All right, rise and shine every.
Welcome to your Tuesday 6:00 o'clock.
Jason and Alicia here with you.
Yeah, We of course, are followig
breaking news this morning. I'm.
We're gonna get to Eva Anderson,
who's live on the scene.
We also are tracking another air quality
alert that's in effect later today. Guy,
we just can't get a break of
these air quality alerts.
Now this not so much related to
the wildfires smoke, but still,
at noon, air quality alerts will
kick in for sensitive groups to
last through Thursday night.
So we're stuck.
With the heat and air quality as
for the next couple of days or e
next several days through Thursday night,
that is upper 80s and low 90s.
Today with sunshine winds out of
the southeast 5 to 15 mph and a
vast majority of the state under
that air quality alert,
you can see the metro counties
and central northern Minnesota,
southern Minnesota all included
through 9:00 o'clock Thursday,
I'm taking a look at your weeked
forecast and of course into next week.
Rain in the forecast this weeke.
I know a lot of festivals and parades
are happening this weekend due to pride,
so something to just watch as
rain chances start to increase.
Taking a look right now
at the Forest Lake split,
traffic moving along really nicy
through that area and that's rey
the big story across the metro s
morning as far as traffic goes,
No incidents to report at the moment.
We did have a stalled vehicle
in Minneapolis just a bit ago,
but that has since.
Cleared up so things are looking
good all across the metro.
I'll keep you tab,
keep tabs on this and keep you
posted in just a few minutes.
Alicia and Jason.
Megan, thank you.
Of course, back to that.
Breaking news were following out
of Minneapolis on what could be
a possible case of road rage in
the last four hours.
Police confirmed one man is dead after a
shooting that may have started on I-94.
The victim was found here at Dowling Ave.
and 6th St. N, just off the exit ramp on 94.
Eva Anderson is live at the scee
with brand new information.
Eva. Good morning.
Hi Jason. Yeah, police say thate
victim was likely shot while driving on
I-94 near the Dowling Ave. exit ramp.
And we have video new this morning from
the traffic cameras in the areat
moments before emergency crews arrived.
So let's take a look at that vi.
It shows a car similar to
the one the victim was in,
taking a sharp turn onto a grasy
median off I-94 and onto the exit ramp.
Police then arrived at the
intersection of Dowling and 6th.
N They tell us they found a mant
inside his car and you can see in this
video the car crashed into a ga.
The man was taken to the hospital and died.
Police have not arrested anyone,
and they also haven't released
the name of the victim.
I did reach out to them within the past
hour and a half to see if we can get a
little more information surrounding the
situation and how the victim was shot.
We're working to still hear
back from them guys.
All right. Still a lot of detais
to sort out here. Eva Anderson
reporting live for us. Thank yo.
Just a few hours, Derek Thompsos
expected to be charged in connen
with the crash that killed 5 yog
women in Minneapolis over the weekend.
We've learned Thompson is the
son of former Minnesota State
Representative John Thompson.
Police say Thompson was impaired and going
100 mph before the Lake Street crash.
They also say it was not a chase
because the trooper on 35 W didt
have time to start chasing him.
Thompson also has a long history
of fleeing police.
He was convicted twice in Minnea
and once in California for a hit
and run that put a woman in a c.
In this morning,
Community is in morning.
After gathering to lay
those young women to rest,
Gordon Severson has more on
who the women were and how
they're being remembered.
We're going to let the families go first. So
much grief. One building
alone couldn't contain it.
When the first few 100 people sd
up at the Darl Fruch Center in
Bloomington to pray Monday afternoon,
volunteers filled the gymnasiumd
then started sending others to e
football field to fit everyone ,
to pray for the families and to
honor the lives of five young
women who were taken too soon.
They have right feature ahead of
them, then suddenly get killed
and and senseless at me.
After the service, several buses
took community members to the Gn
of Eden Cemetery in Burnsville
to say their final goodbyes,
giving them space to heal,
to process, to grieve.
Community leaders say the five
young women were best friends
between the ages of 17 and 20.
They were celebrating an upcoming wedding
Friday night when Minneapolis police say.
Their car was hit by a driver
going more than 100 miles an ho.
Police say the driver ran a red
light and was likely impaired.
Chief Brian O'Hara says all
five women died at the scene.
It's it's horrific,
this car accident.
It's a big impact for our commu,
a community that the five young women
were very connected to, Leaders.
They all had so much potential.
The youngest had recently
graduated from Edina High Schoo.
And had plans to attend the
University of Minnesota in the .
They had bright futures.
They had talent. They were cari.
They were loving. We lost something big.
Incredibly heartbreaking.
Money is being raised right nowo
help the families of the five victims.
You can donate at the address
you see right now on your screen
or by going to care11.com.
Six O 6 on the clock this morni.
More of your headlines.
Here we are three days away from
Taylor Swift taking over U.S.
bank Stadium.
In the last 8 hours we've learnd
Metro Transit will have extra rs
running the night of her concer.
Metro Transit says it's because of expected
high demand for people going toe
show and those celebrating Twin Cities.
Pride will now have service past midnight
for some routes and past 1:00 AM for others.
Metro Transit originally said they would not
be adding extra routes because of staffing.
The Mall of America is also
offering transportation to the .
The mall providing bus service o
and from U.S.
bank Stadium for $13.
So we've put together an
ultimate guide for fans.
Just text the word SWIFT to
763-797-7215 and we'll send you a link back.
Please text that number.
Do not call. We won't be picking
up and neither will Taylor Swif.
In just three hours,
teachers at Saint Paul Public
Schools are hosting the second annual
Culturally Responsive Instruction Expo.
The event is meant to inspire
educators to learn from each
other and share culturally
responsive practices and resour.
It'll feature keynote speakers
and networking opportunities.
The three day Expo starts at
9:00 this morning at Washington
Technology Magnet School.
Well, today is the start of our0
degree stretch, meaning a lot ou
will have your fans or air conditioners
running on high for the next few days.
So to save money on your energy bill,
XL Energy says install a programmable
thermostat so you can set it
cooler for only when you're hom.
Also, good time to change your
air conditioner filters or have
your air conditioner coils clean
to improve efficiency.
close your drapes and blinds if you can
during the day and if you have ceiling fans.
Use them.
They help circulate cooler air.
All right, let's take a live lok
over downtown Minneapolis right.
You can see the haze. Not bad.
Not bad at all sitting here at 71 degrees.
We do have an air quality alert though,
and about 6 hours from now it will go into
effect warning people of health conditions.
To stay inside and Guy,
as it's been lately,
it's been due to the Canadian wildfires
pushing smoke into our region.
But this time that's not the ca.
Yeah, that's not the case.
You'll notice blue skies today,
slightly hazy for sure.
I mean, wildfire smoke still
lofted way up in the atmosphere,
but it's not making its way to the surface.
So once you mix in some a little
bit of some wildfire smoke,
a little bit of haze tracked upn
the upper levels of the atmosph,
Now we got ground level polluta.
You got winds coming out of the Southeast.
You got major metro markets like
Chicago with all that pollutant,
all that pollution and compound,
you know that will be ushered in our way.
And with the hot weather,
the hot temperatures mixed in wh
our traffic increasing later on,
just not ideal to be outside
for sensitive groups.
So today we'll have those air
quality alerts kick in at noon d
then actually go through Thursd.
At 9:00 PM yesterday, we hit 91.
Yesterday morning, 65, average high 80.
So we are pushing to 11 degrees above
average lows right around wherey
should be around this time of season.
All right, sun up this morning looking
over downtown Minneapolis, hot and sunny.
Next 12 hours,
temperatures really start heating up.
And you'll notice by about mid
to late morning,
because I'll show you what I'm talking about.
It's 71 with the southeast wind
at 9 mph right now.
And then look at 10:00 AM.
We're already at 8110 degrees warmer now.
Noon going into the early after,
upper 80s.
There's our high temperature 4:00 o'clock.
That's going to be the
hottest period of the day.
Overnight.
Clear skies, temps in the 70s.
So another mild night ahead,
another mild start to the day.
Temperatures in the upper 60s
tomorrow morning and low 70s
very back-to-back patterns here.
We'll kind of rinse and repeat h
temperatures tomorrow waking upo
the upper 60s and 70s and then u
know 90s again for the afternoo.
We'll stay in this cycle now.
Friday looks to be more dry time
than wet now if you're traveling
N into northern Minnesota.
You know you'll find rain there.
The rain looks to be more scattd
north of 94 Saturday, Sunday.
Now we're talking about better
chances for metro counties
in southward for Saturday,
Sunday early next week.
Cooler temperatures with highs
in the low 80s.