Your WBFJ Family Station Forecast: Mostly cloudy skies today…High near 40
Tonight: A chance of snow flurries south of the Triad…Low 26
Winter Weather Advisory is in effect from 5pm this afternoon until early Saturday morning for Davidson, Davie, Rowan and Randolph
Snow accumulations of one inch are expected…with higher amounts across the southern portions of North Carolina.
-Charlotte and Wilmington could see 1 to 3 inches of snow overnight...
-North Myrtle Beach under a Winter Storm Warning with 2-4 inches
expected by Saturday morning...
A rear ‘southern tracking’ Winter Storm is spreading sleet and snow from Texas to Georgia this morning. In Atlanta, Delta Air Lines has canceled some 400 flights in and out of Hartsfield-Jackson International for today because of the snow threat.
In the News:
LabCorp is consolidating its billing operations in Greensboro. That move will bring around 350 new jobs to the area. The average salary at the Greensboro location will be around $26,000 dollars per year. A Labcorp career link: http://www.labcorpcareers.com/
Survivors in Haiti are observing a Day of Mourning. Today (Feb 12th) marks ‘one month’ since a devastating 7.0 magnitude earthquake left much of the capital, Port-au-Prince, and surrounding areas in ruins. An estimated 200,000 people lost their lives.
At least 1 million others were left homeless
Former President Bill Clinton is now resting at home after he had two stents inserted into a clogged heart artery on Thursday. Clinton was taken to the hospital experi-encing chest pains.
The 63-year-old Clinton underwent quadruple bypass heart surgery in 2004. www.healthday.com/Article.asp?AID=635975
Authorities have arrested a man they are calling a ‘person of interest’ in the kidnapping and killing Somer Thompson, whose body was found in a landfill after she vanished on her way home from school. Somer's father, Sammy Thompson, lives in Graham, N.C. The family held a memorial service for her at the Riverside Baptist Church in Graham in mid-November. www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,571325,00.html?test=latestnews
Icy roads and trails littered with branches have kept Pilot Mountain State Park closed for the past several days. Crews have spent the last few days clearing the lower roads, but the top of Pilot Mountain remains largely encased in ice. A crew of six workers from other state parks is coming this morning to help assist the clean-up efforts.
www.myfox8.com/news/wghp-pilot-mountain-closed-100211,0,1590166.story
The wind damaged steeple on a church in Greensboro is finally coming down. The steeple atop Centenary United Methodist Church on West Friendly Avenue may not be replaced for six months after an insurance adjuster examined the damage on Thursday. The damaged steeple will be removed this morning. Greensboro News / Record
SPORTS:
The 21st Winter Olympics: Opening ceremonies tonight on NBC
Tonight: Parade of Nations and lighting of the Olympic Cauldron. It’s the first time that the opening ceremonies are being held indoors. The 2010 Winter Olympics (going on February 12–28) in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
FYI: The Olympic Torch Relay ends on the day of the opening ceremony in the central stadium of the Games. The final carrier is often kept unnoticed until the last moment, and is usually a sports celebrity of the host country. The final bearer of the torch runs towards the cauldron, often placed at the top of a grand staircase, and then uses the torch to start the flame in the stadium. After being lit, the flame continues to burn throughout the Olympics, and is extinguished on the day of the closing ceremony. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_Flame#Cauldron
NBC link to the Winter Olympics: www.nbcolympics.com/
ACC basketball action on Saturday…
http://www.theacc.com/sports/m-baskbl/acc-m-baskbl-body.html
Maryland @ Duke…1:00 PM
NC State @ North Carolina…4pm
Georgia Tech @ Wake Forest…8:00 PM
Virginia @ Virginia Tech…8:00 PM
The start of the 2010 NASCAR season: The Daytona 500 (1pm Sunday on FOX)
http://www.nascar.com/
