Sun on this new work in school .
Heat and humidity on the rise.
Today I'll show you how long it lasts and how
your Mother's Day forecast is shaping up.
13 WMAC morning starts now.
Good morning. Happy Monday.
It is May 8th at 6:30.
Thanks for staying with us.
I'm Caitlin Heck here with one.
A recent meteorologist, Alex Fo.
Oh, man, it looks like it's goio
be a warm yet beautiful day, Al.
It was.
And I tell you what,
the folks in Hancock County,
their day got started early this morning.
An earthquake struck
at 2:29 this morning.
This was about two miles West of Sparta.
We got a couple calls.
Here into The Newsroom of a loud boom and
minor shaking in and around Hancock County.
Of course, this earthquake was
centered not too far away from
Lake Oconee and Lake Sinclair,
and these earthquakes are not terribly
uncommon in this region of Geor.
However, they don't happen too frequently,
say once every few months or so,
and this morning was one of
those with a magnitude 2.3.
All right,
let's take a live look over downtown Macon.
We've got overcast skies for
the most part at this.
Our temperatures down into the Sixties 69.
The current number, the dew point at 64,
so it's a fairly muggy.
Morning across central Georgia,
65 in Warner Robbins, 66 in Coc,
66 in Milledgeville, 67 in Robe,
and 64 down in Rochelle.
The radar picture not entirely quiet.
We did see a shower or two in ad
around Jasper and Putnam counti,
and in fact one more now in Hancock County,
but a lot more up to the north,
up near metro Atlanta on the
Northside of Interstate 20.
Those are going to slide into South Carolina,
I'm thinking.
But what you see back here in Alabama
could be making its way towards
central Georgia later this afternoon.
I've got an hour by hour look
at future view and how the heat
and humidity is shaping up for
the week ahead in just a moment.
Thank you, Alex. This morning a man is
in critical condition after getg
shot in the head while driving in Macon.
The Bibb County Sheriff's Office says the
shooting happened just after 8:30 last
night at the intersection of Bloomfield Rd.
At Chambers Rd. Corner.
Leon Jones says the bullet actually pierced
the man's skull but did not hit his brain.
Callers tow 13 WMA ZA car sat ie
middle of the street while investigators
collected evidence of the scene.
The Sheriff's Office says they're still
investigating what led up to the shooting.
So far no arrests have been mad.
Anyone with information about te
shooting should reach out to the
Macon Regional Crime Stoppers.
That number?
It's 187768 Crime.
That number again for you at the
bottom of your screen 187768 Cre
All the man's recovering after being hurt
in a shooting in Macon over the weekend.
The Sheriff's Office says they a
call around 11:15 yesterday mor,
but a person shot.
Deputies found a man shot in the stomach
around Burton and Navier avenue.
They say it appears the man should be OK.
The Sheriff's Office says they'e
still investigating what led
to the shooting and where the
shooting actually happened. We
now know the name of the woman o
died in Macon while pushing her
shopping cart across the street corner.
Leon Jones says 82 year old Janet Towels
was hit just after 12:30 Sunday morning.
It happened at the intersection
of Sherling Dr.
and Pine Hill Drive in East Mac.
Jones says that Towels was known to push
her shopping cart around the Sherling Dr.
area for years.
Deputies say the driver did retn
to the scene and is cooperating
with investigators.
Thomas's death marks making
7th pedestrian death this year
Well, a man was shot in Four Valley as
police were trying to break up a party
at a club. They say it happened
around 11 Saturday night on the
100 block of East Main Street.
They say someone fired shots as
officers were there on the scen.
Man went to the hospital.
Police so far have not released
his condition but if you have
any information you can call for
Valley police that number is
478-825-3383. Again
478-825-3383. The Bibb County
Sheriff's Office is still looking for the man
they say shot and killed a woman last Friday.
Purple Balloons were released ae
Green Meadows Apartments complen
honor of 28 year old Kaniza Owe.
Nearly fifty friends and neighbors from
Green Meadows came to honor her life.
People also wore purple to honor
victims of domestic violence lie
Owens Kimber, Barnes says.
They want to show that as a community
they come together in tragedy.
They also want to spread love tr
seven-year old daughter that she left behind.
One of Owens,
his friends say they're demandia
better response time from the Bibb County
Sheriff's Office on domestic dispute calls.
Barnes says it took deputies 3 s
to respond to the call on Frida.
We're all out here. We're all
standing out here for A cause.
We want the police to come and
help help us in a timely manner.
Not when they feel like it or
when they feel that they finally
want to answer the call.
But no, what we call,
we need y'all to come out here.
Again, the Sheriff's Office is l
looking for 23 year old Trayvon Walker.
Kanesa's friends have created ao
Fund Me for Funeral arrangements
and to support her daughter.
You can find the link on our website.
That's at 13 WMA z.com.
Well, the trial continues this
morning for a Jones County doctr
accused of prescribing opioids
that killed 2 patients. Dr.
Thomas Sachi was arrested
and charged in 2018,
accused of illegally prescribing
drugs and money laundering.
The jury was selected last Tuesy
and the trial officially started
in Columbus last Wednesday.
Today will be day four of testi.
Last week, the jury heard
from an opioid expert,
the Gbi's head of investigations and the
mother of one of Sanchi's alleged victims.
They also got to see autopsy records,
prescriptions and other
medical records for patients.
Sanchi argues he believed he was
treating his patients properly.
He faces a possible life senten.
Well, apartments
and more apartments. That's whas
on the agenda for Make a bit
County planning and zoning. Tody
one of them on the agenda
whether to convert a hotel off
Riverside Drive into apartments.
The developer says if there thre
buildings were built back in 19.
Right now the hotel has 70 room,
but the developer is asking to
convert them into 95 apartments.
All would be one bedroom apartm,
according to their proposal.
Another developer that's a nonpt
affiliate of the Macon Housing
Authority wants to build 60 more
apartments in East Macon on Clinton Rd.
Like its name says,
Collin CM View Apartments would be across
the street from the Macon Colis.
This would be in the space where
the old Bib Mill once stood befe
it burnt in March of last year.
According to the proposal,
the four story building will
include sixty affordable housing
units with both one bedroom and
two-bedroom apartment plans.
The proposal also includes a letter from
Mayor Lester Miller to the developer.
Miller writes in the letter thae
county plans to build a parkingk
for residents at the apartment complex.
Last September,
Bib commissioners move forward with a
plan to buy the more than 21 acres of land.
The county said then they wanteo
turn it around by investing $14 million
into buying the site off of Coliseum Dr.
and placing a development that d
include new hotel condos and apartments.
Now
planning and zoning meets this
afternoon at 1:30 and Terminal Station.
Well, if you drive by the
Macon Mall and Eisenhower Pkwy,
you can see all that
construction underway right now.
Yeah, I just saw it over the weekend.
But tomorrow, Macon Bibb County
commissioners are set to get
an inside look on the progress.
Progress that Mayor Lester
Miller calls impressive.
Mayor Miller tells 13 WMAZ Couny
leaders will go inside the
amphitheater for the first time.
They'll be able to walk the stae
and actually sit in the suites.
Then they'll walk next door to the mall
to tour the new completed courts
in the Board of Elections offic.
Miller says they'll also see a demo of
what the new offices will look like for
the Middle Georgia Regional Commission,
a library, and planning and zon.
It all starts at 11:00 AM tomor.
Earlier in the day, commissioners will
also tour a facility right behid
the courthouse downtown on Walnut St.
The county bought the space aboa
year ago and moved some offices to the
building over the last several months.
That
includes the tax assessor's off,
the economic and community development
department, small business affa,
land bank authority and more.
Well, as Warner Robins wants to
become a live work play communi,
they have ideas on how they can
expand green space and activity.
Warner Robins leaders have hopef
one day expanding the Wellston l
through their park and Greenway concept.
The city has several options for
expansion along the Wellston Tr,
like extending it from Quarter
Road to Watson Blvd.
connecting to Wellston Rd.
The least expensive option,
extending the trail outside of Fountain
Park from Kimberly Road to Mood.
Part of the sidewalk is already paved,
starting at the Lakeshore Dr.
Paving.
The rest will add more accessibility and
get people more to view on their walk.
Right now it's it's 2 miles,
one mile from the other interest
and one mile back, so I think if
if it's expanded for three to
five miles that would be great.
The third option for the extension would
be to extend the trail from Weln
Park to Center Park in Centervi.
Monroe County Fire Department is
now using drones to save lives.
Get a close look at how the tech actually
works. Plus on Monday,
you know we focus on mental health this
week here what you need to know about
distress tolerance great story J
has for us a little bit later o,
but right now the time is now
639 here on this beautiful Monday morning.
I mean this week is really
off to quite the start.
We walked outside, it's warm we had a.
Earthquake in one of our counti.
I mean, it's Monday. I don't
want to know what the rest of
the week is gonna hold at this
point. That's enough.
We don't need anything else.
Everybody chill.
We're good here on this Monday morning.
Hey, I'll tell you what though.
We've got a fairly nice sunrise
across central Georgia as we ha.
Are rolling up on sunrise officy
here in the next two to three minutes.
Looking live here over downtown.
We've got temperatures in the 60s this
morning 69 in Macon 65 and Warner Robins.
By May standards this is warmer
than we should be 63 in Dublin,
64 in Perry and 66.
And Milledgeville this morning,
pretty much everybody in
Central Georgia in the 60s,
ranging from 61 in Eastman to at
69 in Macon and Gordon at this .
But you're going to walk outsid.
You're going to notice the humi.
Also, it is very muggy outside
across central Georgia this mor.
In fact, one years earlier,
you had to walk back in and walk back out
to make sure he's feeling it correctly,
yes.
It is starting to feel like sumr
here and the beginning of May,
so dry right now for the most
part and most of central Georgi.
The only exception for that is g
to be up here into Hancock Coun,
there on the other side of Lake
Sinclair with a scattered shower
and then more rain once you get
your way into northern Georgia.
That's sliding into South Carola
though a storm this morning.
We'll say northern Fulton,
Forsyth counties that's moving
into South Carolina as well.
But what you see back into Alab,
these scattered showers towards Birmingham,
those could find their way into
central Georgia before all is
said and done later this mornin.
So we're going to be looking.
Scattered showers this afternoo.
Temperatures into the 80s. Very quickly.
It's going to skyrocket today,
the temperature that is.
We're scattered.
Showers still sticking around by 5:00 PM,
drying out later on tonight.
Temperatures not cooling off all that much.
Once again, only into the upper.
Then for tomorrow,
this is where things begin to change,
so into the 80s very quickly once again.
Then we're going to watch a
disturbance move in from the no.
That's going to bring scattered showers,
in fact maybe even widespread at times.
Through the area tomorrow late
afternoon into the evening hour,
still looking at them hanging
around by about.
7:00 PM continuing to move down
towards the South before we
dry out for Wednesday morning.
Temperatures a bit cooler into e
low 60s across the area and not
quite as warm through the after,
only into the mid 80s or so
as opposed to closer to 90.
This unsettle pattern continuing
through the end of the week.
There's Thursday on into Friday
and 10% chance of rain both
days including for Saturday as
temperatures begin to warm back.
We're going to call it hot begig
on Saturday and that's going to
stick around through Mother's
Day as well with temperatures,
high temperatures that is in the 90s,
so humid today and tomorrow.
We will get a brief break from
the humidity by the time we get
to the middle part of the week,
but you can see we slowly work r
way back into the humid range be
time we get to Saturday and Sun.
So going to be watching out fort
here in central Georgia hour byr
today we are going to waste no e
warming up into the 70s very quickly,
80s by the noon hour,
all the way to a high temperatue
right around 87.
That's scattered stuff going to be out there,
the showers and storms,
sunrise here officially in the t
minute or so with that 20% chane
of rain above average temperatu,
that's going to last here into the remainder.
Of the week as well 90 tomorrow.
Mid 80s for Wednesday and Thurs,
but 90s making a comeback in tie
for the weekend. 90 for Saturda,
92 and humid for Mother's Day on Sunday.