From Rhonda Walker: Alas true relief from the heat! I’ll admit I like it hot and summer is my favorite season, but temps in the 100s made it hard to do anything outdoors including my favorite hobby, golf. Wednesday is my girls’ night out golf league at Detroit Golf Club and I’ve missed it all summer due to my medical leave, so I’m really looking forward to playing with my girls for the first time this season. I’m also looking forward to my 9th annual Give and Get Fit Health and Fitness event on the Detroit Riverfront to support inner city teens this Sunday morning. I hope to see you there and you can still register for our 5k run/walk and 10k, it’s so much fun and the weather will be great for a morning of exercise.
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Here's what's coming up Wednesday, July 24th, 2019 on Local 4 News Today.
All Morning -- Wonderful Wednesday Weather
Wednesday looks wonderful all day. We may start with some fog as morning lows dip into the 50s after those showers late Tuesday. The sunshine will help us into the 80s and the winds will be lighter WNW 5-12 mph, so the humidity is still on the comfy side.
- You can get the full forecast here.
Also, our Kim DeGiulio will help you get around any potential trouble on the roads all morning.
- Check traffic conditions in your neighborhood here.
All Morning -- NAACP National Convention
Presidential candidates, movers and shakers from Washington and more big names are in Detroit this week for the annual event, which hasn't been held in the Motor City since 2007. Wednesday is the final day and it's a BIG one!
A Democratic presidential candidates forum will be held Wednesday from 8 a.m. to noon. Here's who is expected to be there:
- Joe Biden
- Cory Booker
- Julian Castro
- Kamala Harris
- Amy Klobuchar
- Beto O'Rourke
- Bernie Sanders
- Elizabeth Warren
We'll have complete coverage of the big day.
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6:40 a.m. -- Wellness Wednesday: Water Warning
If you're heading up north, or just wading in a local lake, there's a warning you need to hear. Dr. Frank McGeorge has what you need to know to avoid an itchy rash and how you can help protect others.
6:45 a.m. -- Vote 4 The Best
All week on Local 4 News Today, we're revealing your picks for the best things across Metro Detroit in our Vote 4 the Best competition. Wednesday, we'll reveal the best coffee in our area (and working on the morning shift, we all know how important coffee can be!)
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Today's Trivia Retake
Every morning at 6 a.m., we ask you a trivia question on Local 4 for a chance to win a prize.
- Tuesday Question: Michael Phelps is the most decorated Olympian of all-time. How many medals did he win?
- Answer: 28
- Be sure to watch daily at 6 a.m. and click this link to enter for a chance to win.
Today's Quiz
National Days: July 24th
- National Thermal Engineer Day
- National Tequila Day
- National Drive-Thru Day
- National Cousins Day
- National Amelia Earhart Day
A Look Back at History: July 24th
- In 1862, Martin Van Buren, the eighth president of the United States, and the first to have been born a U.S. citizen, died at age 79 in Kinderhook, New York, the town where he was born in 1782.
- In 1866, Tennessee became the first state to be readmitted to the Union after the Civil War.
- In 1937, the state of Alabama dropped charges against four of the nine young black men accused of raping two white women in the “Scottsboro Case.”
- In 1969, the Apollo 11 astronauts — two of whom had been the first men to set foot on the moon — splashed down safely in the Pacific.
- In 1974, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Richard Nixon had to turn over subpoenaed White House tape recordings to the Watergate special prosecutor.
- In 1987, Hulda Crooks, a 91-year-old mountaineer from California, became the oldest woman to conquer Mount Fuji, Japan’s highest peak.
- In 2005, Lance Armstrong won his seventh consecutive Tour de France. (Those wins were stripped away after Armstrong’s 2013 confession to using steroids and other banned performance-enhancing drugs and methods.)
- In 2008, Ford Motor Co. posted the worst quarterly performance in its history, losing $8.67 billion.
Celebrity Birthdays: July 24th
Celebrating a birthday Wednesday? Submit a Sunshine Award here and we could say your name on Local 4 News Today during our 5 a.m. show.
Here's who you're sharing a birthday with --
- Actor John Aniston (“Days of Our Lives”) is 86.
- Comedian Ruth Buzzi is 83.
- Actor Mark Goddard (“Lost in Space”) is 83.
- Actor Chris Sarandon is 77.
- Comedian Gallagher is 73.
- Actor Robert Hays (“Airplane!”) is 72.
- Actor Michael Richards (“Seinfeld”) is 70.
- Actress Lynda Carter is 68.
- Country singer Pam Tillis is 62.
- Actor Kadeem Hardison (“A Different World”) is 54.
- Actress-singer Kristin Chenoweth is 51.
- Actress-singer Jennifer Lopez is 50.
- Director Patty Jenkins (“Wonder Woman”) is 48.
- Actress Rose Byrne is 40.
- Country singer Jerrod Neimann is 40.
- Actress Elisabeth Moss is 37.
- Actress Anna Paquin is 37.