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Beyoncé fans are praising Sheila Watko, a reporter for NBC10 in Philadelphia, after she incorporated numerous references to the singer’s notable discography on-air during a traffic report earlier this week. While reporting about local roadways on Tuesday, Watko effortlessly delivered mentions of the tracks “Partition”, “Break My Soul” and more.
“If you’re just waking up, I hope you had some sweet dreams but traffic is getting heated,” she said during the segment. “We’ve had a formation of traffic cones all morning in the westbound Pennsylvania Turnpike between Bensalem and Fort Washington. That’s still blocking two right lanes, so you might want to move over to the left, to the left.”
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The Beyhive, including Beyoncé’s mother Tina Knowles, was living for Watko’s masterpiece. Knowles re-shared a clip of the news reporter’s segment on Instagram, writing, “This Soo cool !! All Song tittles [sic].”
Many fans applauded Watko’s “smooth” and “creative” delivery in the comment section of Knowles’ post.
“She killed it!!!” one user exclaimed, while another wrote, “This was one of the greatest things I’ve ever seen.”
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According to Watko, she originally wanted to integrate her Beyoncé references into a report on July 29, when the singer dropped her new Renaissance album, but, due to a crash that day, she “had to keep it serious.”
“Traffic this morning was *jumpin’, jumpin’* so I had to pay tribute to Queen Bey’s latest album,” Watko captioned a clip of her Aug. 2 segment on Instagram. “I was also running on 4 hours of sleep this
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Zafar reported in a tweet Sunday.“Following the attack on Friday, my father remains in critical condition in hospital receiving extensive ongoing medical treatment. We are extremely relieved that yesterday he was taken off the ventilator and additional oxygen and he was able to say a few words,” Rushdie began.“Though his life changing injuries are severe, his usual feisty & defiant sense of humor remains intact.
Associated Press.No further details of his condition were released.The attack occurred Friday at western New York’s Chautauqua Institution, where Rushdie was to deliver a lecture about the United States being a safe haven for exiled writers when a man rushed the stage and began to stab him repeatedly in the neck and abdomen. He was airlifted to a hospital in Pennsylvania, where he underwent emergency surgery.
announced Saturday.“The individual responsible for the attack yesterday, Hadi Matar, has now been formally charged with Attempted Murder in the Second Degree and Assault in the Second Degree,” Chautauqua County District Attorney Jason Schmidt said in a statement.The 24-year-old Fairview, New Jersey, resident is being held without bail at Chautauqua County Jail.Rushdie was giving a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution in western New York when the suspect rushed the stage and stabbed him in the neck and abdomen. He was airlifted to a Pennsylvania hospital, where he underwent surgery for several hours on Friday afternoon.Later that evening, Rushdie’s agent, Andrew Wylie, reported that the 75-year-old novelist was on a ventilator and could not speak.
New York Times Friday evening. “The news is not good,” Wylie said via email. “Salman will likely lose one eye; the nerves in his arm were severed; and his liver was stabbed and damaged.” Rushdie, who is 75, remains hospitalized in Pennsylvania, where he as airlifted after the attack.
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Beyoncé’s seventh album, ‘Renaissance’, a news anchor in Philadelphia snuck 15 of the R&B titan’s song titles into a live-broadcast traffic report.“Traffic is getting ‘Heated’ and it’s starting to ‘Break My Soul’ just a little bit,” NBC 10’s Sheila Watko said in her presentation last Tuesday (August 2), referencing two songs from ‘Renaissance’. She noted later in the broadcast – which earned the approval of Bey’s own mother, Tina Knowles – that she’d planned to do to a reference-laden report on the album’s release date (July 29), but couldn’t do so since there was a crash that day and she “had to be serious”.To the groans – and one emphatic “ooh!” – of her co-hosts, Watko continued in her report: “We’ve had a ‘Formation’ of traffic cones all morning … that’s still blocking two right lanes, you might want to move over ‘to the left, to the left’.”Celebrating her effort, co-host Keith Jones declared: “Sheila Watko, you ‘Run The World’.”Take a look at the full report below:Yesterday (August 8) saw ‘Renaissance’ debut at Number One on the US’ Billboard 200 chart.
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