This is today in St. Louis focused on you.
We are waking up this
morning and storm alert.
We're going to take a live look
from the storm tracker in Illins
right now and at the radar at te
same time and you'll be able toe
that these storms right now are
strong and that the heavy rain s
moving across the region right .
Good Monday morning, everybody.
Thank you so much for joining
us for the day in St. Louis.
There it is right there.
You can see the radar and you can also
see the square there in Bellevi.
And yeah, it's,
it's blowing wind and it's
raining at the same time.
Thank you so much for
joining us for today in St.
Louis on this Monday morning,
I'm running out
and I'm Michelle Lee.
So great to see you on this Mon.
But wow, we've got a lot to talk about today,
whether it is if you're gettingt
on the road or you're going somewhere.
So let's tos it over to our
weather first meteorologist,
Anthony Slaughter. Good morning,
Anthony. The rain is really coming down.
The worst of it now is put
off towards the Illinois
side of the river.
So Saint Louis Metro we are done
with the heaviest rain and alsoe
gusty winds, but we will still have rain,
lightning and Thunder around,
at least for the next couple of hours.
There you can see on the Doppler radar from
Litchfield and two parts of Belleville.
That's where the worst of it's coming down.
Still a plain old rain for Saint Louis.
We are done with the worst of i,
but that extends all the way South of town.
Right now, so the green and
yellow you see over St.
Louis, that's light to moderaten
showers and most of the lightnig
and Thunder has wrapped up ther.
But it's the Illinois side now where our
tension turns now pushing through Litchfield,
approaching you in Greenville
and that 70 drive through Troy.
And then South of town you alsoe
spotty thunderstorms from Bloomsdale,
Potosi into Steeleville and Viburnum.
So the morning hours will be
storming this afternoon.
We will have dry time,
temperatures will be in the 80s,
but there are more storms in
the forecast this evening.
We'll time that out for you
coming up time and.
That morning commute,
it's a Monday.
We're back
to work in school throwing some storms.
It could be a roughing on the r.
Paul, what's going on out there?
Oh buddy, manic Monday going on.
We're seeing a lot of volume building and
the roads are wet as you said here in
Missouri and in Illinois and incidents
along 71 at 141 and then another at 270.
We were just looking at the map there and you
can kind of see here overall we are moving,
but be very careful out there on the roads
and then we also have an incident this.
One is near the airport at 1417,
actually a little further West,
but also in Maryville, IL.
55 southbound at Keebler.
Just something to be aware of,
you know, before the rain came ,
here was the scene, Interstate
170 at Forest Park Parkway
overnight. You can see emergency
crews blocked off several lanes after
a crash around midnight. Right
now all lanes are back open,
but be careful out there.
If you can come over, take
a look at this video from downtn
Saint Louis from over the weeke.
Police were overwhelmed
with street racing brawls,
people walking around casually with guns,
and homicides did happen this morning.
Residents are waking up concernd
after the mayhem.
Our Sydney Solworth is joining
us in studio with how police
responded to this violent weeke.
Good morning, Sydney.
Good morning, Renny Michelle.
That's exactly right. Just so you know,
our five on your side newsroom has recorded
at least 14 shootings since Friday night.
At least five people are dead n.
This weekend, police struggled to keep up
with the high volume of calls coming in.
And in an internal memo, we did learn
that police were dealing with about 17
calls at the start of the Saturday shift,
but by the end of the night.
Officers were sorting through as
many as 55 calls at the same ti.
Now this morning,
police are still searching for e
gunman involved in a quadruple shooting.
218 year old women were killed .
Two other teens are critically injured now.
It happened early Sunday morning
on Branch streets in Hyde Park.
Just a couple of hours earlier,
police found a man shot to death
nearby in the area of Destrehan.
and Blair Ave.
Another man was taken to the hospital
and police responded to Cheroke.
multiple times over the weekend 2 shootings,
24 hours apart.
On Friday night, two men were killed.
Two other people were injured.
On Saturday night,
many in the city were out
celebrating Cinco de Mayo.
A man and woman were shot and
injured during the festivities.
Now one St.
Louis Bishop says.
He understands the city
is in a transition period,
with new police Chief Robert Try
and circuit attorney Kim Gardner
recently announcing her resigna.
But he says the violence needs to stop.
It may take some time for them to get
fully acclimated to to to thing,
but we need immediate help in our streets.
We also want to see new organizations,
new churches, new people just stepping up
to the plate and doing whatever it is that
they can to help to remedy this plague
that we are experiencing in our city.
Bishop Michael Robinson says hes
working to open safe spaces across the
city to help prevent deadly wees
like this one from happening ag.
Now I ran the numbers.
I'll breakdown how many homicids
the city has seen it so far this
year in our next half hour,
guys. Thanks
so much Sydney. Our team coverae
continues this morning as
residents and city leaders are
reacting to this deadly weekend.
Our Alex Fees joins us now withe
on the mayhem and the lawlessnes
that we saw in downtown St. Lou.
And Alex understand that the
mayor is also chiming in on thi.
That's right, running Michelle.
Mayor Tashara Jones issued a
statement over the weekend.
Mayor Jones says we are seeing
interpersonal conflicts escalate
made deadly when paired with the
flood of firearms on our street.
St. Louis police say officers we
called to respond to various locations
throughout the evening downtown relative
to large crowds and shots fired,
including the riverfront where numerous
amounts of cars were gathered.
Video captured some of those is.
Large crowds,
people walking the streets withg
guns and shots being fired on the riverfront.
Hundreds of cars blocked the ro.
That's where police receive reps
of more shots fired and one rept
of a group trying to allegedly
drown a homeless person in the
Mississippi River Friday.
Saint Louis police said there wd
be more officers patrolling downtown,
but the chair of Citizens for a
Greater Downtown says it seemed
just like any other weekend.
These are just tragedies
waiting to happen. And
again, it's totally
predictable. We know what's
happening, it's been happening.d
yet the city seems uninterested
in doing anything about it.
Which is, you know, frankly,
makes us pretty angry.
Video shows crowds gathered
and blocking traffic,
including what police call the
slideshow at Market and 9th str.
St. Louis police say extra offis
were staffed in the downtown arn
addition to mobile sky cop came.
Police say multiple vehicles fled from
officers as crowds were being dispersed.
Extra patrol support lasted
throughout the night. Now St.
Louis Mayor to Shara Jones issua
statement saying we will contine
to work alongside our community
violence intervention partners o
address conflicts before they e.
The City of St.
Louis will continue to use
every tool available.
To us to make our community saf,
but our families urgently need
action with gun safety laws at
the state and federal levels.
While it is frustrating for residents and
potentially scaring some tourists away,
5 On Your Side talked with two
people from Chicago who are in
town this weekend for an Expo.
They said they had no idea they
were staying near where anything
like this was going on.
Right. Thank you, Alex.
All of these incidents,
the shootings, the racing and
the fights are still developing.
At this time, we will post the
latest updates on kck.com and
on the File on Your Side app.
You could download the app
for free on your phones from
your phone's App Store.
While happening today,
Metro East leaders will talk
about rebuilding the Washington
Park Police and Fire stations.
The multipurpose building burned down,
if you remember back in October of 2021.
The village received some fundig
from the state's budget to help
repair and rebuild those statio.
Leaders will meet at the site
of a former building at noon
to talk about their plans. All
right, Michelle, let's get an ue
here on our weather first forec.
We are waking up in storm alert this morning.
We have been on the cusp of
severe storms all morning long.
Now, these are not severe.
You saw in the criteria you have to have
a winds over 58 mph and also hail that
usually is larger than 3/4 of an inch,
so we're just underneath that threshold.
But we've also had plenty of lightning
and Thunder along with the heavy rain.
For St. Louis Metro,
it's more light to moderate rai.
Now the heaviest is pushed off towards
the Illinois side, even Bellevi,
those storms have moved through your area.
So now in the Mescuda Summerfied
in the Highland, IL, Troy,
IL as well and lifting N some
of the heaviest rain just moved
over 55 from Troy to Litchfield.
Now that's.
That's pushing out towards Greenville
and Vandalia out towards 70 andn
this area from Bloomsdale down towards
Potosi and Steeleville, Missour.
You can see kind of moving from
a West to east direction.
So there could be some flash
flooding South of Saint Louis.
All in all,
it's hot and humid today,
but the next few days feature comfortable
air sliding in for Tuesday and Wednesday
as the storm chances diminish.
We'll talk about that part of
the forecast and a look at more
storms to come for the end of te
week in just a little bit.