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While the Arctic blast is here.
You're taking a live look right now over the Derby
City as Kentucky and prepares for temperatures to plummet tonight.
Hello, everyone and thanks for joining us here at 630. I'm Alex.
We're getting you right to your weather first with meteorologist all in German and
all while it was nice to wake up to some snow this morning.
This is dangerously cold weather.
How cold are we prepared to get as some of
us could easily drop below freezing or rather below zero
later tonight. And our wind chills are going to be well below zero.
That's why there's a wind chill advisory in place
for all of our southern Indiana counties and the
Kentucky counties that border the Ohio River starting tonight
at 2 a.m. lasting until 7 a.m. tomorrow morning.
So this is dangerously cold conditions for us. It's still cold at the moment too.
Temperatures are dropping relatively quickly. It's 31.
Now, these are the air temperatures
three in Mitchell 25 in
Paoli, 30 in Hodgenville and in Lebanon,
our winds are not as strong as they were yesterday,
but it is enough that our wind chill values are
running about 10 degrees colder than that actual air temperature.
It feels like 22 here in the metro 14 degree
wind chill and Seymour 17 in the Scottsburg and Lagrange,
you feel like 19 degrees at the moment.
It's not just the cold that we're going to be tracking either. We're also watching
for more light snow showers to move through the region later on tonight.
This would probably just result in another quick dusting on the ground.
But unlike today where some of us got above
freezing and maybe some of that snow melted,
this is going to be more inclined to stick and this is
the area that we're watching currently over the Saint Louis metro area.
This is still moving somewhat slowly to our east
and it might weaken a little bit more,
but I still anticipate that to be
our way. Also, please don't forget about your pets.
If you have to leave them outside.
L MA S has been giving away some free straw, we'll talk about that in a moment.
But if the air temperature is five degrees,
like I expect it to be for some of us tomorrow with a 15 mile per hour wind,
it can feel as cold as 15 degrees below zero.
So if it's too cold for you, it's too cold for them.
We'll talk about how long this cold snap lasts ahead. Alex. Thank you, Alden.
And with these plummeting temperatures all in his tracking.
We're hearing from local professionals and how you can make sure that you and
your home are prepared for the snow and freezing temperatures coming our way.
Whas eleven's Connor Stefan and photojournalist Aspen Hester made their
way across Louisville today to bring you some sound advice.
As temps drop across Louisville
business is heating up at shops like Oscar's hardware.
You see, uh people start to ask a lot of questions about what they need to do. Um,
what do you have?
And the ones that are
ahead of the game star ban, longtime owner Paul
Fusser says more often than not during inclement weather conditions.
Customers come in underprepared, always under
prepared.
Too many procrastinators.
Yeah. And then when it does hit, they panic
and forget all their sense.
Mike Cunningham has worked as a plumber with United Mechanical in Louisville for
over 40 years and has seen his fair share of winter weather events.
I mean, it's not gonna be a forever thing.
So don't panic. You don't need to run to the store and get milk and bread and all that.
But he does have this advice for any uneasy homeowners,
take the hose or any attachments off your outside faucet,
make sure to block any incoming air to your pipes,
leave your cabinet doors open to allow heat to travel through,
keep a shop vac handy if you can.
And in extremely cold temperatures like we're expecting,
keep a small but steady stream of water going through your faucet.
And if you find yourself in a hardware store needing to know what to buy,
change your furnace filters
because that, that's really,
you want your furnace working
efficiently some sound advice as Louisville prepares for a bitterly cold few
days in Louisville Conner staff and whas 11 on your side.
And Louisville Metro Animal Services is reminding people to look out for your pets.
They're encouraging everyone to bring their
pets indoors as the temperatures drop.
However, for those pets that need to be outside today, L MA
passed out free straw to help keep those animals warm.
We know there's people who can't afford
to, to bring their animals inside right now and this is our way of giving back.
This is a way of keeping the animals safe.
Um That's our job to protect the animals.
So we're doing, protecting the animals and helping the citizens out.
At the same time,
residents are encouraged to contact 502473 pets to
report animals that are left outdoors without proper shelter
to stay up to date on all the winter weather heading our area.
Make sure you download the Whas 11 app. It's free to download in your app store.
A four year old is now dead after a shooting in the Chickasaw neighborhood.
L MP D responded to the shooting just before four this afternoon.
When officers arrived, they found the four year old had been shot.
The route was set up to transport the child
to Norton's Children Hospital where the child later died.
LNP D's homicide unit is currently investigating and
police say all parties have been accounted for.
Today. We lost a legendary public servant J Michael Brown.
Brown served in a multitude of roles throughout his career in Kentucky
Brown started to pursue his law journey when he came to Kentucky,
graduating from U of L School of Law.
Back in 1979
Brown was elected the first African American to
serve as president of the Louisville Bar Association.
He also served as a district judge in Jefferson County
as Deputy Attorney General for Andy Beshear
when he was Attorney General and as the Justice
and Public Safety Cabinet secretary throughout former Governor Steve Beshear
administration.
He has been honored by several prominent figures leaving a
huge impact on the derby city and the Commonwealth.
We spoke with former mayor Jerry Abramson about his legacy
and the integral role he played for our city.
Well, I think if you look up in the dictionary, the term public servants,
you would find J Michael Brown's name listed.
I mean, uh I think if there's a message that he said is that,
you know, folks should get engaged in their communities,
uh Folks should see opportunities to work in a collaborative way to make the,
the community, the state, the world a better place.
Um And whenever a civic opportunity arises,
a community opportunity and leadership position arises.
Uh J Michael Brown would, would advocate for you to get engaged
and to participate in making uh your community a better place.
In a statement, Governor Beshear
honored J Michael Brown saying in part quote,
I am truly hurting over the loss of my long time friend and
advisor Michael made a positive difference in the lives of so many people,
including mine, his guidance and advice were unmatched and so was his friendship.