PRODUCER KOURTNEY CHRISTOPHER PAIGE
ANCHOR DR. SUNNY FRIDGE
1. Holiday work will be available soon at some of the nations biggest retailers.
2. And, a 4 year old kills a 3 week old in a van accident.
3. Also a Greenwood Native receives his very own Marker.
Good Afternoon, I’m Sunny Fridge, and this is WJSU News Now…59 Degrees and Fair Skies at this hour, we’ll have the latest details on your forecast, Today in Weather.
But, First at this Hour… The holiday hiring picture looks a bit merrier this year. And, It’s Our Top Story on the News Update at Noon.
Macy's, Toys R Us, Pier 1 and Borders all plan to hire more temporary holiday workers this year than last, emboldened by several months of sales gains and a slowly improving economy.
The jobs probably won't be enough to be a dent in the nation's nearly 10 percent unemployment rate, but for Americans desperate for some work, they're far more than an early Christmas present.
Retailers overall will add between 550,000 and 650,000 jobs this holiday season, according to a forecast from the national outsourcing firm Challenger, Gray and Christmas. The firm expects hiring to increase over the nearly 502,000 temporary jobs retailers added last year between October and December.
In Other News…New England is feeling the brunt of torrential downpours from a faded tropical storm that claimed five lives further south. It’s News Across America at this Hour.
The weather also snarled air, road and train traffic in the New York City area this morning. Motorists and pedestrians there coped with sheets of rain, poor visibility, slick roads and strong wind gusts.
As it moved along the East Coast yesterday, the storm washed out roads, knocked out power and doused some cities with more rain in hours than they normally get in months. Five people, including four family members, were killed in traffic accidents in North Carolina. Jacksonville, North Carolina took on 12 inches of rain in six hours — nearly a quarter of its typical annual rainfall.
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Police say a 4-year-old boy in Texas managed to start a van then run over a woman and her 3-week-old child, killing the newborn.
Police Commander Chris Havens says the mother was hospitalized after the accident Thursday night in Burleson, 10 miles south of Fort Worth. Havens did not identify those involved in the accident nor provide details of the mother's condition.
He says the 4-year-old climbed behind the wheel of the vehicle, started the van and put it in gear. He had a 5-year-old passenger.
Police say the woman saw what was happening and ran outside with her baby in her arms to try to stop the van.
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A police officer says two car bombings in Nigeria's capital have killed at least seven people during an event celebrating the country's 50th independence anniversary. It’s International News Right Now.
The officer told The Associated Press that at least one police officer was among those who died in the blast. He spoke on condition of anonymity as he was not authorized to talk with reporters. A witness told the AP that one car detonated, and then another exploded five minutes later, killing those who had gathered around it.
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Authorities say an 85-year-old Boonville man faces a charge of possession of moonshine. The Mississippi Alcoholic Beverage Control and Prentiss County Sheriff's Office searched Ruben Walker Martin's property Sept. 29 and said officers found 30 gallons of moonshine.
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Authorities say a Tupelo dentist who had been missing since Sunday has been found dead in Alabama, the victim in an apparent car accident. Dr. Thurmond Beasley was 67. Beasley was driving home from a visit with relatives in Georgia when the one-vehicle wreck occurred.
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The Forrest County Board of Supervisors has issued a burn ban for all of Forrest County. County officials say over the next few days the National Weather Service has predicted the relative humidity values to range from 20 to 25 percent and expected wind gusts from 15 to 25 mph.
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And, Finally This Afternoon… Electric guitarist Eddie Lee "Guitar Slim" Jones is being honored with the 114th marker on the Mississippi Blues Trail. The marker will be placed on the Four Fifths Plantation on the site of the tract formerly known as Race Track Plantation, on Leflore County Road 101 near Greenwood.
The Greenwood native was best known for his classic recording "Things That I Used to Do." The recording was produced in New Orleans by Johnny Vincent with Ray Charles sitting in on piano. It was the biggest rhythm and blues hit of 1954 and one of the three top R&B records of the entire '50s decade, according to Billboard magazine.
Jones died at the age of 32 on February 7th, 1959.
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And, Now Your First Look at Weather This Friday Afternoon and the beginning of the first Weekend in October.
We've enjoyed perfect recreational weather at the expense of a lack of moisture and rainfall during the month of September. At this time we are under Red Flag warning and Fire Weather Watch.
For this Afternoon a High of 84 and a Low of 48. Saturday we will see a High of 81, Low’s temperature of 48 degrees and on Sunday a modest High of 77and a Low of 45 degrees. The Weekend promises to be Sunny and Windy.
I’m Sunny Fridge and this is W-J-S-U News Now, Coming Up Later Today it’s the News Now Update at Five P-M with L-A Warren and the Newsteam…Have a terrific afternoon and stay with us for the best in Jazz…On Cool and Current W-J-S-U. Jackson State University, “A Bridge to a Brighter Tomorrow.”
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