YOUR FORECAST FIRST.
ELISA
FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT
FOR MUCH OF SW
MISSOURI AND NW ARKANSAS THROUGH
7 AM FRIDAY. A STALLED FRONT
WILL BRING WAVES OF RAIN
AND THUNDER, WITH LOCALLY HEAVY
RAIN LIKELY. 1-4" OF RAIN IS
POSSIBLE IN THE WATCH
AREA, WITH HIGHER TOTALS UP TO
6" POSSIBLE. RIVERS, CREEKS, AND
STREAMS WILL BE VULNERABLE TO
FLOODING. TURN AROUND, DON'T
DROWN.
OUR FRONT THAT CAME THROUGH
YESTERDAY
STALLED, STRETCHING FROM
NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA INTO NORTHERN
ARKANSAS. THIS WILL
CARVE OUT A PATHWAY FOR SHOWERS/
STORMS.
EXPECT RAIN/ THUNDER TO FOCUS
CLOSER TO THE
FRONT TODAY TO THE SW OF
SPRINGFIELD. THERE, ATMOSPHERIC
MOISTURE VALUES ARE SOAKED --
NEAR DAILY RECORDS! THIS WILL
DROP QUICK, EFFICIENT RAINFALL
RATES AT 2" PER HOUR, LEADING
TO A FLASH FLOOD THREAT.
RAIN TOTALS TODAY ALONE COULD
REACH 1-3" WITH
HIGHER TOTALS UP 4".
WITH THIS SOUTHWEST TREND IN THE
RAIN, AREAS
TO THE NORTHEAST WILL HAVE
SPOTTIER RAIN, MAYBE NONE AT
ALL. THERE, TEMPERATURES
WILL BE WARMER IN THE MIDDLE
80'S. IN THE CLOUDS AND RAIN TO
THE SOUTHWEST, HIGHS ONLY
GET INTO THE LOWER 80'S.
ANOTHER WAVE OF RAIN AND THUNDER
RIDES THE
FRONT TONIGHT WITH LOWS AROUND
70 DEGREES.
TOMORROW WE'LL KEEP SHOWERS/
STORMS
FOCUSED SOUTHEAST WITH A
CONTINUED FLASH FLOOD THREAT AND
ANOTHER 1-4" RAIN POSSIBLE.
TEMPERATURES WILL BE SIMILAR,
COOLER TO THE SOUTHWEST AND
WARMER TO THE NORTHEAST.
THE FRONT FINALLY SHAKES SOME ON
SATURDAY WITH
JUST A FEW STORMS POSSIBLE AND
HIGHS WARMER IN THE MIDDLE 80'S.
WE CONTINUE TO TREND DRIER AND
HOTTER ON
SUNDAY AS HIGH PRESSURE SQUEEZES
IN, ONLY ISOLATED STORMS
POSSIBLE WITH HIGHS IN
THE LOWER 90'S.
MONDAY WILL BE HOT AND HUMID
WITH HIGHS IN THE
LOW TO MIDDLE 90'S, THE HEAT
BREAKS AS A COLD FRONT COMES
THROUGH TUESDAY INTO WEDNESDAY.
JOE
THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR HERO WHO
INSPIRED GREENE COUNTY'S NAME
WAS BORN 277 YEARS AGO
THIS WEEK
LAUREN
OUR HANNAH ZETTL JOINS US WITH
MORE INFORMATION ON THE LIFE OF
GENERAL NATHANAEL
GREENE.
HANNAH
COMMUNITY MEMBERS GATHERED AT
THE HISTORIC COURTHOUSE
YESTERDAY TO CELEBRATE
THE LEGACY OF NATHANAEL GREENE,
A GENERAL DURING THE AMERICAN
REVOLUTIONARY WAR THAT
WOULD GO ON TO LEND HIS NAME TO
THIS COMMUNITY AND SEVERAL
OTHERS.
GREENE IS REMEMBERED FOR
INSPIRING THE NAME OF GREENE
COUNTY, BUT IN 1778 GREENE WAS
KNOWN
AS GEORGE WASHINGTON'S RIGHT
HAND MAN.
A PILLAR OF LEADERSHIP, GREENE
TAUGHT HIS TROOPS DISCIPLINE,
SETTING THE STAGE FOR A
SWEEP AT THE BATTLE AT YORKTOWN
YESTERDAY'S CELEBRATION WAS HELD
BY THE SONS OF THE AMERICAN
REVOLUTION, AND WAS FULL
OF PATRIOTIC MUSIC AND
RECOGNITION OF GREENE'S
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
277 YEARS AFTER HIS BIRTH,
GREENE'S NAME LIVES ON, HIS
LEGACY PRESERVED BY THE
COMMUNITIES HE
FOUGHT TO CREATE ALL THOSE YEARS
AGO.
Bob Dixon / Greene County
Presiding Commissioner:
"People in southwest Missouri
are patriotic people. We
appreciate our roots, where we
came from and the legacy of
freedom that we enjoy because of
so many patriotic ancestors that
have come before us"
HANNAH
THE GREENE COUNTY COMMISSION
ALSO PROCLAIMED THIS AUGUST AS
GENERAL NATHANAEL
GREENE REMEMBERANCE MONTH.
THE CELEBRATION ALSO PAID
TRIBUTE TO THOSE CURRENTLY
SERVING IN THE ARMED FORCES, AND
THE
MILLIONS OF VETERANS WHO SERVED
BEFORE THEM.
LAUREN
POTENITAL WEEKEND RAIN IS
SOMETHING MODOT IS KEEPING A
CLOSE EYE ON AS IT WORKS ON THE
65
REBUILD PROJECT.
PHASE 2 BEGAN THIS MORNING,
WHICH WILL RESULT IN 65 BEING
CLOSED SOUTHBOUND FROM
BATTLEFIELD TO JAMES RIVER
FREEWAY...
BRAD GRIPKA IS THE ENGINEER
OVERSEEING THIS PROJECT.
THEY'LL SPEND THE WEEKEND
BREAKING DOWN AND REMOVING THE
OLD PAVEMENT.
GRIPKA SAYS THE GROUND UNDER
THAT PAVEMENT NEEDS TO BE
SMOOTHED OVER, AND THE
RAIN WILL ACTUALLY HELP WITH
THAT PROCESS.
(Brad Gripka
"It helps with the compaction of
the roadbed, and it kind of
settles the dust, and it helps
us with the compaction of the
subgrade."
LAUREN
PHASE TWO SHOULD BE WRAPPED UP
ON AUGUST 20TH, WHEN MODOT WILL
TAKE A BREAK FOR A
COUPLE OF WEEKS FOR LABOR DAY...
AND THEN RESUME THE PROJECT
HEADED NORTHBOUND ON SEPTEMBER
6TH.
JOE
WE HAVE SOME MORE ROAD CLOSURES
TO TELL YOU ABOUT. THE 2-DAY
ROUTE 66 FESTIVAL AND PARADE
STARTS UP THIS FRIDAY AT NOON --
IN DOWNTOWN
SPRINGFIELD.
BECAUSE CREWS NEED TIME TO SET
UP -- SEVERAL STREETS WILL BE
CLOSING.
STARTING FRIDAY AT 1AM --
TRAFFIC WILL BE CLOSED FROM PARK
CENTRAL WEST -- THROUGH THE
SQAURE.
THAT SPANS SEVERAL BLOCKS EAST,
THROUGH SAINT LOUIS STREET --
JUST SHORT OF JOHN Q
HAMMONS PARKWAY.
A FEW MORE SMALLER STREETS WILL
ALSO BE CLOSED TOMORROW MORNING,
AND ON
SATURDAY.
ALL ROADS WILL REOPEN ON SUNDAY
-- AT 7 AM .
JOE
THE CITY EXPECTS 70 THOUSAND
PEOPLE TO ATTEND THIS YEAR.
FOR A FULL LIST OF TIMES AND
LOCATIONS -- HEAD TO OZARKS
FIRST DOT COM.
LAUREN
IN YOUR RIGHT TO KNOW FILE
LAUREN
A SPRINGFIELD MAN IS ORDERED TO
PAY BACK MORE THAN 16 HUNDRED
DOLLARS FOR HIS
INVOLVEMENT IN A BANK FRAUD
SCHEME.
ROBERT SIMON-REES PLEADED GUILTY
TO ONE COUNT OF BANK FRAUD AND
ONE COUNT OF POSESSING
STOLEN MAIL FOR CASHING STOLEN
AND COUNTERFEIT CHECKS TO
PURCHASE MERCHANDISE.
THE SCHEME INVOLVED AT LEAST 10
OR MORE VICTIMS AND TOTALED MORE
THAN 19 THOUSAND
DOLLARS IN FINACIAL HARM.
A SENTINCING HEARING FOR REES
HAS NOT BEEN SCHEDULED YET.
UNDER FEDERAL STATUTES, HE COULD
SPEND UP TO 35 YEARS IN FEDERAL
PRISON WITHOUT
PAROLE
JOE
A SPRINGFIELD WOMAN WAS KILLED
YESTERDAY WHILE DRIVING IN
JASPER COUNTY.
FIFTY-NINE YEAR-OLD CINDY COX
WAS DRIVING WESTBOUND ON HIGHWAY
96 JUST OUTSIDE OF
CARTHAGE.
A TRUCK WAS PULLING A TRAILER
THE OTHER WAY, AND THAT TRAILER
CROSSED THE CENTER LINE
AND STRUCK COX'S VEHICLE.
SHE WAS TAKEN TO TEH HOSPITAL
BUT DID NOT SURVIVE.
A PASSENGER IN THE CAR, RICHARD
GUSTIN, IS IN THE HOSPITAL IN
SERIOUS CONDITION.
LAUREN
BRINGING CRIME INTO FOCUS
LAUREN
A MAN FROM WAYNESVILLE HAS BEEN
SENTENCED FOR ALLEGEDLY STABBING
A
FAMILY MEMBERTO DEATH IN 20-18.
KEAVEN SHAW SUBMITTED AN ALFORD
PLEA BACK IN MAY.... MEANING HE
DIDN'T ADMIT
GUILT BUT BELIEVES THEIR IS
ENOUGH EVIDENCE TO CONVICT.
YESTERDAY HE WAS SENTENCED TO 25
YEARS IN PRISON.
COURT DOCUMENTS SAY SHAW STABBED
HIS GRADMOTHER, ANNA PAHULA IN
THE CHEST,
KILLING HER.
SHAW ALSO REMAINS CHARGED IN
THREE CASES OF ASSAULT OF A
SPECIAL VICTIM IN PULASKI AND
MILLER COUNTIES FOR ACTIONS THAT
OCCURRED AFTER HIS PLEA OF
GUILTY.
JOE
A RECENT CBS NEWS INVESTIGATION
REVEALED A GROWING NUMBER OF
POLICE DEPARTMENTS SAY
THEY'VE ADDED IMPLICIT BIAS
TRAINING.
BUT HUNDREDS OF OFFICERS IN
MULTIPLE STATES HAVE RECENTLY
BEEN EXPOSED FOR RACIST
SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS, WHCIH HAS
BROUGHT ON CONCERN ABOUT POLICE
BIAS.
LAUREN
A PROJECT RECENTLY FLAGGED
THOUSANDS OF RACIST AND
DEROGATORY SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS,
INCLUDING SOME FROM 22 CURRENT
ST. LOUIS CITY OFFICERS --
LIKE ONE THAT COMPARED BLACK
LIVES MATTER TO THE K-K-K.
CBS'S JEFF
PEGUES SPOKE TO AN OFFICER WHOSE
DEPARTMENT IS AT THE CENTER OF
THAT
CONTROVERSY.
(JEFF PEGUES:Do you think that
there are white
supremacists on the police
force?
(HEATHER TAYLOR: Yes, I think
so.
(JEFF : You didn't even pause.
(HEATHER ) Have you seen some of
the Facebook posts of
some of our suspended officers
right now? Yes.
JOE
HEATHER TAYLOR IS AN ALMOST 19
YEAR VETERAN ON THE ST. LOUIS
METRO POLICE FORCE.
THE DEPARTMENT TOLD CBS NEWS
THAT IMPLICIT BIAS TRAINING HAS
BEEN MANDATORY FOR OFFICERS
ONCE A YEAR SINCE OCTOBER OF
2014, WHICH WAS TWO MONTHS AFTER
MICHAEL BROWN'S DEATH.
(JEFF PEGUES: Implicit bias
training? They've had that here.
(HEATHER TAYLOR:Yes.
(JEFF Has it worked?
(HEATHER I think that's pretty
obvious that it hasn't.
LARUEN
IF IMPLICIT BIAS TRAINING *IS*
MANDATORY IT DOESN'T SEEM TO
HAVE LEFT AN IMPRESSION ON
HEATHER
TAYLOR.
OTHER POLICE OFFICERS THERE HAD
SIMILAR RESPONSES.
CBS TRIED TO GET IN TOUCH WITH
THE POLICE CHIEF -- WHO DIDN'T
WANT TO TALK.
SO
PEGUES SAT DOWN WITH JIMMIE
EDWARDS -- THE MAN WHO HIRED THE
CHIEF. EDWARDS IS THE PUBLIC
SAFETY DIRECTOR FOR THE CITY.
"....(JEFF PEGUES We had an
officer tell us she knows that
there are white supremacists on
the police force.
(JIMMIE EDWARDS: I'm not
surprised. My job is to root
that
person out.
(JEFF implicit bias training. Is
it mandatory for all officers?
(JIMMIE Yes. It is mandatory.
(INTERVIEWER: We've talked to
officers who don't remember
taking implicit bias classes.
(JIMMIE Yeah, well, everybody
in the city of St. Louis, have
taken implicit bias training
(INTERVIEWER: And they can't
remember it?
(JIMMIE I don't know. That's
a-- that's a good question for
them.
(INTERVIEWER: That's odd.
(JIMMIE It is odd. ........"
LAUREN
EDWARDS ALSO SAID USE OF FORCE
INCIDENTS ARE DOWN IN SAINT
LOUIS -- BUT THE CITY STILL HAS
A LONG
WAY TO GO.
JOE:
NOW LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT WHAT'S
TRENDING ON GOOGLE THIS
MORNING...
JOE:
CHECK US OUT ONLINE AT
OZARKSFIRST DOT COM.
THANKS FOR WATCHING!
WE'LL SEE YOU BACK HERE AT MID
DAY.