Your WBFJ Family Station Forecast: Mostly sunny…High 83
Update: Accident involving a Davidson County school bus sends 7 people to the hospital. Six students were taken to the hospital this morning as a precaution after a school bus taking students to Reeds Elementary School was rear-ended by a Ford Explorer. The accident happened on Highway 64 at 150 in the Reeds community. The driver of the Ford Explorer was seriously injured and transported to Wake Forest - Baptist Medical Center.
Witnesses say that the bright sun may have played a factor in the accidents.
http://www.the-dispatch.com/article/20100910/ARTICLES/100919996/1005?Title=Students-taken-to-hospital-after-bus-accident
September is Hunger Action Month, Help fight hunger.
‘Drive Thru - Food Drive’ this Friday and Saturday (Sept 10 and 11)
You can drop-off non-perishable food items in the parking lot of
Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest – North Carolina. Location: 3655 Reed Street off Highway 109 (near I-40) in Winston-Salem. Times: Friday: 7am til 7pm...Saturday: 8am til 5pm. Details and Volunteer information: http://www.hungernwnc.org/
Friday News
Pastor Terry Jones says he is re-considering plans to burn some 200 copies of the Quran on Saturday, the 9th anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks.
www.voanews.com/english/news/US-Pastor-Reconsidering-Plan-to-Burn-Qurans-102598059.html
www.christianpost.com/article/20100909/fla-preacher-quran-burning-plan-back-to-square-one/index.html
An e-mail virus hitting computers on Thursday, taking down servers at ABC, NASA and Google. The virus, called “Here You Have” or V-B Mania, is a simple Trojan Horse that arrives in your inbox as an e-mail. Once clicked, everyone in your address book becomes affected while flooding and crippling e-mail servers. Major virus monitors are currently investigating the threat.
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/09/09/beware-link-e-mail-virus-plays-havoc-internet/
At least one person is dead and several injured after an explosion from a ruptured gas line that rocked a neighborhood south of San Francisco last night. Firefighters still on the scene of several fires this morning. (RnR)
Iran officials will ‘free’ one of three Americans jailed for more than a year as a good will jester to mark the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. Hostage Sarah Shourd, who has serious medical problems, should be released on Saturday. www.the-dispatch.com/article/20100910/APA/1009100565?Title=Moms-of-US-hikers-held-in-Iran-get-some-good-news
Beware of a new magazine scam: A Clemmons woman said she received a notice to renew her magazine through a company called Publisher's Billing Exchange. The problem is that P-B-E is charging a lot more for the subscriptions, and the magazines say they never got money from the company, said the woman (who was not named in the story from WXII). The Better Business Bureau said P-B-E has an "F" rating…with 98 complaints. www.wxii12.com/news/24935464/detail.html
Although medicine has changed greatly in the last 80 years, the hospital gown has not. The Cleveland Clinic is having patients ‘try out’ new, improved versions of its hospital gown from fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg. The revamped hospital gown features side ties, a signature ‘Furstenberg’ wrap design and the Cleveland Clinic logo incorporated into the print. http://www.cleveland.com/healthfit/index.ssf/2010/09/designer_diane_von_furstenberg.html
SPORTS: Carolina League semi-final play-offs (Game two): The Winston-Salem Dash over the Kinston Indians…2 - 0. The Dash travel to Kinston tonight for Game three. http://www.wsdash.com/
