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And now, Preston and Steve's news update with Kathy Romano.

Today is March 16th, a Thursday. Good morning, Kathy.

Good morning in the news this morning.

The son of Philadelphia Flyers interim general manager, Danny Bre apologized after a video posted on social media showed him pushing an empty

wheelchair down the staircase. Mercyhurst University hockey player Carson Breyer issued his apology

in a statement released Wednesday by the Flyers. I am deeply sorry for my behavior on Saturday,

he said there is no excuse for my actions and I will do whatever I can to make up for this serious lack of judgment.

Danny Breyer, who was promoted to run the flyers last week when Chuck Fletcher was fired, said he was shocked to see his son's actions in the video.

They are inexcusable and run completely counter to our family's values on treating people with respect, he said.

Carson is very sorry and accepts full responsibility for his behavior. I'm sorry, how old is he, Kat, does he say, in his stories? I think he's in his third year of college. Okay. But he's older. I think he's like 24. Oh, is he? Yeah. Oh, I didn't realize that. I'm curious. A spokesperson for Mercyhurst, a school of about 3,000 students in Erie, Pennsylvania said a code of student conduct process was underway.

The actions displayed in the video make our hearts heavy and fall short of mercy belief in the inherent dignity of each person.

The spokesperson said in the statement, adding the school's tradition also reminds us that students and all people who make poor choices deserve opportunities to learn, change behaviors,

and at a tone for harmful actions. The incident happened Saturday night at a bar near campus.

Surveillance video from the bar, which has been widely shared on social media shows Breyer,

Sun Carson, tossing a woman's wheelchair down a flight of stairs.

Two others were seen standing with Breyer when the incident happened.

The university says Carson and two other athletes were placed on an interim suspension from their athletic teams per school policy pending the outcome of the investigation.

Carson previously was dismissed from Arizona State Hockey Club in 2019 for what the school called a violation of team rules. He's in his third season at Mercyhurst, which also competes in Division I. And the woman whose chair it was, she was in the bathroom at the time? Is that right? I believe so. That's what I heard anyway, Nick, yeah. That she was downstairs, and so obviously he didn't push somebody in a wheelchair downstairs. It's a moronic thing to do. Yeah, you see him, like, he's kind of like in a hallway, and he sits down in the chair for a little while, and then when they just get up to go walk into the bar, and he just kind of pushes it up. Nonchalantly. Right. Sort of like, I was going to push this. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, exactly. So, yeah, and I read that there was some damage to the wheelchair and the gal is going to have to get it repaired and all that stuff. I was down the stairs, yeah. You know, it's not acceptable in any way, but like, you know, if it was like a wheelchair that maybe it was there just in somebody needed it and it got thrown down the stairs, it wouldn't be as big of a deal.

But, like, you can tell the difference between those wheelchairs. Like, people who live in a wheelchair and use each wheelchair every day. I mean, it's customized to them. It's, you know, it's a comfortable seat. It's a, it's not like something that you're going to, you know,

jump in at the airport to get from one terminal to the next.

You know, you, you know the difference.

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