The Piedmont Environmental Council has announced the winning submissions for its annual photo contest, which saw nearly 80 professional and amateur photographers submit more than 600 images of the Virginia
it s this underground tunnel, and according to windsor police who we ve talked to on this show, they say this is all because of a bomb threat that was called in right around 12:30 local time. and so this tunnel has been evacuated. and this tunnel, there are 27 to 29,000 cars and trucks that use this artery each and every day. so this is a tremendous, tremendous deal. and we know that there are bomb teams in and around this tunnel, trying to find out if, in fact, this is, in fact, a bomb. i want to bring in lauren laughlin. she s with the coast guard public affairs. she joins me on the phone. and lauren, bring me up to speed, what do you know now as far as this bomb threat is concerned? as far as what s happening in the tunnel, i cannot speculate about. i know that the detroit bbp is taking care of that. as far as the coast guard s role in it, right now the coast guard has boats on the water that are deferring marine traffic to and from the areas of the tunnel for safety.
this legendary coach. the point being, they really appear flatfooted in their response in terms of the handling of the president. in terms of handling of joe paterno and offering any explanation. they had six months to try to get together some kind of a strategy and now they are hiring according to advertising age the organization out of new york to provide that role. it s too little, too late, but they are trying to get ahead of the curve. they officially made rod erickson the 17th president. he was the interim president at the beginning of the scandal and now he is officially the president of the university and perhaps he can help transition them into a better way to handle this publicly. more information will continue to come out on this. thank you very much. two big breaking stories. thanks, michael. a new report from the washington post said a think tank founded by newt gingrich