Your WBFJ Family Station Forecast: Clouds early, then some sunshine for the first ‘FULL’ day of SPRING. Warmer … High 72. High of 82 on Tuesday.
BTW: Did you catch the ‘super moon’ Saturday evening?
Happy 5th Birthday to ‘twitter’. With people sending and receiving information about natural disasters to political up-risings to rants from Charlie Sheen, twitter has exploded into a major social medium since the first tweet 5 years ago. BYW: Twitter now averages 140 million tweets a day. http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/social.media/03/21/twitter.anniversary/index.html?hpt=T2
AT+T has offered to purchase T-Mobile, pending regulatory approval. The $39 million dollar deal would create the world’s largest wireless carrier, and leave consumers only three big US mobile carriers to choose from. http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/03/21/134729806/at-t-plan-to-buy-t-mobile-good-and-bad-news-for-consumers
New recommendations regarding children and car seats and booster seats. The American Academy of Pediatrics and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration issued separate but consistent new recommendations saying that children should ride in rear-facing car seats until they are two years old. Small kids should ride in booster seats longer. And older kids, under the age of 13, should ride in the back seat. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110321/ap_on_he_me/us_med_car_seats_children
Counselors are on hand today at Reagan High School in Winston-Salem after a fellow student was struck by a car and killed Friday night. 15 year old Brooke Edwards, of Pfafftown, and a group of friends were crossing Lewisville Clemmons Road in front of West Forsyth High School (after attending a lacrosse game ) Friday evening when she turned and ventured back into the road…in the path of a van. The driver of the van that struck Brooke was not charged in the incident. Brooke was a freshman at Reagan.
Near abduction of a young child. Laura Hunsucker telling officers that her 4-year-old daughter was nearly ‘taken’ by another woman at Frazier Park around 3:30pm yesterday afternoon in Asheboro. Fox 8 reporting that Hunsucker had turned away from her 4 year old daughter ‘for just a moment’ to tend to her other child in a stroller . That’s when a Hispanic woman grabbed her daughter and started running. Hunsucker ran after the suspect until the kidnapper dropped the child. The child was not injured. www.myfox8.com/news/wghp-story-asheboro-park-kidnapping-110320,0,7221783.story
UPDATE from Japan: Workers have been evacuated from the damaged nuclear plant earlier today after gray smoke rose from one of its reactor units. On Sunday, the Japanese government banned shipments of milk and spinach from areas close to the nuclear reactor because of radiation contamination. http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/03/20/progress-seen-japans-nuclear-crisis/
Want to help in the Relief efforts in Japan? Go to www.wbfj.fm/event6.html
Check out links for Samaritan’s Purse, World Vision and the Salvation Army…
Fox News confirming that UN member nations including the US have damaged Libyan dictator Muammar al-Qaddafi's compound in Tripoli. A No-Fly Zone was implemented over the weekend to protect the Libyan people and weaken Qaddafi's forces. Also, the four N.Y. Times journalists reported captured by Gadhafi forces on March 15th were freed earlier today following intervention by Turkish negotiators. The reporters were heading to the Libyan border to be handed over to U.S. officials.
CNN reporting a 5.8 magnitude earthquake in the Hindu Kush region of Afghanistan
Men’s NCAA Tournament (March Madness)
Duke and UNC advancing into the Sweet 16 over the weekend
NASCAR: Kyle Busch winning at Bristol
