13 WMAC morning starts now. Well, if you have
not stepped outside yet this
morning, you're in for a very
nice surprise. Temperatures
in the 50s. We'll talk about what
you expect for the day ahead
and for the weekend coming up.
Plus three months. That's how
long one making business will
have to avoid serving an item.
But deputies delivered to the rodeo
Bar and Grill this week. Plus,
the debate is over on whether 2 Senate
candidates will meet before November,
what Senator Rafael Warnock has now accepted
and working as a team made to more
than teach. Students, teamwork.
How one central Georgia schools program
is working as a team building robots.
Well, good morning. Happy Wednesday.
We are halfway through the work and school
week. The time is now
630. On this September 14th,
you're looking live over Dublin.
I'm Caitlin heck
and I'm wannier reason.
Absolutely beautiful.
Start to the day.
You're definitely gonna want
a light jacket this morning.
I know. It's so nice,
though, to be able to say that
and not say you're walking out
to heat and humidity. Alex.
Yeah, and nice to say grab the hot
coffee instead of the ice coffee
this morning because we've had
plenty of ice coffee mornings.
Over the summer, the past several weeks.
This morning? Not so much.
Here's a live look over Lawrence County
59 as the current number in Dublin.
A few people moving at this
early hour 58 in Macon,
57 and Gordon back to 60 in Warner Robins,
now 58 in Sandersville.
But Eastman's been the coolest
spot all morning at 54 degrees
down there in Dodge County.
That's 13 degrees cooler than
they were this time yesterday,
12 degrees cooler in Abbeville and Mcgray,
7 degrees cooler here in Macon.
Dry air to go around this morning as well.
Across the southeast.
We've got a pretty cool morning.
As well, and it's not every day this happens.
Take a look at this map real fast 58
and make an and in Albany the coolest
numbers across the southeast this morning.
Now as we head into the afternoon hours,
temperatures are going to warm
up into the 80s fairly quickly,
going with an afternoon high temperature
of about 85 right around 4:00 PM that's
about 3 degrees shy of the average high,
about 88.
But overall a pretty nice day in
store here for us in central Georgia.
It's the coolest morning we've
had since mid-May.
We'll talk about what that means for
the days ahead in the warm afternoon.
Still to come coming up here
in just a few minutes.
Thank you, Alex. 2 drug raids lead to two
arrests in Sandersville.
A teen hurt in a Macon shooting
in action, taken against a business
in Bibb County following a weekend
shooting and other crimes.
Let's go ahead and catch you up on the three
things that you need to know right now.
Two people in Washington County now
face charges in connection to a month
long illegal drug sales investigation.
The Sheriff's Office says their
investigation resulted into a
rate of two Sandersville homes.
Yesterday
they arrested 66 year old Sandra Butts.
She's now charged with two counts of.
Sale of cocaine and one count of possession
of cocaine with intent to distribute.
They also arrested and charged 49
year old Ernest Johnson junior.
He faces two counts of
trafficking cocaine this morning.
A 16 year old is in critical condition
after a shooting in West Macon.
The Bibb Sheriff's Office says it
happened just before midnight on
the 3300 block of Hollingsworth Rd.
Deputies found a teen shot and
medics took him to a hospital.
Investigators are trying to figure out what
led to the shooting and who's responsible.
If you have any information,
you can call Macon Regional Crime Stoppers.
The number is right there on your screen.
It is 187768 crime again 187768 crime
the Hohol license now suspended for
a making club that was the scene of
a deadly shooting over the weekend.
Deputies delivered the letter to the
rodeo Bar and Grill yesterday afternoon.
Sheriff David Davis's letter says the
club is a threat to public safety.
It lists more than 13 reported crimes at
the Piano Ave business in the past year,
including fighting, aggravated assaults,
criminal trespassing and the death
of a security guard who died Sunday
after a shooting on Saturday Feb
commissioner Virgil walking.
Because after 90 days,
rodeo's owners can ask county leaders
to restore the alcohol license.
The county could do that,
or it could revoke the license altogether.
It's now 6:34 AM let's get a
check of your state news.
Prominent Georgia Defense
Attorney page Pate is dead.
Linn County's coroner says that
55 year old drowned Sunday while
swimming in an inlet with his
teenage son on Saint Simons Island.
He says powerful rip currents swept the
father and his son into those open waters.
Paid son swam back to shore safely,
but a rescue crew had to pull
the 55 year old from the water,
and he sadly died at the hospital.
Paid frequently provided expert commentary
on legal issues on our sister station.
In Atlanta,
11 alive we're certainly sending our
prayers and condolences to his family.
Absolutely. Well, today and tomorrow,
the calm County Sheriff's Office
will say goodbye to two of their
deputies killed in the line of duty.
Governor Brian Kemp ordered flags to
be flown at half staff as families
and friends gather for their funerals.
Jonathan Kolowski and Marshall Irvin
junior got shot while trying to serve a
warrant at a home near Marietta last week.
Koleski's funeral happens today.
Irvin Juniors is tomorrow.
The governor says flags will fly at half
staff on the state Capitol building and
in Cobb County until sunset both days.
Now to election news.
We're now less than eight weeks out
from the November midterm election.
I know it's hard to believe one of
the biggest races on the ballot in
Georgia is for a U.S. Senate seat.
Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock faces
Republican challenger and former Georgia
Bulldogs running back Herschel Walker.
Georgia voters, you will see at least
one fall debate between the candidates.
Yesterday, Warnock actually
accepted Walker's proposal for an
October 14th debate in Savannah.
But the senator also renewed his
call for an additional debate to
be either in Macon or Atlanta.
Walker has yet to accept the second
matchup and did not directly
respond to Warnock's latest pitch.
Wsav will host the October
14th Savannah debate.
Requesting more St lights
in Bibb County could
get a little easier. Right now,
people who want more lights have a few
hurdles to jump through, like paying
$100 just to put it in application.
They also have to gather signatures from
a certain percentage of their neighbors.
Now, under this new proposal,
bid would waive those requirements.
Then the county could agree to
provide the lights or turn them down.
Commissioner Virgil Watkins,
junior, sponsored the ordinance.
It's a simple
thing as St lights,
but they can have a big impact
on safety and and just overall
quality of life with folks.
So I'm hopeful that folks will
take advantage of us.
Getting a little easier,
I'll Wilkins Junior says home some of the
areas he thinks should get first priority
are parts of Lily Ave and Houston Ave.
The Commissioners will make their final
decision on the ordinance next week.
636 here on your Wednesday morning well
demand for EMT's is growing across the
country in a school program in our state
aims to train more people in the field.
Lawrence County created the first emergency
medical technician course in Central Georgia,
which they offered to high school students.
You can be that one person that
will like help them and then they
can go on to do something great
that helps somebody else. Had
some cool stuff. Emily Curry is a
senior at W Lawrence High School and
is now a nationally certified EMT.
EMS instructor Mitch Cobbs has a program.
Took off two years ago.
He says they started offering the
course because they wanted to bring
awareness to what the job entails.
The Ms can
be a stepping stone to the nursing
field. The doctorates working
in hospital. We train them both in
hospital and out of hospital as well,
Cobb says. They offer the courses
to juniors and seniors at East
and West Lawrence they averaged.
15 to 20 students for a class with
they're always looking for more.
If you have a student interested in joining,
they can get with a counselor
to sign up for the course.
Ohh, the Georgia National Fair
kicks off in less than a month.
While the event features plenty
of familiar fun,
there's a new rule you need to
follow how it affects what you
can bring through the gates.
Plus, this year,
we're surprising more top teachers.
Find out how you can send us
your nominations coming up.
Ohh, one of our new
JJ's. We love to see it.
Alright, time is 637.
We love to see the forecast for today
too. Exactly. A lot of students who are
gonna be getting on the bus this morning,
they're probably gonna need a light jacket.
If they're like me and don't have
as much hair as Caitlin the they'll
probably need a hat as well. Yeah,
it's kind of everybody wins today
because if you like the cool stuff,
you get it in the morning and
if you like warmer conditions,
you get that in the afternoon.
But it is a sign that the
writing is on the wall.
That fall is on the way.
Here's a live look over downtown.
Starting to see just a little bit of
light there off in the distance sunrises
not until about 7:15 ish somewhere
in there this morning 58 and making
59 and Warner Robins 57 in Cochrane.
Right now we've got 60 and soperton and
57 waking up and Sparta Sandersville
and and Wrightsville this morning.
We are significantly cooler in several
spots than we were yesterday morning.
We had that front somewhere between Macon and
about Eastman yesterday at about this time.
So that's why the it's technically
cooler and down there than it was.
This time,
on your Tuesday morning across the Southeast,
check out this map I was saying earlier,
it's not every day that Macon and
Albany have the coolest temperatures
on the map for the entire SE.
Cooler than Little Rock, AR.
Cooler than Nashville.
Right now.
Cooler than Charlotte.
We are sitting at 58 here in central Georgia,
and as we head through the day today,
we are going to warm up fairly significantly,
in fact,
almost 30 degrees before all is said and done
and we're going to waste no time doing it.
No clouds.
Thanks to the dry air,
high pressure to our N there's no
clouds means we're going to be
able to warm up from the sunshine.
Very quickly.
So here we are at the noon hour into the 80s.
I do think we actually top
off somewhere right around 85.
Just a few clouds into the evening
tonight and that's going about
do it then for tomorrow morning,
not quite as cool,
but back into the 80s during
the afternoon hours,
a light wind out of the Northeast,
just one or two clouds around,
making for a fantastic Thursday
and a fantastic Friday as well.
Very similar.
Only one or two showers will be
possible on Friday and those will
be very few and very far in between.
We're not going to be looking at a
widespread rain threat, only about 10%.
The other good news out of all of this,
the humidity going to be talking about
two points, Borderline 50s today,
so fairly comfortable.
We do get back into the humid
range or just on the borderline
of it over the next few days.
But compared to what we've seen
in Central Georgia this summer,
it's still going to feel fairly
nice out there.
The high temperatures also
trending below average.
Our average high for this
time of year is about 88.
We looking somewhere between 85
and 87 over the next few days.
We are keeping an eye on the
tropics here in the weather center.
Of course this area disturbed
weather and central in the
central Atlantic has caught our attention.
And the National Hurricane Center's
attention as well, about a 50% chance
development over the next 5 days.
Notice the Hurricane Center is pulling
it towards Puerto Rico and Hispaniola.
The spaghetti models are doing the same.
Check this out.
We're gonna be watching for several
things here over the next few days.
One including does the storm develop?
2. Where do the models take it?
And three and they're going to
continue taking it along that track.
Because if this is the case,
something to keep an eye on for
us if it were to Miss Hispaniola.
Hispaniola typically acts as
something to weaken storms because
of the mountainous train there.
So.
A lot to watch here over the next few days.
Nothing to be concerned about
here in central Georgia or in
the United States at the moment,
but of course we'll be keeping an eye on it.
Temperatures today into the 70s fairly
quickly, eventually into the 80s,
topping off right around 85.
Even though it's cool this morning,
we are still going to be looking
at a warm afternoon.
Then for tonight 62.
That is below average
with some mostly clear skies
and an early look at your
football Friday night forecast.
Probably the best week
we've had all season. No rain chance.
Sunset is at 739 there on Friday night.
Gives way to a fantastic
weekend. Depends on next week's high
temperatures in the mid to upper 80s,
low temperatures in the mid 60s.