Evan Pearce

WKNJ Newscast
Date 12/12/16

Good afternoon, its Monday, December 12th, 2016 at _______oclock and youre
listening to 90.3 WKNJ-FM, Union, New Jersey, and Im _____________ with the news.

In Local News
Attorney Jessi Gottlieb Empestan plans to organize female New Jersey Citizens to join an
upcoming Womens March on Washington, in protest of Donald Trump being elected
president. Jessi Gottlieb Empestan, an attorney who lives in South Orange, has been an
active organizer for the Women's March on Washington, filling 14 buses with people
planning to attend the event on Jan. 21, the day after President-elect Donald Trump's
inauguration. Empestan is not alone in her cause. Viewing the march as a chance to
project both unity and dissatisfaction after a year of vitriol and polarization, organizers
across New Jersey and the nation are rallying women-- and in many cases men -- to
descend on the capital the day after Trump's inauguration.

Source: nj.com

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In Clifton New Jersey, a twenty-year old man accused of killing a twenty-one-year-old

man outside of a liquor store, has accepted a plea deal, on Friday, that will have the man
incarcerated for 10 years in prison. The man in question, Owen Soltis, has pleaded guilty
to charges of aggravated manslaughter. This was in connection to the shooting of twentyone-year-old Leandro Mendoza on October 15th, 2015. The shooting took place outside of
Lexington Liquors on Lexington Avenue in Clifton.
Soltis had been charged, initially, with first degree murder of Mendoza, but the sentence,
which could have potentially carried a minimum of thirty years in prison under that
charge, was reduced to aggravated manslaughter after Soltis pleaded guilty to driving
three younger associates to Mendoza, knowing they would then shoot and kill him.

Source: nj.com

In National News
Christmas is here, and with it snow and lots of it.
With snow storms descending in the Midwest on Sunday night, more than 1,600 flights
were cancelled at airports in both Chicago and Detroit. Across the entire country, over
2,000 flights were delayed, according to FlightAware, though that does not mean all of
them were due to the inclement weather.
The storm accumulated over a foot of snow in parts of Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, South
Dakota and Wisconsin, this is according to the Weather Channel. With this storm brought
temperature drops. Experts say some areas of the Midwest and Northeast facing drops up
to 30 degrees below average.

Source: Nbc News

With the recent findings by the CIA of an attempt by Russia to sway the election in favor
of Donald Trump, the President-Elect himself has weighed in on the news recently stating
that the idea of it is ridiculous. The comments made by Trump towards the CIA were
not taken lightly by CIA officials, one such official responded by stating Trumps
comment "is contrary to all that is sacred to national security professionals who work day
and night to protect this country. He then went on to say that the president-elect has
chosen to "impugn the integrity of U.S. intelligence officials". It is clear that Trumps
comments did not go down well with intelligence officials.

Source: Nbc News

In International News
The U.S. aircraft company Boeing has made a deal with Iran to sell the country 80 planes
in a 16-billion-dollar deal. The deal is said to support tens of thousands of new U.S jobs
as well as Iranian ones. And while several Republicans, including President- Elect
Donald Trump, have criticized the Iranian Nuclear Deal which has allowed Boeing to
make this transaction, but it is unknown whether or not they would try to destroy the
agreement reached with Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China.

Source: Nbc News

More news, sports, and weather coming up

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In Sports
The Packers take a hit
During their game against the Seahawks, Packers quarterback Aaron Rogers injured his
calf during the game on the first third down play of the game. Rogers believes that it
happened due to compensating for a hamstring he injured 13 days ago against the
Eagles. Rogers was in high spirits despite the injury after their win and says hell have
a long week of rehab before next Sundays game at Chicago.

Source: Nbc Sports

Your WKNJ hourly weather update

Right now on the campus of Kean University, it is _____________. Highs___
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Tune in later for meteorology reports on 90.3 FM.

In Entertainment.
Adding to its already impressive accolades, the films Moonlight, one of this years Oscar
frontrunners, was named best film of the year by the Toronto Film Critics Association.
The Canadian Critics voted on Sunday for their annual film completion and announced
the winners by live-tweeting them. It was a big win for the Barry Jenkins directed drama
about a gay black boy growing up in the hard streets of Miami. The film also garnered the
Best Supporting Actor Award for Mahershala Alis performance in the film. Among other
films honored were the Casey Affleck led Manchester by the Sea for Best Supporting
Actress (Michelle Williams) as well as Best Screenplay and the Jim Jarmusch directed
Paterson for Best Actor (Adam Driver). The awards will be formally handed out in
January of 2017.

Source: Hollywood Reporter

Thats it for your news. Youre listening to 90.3 WKNJ-FM, Union, New Jersey. Im
_____________________ and well be right back after this.
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