his family says langston was a truly wonderful person who brought laughter to every room he entered, questions now being raised about the safety net. the university that hosted the meet says the weight went over, quote, certified barriers. but one athlete tells the daily mail the nets were the lowest he's seen in his six years of competing. accidents at track meets are rare, but in september, a teenager in australia was critically injured by a hammer throw and a student in illinois was killed by a hammer throw in 2017. >> it was just a complete, utter, terrible fluke. >> now, an outpouring of support not only for wade langston's family, but also for the young athlete who lost control of that weight. >> he's a good kid, and i he's probably just dying inside right now, and i feel terrible for him. >> a local track club has started a fundraising website for langston's family. police are not investigating his death as a criminal matter. >> spring is still about two months away, so you might be dreaming of some time away on this last tuesday of january. we're happy to report that today is

wade langston was seated on these bleachers with his back to e area where the hammer was their own.ut one eyewitness is raising questions. >> if it was certified, i would believe it would be higher up and it wouldn't be sitting there and they would have already tested it before you had 200 people there. for outdoor events, athletes usually use weights like this e. e ones used indoors have shorter handles. the sport can be dangerous and some u.s. track and field associations have abandoned the hammer throw altogether, along with the discus and the javelin. look. at last year's asian games, an official was hit by a hammer at penetrated safety netting. he suffered a broken leg. spoke with hammer throwing ach taylor bernstein. >> if a kid is throwing 80 feet, there should be nobody there feet away. >> wade langston's family said in a statement, "there are no words to express the depth of our sorrow but we are clinging tightly to the memories, laughter, and love that we shared with wade." >> deborah: a real tragedy. u.s. track and field is calling e fatal accident "unimaginable." hold on

passing it on to langston. hello. welcome everyone.i want to welcome the new commissioners as well. happy to see you. um, i want to start this report um, by for the first time as student delegates acknowledging um, one of the issues that we run into siac this last year um, with the lack of a full time staff member um, we're running into issues as i see fully realizing and fleshing out our vision for what we want to do for our 60 students and many things we want to do like discuss our major topics review sac problems um are being are becoming more and more difficult to tackle without a full time position. um all of these problems are becoming more and more of a leadership issue that the sec has had to tackle. um and our amazing advisor judson has been there for us the entire time and has been a phenomenal voice for us and advisor for siac but the the lack of a full time position is definitely hitting the sec. we have had our meetings cut in half. we've had half as many meetings in this amount of time as we weren't able to have last year

passing it on to langston. hello. welcome everyone.come the new commissioners as well. happy to see you. um, i want to start this report um, by for the first time as student delegates acknowledging um, one of the issues that we run into siac this last year um, with the lack of a full time staff member um, we're running into issues as i see fully realizing and fleshing out our vision for what we want to do for our 60 students and many things we want to do like discuss our major topics review sac problems um are being are becoming more and more difficult to tackle without a full time position. um all of these problems are becoming more and more of a leadership issue that the sec has had to tackle. um and our amazing advisor judson has been there for us the entire time and has been a phenomenal voice for us and advisor for siac but the the lack of a full time position is definitely hitting the sec. we have had our meetings cut in half. we've had half as many meetings in this amount of time as we weren't able to have last year. um and the

and also, listening to senator livingston -- no, langston of oklahoma, and he brought up this "sportscenterbarrel spending. we're actually spending money on the stupidest things and he said in his speech, if we reduce this "sportscenter" barrel spending, we could be saving over $1 billion per year for our country. so why don't we look at "sportscenter" barrel spending? thank you. host: let's go to mary. mary in nevada. the democrats' line. caller: good morning. this connection between musk and trump is very dangerous, rallying all these right wing extremists. and music, he has no -- he was not elected to hold office. why he has space in the white house is beyond me. now he's out there trying to erase history in germany like trump wants to erase history from january 6. you saw it on tv. there were videos. they're not hostages, they were domestic terrorists and others were charged for sedition and they pled guilty and had their day in court. they were guilty. as far as money goes, what he's doing is a photo-op using military assets to round up immigrants, immigrants he's hired his whole life.