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Dick Kernen, a giant of Michigan broadcasting who boosted the careers of countless familiar on-air voices and faces, died of natural causes Friday at home in Dearborn, his family confirmed. He was 82. Kernen, who started with WXYZ-AM in the 50s and helped form WRIF-FM in the 70s, was vice president of industry relations at the Specs Howard School of Media Arts in Southfield, where he had worked since 1972. A 2003 Michigan Broadcasting Hall of Fame inductee, Kernen was a guiding hand both inside and outside Specs Howard to some of the best-known names on the local airwaves in recent decades, having worked closely with the likes of Arthur Penhallow, Glenda Lewis, Carmen Harlan, Charlie Langton, Amy Andrews, Joe Wade Formicola and more. ....
good evening. one local official in tennessee called it a whole mess of water. that s exactly what it is. this is historic flooding, surging down the mississippi now. and it bears repeating. the water is flowing at the rate of 2 million cubic feet per second. the raging river flowing through eight states, three of them hardest hit. that includes tributaries and creeks that run off the mississippi. they re trying to manage and contain the water, in some cases using what was built after the last big one, the 1927 flood, when hundreds of people died in the south. and they re working hundreds of miles in advance, where the river is cresting because there s so much water behind it moving down river. we have two reports tonight. we begin our coverage again tonight in memphis, and nbc s janet shamlian. janet, good evening. reporter: brian, good evening to you. the mississippi crested here just below 48 feet. officially the second worst flood in the city s history. it s now f ....
good evening. one local official in tennessee called it a whole mess of water. that s exactly what it is. this is historic flooding, surging down the mississippi now. and it bears repeating. the water is flowing at the rate of 2 million cubic feet per second. the raging river flowing through eight states, three of them hardest hit. that includes tributaries and creeks that run off the mississippi. they re trying to manage and contain the water, in some cases using what was built after the last big one, the 1927 flood, when hundreds of people died in the south. and they re working hundreds of miles in advance, where the river is cresting because there s so much water behind it moving down river. we have two reports tonight. we begin our coverage again tonight in memphis, and nbc s janet shamlian. janet, good evening. reporter: brian, good evening to you. the mississippi crested here just below 48 feet. officially the second worst flood in the city s history. it s now f ....
good evening. one local official in tennessee called it a whole mess of water. that s exactly what it is. this is historic flooding, surging down the mississippi now. and it bears repeating. the water is flowing at the rate of 2 million cubic feet per second. the raging river flowing through eight states, three of them hardest hit. that includes tributaries and creeks that run off the mississippi. they re trying to manage and contain the water, in some cases using what was built after the last big one, the 1927 flood, when hundreds of people died in the south. and they re working hundreds of miles in advance, where the river is cresting because there s so much water behind it moving down river. we have two reports tonight. we begin our coverage again tonight in memphis, and nbc s janet shamlian. janet, good evening. reporter: brian, good evening to you. the mississippi crested here just below 48 feet. officially the second worst flood in the city s history. it s now f ....