Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Today is the biggest delivery day for the US Postal Service....
Winter weather advisory until noon for the northern mountains including Alleghany, Ashe, Watauga and Grayson County
Periods of light snow, sleet and freezing rain could make travel difficult for drivers in the northern mountains this morning.
An Amber Alert was issued for seven-month-old Brionna Michelle Johnson earlier this morning.
The Greensboro Police Department still looking for Brionna and her father Quito Johnson. Call your local authorities if you have any information.
10 days and counting: Thousands still without power in Oklahoma. President Bush has declared seven Oklahoma counties disaster areas because of last week’s ice storm. Power crews should have most customers back on line by Christmas. http://apnews.myway.com/article/20071219/D8TKESGO6.html
Five people have died while trying to shovel snow over the weekend in Detroit. Doctors say that back strain is usually the biggest problem associated with shoveling snow.
Prosecutors in Aruba have dismissed the case against the three main suspects in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway. The Alabama teen disappeared while on a graduation trip to Aruba two and a half years ago. Her body was never found.
A teenager whose appendix ruptured while she was on a cruise ship, hundreds of miles from help, received an unusual rescue over the weekend. An SOS call was answered by the US Navy. Crews aboard the USS Ronald Reagan airlifted 14 year old Laura Montero from the Dawn Princess cruise ship to the aircraft carrier for emergency surgery. Laura is expected to make a full recovery and should be back home by Christmas.
A 7.2 magnitude earthquake rattled Alaska's Aleutian Islands overnight. The Aleutian Islands are a chain of more than 300 islands that extend southwestward from Alaska into the northern Pacific Ocean.
A 710-year-old copy of the English law document known as the Magna Carta was auctioned off for $21.3 million dollars. This copy (one of only 17 known in the world) was on loan to the National Archives in Washington from 1988 until this year. http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/12/19/magna.carta.ap/index.html
When it comes to their phones, Americans are cutting the cord. This year is likely to be the first calendar year in which U.S households spent more on cell phone services than on land line phones. While there are roughly 170 million land lines in use nationwide, industry officials estimate there are close to 250 million cell phones.
http://www.wxii12.com/money/14879091/detail.html
SPORTS: Wake Forest plays South Florida at 7pm tonight at the Joel.
Your WBFJ Family Station Forecast:
Today: Mix of sun and clouds…High 48
Tonight: Partly cloudy…Low 30
Thursday: Mostly sunny…High 55
Thursday night: Slight chance of a shower
WINTER OFFICIALLY BEGINS THIS SATURDAY :)
Saturday: Mostly cloudy…High 52
Sunday: Showers…High 57
Christmas Eve (Monday) Mostly sunny…High 50
Christmas Day (Tuesday): Sunny and cold…High 45
