Rise and shine, everyone.
6:00 o'clock here on your Thursday.
We are so close to the weekend here.
Jason and Alicia somehow
awake with you this morning?
No, we were at where is our Playbill?
Tina? We brought it for proof.
This is like we're tired today.
But it was so worth. It wasn't not
stayed for the whole show.
We didn't leave during intermission.
Didn't you know? I tried. Yeah,
we tried. Let's go. You're like,
no, we were staying for this entire show.
We're gonna watch these amazing performers.
We'll talk about this. We'll talk
about more later on in the show.
More thoughts on it.
But hey, another good.
Story this morning no snow finally.
Muah, Hallelujah guy
yeah, for now right there is though in
the forecast but it's nice to just get a
little bit of a break right take let's
just take a break hey temperatures this
morning on the cool side. So colder.
Temps moving in a cold start to the morning
with wind chill values single digits now.
Air temperatures not too bad.
17 under cloudy skies.
Feels like 7 NE winds at 8 mph.
Some of those clouds
could linger a little low.
This morning, so low clouds kind
of peaks of sunshine on and off,
but more clouds than sun today,
and you'll see that here with
your morning planner.
Temperatures rise to 23 by 11.
Late morning winds shift to the South
late morning, right around 3 mph,
so that will help warm things
up just a little bit.
Dry and seasonable with light
winds heading into the weekend,
so quiet heading into the weekend now.
Once we get into late Sunday,
early Monday into Monday,
we'll start to track out our next minor
disturbance that could bring some snow.
Still a little bit of uncertainty.
Behind that system,
Jin.
Alright, thank you, guys.
Today they're looking good.
Here's a look at the 35 split,
that stretch of 35 W after the split,
pretty slick.
Yesterday we saw a couple spinouts,
but today much different story.
And that's the case across the metro.
Look at this data, green roads all around.
I don't remember the last
time we've seen that.
Let's go back to the split and
check your drive times real quick.
Or maybe we won't.
Oh, there we go.
Looking good either way,
12 minutes, 35 W to 694.
You're taking the other direction, 35.
Right on time, Jason.
Love to see it there. Jen, thank you.
Today, the driver's licenses
for all Bill could finally
make it to the governor's desk.
The bill would allow 10s of
thousands of undocumented
immigrants get a drivers license
for the first time in decades.
CC's live at the Capitol with a look
at how that could all play out today.
Good morning, C.
Good morning, guys.
Well, Governor Walz says if this bill
makes it to his desk, he will sign it.
All that's really left is a final
vote from the Minnesota House,
and that'll happen today at 3:30.
Now, back in January, this bill,
it did pass the House 69 to 60.
Last month, it passed the Senate 34 to 31.
Now, the bill language passed by the
Senate was slightly different from the
bill language passed by the House.
So today, the House will need to
approve the Senate amendments
and then repass the bill.
With those amendments,
but the House is expected to do both now,
those against the bill are concerned
some undocumented immigrants
would use their driver's license
to vote or gain state benefits,
while those who are for it say it
would give undocumented immigrants
some Peace of Mind.
A decision for our children to not
have to live with this mental trauma
who are citizens and depending on
whether their families are gonna be
able to take them to an emergency room
or safely pick them up from school.
Right now, 18 states, Washington, DC,
and Puerto Rico all allow their residents
to have a drivers license regardless
of their immigration status. Guys.
All right, we'll have to wait and see
how this plays out today. C Thank you.
Well, also at the Capitol today,
lawmakers are considering legislation
to improve transit safety.
This is all focused on the
metro blue and green lines.
This comes as Metro Transit says
it's working to expand routes this
year with crime as a concern.
They say they have a safety and
security action plan, which includes.
Recruiting and hiring more police officers
this morning, two men are facing
felony assault charges and police
are still looking for a third
after a trans woman was beaten at
a Minneapolis light rail station.
According to court documents,
surveillance cameras at the Lake Street
station captured 3 people beating the woman,
pushing her down the stairs and continuing
to assault her while she was on the ground.
Documents say officers at the scene
were concerned the attack was motivated
by anti transgender bias the LGBTQ.
Organization out front Minnesota says
many trans people are no stranger to
verbal and even physical abuse. We
want to understand more of what's going on,
but we recognize that trans folks
face this kind of discrimination and
hate on a daily basis, unfortunately.
The Hennepin County Attorney
says if a motive of bias or hate
emerged from the investigation,
they can pursue a harsher sentence
as part of a conviction. This
morning, the parents of Jamari
Rice say they're upset with the
sentencing of their son's killer.
Rice was shot and killed by now 19
year old Fernando Valdez Alvarez
outside of South Education Center
in Richfield last February.
Valdez was sentenced yesterday
to 23 1/2 years.
He's expected to serve sixteen
of those years.
Last month Valdez pled guilty
to unintentional.
Second degree murder and 1st degree assault.
Now Rice's family is saying
they're disappointed with the
sentence and surprised a life
sentence was not considered.
He should
have had life in prison.
Because of the life for taking a life,
he showed no remorse.
He'd never said anything.
He never said I'm sorry.
He looked at
US1 time and turned
away. Along with the prison sentence,
restitution is set at more than $65,000.
Hampton County Attorney Mary Moriarty's
philosophy is on juvenile prosecution
reform are being put into action as the
family of a murdered woman protests.
The family of Zaria McKeever is upset the
county's top prosecutor decided not to
charge 2 juveniles as adults in her murder.
Zaria's ex is accused of giving
a 15 and 17 year old a gun and
sending them into her apartment.
Moriarty says the teens.
It would be better reformed in a 2 year
rehabilitation program at a juvenile prison,
followed by supervised release,
then pursuing adult charges.
And should they violate the
conditions of probation, yes,
they could end up going to adult prison.
But obviously we hope that with proper
rehabilitation and incarceration
in a juvenile facility that
that won't be necessary.
We are raising.
Zaria's daughter. Who?
Still trying to figure out why she
don't see her mother. We gonna have to
be responsible for that and somebody
should be accountable for that.
Zaria's family says they feel betrayed.
The plea deal rests on the teens testifying
against the adult who's charged.
Inver Grove Heights residents are sounding
the alarm after the city found high
levels of radium in its drinking water.
While radium is one of the contaminants
naturally found in ground level,
it's usually removed by
the city's treatment plant.
But earlier this year,
tests found a spike in radium levels.
Officials say the jump is
likely caused by aging filters,
and right now they're working
on short-term adjustments.
The Minnesota Department of
Health is looking into the spike.
They say the recent levels show
the city has not been in compliance
for at least several months now.
The next patch of test results are
expected at the end of the month.
We are a little more than two weeks
away from the official start of spring,
but there's still a lot of snow to melt.
And that raises some questions
about spring flooding.
The purple on the map you see
here shows a foot or more more of
snowpack that still needs to melt.
And that snow holds 3 to 5 inches of water.
So here's what state officials are
saying in the new flood outlook.
Good morning. I'm Danny spiewak.
After that big snowstorm we got
in the Twin Cities last week,
the National Weather Service has
issued a flood report saying that
there is an above normal chance
of some flooding here this spring.
Of course, it's too early to tell,
and a lot will depend on how much
more precipitation we get this March,
but they're urging everybody to be prepared,
keep a close eye on things and
get flood insurance if needed.
Another sign of spring is coming
that there's only a few days left to
get ice houses off of frozen lakes.
The lower 2/3 of the state need to
have them off by Monday, the DNR says.
Don't forget to take your trash with you.
If you have a house in the
northern third of the state,
you have until March 20th. So
more signs that spring is on the way.
We're seeing some warmer
weather the rest of the week.
It's going to be warm this weekend.
Let's get out to guy in the
yard for a look at what we can
expect over the next few days.
Hey, good morning.
You know warmer temperatures.
Yes, and tomorrow morning a
milder start to the morning,
so lows won't be as cold as what
we're finding this morning.
I actually have some layers on
because with the wind chill feels like
single digits and even some sub-zero.
It really just depends on
where you're watching from.
So a happy Thursday to you 17 right now,
mostly cloudy.
It feels like 7.
So wind speeds are shaving off around 10
degrees from that actual air temperature.
Northeast winds at 8 mph.
Take a look at temperatures and wind
chills by afternoon winds only around.
5 mph,
shaving off 5 degrees from our air temp,
making it to the low 30s
later this afternoon.
So feeling like 25,
so feeling just about that,
like that air temperature.
Later on we'll squeeze a few
peaks of sunshine.
Just a few, but more clouds
than sun in the forecast today,
tonight, any Thursday night plans,
maybe heading to maybe
heading to an happy hour.
Temperatures in the mid 20s,
few clouds, partly cloudy skies,
but the clouds thicken right back.
By this time tomorrow morning we'll
still squeeze in a few peeks of Sun.
But we're just not expecting
a whole lot of sun.
That's just a pattern that
we're going to be stuck in.
Here's your three day forecast.
More clouds today,
3137 tomorrow for your Friday.
Friday so excited for Friday.
Can't you tell?
Mild and quiet Saturday seasonal.
Still more clouds than Sun on Saturday.
Now Sunday what you don't see on that
will be coming up in my 7 day forecast.
Snow we have snow chances that are starting
to shoot up for Sunday into Monday.
Still some uncertainty like precip
type around this time of season.
You know,
with temperatures warming a
little bit warmer,
like yesterday,
we actually saw that snow transition
to a few showers during the
afternoon because temperatures
were on the milder side of things.
So we're still tracking some
uncertainty for that and you'll see
more and I'll talk more about that
in my 7 day forecast coming up.