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at noon, focused on you.
Thanks so much for being here at
noon on this Friday. I'm Kay Quinn.
Get ready to feel the heat this weekend.
We've turned the corner from spring
into summer, and you'll really notice
the difference the next few days.
Make sure you plan ahead if
you're spending an extended time.
Outside meteorologist Gary Frank joins
us now with the weather first forecast.
And yeah, you can feel the humidity,
I feel like, for the first time.
This season,
yeah, it's been, it's been, you know,
a couple, especially in the morning
where it's 70 for a low and that's
at 5:00 in the morning, you know.
And so that's what we're
going to start to add to it.
It's not as bad as it could be,
could be much worse,
but we're starting to,
I think that the core of the
humidity this weekend is really
going to time out in the morning,
probably Sunday now,
which is good news for our heat index
when we're not going to feel like 105
for a consistent period outside, right.
So that's a positive.
We also need a little bit of rain.
One of the reasons we haven't seen much
humidity is because it hadn't rained at all.
You know,
one usually comes with the other we have.
Days still it's still that air quality
alert and our temperatures are in the
mid to upper 80s already at this hour 87,
Lake St.
Louis 84 and Wildwood.
So it is pretty nice.
But we are going to look off to the northwest
and you see a couple of these storms,
they fizzle out but they're all a
part of this little wave that's going
to generate a pretty good wide area of.
Of severe weather.
Off to the West today.
But that may also start to work
its way in portions of Saturday.
The rest of this evening we're dry.
We're headed for the low 90s,
no problem at all.
And the next few days,
we're dry.
Most of the weekend.
It's the hottest of the year,
but we've got a severe threat on the way.
And that's what we'll talk about as we
reach the 90s later on this afternoon.
Kay.
All right, We'll see you in a few minutes.
Thank you, Gary. Major.
Road work begins this weekend.
And it could affect your travel plans.
Prepare for a huge detour
in Saint Charles County.
A section of Interstate 70
will be completely shut down.
5 on your side's Alex Fees reports
from The Cave Springs exit.
Modoc crews will shut down Interstate 70
in both directions here at Cave Springs
in Saint Charles County this weekend.
That's this weekend and this weekend only.
This is progress in process.
We'll show you what it
looks like on the map here.
The shutdown starts at 10:00 o'clock tonight.
Crews will close down all lanes
of Interstate 70 at Cave Springs
to take down an old bridge.
Northbound and southbound
traffic on Cave Springs Rd.
Will be closed between West Clay
and Veterans Memorial Parkway.
Eventually, we'll see a new
diverging diamond interchange here,
along with other new road
signals and more ramps.
All weekend,
drivers will have to get off the Interstate,
be rerouted through the exit ramps
before getting back on the Interstate.
Officials are asking you to
avoid the area if possible.
It's all part of the $62.4 million project
from Cave Springs to Fairgrounds to
make the area less congested and safer,
Mo dot officials say Monday through Friday,
roughly 32,000 vehicles a year
travel on Cave Springs Here,
Weekday traffic on I-70 is higher than that.
It amounts to roughly 120,000
vehicles a year.
Mo Dots project director says
they're putting in a single point
urban interchange that will
help keep things moving.
Converting these interchanges will
help the traffic and efficiency
and safety of the interchanges.
These were built back in the early
80s and since then the population
in Saint Charles has grown and the
infrastructure isn't able to keep
up with the population growth.
And how about some good news for drivers?
The Saint Charles County Interchange Route
94364 is open after 18 months of work.
You'll see a new diverging
diamond interchange there as well,
along with other new road
signals and more ramps.
Those diverging diamond interchanges.
That road construction seems to
be all the rage these days.
Reporting in Saint Charles County,
Alex Fees 5 On Your Side
Right now, Saint Louis city leaders are
voting on an historic water rate hike.
It comes after the city saw nearly 20 water
main breaks in the just the past few weeks.
If passed, Board Bill 49 would be the
one of the largest increases ever.
Leaders continue to blame the water main
breaks on the city's failing infrastructure.
That's why they're pushing to
raise rates by an historic 40%.
This means residents would see an increase
of 5 bucks a month on their bills If
lawmakers give it the green light,
Residents could see higher bills
as early as July.
Investigators trying to figure out
what caused a deadly explosion at the
Winchester Ammunition Plant in East Alton.
A primer truck exploded and killed
a male employee Thursday afternoon.
The explosion was so powerful
it could be felt for miles.
Right now the employees name
has not been released.
A nine year old boy is
recovering after being shot.
Saint Louis police say it was an accident.
The boy was with his 14 year old cousin in
a home near Wells and Union in North City
Thursday afternoon when it all happened.
We're told the bullet grazed
the 9 year olds leg.
Some Saint Louis leaders are asking
Missouri Governor Mike Parson to call
state lawmakers back to Jefferson
City to address gun violence.
It comes after last weekend's
mass shooting downtown,
where young people were seen
carrying assault rifles.
Thursday,
a representative from the governor's
office told us that at this time,
a special session is not being
called to address any topic.
That's leaving some local
lawmakers frustrated,
including Board of Aldermen
member Rasheen Aldridge.
He recently joined the board after
unsuccessfully pushing for tougher gun
laws when he was a state representative.
We need support in Saint Louis.
That support isn't a takeover.
That support is listening to the people
who stay here of like the solutions of
how do we get to a place where we're
not tackling the Second Amendment,
but we are putting regulations in
place so that it's not easy for people
who are mentally ill to get guns.
It's not easy for young people to get guns.
It's not easy for people to walk
around with. AK47
joining us now. Secretary of State
Jay Ashcroft spoke with our Mark
Maxwell and says new state gun laws
are not the answer and criminals
will break laws regardless.
Right now, city leaders are considering
a proposal to ban people from openly
displaying a gun in Saint Louis
without a concealed carry permit,
a catastrophic implosion.
That's how the US Coast Guard is
saying all five men died aboard
the Titan submersible on their way
to explore the sunken Titanic.
NBC's Jay Gray has details from the
Coast Guard Command in Boston, MA,
a day after discovery of debris less
than 1/2 mile from the bow of the
Titanic wreckage and the confirmation
from the Coast Guard that it was,
in fact pieces of the missing submersible.
The question shift from where it may
be to why and how this happened.
It is a search not for those five men
on board, but for evidence and answers.
And we know that, the remote.
Operated vehicles that have been a part
of all of this will remain in the region,
mapping out the area,
trying to find more evidence
of what went wrong.
What we have been told by those who
have been a part of this operation as
that the evidence right now appears
to show that there was some type
of catastrophic implosion and that
likely the result of of a break in
the pressure inside that vessel.
If that's the case,
what most say is that it happened
very quickly,
and that's bringing at least a bit
of comfort to the family members
of those inside
to know that my Sully
didn't feel a moment's pain,
that his brain didn't even realize.
That's relief. Now, the Coast Guard
says that the operation will continue,
that they will continue to try
and find whatever they can.
No decision yet on whether some
of that evidence will make the
trip 2 1/2 miles from the floor
of the ocean to the surface.
That's the latest here in Boston.
I'm Jay Gray.
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