• CNN legal analysts Danny Cevallos and Joey Jackson discuss the six month sentence handed out by a court to Brock Turner who was found guilty of sexually assaulting a woman on the Stanford University campus.

  • He’s claiming he never raped her, but was only hooking up with her.

  • At Brock Allen Turner’s sentencing, the woman he sexually assaulted read a letter to him about how severely the incident impacted her mental well-being. CNN’s Ashleigh Banfield reads excerpts of the letter aloud. Turner was sentenced to six months in jail.

    https://youtu.be/gTMZOP1AsGc

  • The 2016 Olympic Swim Trials begin in 20 days as we’ve mentioned right here in Omaha and a record crowd is expected. Omaha is ready for the big economic impact that comes with it. talking numbers with city officials today is our Erin Murray.

  • On a blazing day down at Hell’s Gate, 12,000 fans sailed over to Possum Kingdom Lake to witness a truly amazing start to the 2016 season, and bouyed by the great weather and spectacular entertainment they helped to create an unforgettable atmosphere.

  • Boost your snorkeling or diving adventures with the Bixpy Swim Jet. A 5 lbs (2.3kg) handheld water-jet propulsion system that generates enough thrust to easily jet you through water.

    https://youtu.be/UlW7tseHmBQ

  • Brock Turner’s father, Dan, has sparked outrage online after saying that his son should not have to go to prison for “20 minutes of action.” Brock Turner, a former swimmer at Stanford University, was convicted of three felonies for the sexual assault of an unconscious woman and was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment and probation. Dan wrote a letter in opposition of his son’s sentencing blaming it for his loss of appetite, only fueling more fire to the already controversial ruling. “Now he barely consumes any food and eats only to exist. These verdicts have broken and shattered him and our family in so many ways.” Turner is expected to spend only three months of his sentence because a judge felt the term length could have a “severe impact” on him. Elliot Hill and Margaret J. Howell take a closer look at Mr. Turner’s statement further on the Lip News.

    https://youtu.be/W362Bd1M7xc

  • The calendar says -60- days from Rio 2016… And, can you believe it, just -20- days until Omaha hosts the Olympic swim trials. today our Erin Murray shows us how signs are starting to pop up across the city.

  • A study of European perch larvae found for the first time that exposure to high concentrations of microplastics stunts growth and alters their feeding habits, leading them to only eat plastic and ignore their natural food source of free swimming zooplankton.

    Experiments found the microplastic particles caused 15 percent fewer hatchings. What is more, two week old larvae were much less able to escape predation, leading to reduced survival.

    Also, fish reared in the highest concentrations of plastics were significantly smaller than those that developed in average ones.

    If this response in fish larvae translates to higher mortality rates as a result of increased predation risk in nature, there could be direct consequences for the sustainability of fish stocks.

    Read The Telegraph

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