April 5, 2021 By Mike Kruzman / news@whmi.com
A national cable network is shining a light on a local charity to help bring in fundraising dollars that will support their cause.
Every year, the Home Shopping Network selects 30 charities for their HSN Cares campaign, featuring each one for a full day in April. On Thursday, their focus will be on The Torch. The Torch is a Fowlerville-based non-profit founded by Sarah Ruddle and Rhonda Callahan that works to get food to people who need it while serving them with dignity and respect. For being selected, The Torch will receive a $1,000 donation and be featured on-air, Thursday, at 7am, noon, 6pm and 11pm. Additionally, HSN will match donations through their Community Giving page for up to $1,000 individually, to a total of $5,000. In a joint statement, the founders said they are humbly grateful for the donation and will use it to continue providing free groceries to people in need across mid-Michigan.
that could be five times higher than bp and the coast guard have estimated. officials say they re cautiously optimistic about bp s attempt to choke off the gusher by plugging it with mud and cement. but the oil giant may not know until late tomorrow whether it worked. we begin our coverage tonight with jay gray live from venice, louisiana. jay? reporter: hey there, doreen. as you know, the president traveled here tomorrow, his second time since the spill. amid growing frustrations and questions about the recovery operation. many of those now squarely focused on the top kill effort, the seal of the well. there are reports tonight bp is again pumping thick mud into the fractured well. after starting the top kill yesterday afternoon, bp executives talked about progress throughout the day. it started this morning on the today show. the team worked through the night. we re pressuring up and pumping into the well. reporter: updates continued through the afternoon. top kil
here s a look at our radar. no precipitation. lingering showers and thunder over the lower eastern shore. we still have, though, a flood watch in effect and some flood warning down through right around the southern blue ridge where they had heavy downpours overnight. some creeks and streams may be rather high. right now generally in the 60s around the region. out in the mountains in the 50s. low 60s on the eastern shore where they are getting some of that rain now. here s what s been happening over the last 12 hours. can you see those storms that came through. they are way off to our 0 south and east. behind that some breaks in the clouds and that full moon in the western sky. as the day progresses we might get an afternoon thunderstorm popping up or a passing shower. before that, we ought to make it up into the upper 70s. more showers tonight. linger into early saturday morning. sun back saturday afternoon with highs around 80. heating up on sunday and memorial day. now, ash