On this Wednesday morning,
we are continuing to follow breaking
news out of Apple Valley where crews are
fighting a fire at a storage facility.
This is a live picture
from the scene right now.
CC gains have been there all morning long.
We of course are going to get an update
from her here coming up in a little bit.
But yeah, as you can see, still active,
seeing a lot of fire crews are
still there right now as we speak.
Absolutely. And for those folks on the scene,
at least guide the weather is a little
bit warmer than it was yesterday.
We're not having those.
Zero temperatures this morning.
Yeah, at least here. So we'll take it
because it actually feels like the
current temperature and it is above 0.
So there you have it right now, temps at 2.
Alright, we're getting pretty low now,
so it's going to be, we'll see how long
we can save that because temperatures are
getting closer and closer to sub-zero.
Moments ago, costs, we were sitting at three,
now at 2, a little bit cooler,
but it still feels like it with
a nice calm wind.
More sunshine on the way today.
20 for your afternoon high,
not as bitter cold.
Told his period of the day will
be between 8:00 and 9:00 where
wind chills could fall near 15
below so we're going to watch that
few flurries possible tonight.
Otherwise mostly cloudy.
A low of 6 and temps will make
it right around 12:00 tomorrow.
Colder air tomorrow and breezy increasing
sun after we shake a few morning
flurries possible northwest winds at
5 to 15 so that wind will increase
ahead of another round of Arctic air.
So more on that coming up
in such a scary way. Guy
thank you, Sir. This is a live look in Eagan.
Good morning.
Not far from Pilot Knob Rd.
at 35 E traffic picking up.
Not too bad though.
Across the Twin Cities metro.
We did get a report of a crash on 94
in between Minneapolis and Saint Paul.
I'll try to pop that up on a camera
and have it update in a few minutes.
We're staying on top of
breaking news this morning.
Yeah. Fire investigation happening right
now at a storage facility in Apple Valley.
Foliage Ave. roads were blocked
off a little bit earlier today.
Our CC Gaines is there right now.
With some new information this morning, ICC.
Hi, good morning. Yes,
we've been here for about a little over
an hour now and there's been a couple of
developments since we last talked to you.
So the scene is active in the sense
that there are still a couple of
fire trucks and a couple of police
cars still here just investigating
and looking into the situation.
But within the past 30 minutes,
the letter has come down.
There isn't too much smoke anymore
and a lot more of the crews that
were here from the start of the
morning have left the scene.
But we have talked to crews that
have been here and they said that.
Crews got here at about 3:50 this morning.
So they had been battling this
for a couple hours at this point.
But crews still on scene,
I do believe that they're talking
to one of the managers,
owners here at this point,
just the final kind of wrapping
up things here.
But we did reach out to Apple Valley
Police and fire just to get any kind
of update about how this fire started
and we did that a couple of hours ago.
We're still waiting to
hear back at this point.
But yes,
as we mentioned and as you can
see crews still very much.
Here on the scene and we'll be
here all morning trying to figure
out exactly what happened and
bring the latest to you for now,
some things back to
you. Alright, CC reporting
live in Apple Valley.
We'll check back in a bit. Thank you.
603 is the time and just a few
hours from now Tyree Nichols
will be laid to rest in Memphis.
The 29 year old died days after he was beaten
by Memphis police during a traffic stop.
His family says they will be celebrating
his life instead of focusing on the
newly released body camera video.
And we know this morning that Vice
President Kamala Harris and George
Floyd's family will be at the funeral.
Reverend Al Sharpton will deliver the
eulogy and civil rights attorney Ben
Crump will deliver the call for justice.
As of this morning, 5 police officers
face charges in Nichols death,
two others are relieved of duty,
and three Mt EMT's have been fired.
Many are calling for justice,
including Valerie Castile,
whose son Felando Castille was shot and
killed during a traffic stop here in 2016.
Ain't none of this miss new,
ain't none of it new.
It's just a repeat of history.
It's just go round and round because
nobody really wants to change anything.
And Reverend Al Sharpton says what happened
to Nichols is a disgrace to this country.
He says he wants Congress to pass the
George Floyd Justice in Policing Act
now to the latest in the
death of George Floyd.
A judge is set to decide the fate of
the 4th and final former Minneapolis
police officer charged in his death to
Tao was the officer who held back by
Sanders while his colleagues restrained.
Floyd's closing arguments happened yesterday.
Now a judge has 90 days to decide if
Tao is guilty on the state charges
of aiding and abetting murder.
And manslaughter.
We're getting a status update on the Golden
Valley Police Department this morning.
The chief spoke to City Council members
last night about how the nationwide
struggle to recruit officers is impacting
the West metro suburb. Right now,
they're down to 17 sworn in officers
with a budget for almost double that.
We may not have the numbers there,
but we we will do everything
we can to not compromise that
and, and I want to make sure I say
that very clear, that where we do
not compromise the services that that we are
have been providing for decades.
The chief says the department will get
help from the Hennepin County sheriff's
deputies as they're working to rebuild.
This comes after we learned late
last year of an investigation into
allegations of a toxic workplace
culture in the Golden Valley Police
Department when officer was fired for
making racist and insensitive comments
and breaking data privacy protocols.
This morning 7 jurors are seated in
the murder trial of Jalissa Thaller.
She's accused of killing her
six year old son, Eli Hart.
The boy was found shot multiple
times in the trunk of a car.
And Mound last May dollars charged
with first degree premeditated murder.
Opening statements are expected
to begin Friday or Monday.
House Republican leaders are prepared
to hold a vote as soon as today on
removing Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan
Omar from the Foreign Affairs Committee.
Initially, Republicans did not
have enough votes to remove Omar.
Late last night, House Speaker
Kevin McCarthy announced he is
now locked down enough votes.
McCarthy vowed to remove Omar over
her past remarks about Israel.
Abortion rights are now written
into state law in Minnesota,
Governor Walls signed the Pro Act into law.
Abortion was already legal in Minnesota
because of a 1995 state Supreme Court ruling,
but supporters of the Pro Act worried the
court ruling could be reversed someday,
the same way Roe versus Wade Wade was.
Republicans had urged walls to
veto the bill because it allows
abortions up to the point of birth.
There aren't exceptions in here
that these are decisions that
are made on basic health care,
decisions that are made
basic reproductive basic
healthcare for women to be made by
them and their healthcare provider.
Minnesota is now the first states
to codify abortion rights since
the reversal of Roe versus Wade.
The Biden administration is hopeful
the legislation will encourage
ballot initiatives in other states.
Alright, this morning we do have some
good news and bad news about gas prices.
The bad news? They're going back up.
Here in Minnesota going to be
paying about $0.10 more a gallon
compared to just last week.
So what is the good news?
We head out to Jen for that. Hi, Jen.
Yeah. Hi. So the good news,
it's freezing cold,
which is not normally good news,
at least in my book,
but it is when it comes to gas prices,
because of this, when winter gets wintery,
right, so cold temperatures,
snow, people just drive less.
They don't go as many places.
And when they're driving less,
demand for gas goes down.
And when demand for gas goes down,
typically so do prices.
So that is the good news because we did,
believe it or not,
have a milder start to winter than normal.
More people are out driving and that is why
gas prices are the way they are right now.
349 at the station in Golden Valley,
Statewide, AAA says we're about 3:40
for a gallon of regular in Minnesota.
As we said,
that's about $0.10 higher from last week,
but from last month they're
up just under $0.40.
Prices compared to a year ago,
meanwhile,
are up about $0.20 and paying more.
Of course not anyone's idea of a good time,
but you do need to keep this in mind.
AAA says that the price is right now.
Actually,
still within average for this time of year.
However,
there is one outlier right
now that could change things.
One area to watch out
for from the international side of
things is China reopened less than
its restrictions due
to COVID. Obviously,
that's going to create some demand
on the international scale,
which should hopefully impact supply.
Of course, everyone wants to save on gas.
You probably have your
fuel saver program or app,
cash back app, whatever you use.
But there is something on your car that
you should be checking to make sure that
you have the best mileage as possible.
We'll talk more about that
coming up in just 30 minutes.
All right, more better tips.
Thank you, John. Appreciate it.
And we're making it easy for you to
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Don't call. All right, let's
turn our attention now to the weather.
The good news, it is a little bit
warmer today. The bad news, though,
we have good news and bad news for everybody
on every story.
Bad news, it's good change. Ohh give us
some good news guys.
Alright I'll give you some good news.
We have a warm up in the seven
day forecast and I think most
of you will like the warm up,
but it's still tough because
what could be good for me or you
could be maybe bad for others.
I know some folks love the cold.
You know a lot of winter activities
take place here obviously in Minnesota.
So it's tough to say good and bad,
but I will just you know stick
to my job and I'll just you know
I'll be the messenger today and
let you decide to right now.
And it feels like too.
Well, that's not bad considering how cold
temperatures have been throughout the week.
It actually feels like the air
temperature and things are above 0.
So I'm just trying to, you know,
look on the brighter side of things.
Sun today, bright sun, not as cold,
but look at wind chills.
We are going to see
Windchills fall Sub-zero near
about 9, even some 15 below.
Feel like later on this morning and
temps will eventually plummet below 0.
Not too low though, you'll see.
Air temps will make it below 0 later
this morning as well, but not yet.
Highs today climb to near 20 degrees.
We'll see some sun southwest
winds nice and light for us today.
Tonight temperatures fall as single digits.
Not too cold for us,
but I'm taking the chance
for some flurries tonight,
so I'll be running some forecast
models here in about 10 minutes,
kind of timing that out for you.
So stick around for that and let's
take a look at the next three days
because we have one more round.
With Arctic air that's coming,
but not tomorrow,
we'll see temps make it to around 12.
Wind will start increasing ahead of a
front that we're tracking for Friday.
In the wake of that front,
Arctic air with lows 14 below.
And it's going to feel much colder than that,
with high temps making it to
only five more on that coming up.
Guy, thank you. Alright that's 6:15
we're talking to the first African
American woman voted sheriff in
Minnesota with this title means to
Hennepin County Sheriff to wanna wins
and at 6:45 we're taking a look at
which Minnesota public schools have the
life saving medicine Narcan on campus.
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