Flash Flood Watch for Central North Carolina through this afternoon
Included in the Watch area: Davidson, Forsyth, Guilford, Davie, Stokes, Wilkes and Randolph counties
Your WBFJ Family Station Forecast: Showers. Humid…High near 70 (Rain chance…80%)Looking Ahead: Thursday – Saturday: Sunny with Highs in the 90s
Today on Focus on the Family’s daily broadcast (Part 2 of 2)
Topic: 'Winning Strategies for Successful Fathers'
Guest: Carey Casey – CEO of the National Center for Fathering
Book: “Championship Fathering: How to Win at Being a Dad" http://www.fathers.com/
Details from Focus on the Family http://listen.family.org/daily
Take the ‘Fathering Profile” online. Go to this site and click on ‘start’…
www.fathers.com/content/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=55&Itemid=91
Hundreds of tobacco workers from Reynolds American have traveled to Raleigh today to protest the possibility of higher cigarette taxes. The company is trying to prevent lawmakers from raising the state's excise tax on cigarettes. Governor Beverly Perdue has proposed increasing the tax by $1 per pack. Congress this year raised the federal cigarette tax by 62 cents a pack.
http://www.digtriad.com/news/top/article.aspx?storyid=125784&catid=14
Will the Winston-Salem City Council dole out an additional $15.7 million dollars to help build a baseball stadium in downtown Winston-Salem? The City Council making NO decision last night. More than 200 people attended last night's meeting. Another public hearing is scheduled for 6pm Wednesday evening at City Hall. The council will again listen to residents' opinions. A vote on the deal could happen afterward.
www.journalnow.com/content/2009/jun/16/council-gets-an-earful/news/
The amusement park company Six Flags is seeking Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The move should not affect the operation of its 20 theme parks located in the U.S., Mexico and Canada. http://www.digtriad.com/money/your_money/article.aspx?storyid=125634&catid=248
NASA HAS RE-SCHEDULED THE LAUNCH OF SPACE SHUTTLE ENDEAVOUR FOR EARLY TOMORROW MORNING. Lift-off set for 5:40am Wednesday morning. The reason for the postponement: a hydrogen gas line leak.
Expectant mother and soon-to-be college graduate Dawn Thompson Ester thought that pains she was feeling during Friday's commencement at Columbus State University were labor pains. So, administrators moved Dawn up from #749 in the order for receiving degrees to first place in line. Ester got her diploma and then rushed off the stage with one hand clutching her diploma and the other on her swollen belly. http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090616/D98RETVG0.html
Governor Sarah Palin says she accepts David Letterman's apology. Letterman made an off-color joke during his show about one of Palin’s daughters last Tuesday. Palin says she hopes the apology, made by Letterman on his CBS late-night show, will help change attitudes about men who joke about the sexual exploitation of young girls.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090616/D98RON580.html
At least 7 people have died during post-election demonstrations in Tehran…the capitol city of Iran. Hundreds-of-thousands of people have taken to the streets after this past weekend's election results. Iran's supreme spiritual leader has ordered an investigation into the election.
SPORTS: Wake Forest Sophomore guard Jeff Teague has decided to stay eligible for the NBA draft…thus ending his career as a Demon Deacon.
Minor League Baseball: The Dash can clinch the ‘first-half’ Southern Division title with a win over Frederick. The Dash and Keys play tonight at Wake Forest Baseball Park. The first pitch is scheduled for 7:00 p.m.
