Hot and dry Monday afternoon before isolated storms pop up this eveningCaught on Camera: Firefighters respond to dumpster fire at FGCU
WINK NEWS Hot and dry Monday afternoon before isolated storms pop up this evening On monday morning, the weather is starting mild and humid with temperatures in the upper 60s and lower 70s.
FORT MYERS Caught on Camera: Firefighters respond to dumpster fire at FGCU San Carlos Park Fire District responded to a dumpster fire Sunday afternoon.
FORT MYERS FGCU students affected by Covid celebrate first commencement ceremony Graduation is a right of passage from school to the real world, but for these students, reality hit them in 2020.
PUNTA GORDA Motorcycle crash leaves 1 dead One person has died after a motorcycle crash in Charlotte County.
LEE COUNTY Lee Deputies work to track down transient sex offenders who fail to register WINK News Anchor Corey Lazar goes on patrol with Lee County Deputies in search of transient sex offenders who don’t register.
National Hurricane Preparedness Week: Know your risk Hurricane season starts on June 1st, but the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has designated the week of May 5 through May 11 as National Hurricane Preparedness Week. Each day, Meteorologist Lauren Kreidler will be highlighting ways to stay prepared ahead of this year’s hurricane season.
Southwest Florida The Weather Authority: Stay alert – chance of showers and storms on Sunday Hot, humid, and more rain for parts of Southwest Florida on Sunday.
CAPE CORAL What we learned about Cape Coral’s water crisis after a ride along On Friday, WINK News got to ride along to see just what people are doing that could be wasting water.
The Weather Authority: A wet Saturday evening as storms move through Southwest Florida A rainy Saturday evening across much of southwest Florida.
FORT MYERS Lee Health Touch-A-Truck event educates families on Trauma Awareness On Saturday morning, sirens were ringing to celebrate Lee Health Trauma Center’s 30 years of service and to provide the public with trauma education and prevention methods.
SOUTHWEST FLORIDA (CBS) CDC says bird flu viruses “pose pandemic potential,” cites major knowledge gaps Bird flu continues to appear to pose a “low risk to the general public” for now, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says. But the agency’s scientists ran into roadblocks investigating a human case of this “pandemic potential” virus this year, they said in a new report.
DOWNTOWN FORT MYERS Bay Street Yard set to open in late May A new place to hang out in Downtown Fort Myers is opening this spring.
Aetna agrees to settle lawsuit over fertility coverage for LGBTQ+ customers Aetna has agreed to settle a lawsuit that accused the health insurer of discriminating against LGBTQ+ customers in need of fertility treatment.
SOUTHWEST FLORIDA WINK Neighborhood Watch: Robbery, Pawn Shops, and Child Porn This week’s segment of Wink Neighborhood Watch features an armed robber, fraud at a pawn shop, and possession of child pornography.
Southwest Florida The Weather Authority: Sun, clouds, humidity, rain – it’s all in your weekend forecast Saturday afternoon will be hot and humid, with a mix of sun and clouds.
WINK NEWS Hot and dry Monday afternoon before isolated storms pop up this evening On monday morning, the weather is starting mild and humid with temperatures in the upper 60s and lower 70s.
FORT MYERS Caught on Camera: Firefighters respond to dumpster fire at FGCU San Carlos Park Fire District responded to a dumpster fire Sunday afternoon.
FORT MYERS FGCU students affected by Covid celebrate first commencement ceremony Graduation is a right of passage from school to the real world, but for these students, reality hit them in 2020.
PUNTA GORDA Motorcycle crash leaves 1 dead One person has died after a motorcycle crash in Charlotte County.
LEE COUNTY Lee Deputies work to track down transient sex offenders who fail to register WINK News Anchor Corey Lazar goes on patrol with Lee County Deputies in search of transient sex offenders who don’t register.
National Hurricane Preparedness Week: Know your risk Hurricane season starts on June 1st, but the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has designated the week of May 5 through May 11 as National Hurricane Preparedness Week. Each day, Meteorologist Lauren Kreidler will be highlighting ways to stay prepared ahead of this year’s hurricane season.
Southwest Florida The Weather Authority: Stay alert – chance of showers and storms on Sunday Hot, humid, and more rain for parts of Southwest Florida on Sunday.
CAPE CORAL What we learned about Cape Coral’s water crisis after a ride along On Friday, WINK News got to ride along to see just what people are doing that could be wasting water.
The Weather Authority: A wet Saturday evening as storms move through Southwest Florida A rainy Saturday evening across much of southwest Florida.
FORT MYERS Lee Health Touch-A-Truck event educates families on Trauma Awareness On Saturday morning, sirens were ringing to celebrate Lee Health Trauma Center’s 30 years of service and to provide the public with trauma education and prevention methods.
SOUTHWEST FLORIDA (CBS) CDC says bird flu viruses “pose pandemic potential,” cites major knowledge gaps Bird flu continues to appear to pose a “low risk to the general public” for now, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says. But the agency’s scientists ran into roadblocks investigating a human case of this “pandemic potential” virus this year, they said in a new report.
DOWNTOWN FORT MYERS Bay Street Yard set to open in late May A new place to hang out in Downtown Fort Myers is opening this spring.
Aetna agrees to settle lawsuit over fertility coverage for LGBTQ+ customers Aetna has agreed to settle a lawsuit that accused the health insurer of discriminating against LGBTQ+ customers in need of fertility treatment.
SOUTHWEST FLORIDA WINK Neighborhood Watch: Robbery, Pawn Shops, and Child Porn This week’s segment of Wink Neighborhood Watch features an armed robber, fraud at a pawn shop, and possession of child pornography.
Southwest Florida The Weather Authority: Sun, clouds, humidity, rain – it’s all in your weekend forecast Saturday afternoon will be hot and humid, with a mix of sun and clouds.
Steve Ballmer. (Credit: CBS) What does a guy who is worth (according to all the magazines) $41 billion do? If you’re Steve Ballmer, who at age 63 ranks as one of the wealthiest people in the world, he buys the Los Angeles Clippers basketball team, which he cheers on in his familiarly exuberant style. The team has yet to win a championship. “I think our team plays with a lot of grit, lot of excitement, lot of toughness, hardcore, you know?” “Kind of ‘swimming against the stream’ idea?” asked correspondent Rita Braver. “Yeah, exactly!” Ballmer is used to swimming against the stream. He grew up in Detroit, his Dad a Swiss immigrant who never finished high school. Ballmer took a risk in 1980 and dropped out of business school to help an old friend from Harvard undergrad with his fledgling software company: Microsoft. The friend, of course, was Bill Gates Ballmer said, “I wanted to work in a business that seemed to be rapidly changing because I have a little bit of ADD, if you will, in my personality. And I wanted to work for somebody who I believed was really smart.” Ballmer became Microsoft’s 30th employee, put in charge of sales and business development. He struck a shrewd deal that ultimately gave him almost 9% of the company.. It was the dawn of the personal computer era, as Microsoft launched revolutionary operating systems like Windows 95. And in 2000, Gates named Ballmer to replace him as CEO. Ballmer’s high-spirited antics at company meetings are still legendary. As CEO, he helped make Microsoft one of the leaders in selling software systems to large corporations. But acknowledges he was late to steer the company into the search and smartphone markets. Ballmer retired in 2014, but figuring out what to do after Microsoft was not so easy. “I went a little manic,” he said. “I played 100 rounds of golf; I was good, too, at that time. And then after a year … ‘Okay, breathe …’ That’s when I really took back control of my time.” Time is a prime commodity for Ballmer, who for years has been keeping spreadsheets to track how he spends every minute from nine to five. He showed Braver his estimated of how many hours a year he spends on the Clippers (366!). But his wife of 29 years, Connie Ballmer, thought he should start spending more time on philanthropy. She’d been directing the couple’s efforts aimed primarily at creating opportunity for kids in need, and the Ballmers rank among the nation’s most charitable donors. She told Braver, “So, Steve said – he was being a little controversial – ‘Ah, philanthropy, why do we need to do philanthropy? Why don’t we let the government just give away the money and take care of these people?’ I said, ‘Really?’ And of course I challenged that. Which got him thinking, ‘Hey, I wonder what the government spends its money on? I’m gonna find out.'” And when he couldn’t find out immediately, that was when the idea of USAFacts.org was born. USA Facts is a free, non-partisan website that is trying to provide one-stop access to all government data. Launched just two years ago, and headquartered outside Seattle, near Ballmer’s home, he has spent nearly $30 million dollars on it so far. He showed Braver data on the money spent on Americans’ healthcare: “In 1980 we spent just under $3,000 per person on healthcare as a society. Today, we’re spending just under $10,000 per person. Inflation-adjusted, we are spending over three times as much.” Ballmer hired a team of young computer hot shots to help unearth information, like how much different income groups pay in taxes. Braver asked, “You are obviously in the top 1% of the top 1%. Do you feel like people at that level are paying enough taxes?” “I am non-partisan. Do I feel like I have an obligation to give back to society? I’d say ‘Yes.’ Society has to decide on policy. If the policy is ‘Let’s tax the more affluent people more,’ okay, I’m good with it.” Ballmer says the whole point of USA Facts is to help voters make decisions. But how to respond when politicians assert they have better facts than the ones the governments provides? He said, “If you think any politician is using numbers that aren’t accurate, Boom! Call them out!” As for Steve Ballmer, he has a personal interest in one number: 1. When asked if there are still some big things he wants to do, he said, “The only thing I can really, really, really point to that I’d like to do but haven’t done is be in a parade with an NBA championship! I want to make progress on everything else, but to hold that trophy and have it be ours? Yeah, that’d be on my list!”