A New Year and a new list of 5 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW
1. It is a race against time to find survivors of this weekend’s 7.5 magnitued earthquake in Japan. In total Japan was hit with 155 quakes in one day. At last report the death toll was 48 and is expected to climb.
2. Ready, Set, Shop for groceries. With a new year comes a small savings on your grocery bill here in Kansas as the grocery tax was cut from 4 percent to 2 percent.
https://www.kake.com/story/50292529/shoppers-react-to-drop-in-kansas-grocery-tax
3. Monday it’s #2 Washington v #1 Michigan in the College Football Championship in Houston. Washington outlasted Texas in the Sugar Bowl to advance and Michigan needed overtime to put Alabama away. The other big college football story was ESPN doing a live shot on boubon street where a woman flashed the live shot. Apparently it was ESPN’s first time in New Orleans.
4. Move over Elvis, Taylor Swift is the new record holder for the most weeks spent at number one on Billboard’s Top 200 album chart. Taylor’s album “1989 (Taylor’s Version) has now been #1 for 68 weeks.
5. and A cargo ship carrying batteries floats ablaze near Alaska and is being kept off shore for safety reasons. I person was quoted as saying, “I don’t get it, the ship is in the water, they’re spraying water on the fire, but it just keeps going and going and going.
and THAT’S TRENDING.
