a moment of silence this morning. Soon after, Britain's prime minister gave us the
very latest on the attacker.
THERESA MAY, BRITISH PRIME MINISTER: His identity is known to the police and MI-5 and when operational considerations allow, he will be publicly
identified. What I can confirm is that the man was British-born and that some years ago he was once investigated by MI-5 in a relation to concerns
about violent extremism. He was a peripheral figure.
ANDERSON: Well, police say they think he acted alone. But they've been conducting raids and making arrests up and down the country, detaining
eight people so far.
The inquiries in birmingham, London, and other parts of the country are continuing. It is still our belief, which continues to be borne out by our
investigation, that this attacker acted alone and was inspired by international terrorism.
ANDERSON: Well three people were killed in the attack, dozens, citizens from 11 nations were wounded. The attacker himself shot dead by police.
Well, CNN of course covering every possible angle on this for you. Nic Robertson is up in
Birmingham for us this hour where some of those raids have taken place. Nick Paton Walsh has the very latest. First, though, from the scene of the
attack, Nic, you are just yards from where I stand at present, just walk us through what we know happened and why.
NIC ROBERTSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, Becky, as you say, just about 24 hours ago, that that Hyundai, driven by a ma, yes, quote on
the periphery of the sort of field of vision of British security where he began his devastating attack.
Now, he parked the car, it seems, the car seized up on to the sidewalk here and some amateur
video taken of that attack shows the devastation caused, people flung into traffic. One woman actually it seems either jumping or flung into the
River Thames just to my left here. She was pulled within the hour after that with some pretty devastating injuries.
But still, today, this sort of sense of bustling life has returned in last hour and a half or so. But as you say, it is round about this area where
we know two of the victims, of this attack, of the three victims lost their lives. We just learned the name of one of them, Kurt Cochran, an American
citizen from Utah, who was here, can you imagine it, on his 25th wedding anniversary with his wife, Melissa.
He died at the scene here from what that car did to him and his wife sustained injuries of her
limbs, ribs and head as well. Also, two, Aysha Frade a 43-year-old Spanish teacher who lived among them for some time. She was killed here as well.
But further down this road, that Hyundai continued. Most of the 40 or so injuries were caused in this area here, plowed into that fence down there.
Minimal damage, actually. You can see the attacker then jumped out. Ran around the corner, tried to get into parliament court yard and there killed
his third victim, PC Keith Palmer stabbed at that entrance, government minister tried to provide CPR, resuscitation there. He died at that
particular scene.
But, yes, it's a scene now that is returning as much as possible to life there are some tourists, like 24 hours ago, coming here. Actually you can
see some of them oblivious to what happened just so recently, and for others of course, who (inaudible) part of their daily
work routine, or journey to work. This place will be forever altered in their minds.
As you say, ISIS claiming responsibility through that affiliated Amark (ph) news agency. They used language, suggesting this was a response to appeals
for attacks against nations involved in the coalition, presumably the coalition fighting ISIS, language that suggests some sense of distance. We
have no idea if they had operational control, full knowledge or anything to do with this attack, perhaps until they saw it on television and decided to
try and attach their brand to it sickly afterwards.
That's something we've got quite used to in attacks certainly on the European mainland in the
past year or so. But still, now this landmark in London, beneath Big Ben where I stand now, forever also in the minds who work here at the heart of
British democracy and government.
Back to you, Becky.
[11:05:12] ANDERSON: And Nic, you make a very good point, the perpetrator as we know now, confirmed by the prime minister is British-born. His
actions bearing the hallmarks of attacks that we have seen on the European mainland, sadly, over the past couple of years. Driving a vehicle
erratically across that bridge, that bridge now as you rightly point out, back in business as it were, but plowing into regular folk, men, women and
children going about their business.
WALSH: Absolutely. And I think you have to bear in mind here, you know, this is devastatingly low-tech, easily available, you would say weaponry,
that's the wrong thing to use, but simply a car that may well have been hired specifically for this purpose, a kitchen knife. And one deranged
individual who appears at this point to be accting alone, although we do know of eight arrests connected with this particular attack.
We don't know the full motivation. We haven't yet heard from exactly what was in his mind ahead of this. We've heard from an Amark (ph) affiliated
agency. But still, I think it's the simplicity and the devastating effectiveness for those horrified victims here that has
killed this part of central London, Becky?
ANDERSON: Nick Paton Walsh at the scene of the attack. I want to get you now to Nic Robertson who is in Birmingham. A huge sweeping police
operation since that attack, just 24 hours ago. And Birmingham, where you are, this scene of a number of arrests, Nic, what can you tell us at this
point?
WALSH: Well, the owner of the building behind me where the raids took place, has just been
speaking to journalists. The raids by armed police in the middle of the night lasting about an hour and a half. The armed police using battering
rams to get in through the door we're told by eye witnesses. The police taking away, arresting three people, leading them away. The owner of the
premises now has quite literally in the last two or three minutes spoken. And he has said that the raids went ahead, the police had been into the
apartment, that the police are doing their job, that they've interviewed him, but he said, the three people that were renting this apartment from
him, they say he says these three people that were renting the apartment from him, he didn't know them. He didn't know who they were. He said that
was all handled through the letting agency. And it all inquiries therefore would have to go to the letting agency.
He was asked the question -- did you know the attacker? And he equally replied to that, no,
I didn't.
So, this is a man who rented his apartment to people, he says that he didn't know, three people being questioned by the police. He says let the
police get on and do their job.
The other interesting part of the picture that's emerging with these arrests, is the car rental
agency where the car was rented from, that was used in the attack, is about a mile from this location. So it does begin to build a picture that if the
attacker himself wasn't from here and there's some sort of center of gravity emerging in the attack located in this area.
But as the police have said that he was acting alone, it does begin to paint a picture, too soon to say definitively, and certainly the police
haven't said that. It does begin to paint a picture that - of the attacker's - perhaps he didn't live in Birmingham, perhaps he just spent
time here. It's not clear yet. But it does seem to indicate that perhaps there is a link here, a strong link, potentially, to the attack and to
Birmingham, Becky.
ANDERSON: This is a man that authorities say, or certainly the prime minister has said, was known to authorities. That begins to sort of flush
out just how difficult it is for security forces here in the UK and in other places where they have a sort of pool of people that they watch keep
an eye on, perhaps fall off the radar, and clearly have to prioritize at times those that they are keeping an eye on.
This is very, very difficult work, isn't it, for authorities?
WALSH: It is - it absolutely is. There's a direct connection between the attacks in Belgium and the - and Birmingham. There - one of the people
involved in that nexus of people planning, flooding and carrying out the Belgium Paris attacks took a trip here to Birmingham. That has certainly
been followed up by authorities.
I was standing in Birmingham not far from here about 10 years ago when the police were at that time arresting people on suspicion of terrorism at that
time, the plot was to capture a Muslim-British serviceman, capture him, hold him, and behead him on camera.
So, the police have certainly had in Birmingham their attention focused on a number of very real terror threats. And of course that's, you know, a
small in number compared to the number of people that are known to have gone, the hundreds that have known to gone to join ISIS in Iraq and Syria
and many of those have been coming back. And that also is a big concern and takes up huge resources, Becky.
[11:10:44] ANDERSON: Nic Robertson is on the investigation for you there in Birmingham, which is about 100 miles north of where I am here in central
London in Westminster, where we are slowly learning about the victims of the attack. Among them, London policeman, Keith Palmer. He was a father,
he was a husband, he was 48-years-old. He was stabbed to death yesterday.
The police have set up a fund, a memorial fund for him. Already, it's raised more than 110,000 dollars.
Well, another of the victims, Aysha Frade, was 43- years-old, a Spanish teacher, and leaves behind her husband in London.
Some of her family lived back in Spain, in the small town of Betanzos (ph). The mayor of there passing on his sorrow.
And the third and final victims, this man, Kurt Cochran. He was here in London with his wife,
Melissa, celebrating 25 years of marriage. Melissa was hurt, but will survive her wounds, we are told.
They ran a recording studio together.
Well, London may be a city shaken, but it's also one that is unbowed. London is responding to
Wednesday's attack not with anger, but with displays of affection and support for one another.
These are some of the floral tributes placed at the scene of the attack. And inside parliament, a minute of silence held with lawmakers from all
sides standing in solidarity.
The mayor of London says authorities are doing all they can to insure the city's safety. Sadiq Khan spoke to my colleague, chief international
correspondent Christiane Amanpour earlier, telling her that security has long been a top priority.
SADIQ KHAN, MAYOR OF LONDON: London is the safest global city in the world, and one of the safest cities in the world. My thoughts are with the
family of Keith Palmer, the police officer who tragically lost his life yesterday keeping our city and keeping Londoners safe.
One of the reasons I can say that London is the safest global city in the world, and one of the
safest cities in the world, is because there are literally tens of thousands of Keith Palmers keeping our city safe, working with members of
the public who provide intelligence and information working with our security services.
You will see over the next few days an increased number of armed and unarmed officers across London. You will see some change around some of
the buildings with bollards being put in place.
But we are a safe city. The intelligence we have is that this was an attack from a lone attacker, a lone terrorist trying to destroy our way of
life, trying to divide our communities, trying to kill as many people as possible and injure as many people as possible. And one of the reasons why
fewer people were killed, fewer people were injured, is because of the bravery of
our police service, the bravery of our emergency services, and because we've practiced and prepared for events such as this.
ANDRESON: And you can see Christiane's full interview with London mayor, Sadiq Khan today at 6:30 p.m. in London, that's 10:30 here in Abu Dhabi,
which of course is where we would normally be broadcasting this show from.
Well an ISIS-linked agency says the London attacker was a, quote, soldier of the Islamic
State. But attacks like these have very little to do with religion.
Let's speak with Mustafa Field, director of the Faiths Forum for London on how the Muslim community is likely to be affected.
Am I right in saying that, attacks like these have very little to do with the faith that you know and that you love?
MUSTAFA FIELD, DIRECTOR, FAITHS FORUM OF LONDON: Yes, indeed. I mean, an attack on one Britain is an attack on us all. There's, there's been a
shared - we've been overwhelmed by the condemnations by the community.
This is a desperate attempt by Daesh to continue to try and divide a society. We're seeing in Iraq Shias and Sunnis standing together and
fighting and defeating Daesh in Mosul. They're becoming very desperate. In Raqqa, they're losing ground on a daily basis. And so these are
cowardly attempts by Daesh to inspire lone wolves to fulfill such a brutal murder.
ANDERSON: Mustafa, your work is untiring. You should be applauded for the dedication to keeping communities together, for trying to avoid the
divisiveness that an attack like this could create amongst British communities of all faiths.
But when you talk to youngsters across the country, how many do you think are inspired, impressed by what they find online, whether this murderer was
genuinely inspired by ISIS, or whether he had other issues, how many, how concerned are you that the inspiration goes on?
FIELD: I mean, overall, when we look at the communities that were working and operating across our nation, there's a huge amount of good work that's
taken place. There's a lot more work -- last month there was over 100 mosques open their doors, welcoming their neighbors, we need to see
more of that. We need people to develop more shared citizenship.
The challenge that we have is that there are, there are small minority of individuals who
groups like Daesh, al Qaeda are, are trying to exploit, trying to groom, trying to attract to their violent and divisive way.
But what we're seeing (inaudible) playing a considerable role in challenging that. Just last month, we took a group of young girls from
different communities alongside to Twitter, but we're tweeting to them about coding and how they can you know, inspiring them to be contributors
to this country.
ANDERSON: Back in 2005, when we stood on the streets of London after the attacks on the 7th of July and on the potential attacks on the 21st of
July, we spoke to so many people from the Muslim community. At that time, we would speak to a lot of people from mosques, and from communities who
were inspired by their religion.
These days, aren't we finding that youngster who might have gone off to fight for these murderous groups, may have come back or just inspired, are
they -- have they got anything to do with the sort of groups that we're talking about that we used to say could make a difference?
FIELD: I think faith institutions and the hubs and the community spirits and student societies have a very important role in shaping the outlook of
young people and changing behavior and attitudes.
And it's very important that we develop capabilities that will enable young people to support
their peers.
ANDERSON: Do you think those capabilities are failing at the moment, though?
FIELD: We are at a very challenging moment. We know that groups like Daesh are constantly you know, becoming more sophisticated in terms of
their techniques to try to attract young people. They're marketing and their vigils are extremely -- something that we as a small charity in many
ways, basically have no way of competing with.
And this is why it's really important that the private sector, government, faith communities, work together to challenge this.
We are seeing a lot of step-up. And I think - I, you know, in many ways, as tragic as the attack
that took place, it was cowardly, it was not sophisticated, it was ramming a car, hitting children, hitting civilians. Stabbing a police officer with
a knife.
There's nothing sophisticated, it's desperate. It's their failing and they're trying to divert their attention to this.
ANDERSON: It's a pleasure having you on. Thank you.
FIELD: Thank you.
ANDERSON: There's a lot going on in the wake of this attack. In just about 30 minutes, we'll
be listening out for some new comments about what's going on from Britain's foreign minister. Then we're going to get you the mood from inside
parliament as lawmakers regroup.
And in just a few hours from now, I'm going to get you to a candlelit ceremony, remembering
those who lost their lives. All that right here on CNN.
Well a developing story for you just in to CNN, and police in Belgium say they've detained a man who was speeding through Antwerp in a car carrying
weapons. We've got new video showing police removing that car from the scene. The driver, a French national as we understand it, sped away
from soldiers trying to stop him. But police eventually caught up with him.
That is when they discovered the weapons and a can filled with an unidentified substance.
French President Francois Hollande released a statement saying the driver was looking to
kill people. And that a terror attack was thwarted.
A lot more on the attack in London, just ahead including a look at how people here are standing together to confront this tragedy.
I'm Becky Anderson, this is a special edition of Connect the World from the heart of the capital, here in Westminster, do stay with us.
[11:22:12] ANDERSON: Londoners were greeted with heartwarming messages that their local tube stations this morning. This sign at the Oval Tube
Station says you have to be at your strongest when you're feeling at your weakest. Our condolences. Our city, our diversity, our strength.
A thought of the day at Tottenham Court Road, side by side we stand together.
And at Tower Hill Station, the flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful
of them all with the hashtags #londonisopen and we are not afraid.
Well, live from London, a city in mourning, but a city defiant. A metropolis making sense of what happened just 24 hours ago.
You're watching CNN. This is Connect the World. I'm Becky Anderson. Welcome back.
Now, the queen sending her condolences and praising the work of the London police saying
quote, my thoughts, prayers and deepest sympathy are with all of those who have been affected by
yesterday's awful violence. I know I speak for everyone in expressing my enduring thanks and admiration for the members of the metropolitan police
service and all who work so selflessly to help and protect others.
The Vatican sent a letter to the archbishop of Westminster expressing the pope's sorrow
over the attack, quote, deeply saddened to learn of the loss of life and of the injuries caused by the attack in central London. His holiness, Pope
Francis, expresses his prayerful solidarity with all those affected by this tragedy. Well, let's speak to someone now very familiar with
Britain's parliament. One of the scenes of that terror attack as well as the fight against terrorism.
British MP, Mark Pritchard joins us now. And Mark, you were, I believe in the House this morning when the prime minister spoke, Theresa May,
effectively suggesting that this is a country that will not be defeated.
Just give me a sense of what the atmosphere was like in the chamber today.
MARK PRITCHARD, BRITISH MP: Well the chamber was completely packed. It was a somber atmosphere, but a defiant one as you suggest.
And we started off with prayers in the usual way. Led by the speaker's chaplain. We then had a minute of silence in tribute to those that had
been tragically killed and injured.
And then unusually the speaker's chaplain - and I think rightly so - read a scripture, read psalm 23. And of course there is a verse in that psalm
that speaks about I will fear no evil.
And while this is a terrorist attack and a tragic attack, we do remain defiant here in the United Kingdom. Our values will not be crushed. We
will not be cowed by terrorism. And on democracy and freedom of speech and tolerance, and this is a world-famous city which is known for its tolerance
and its inclusiveness, we remain defiant in standing up for those values notwithstanding this awful attack.
[11:25:09] Just in the past ten minutes or so I've had a member of the Muslim community standing here with me, talking about how, as brutal as
this attack was, it smacked of desperation from a group who, for all intents and purposes he was suggesting was on last legs.
The level of alertness is one down where it should be. Is that where it should be?
PRITCHARD: I think so. And the prime minister of course was the longest- serving home secretary in our history. So, she along with the joint intelligence
committee, and other intelligence officials and senior police officers have come to that judgment based on information that we're not
necessarily privy to and certainly some parts of the media.
So I think it's the right decision, of course severe meant always that we were expecting an
attack. It means by definition, that attack was highly likely. So this was not an unexpected attack, albeit tragic. And I have to say the police
responded very, very quickly, and I again gave credit, as her majesty the queen has done and others, in joining praise for their very
quick response.
And if it wasn't for the speed of response of the police, it could have been a lot more serious than it already is.
ANDERSON: How do lawmakers like yourself avoid the potential for divisiveness across communities? In the wake of the Brexit vote, I think
it's fair to say, that we've seen some pretty divisive rhetoric.
Some people will say the vote with divided the British community more than it brought them together.
Are you concerned about the fallout for Britain from this attack?
PRITCHARD: Well, I think politicians, the media, and those that comment on such things have responsibility to get both the language, the vocabulary
right and the tone right, and insure that we stay a United Kingdom, that we stay a united London. And that's certainly the experience that I've ben in
parliament today, and out and about in Central London. People are determined to show that we continue to be a tolerant city, a multi-faith
city, a city of all faiths, and none, and that's what makes our democracy strong and resolute and resilient even in times like this.
But you read a comment about the whole issue of ISIS, or Islamic State.
ANDERSON: So-called.
PRITCHARD: So-called Islamic State, or Daesh. The fact is that they are in severe retreat. And we pay tribute to all of the armed forces, allies,
United States, United Kingdom, who are fighting alongside the Iraqis and other force to ensure that they are defeated.
ANDERSON: Does an attack like this change British policy towards its involvement in coalition activities?
PRITCHARD: Not at all. You know, we have debates about these things in a democracy and
then we decide what action we ought to take, any military action we might wish to take. So, what I would say is that this attack was being
absolutely tragic, does not weaken London. It does not weaken our democracy, this strengthens London. It strengthens the United Kingdom and
it strengthens our democracy. We stand resolute and resilient against all those, who seek to
undermine our values, our freedoms and our tolerance.
ANDERSON: I appreciate your time today. Thank you.
World news headlines are just ahead. Plus, more on the investigation into this terror attack in
London. The details that we are now learning about the suspect. Do stay with us. Taking a very short break. Back, after this.
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[11:32:41] ANDERSON: Well, back to that shortly. Let's get, though, the very latest on what is
our top story here: the attack in Westminster. CNN's Phil Black live at Scotland Yard. Phil with new details, I believe?
PHIL BLACK, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Yes, significant new information, Becky. The metropolitan police have just released the name of
the man they believe was responsible for the attack that took place just a short distance from here at parliament yesterday. In a
statement from the met police, they say that he was Khalid Masood, a 52- year-old man born in the UK, in Kent, who is most recently believed to be living in the West
Midlands region of the UK.
They say that Masood was also known by a number of aliases.
He was not the subject of any current investigations they say, nor was there any prior intelligence about his intent to mount a terrorist attack,
but they go on to confirm what the Prime Minister Theresa May was talking about. This is a man that was certainly known to authorities. He was on
the books. He was known to police and has a range of previous convictions for assault, including grievous bodily harm, possession of offensive
weapons, and public order offenses.
He was convicted of offenses. His first offense he was convicted for was back in November 1983 for criminal damage and his most recent conviction
was in December 2003, for possession of a knife.
He has not, they say, been convicted for any terrorism offense.
So police have been very tight-lipped about the name of the man up until now. They say for operational reasons, as they have been carrying out
their investigation, their searches, trying to determine who this man's associates were and to what extent he may have had
support or assistance in carrying out that attack.
They have not said why now is an appropriate reason to release his name. We can only assume that that the operational imperative has passed. But
the information that they have released today does support what the Prime Minister Theresa May told parliament a few hours ago, that is that this man
was known to authorities, that he was investigated previously by MI-5, the security service here, because of
suspected extremist behavior or leanings. But he was not a man that had been on the radar recently.
This is a man who, from what police have told us, has an historical criminal record. But there is simply no information, there was no
intelligence, no information, they say, for this man to be on their radar recently.
No suggestion, nothing to tip them off to the imminent attack that took place here yesterday, Becky.
[11:35:20] ANDERSON: Phil, have they said anything more than about what they know about his whereabouts, his life, since they last investigated?
And what it sounds as if that was some 15 years ago, if it was back at the turn of the century, around 2003, if I heard you correctly.
BLACK: Yeah, that's correct. They have not said anything about his behavior since. And I suspect that's the reason for highlighting these key
dates over his criminal record. The first historic conviction, as I said, it was back in '83. The most recent as you point out, back in 2003. And
apparently they had heard nothing from him since, that's the police.
Now what we don't know, is when MI-5, the security service, last looked at this man, because Theresa May, the prime minister, made the point that they
had looked at him because of concerns about possible extremist thinking or behavior, but we don't know how recent that particular investigation was.
What we have from the police, and the information they have just released here is clearly them
stressing that this was a man with a criminal record, nothing pointing to terrorism and crucially, nothing recent that would give them any cause for
concern in the immediate lead up to what happened here at Westminster, Becky.
ANDERSON: Phil Black is outside Scotland Yard with the very latest information as the police
release the name of the perpetrator, the alleged perpetrator of this attack on Westminster.
Well, Kwasi Kwarteng was among the MPs locked down on Wednesday as the chaos unfolded. He joins me now. Take me back 24 hours ago. This attack
at 2:42 in the afternoon. It's just after 3:30, 24 hours later.
KWASI KWARTENG, BRITISH MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT: So the big thing in our life is the division bell, which meant that we should vote. And that rang I
think at about 2:3, 2:38. I was in my office. You have eight minutes to get down to the division lobby. And I was walking down towards the division lobby from my office
when I was told that the palace, the estate, was in lockdown, the Houses of Parliament. There had been an incident. There had
been an armed incident, we were told.
And at that time, we didn't know whether there was firearms involved. We had been told that someone had been shot. We didn't know whether it was
the attacker, the assailant, or whether the police, in fact - the authorities were...
ANDERSON: How would you describe reaction?
KWARTENG: I think it was shock. I think there was a degree of bewilderment, as you can
imagine, but there was also a sense that we've got to continue doing what we're doing. This was a
fundamental attack against democracy and also the actual view that was expressed was that we had been very lucky that nothing like this had
happened before.
So in a way I think people in a tragic way, people weren't all that surprised that something like this should happen.
ANDRESON: With and alertedness level of severe, clearly this is a country understands the potential for attack.
We've just learned the police have released the name of a 53-year-old British-born man from West Midlands, as I understand it, who was the
attacker, a man who had been under investigation in the past, back in the '80s, for various crimes and as recently as 2003. I use the term recently
relatively loosely there, because it is some 14 years ago. This is a man who at the age of 54 it seems was inspired to create terror.
And therein lies the issue and problem for security forces of course. How do you keep track of people you may have had on your radar in the past, but
aren't a priority today?
KWARTENG: Yes, I mean, this is the first I've heard of it, and that's quite surprising, because you would have thought that they would have had a
more active, more recent engagement with someone like this. And it's very surprising, as you say, that it was 14 years ago.
But I think in terms of the kinds of people who do these sorts of events, I think there is a capability that we have in terms of keeping up to terms
with them. And I think the British secret service, the MI-5, all of that, actually does a very good job generally, they're very well regarded. And I
think I'm not surprised that they knew a little bit about him, obviously not enough to prevent this.
But I think we shouldn't beat up the services.
[11:40:12] ANDERSON: We know that ISIS are on the back foot in Iraq and there is a view that Raqqa, its heart as it were, of its self-proclaimed
so-called caliphate will be the next focus for coalition forces to try to get rid of this scourge.
It is also, we know, a group with a presence in Libya. I know that as a British lawmaker you've taken an interest in what's going on there. There
will be many people in the part of the world that I live in and broadcast this show from, who say it is the result of the west's
actions or inactions, in various parts of the Middle East that has allowed for the scourge that is ISIS today. What do you say to that?
KWARTENG: I think people are right to say that. But on the other hand, I would say in the defense of the British government, the U.S. government,
they're damned if they do and they're damned if they don't. If we intervene as we did in Libya, that becomes a problem. If we don't
intervene, as we refrained from intervening in Syria, people criticized us for that. So
it's a very difficult line to tread.
I, myself, have been in Libya in the last two weeks. I think the situation there is deplorable. We don't have a central government. We don't have a
unified government for that country. And in that vacuum, there are lots of militias, there are al Qaeda elements, there is also ISIS as you mentioned.
So we need a stable and strong government in Libya as quickly as possible.
ANDERSON: What happens next in the UK? How concerned are you, and I've been asking our guests over the past couple of hours, this same question,
how concerned are you that an event like this will once again drive a wedge, between communities.
We've seen such divisive rhetoric during the Brexit campaign and beyond. And as we look forward to, or we look towards, the divorce that is Britain
from the EU, we continue to hear this sort of divisive rhetoric.
KWARTENG: I didn't hear any divisive rhetoric.
ANDERSON: We did.
KWARTENG: from the prime minister. I think she hit exactly the right note. The home secretary as well spoke very well about British values and
the fact that democracy will continue in Britain.
We have values that we hold dear and we will stick to them.
Now that language is not divisive. In fact, on the contrary, I'd say that people have been brought together.
My constituency is just outside London. I've been in London yesterday. And I was struck by the fact that lots of people from different
communities, different ethnic backgrounds, different religious faiths, have come together and have said we are not going to be defeated or cowed by
terrorism.
In fact, our own mayor, Sadiq Khan, who is of Muslim - practicing Muslim background, has said that we will not be cowed by the terrorism.
So, on the contrary, I think this is bringing people together. I don't think we're seeing the divisive rhetoric certainly from mainstream
politicians, maybe one or two people on the extremes will try and exploit those divisions. But I'm actually very heartened and struck by the fact
that people are coming together in a show of solidarity, and a show of strength.
ANDERSON: With that, we'll leave it there. We thank you very much indeed for joining us.
KWARTENG: Thank you.
ANDERSON: Well, this attack was shocking, but unfortunately not unique. There have been several recent attacks, of course, where vehicles were used
as weapons. On Bastille Day last July, a man inspired by ISIS plowed a large truck through crowds celebrating in Nice, France. He killed 85
people and wounded more than 200.
Well, last November, a student in the U.S. also inspired by ISIS, drove into a crowd at Ohio State University, and then attacked people with a
knife. A police officer shot and killed him.
Well, just a few weeks later, a Tunisian man who pledged allegiance to ISIS drove a stolen truck into a Berlin Christmas market. He killed 12 people
and wounded dozens.
And in January, a man drove a truck into a group of soldiers in Jerusalem killing four people.
Well you can keep track of developments out of London by heading to our website, where we are keeping a live blog of events, as they unfold,
including the latest on the investigation here, that is CNN.com.
Live from London, this is Connect the World. I'm Becky Anderson, stay with us as we continue to follow developments on the terror attack here. We'll
have the very latest update on the investigation as police here in the UK name the perpetrator of what was such a brutal attack Wednesday here in
[11:47:14] ANDERSON: Wednesday's assault in London, the attack, killed three people and wounded dozens more, including three French high school
students, five South Koreans and an Australian.
The victims also hail from Romania, from Germany, from Poland, from Ireland, China, Italy and Greece.
12 Britains were also injured when the attacker drove into a crowd on Westminster Bridge.
We are live from London as more details emerge of what exactly happened just over 24 hours ago in this, the British capital.
You're watching CNN, this is Connect the World, with me, Becky Anderson. Welcome back.
Here's what we know about the investigation. Police say the attacker was Khalid Masood. He was 52-years-old and British-born. Earlier, police
arrested eight people in raids across the UK in connection with the assault and a news agency linked to ISIS says the attacker was a soldier of ISIS who had been inspired by the terror group's
But so far, ISIS has not provided any evidence of direct links to the assailant.
Well, British Prime Minister Theresa May says the perpetrator was born in the UK and had been under investigation by security services. CNN's Phil
Black is live at Scotland Yard - Phil.
BLACK: Yeah, Becky, so it was only just in the last few moments that we learned a little more from police about the man who killed three people and
hurt so many here yesterday.
As you say, Khalid Masood, a 52-year-old man has been identified by the police as the person they believe who was responsible for driving that
vehicle, crashing it into the parliament gate and then attacking, stabbing and killing a police officer. They say he was born in Kent, but most
recently, they believe, lived in the West Midlands. The West Midlands is significant, because that's where the city of
Birmingham is. And we know that there have been police operations and property searches in the city of Birmingham overnight.
The police stress this man was not the subject of a current investigation and there was no information or intelligence suggesting that he was about
to carryout that attack.
They have, however, released the historic information they have on him. This is a man who was known to police, a man with a criminal record, a
record that paints him as not just a frequent criminal, if you like, but a violent criminal as well.
The details they have told us about say that he had convictions for assaults, including grievous
bodily harm, possession of offensive weapons and public order offenses.
That criminal record stretches between 1983 and 2003, 2003 being the most recent conviction for possession of a knife. Nothing since then, they tell
us about, he was not convicted of any terrorist offenses, they stress.
So, they're making the point that this is a man who certainly shown up on the police radar, someone who had a violent criminal record, but as we've
heard from the police now as we've heard from the prime minister earlier, this was not someone who had given any recent indication that he
was about to carry out an attack as horrendous as this.
What we don't know is just how the police experiences with this man marry up with what we've been told about the MI-5 investigation into possible
concerns about his extremist behavior or beliefs.
The prime minister told the parliament earlier today that MI-5 had looked at this man, but it was some years ago, because of concerns about
extremism, but he was determined to be a peripheral figure. He was not the subject of any recent investigation, they say.
So, what we have learned from the police is that the last time they had any dealings with him was back in 2003. We don't know just how recent the MI-5
investigation was.
But what we have now is this crucial piece of information from the police. They have identified the man they believe was responsible for this
horrendous attack, Khalid Masood, a 52-year-old man, they believe most recently living in the West Midlands of the United Kingdom, Becky.
ANDRSON: And what, briefly do we know of any links with this man to the arrests and raids in Birmingham overnight?
BLACK: The police have not revealed that information yet. What we know is the police have been very tight-lipped and reluctant to release this man's
identity right up until this point. They have stressed operational reasons, not wanting to tip people off. Thye didn't want that name in the
public domain. The fact that they have now released that name suggests that that operational need or necessity has passed.
What police are investigating is the degree to which this man received help or support in
carrying out this operation.
We know there are eight people in custody. We don't know why. We have not been told of any charges yet being placed against these people. But
presumably, these are people who had some dealings, some knowledge of him, but police have not confirmed that they were in any way directly
connected to the events here yesterday, Becky.
ADNERSON: Phil Black with the very latest from just outside Scotland Yard. Thank you, Phil.
You're watching Connect the World. I'm Becky Anderson for you. Up next, a lot more on Wednesday's deadly terror attack here in London. How Londoners
reacted on social media. That's next.
ANDERSON: Live from London for you following the fallout of that attack. You're watching CNN. This is Connect the World with me, Becky Anderson,
with a special edition from Westminster, here in London.
With the palace of Westminster, the houses of parliament, both the Commons, and the Lords,
which were back in business today amid shock and grief. People in London have taken to social media to describe what they witnessed. This video was
posted on Twitter showing what is believed to be the attacker's car crashed outside of Westminster, smoke coming from the hood.
Hans Advard Askia (ph) posted this video on Facebook on Wednesday afternoon of his view from the London Eye when the Ferris Wheel that many of you will
know, if you've visited London, an iconic spot these days, was stopped following the incident at the parliament buildings. Some tourists reported
being stranded on the Ferris wheel for hours.
And photos from inside parliament as well. We'll show you more eye witness accounts published on social as they come in.
Well Churchill, Darwin, Shakespeare, Newton, Lenin, Turing, Bowie, Wallace, Nightingale, JK Rowling, to JRR Tolkien, this isle home to all of those
immortal names. For 1,000 years, this country has poured science and culture into the world. All of that has made that possible embodied by
what is this, mother of all parliaments, that sits defiant and proud behind me
It will not, we will not, no matter where we are and who we are be daunted by terrorism is the view from here. The senseless carnage of violence that
we've seen time and again here in Europe trying to intimidate our ideals simply won't win, ever.
And in the moments of silence to remember the victims, a moment for the loudest reminder.
But our liberties, our freedoms, our dearest values are as undimmed as ever. And that is why right here, right now, London is doing the very best
thing it can, going on as normal, in honor of the people who lost lives.
We live ours.
Now before we leave you, be sure to make your way to our Facebook page for updates on this tragedy as we continue our extensive coverage, that's
Facebook.com/CNNconnect. I will be back with you for another hour of coverage after this short break.


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