COMING UP FIRST AT FOUR AFTER SOME FOG AND SOME SUNSHINE STORM TRACKER FOUR HAS SOME SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS ON IT. WE’RE
GOING TO TALK MORE ABOUT OUR
RAIN AND STORM CHANCES AND A
HEAT WAVE ON THE WAY THE DETAILS
COMING UP FIRST BEFORE HEY,
BRIAN, AND FIRST AT FOUR. POLICE
SAY HE ESCAPED, WAS ON THE RUN
AND THEN GOT CAUGHT. WE FOLLOW
THE BATTLE OVER HIS BAIL AND
HAVE THE JUDGE’S DECISION TODAY,
PAULA. I SPEAK TO AN ABORTION
CARE PROVIDER WHO SETS THE SCENE
OF WHAT IT’S LIKE IN MICHIGAN
RIGHT NOW, AS WOMEN FLOCKED TO
THIS STATE TO GET THE MEDICAL
PROCEDURE. LIVE FROM DOWNTOWN
DETROIT. LOCAL 4 NEWS FIRST AT
FOUR STARTS NOW. AND WELCOME TO
FIRST AT FOUR ON THIS FRIDAY
AFTERNOON. I’M KAREN DREW. IT IS
HOT, HUMID. AND GET READY. THERE
IS A CHANCE OF ISOLATED STORMS.
AS WE HEAD INTO A STEAMY
WEEKEND. YOU’RE GOING TO NEED TO
KEEP AN EYE ON CONDITIONS FOR
THE NEXT FEW DAYS. METEOROLOGIST
BRIAN SHERMAN IS STANDING BY TO
GIVE YOU A PEEK AHEAD TO WHAT’S
COMING OUR WAY. BRIAN HEY THERE,
KAREN. GOOD AFTERNOON, EVERYONE
. DEFINITELY A DRY DAY FOR MOST
OF US, ALTHOUGH, WITH DAYTIME
HEATING, WE ARE LOOKING AT A FEW
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ON
RADAR STORM TRACKER FOUR HAS A
FEW THUNDERSTORMS JUST TO THE
EAST OF ADRIAN WORKING DOWN OVER
THE OHIO STATE LINE, AND THEN
ONE LITTLE SHOWER JUST TO THE
NORTH OF METRO BETWEEN DOWNTOWN
DETROIT AND STERLING HEIGHTS AND
OTHER ONES MOVING INTO CANADA.
WE’RE GOING TO KEEP THE OPTION
OPEN FOR SOME STORMS AS WE HEAD
THROUGHOUT THE EVENING, MOST OF
THESE NOT MOVING ANYWHERE FAST
AFTER 1 TO 1 30 WITH DAYTIME
HEATING, AND I THINK WE’LL LOSE
THEM AS WE HEAD THROUGHOUT THE
MID LATE EVENING HOURS TONIGHT,
MOST OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN
INTO THE LOW TO MID EIGHTIES,
AND AS WE HEAD THROUGHOUT THE
EVENING, WE WILL BE SLOW TO
FALL, KEEPING THE CHANCE OF SOME
SHOWERS AND STORMS INTO THE
FORECAST, BUT MORE RAIN IS ON
THE WAY BY THE END OF THE
WEEKEND. YOUR FULL FORECAST
COMING UP IN JUST A FEW MINUTES,
KAREN. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU,
BRIAN. A TEENAGER ACCUSED OF
ESCAPING FROM EAST POINT POLICE
WAS IN COURT THIS AFTERNOON. HE
WAS PUSHING FOR A BOND THAT
MIGHT LET HIM GET OUT OF JAIL
WHILE WAITING FOR TRIAL. 18 YEAR
OLD DEVONTA MORE WAS CAUGHT
DURING A TRAFFIC STOP THURSDAY
NIGHT. HE ESCAPED FROM EAST
POINT POLICE TUESDAY WHILE BEING
PUT IN A TRANSPORT VAN. HIS
ATTORNEY TOLD THE COURT. HE HAS
MADE SOME POOR DECISIONS BUT HAS
A JOB AND A THREE YEAR OLD
CHILD. PROSECUTORS PUSH FOR
$100,000 CASH BOND, HOPING TO
GUARANTEE HE’LL SHOW UP FOR
COURT THE JUDGE SIDED WITH
PROSECUTORS. POLICE SAY MORE WAS
NOT ALONE WHEN HE WAS CAUGHT.
TWO WOMEN ARE ALSO FACING
CHARGES ACCUSED OF TRYING TO
HELP HIM WILL HAVE MORE ON THAT
PART OF THE STORY AT FIVE
MICHIGAN’S BATTLE OVER ABORTION
KEEPS SHIFTING AND CHANGING WITH
ACCESS TO THE PROCEDURE HANGING
IN THE BALANCE RIGHT NOW TO
COURT RULINGS ARE PROTECTING
PROVIDERS AND WOMEN FROM
PROSECUTION IN OAKLAND COUNTY
JUDGE ISSUED A TEMPORARY
RESTRAINING ORDER THAT PREVENTS
COUNTY PROSECUTORS FROM
ENFORCING THE 1931 LAW THAT BANS
ABORTIONS IN MOST CASES OF COURT
OF CLAIMS. JUDGE SUSPENDED THE
STATE LAW IN MAY, SAYING IT’S
MOST LIKELY UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
BUT MONDAY, THE COURT OF APPEALS
SAID THAT RULING DIDN’T APPLY TO
COUNTY PROCESS. PROSECUTORS.
AFTER ROE VERSUS WADE WAS
OVERTURNED. CONFUSION HAS REALLY
BEEN PLAYING OUT ALL ACROSS THE
COUNTRY. AND RIGHT HERE IN
MICHIGAN TODAY, PAULA TUTMAN IS
SPEAKING TO A LOCAL DOCTOR WHO’S
SEEN WOMEN FROM OTHER STATES
FLOODING INTO MICHIGAN. SHE’S
ALSO SEEN THEIR EMOTIONAL
REACTIONS AS THE LEGAL BATTLES
MAKE THEM WONDER WHAT COMES NEXT
. RIGHT NOW. ABORTION IS STILL
LEGAL IN MICHIGAN, AND THAT
MEANS ABORTION PROVIDERS ARE
INUNDATED AS WOMEN POUR ACROSS
STATE LINES KIND OF CONFUSING
HOW IT’S LAID OUT. THIS IS ONE
OF THE NORTH IRELAND FAMILY
PLANNING CENTERS IN METRO
DETROIT THIS MORNING. O B G Y N
DR AUDREY LANCE STARTS HER DAY
WITH A STAFFER. THIS IS THE CALM
BEFORE THE STORM. SINCE THE
OVERTURNING OF ROE V. WADE
MICHIGAN HAS BECOME A
DESTINATION FOR WOMEN SEEKING
ABORTION. MEDICAL CARE. WE
DEFINITELY ARE INUNDATED. IT HAS
BEEN EXHAUSTING. UM BUT I AM
VERY THANKFUL THAT WE ARE STILL
HERE. I AM THANKFUL THAT WE ARE
OPEN FOR BUSINESS AND TO SEE
PATIENTS AND CARE FOR THEM. FROM
ALL OVER OHIO, INDIANA. MICHIGAN
I’VE EVEN SEEN PATIENTS AS FAR
AWAY AS FROM TEXAS. BUT THE LAW
HERE IS FRAGILE AND TENTATIVE
AND OFTEN CONFUSING, EVEN TO THE
PROVIDERS LIKE LAST MONDAY, WHEN
THE MICHIGAN COURT OF APPEALS
RULED THAT MICHIGAN’S 83 COUNTY
PROSECUTORS COULD BEGIN
ENFORCING THE ABORTION BAN, I
HAD TO STEP IN FRONT OF A
WAITING ROOM FULL OF PATIENTS
WHO WERE THERE THAT MORNING TO
GET ABORTION CARE. AND WE’RE
JUST SITTING WAITING PATIENTLY
TO SEE THE DOCTOR. AND I HAD TO
TELL THEM THAT I WASN’T SURE IF
WE COULD CARE FOR THEM THAT DAY.
IT WAS ABSOLUTELY PANIC. UM
GASPS, TEARS. IT WAS
HEARTBREAKING. IT WAS ABSOLUTELY
CRUSHING TO HAVE TO TELL
PATIENTS THAT ONE OF DR LANCE’S
PATIENTS A 13 YEAR OLD RAPE
VICTIM, IT IS ALSO JUST. VERY
CRUSHING TO HAVE TO HAVE A
PATIENT THIS IN THIS PARTICULAR
PATIENT. HAVE TO WALK THROUGH
OUR PROTESTERS AND JUST TO
IMAGINE BEING A YOUNG PERSON 13
14. YOU’RE JUST TRYING TO GO TO
SCHOOL. YOU KNOW, YOU’RE JUST
TRYING TO BE A KID. UM, AND TO
HAVE TO GO THROUGH THAT. IT’S
HEARTBREAKING AS BOTH SIDES OF
THE ABORTION ISSUE DUKE IT OUT
IN COURT. THE REVERBERATIONS ARE
FELT IN THE PACKED WAITING
ROOMS. PROVIDERS WORK THROUGH IT
STOP WHEN THEY MUST TO HAVE
THEIR ATTORNEYS INTERPRET.
WHATEVER RULING IS COMING DOWN,
CONTINUING WHEN IT’S SAFE TO DO
SO ACTUALLY MAKES ME TEAR UP A
LITTLE BIT. UM PEOPLE SHOULD NOT
HAVE TO GO THROUGH THIS. PEOPLE
SHOULD NOT HAVE TO WONDER. IF
THE DAY THAT THEY HAPPENED TO BE
SITTING IN THE DOCTOR’S OFFICE.
IF THEY’RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO
GET THE CARE THEY NEED AND THAT
GOES FOR ALL HEALTHCARE AND THIS
WILL CONTINUE UNTIL THIS IS
SETTLED IN THE STATE OF
MICHIGAN. PAULA TUTMAN LOCAL 4.
THERE ARE OTHER CHALLENGES IN
THE WORKS. GOVERNOR WHITMER HAS
ASKED MICHIGAN SUPREME COURT TO
DECLARE THE 1931 LAW
UNCONSTITUTIONAL AND
CONSTITUTIONAL SO THAT CASES
PENDING PLUS VOTERS COULD GET A
CHANCE TO VOTE ON THE ISSUE ON
THE NOVEMBER BALLOT. OF COURSE,
WE’LL KEEP YOU POSTED ON ALL OF
THIS. IT IS HARD TO PIN DOWN
WHERE THE U. S ECONOMY IS REALLY
HAD A NEW JOB NUMBERS SEEM TO
DEFY ANXIETY ABOUT HIGH
INFLATION AND POSSIBLY A
RECESSION, THE LABOR DEPARTMENT
SAYS EMPLOYERS ADDED 528,000
JOBS IN JULY, AND THAT’S MORE
THAN EXPECTED UNEMPLOYMENT HAS
FALLEN TO 3.5. STRONG NUMBERS
LIKE THAT MAY KEEP THE COUNTRY
FROM FALLING INTO A RECESSION,
EVEN THOUGH THE GROSS DOMESTIC
PRODUCT HAS FALLEN TWO QUARTERS
IN A ROW. BUT THE NUMBERS COULD
ALSO POINT TO MORE INTEREST RATE
HIKES AS THE FED TRIES TO REIN
IN RECORD INFLATION. RIGHT NOW.
JURORS ARE DELIBERATING PUNITIVE
DAMAGES IN THE DEFAMATION TRIAL
SURROUNDING ONLINE HOST ALEX
JONES. THEY’LL DECIDE HOW MUCH
MORE MONEY IF ANY, HE SHOULD PAY
TO THE FAMILY OF A SIX YEAR OLD
WHO WAS KILLED IN THE SANDY HOOK
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SHOOTING.
YESTERDAY THE SAME JURY ORDERED
JONES TO PAY $4.1 MILLION IN
COMPENSATION JONES SPENT ABOUT
10 YEARS PUSHING FALSE CLAIMS
THE SCHOOL SHOOTING WAS A HOAX.
DURING THE TRIAL, JONES ADMITTED
THE MASSACRE WAS 100% REAL, AND
HE WAS WRONG TO LIE ABOUT IT.
WELL THERE SEEMS TO BE A SLIGHT
OPENING IN NEGOTIATIONS TO BRING
HOME BASKETBALL STAR BRITNEY
GRINER AND MICHIGAN’S PAUL
WHELAN. THE U. S AND RUSSIA HAVE
BOTH INDICATED THEY ARE READY TO
HOLD TALKS ABOUT A POSSIBLE
PRISONER SWAP. IT MAY BE A SMALL
MOVE FORWARD, BUT IT SEEMS TO
PRESENT AN OPPORTUNITY
JASON COLTHORPE IN THE NEWSROOM
AND JASON. THE NEWS COMES ONE
DAY AFTER GRINER WAS SENTENCED.
EXACTLY RIGHT, KAREN AND GOOD
AFTERNOON EVERYONE YESTERDAY WAS
A PRETTY BLEAK DAY FOR THE W. N
B A STAR AT HER SUPPORTERS AS
SHE WAS CONVICTED ON DRUG
CHARGES AND SENTENCED TO NINE
YEARS. A RUSSIAN PRISON, BUT WE
DID HEAR NEGOTIATIONS FOR
PRISONER SWAP WOULDN’T GET
SERIOUS UNTIL HER TRIAL WAS OVER
, ANYWAY. NOW IT IS 24. HOURS
LATER, US SECRETARY OF STATE
ANTONY BLINKEN AND HIS RUSSIAN
COUNTERPART WERE BOTH IN
CAMBODIA FOR A SECRETARY OF
SECURITY FORUM. BOTH COUNTRIES
CONFIRMING TALKS ABOUT THE
FUTURES OF GREINER AND
BUSINESSMAN PAUL WHELAN CAN
BEGIN NOW VIA CHANNELS
ESTABLISHED BY THE U. S AND
RUSSIA. TO HANDLE THESE KINDS OF
NEGOTIATIONS, THE SECRETARY OF
STATE, SAYS GRINER. SENTENCING
HAS RAISED THE FOCUS ON THE
PLIGHTS OF BOTH AMERICANS. IT
PUTS A SPOTLIGHT ON OUR VERY
SIGNIFICANT CERN WITH RUSSIA’S
LEGAL SYSTEM AND THE RUSSIAN
GOVERNMENT’S USE OF WRONGFUL
DETENTIONS. TO ADVANCE ITS OWN
AGENDA, USING INDIVIDUALS AS
POLITICAL PAWNS. THE SAME GOES
FOR PAUL WHELAN. UM WE PUT
FORWARD. AS YOU KNOW A
SUBSTANTIAL PROPOSAL THAT
RUSSIA’S HAD ENGAGED WITH US ON
THE US HAS ALREADY MADE AN OFFER
TO GET THE TWO AMERICANS BACK.
IT’S BELIEVED TO INCLUDE A
NOTORIOUS ARMS DEALER, BUT
THAT’S NEVER BEEN PUBLICLY
CONFIRMED. RUSSIA IS REPORTEDLY
ALREADY SEEKING THE RELEASE OF
ANOTHER PRISONER NEGOTIATIONS
WILL BE DELICATE AND, OF COURSE
, SURROUNDED BY THE TENSIONS OF
RUSSIA’S WAR IN UKRAINE. KAREN
WILL KEEP YOU POSTED, OBVIOUSLY,
AS THIS GOES FORWARD, AND AS WE
LEARN MORE BACK TO YOU, ALL
RIGHT, THANK YOU, JASON. WELL IN
THE MIDDLE EAST, ISRAEL HAS
UNLEASHED A WAVE OF AIR STRIKES
IN GAZA, KILLING 10 PEOPLE,
INCLUDING A FIVE YEAR OLD GIRL.
OFFICIALS SAY ANOTHER 40 PEOPLE
ARE INJURED. ISRAEL SAYS IT WAS
TARGETING THE ISLAMIC JIHAD
GROUP BECAUSE OF AN EMINENT
THREAT FOLLOWING THE ARREST OF A
SENIOR MILITANT IN THE OCCUPIED
WEST BANK EARLIER THIS WEEK.
LATE TODAY, PALESTINIANS HAVE
LAUNCHED A BARRAGE OF ROCKETS.
PUTTING BOTH SIDES TOWARD
ANOTHER ALL OUT WAR. SENATE
DEMOCRATS BELIEVE THEY HAVE THE
VOTES TO PASS A BIG COMPROMISE
ON HEALTH CARE, CLEAN ENERGY,
ALSO A TAX INCREASE ON BIG
CORPORATIONS. ARIZONA CENTRIST
SENATOR KRISTEN CINEMA SAYS
SHE’S AGREED TO MOVE FORWARD
WITH THE NEWLY CHRISTENED
INFLATION REDUCTION ACT.
DEMOCRATS NEED ALL 50 VOTES FROM
THEIR PARTY TO PASS THE BILL
WITH VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA
HARRIS TO BREAK THE TIE.
REPUBLICANS ARE EXPECTED TO PUT
FORWARD A BUNCH OF AMENDMENTS