live from downtown Detroit local 4 News
at 5:00 starts now approaching zero hour
in the Carolinas live pictures tonight
as hurricane Florence begins lashing the
shoreline and it is going to be a long
while before this is over but we begin
with heartbreak at Fitzgerald high
school students faculty and the
community come together to honor a
student stabbed to death inside the
classroom really still hard to
comprehend what the students at
Fitzgerald high have been going through
over these past 24 hours just yesterday
a classmate attacked 16 year old in
niner Gibson with a steak knife during a
class let's get to show him like he's
live at Fitzgerald High tonight Sean the
school was closed today but counselors
were there on hand that is correct in
the district just announced Kimberly
that counselors will continue to be on
hand here to help usher these shock
students through this terrible time a
vigil for this Fitzgerald family held
just moments ago will take you to that
vigil at the same time we're learning
that warring police homicide
investigators now have some key evidence
in their hands in this case high school
football fields are gathering places to
celebrate the best times in young lives
today it is full of shock and sadness
after a beautiful young straight-a
student the nya Gibson was murdered
inside Fitzgerald High School denial was
attacked by a 17 year old student who
police say stabbed her two times
Wednesday in a bitter dispute over a boy
deny his aunt here saying the family is
in disbelief a young lady
apparently ambushed in class one student
who witnessed the attack posting to
Facebook quote she was killed in cold
blood for no reason other than being
friends with the boy we know that
investigators have the cell phones of
denying the girl in custody and the boy
involved they are looking for
threatening texts or posts indicating
that this was going to happen
prosecutors will use the evidence to
show if the attack was premeditated I
wanted the best part
she got all A's
Computers he was going to college she
was gonna be valedictorian denying his
father wants more answers her family
also wants the Fitzgerald family to heal
um the family's just really taking it
hard and everything you know we're just
trying to stop the fact that let this
happen is still kind of shocking to us
the reality now is moving towards
tomorrow Friday school will be open
students come back here many students
and their parents telling us after this
vigil Kimberly that their concerns about
school security have not yet been
addressed we will certainly hear from
them coming up live at six o'clock back
to you yep
Sean what about the girl being held for
this are we learning anything about her
today
she's still being held Kimberly we are
expecting charges against her to be
filed tomorrow
that's from Warren Police the big
picture we talked to the victim's family
to say were you aware of her what did
you know about her they said the same
thing that she had a great smile she
seemed very bubbly that the two girls
were friends and was a very good student
but other than those those details
that's all we're learning about her
right now just incomprehensible okay
thanks Sean same town different story
we've also learned a Warren student has
been charged after he brought a gun to
school just three days into this
semester happened last Thursday at
Michigan math and science academy Warren
police say the 15 year old showed that
gun to a student who told another
student and that student told
administrators he's been charged in
juvenile court with carrying a concealed
weapon and possession of a firearm in a
school zone all right now to Hurricane
Florence and take a look at this time
lapse of a live stream that had our
newsroom kind of transfixed for most of
the day here this is a flag on an old
offshore platform 30 miles off the
Carolina coast right in the middle of
Florence that flag was perfectly fine
this morning now it's in tatters and
let's take a live look now onshore from
Surf City North Carolina you see the
wind as the camera shaking a bit a huge
wave starting to come to shore the time
to evacuate long gone really folks are
now hunkered down as the storm starts to
make its way in and we have multiple
angles
tonight but we want to get to Ben Bailey
with new data on the track and the power
of this storm then yeah Kevin Devin we
just got the five o'clock advisory and
still a category two storm but as we've
been talking about for the last couple
days the winds are gonna be the least of
the stories that come out of Florence
there are sustained at a hundred miles
per hour
the question is is how long is this
going to linger around the coast this is
the position at two o'clock tomorrow
afternoon so this thing is likely going
to make landfall sometime before that
probably early on Friday morning and
then just sort of meander inland as it
becomes a weak tropical storm by
Saturday at 2:00 p.m. but that's 48
hours and that is not a lot of real
estate that this storm is going to
traverse during that time so of course
the rain will be the big story already
these bands have been lashing the Outer
Banks and the Carolina coast flash flood
warnings out for one of the counties
three to six inches of rain already on
the ground there they're expecting
another half a foot more before 12:30
tonight our windy wolf hook is on shore
in Wilmington North Carolina where folks
there are ready for the worst windy we
are already feeling her outer bands and
they've already been power outages as
Florence comes ashore
Florence making her presence known
your time to get out of those areas and
storm surge inundation is is coming to a
close I cannot emphasize that enough
forecasters are basically indicating
feet of rain not inches millions hating
the dire warning to outrun her ferocious
arms carrying powerful winds and
potentially catastrophic rain
we're not going to be able to come out
and get you if there is an if you have
an emergency while the storm is underway
while others make the most of every
moment to prepare there's nothing we can
do here when winds get above three
digits the only thing you can do inside
your house is die with hurricane
Florence at the doorstep officials
sounding the final alarm if you have not
left these evacuation zones you should
leave now because time is running out
wherever she makes landfall Florence
promises to make the record books while
her actual landfall is still uncertain
what we do know is the longer and slower
the storm the greater the impact here in
Wilmington North Carolina I'm Wendy
Woolfolk now back to you and that's
probably going to be the headline is the
duration of the storm your graphic this
five o'clock updates show that the storm
itself smoothing at five miles an hour
it's just puttering along just sitting
there and the Hurricane Center actually
said in its discussion that we think it
may be stalled right well our coverage
of Hurricane Florence will continue here
at six o'clock this evening we're gonna
take you to a local coffee shop where
the workers play a unique dual role when
a natural disaster strikes and of course
NBC Nightly News coming up this evening
at 6:30 Lester Holt will anchor it live
from Wilmington North Carolina so a lot
more to come our top story tonight an
AT&T worker out on a job on Detroit's
east side discovers human remains
happened late this morning near the
intersection of Camden and Newport not
far from i-94 Coco Mack oh boy was there
as investigators searched for clues Coco
Detroit police taped off the area as
part of their investigation after a
skull and bones were found this morning
in this Eastside neighborhood a grave
discovery in the area of Newport and
Camden this morning an AT&T worker found
a skull and
a neighbor who didn't want to be
identified noticed the police presence
five minutes later you see two three
Carlos oh please pull it up so I've seen
him walk through the alley there when
they went to putting the tape up I know
something that's going on police believe
the body parts belong to a female they
don't know an identity age or how long
the remains have been in the
neighborhood residents aren't startled
by the discovery it's not surprising
because these drugs you know they're all
here wrapped it and now it seems like
prostitution and is out here police
search the area this morning to make
sure no evidence was left behind the
investigation is now in the medical
examiner's hands and the medical
examiner's office will be checking the
remains for any signs of trauma while
the Detroit Police Department will be
looking into missing-persons cases to
try to track down who this woman is
reporting live this evening I'm cocoa
McAvoy local 4
okay cocoa a Detroit man has now been
charged in connection with the Family
Dollar Store armed robbery and shooting
of a security guard that occurred on
Monday night Maurice Thompson Moore is
facing charges including assault with
intent to murder three counts of armed
robbery and four counts of felony
firearm
according to police more and another man
went into the Family Dollar on
Schoolcraft near the Southfield freeway
after a shootout a security guard
fatally shot one robber before being
shot by Moore that security guard was
treated for his injuries and will
recover Detroit Police Officer Joseph
weekly has lost his appeal over a suit
against him for accidentally killing a
seven-year-old girl in 2010 Ayanna
Stanley Jones was shot in the head while
she slept on a couch during a raid for a
murder suspect weakly says his gun
accidentally fired during a struggle
with Ayanna's grandmother weakly was
charged with manslaughter that was
dismissed by a judge during a second
trial in 2014
today's decision though clears the way
for either a trial or perhaps a
settlement probably hottest ticket in
town right now but not for folks who
live here right new tonight we're taking
you to
troit homecoming and showing you how
this three-day event is all about
bringing business to Detroit also brand
new information after a worker at the
Ford Sterling axle plant found dead in a
bathroom there Kevin his name is Nate
bloom Kraft and in the 1980s he was
known as the Grim Reaper somebody paid
me to hit you I won't hit you so don't
get it wrong I believe in money
friendship no I don't have Brenda he's
admitted to over 30 murders as a hired
hit man in Detroit and twice tried to
kill white boy Rick worship Nate boom
Kraft is out of prison Rick were she is
still in crafts incredible story is
coming up