Your WBFJ Family Station Forecast: Today: Sunny skies…High 82
Better chance of rain and cooler temperatures by the end of the week
Want you give?? The Mobile Blood Unit from Fort Bragg will be collecting blood for our troops tomorrow (June 2) at the National Guard Armory on Silas Creek Parkway in Winston-Salem. Hours: 7:30am to 3pm. To donate blood…Call Don Adamick at 408-7280 (or 766-8436)
Today is the start of the Atlantic Hurricane Season. The Predictions: 9- to-14 Named Storms, 4-7 Hurricanes, 1-3 Major Hurricanes. Be informed...Be prepared.
http://www.cpc.noaa.gov/products/outlooks/hurricane.shtml
Starting today…U.S. residents will need passports or high-tech documents to re-enter the country from Canada or Mexico. A military ID or an enhanced driver's license, which has extra security features, can also be used to cross the northern or southern borders of the US.
For more information, visit http://travel.state.gov .
http://www.myfox8.com/wghp-story-travel-canada-mexico-090601,0,5172789.story
Breaking News: An Air France plane is missing over the Atlantic with 228 people aboard reported electrical problems before it disappeared from radar. The airbus was traveling from Rio de Janeiro to Paris when it vanished.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/06/01/air.france.brazil/index.html
GENERAL MOTORS FILES FOR BANKRUPTCY. The federal government will provide GM with another 30 billion dollars in assistance. The move will give the government a 60% ownership in GM…which means that (you and I) U.S. taxpayers will become majority shareholders in the company. FYI: GM is also getting rid of Pontiac, Saturn, Saab, and Hummer.
Dr. George Tiller, one of the nation’s few doctors that provided late-term abortions, was shot and killed at a church in Wichita, Kansas on Sunday. Police arrested a 51-year old suspect in the shooting. Pro-Life organizations across the nation are denouncing the killing. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,523581,00.html
Singing sensation Susan Boyle has been taken to a private clinic suffering from exhaustion following her defeat in the final of "Britain's Got Talent." The 48-year-old had been left "exhausted and emotionally drained" after Saturday's show in which she was beaten by dance act “Diversity”. http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/TV/06/01/susan.boyle/index.html
At the movies: “UP”...the latest animated Pixar film tops at the Box Office over the weekend. Plugged In online (focus on the Family) gives “UP” 5 out of 5 stars.
The last known survivor of the Titanic has died. Millvina Dean (age 97) passed away in her sleep at a nursing home on Sunday. Millvina was just an infant when the Titantic struck an iceberg back in 1912.
Mobile Blood Unit from Fort Bragg will be collecting blood for our troops on Tuesday (June 2) at the National Guard Armory on Silas Creek Parkway in Winston-Salem.
Hours: 7:30am to 3pm. To donate blood…Call Don Adamick at 408-7280 (766-8436).
NASCAR: Jimmy Johnson holding off Tony Stewart for a win at Dover
NCAA Baseball Tournament: Carolina over Kansas…12 – 1
Also...Texas beat Boston College in the longest game in Division one history on Saturday night. Florida State clobbered Ohio State…37 - 6…the highest run total in Tournament history.
Bracket: http://www.ncaa.com/brackets/2009/ncaa_bracket_DI_baseball.html
Stanley Cup Finals: Red Wings up ‘2 games to none’ over the Penguins. Game three Tuesday night.
Sweden's Robin Soderling defeated defending French Open champ Rafael Nadal http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090601/D98HIQ380.html
