Your WBFJ Family Station Forecast: Breezy with rain showers. Mild temps…High 65
Showers and thunderstorms overnight.
Surry and Wilkes Counties under a Flash Flood Watch through early Wednesday morning. Rainfall amounts of one to three inches likely, with heavier amounts of rain possible
Today is the end of the 2010 Atlantic Hurricane Season.
Blue Lights are indeed ‘special’ to one Triad family…Four years ago, Sergeant Howard Plouff was killed in the line of duty outside a Winston-Salem nightclub. His widow, Joyce Plouff, puts a blue candle in her window each Christmas season, as a way of remembering her husband's life. As way to ease her pain, putting blue lights on the family tree and one in the window…started out as a family project. Now, you can remember and honor those in law enforcement with your own ‘Hero Light kit’. The $5.00 kits contain one electric candle and blue bulb for people to display. All proceeds support the PBA's ‘fallen officer and scholarship funds’.
The list of locations which will be selling the ‘Blue Light kits:
www.myfox8.com/news/wghp-story-candle-101129,0,6739669.story
Online sales on Cyber Monday surged nearly 20% from last year. According to retail tracker Coremetrics, Cyber Monday came in as the biggest shopping day of the year so far. The average online order during Cyber Monday was $194.89, an increase of 8%.
http://money.cnn.com/2010/11/30/technology/cyber_monday/index.htm?hpt=T2
In Northeast Wisconsin: A 15-year-old high school student held 24 hostages for about five hours yesterday…then turned one of his guns on himself when police broke in at the sound of gun shots. All of the hostages -- 23 students and one female teacher -- walked away shaken but unharmed. The suspect was taken to a local hospital. His motivation is still unknown. www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/11/30/wisconsin.hostage/index.html?iref=NS1
A Thomasville man has died after suffering severe burns on Sunday when he mistakenly thought one of his three children were trapped inside a burning mobile home and ran back inside. 26 year old Jason Powers died Monday at Baptist Medical Center. Powers is survived by his girlfriend and three children. The family is staying with relatives. (WXII)
Slurpee Summit? President Obama will meet with congressional leaders today, less than a month after Republicans won control of the House during the midterm elections. (Fox News)
Former President Bill Clinton is visiting Greensboro later today for a lecture hosted by Guilford College. The Bryan Series event at the Greensboro Coliseum is titled, "Embracing Our Common Humanity." (News2)
Duke Energy has power ‘back-on’ to customers in 3 counties. A contractor was cutting down a tree near in Wilkes County near Elkin yesterday afternoon when the tree accidentally fell on a "main" power line…knocking out power to customers in Wilkes, Surry and Yadkin counties. Officials said at one point, nearly 3,000 Duke Energy customers were without power.
SPORTS: Alonzo Lee has been let go as head football coach at North Carolina A&T State University…after his team posted a disappointing 1-and- 10 season. Assistant coach George Ragsdale will serve as interim coach until a new coach is named.
A teenager at Northeast Guilford High School was arrested yesterday morning and charged with felony possession of a firearm on school campus. Kenneth Gerald Gibson, of Brown Summit, was found with a.25 caliber semi-automatic handgun. A second student, who was not charged, had a .25 caliber bullet. When questioned, the boys told police they were ‘hunting’ over the long Thanksgiving weekend and forgot to leave the gun and bullet at home. http://northernguilford.myfox8.com/content/student-charged-possession-firearm
