Code Orange Air Quality Alert for the Triad again today
Your WBFJ Family Station Forecast: Sunny and HOT…High 95
(Record HIGH for today is 97 degrees)
A late day thunderstorm is possible this afternoon.
-Keep the water bottle handy…
-Limit your outdoor activity (if at all possible) today.
Low voter turn-out for the state Primary run-offs yesterday…
Guilford County Sheriffs race: Democrat Phil Wadsworth will challenge Republican Sheriff B.J. Barnes. In the 12th Congressional District: Republican Greg Dority will face Democratic Rep. Mel Watt. In 13th Congressional District: Republican William Randall will face Rep. Brad Miller. Elaine Marshall defeating Lexington attorney Cal Cunningham. Marshall will face Republican Senator Richard Burr for the US Senate seat in November. FYI: It cost $4 million dollars to hold the run-off elections yesterday. More election results from Tuesday: www.sboe.state.nc.us/
Southwest Airlines is celebrating 39 years by offering $39 dollar fares. The sale is valid through midnight Thursday (June 24, 2010). The travel period is Sept 8 to Nov 7, 2010. The fares are valid for travel every day except Fridays & Sundays. www.southwest.com/birthdaysale/?src=PREMTWRLNKWOWSALE100622
President Obama and General Stanley McChrystal, the top US military commander in Afghanistan, will meet face to face in the Oval Office today. The President not very happy with the General’s derogatory comments made to a reporter for Rolling Stone magazine about the president and other senior administration officials. General McChrystal apologized for the statements saying that he made "poor judgment" in the Rolling Stone interview titled "The Runaway General" due out on Friday. (CNN)
Greensboro city officials would be able to relocate beavers that cause damage in city waterways under a bill that passed the Senate State and Local Government Committee on Tuesday. Under current law, animals that are trapped either have to be released where they were found or euthanized. City officials said they wanted an alternative to killing the animals. The new bill essentially creates a ‘pilot program’ that allows Greensboro to move the beavers along Buffalo Creek that are causing problems.
http://www.news-record.com/content/2010/06/22/article/greensboro_beaver_bill_passes_committee
21st century laser technology has unveiled some of the earliest known images of early Christian apostles Peter and Paul in an underground burial chamber beneath a city street in Rome. The painted images, which date back to the 4th century, were uncovered using a new laser technique to burn off centuries of white calcium deposits…without damaging the paintings underneath. Some of the calcium was 2 inches thick. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100622/ap_on_re_eu/eu_vatican_archaeology
Pledge…without piety? High above the Billy Graham Parkway in Charlotte, one North Carolina group is making a statement about patriotism without God. The NC Secular Association has paid for a series of billboards which will go up in the weeks before the Fourth of July. The billboards show an American flag and the words "One Nation, Indivisible." The group omitted the words "under God," which have been part of the Pledge of Allegiance since 1954. Group founder Joseph McDaniel Stewart says the goal is to show that nonbelievers can be just as patriotic as believers. Besides the city of Charlotte, the NC Secular Association has billboards going up in, Winston-Salem, Greensboro, Wilmington, Asheville and Raleigh. (Charlotte Observer)
SPORTS:
The World Cup soccer action…(Johannesburg, South Africa)
Team USA vs Algeria (9:30am this morning on ESPN)
“Must win” for the US team www.fifa.com/index.html
