This is five on your side. At five focused on you.
A beautiful healthy baby girl
was safely and anonymously surrendered to us here at house two,
an infant just hours old is turned over to a safe haven in Saint Louis County.
A new program, the only one in Missouri
likely saved the newborn's life. Thanks so much for joining us.
I'm Kelly Jackson and I'm Mike Bush.
This happened at the Melville Fire Protection District House where
just this past summer officials installed Missouri's only baby box,
Justina Cornell joins us live from the firehouse in South Saint Louis County,
Justina.
And
we've learned a baby girl was placed in that
box last Thursday and we're told the entire process
was smooth and now the fire chief says the baby girl was just a few hours old.
Now, you're probably wondering how does this all work?
The entire process is anonymous.
Once the door opens,
alarms alert the location that a baby has been surrendered and crews
the infant in less than a minute.
The infant was immediately taken to the hospital for medical evaluation
and is now under the care of
Missouri Department of Social Services Children's division.
We're told there are three reasons to have a news conference following. This.
One is to thank the parent two is for education and three to show that the box works.
And to that mother, I would like to say
that we loved
that baby and cared for that baby. Uh The minute that we laid eyes on her
and the minute that we opened up that door,
the baby was transported safely
and is healthy and doing very well.
The Melville fire chief said that other fire
chiefs are also interested in this baby box.
Now we're told they plan to insert another one at
station five by late next year reporting live Christina Cornell
five on your side.
The community of Kirkwood is divided over plans to close a
busy downtown street and give it to a local church.
Bobby
nearside Holden
Kicki spent the day speaking with Kirkwood residents about the plan.
What is the main sticking point so far? Holden?
Well,
Kelly Mike Jefferson is one of the
busiest streets in Kirkwood's downtown business district,
but church leaders are hoping to close it over safety concerns or
at least close a portion of it near Saint Peter's school.
But the people that I spoke with
said that their concern,
it could set a bad precedent between private entities and public institutions.
If you've driven down West Jefferson Street in Kirkwood,
there's one thing that seemingly everyone agrees on. It's very, very crowded.
It is very busy,
especially when the school gets out and lunchtime for Saint
Peter's Catholic church with more than 6500 members in its congregation
and 500 students.
The busy street
is causing a bit of a problem. There has been school traffic across Jefferson
since I went there in the early sixties for decades.
Now, they crossed that little street.
Not always looking both ways.
That's why Saint Peter is now pushing City
Hall to close Jefferson between Clay and Harrison
and turn it over to the parish.
But the proposal has drawn divided reactions from residents as a homeowner.
That would be right on the other side of that church.
I would not want to be cut off from the fire department if they need it and
you know, or just anything, it's a taxpayer,
you know,
we've been paying for that street and I don't think it should be
just up to the council to decide both sides can benefit from this.
There's no doubt about it.
According to a spokesman for the archdiocese,
the church would spend roughly $600,000 to build a cul de sac,
open its parking lot to the public and add additional parking along Clay Avenue.
This would be a way of protecting our Children and,
and as to say, you know, benefiting by
getting some more parking uh for the community, build the walkway over the um road.
That's my thought. If there was any other,
uh, public property that was going to be for sale, like part of the park or whatever,
it'd be put to a vote for the, for the public to do.
And I think that's what they should do.
The first,
the first reading of the proposal is set to
be heard on Thursday evening at Kirkwood City Hall.
Now,
there have been calls for Kirkwood's mayor and at least one council member
to recuse themselves from any vote since they are members at Saint Peter.
But the city attorney has said in this instance,
there is no conflict of interest reporting live in Kirkwood holding kwi
five on your side.
Most of the area is clearing and the threat of snow in our southern counties is over.
Meteorologist, Jim Castillo is here with your weather first forecast snow again.
Yeah. Hi, Kelly. It was Southwest Missouri.
They got hit pretty hard with that heavy wet snow.
But again, it was more slushy snow. It melted pretty quickly,
but it up to six inches
and around the Branson area.
Now, for us,
we didn't have any flakes or raindrops in the Saint
Louis area and it was 49 for that high.
Once we cleared we're clearing now, a beautiful shot there.
Uh, looking toward Clayton 47 right now after a high of 49 dew point is low.
So the humidity not bad at all, about 44%.
And the north northwest wind at eight miles an hour feels like 43.
But here's that low,
still some rain around, uh, probably a little bit around Perry County,
but mainly south of there.
A lot of heavy rain in parts of Kentucky
and just a little slither of snow back here on the Missouri
Arkansas border.
So we're clearing eventually around Farmington,
but still very cloudy in our southern counties.
And that clearing line is Saint Louis and Gray Summit
northward.
Much more on our forecast.
It looks like we're gonna warm up midweek,
cool down a chance of more rain and snow on Friday.
I'll have details coming up
and ST Louis is getting nearly $26 million
to help with relief efforts from flash flooding.
In 2022
the federal money will go towards residents who are negatively affected.
It will take about six months to plan
before any money is spent.
During that time,
there will be surveys and data collected to ensure
the funds are going to the right places.
Well, today, the city of Berkeley demolished its old city hall building.
It symbolized the start of a new beginning
with the community in North Saint Louis County
500 size Mercedes mckay shows us how it's
all part of the city's economic redevelopment plan
behind me is just the start of Berkeley's former City Hall demolition.
City leaders say this moment today signifies a pivotal moment
in Berkeley's urban landscape
in just seconds.
What once was the center of the city of Berkeley turned into building pieces.
The demolition of city hall marks the beginning of
a transformative journey for the airport road corridor.
A $5.4 million project that's repairing the road
from I 170 to North Florissant with improved
including new lanes, a bike lane, traffic signals and more.
During a ceremony Monday morning,
city leaders said the building coming down will make way
for new developments that will create jobs and strengthen infrastructure.
It's just going to look completely
different.
You know, bringing people into
Berkeley, excited to come here, shop here.
These two buildings just went up for sale today.
So we, you know, we're excited about the prospect of new business going in there.
So it's just all coming together. At
the same time,
the former City Hall here is expected to be
a parking lot and then right across the street,
they expect restaurants and businesses for everyone in the city and beyond to enjoy
in Berkeley, Mercedes mckay five on your side,
the airport road rep, rep pavement project is set to be completed by this summer.
And also this summer, you can fly new direct routes to Tennessee.
A legion announced today it will add a nonstop round trip
flight to Knoxville from the mid America Airport in Mascoutah.
Our partners at the Saint Louis Business
Journals say the new flights will be the only nonstop service between the cities.
The new route starts June 13th,
coming up a new lease on life.
The animals getting a second chance in Saint
Louis after a heartbreaking beginning in Kansas.
As soon as they want,
everybody was cheering and everybody realized that it's time to get to work.
Ever wonder how Super Bowl shirts make it on store shelves.
So quickly, we catch up with a local business
who worked tirelessly to bring you Chief Championship Gear.
So it was ready today.