LIVE DOWNTOWN DETROIT. LOCAL 4 NEWS AT FIVE STARTS NOW. DELTA AIRLINES, SAYING TO EXPECT
OPERATIONAL ISSUES DURING THE
BUSY HOLIDAY WEEKEND. THIS IS
PILOTS VOICING THEIR CONCERN
OVER WORKING CONDITIONS. I’M
HANK WINCHESTER. HELP ME, HANK.
HOW COULD THIS IMPACT YOUR
HOLIDAY TRAVEL? WE’RE LIVE
TONIGHT. HISTORY IN WASHINGTON.
WELCOME JUSTICE JACKSON TO THE
COURT AND TO OUR COMMON CALLING
BROWN JACKSON BECOMES THE FIRST
BLACK WOMAN TO SERVE ON THE
SUPREME COURT. MHM STRIKE THREE
FOR JEWEL JONES INKSTER. STATE
REP GETS JAIL TIME FOR TAKING A
DRINK BE DEMOCRATIC LAWMAKER
FROM INKSTER SENTENCED TODAY TO
30 MORE DAYS IN JAIL AFTER HE
PLEADED GUILTY FOR A PROBATION
VIOLATION, AND YET HE’S NOT
GOING TO SEE THE INSIDE OF THE
LIVINGSTON COUNTY JAIL THIS TIME
. ROD MELONI IS LIVE TONIGHT
WITH THE REASON ROD GOOD
EVENING. GOOD EVENING, KIMBERLY
AND DEVIN. YOU KNOW IT’S A
SITUATION RIGHT NOW. WHERE? AS
WE SPEAK JEWEL JONES IS IN THE
SHORE HOUSE DRUG REHAB CENTER IN
THE CITY OF DETROIT. NOW YOU’RE
WONDERING WELL, HOW IS THAT THE
CASE WHEN HE’S SUPPOSED TO BE IN
JAIL? WELL THE JUDGE JUDGE
MICHAEL HATTIE WENT AHEAD AND
SAID THAT HE COULD USE TIME
SERVED IN THE REHAB CENTER AS
HIS JAIL TIME. JONES ENTERED THE
LIVINGSTON COUNTY COURT AGAIN
TODAY. RESPONSIBLY ON GUILTY.
GUILTY. GUILTY YOUR HONOR, IF
YOU KNEW WHY HE FOUND HIMSELF
BEFORE JUDGE MICHAEL HATTIE,
PLEADING GUILTY TO A PROBATION
VIOLATION. JUST APOLOGIZE. IT
DID MAKE A REALLY POOR DECISION
HE HAD CONSUMED ALCOHOL AND MAY
21ST OF THIS YEAR, A VIOLATION
OF THE TWO YEAR PROBATION HE
RECEIVED AS HIS SENTENCE AFTER A
PLEA DEAL FOR HIS INFAMOUS 96
TRAFFIC STOP IN 2021. HE SAID
HIS GRANDMOTHER HAD PASSED AWAY
THAT DAY, AND HE TESTED POSITIVE
. THE NEXT EXPLANATION, BUT NOT
MUCH OF AN EXCUSE. YOU KNOW THE
REASON WHY I DID TAKE A DRINK,
AND SO I DO APPRECIATE THE
TREATMENT I’VE BEEN IN. I’VE
BEEN HAVING A GREAT TIME LEARNED
A LOT. NOT ONLY ABOUT THE
PROGRAM BUT ALSO ABOUT MYSELF.
SO JUST LOOKING TO PUT THIS
BEHIND YOUR MOVE FORWARD. I
THINK HE’S IN HIS CRAZY TO THE
CITY OF INKSTER IN INKSTER.
TODAY WE LOOK TO HEAR FROM
RESIDENTS THAT JONES REPRESENTS
FOR REACTION. WELL, I HATE TO
SEE A YOUNG MAN LIKE HIM HOLDING
THAT POSITION AND GETTING THAT
KIND OF TROUBLE. EVEN THEY WENT
THROUGH THE TRIAL PERIOD OF WHAT
YOU’RE DOING, BUT I THOUGHT THAT
WAS STRANGE. HIM OUT. JUDGE HAD
HE ORDERED JONES TO SEND LETTERS
TO THE TO ARRESTING POLICE
OFFICERS HE TUSSLED WITH LAST
YEAR, SAYING HE WANTED JONES TO
WRITE QUOTE. I’M SORRY FOR BEING
AN IDIOT ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD
AND QUOTE PATTY ALSO TELLING
JONES QUOTE YOU HAVE A LOT OF
GIFTS, AND YOU SHOULD USE THEM
AND QUOTE INKSTER RESIDENT
LASALLE DENT TELLING JONES. YOU
NEED TO RESIGN AS OUR
REPRESENTATIVE, AND YOU NEED TO
BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR YOUR
ACTIONS. SO JONES IS EXPECTED TO
STAY IN SHORE HOUSE UNTIL NEXT
THURSDAY. THAT’S JULY 7TH. HE’S
EXPECTED TO SEND THOSE LETTERS
IN THE NEXT WEEK TO THOSE POLICE
OFFICERS, HE TOLD US OUTSIDE THE
COURTROOM AFTERWARDS THAT HE WAS
GRATEFUL TO THE JUDGE FOR
ESSENTIALLY SPARING HIM MORE
JAIL TIME. BACK TO YOU WRITE
THAT ONE RESIDENT WHO THINKS
THAT JONES SHOULD RESIGN BRINGS
UP AN INTERESTING POINT. WHERE
DOES THE REPRESENTATIVE STAND
WITH HIS JOB IN LANSING AT THIS
POINT? WELL WE CHECKED OUT
CHECKED IT WITH THE SPEAKER’S
OFFICE TO FIND OUT EXACTLY WHERE
HE IS. HE DOESN’T HAVE HIS
COMMITTEE STANDING OR HIS
COMMITTEE POSITIONS THAT HE HAD
PREVIOUSLY THEY WERE STRIPPED.
BUT WE ARE TOLD NOW THAT THE
HOUSE SPEAKER OFFERED HIS
COMMITTEE SEATS BACK TO HIM, AND
THEY CLAIMED THAT HE REFUSED
THEM. AND SO AS IT STANDS RIGHT
NOW, IF HE GOES TO LANSING, AND
HE SITS ON THE HOUSE FLOOR ALL
HE CAN DO IS VOTE. OKAY, ROD.
THANKS. WELL. DETROIT POLICE ARE
INVESTIGATING TWO SEPARATE
DEADLY SHOOTINGS IN THE SPAN OF
ABOUT 10. HOURS FIRST HAPPENED
ON THE WEST SIDE BEFORE THREE
O’CLOCK THIS MORNING, THREE
TEENAGERS SHOT A 17 YEAR OLD
KILLED. BEEN THIS AFTERNOON ON
THE EAST SIDE WOMAN FOUND SHOT
TO DEATH IN HER CAR GRANT HERMES
FOLLOWING A RASH OF GUN VIOLENCE
TONIGHT AND YOU GET THE SENSE OF
THE TREND. PERHAPS THAT WE’RE
SEEING THIS SUMMER FROM DETROIT
POLICE RIGHT GRANT. YEAH SEVEN.
KIMBERLY THOSE YOU KNOW TODAY
WAS VIOLENT WITH THOSE TWO
SHOOTINGS. THOSE THREE TEENAGERS
HEARD OFF OF FULLERTON BUT
OVERALL VIOLENT CRIME AND
FATALITIES TRENDING DOWN,
PUTTING DETROIT IN A DIFFERENT
CLASS OF MAJOR CITIES ACROSS THE
COUNTRY. MY DAUGHTER COULD HAVE
BEEN IN THERE. MY GRANDSON COULD
HAVE BEEN IN THERE. ANYTHING
THEY DATED FOR SENSELESS. A DAY
OF VIOLENCE IN DETROIT, THREE
TEENAGE BOYS SHOT OVERNIGHT OFF
FULLERTON, A 17 YEAR OLD KILLED
A 19 YEAR OLD AND A 2ND 17 YEAR
OLD NOT FATALLY WOUNDED AFTER
SOMEONE OPENED FIRE INTO THE
APARTMENT WHERE SIX PEOPLE WERE
INSIDE NEIGHBORS ANGRY OVER YET
ANOTHER SHOOTING AND CALLING FOR
ACTION. IT’S TIME FOR US AS
AFRICAN AMERICANS BECAUSE I’M
SURE THAT’S WHO GOT HURT THE
STAND UP INSTEAD OF TALKING
ABOUT IT. LET’S DO IT. COME ON,
BUT THOSE SHOOTINGS AREN’T THE
FULL PICTURE. DETROIT REPEATEDLY
NAMED ONE OF THE COUNTRY’S MOST
DANGEROUS CITIES, HAS SHOWN A
DECREASE IN CRIME FOR TWO YEARS
, ACCORDING TO DETROIT POLICE.
THE LATEST NUMBERS SHOW
DECREASES ACROSS THE BOARD A 14%
DECREASE IN HOMICIDES. 12%
DECREASE IN SEXUAL ASSAULTS OF
15% DECREASE IN AGGRAVATED
ASSAULTS, NONFATAL SHOOTINGS
DOWN 17% AND FIBERS IN DECREASE
IN ROBBERIES OVERALL VIOLENT
CRIME IN THE CITY OF DETROIT
DOWN 14% DETROIT POLICE CHIEF
JAMES WHITE TALKING ABOUT THOSE
NUMBERS DURING HIS PRESS
CONFERENCE THIS AFTERNOON. YES,
YOUR YOUR YOUR STRATEGIES ARE
WORKING. BUT IT’S NOT JUST US.
IT’S A COMMUNITY AND I WILL SAY
THAT YOU CAN’T DO THIS WORK
WITHOUT COMMUNITY SUPPORT. NO,
YOU ONLY CRIME SECT THAT WENT UP
ACCORDING TO THOSE NUMBERS FROM
DPD. TODAY WAS CARJACKINGS.
THOSE WERE UP 29% OF THE CHIEF
TODAY SAID HE WASN’T CELEBRATING
THOSE NUMBERS JUST THAT IT WAS
PUTTING DETROIT IN A CASE STUDY
FOR THE BETTER THIS TIME NOW
ABOUT THOSE SHOOTINGS TODAY,
THEY ARE STILL LOOKING FOR THE
SHOOTER AND THE DRIVER OF A
BLACK PICKUP TRUCK. FROM THIS
MORNING. THEY’RE ASKING HELP
FROM ANYBODY. WHO MAY KNOW
ANYTHING ABOUT WHO THAT DRIVER
OR THAT SHOOTER IS BACK TO YOU
AND GRANT HERMES. ALSO SOME GOOD
NEWS WHEN IT COMES TO SOLVING
MURDERS, APPARENTLY IN THE CITY.
THOSE THAT COME FROM THE FBI?
YES THEY’RE TALKING ABOUT A 60%
CLEARANCE RATE FROM DVD IN A
TIME WHEN NATIONALLY MURDER
CLEARANCES HAVE DROPPED BY 50%
AND DOWN TO 50% IF YOU ASK DPD
REPORTEDLY, THEY’LL TELL YOU
THAT IT IS 90% BUT EITHER OF
THOSE NUMBERS ABOVE THE NATIONAL
AVERAGE RIGHT NOW, HERE IN THE
CITY OF DETROIT BACK TO YOU. OR
GRANT. A JUDGE ORDERS A RETRIAL
FOR TWO OF THE MEN ACCUSED OF
PLOTTING TO KIDNAP GOVERNOR
WHITMER, BARRY CROFT AND ADAM
FOX WERE IN FEDERAL COURT TODAY
ASKING FOR THE CHARGES TO BE
DISMISSED. JURORS OF COURSE
FAILED TO REACH A VERDICT. A
MISTRIAL WAS DECLARED BACK IN
APRIL. DEFENSE ATTORNEYS ARGUE
THERE IS INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE
TO CONVICT THE DEFENDANTS. THE
JUDGE SAYS HE WANTS TO START A
NEW TRIAL. AND HE WANTS TO DO
THAT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE NOW TO
HISTORIC FIRST ON THE SUPREME
COURT TODAY, SANJAY BROWN
JACKSON WAS SWORN IN AS THE
FIRST BLACK FEMALE JUSTICE AND
THE FIRST FORMER PUBLIC DEFENDER
TO SERVE ON THE SUPREME COURT.
BRIDGE JACKSON IS FOLLOWING THAT
STORY, WHICH COMES AS THE HIGH
COURT RELEASED SEVERAL
CONSEQUENTIAL DECISIONS AFTER
TAKING TOO OLD SAVOIE OFFICE TO
UPHOLD CONSTITUTIONAL AND
JUDICIAL DUTIES. JUSTICE KETANJI
BROWN JACKSON MADE HISTORY HI,
TANGIE BROWN JACKSON DO SOLEMNLY
SWEAR GLASS CEILING SHATTERED
WITH HER FAMILY WATCHING AND HER
HUSBAND HOLDING THE BIBLE FOR
THE SWEARING IN JUSTICE. KETANJI
BROWN JACKSON BECOMES THE FIRST
BLACK FEMALE ON THE SUPREME
COURT. PLEASED TO WELCOME
JUSTICE JACKSON TO THE COURT AND
TO OUR COMMON CALLING. JACKSON
ONCE SERVED AS A CLERK FOR
JUSTICE STEPHEN BREYER. HE’S
OFFICIALLY STEPPED DOWN AFTER
SERVING NEARLY THREE DECADES ON
THE HIGH COURT. HIS FINAL TERM
INCLUDED DISSENTING ON
CONTROVERSIAL DECISIONS TO
EXPAND GUN RIGHTS AND OVERTURN
ROE V. WADE. RULING THAT SPARKED
PROTESTS NATIONWIDE AND
CRITICISM FROM PRESIDENT BIDEN
OVERSEAS. NOW, SAYING HE
SUPPORTS ELIMINATING THE
FILIBUSTER TO CODIFY ABORTION
RIGHTS LEADER IN THE WORLD IN
TERMS OF PERSONAL RIGHTS AND
PRIVACY RIGHTS, AND IT IS A
MISTAKE. IN MY VIEW FOR THE
SUPREME COURT, DO WHAT IT DID.
THE SUPREME COURT DELIVERING
ANOTHER BLOW TO THE BIDEN
ADMINISTRATION THURSDAY, RULING
TO CURB THE EPA’S AUTHORITY TO
LIMIT GREENHOUSE GAS ADMISSIONS
FROM EXISTING POWER PLANTS. IT’S
A LOSS OF THE FEDERAL
GOVERNMENT’S ABILITY TO REGULATE
CLIMATE CHANGE. JUSTICES ALSO
HANDING THE PRESIDENT AND
DEMOCRATS OF VICTORY. ALLOWING
THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION TO SHUT
DOWN A TRUMP ERROR PROGRAM
DESIGNED TO RESTRICT IMMIGRATION
AT THE SOUTHERN BORDER DECISION
ON THE ROMANIAN MEXICO PROGRAM.
UNEXPECTED BUT WE WILL TAKE IT.
JUSTICE JACKSON TAKING ON AN
HISTORIC ROLE ON THE HIGH COURT
AT A DIVISIVE TIME, THIS IS THE
FIRST TIME THAT FOR WOMEN WILL
SERVE TOGETHER ON THE NINE
MEMBER BENCH OF FORMAL
INVESTITURE CEREMONY FOR JUSTICE
JACKSON IS EXPECTED IN THE FALL.
BUT TODAY’S SWEARING IN CEREMONY
ALLOWS HER TO GET TO WORK ON THE
HIGH COURT IMMEDIATELY. IN
WASHINGTON. I’M BREE JACKSON FOR
FOUR. LOCAL NOW, LET’S TAKE A
CLOSER LOOK AT THOSE TWO
DECISIONS FROM THE COURT TODAY.
ONE CURBS THE ENVIRONMENTAL
PROTECTION AGENCY’S ABILITY TO
BROADLY REGULATE CARBON
ADMISSIONS FROM EXISTING POWER
PLANTS. COURT ALSO GAVE
PRESIDENT BIDEN APPROVAL TO END
THE REMAIN IN MEXICO IMMIGRATION
POLICY THAT ORIGINATED UNDER THE
TRUMP ADMINISTRATION, AND THE
COURT REFUSED TO TAKE UP A CASE
CHALLENGING A COVID 19 VACCINE
REQUIREMENT FOR HEALTHCARE
WORKERS IN NEW YORK. THAT DOES
NOT INCLUDE EXEMPTIONS FOR
RELIGIOUS REASONS. LIKE
YESTERDAY, THE FIRST PROBABLE
MICHIGAN CASE OF MONKEYPOX WAS
REPORTED BY THE MICHIGAN
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND IN
OAKLAND COUNTY RESIDENT THERE
WAS VERY LIMITED INFORMATION
RELEASED OTHER THAN TO SAY THAT
THE INDIVIDUAL IS CURRENTLY
ISOLATING AND DOES NOT POSE A
RISK TO THE PUBLIC ARE DR FRANK
MCGEORGE JOINS US LIVE WITH WHAT
PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THIS
VIRUS, DOC? YEAH I CAME AS OF
YESTERDAY NOT COUNTING THE
MICHIGAN CASE, WHICH HAS YET TO
BE CONFIRMED BY THE CDC. THERE
HAVE BEEN 351 CASES OF MONKEYPOX
CONFIRMED IN 27 STATES. NOW MOST
STATES ONLY HAVE A SINGLE CASE,
BUT NEW YORK AND CALIFORNIA HAVE
IDENTIFIED 72 80 CASES,
RESPECTIVELY. SO THE REAL
QUESTION IS NOW THAT THERE’S A
CASE IN MICHIGAN WHAT IS THE
AVERAGE RISK? I THINK IT WOULD
BE RISKY TO CLASSIFY IT AS LOW
MEDIUM OR HIGH. GIVEN THE
NUMBERS, I WOULD NOT SAY RIGHT
NOW AT THIS PARTICULAR POINT
THAT IT IS A QUOTE, HIGH RISK,
BUT THE NUMBERS MAY INCREASE,
WHICH MEANS WE’VE JUST GOT TO BE
CAREFUL AND PAY ATTENTION. LOCAL
EXPERTS AGREE. EVERYBODY’S
WORRIED THIS WILL BE THE NEXT
THING RIGHT? COVID STARTED OUT
AS A FEW CASES. YOU KNOW AND
WHATNOT, BUT, UM, THIS IS
DIFFERENT. IT DOESN’T SPREAD THE
SAME WAY. IT’S NOT NEARLY AS
CONTAGIOUS. DR MATTHEW SIMS,
MEDICAL DIRECTOR OF INFECTIOUS
DISEASE RESEARCH FOR BEAUMONT
HEALTH, SAYS THE PRIMARY MODE OF
SPREAD HIS CONTACT CONTACT WITH
THE LESIONS THAT YOU CAN GET THE
RASH WHERE OCCASIONALLY IF THEY
HAVE LESIONS IN THE MOUTH, IT
CAN SPREAD THROUGH RISK. LARGE
RESPIRATORY SCREECHES THAT UM,
YOU KNOW, ONLY TRAVEL A SHORT
DISTANCE, HE NOTES. SO FAR, MOST
CASES HAVE SPREAD THROUGH A
PARTICULAR TYPE OF CONTACT. THIS
IS STILL CONTACTED JUST HAPPENED
TO BE CONTACT DURING SEX. UM AND
IT’S PRIMARILY BEEN IN WITH MEN
WHO HAVE SEX WITH THEM THE U. S
PLANS TO DISTRIBUTE NEARLY
300,000 MONKEY POX VACCINE DOSES
, THE CDC IS PRIORITIZING
INITIAL ACCESS TO THE VACCINE TO
COMMUNITIES WITH THE HIGHEST
NUMBER OF CASES AND PEOPLE WHO
HAVE BEEN IN CLOSE CONTACT WITH
SOMEONE WHO HAS BEEN DIAGNOSED
WITH THE VIRUS. NOW. BIG PICTURE
. ALTHOUGH MONKEYPOX HAS LARGELY
SPREAD IN A POPULATION OF MEN
WHO ARE INTIMATE WITH OTHER MEN
. SOME OF THOSE SAME MEN ARE
ALSO INTIMATE WITH WOMEN. AND SO
THIS SHOULD NOT BE CONSIDERED A
SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE
THAT’S ONLY SPREAD THROUGH
CERTAIN TYPES OF CONTACT. ANYONE
CONCERNED ABOUT POSSIBLE
EXPOSURE SHOULD CONTACT THEIR
LOCAL HEALTH DEPARTMENT. DR
MCGEORGE. ASIDE FROM THE RASH,
THAT WE’VE ALL SEEN THE PICTURES
OF ARE THERE ANY OTHER SYMPTOMS
THAT PEOPLE SHOULD KNOW ABOUT?
WELL, YOU KNOW, IT TAKES ABOUT 1
TO 2 WEEKS TO BECOME
SYMPTOMATIC, AND MANY OF THE
INITIAL SYMPTOMS ARE FAIRLY
GENERIC FEVER, BODY ACHES,
FATIGUE AND SO ON. BUT THERE IS
ALSO NOTABLE LYMPH NODE SWELLING
, AND THIS CAN HAPPEN WITH OTHER
INFECTIONS, TOO, BUT IT IS MORE
COMMON AND CONSISTENT WITH
MONKEYPOX. SO THE COMBINATION OF
SWOLLEN NODES AND EVEN A
LOCALIZED RASH CAN REALLY BE A
BIG TIP OFF, OKAY? DR MCGEORGE,
THANKS A LOT MORE TO COME ON
THIS THURSDAY. LET’S CHECK IN
WITH PAUL GROSS, AND WE HAVE A
LOT MORE WEATHER TO TALK ABOUT.
IT’S A SCORCHER OUT THERE 87
RIGHT NOW IN ANN ARBOR, BUT
FORTUNATELY WE’VE BEEN SAVED BY
THESE TWO POINTS IN THE FIFTIES.
THAT’S DRY AIR AND THIS NICE
BREEZE FROM THE SOUTH SOUTHWEST
. WE HAVE A COLD FRONT
APPROACHING, AND THAT MEANS
RELIEF FROM THE HEAT. AND IT
ALSO MEANS A RAIN CHANCE
TOMORROW WE’LL BREAK IT ALL DOWN
FOR YOU STRAIGHT AHEAD. ALRIGHT
PAUL, AND I’M GOING TO SIT DOWN
ONE ON ONE WITH DANNY FINSTER
NEW AT FIVE HOW HE REMAINED
HOPEFUL WHILE LOCKED UP IN A
PRISON IN MYANMAR. DELTA
AIRLINES, SAYING TO EXPECT
OPERATIONAL ISSUES DURING THE
BUSY HOLIDAY WEEKEND. THIS IS
PILOTS VOICING THEIR CONCERN
OVER WORKING CONDITIONS. I’M
HANK WINCHESTER. HELP ME, HANK.