Right now.
Five on your side at 11th storm alert for Thursday, most of us see thunderstorms.
Some of us will have to contend with severe weather when,
where and what you need to be most concerned about with these storms.
It gives police a bird's eye view. Some say it puts the public's privacy up in the air.
The new purchase drawing controversy,
a
chief concern since it looks like candy and looks like snacks, it
doesn't look like it's that harmful. Tonight.
The call to ban a legal drug getting into the wrong hands.
We start tonight with that weather first storm alert.
It's calm and breezy right now across the by state tomorrow,
you'll want to stay aware as many of us are under an enhanced risk for severe storms.
Good evening, I'm Mike Bush.
Kelly Jackson has the night off, damaging winds could be our biggest threat.
Let's get straight over to chief meteorologist Scott Connell who's
tracking the development and the timing of the storm,
Scott Mike.
We don't have thunderstorms anywhere close to Saint Louis right now.
In fact, the humidity levels drop so far off today that not even a concern,
but you look into tomorrow and you notice, yes,
we are in that level three out of five risk area for severe weather.
With the focus being right over Saint Louis and then down to the south and southeast,
that's where we think the moisture is going to be coming back will be very unstable.
And so the chances for thunderstorms ramp up as we head into the afternoon,
especially mid to late afternoon for Saint Louis.
We really have that storm alert for
our northwestern counties running about 11 o'clock.
Here's why 11 o'clock,
you have the thunderstorms just off to our west and northwest.
So they'll try to trudge towards bowling green towards trucks and hawk point
back towards Jonesburg and heading down towards Herman.
That batch tries to push towards Saint Charles at the same time,
additional strong thunderstorms develop farther to the west.
There'll be some line that evolves here as we
head through the late afternoon to the early evening.
And it's along that line,
especially the leading edge where we anticipate seeing some pretty intense winds,
60 to 70 mile per hour wind gusts are not going to be uncommon.
We don't think tomorrow.
So the greatest storm threat for the metro area really
that 2 to 6 p.m. time frame and more likely,
right during the rush hour, the greatest threat is going to be from those winds.
Now,
not to say there won't be a bit of hail or maybe an isolated tornado
but you get wins the 60 to 70 mile per hour gusts over a wider area
and then you have the potential for power outages.
So that's one of our big concerns for tomorrow.
As we head into the afternoon hours,
we'll track it on a broader perspective coming up in just a few minutes.
Mike and the weather. First team will be here throughout the day tomorrow.
Stay alert on air online at kstk.com,
the five on your side app. And of course, we'll be streaming on five plus.
You can also text the word weather to 3144 255355. And we'll send a link to your phone.
We're following breaking news out of North Saint Louis right now.
Police are on the scene of a serious
crash near the intersection of Union and Berkshire.
This is at the overpass interstate 70 police confirm a
child and an adult were taken to the hospital.
We don't know yet the extent of their injuries or what led to this crash.
We'll bring you any new details when we learn them both
on air and on the five on your side app.
We've learned a 24 year old woman from Saint Louis died in
a car crash while she was away at college in Indiana.
Tonight. The family of
Santa Morgan is honoring her life as police try to figure out what led to the crash.
Five on your side's Brent Solomon just caught up with her family.
Brent say there might a bright light.
Those are the words multiple people use
to describe the Indiana State uh university student
tonight. Her family devastated by the tragedy they never saw coming.
This was so unexpected, so unexpected. Her mother got the word Tuesday.
She was just devastated when the police showed up to her
at the door. 24 year old
Zanetta Morgan killed in a car crash
in Terre Haute Indiana
where she attended college.
Police say her car collided with another car before veering off of the roadway,
striking a large pole.
Zinny as her loved ones called her grew up here in North City.
She graduated from Lyft for Life and Saint Louis Community College.
We are devastated by
Zanetta sudden death.
Indiana
State University extends our thoughts and condolences to her
family friends and everyone fortunate enough to know her.
We send our thoughts and condolences to Zana's
family. During this difficult time, the president of the university said
she was an only child but she never would have known she
was an only child because she had a big heart of gold.
She recently became part of Delta Sigma Theta
sorority.
Her family says she wanted to go into the mortuary business
and loved attending church.
In fact, she took her faith with her in a study abroad, trip to Ghana.
When she came back, she shared the fact
that uh people who had never even heard of God who,
who would normally not have been worshiping God.
She introduced them. Now, loved ones are trying to keep Zinni's mom strong.
She's become all too familiar with grief.
She has lost her father three years later, she lost her sister.
Approximately four years later. After that, she lost her mom
and a few years after that,
she lost her husband and now her beloved daughter who this family
vows to never forget one of the happiest people in the family.
The other driver in that crash survived again. Police are still investigating.
Zanetta was set to graduate from ISU later this year.
She would have turned 25 next month
tomorrow.
The man convicted in a horrific car crash in downtown Saint Louis that
caused a Tennessee teen to lose her legs will learn his sentence.
A jury found Daniel Riley guilty last month for last year's crash
that severely injured Jana Edmonson.
The same jury recommended he served nearly 19 years in prison.
Riley's lawyers are requesting a new trial.
Just hours ago,
we learned a teen missing from Saint Charles County
has been found safe during our early evening newscast.
We told you how the 16 year old
was last seen leaving his school in Wentzville yesterday afternoon.
His car was later found at a gas station
on North 13th Street near downtown Saint Louis.
About an hour after our last report,
police announced the teen was found in good health and returned to his family
the Webster Groves Police Department now has some new tools to get a bird's eye view.
The department now has drones with special capabilities. New tonight.
Lavender side's Laura Barski
spent the evening with leaders of the new program to learn how they will be used.
The Webster Groves Police Department now has two drones. One is just like this mavi
here which they use for training to take to the skies.
This is the other drone.
It's a matrice and has the ability to switch
from four K to thermal imaging in seconds.
And I can look at a building, I can tell you the hot spot of a building,
but I can't see through the walls. Some of the things we see in the
Bo Legacy movies, if you will, we don't have that capacity.
So the drone simply is able to detect radiant heat versus background heat.
Webster Groves.
Lieutenant Eric Weimer says there are several
ways they'll be able to use these drones
including to help them find missing people or aid in the search for a suspect.
Recently, we had an issue
an incident with a stolen car
and someone who ran from the vehicle. We were able to use the
from another department to help us with looking for that
suspect.
Captain Stephen Speier wants to reassure residents that a lot of
the rules on the ground apply to the air as well.
If someone is doing something in their backyard, they're not supposed to be doing
and they have a fence around the yard.
I can't necessarily put a drone up above their yard and say, oh, look,
I now know what they're doing.
I still have to go through all of the obligations for getting a search warrant.
Eventually, four people on the department will
have a part 107 drone license.
Speier says the footage they capture is protected by the
Missouri Sunshine Law and can be requested by residents.
Our lieutenant who's going to be in charge of the unit will be responsible for
conducting random checks of all that footage to
make sure that we haven't violated it.
And if there is well, then not only do we have federal laws to give our mandates,
but we also have our internal rules and regulations
that will hold officers accountable reporting in Webster Groves,
Laura Barski
five on your side.
The drone program will
expand to other city departments like fire and rescue and public works.
Well,
Juan I give you an update now on breaking
news that we're following out of North Saint Louis.
Just minutes ago,
we learned a juvenile was killed in that crash near the intersection of Union and Bhi
an adult was taken to the hospital.
The crash remains under investigation and again,
we'll bring you any new details when we learn them both on air and on the
five in your side app charges have been
filed in the shooting death of a Belleville woman
today, prosecutors charged
Demario Bush with murder.
He's a convicted felon who was out on parole at
the time of Sunday night's shooting on Ben Lewis Drive.
Investigators say the shooting stemmed from a domestic dispute.
A federal grand jury has indicted a Fairview Heights man
for a sexual assault reported on the arch grounds.
Montel Darryl Bolman is charged with one count of sexual abuse.
He's accused of an attack that happened at the National Park back on December 6th,
if convicted, he could face up to life in prison and a $250,000 fine.
Tonight, a group of Missouri police chiefs are calling for the ban of Delta Eight.
The psychoactive hemp product is legal and unregulated
but it's putting kids in the hospital bo
in your side's Mercedes mckay explains law enforcement's growing concern.
It's a real problem right now in Missouri,
kids and teenagers are walking into gas stations and picking up
this since it looks like candy and looks like snacks.
Uh It,
you know,
doesn't look like it's that harmful but it
is what's inside aren't your normal ingredients?
It's Delta Eight,
an intoxicating substance that's extracted from hemp and
mixed with chemicals to create a high.
We have a drug problem as it is
one more intoxicating substance
that's readily available that's,
you know, easily attained by
our youth. We just don't need it.
That's why Lake ST Louis police chief Christy Giuseppe along with
Chiefs across the state are spending their days in Jefferson City testifying
on behalf of Senate Bill 984 and House Bill 1781 which
would regulate Delta Eight and get it out of kid's reach.
There's a false narrative out there that some of
the proponents of the product have been putting out
about how it's going to help law enforcement if
we really don't have to regulate this stuff,
if we don't
to enforce it. And that's just not true. Di
Giuseppe is part of the law enforcement legislative coalition.
It's a new organization that unites Missouri police chiefs
representing them on legislative matters that affect public safety.
And according to D Giuseppe, delta eight is already causing harm.
Just earlier this month,
10 students at Sumner High School in ST Louis got
high after purchasing the hemp product at a gas station,
four of them were taken to a hospital.
It is a public safety
threat
and uh we need to get it cleared up. We uh we need to get it banned.
It's not just police departments here in Missouri that
are trying to put an end to this.
Illinois lawmakers are pushing it as well.
This is a bill that's moving through the Illinois
legislature right now that would ban Delta Eight.
When I talk to my colleagues in DEA,
they tell me that this is one of the
most prominent topics that's brought up to them when they do public education.
That's why the chief took to Facebook
educating his community on this ongoing problem.
While pleading to parents for help.
We really need the public to support law enforcement to step up and
call our lawmakers and just and urge them to ban this stuff.
Mercedes mckay five on your side,
both the House and Senate bill were voted out of committee.
So the bills will now be sent to the floor for debate.
Hope tonight for local victims of radiation exposure.
The latest push in Washington
to pay them for their suffering,
taking your pet to the vet can take a big bite out of your budget.
Overall, there was no real top dog
tonight.
We're letting the cat out of the bag on pet insurance policies and other ways to save
next weather system already showing signs of life across parts of the plains.
Tonight,
Thursday's severe weather threat has us in a weather first storm alert.
Tonight, we're tracking how the storms will move through ST Louis in seven minutes.