Your WBFJ Family Station Forecast: Hot…Hazy…Humid
Mostly sunny…High around 90
Last day of school for students in Davidson County and Davie County
‘Team Abby’ letting out a sigh of relief this morning. 16-year-old Abby Sunderland was spotted by a search plane earlier this morning after she triggered a distress signal on Thursday.
Abby, the American teen attempting to sail solo around the world is alive and well…floating in the southern Indian Ocean about 2,000 miles off the Australian coast. Abby’s boat was banged up by rough seas. FYI: Abby's older brother Zac sailed around the world alone last year, with stops, he became the youngest person to ever do so at age 17. http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/06/11/missing.teen.sailor/index.html?hpt=T1
A 3-year-old girl was killed and four other passengers were injured when the vehicle they were riding in ran off the roadway and overturned. The accident happened along Peters Creek Parkway near Clemmonsville Road just before 3pm yesterday afternoon in Winston-Salem. This was the eighth traffic fatality in Winston-Salem in 2010. http://www.wxii12.com/news/23861182/detail.html
The Stokes County Sheriff's Office is looking for Tracy Baber Smith who has been missing since Tuesday. Family members say that they have not had contact with Tracy since Tuesday morning. Officials say her 2004 Saturn is also missing. Information? Call the Stokes County Sheriff's Office at 593-8787.
http://www.myfox8.com/news/local/wghp-stokes-missing-person-100610,0,115195.story
According to scientists consulting with the federal government, new figures showing that the amount of oil flowing from that blown-out well at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico could be TWICE as much as previously thought. This is the third time that the U.S. government has had to increase its estimate of how much oil is gushing out of that BP oil well in the Gulf. http://www.wxii12.com/money/23866765/detail.html
(Maryland) When 93-year-old Paul Miller began teaching math, Franklin D. Roosevelt was president and a loaf of bread cost about 8 cents.
The year was 1934. Miller has been instructing students in private and public schools, from elementary to college, for 75 consecutive years. That would be an estimated 27,000 school days. That’s three generations of students. A record?? Paul Miller's children have made a case with Guinness World Records that he has the longest career as an accredited teacher.
Paul Miller quote “he believes deeply that a man who loves his job will never work a day in his life.” http://www.wbaltv.com/education/23857145/detail.html
SPORTS
NBA Finals (Game 4) Celtics over the Lakers…96 – 89. The series tied at 2 games each. Game 5: Sunday night in Boston.
NASCAR: Racing in Michigan
Sad news: The 13 year old great-granddaughter of Nelson Mandela (the former South African President) was killed in a car crash after attending the World Cup concert kick-off celebration last night. Police in Johannesburg have charged the driver with drunk driving. Zenani Mandela celebrated her 13th birthday only two days earlier.
The World Cup soccer championship officially begins today in Johannesburg, South Africa with a match-up between South Africa and Mexico. USA vs England on Saturday
http://www.voanews.com/english/news/africa/Mandelas-Great-granddaughter-Killed-in-Car-Crash-96131084.html
