Your WBFJ Family Station Forecast: Sunny skies…High 48
Traffic Update: Surry County (around 8:30am)
52 SB at Cook School Road will be down to one lane because of clean up of an early morning accident involving a tractor trailer.
2 Hour Delay...Thomasville City Schools are on a 2-hour delay due to a water main break near Liberty Drive Elementary School.
The State Department is expecting serious loss of life from the 7.0 earthquake that struck Port-au-Prince (the capital city of Haiti) around 5pm yesterday afternoon. One aid worker describing the situation as absolute "chaos". The US is offering military and humanitarian assistance to Haiti. The U-S Geological Survey saying that this is the most violent earthquake to hit that region in over 200 years.
More information:
American Red Cross Text "HAITI" to 9-0-9-9-9 and a donation of ten dollars will be given automatically to the Red Cross to help with relief efforts (the donation will show up on your cell phone bill).
http://www.redcross.org/portal/site/en/menuitem.1a019a978f421296e81ec89e43181aa0/?vgnextoid=a8712721ea326210VgnVCM10000089f0870aRCRD
Compassion International www.compassion.com/contribution/giving/disasterrelief.htm
Samaritan’s Purse www.samaritanspurse.org/index.php/articles/responding_to_haiti_earthquake/
An email from the mission team from First Christian in Raleigh currently in Haiti… http://lifeline.org/news/Haiti.htm
http://www.wral.com/news/national_world/world/story/6796696/
Two U.S. service members died and four Afghan soldiers were killed in separate explosions Wednesday in eastern Afghanistan.
An historic battle regarding the definition of marriage is under way in California. The legal battle will likely determine whether California's ban on same-gender "marriage" is constitutional. The challenge is to Proposition 8. Proposition 8 was approved by California voters in November 2008 to overturn a State Supreme Court ruling legalizing homosexual marriage.
Alliance Defense Fund www.alliancedefensefund.org/main/default.aspx
www.protectmarriage.com/
Search engine Google may pull out of China. Officials with Google stating yesterday that it will stop censoring its search results in China after discovering that computer hackers had targeted human-rights activists…exposing their e-mail accounts to outsiders.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100113/D9D6RQTO0.html
Conan O’Brien is rejecting NBC’s latest request to move “The Tonight Show” to 12:05am weeknights with Jay Leno returning to an 11:35pm time slot. O’Brien saying that “The Tonight Show at 12:05 simply isn’t the Tonight Show”.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/TV/01/12/conan.obrien/index.html
THERE HAS BEEN AN UNPRECEDENTED INCREASE IN ATTENDEES IN CHRISTIAN CONFERENCES OVER THE PAST TWELVE MONTHS. Sam Thompson of http://www.christianconferencesearch.com/ says that attendance is not only up in the US, but also in Europe, Asia and Australia. BTW: Enrollment at Bible Colleges and Christian Universities have increased as well. Ben James of http://www.biblecollegeguide.com/ says many people are looking at how to invest their resources more effectively, seeking a lasting sense of peace and purpose in their lives.
Apparently, Carrie Underwood is a big fan of Brandon Heath. The Country music star and former American Idol winner gives Brandon Heath lots of praise in this week's issue of People Magazine. When asked who is currently on her iPod, Underwood stated, “Brandon Heath…I'm in love with Brandon’s voice". http://www.brandonheath.net/
