This is five on your side at five
focused on you
right now. Some wintry weather is coming our way.
Our weather first team is tracking light snow and rain tonight.
Thanks so much for joining us. I'm Kelly Jackson.
It won't be anything major or cause problems on the roads.
Let's get a check on the forecast from meteorologist Jim
Castillo. Hey, Jim. Yeah. Hi, Kelly. So that's exactly right.
We've seen uh not only some raindrops but also snowflakes around Farmington
and even around Cuba, Missouri and you can see the ground is wet here.
So we're watching these snowflakes and if you get any accumulation,
it'll be on the grassy areas and the soil and also the elevated surfaces.
So we might see that
in some cases tonight, about a half an inch,
maybe a little bit more in a couple of spots.
But again,
watching those higher hilltops south and west notice
the temperatures dropping down into the lower thirties.
Now is that more
begins to move up toward the metro so far, just cloudy in Saint Louis,
but we'll zoom in
to around the Farmington area. We had again, a little bit of rain
and a little bit of snow mixing in there and that
temperature is about 34 but the streets are fine as of
right now in Saint Louis at high 41 we're at 39
right now and that de point very low at 24 degrees.
It'll go up as the temperature goes down.
And again, watching that,
a chance of seeing that snow throughout the evening hours.
So may start as rain as we've seen in a couple of spots
remaining above freezing temperature wise and amounts less
than one inch and mainly on grassy areas.
Uh, much more on a stronger storm for Monday and Tuesday coming up in just a bit.
All right. And our weather first team will keep their forecast updated online
to get the very latest info. Just text the word weather to 3144255355.
Tonight,
an outpouring of support for a retired Illinois teacher
after her house was burglarized and set on fire.
The man accused of doing it is currently in jail facing four felony charges.
Justina Coronel joins us in studio with details on the case.
What have you learned, Justina?
Yeah, Kelly. So this all happened last Saturday evening in Brownstown, Illinois.
A little more than an hour east of Saint
36 year old Tyler Rowe is in jail charged with home invasion,
aggravated arson, burglary and theft.
Now the homeowner Sandra Stein tells me she is a
retired teacher of 35 years serving the Brownstown school district.
She said last Saturday, she walked into her home only to find an intruder inside.
ST tells me he grabbed her arms and sprayed
but she was able to escape and get help.
Then her house was set on fire and one of her cats died.
Police say the suspect left in her car and police started chasing him.
He was eventually stopped and an officer shot the suspect.
A sign told me that Tyler Rowe
is her former student.
She's been overwhelmed with the generous support coming her way.
But I know that people in my community are so awesome
and I have, I'm feeling so loved and I'm so
I am so humbled and it's, there's gotta be a better word.
Well, I'm, I'm blessed. I am blessed with good people in my life
right now.
There is an account set up at the first National
bank in Brownstown for anyone wanting to help Sandra.
As for the officer involved shooting.
In this case,
police haven't confirmed if the suspect had a weapon or
if he's the one who drew his gun first.
We're told that part of the case is still under investigation.
Felony charges are downgraded to a misdemeanor for a former Jefferson
County deputy charged in a crash that killed his wife.
Colby mccreary was driving in April last year when
he went off the road and crashed his wife,
Savannah mccreary was a passenger and died.
He was originally charged with DW I
resulting in death and involuntary manslaughter.
Prosecutors say they can't charge him with these felonies
because they can't prove them beyond a reasonable doubt.
Prosecutors say Savannah wasn't wearing a seat belt
or in her seat when the crash happened
today, Saint Louis issued a mask mandate for all city employees but just hours ago,
it changed that decision.
Our political editor Mark Maxwell is live downtown
to explain why the city reversed course.
So quickly, Mark
Kelly,
it's not immediately clear where the breakdown occurred
between hospital officials in the city health Department.
What we do know
is that the city had to walk back its initial more alarming
statistics while it kept a mask mandate for city workers in place
at least for several hours. Then
that fell too after Governor Parson applied pressure local hospitals and help the
officials reached out to correct the record.
Now that mandate merely a suggestion. Here's what happened.
Essentially.
The city's first warning Thursday afternoon
included an apples to oranges comparison
inflating concerns of a seasonal surge. Now
compared to seasonal surges that might have happened
at different times in years past today,
hospital officials assured us their capacity is not strained,
have enough beds and they're managing what
they called a typical winter late Friday.
The city issued an update saying masks for
city workers are now just strongly recommended,
not required confusion aside while officials are measuring an
uptick in all three flu RSV and COVID-19,
1 hospital worker we talked to felt that at this
point people have enough information to protect themselves without mandates.
I don't think everybody have to wear
them.
Just the city workers.
I don't think they should either
because I don't think everybody, everybody, a lot of people that have been,
um, have their shots and stuff.
So the ones that do have their shots, they, you know,
let them worry about their own self getting
COVID.
And I've confirmed this afternoon that the chiefs of staff for Governor Parson and
Mayor Jones did discuss this topic just moments before that mandate was reversed.
Also moments before that reversal, new
attention from us, Senator
Eric Schmidt, who was the attorney general who fought many of these mass mandates.
She released a statement saying quote,
here we go again with tyrannical mask mandates.
Moments later, the mayor would reverse it
live downtown Mark Maxwell five on your side
tonight,
we're hearing from the Missouri woman released from
prison after plotting to kill her mother.
Gypsy Rose Blanchard persuaded her boyfriend to kill her mother
in 2015.
She was just released last week.
Gypsy says her mother abused her and forced her
to pretend she was suffering from various medical issues.
She says she went through unnecessary surgeries
and was forced to use a wheelchair and feeding tube.
Yes, I do feel like the system failed me. I realize that there are resources
and things that are put in place to protect kids
from going through what I went through and unfortunately,
I just fell through the cracks of all of it.
She says she would likely still be abused today if her mother were alive,
her boyfriend at the time was sentenced to life in prison.
Tonight,
we are learning more information about a high
school shooting or school shooting in Iowa.
That shooting left 1/6 grade student dead and several others hurt NB C's.
Adrian Broadus is in the town of Perry with the latest
a day later and here in Perry, still a tremendous amount of pain.
The school is closed and the high school, as you can see is still a crime scene.
Thursday was the first day back to school following winter break for the district.
But before those students could make it inside of the classroom,
they were met with terror.
Investigators have identified a 17 year old student as the shooter. Dylan Butler.
Police say he injured four people and killed 1/6 grader.
Now some of you might be wondering did this happen at the high school? Yes, it did.
But at the time there was a breakfast program going on.
So there were a number of students here at the high school.
We were also learning more about the administrator,
investigators say was injured according to a Facebook post,
that administrator has been identified as the
principal Dan Marberger by his daughter.
She writes in a Facebook post calling her dad a gentle giant.
She also says she was not surprised to learn that her father approached Dylan
and tried to talk him down,
distracting him long enough allowing the other
students in the cafeteria time to escape.
Back to you.
Butler died after shooting himself.
Police say he posted on social media around the time of the shooting including
a picture of him inside the school bathroom with a duffel bag saying quote,
now we wait,
students say he was bullied and struggled at school.
Police are still investigating the motive.
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