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to heart looks like the
radar is clear for it now.
Visibility is very low due to fog,
but I haven't looked at
your forecast coming up. Our
train wrecking from site
sends a man to the hospital.
We tell you what the Sheriff's
Office says happened and
to be able to go into a profession that I
finally had fallen falling in love with,
I'm going to become a teacher.
We tell you about the road to
graduation for one Fort Valley
student and how he is overcoming
a serious injury and one school is
going above and beyond to give their
students the power to set goals and.
Worked actively to achieve them
how they're doing it all in this
week's school of the week. Good
Friday morning central Georgia.
You're taking a live look over
a beautiful downtown Macon.
The time is now 631 here
on this December the 9th.
Congratulations to you.
You have made it to the end
of the work and school week.
And shout out to the folks who are
going to be working this weekend.
We appreciate you as well.
Before you head out the door,
I'm sure you're interested to know
how the weather is looking in Jordan.
It is feeling a little warm,
borderline hot.
Yeah, it's warm, hot, humid.
Nikki Marie, I got a whole
list of words to go through,
but yesterday we broke a record
in terms of temperature.
We the record was 79 degrees back in 1966
and you were actually informed me that
was 56 years ago and that 66 years ago.
Math is hard too, but temperatures
right now in Macon is 55 degrees.
The radar is nice and clear in
terms of the rain fog is out there
though with the visibility down not
nearly as this as it was yesterday.
So you should be good on the railways
today we do have a stationary.
Went to our N though as you can
see it's really right along that
rain boundary keeping the rain out.
As the high pressure starts to weaken,
that rain will start to seep
on down into central Georgia.
So temperatures are already upper 50s,
lower 60s,
sixty two and first sight 54 in Macon,
55 in Dublin and 63 degrees
down there in Vidalia.
Dew point temperatures also
in the mid to upper 50s.
So humid out there.
I'll be tracking the
storms rolling in tonight,
rain chances this weekend and I'll
talk about the cool weather moving
in this week and your full forecast.
Coming up.
Thank you, Jordan. New this morning,
a Fort Valley State University student is
getting ready to walk across the stage.
This is a big deal for Trey
Lawson because he was paralyzed
from the waist down shortly after
he graduated from high school.
I got to catch up with Trey before
he turns his tassel this weekend.
Madison putting markers. Look,
it's just about time for
winter break at Kay Rd.
Elementary school in Peach County.
Are they? Yeah.
As these students get ready for the
last day before Christmas break,
student teacher Trey Lawson
is preparing for his last
day before he graduates.
To be able to go into a profession that I
finally have fallen falling in love with.
I'm going to become a teacher and it's
just graduated from college. It's amazing.
It's like no other feeling that you ever have
the road to college graduation.
Was anything but easy for Lawson after
he got into a bad car accident in 2017.
A car accident happened
leaving from a track meet.
I was with my friends and
one of my friends fell asleep
driving behind the wheel,
which resulted in.
Paralyzed from the waist
down where I broke my back,
Lawson also got a brain injury
and dealt with abdominal injuries
as well through recovery.
Lawson says the Shepherd Center
helped him power through the Good
Times and sometimes dark times.
My body was probably torn up,
but my mind was destroyed the most,
so they helped me with mental
therapy as well as physical therapy.
By the fall of 2018 lawsuit,
enrolled in Fort Valley State University
and found a new sense of belonging.
I feel like Fort Valley State helped me.
Be the person that was today just from
me going to that campus and still
being able to open my eyes and meeting
people that treated me the same.
In 2019, we shared this video of Lawson
walking around a track that went
viral on social media. This Saturday,
Lawson is hoping to reach a new goal.
I finally get to physically
walk across the stage.
It's just the amazing obstacle that I
am truly proud to be accomplishing.
That's right, Lawson plans on walking.
Across the stage Saturday,
it's a goal for the former track
star who thought he lost it
all but regained his strength.
There's no mountain that is too tall and
there is no valid that is too shallow for
you to climb over and overcome things.
Kay Rd teachers have become
family for Lawson and everyone
speaks highly of him. He's just
a phenomenal person to have in our building,
working with our boys and girls, and
he's a favorite of theirs.
With Lawson closing this chapter of his
life at Fort Valley State University,
he is looking forward to helping the
next generation and continuing to let
everyone know that with hard work.
You can get across any finish line.
He has an absolutely great
story and such a great spirit.
Also, trade plans to continue
in the education field once
he graduates this Saturday.
Now, if you're planning to join
family and friends for Fort Valley's
fall 2022 commencement ceremony,
here's what you need to know.
It's happening in the HP E complex.
The in person ceremony starts at 9:30
AM for both undergrad and graduate
students for parking during commencement.
You should enter through the
gate off of Ira Hicks Blvd.
There is no reserve parking.
For additional details,
visit the university's website.
Here are some other graduations that are
happening in Central Georgia this weekend.
Georgia College in Milledgeville
will award 326 students on
Saturday at the Centennial Center.
Doors open at 11:00 AM and the procession
will begin at 12:45 PM about 260
undergraduates will be awarded their
bachelors in a variety of majors,
and 67 will receive their
masters and specialist degrees,
the Georgia Military College.
Old Capital Guard Battalion will
host its fall commissioning
ceremony at the GO Sign Center for
Performing Arts on the GMC campus.
The commissioning is going to be happening
on December the 15th at 3:00 PM.
Colonel Tom Torrance will be the
guest speaker and we celebrate
tassels turning for students at
Middle Georgia State University.
2 commencement ceremonies took
place on the Macon campus this week,
with the last one yesterday afternoon.
Let's get you to some more education news
happening here in Macon Wesleyan colleges.
New President raised get this $2.2
million in her first 100 days on
the job and Megan Blythe said she's
already putting the money to good use.
Blythe says donors gave anywhere
from $5 all the way to six figures.
She says the money is going
towards international recruitment,
different programs,
fixing facilities and scholarships.
Floyd says the money has energized
the current Wesleyan students
and it shows that donors.
Are passionate about elevating women.
We wanted to make sure that we have the
resources for a long prosperous future,
and that's one of the things
that I'm here to do,
is to energize the place,
create some new programs.
Our community members are so behind
us and behind our students and
their success that they're able,
they're willing to open up their
wallets and and support in that manner.
Great work they're doing at Wesleyan,
Blythe says.
Two of their programs being funded
with the money right now is
the Working Warriors program,
which helps women affected by COVID-19.
There's also the CEO Institute
creating equal opportunities.
It provides their personal Advisory Board
that can help open doors to industry.
It's 638 this morning.
Crawford County Middle and high
says it will have an increased
law enforcement presence.
Today the school is working
with investigators to look into
a school shooting rumor.
As of right now,
Superintendent Christopher Ridley
says they haven't found any evidence
pointing to an actual threat.
In a release, Ridley says, quote,
our district takes the responsibility
of the safety of
our students and staff.
Very seriously, our goal is to
be as transparent as possible
where your children are involved.
The release advises parents
to call the school at
478-836-3126 with any questions or
concerns. Again that number, it's
4788363126. Moving over to Monroe
County, Forsyth police say a
71 year old man
suffered minor injuries when a train
hit his car in downtown Forsyth.
Police say it happened around 2:15
yesterday afternoon on TIFF College Drive.
The man told officers that
he never heard the train.
Coming and couldn't see it
because of the glare of the sun.
The Forsyth man went to the hospital
for treatment and the Sheriff's
Office is investigating the wreck.
This is the same crossing where
a corrections officer was heard
back in 2018 when a train hit a
van carrying several officers.
The Sheriff's Office also reported a
train hit another vehicle that same year.
No one was hurt then.
While Georgia Power is asking the
state Public Service Commission,
which regulates the power company,
to approve a rate hike that could
significantly bump up your power bill.
If the Commission improves,
the increased customers would
see the biggest jump next year.
That's when Georgia Power predicts
customers would see about a
$14.00 increase each month.
By 2025,
it would climb to more than 16 bucks,
nearly $200.00 more each
year compared to now.
The price jumps have some
watchdog groups worried.
The state Public Service Commission will
make its final decision on December the 20th.
Georgia Power did send us a
statement that reads part.
We will take our responsibility to plan,
prepare and make the investments needed
to meet our customers energy needs today,
tomorrow and for years to come.
Seriously.
And Georgia Power's request to the
Georgia Public Service Commission
outlines and supports that focus.
It's Friday,
and that means it's time for
us to show you an A+ school.
That's our school of the week.
Our morning reporter TJ Anthony is
standing by to reveal that school to you.
And we asked, and listen,
some of you were sharing what
you're celebrating this week.
So Taylor Stephenson is going
to have that for us.
It's now
640 Jordan. Some folks
are celebrating this warm
weather. Yes,
and I'm celebrating that as Friday.
So take it or leave it.
But it is nice and warm outside and
humid a little bit we're seeing.
Downtown look into making right now
temperatures sitting in the mid 50s.
Fifty four there,
54 the dew point making the humidity at 100%.
Seeing a little fog out there
across central Georgia, very light,
looks like some parts of Eastman.
This thing, really heavy fog.
Everywhere else seems to be for the
most part pretty clear if you are
in those heavy and dense fog areas.
Just make sure you slow down,
make sure your low beams are on and you
be careful out there because the roads
are still wet because of all that fog.
But in terms of rain we are clear of that.
Nothing there on the radar.
You have this stationary front to
our N keeping all that rain to
the north and as high pressure
down here to our S as it weakens,
this stationary Frank could
linger S we're driving those
storms downward toward our area.
But you can see that on our
future view as we head towards
5:00 o'clock this afternoon.
That rain is already affecting
some of our northern counties.
Lots of cloud cover overhead again that's
five o'clock moving into the overnight
hours is now at 3:00 AM on Saturday.
Lots of cloud cover is still light rain
chances in this summer type pattern
and we see that cloud cover over
the next few days with rain chances.
Embedded in a very light rain,
nothing severe,
but still something to keep an eye out on.
Have those rain jackets and umbrellas ready.
That will continue into Sunday where
a widespread storm start to make their
way through at 11:00 o'clock Sunday night.
So be careful with that as
we head into the next week.
The next rainy event will be into
Wednesday night into Thursday morning.
Again,
have those rain jackets and
umbrellas ready on Wednesday.
This is the extended forecast
kind of far out.
If anything changes, as always,
we will let you guys know there's
daily Almanac, I keep mentioning that.
Yesterday, because it's really significant,
we broke our record.
Remember, our record was set back in 1966,
which was 56 years ago.
Temperature high was 79 degrees,
but yesterday that high was 83 degrees.
We broke the record of 56 years.
Not only that,
but about four whole degrees,
not just one or two four degrees.
So 83 is a high.
We'll put that down in the record
books for this day or I guess it
was been yesterday in history,
but temperatures are currently in the
upper 50s if not lower 60s across the board.
54 and Eastman, 59 and Gordon,
62 in Forsyth and 64 degrees in Thomaston.
Dew point.
Temperatures also a little
bit higher than normal.
So yeah,
assume it outside and I put
that on the board here,
human clear morning over all of that.
That's going to all change as
we head into tonight as those
storms start to really roll in.
And we're going to see,
we're going to see those overcast conditions
as we head over the next couple of days.
Speaking of which, we should dry out by
at least on Tuesday after some rain moves.
And over the next seven days
though temperatures should slowly.
Up back down into the mid
to upper 60s by Monday and
Tuesday of next week.