Your WBFJ Family Station Forecast: Today: Showers and thunderstorms…High 77
Flash Flood Warning for Wilkes County until 3pm
Wilkes County Schools: CLOSED
Heavy rain is causing severe flash flooding in southern Wilkes County this morning. Fox 8 News reporting that emergency Crews evacuated between 20 and 25 people from the Germantown Road area this morning in the Moravian Falls Community in Wilkes County. According to the National Weather Service, over 4 inches of rain has fallen over parts of Wilkes County in the past few hours. Additional rainfall is expected.
http://www.myfox8.com/wghp-story-wilkes-flooding-090526,0,2837526.story
URGENT: President Obama taps Circuit Judge Sonia Sotomayor for outgoing Justice David Souter's seat. Big announcement at 10:15am...
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/05/26/bio-judge-sonia-sotomayor/
The State Supreme Court in California is expected to release its opinion on PROP 8 later today. Proposition Eight is the referendum approved by California voters last November, defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman. If the State Supreme Court upholds Prop Eight then it must also determine the fate of the same-gender weddings performed before the referendum passed. www.ProtectMarriage.com
Jon and Kate Plus 8: Is Jon and Kate’s Relationship Is a Victim of Their Reality TV Success????
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/Television/story?id=7673889&page=1
More saber rattling: North Korea fired two short range missiles earlier today…one day after the underground testing of a nuclear device and missile firing. The UN Security Council has condemned the testing.
Iran has sent six warships into international waters and the Gulf of Aden in a show of defiance following missile tests last week. Iran has threatened to block the strait, through which about 40% of the world's traded oil is shipped, if it is attacked over its nuclear program. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,521730,00.html
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad proposed a face-to-face debate with President Obama at the UN if he is re-elected next month as Iran's president. http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=7670913&page=1
The four-year-old daughter of boxing legend Mike Tyson is listed in "extremely critical condition" after she was injured in a treadmill accident at her home in Phoenix, Arizona. Exodus Tyson was found by her seven-year-old brother on a treadmill "with her neck on ... a cable" attached to the machine.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/05/25/arizona.tyson.daughter/index.html
The Minnesota mom who was on the run with her 13 year old son after refusing chemo treatment has returned back home. Colleen Hauser telling CNN that she will now accept whatever course of treatment a court may order for her son. The son, Daniel Hauser, suffers from Hodgkin's lymphoma. He and his parents have said they wanted to treat his illness with alternative, Native American remedies.
Christianity Today magazine says it is ‘closing down’ four publications including Today's Christian Woman. 30 people will lose their jobs. Evangelist Billy Graham started Christianity Today magazine back in 1956.
IN AN EFFORT TO WIN MORE YOUNG PEOPLE TO THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, POPE BENEDICT HAS GOTTEN A FACEBOOK PAGE. The Pope already has his own YouTube channel. The pope's new FaceBook page is NOT an interactive one.
"Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian” tops at the Box Office over the 4-day extended Memorial Day Weekend.
http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/earlyshow/leisure/boxoffice/main500184.shtml
(SPORTS) NASCAR: David Reutimann declared the winner of the rained shortened Coca-Cola 600 (or is that 300) yesterday at Lowes Motor Speedway in Concord.
N-H-L Eastern Conference Finals: Game 4 (Tonight in Raleigh) Carolina Hurricanes vs Pittsburg Penguins (Pitt up 3- 0)
