Good morning,
Our new meteorologist, Robb Ellis, predicted this weather last night. Wish he had been wrong, but I’ve been following his forecasts and he’s not wrong very often.
Reporter Gavin Johnson is heading right now to a small house fire in Wilmington. He’s also working on a story about local residents going to Washington for Barack Obama’s inauguration one week from today.
Reporter Laura Sinacori is in Elizabethtown, covering the apparent murder of a teenager after a basketball game. Look for the latest information on that on the news at noon. I hear anchor Kim Ratcliff talking to Laura on the phone behind my desk. Sounds like Laura has just confirmed the name of the victim.
WECT General Manager Gary McNair has commentary tonight on a stinky subject. That airs on the news at 6.
Reporter Lynda Figueredo is working on a piece documenting what’s changed in the one year since the headline-grabbing murder one year ago of a pregnant Camp Lejeune Marine. That also airs on the news tonight.
That’s a quick look at my last Tuesday on the job here. Tooting my own horn now…but here’s a link to a story about that in today’s Star News…