live from downtown Detroit local 4 News
at 5:00 starts now investigators back
out in Mount Clemens right now where
shots fired during a fourth of July
block party leaves one man dead
construction crews brought in to tear
portions of a grocery store down that
caught fire late last night why that had
to happen and the science behind in them
determining if the other stores can be
saved all right Nick what we're gonna
begin with the weather our eyes locked
on four live radar with a threat of
storms as we now head into the evening
and that's just half the story the
sweltering heat and humidity is almost
unbearable and it's close to breaking a
record yeah record high temperature for
this States at 1988 at 96 degrees it
sure feels like it out there today Ben
did we break it oh we tied it actually
to 59 this afternoon in between those
hourly observations of weather service
says we hit 96 so it is definitely a
momentous day we're 94 right now the
number has come down ever so slightly
but this really reached three records
today we tied that 1996 record that you
mentioned it's the hottest of the
heatwave so far we've had seven straight
days in the 90s and today is the worst
and it's also the hottest day of 2018 so
we're gonna be grateful that this stuff
is going away but we still have some
thunderstorms to track those are in
Santa like County right now not severe
even though we do have a marginal risk
for about half the area that's the only
place getting wet right now but we're
gonna keep our eyes on that and of
course time out the relief which is
coming tonight more on that coming up
guys then our other top story tonight
the McComb County Sheriff says
detectives are looking for multiple
persons of interest in a deadly shooting
at a fourth of July block party in Mount
Clemens shooting at the corner of Court
Street and Clemmons it took the life of
24 year-old Charley McGowan it left
another victim badly injured
Sean Leigh live where it happened and
investigators are there I guess right
now Sean still a lot of investigators
coming right back to this scene you can
see them behind me here checking for
more shell casings with a metal detector
Pandy you're right k-9 also out here
helping look for clues and we have
investigate
is going door-to-door looking for any
type of witnesses big crowd out here
after midnight around 12:20 this morning
and at least three people pull out guns
and start firing into that crowd Macomb
sheriff's investigators combing over
every inch of this section of court
Street in Mount Clemens a fourth of July
block party here went past midnight
fireworks were going off and then calls
to 911 when deputies arrived they found
17 shell casings from three different
guns they found blood but did not find
any victims and they received a call
from McClaren hospital indicating that
two individuals arrived at the hospital
separately both suffering from gunshot
wounds gun battle in the middle of a
block party 24 year old Charlie McGowan
known as CJ from Clinton Township was
shot and killed a 26 year old woman also
from Clinton Township sitting in a car
nearby was shot in her leg investigators
working all night discovering McGowan
was a target of people he had problems
with we believe there's a relationship
possibly a feud between our victim and
our persons of interest a block away a
clean up from a block party here and
sadness the celebration turned deadly we
have a great time out here and then
unfortunately that had to happen I mean
it's just senseless man over on Court
Street up to 70 people were here when
people started firing everybody know
that guns kill but it's the people
that's using them this killer back here
live not far from downtown Mount Clemens
ease investigators combing through this
yard here we can see them up and down
this block a lot of activity here
because the gunmen have not yet been
caught look at this up and down the
street here you see marks like this this
is where shots
we're hitting trees so investigators are
saying they're really surprised more
people weren't actually hit the 26 year
old woman from Clinton Township she was
hitting her leg had surgery at noon
today and the sheriff expects her to be
ok that's the very latest Devon John so
many people at this block party that
would suggest plenty of witnesses right
yeah up to 70 people plenty of witnesses
but the sheriff is saying that very few
people at all are cooperating with their
investigation they're hoping there get
some anonymous information through
Crimestoppers or calling the sheriff's
office because they're still trying to
track down a couple of people of
interest involved in this the gunmen
have not yet been caught but a problem
we see so often all right Shawn are
developing right now president Trump has
accepted the resignation of embattled
head of the EPA Scott Pruett in a series
of tweets President Trump announced the
move this afternoon deputy director
Andrew wheeler will assume duties of
Acting administrator of the EPA on
Monday Pruitt has been under fire for a
month since joining the agency back in
February of 2017 the EPA is facing more
than a dozen ethics investigations into
his practices at the agency a popular
grocery store in Melvindale gone tonight
after a fire ripped through the building
possibly taking two other businesses
with it it all started around 9:00 last
night at the Oakwood Food Center on
Oakwood Boulevard Nick Monacelli spent
hours there today and found not only are
the owners and employees at a loss so
are the regular customers good evening
this has been an incredibly difficult
fire to fight now they have contractors
working on this tearing portions of the
building apart just to get to more of
the hotspots they're also trying to
figure out if the other portions of the
building the Dollar Tree and that cash
advance store can be saved or do they
have too much damage as well
Oh shot you know like come walk in and
you know I was gonna pick up you know
something for refrigerator and you know
run this in a small town like Melvindale
community means everything so to have
the community grocery store gone means
everything - it's devastating you know
almost preview the tears last night
around nine o'clock a fire started
inside the Oakwood food center they
quickly spread through the store which
unfortunately did not have fire
sprinklers and inside of a grocery store
there are a lot of combustible items
there were small explosions for hours
all night long so it was it I think was
the olive oil section that gave us the
hardest time so they say it was nice
that the owners were here to tell us
exactly where things were at the
Dearborn fire department worked on this
but says going inside was never an
option a ruptured gas line might be to
blame but investigators are still
looking into that the meantime
contractors were brought in to tear the
building apart so fire crews could get
to all of the hotspots that were covered
when the roof of walls collapsed I'm
devastated there's another story across
the street - and a 200 unit Senior
Living complex Trudi stout and her pal
Daisy lived there she thinks about half
of her neighbors rely or relied on this
store if you sit here on a daily basis
you'll see the traffic coming out of
coogan Terrace and I mean by feet or by
chairs we don't have cars this is our
lifeline in Melvindale Nick Monacelli
local for well one Dearborn firefighter
had to go to the hospital for heat
exhaustion his captain though says he's
home and is doing ok those 22 employees
they're working at the grocery store
many of them were family members of the
owners one man is dead after a moped
crash in Grosse Pointe Woods happened
overnight at the intersection of
Morningside and Sunningdale police say a
46 year old man was riding a Vespa when
he somehow lost control and crashed
first responders tried unsuccessfully to
revive him at the scene police say the
man was not wearing a helmet at the time
his name has not yet been released
pending
occasion of his family 11 people had to
be rescued in West Bloomfield after
their boat capsized 11 it happened here
in Pine Lake
police say the boat passed through a
wake which hit the overloaded ski boat
the people on the boat put on life
jackets and jumped into the water there
were no reported injuries and alcohol is
not believed to be involved
investigators say the ski boat though
was overloaded by about 400 to 50 pounds
DTE crews are working to restore power
on the city's west side after a fire at
a substation it happened this morning on
8 Mile near Greenfield officials say a
cable that feeds the substation caught
fire in order to put out the fire crews
had to cut power to the substation no
word on what caused the fire crews are
working to restore power to about 5,000
customers in the area well here it is
and it is stunning today in Windsor the
design was revealed for the long-awaited
Gordie Howe bridge and that wasn't the
only news officials dropped today Rob
Maloney asked the big question when's it
going to be built this day is 18 years
in the making
we're on the Canadian side let's do a
quick tour here take a look behind me
this is the overpass that they're
getting ready for the toll booth just to
the left of that you can see downtown
Detroit and then just to the left of
that you see the Ambassador Bridge this
is the approach to that toll booth we're
looking due north you can see the
Detroit River there then over here you
see the hydroelectric plant and the
bridge is going to arc in this direction
go over the Detroit River and come
ashore over by Old Fort Wayne once again
this is what it will look like the
design called cable-stay they tell us
it's going to be the longest of its kind
in North America 853 meters or nine and
a half football fields long the spires
will stand as tall as the rensin a newly
formed company called bridging north
america put together for just this
project is the chosen builder Tom
Middlebrook is the company spokesperson
at the end of the day the cable say
bridge is most cost-effective
for one and for the longevity aspect as
well both bridges were leading that
requirement the Windsor Detroit Bridge
Authority became a bit to find today
discussing Ambassador Bridge older
Maddie Maroons attempts to prevent the
news spam Dwight Duncan is the bridge
authority's board chair I think we've
been challenged in court some 25 times I
think we've won every lawsuit I
anticipate more I think we're back in
court in a couple of weeks we will bring
every effort to bear you want to know
okay when are they gonna build this
thing well they say that they intend to
start construction sometime later this
fall but they're not telling us exactly
how much money they're going to have to
spend how much money the government is
going to have to spend and also they are
not saying exactly what plans they have
in order to get this ball rolling so
we're still gonna have to wait for
another announcement from them probably
in three or four weeks back to you all
right it's an eye-popping design no
doubt about that but I know they also
today talked about some of the other
features that we can expect to see yeah
well they talked about stuff that has
been put into the the plans it'll be
three lanes going in either direction
there will be believe it or not a
bicycle lane and a pedestrian lane so
you can actually walk over it right over
the bridge and all of the things that
they're supposed to have in it the basic
amenities like those will be there they
said Wow something to see all right rod
could be iconic isn't it