GOOD EVENING, AND THANKS FOR JOINING US... I'M CANDACE ADORKA.
THIS IS EYEWITNESS NEWS AT 11
JONES COUNTY DEPUTIES ARE STILL LOOKING INTO A FRIDAY NIGHT CRASH THAT KILLED ONE WOMAN FROM MILLEDGEVILLE... AND LANDED ANOTHER IN THE HOSPITAL.
ACCORDING TO ASSISTANT CORONER BILL WRIGHT... COURTNI CARSWELL DIED WHEN SHE DROVE HER HONDA ODESSEY INTO ON COMING TRAFFIC ON HIGHWAY 49.
SHE HIT A CHEVY SUBURBAN HEAD-ON.
WRIGHT SAYS KELLY RUTHERFORD FROM GRAY WAS DRIVING THE SUBURBAN... WITH HER TWO CHILDREN RIDING ALONG.
"I understand they were taken to the Medical Center, I'm not sure what hospital but I think she under went some surgery and is okay and the children were released the next day whithouy any serious injures"
WRIGHT SAYS RUTHERFORD HAD SURGERY FOR A DISLOCATED HIP... AND IS NOW RECOVERING, WHILE HER CHILDREN WERE TREATED FOR MINOR INJURIES.
HE SAYS DEPUTIES ARE STILL INVESTIGATING WHAT MIGHT HAVE CAUSED CARSWELL TO DRIFT INTO ONCOMING TRAFFIC
FIREFIGHTERS OUT WEST HAVE TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF IMPROVING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
COOLER TEMPERATURES AND RAIN HAVE HELPED CREWS MAKE STRIDES AGAINST THE WILDFIRES THAT HAVE SCORCHED HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF ACRES.
ON FRIDAY NIGHT IN COLORADO, FIRE OFFICIALS DECLARED THE STATE'S MOST DESTRUCTIVE WILDFIRE 98 PERCENT CONTAINED.
A 28-SQUARE-MILE FIRE THAT STARTED LATE LAST MONTH HAS DAMAGED OR DESTROYED NEARLY 350 HOMES... AND KILLED TWO PEOPLE... BUT COLORADO SPRINGS OFFICIALS SAY IT'S NOW SAFE FOR 126 MORE HOMEOWNERS TO RETURN.
CREWS HAVE ALSO MADE SOME HEADWAY IN A FIRE NEAR REDDING, CALIFORNIA...
AUTHORITIES SAY THE 12-HUNDRED-ACRE BLAZE IS NOW 60 PERCENT CONTAINED AFTER DESTROYING TWO OUTBUILDINGS AND DAMAGING FIVE HOMES.
MUCH OF THE COUNTRY CONTINUED TO BAKE SATURDAY.
A DEADLY HEATWAVE SENT TEMPERATURES RISING INTO TRIPLE-DIGITS IN MANY CITIES.
DREW LEVINSON HAS THE LATEST FROM NEW YORK CITY.
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People from the midwest to the east coast sweated through another blistering day.
(QUICK SOT) "I'M DRENCHED, I'VE BEEN OUT FOR TWO HOURS.
Temperatures soared into the triple-digits in many places including Philadelphia, 101 degrees, Saint Louis, 106.
(RTV) Washington D-C set a record for July 7-th when the mercury topped 105-degrees.
(:23-:29) (SOT LORRAINE HAWORTH, TOURIST FROM AUSTRALIA - RTV ) WHEN I CAME OUT OF THE AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM I'D NEVER FELT HEAT LIKE IT. IT JUST BURNT RIGHT THROUGH ME."
(:29-:41) (--STANDUP DREW LEVINSON REPORTING-- )
"THIS HEATWAVE HAS HEALTH OFFICIALS VERY CONCERNED. THE NEW YORK HEALTH DEPARTMENT URGED RESIDENTS TO AVOID STAYING OUTSIDE TOO LONG AND ASKED THEM TO CHECK ON THEIR NEIGHBORS, ESPECIALLY THE ELDERLY"
In Chicago , authorities say a 64-year-old woman apparenlty dropped dead from heat exhaustion inside her apartment. The heat is blamed for at least 30 deaths .
An air conditioner giveaway brought relief in Charlotte.
(:58-1:01) (SOT Antoinette Davis) IT'S BEEN ABOUT 100 IN MY HOUSE, YES AND I'VE BEEN.. IT'S BEEN SO MISERABLE.
In West Virginia police and firefighters handed out water and ice to people who have been without electricity for nearly a week due to storms that raced through the area.
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In New York some sought refuge in city fountains.
Deborah Lederman tried to lick the heat with ice cream.
(1:18-1:22) (SOT Deborah Lederman) THE ICE CREAM HELPS, AND OF COURSE BEING AROUND MY FANTASTIC FAMILY BECAUSE THEY ARE COOL AND HIP.
Saturday night, storms started moving in - forecasters say they'll help bring temperatures back down to near normal levels.
NEARLY 240 CITIES SET ALL TIME HIGHS OVER THE PAST 30 DAYS... INCLUDING SEVERAL AROUND GEORIGA
OVERNIGHT FLOODING IN SOUTHERN PARTS OF RUSSIA... HAS CLAIMED THE LIVES OF OVER 100 PEOPLE.
ACCORDING TO RUSSIAN NEWS AGENCIES THE OVERNIGHT RAINS DUMPED AS MUCH AS 11 INCHES OF WATER...
AND THAT FORCED MANY TO TAKE REFUGE IN TREES OR ON THE ROOFTOPS OF HOUSES.
THE FLOODING HAS SUBMERGED STREETS... RIPPED OUT TRAFFIC LIGHTS... AND STRANDED VEHICLES.
OFFICIALS HAVE CALLED IT THE WORST DISASTER IN THE REGION IN DECADES.
POLLS IN LIBYA HAVE CLOSED... MARKING AN END TO A HISTORIC DAY IN LIBYA...
THE COUNTRY VOTED IN ITS FIRST DEMOCRATIC ELECTION IN OVER 40 YEARS.
THE VOTE FOR A 200-SEAT LEGISLATURE IS THE COUNTRY'S FIRST MAJOR STEP TOWARDS A NEW GOVERNMENT SINCE AN UPRISING OUSTED DICTATOR MOAMMAR GADHAFI.
THE RESULTS WILL NAME A PRIME MINISTER AND PAVE THE WAY FOR PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS IN 2013.
A FULL PRELIMINARY COUNT IS NOT EXPECTED UNTIL MONDAY AT THE EARLIEST.
WHILE SOME CELEBRATED IN THE VOTING... OTHERS BOYCOTTED THE ELECTION... QUESTIONING IT'S AUTHENTICITY.
BUT THE U-N SPECIAL ENVOY TO LIBYA SAYS HE BELIEVES IN THE CREDIBILITY OF THE ELECTION.
"Well it will be up to the election commission to decide whether and when there can be re-runs in places where that hasn't been possible. But, I think we can see already that the problems are in a small enough proportion of the polling centers, that it is not going to undermine the overall credibility of the election."
THE LAST TIME LIBYA HELD A MULTI-PARTY NATIONAL ELECTION WAS IN 1952... UNDER THE REIGN OF KING IDRIS.
GEORGIA'S IMMIGRATION LAW WILL MAKE ITS WAY BACK TO COURT SOON.
THE STATE, AND OTHER GROUPS CHALLENGING THE LEGISLATION, FILED NEW ARGUMENTS ON FRIDAY WITH THE 11TH U-S CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS.
THE STATE SAYS THE SUPREME COURT SHOULD UPHOLD GEORGIA'S LAW BASED ON ITS RULING ON ARIZONA'S LAW.
LAST MONTH...THE NATION'S HIGH COURT UPHELD PORTIONS OF ARIZONA'S LAW, INCLUDING THE PROVISION THAT ALLOWS OFFICERS TO QUESTION SUSPECTED ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS..
BUT JUSTICES STRUCK DOWN THESE OTHER PARTS...
REQUIRING IMMIGRANTS TO CARRY REGISTRATION PAPERS...
MAKING IT A CRIMINAL OFFENSE FOR AN ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT TO LOOK FOR WORK OR HOLD A JOB.
AND ALLOWING POLICE TO ARREST SUSPECTED ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS WITHOUT WARRANTS...
WE TALKED TO MERCER UNIVERSITY LAW PROFESSOR DAVID OEDEL BY PHONE LAST NIGHT TO GET HIS THOUGHTS ON THE LAW.
"Ga's law does not make it a crime to work as an illegal alien, rather what Ga's law does is to encourage the employers to go out there and comply with the law, so that's a different thing and ga's doesn't make it a misdemeanor to be an illegal alien"
OEDEL SAYS IT COULD TAKE THE CASE UP TO A YEAR TO MOVE THROUGH THE COURTS.
SOME BIG NEWS IN THE WORLD OF PHYSICS...
SCIENTISTS AT THE LARGE HADRON (HAH-dron) COLLIDER IN SWITZERLAND ANNOUNCED THIS WEEK THAT THEY'RE 99 PERCENT SURE THEY FOUND THE HIGGS BOSON (BOW-zawn) PARTICLE.
PETER HIGGS -- NOW 83 -- THEORIZED THE PARTICLE MUST EXIST... IN ORDER FOR THE UNIVERSE... AND EVERYTHING IN IT.... TO HAVE MASS.
MASS... PLUS GRAVITY... GIVES OBJECTS WEIGHT... AND SCIENTISTS SAY WITHOUT IT... PARTICLES WOULDN'T HOLD TOGETHER, AND THE UNIVERSE WOULDN'T EXIST.
SO USING THE COLLIDER... THEY'VE BEEN BLASTING BITS OF ATOMS AT EACH OTHER... AND MEASURING THE EVEN TINIER BITS THE COLLISIONS PRODUCE... LOOKING FOR THE ILLUSIVE HIGGS BOSON (BOW-zawn).
UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE PHYSICS PROFESSOR STEFAN SPANIER... WORKED ON THE PROJECT BY ASSISTING WITH DATA ANLYSIS.
WE SPOKE WITH HIM EARLIER TODAY VIA SKYPE.
HE SAYS YOU CAN THINK OF THE PARTICLE'S DISCOVERY AS A KIND OF... NEW FRONTIER.
It's similar to a time or situation with Columbus set out with a map. He had a model to come to India, and then he decided to prove, or, to check is the model really right by driving the other way around and he's standing on land?
We're pretty much right now standing on land. We just don't know if we've reached India and the model worked nicely and we have a good understanding. Or even more and we've discovered America and now it's really - what else is there?
SPANIER SAYS HE AND HIS TEAM ARE EXCITED FOR THE NEXT STEP AT CERN... AND HE HOPES THIS DISCOVERY WILL LEAD TO A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF OUR WORLD.
HERE'S A STORY YOU MIGHT FIND UNDER THE "WATERCOOLER" SECTION ON 13WMAZ DOT COM...
A MAN TOOK OUT A LIGHT POLE THIS EVENING IN MACON... AFTER A SNEEZING FIT CAUSED HIM TO CRASH.
HE WOULD'T GIVE HIS NAME... BUT HE SAID AS HE DROVE DOWN GRAY HIGHWAY... HE BEGAN TO SNEEZE OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
SO MUCH SO... HE LOST CONTROL OF HIS CAR... AND RAN OFF THE ROAD AND INTO THE LIGHT POLE THAT SITS IN FRONT OF EL SOMBRERO.
THE POLE FELL ONTO SOME CARS IN THE PARKING LOT... BUT NO ONE WAS HURT.
THE DRIVER SAID HE WAS VERY EMBARASSED BY WHAT HAPPENED... BUT IS GLAD NO ONE WAS INJURED.
MORE THAN 100 PEOPLE CAME OUT TO BETHSADA BAPTIST CHURCH IN DUBLIN TO HONOR A LOCAL HERO.
THEY DEDICATED A STRETCH OF HIGHWAY 80 TO LIEUTENANT KELSO HORNE WHO FOUGHT IN WORLD WAR-2.
HORNE WAS ASSIGNED TO THE 508TH PARACHUTE REGIMENT... HE'S ONE OF THE SOLDIERS DROPPED BEHIND ENEMY LINES IN THE NORMANDY INVASION.
VIDEO JOURNALISTKIMBERLY BURDEN SHOWS YOU HOW DECADES LATER... THE COMMUNITY GATHERED TO SAY THANK YOU.
AFTER THE WAR, HORNE RETURNED TO LAURENS COUNTY WHERE HE WORKED FOR THE UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE.
HE PASSED AWAY IN 2-THOUSAND ON NOVEMBER 25 AT THE AGE OF 88.
THE 13 WMAZ APP ISN'T JUST FOR I-PHONE USERS ANYMORE.
YOU CAN NOW GET IT ON YOUR ANDROID.
ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS SEARCH FOR W-M-A-Z IN THE GOOGLE PLAY STORE... OR THE ANDROID MARKET... WHICHEVER IS ON YOUR PHONE.
ONCE YOU DOWNLOAD AND INSTALL THE APP... YOU CAN SCROLL THROUGH STORIES... KEEP UP WITH THE WEATHER... AND WATCH LOCAL VIDEO.
AGAIN... THAT'S IN THE GOOGLE PLAY STORE AND THE ANDROID MARKET.
IT'S NOT EASY TO TRANSITION FROM CATCHER TO PITCHER... OR SO COURTNEY TELLS ME... BUT A GREAT-GRAND MOTHER DID IT FLAWLESSLY DURING A BASEBALL GAME IN CALIFORNIA
THE CROWD CHEERED AS 92- YEAR OLD ANNE KENYON THREW OUT THE FIRST PITCH DURING TODAY'S GAME IN SAN JOSE.
JUST LAST MONTH... SHE WOWED THE CROWD WHEN SHE BRAVELY CAUGHT A FOUL BALL.
Anne kenyon- "i saw the ball coming up and i looked up and i said oh gosh, thats going to come right down on my head. So i moved over a couple inches and i automatically put my hand out and the ball just fell in my hand"