The Triad is under a Code Orange Air Quality Alert again today
Your WBFJ Family Station Forecast: Sunny and HOT…High near 100
The Record HIGH for today…98 degrees set back in 1977
Heat Wave: The Northeast faces a fourth day of record-breaking heat. Triple digits from Richmond, Virginia to Boston, Mass.
The 4-year-old Missouri girl that was abducted from her front yard Monday evening has been found alive. 4 year old, Alisa Maier, was discovered 85 miles away from her home…walking at a car wash around 11:15pm last night. Authorities are still searching for the driver of a dark colored car with a loud muffler. www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/07/07/missouri.abducted.child/index.html?eref=ib_us
It may soon cost you 2 cents more to mail your letters and cards. The postal service wants to increase the price of a First Class stamp to 46 cents. If approved the increase would take affect next January.
The US Justice Department has filing a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Arizona's new law targeting illegal immigrants. Attorney General Eric Holder saying that setting immigration policy and enforcing immigration laws is a national responsibility. Arizona's two Republican senators, Jon Kyl and John McCain, issued a joint statement saying the administration is failing "to protect the people of Arizona from the violence and crime illegal immigration brings to our state." http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NGM1ZTQ1NTk0NjRlNmNiN2U2MDA3MTFiNGJiZmY0MGI=
Crews are still searching for a plane that made an emergency landing on Lake Norman in Iredell County last night. The pilot, who was flying from Greensboro to Lake Norman, reported engine problems before it crashed into the lake off Morrison Farm Road. Good news: The pilot was able to get out of the single engine plane before it sank. www.myfox8.com/news/wghp-story-iredell-plane-100707,0,6176468.story
The Yadkin River bridge project gets the green light. Construction on the I-85/Yadkin River bridge project will begin this October with completion set for January 2013, about eight months earlier than anticipated.
Oil from the ruptured BP well in the Gulf of Mexico is seeping into Lake Pontchartrain north of New Orleans. Back in 2005, Hurricane Katrina knocked out seafood docks and lakeside restaurants in 2005. Also, Tar balls from the spill also washed up on Texas beaches over the holiday weekend, meaning the disaster now touches all five Gulf Coast states, spanning more than 500 miles of coastline. http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100707/D9GQ5VFG2.html
SPORTS
The World Cup soccer action (Johannesburg, South Africa) The Netherlands advance to the title game. They will play the winner of today’s match-up: Spain vs Germany. www.fifa.com
MLB: Bizarre ‘fall’ at the Rangers / Indians game. A man was hospitalized after falling 30 feet after losing his balance trying to catch a foul ball yesterday. The man fell on top of four fans on a lower level causing minor injuries to them.
Minor League Baseball: The Winston-Salem Dash back at home tonight to play the Myrtle Beach Pelicans. www.wsdash.com
