Flood Advisory for Forsyth, Davidson, Guilford and Randolph
-Heavy rainfall could cause small creeks and streams to rise
-Ponding of water on roadways could be a problem this morning
Cool start to the work week…Periods of rain. Temperatures holding in the mid-60s
Robert Schindler, the father of the late Terri Schindler Schiavo, passed away on Saturday from heart failure. He was 71-years old. His daughter, Terri Schiavo, died after being taken off a feeding tube in March of 2005. Terri’s estranged husband won the legal right to have her feeding tube removed. Schindler had fought to keep the feeding tube in place. RnR
North Carolina is joining California, Massachusetts and Nevada with a sales tax increase. The one cent sales tax increase takes effect on Tuesday.
http://www.statesville.com/content/2009/aug/06/sales-tax-rate-goes-sept-1/
A Kernersville Woman and a friend were killed last Friday in a parasailing accident. 60-year-old Cynthia Woodcock of Kernersville was enjoying a weekend at Ocean Isle with the girlfriends. According to the Woodcock family, Cynthia had never been parasailing before and they are questioning why North Carolina Water Sports took a group into the water with winds gusting over 35 miles-per-hour and choppy seas. Woodcock was a Sunday School teacher at Woodlawn Baptist Church in High Point. She was a mom and grandmother. The U.S. Coast Guard is investigating. http://www.myfox8.com/wghp-story-women-die-para-090828,0,2169419.story
Show your support for the NC Zoo. A new plate design with "Support the N.C. Zoo" featuring a zebra is pending approval by the Division of Motor Vehicles in Raleigh. Approval depends on at least 300 people signing up for the plate. The specialty plate adds $30 to the registration cost with $20 going to the North Carolina Zoo Society. More information at www.nczoo.com or 888-244-3736 http://www.digtriad.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=129531&catid=57
Several massive wildfires still burning out of control in California. On Sunday, two firefighters lost their lives battling a fire north of LA. The blaze north of LA has burned nearly 43 thousand acres and destroyed 18 homes. It's one of several wildfires either still burning or recently contained in California.
A POWERFUL CATEGORY FOUR HURRICANE IS HEADED FOR THE
BAJA CALIFORNIA PENINSULA. Hurricane Jenna has maximum sustained winds of nearly 145 miles per hour.
Record-breaking is all the rage in Mexico. Guadalajara, Mexico finally boasts the world's biggest mariachi band. A total of 549 musicians got together to win the record for the birthplace of mariachi on Sunday, playing several songs in just over 10 minutes.
-On Saturday, thousands in Mexico City claimed they put on the largest "Thriller" dance by people performing simultaneously in one place.
-Earlier this year…Mexico also boasted the world's biggest cheesecake and group kiss.
The internet turns 40 this week. Len Kleinrock and his team at UCLA began tests 40 years ago on what would become the Internet. Few were paying attention back on Sept. 2, 1969, when about 20 people gathered in Kleinrock's lab at the University of California, Los Angeles, to watch as two bulky computers passed meaningless test data through a 15-foot gray cable.
-That was the beginning of the fledgling Arpanet network. Stanford Research Institute joined a month later, and UC Santa Barbara and the University of Utah did by year's end.
-The '80s gave birth to an addressing system with suffixes like ".com" and ".org" in widespread use today.
-The Internet didn't become a household word until the '90s, after a British physicist, Tim Berners-Lee, invented the Web, a subset of the Internet.
http://www.myfox8.com/business/sns-bc-us-tec--internetat40,0,371534.story
SPORTS:
Chula Vista, California Beats Taiwan (6 - 3) to win the Little League World Series yesterday in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. California securing the fifth straight Little League championship for the US http://sports.myway.com/news/08302009/v2671.html
