CMA Awards hosts reference tragedies in opening

(AP) – County Music Association Awards hosts Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood are dedicating Wednesday’s telecast to the victims of recent mass shootings and hurricanes.
The 10-time hosts opened the show at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena with Underwood naming the cities of Las Vegas, Charlottesville, Virginia, New York and Sutherland Springs, Texas. She said the past year has been one marked by tragedies that affected “countless lives, including many in our country music