Good Morning! Thursday August 20th 2009

6am Headlines

U.S. life expectancy has risen to a new high, now standing at nearly 78 years, the government reported Wednesday.

The increase is due mainly to falling death rates in almost all the leading causes of death. The average life expectancy for babies born in 2007 is nearly three months greater than for children born in 2006.

The new U.S. data is a preliminary report based on about 90 percent of the death certificates collected in 2007


A Cape May beach is still closed as of Wednesday night after raw sewage from a storm drains flowed into the ocean water.

Testing showed bacteria levels were still too high for swimmers.
On Monday night, more than 1,000 gallons of raw sewage made its way into the surf area of Ocean Street and the beach.

Officials say the beach will reopen when water tests show that the bacteria levels have returned to acceptable limits.


6am

John Edwards will move the mother of his love child into his North Carolina neighborhood so he can help raise their 18-month-old baby, the National Enquirer reported Wednesday.

The Enquirer also reported that Elizabeth Edwards, who is stricken with cancer, was furious when her husband told her of his parenting plans.


Hurricane Bill howled over the open Atlantic as a dangerous Category 4 storm Wednesday, and it could be energized by warmer waters as it moves north.

Forecasters said Bill should begin pushing large swells toward Bermuda and parts of the southeastern U.S. coast by the weekend, but it wasn't yet clear how close the storm will come to land.