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minutes of nonstop news with
a check of your forecast with
meteorologist Melissa Nord.
We're getting a break from
the storms and showers,
but the humidity is here.
Humidity is here,
but so is a nice sunrise this morning.
Look at this just a couple of
minutes past sunrise in Atlanta.
It's a pretty start to the day
you'll need those sunglasses today,
but you will not need the
umbrella for most of us because
the rain chance just about 20%.
76 in Atlanta right now,
winds are calm and it feels humid outside.
72 in Lithonia.
Checking in at 70 in Hampton
and 75 in Douglasville,
we'll talk about those storm
chances rising later this week.
In just a bit this morning, police
are investigating a convenience
store robbery that turned deadly
Molly Ocas in South Fulton with
new details about a beloved store
manager gunned down at his own shop.
Family members, friends and customers
are devastated this morning after a
store manager was killed in front of
his sister during an armed robbery.
It happened yesterday evening at the
quick Pick Food Mart on Welcome all road.
Now that's just off Roosevelt Highway.
Officers say they found the store
manager shot several times.
The 44 year old man died at the scene.
That's according to police and
family members say he had a wife
and two kids living in Ethiopia.
Police now looking for the
two robbers who shot him,
and police say those two also
robbed the dollar.
General off roads about highway
before the shooting at the Food Mart,
police are looking at surveillance
video as the investigation and
search for the suspects continues.
If you have any information,
call police back to you all.
Sticking with your 11
minutes of nonstop news,
here's what's happening now.
Fulton County is bringing back some
safety measures after an uptick in
COVID cases less than 24 hours ago,
county officials announced that masks
are mandatory again for anyone at
its adult day health facilities,
including anyone that's vaccinated.
Atlanta Mayor Andrew Dickens also issued
a mask mandate last year for public
meetings inside of any city buildings.
Georgia's abortion law is facing new legal
challenges from local doctors and the ACLU.
These groups say it's against the state
Constitution for laws to go into effect.
If they go against federal law at the
time they were passed when Governor Kim
signed the heartbeat law back in 2019,
Roe V Wade was still a legal precedent.
Georgia's law bans abortions after
a fetal heartbeat is detected.
Cobb County employees can look
forward to a bump in their pay.
Commissioners approved the
Counties 2023 budget last night.
It boosts the minimum pay rate
for employees to $17.00 per hour.
The board also signed off on a
$22 million compensation study
designed to bump county workers
pay to more competitive levels.
A new program could help people living
in Atlanta catch up on their water
bills and that launches tomorrow.
The float initiative will bring
past due accounts current.
It also offers.
Interest free payment plans and
one time grants or credits.
The program also includes help for single
family households as well as seniors.
A Georgia woman is one of nearly 300
confirmed monkeypox patients in the state,
according to the Department of Public Health.
The department says the woman reported
having close contact with the man who
was diagnosed with monkey pox worldwide.
There are only about a dozen
cases of the virus in women.
State officials are pushing to
get more people vaccinated,
but the shots are in short supply.
The CAP county is opening registration in
just a few hours for monkey pox vaccinations.
There are only 200 slots available.
This site opens up at 9:00 AM,
but the actual clinic happens on Friday.
We have information on 11 alive.com.
Some Metro school districts have just
days until they're back in session
and COVID cases are rising again.
Now we've reached out to see what
their plan is to control the spread
of the virus in the classroom in
Clayton County School teachers
and other school employees.
Are required to wear masks for students.
Masks are optional.
The same thing goes for Gwinnett County,
where nearly 200 COVID cases were
reported in the last two weeks and
Atlanta Public school staff are
required to get tested weekly.
Students have the option to get
tested for COVID every two weeks
and masks are optional for everyone.
Fulton County schools tell us
they're still finalizing their plan.
Cobb and de Cap have not responded
to our questions just yet.
This is Jerry Carnton,
Gwinnett County, where school.
Buses are preparing to
go back out on the road,
many of them armed with cameras
that are prepared to capture any
driver that passes them illegally.
Last year, Gwinnett County bus cameras
captured situations like this one,
a driver going up on a sidewalk
to pass a stopped bus with its
stop sign out its lights flashing.
The county issued over 9000 citations
last year carrying fines of $250 each.
That number is up slightly from the
year before, but down from 2019.
The year before COVID classes resume
in Gwinnett County next Wednesday.
And as those kids are getting
ready to head back to school,
90s are not going anywhere.
Today we'll hit a high of 93,
but this morning you'll need the
sunglasses of bright drive in.
We're in the mid 70s right now. By noon.
We're already in the mid
to upper 80s and then
just a 20% chance of a stray shower or
thunderstorm out there on your Wednesday
7 day forecast today and tomorrow.
Lowest rain chances of the next bunch.
We have a front coming in
here Friday and Saturday.
Not going to pass through and drop the
humidity or or the temperatures but
it does bring us a slightly better.
Chance of some scattered showers
and thunderstorms for your Friday
and also your Saturday.
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