JOE:
COMING UP THIS MORNING ON
DAYBREAK.... TODAY IS THE FIRST
DAY FOR POTENTIAL PATIENTS
TO SUBMIT FOR MEDICAL MARIJUANA
CARDS, BUT TWO LOCAL HOSPITALS
ARE REFUSING TO SEE PATIENTS
FOR CANNABIS CERTIFICATIONS.
LAUREN:
AND...PEOPLE ARE NOT THE ONLY
ONES STRUGGLING WITH FLOODWATERS
IN THE
MIDWEST.. ANIMALS ARE BEING
FORCED TO FIND NEW
HOMES...INCLUDING SNAKES.. WHY
THIS IS
LEADING TO AN INCREASE IN SNAKE
BITES..
JOE:
PLUS...OVER 30 WATER RESCUES
WERE MADE IN A 24-HOUR SPAN FROM
MAJOR FLOODNIG EXPERIENCED
OVER THE PAST WEEK..
THESE STORIES AND MORE--THIS
MORNING ON DAYBREAK.
LAUREN:
GOOD MORNING AND THANKS FOR
JOINING US.
TODAY IS... FRIDAY! JUNE 28,
2019
I'M LAUREN BARNAS.
JOE:
AND I'M JOE MURANO.
METEOROLOGIST ELISA RAFFA JOINS
US NOW IN
THE WEATHER LAB WITH YOUR
FORECAST FIRST.
ELISA:
ANOTHER WARM, HUMID START ACROSS
THE
OZARKS THIS MORNING WITH BOTH
TEMPERATURES AND DEW POINTS IN
THE 70'S.
IT WILL BE HOT AND HUMID AGAIN
TODAY. HIGHS IN THE
LOWER 90'S WILL FEEL LIKE THE
MIDDLE AND UPPER 90'S. IN
SPRINGFIELD, I'M FORECASTING A
HIGH OF 91
DEGREES, BUT WITH DEW POINTS
AROUND 70 DEGREES, IT WILL FEEL
LIKE 97 DEGREES! STAY COOL
AND HYDRATED!
AN ISOLATED STORM OR TWO WILL BE
POSSIBLE
TODAY, BUT MOST OF US WILL STAY
DRY.
WARM AND HUMID AGAIN TONIGHT,
THE AC WILL NEED
TO CONTINUE TO CRANK. MOSTLY
CLEAR SKIES WITH LOWS ONLY
DROPPING TO ABOUT 70 DEGREES.
TOMORROW WILL BE MUCH OF THE
SAME. OUR HIGH-
PRESSURE DOME OF HEAT AND
HUMIDITY STAYS IN PLACE SO HIGHS
CONTINUE TO GET TO ABOUT 90
DEGREES WITH HEAT INDICES
APPROACHING THE MIDDLE 90'S.
STILL STEAMY ON SUNDAY, HIGH OF
89 DEGREES WILL
FEEL LIKE 94 DEGREES UNDER
MOSTLY SUNNY SKIES. THE RIDGE OF
HIGH PRESSURE HANGS AROUND
THROUGH EARLY NEXT WEEK WITH
MOSTLY SUNNY SKIES, ISOLATED
STORM CHANCES, AND UPPER 80'S/
LOWER 90'S FEELING LIKE MIDDLE
90'S WITH THE HUMIDITY. PERHAPS
HEALTHIER STORM
CHANCES RETURN WEDNESDAY AND
THURSDAY NEXT WEEK, IN TIME FOR
THE 4TH OF JULY.
LAUREN
MAKING NEWS NOW..
LAUREN
PEOPLE IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI ARE
CLEANING UP FROM MAJOR FLOODING
OVER THE PAST WEEK.
NEWTON, MCDONALD, LAWRENCE AND
BARRY COUNTIES ALL HAD FLOODING
DUE TO RAIN...
AND AS A RESULT, MANY WATER
RESCUES.
THE MISSOURI DEPARTMENT OF
CONSERVATION HELPED OUT HIGHWAY
PATROL AND LOCAL FIRE
DEPARTMENTS
WITH THE RESCUES.
IN A FACEBOOK POST, ALONG WITH
SOME PHOTOS OF THE RESCUES
THEMSELVES, M-D-C SAID
THEY ASSITED IN 31 SWIFT-WATER
RESCUES IN A SINGLE DAY.
KOLR 10 TALKED WITH CONSERVATION
AGENT DANIEL SHORES. HE SAYS
THEY ARE ALWAYS WILLING
TO HELP OUT IN SITUATIONS LIKE
THESE.
(Daniel Shores/Conservation
Agent)
"We serve the citizens of
Missouri. If there's somebody in
need, we're going to respond and
we're going to take care of it.
It doesn't matter that we wear
green and green and we got a
fish and a racoon on our sleeve,
when somebody needs help, we're
going to go."
LAUREN
CASSVILLE WAS HIT THE HARDEST --
THE CITY ADMINISTRATOR TOLD US
THAT THE CITY BALLPARK
TOOK SOME DAMAGE, AS DID AREA
ROADS, BUT MOSTLY HOME AND
BUSINESS OWNERS WERE
AFFECTED
JOE
IF YOU ARE LOOKING TO GET
CERTIFIED FOR A MEDICAL
MARIJUANA CARD IN MISSOURI, IT
WON'T
HAPPEN AT COXHEALTH OR MERCY.
THE TWO HOSPITALS HAVE BOTH SAID
THEY ARE NOT GOING TO BE SEEING
PATIENTS FOR MEDICAL
CANNABIS CERTIFICATIONS, FOR
SEVERAL REASONS..
THAT MEANS CERTIFICATIONS MUST
COME FROM ELSEWHERE, AND PAY OUT
OF THEIR
OWN POCKETS.
ELITE PAIN MANAGEMENT IN
SPRINGFIELD IS ONE OF THOSE
PLACES....DIRECTOR JUSTIN HOBBS
BELIEVES
THIS IS GOING TO HELP CLINICS
LIKE HIS.
"I do think the community will
have enough providers willing to
step up. We've seen
approximately 40 patients. Cash
pay only -- That's the only way
you can do it right now."
"I think for us luckily, that's
a good thing for us. Locally,
for
the independents, we can step up
and say, 'Hey we're here to see
you,' and we'll treat those
patients."
JOE
TODAY IS ALSO THE FIRST DAY
POTENTIAL PATIENTS CAN SUBMIT
THEIR APPLICATIONS TO THE
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND SENIOR
SERVICES.
LAUREN
IN MEDICAL COVERAGE
LAUREN
NEW STATISTICS SAY ONE OUT OF 5
TEENAGERS ARE OVERWEIGHT OR
OBESE... DUE TO A MORE SEDENTARY
LIFESTYLE.
ONE OF THE BIGGEST
FACTORS...SMARTPHONES.
KOLR10 SPOKE TO A PERSONAL
TRAINER AND THE FOUNDER OF A
GROUP CALLED "CHILDREN AND
SCREENS."
PHONES NOT ONLY CAUSE KIDS TO BE
LESS ACTIVE... THEY ALSO AFFECT
THEIR SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL
HEALTH.
(Dr. Hurst-Della Pietra /
Founder / President, Children &
Screens): "Sometimes, on social
media, receiving negative
feedback can really result in
sort of a really take a toll on
kids'
self-esteem."
(Noah Alldredge / Personal
Trainer): "Type 2 diabetes and
hypertension are higher than
they've ever been in that age
population, which is just
crazy."
LAUREN
ALLDREDGE SAYS TWO-THIRDS OF
CHRONIC DISEASES CAN BE
PREVENTED WITH
LIFESTYLE MODIFICATIONS... LIKE
SIMPLE EXERCISES YOU CAN DO IN
BETWEEN SCREEN TIME.
JOE
FLOODWATERS HAVE IMPACTED THE
LIVES OF MANY ACROSS THE
MIDWEST.... WASHING AWAY
THE HOMES OF WILDLIFE AS WELL.
LAUREN
AS A RESULT, SAINT LOUIS HAS
SEEN AN INCREASE IN VENOMOUS
SNAKE BITES... AS THE ANIMALS
ARE
FORCED TO FIND NEW HOMES CLOSER
TO HUMANS. OUR HANNAH ZETTL
EXPLAINS THE
IMPACT HERE.
HANNAH
GOOD MORNING... ACCORDING TO
K-T-V-I IN SAINT LOUIS, THE
MISSOURI POISON CENTER RECEIVES
DAILY CALLS REGARDING VENOMOUS
BITES, AND IS PREPARING FOR EVEN
MORE.
BUT WITH THE HEAVY RAIN WE'VE
SEEN HERE IN THE SOUTHWEST, AN
INCREASE IN SNAKE BITES COULD
HAPPEN HERE TOO
HANNAH ZETTL REPORTING
FLOODWATERS IN SAINT LOUIS HAVE
WASHED AWAY
SNAKES' NATURAL HABITATS,
FORCING THEM CLOSER TO THE CITY.
Francis Skalicky: "Water gets
into the perfered homes of
snakes which are burrows and
crevices and all these other
places where they usually hang
out and since snakes can swim,
they just swim up to the next
available piece of habitat."
FRANCIS SKALICKY IS THE MISSOURI
DEPARTMENT OF
CONSERVATION MEDIA SPECIALIST
AND SAYS HEAVY RAINFALL IN
SOUTWEST MISSOURI
COULD LEAD TO SIMILAR RESULTS
HERE.
Francis Skalicky: "There's
really nothing proactive you can
do
about this because the snakes
are found in unexpected places."
COPPERHEADS ARE MISSOURI'S MOST
COMMON
VENOMOUS SNAKE-- ITS UNIQUE
PRINT MAKING IT EASILY
IDENTIFIABLE.
Francis Skalicky: "It has these
reddish, pinkish, brown wedges
on the side. A lof of people
call them Hershey's kisses, it
really has a pattern that's like
no other snake."
DUE TO THE UNEXPECTED NATURE OF
THESE BITES,
SKALICKY SAYS THERE'S NO REAL
WAY TO BE PREPARED, BUT KEEPING
YOUR HOME CLEAN IS A
GOOD START
Francis Skalicky: "If you show
them that this is probably not
the
most ideal place for them to be
either, by your cleaning, by all
the disruption that you're doing
that will cause the snake to
move on."
HANNAH
IF BITTEN BY ANY TYPE OF SNAKE,
KEEP THE AFFECTED AREA BELOW
HEART LEVEL TO SLOW THE
SPREAD OF VENOM, SEEK MEDICAL
HELP IMMEDIATELY AND ATTEMPT
TAKE A PHOTO OF THE SNAKE TO
HELP MEDICS WITH TREATMENT
JOE
IN A TECH REPORT THIS MORNING
...
JOE
THE U-S GOVERNMENT HAS BEEN
CRACKING DOWN ON ROBOCALLERS...
BUT THERE'S A COMMON MISTAKE
SOME MAKE THAT COULD INCREASE
THE NUMBER OF SPAM CALLS
YOU RECEIVE.
IF YOU GET A ROBOCALL, THE BEST
DEFENSE IS TO SIMPLY NOT ANSWER.
THE ONE THING YOU SHOULD *NEVER*
DO IS PUSH A BUTTON... EVEN IF
THE RECORDING INDICATES
YOU SHOULD TO HAVE THE CALLS
STOPPED OR TO SPEAK WITH AN
OPERATOR.
Janet Robb, Better Business
Bureau: "Do not press anything
or select an option because as
soon as you do, the computer
tracks that action and because
someone has touched a button,
they know they've hit a live
number, so now your number
becomes prime fodder for the
next scam artist and your number
gets sold to someone else."
JOE
ALSO IMPORTANT TO NOTE, THE
MAJORITY OF THE TIME THE CALLER
IS NOT REALLY CALLING FROM
THE NUMBER THAT SHOWS UP ON YOUR
CALLER I-D.
SO BLOCKING A NUMBER WON'T
NECESSARILY SOLVE THE ISSUE.
LAUREN
YOUTUBE IS MAKING SOME CHANGES
AFTER COMING UNDER FIRE FOR ONE
OF ITS FEATURES.
THIS WEEK THE GOOGLE-OWNED
SOCIAL MEDIA SITE ANNOUNCED IT'S
GIVING USERS MORE
CONTROL OVER RECOMMENDED VIDEOS.
THOSE ARE THE VIDEOS YOUTUBE
RECOMMENDS TO PLAY IMMEDIATELY
AFTER THE PREVIOUS ONE ENDS.
ONE OF THE CRITICS.... SENATOR
JOSH HAWLEY CLAIMED THE VIDEOS--
CHOSEN BY THE SITE'S
ALGORITHM-- ARE NOT ALWAYS
APPROPRIATE FOR CHILDREN.
NOW YOUTUBE SAYS IT HAS ADDED A
MENU THAT LET'S USERS REMOVE ANY
SUGGESTED CHANNELS
THEY DON'T WANT TO WATCH FROM
THEIR LIST.
THIS NEW FEATURE IS ALREADY
AVAILABLE ON YOUTUBE'S MOBILE
APP.
THE COMPANY SAYS IT WILL BE
AVAILABLE FOR THE DESKTOP SOON.
JOE
STILL AHEAD ON KOLR 10
DAYBREAK... PARENTS WILL WANT TO
STAY TUNED.
LAUREN
WHY A SLEEPER FROM FISHER-PRICE
IS UNDER RECALL... IN YOUR
MONEYWATCH NEXT.