Right now, changes to current Missouri
laws will breakdown the three new
laws now in effect
Improving I-70, where you can go
this afternoon to hear Mo dots
plans for improving the Interstate
across Central Missouri. Emergency
bill for emergency responders. How St.
Charles County Council is ready to battle
a staffing shortage at 911 dispatch
centers. The quiet weather pattern
develops this week as temperatures come on
down. We'll see if there's any
rain in that extended outlook.
It's the dog days of summer how you
can bring your puppy on the St.
Louis wheel. With one exception.
This is today in St. Louis focused on you.
Good morning, everyone.
We are live at Francis
Howe Central this morning.
We've got the cheer squad
out and the mascot looking
well, you know, Francis has
been in school for a week now,
so we're talking with the
students and the faculty,
just like how it's been going.
And you know what?
The heat was a big challenge last week,
and now we're having so many
nice temperatures this week.
So good. Good morning, everyone.
It is Monday.
It feels like a Monday for me.
It's August 28th. I'm Michelle Lee.
And I'm Cindy Starworth.
I'm in for Rennie, not.
He's off this morning because he was up
late for the MDA telethon yesterday.
We'll talk about that later today.
They made such a big
difference year after year.
That's what they do.
We're gonna have more on
that in about 15 minutes.
But thanks for joining us,
especially everybody who's streaming
on five plus Paul's got you
covered on this Monday morning,
getting to school and work.
And Anthony,
people are going to like you today
into September. We can keep it going.
Yeah, numbers will be cooling
down finally for a change.
We had the rain come through this
weekend and that has created a more
comfortable air mass that's in place now.
So the area of low pressure that
brought the rain is moving away from us,
high pressures moving on in and
it's clear we're going away.
The cloud cover that we actually
had through much of Sunday,
a beautiful looking sunrise
over downtown this morning.
It looks good, It feels good.
The numbers have come on down.
The humidity's moved away from us as well,
All of that extreme heat
across the Deep South.
But we have a zonal flow
on our jet stream now.
It's more of a West to east flow
and that usually brings in seasonal
temperatures and no big weather system.
So we will have sunshine around each
day and comfortable humidity level.
So here's your forecast today.
60s out the door, 80s for highs later on.
O do enjoy.
We'll have sunshine through the entire week.
All right, let's get over to Paul.
Remember those shades because we're
always talking sunshine slowdowns.
Paul,
what's going on on the roads this morning?
Oh yeah,
that glare can get to also the
construction and we want to make
sure you know what's headed
your way as you hit the door.
It's the ebbs and flows of construction
and volume working together.
And up in North County really
had been moving very,
very nicely over the past month or so.
But now we do have static road work
that is active right now here 270
westbound at New Halls Ferry and
we're going to keep an eye on that
with a lot more motorists hitting the road.
But as you can see here,
we look at the big few little
areas of construction,
not heavy volume yet,
obviously keeping an eye on 270
at 6440 because volume a very
good indicator right there.
But also nearby at the ballast exit ramp,
we can really bog down onto the highway.
So we'll keep a close eye on that one,
another take on traffic minutes away.
All right. Thank you, Paul.
Speaking of construction,
I-70 will look a lot different in just
a couple of years and it's all aimed
at improving the busy Interstate.
Alex Fees is live in St.
Charles County with how you
can listen in and also give
your input to Mo Dots plans.
Good morning, Alex
the cell and Sydney. Good morning, Mo.
dot officials this afternoon are
planning one of those public meetings
to give information about their
proposed changes on Interstate
70 across that central corridor.
The current budget for our 2024 budget,
make that signed by Governor Mike Parson,
provides for $2.8 billion worth of
improvements now among them building
a 3rd lane in both directions of
I-70 from Blue Springs to Wentzville
and improving pavement and bridges.
Mo dot is holding a public meeting
this afternoon from 4:00 to 6:00
at Wentzville City Hall located
at 1001 Schrader Creek Blvd.
63385.
This is an informational meeting
that's open house style with There
will be no formal presentation.
You're invited to attend the
informational meetings to learn about
proposed plan and the next steps
on I-70 in that central corridor.
Now at those meetings,
mo dot engineers will be outlining their
preliminary information about scheduling,
possible construction schedules,
things of that nature.
Reporting live this morning
in Saint Charles County.
Alex Fees 5 on your side.
Thanks so much, Alex.
See you again soon, All right.
Happening today.
There are several new laws
across Missouri now in effect.
One of them includes banning
transgender care for most minors.
The rule also impacts some adults,
though, And our political
editor Mark Maxwell joins us
with the renewed push to stop
the ban and what it means.
Attorney General Andrew Bailey
celebrated the Missouri court ruling
Friday that set a new law titled Save
Adolescence from Experimentation,
or the SAFE Act can go into effect.
I want Missouri to be the safest
state in the nation for children,
and that's what that's all about.
But trans teens under 18 aren't the only
patients impacted by new changes in the law.
My biggest concern is for trans adults
who are needing this medication and
who cannot afford Florida. Missouri
lawmakers also ban doctors from
prescribing cross sex hormones,
puberty blockers or gender
reassignment surgery to adult patients
who get their health insurance
or medical care from the state
prisoners who are receiving
hormones right now.
It would detransition them,
and that's very harmful.
Renee Friels went with her teen trans
daughter to see their family pediatrician
and followed the doctor's guidance on
how to start that transition process.
She said the state's new ban on
trans care will push other families
in their position out of Missouri.
Many of our families have already
left the state and it has broken
our hearts to watch them leave.
We've packed boxes.
We've actually participated in Uhaul
packing and watching them leave,
PROMO Missouri's executive
director Katie Erker Lynch said.
The fight is far from over,
adding it is now up to providers,
clinicians and the attorneys at their
clinics and hospitals to decide how
much risk they're willing to take on.
In the Friday court ruling,
Judge Stephen Omer wrote the science and
medical evidence is conflicting and unclear.
That's a claim promo Missouri
Board Secretary Arrow Royston
called completely false writing.
Every major Medical Association in
the US supports gender affirming
healthcare as the standard of care,
in a scathing statement to the
Governor and Attorney General Irker,
Lynch wrote,
You have blood on your hands and
said you have manipulated systems,
grossly overreached your positions,
and put your own insecurities
and greed for power in front of
lifesaving medicine for children
and lowincome Missourians.
Mark Maxwell,
5 On your side.
The ban is scheduled to expire August 2027,
when lawmakers could take up this
issue again. And starting today,
transgender student athletes will be
required to compete on sports teams
that align with their sex assigned at
birth. And another new law going into effect
today is going to change the way you drive.
The Handsfree law bans all drivers from
using their cell phones behind the wheel.
In Missouri, that means
no texting while driving.
You also can't watch,
record or send a video while you're driving,
but you can use Bluetooth or
voice activated features.
From now until January 2025,
police will only give out warnings
if you're caught doing this.
After that, the fines will start at
$150.00 and hopes of getting more
people to work in Saint Louis city.
Starting today,
employees are no longer required to live
within city limits to work for the city.
However,
fulltime employees must live within
an hour of their workplace and
about four minutes 4 hours from now.
Rather,
Mayor to Char Jones will promote
new job opportunities after lifting
the city's residency requirement.
And across the Mississippi River in Illinois,
Governor JB Pritzker will be in Litchfield
to discuss some new jobs today.
A new training and Innovation
Center will open on Isleman Ave.
The governor will be in
town at 2:15 this afternoon.
All right, let's talk about our weather.
First forecast.
After a week of extreme heat and
over the weekend we had some rain.
Our numbers are finally coming on down.
It will be a decent day today as we start
off in the 60s and highs go into the 80s.
I want to put this on your
radar for tomorrow evening.
There is a chance that some of
us could see a shower or two.
There is a through that's going
to swing through and right now it
doesn't look overly impressive.
This comes in around bedtime
tomorrow and aside from that,
the rest of the week is dry and
numbers again much more tolerable,
closer to where we should
be for seasonal averages.
We'll have highs today in the low 80s,
upper 80s tomorrow,
and then it's back into the low
to mid 80s as we end the week.
But summer's not done with us.
We go back into the 90s.
This weekend we'll talk about
the rest of the week's forecast
and a glimpse at Labor Day.
Yeah, that's coming up in a few minutes.
All right, Thanks, Anthony.
Also coming up, battling for job
shortages for 911 dispatchers,
how Saint Charles County plan to
support emergency call centers.
Right now, a tropical storm is
strengthening as it heads toward Florida.
We're tracking when Adalia could make
landfall and it's possible impacts.
And today marks 60 years since
the iconic March on Washington.
How its impact is still being felt
across the country this morning.
But before we go, we're
taking another live look at Francis Howell.
Look at everybody who showed up, the band and
of course, that mascot,
that intimidating looking at mascot.
Oh yeah. Hey, they're having so much fun,
so much to look forward to.
You know, they're having that senior
citizen from coming up later on.
That's going to be great.
The Superintendent told
us about that earlier.
Let's listen into the band.