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We're canvassing right now for
witnesses and other surveillance
footages and other investigative tools.
Atlanta police leaning on the
community for help to find a killer.
The victim, a Clark Atlanta
University athlete paying for water
they did not use. People in DeKalb
County calling on their local leaders,
wondering why bills are so high,
what they want to see change
this morning? Yeah,
we've got a major red alert developing
on the West or the east side.
Perimeter excuse me.
285 northbound memorial Dr.
Major delays stretching back towards I-20.
We're gonna have to start
thinking about alternates.
We're saying goodbye to the sunshine
for really the rest of the week.
Clouds are pushing into our area
and the rain chance starts to go up.
In fact, severe weather could be our way
as we head toward the end of the week.
More on that coming up.
Right
now, police are trying to find
out who shot and killed a Clark.
Atlanta University student athlete
Ariana Muniz has more on the search
and what we know about the student.
This morning police are still
searching for a suspect or suspects.
Police are telling us that this
happened Tuesday afternoon around 1:30
at the Lighthouse Catholic Center.
When police got to the scene,
that's where they found 20 year old
giottonini sterling shot and killed.
Sterling was a sophomore from Chicago and
a member of the school's baseball team,
the university,
sharing this photo of the student hours ago.
Police say at this stage in their
investigation they do believe this,
that the shooting started as a dispute
and escalated to gunfire and fill.
Students are safe.
But one student we spoke to says the
fact that this happened so close
to campus is still very concerning.
Clark Atlanta did release a statement
confirming that the shooting happened
off campus and also extended their
condolences to Sterling's family.
Meanwhile,
police are still searching for their
suspect and asking anyone with any
information tied to this case to
give Crime Stoppers a call back to
you, continuing your 11 minutes of nonstop
news this morning to Clayton County.
Employees are on administrative
leave and an investigation is
happening that's after an accused.
Killer was mistakenly released from jail.
Kaiser Suggs was set free in Clayton
County Tuesday where he was being
held for a different incident.
Suggs was supposed to be turned
over to Fulton County where he's
tied to a deadly home invasion.
He turned himself in last night.
He is now in the Fulton County Jail.
Later this morning,
state senators will vote on a
bill that is looking to restrict
how schools and teachers interact
with children who are transgender.
The Republican backed Bill would
prevent schools from recognizing a
transition gender unless their gender.
To change on their birth certificate,
we have new details about big
changes to Gwinnett Place mall.
The Gwinnett Board of Commissioners recently
approved of revitalization project it
would roll out over the next 20 years.
It will include thousands of
residential units, offices, restaurants.
The new 90 acre site will be
off Pleasant Hill Rd.
I'm Christy Diaz
in studio. This morning,
police and firefighters in De Kalb
County are getting a pay raise only
four months after the last one.
Back in October,
County police and firefighters
got a 6 1/2% raise for police.
That made the starting salary $50,500.
Starting in April for all sworn
officers and up to up to and
including the rank of Sergeant,
that will go up to $55,000 for firefighters.
The current starting salary is $46,500.
In April, that will go up to 50.
1000 this applies to firefighters up
to and including the rank of captain,
emergency medical technicians and paramedics.
De Kalb CEO Michael Thurman says continued
pay raises are crucial to recruiting
and retaining emergency personnel.
He says the money will come from
existing police and Fire Rescue
budgets. Christy, thanks.
That was look at your Wednesday morning
headlines heading out the door with
some changes on the way. Chesley.
Yeah, clouds are starting
to roll in as we speak.
Mostly cloudy skies on the outside.
For today. There will be a threat
for an isolated shower too.
I think that won't come
until afternoon today.
A lot of us won't see it at all.
20 to 30% chance,
but if you happen to get one, just carry
that umbrella with you just in case.
Temperature-wise,
60s and 50s just about throughout our area.
Covington and 57 for example.
Locust Grove here at 6558 degrees,
Peachtree City 60 and Noonan,
the heart of Coweta County 52.
Degrees up to a Powder Springs
Acworth at 5055 degrees.
Marietta Tucker,
you're at 6060 as well in downtown Atlanta.
61 right now in East Point,
Upper 60s,
a little bit further down to
the South like toward LaGrange,
like 66 starting off this morning,
notice the rain well off to
the West of us over into Texas
heading up toward the Dallas area.
We'll turn severe later on
this afternoon into tonight.
Some of that will track a little bit
further off toward the north and east.
Some of that could move into
our far Northern counties,
also our Western counties
under the gun as well.
So we'll continue to watch that
as we head through the day.
Likely it won't take place until
later on tonight and I'm thinking
toward the wee hours of the morning.
Could we see or hear maybe a clap of
Thunder up here to our far north?
Although the Storm Prediction Center
has placed much of our area in a a
moderate or marginal risk for severe weather,
that's a level one threat
out of a possible 5.
Notice the level 2 threat just back
off to the north and West of our area,
same area tomorrow will be
under the gun once again.
But notice back off toward Dallas,
that red area there just the east of
Dallas going into Arkansas and Louisiana,
that is a.
Moderate risk or level 4 out of a
possible 5 threat for severe weather.
Long track tornadoes possible there.
The same system will move our direction,
but it will weaken somewhat as it moves in.
And so notice we just have
the yellow area over us.
It's a level 2 threat out of a possible five.
That will be on Friday.
As a cold front tracks into the area.
We'll bring heavy rain,
damaging winds certainly possible with this.
That will be in and out of any
thunderstorms that happened to
develop in our area and the
possibility for some tornadoes.
That timing looks to be right now,
I'd say early afternoon.
On Friday should be clearing out
by the time we get to the late
afternoon and we'll clear it
out as we head into the upcoming
weekend and cool down as well.
New this morning we are hearing
from people in de Kalb County still
dealing with high water bills.
This is a new development in a
years long 11 live investigation.
In many cases customers say bills
are coming in for water that
they did not use. It's unfair
for residents to pay for
water that's not use and
it's unjust to punish
residents for the
failures of the county.
At today's town hall,
people were talking about problems
that stem from extremely high water
bills from several years ago.
An 11 live investigation found people
with bills as high as $19,000.
Residents say they don't
trust the county process,
and DeKalb needs to stop cutting
off water over unpaid bills
until it sorts out this issue.
They just, you know, continue
to try to dispute the bill.
But at a certain point if the CFO
says that that's the amount owed and
that all checks out on their side,
then they don't really
have any kind of recourse.
The good news is since the
moratorium was lifted and notices and
communication and even door knocks to
residents that had outstanding bills,
94% of them have now entered
into either a payment plan,
paid their back bills or are
soon to be caught
up. So the cab says there is some.
Progress, but people at the meeting
say that it's dragged on too long.
The process isn't consistent and
they want more transparency.
This morning the Gwinnett County
School District is investigating
a video of a Dacula middle school
student being attacked on the bus.
And we do want to warn you
the video is graphic.
April Ballard shared this
video with 11 alive.
She says her 13 year old daughter was
attacked on the bus Friday afternoon.
Ballard says she's having a hard time
understanding why no one stepped in.
I mean, she had only be like.
Five to six seats behind the bus driver.
I don't know if he's in the driver seat,
if he stepped off the bus and make a call,
but how are you protecting my kid?
We send the video to the school
district Tuesday and they say it
was the first time leaders saw it.
They say the student involved were punished.
As of this morning,
they have not said what action they took.
Atlanta Public Schools is now offering
new health services for students.
The new program is giving students
access to both in person and
virtual health services serving both
mental and physical health needs.
Telehealth options are available
after school hours tonight,
as six legislation proposed across
the country could lead to penalties.
For those who use emergency contraceptives,
things like Plan B one step were
made to be used after unprotected
sex to prevent pregnancy.
Has a lot of people talking about
how these pills actually work.
You won't work or will be far less
effective if you take it while
you are currently ovulating or
I've already ovulated tonight on
11 alive news at six we verify
if emergency contraceptives work
during ovulation that answering
much more tonight on 11 alive news.
You know, eating your lunch outside
today will be a little different
than it was just yesterday where
we had all that sunshine around.
Today we got the clouds in place,
temperatures right around 71 degrees,
so still very warm out there.
But those clouds will be around and just
after one is where we can start to see
some of those isolated showers popping up.
Not everyone gets wet,
it'll just be a few around 77 degrees
will be the high temperature today.
Again, 30% chance for those isolated showers.
They'll linger into the evening
as you're driving home.
So you may be using your
windshield wipers intermittently.
74 degrees by 6:00 o'clock.
We'll get a better chance for
the rain tomorrow and Friday.
Could be severe weather in our area.
We're talking about ohh, it's a 6:30.
I just gotta stall.
I'm looking at boom and I did that.
We
should have. We should have
been knocking on something.
Alright everybody have a great day.
We'll hand it off to the
Today show and see you
back here tomorrow morning.