Aching news alert, tracking that breaking news surrounding the evening commute. Here’s some
live pictures from sky for right
now. North Bong 75 is closed at
the Davidson because of a crash
their state police say the
driver is in critical condition
, but that’s the only detail
they’re releasing about the
crash. At this time, they’re
warning drivers to find
Alternate routes and expect long
delays. Once again. This is
North Bong 75 closed at the
Davidson. We’ll let you know
when it’s back Open. The
National Weather Service
confirms a tornado hit Monroe
County Why that’s wild neighbors
are banding together to try to
get it cleaned up. Good to have
you with us here for Local four
news at five. I’m Devin Stilian.
Kimberly Gill. The EF one was on
the ground north of Monroe for
close to five miles with
estimated max winds of 90 Miles
an hour. Megan Woods has been in
that area all day talking to
folks getting a firsthand look
at the damage. Megan. There’s a
lot of cleanup to do. A lot of
cleanup and just to give you an
idea of the extent of this
damage. Look at this massive
Wrong with the weather and
Frenchtown Township quickly went
from this. Is why wild. To this
to get back to sudden, all it
was was tree branches and debris
shingles. Everything coming
hitting the truck That was right
there. That was probably the
first time and I don’t know how
many years we said Get in the
basement. The National Weather
Service confirmed it was an EF
one tornado with the peak of 90
mile per hour winds. But it’s
what happened after that. That
has people like Mark Myers
staying positive. 2030 minutes
after the storm was left,
neighbors came down with their
chainsaws and cleared the road
out so people can get up and
down the road. You know, we have
such a great neighborhood, so
everyone’s out kind of helping
everyone. This has been awful.
Cleaning up is brutal, but good
neighbors always help. It’s hard
to complain because while they
were hit with a tornado
difficult moments like this
Reminder that there’s no place
like home just got home from up
north about our two ago. We’ve
been working ever since. But our
neighbors worked hours and hours
, Even a friend of ours that
lives in Newport came. They got
all the big stuff. And you see,
there’s still so much work to be
done depending on what street
your own. You see this massive
trunk, you see, they’re trying
to figure out how to move this
from blocking the roadway, So a
lot of work to be done. DTE is
still working to get power back
on in these neighborhoods as
well Reporting live in Monroe
County. I’m Megan Woods. Local
four damage there. Okay, Megan,
thank you. And as the storm came
through last night, the photos
Came flooding into my picks. For
example, Rene sent this photo of
an uprooted tree. This is in
Berlin Township in Monroe County
and check out all the hail. This
is from Jean Kendall from
Pinckney. She sent us this photo
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on Detroit .com. So I keep
telling you we don’t usually
have measurable hail. We measure
it in diameter, but not in the
pile that it makes. Yeah, Let’s
bring in Kim Adams now and look
at how these storms came
through. Things got pretty
chaotic for a few hours as we
were on the areas today. They
sure did. Especially right
during our six o’clock show. I
took the radar back to 6 16
yesterday. That’s when the
tornado warning came out, and it
was in this box right here,
which includes Detroit Beach and
Frenchtown Township. So the
warning came out 66. 16 and
continued. For just a short
time. This is a very short lived
event. But as soon as we saw
this as meteorologists here,
this is the velocity and that
you’ve got, you know, wind going
away from the radar site and
when going toward it, you know
there’s rotation and we knew at
that point that there was a
problem in Detroit Beach and
would beach as well. So Here’s
what happened yesterday again. 6
16 is when the warning went out
, but the tornado actually
touched down at 609, and it was
just to the north of Detroit
Beach, right where we saw that
velocity on our radar and also
signs of rotation that it
continued to move towards
Estrella Beach. It was very
short lived. It was not on the
ground for very long from
touchdown to lift up. It was 609
to 6 18 so very short period of
time. Just about nine minutes.
It was a 4.7 mile per Task. And
then about 400 yards wide, which
is about a quarter of a mile.
All right, So we had the tornado
yesterday and now we get into a
very calm weather situation with
highs tomorrow in the low
eighties. Lots of sunshine. But
now we have got to talk about a
drought and we’ll do that in
just a few minutes. Alright Kim,
and we continue to follow
breaking news happening up north
in the town of Manistee new
video just in as police. They’re
investigating an active shooter
situation. We do know two people
so far being treated for
injuries. There are four those
crime scenes at this hour.
Police say there is no threat to
the public at the moment. We are
expecting an update from police
at any moment, and we will have
updates for you just as soon as
we get them from Manistee. All
right now to a break a bizarre
story we’re tracking on
Detroit’s West Side and an ant
is accused of dousing her niece.
With lighter fluid and trying to
light her on fire, and that’s
not all. Hamilton’s has been
arrested, arraigned and charged
in this case only is live on
this story tonight, Sean any
clue what in the world led up to
this? We wanted to know that
Also, Kimberly went straight to
that apartment complex today and
talk to people who clearly heard
someone say I’m going to light
you on fire and burn this place
to the ground. They didn’t wait
around to see what’s going on.
They got out clearly a vicious
argument. Here’s what we know.
What’s your name? Ma’am? Sherry
Hamel. Sherry Hambleton has such
a soft voice. She’s an aunt, but
she is charged with a horrifying
attack on her own niece. It
happened here at this apartment
building on West McNichols,
prosecutors say During a vicious
argument. Hamilton’s sprayed
lighter fluid all over her knees
, her clothing and her apartment
in court. Prosecutors say
Hambleton is a clear danger.
Anytime Anyone allegedly sprays
a residential area with lighter
fluid, let alone and individual
judge the defendant is a danger
to the complaining to the
community. All of this happening
right upstairs, and it was loud.
Neighbors said They heard the
argument going on right here at
this unit. They saw the ant
through. The nieces closed over
the balcony and then Grabbing
lighter fluid, spraying it
inside, spraying that lighter
fluid on her niece. She was able
to get away before anyone was
able to light a lighter, she
would have been burned. This
whole place could have been
burned down. This dad was here
at the time. He got his kids out
, fearing the entire building
would be set on fire kids out
there playing around this type
of stuff. You feel me so I mean
, I’m glad that she didn’t do
worse than damage because it
could have been worse Birth on
the lighter fluid and you know
what I’m saying? Could have been
much, much worse than the
magistrate calling Hamilton’s a
clear danger here gave it about
a 35 $100 bond. Say If she makes
that bond, you can have no
contact with her knees or anyone
or go back to that apartment
complex right now. Kimberly on
What was the argument about? Do
we have any idea? Late today.
We’re hearing is argument over
living situation at that
apartment, but that’s when the
lighter fluid came out and we
were there. That place could
have been burned to the ground
easily. Prosecutors believe a
small fire was indeed set. Okay
Sean, thanks. Geraldine Johnson
has been in the Wayne County
lockup since her arrest earlier
this week, is accused of hitting
and killing a woman in downtown
Detroit while she was behind the
wheel of a d dot bus. It is not
the first time it’s happened Not
by far. Rod Meloni live on this
story for us. She is being
allowed to go home. Those that
right rod That’s right. She’s at
home tonight, Devin and it was
at this intersection back in
June, 2nd at the accident
happened. She’s been in jail
because they arrested her
earlier this week. She wanted
out of jail and tonight she is,
in fact at home. Initially 59
year old Geraldine Johnson
received a $25,000 cash bond she
could not make charged only with
a misdemeanor. It’s a very
serious case 67 year old Janice
Bauer of Grosse Pointe Park
tried crossing Griswold in
Congress behind her walker with
the light on June 2nd downtown
Detroit Police say Johnson
rolled her Didot bus right over
her, killing her and in a
startling revelation that came
to light in Johnson’s
arraignment. This was not her
first fatal accident behind the
d dot Well. Video from her bus
back in 2015 shows Joey Davis
getting off to pull his bike
from the front rack with Johnson
behind the wheel records show.
She fatally rolled her bus over
him as well. The state suspended
Johnson’s bus driving license,
deeming her unqualified at the
time. Yet shortly thereafter did
not decided to retrain Johnson
after the fatal accident and put
her back on the street.
Yesterday The city announced
that fired Johnson after the
June 2nd accident. As for
today’s bond hearing, the chief
Judge William Maccanico, said
new state rules require sitting
attainable bonds, so he reduced
her bond from $25,000 cash to a
personal bond with house arrest
with a tether. She’s only able
to leave for medical
appointments or court dates.
Seeing above all, not to operate
a motor vehicle period. In
addition to those two fatal
accidents, it turns out that
they brought out in court that
she’s been involved in more than
a half a dozen other accidents
in her own personal vehicle.
Since 2015. She has pled not
guilty in this case back to you.
So when is she is scheduled to
be in court again. Roger. Right
at the end of August. It’s
looking like she’s got a
pretrial motion hearing soul
certainly be following up with
that. The Postal Service needs
your help to get them to stop
the real danger. Mail carriers
are dealing with far too often
also toxic algae concerns at a
lake up north. Just as the
summer season is getting
underway. Hey a local man and a
big battle to get his mother’s
life insurance policy. She
worked for a local city for more
than 30 years, but for some
reason he’s unable to get the
money owed to him and his