BREAKING NEWS ALERT AND THAT BREAKING NEWS WE’RE FOLLOWING RIGHT NOW IS FROM DOWNTOWN HOLLY
, WHERE A FIRE HAS SPREAD
THROUGHOUT THE HISTORIC DOWNTOWN
AREA. LIVE PICTURES HERE FROM
SKY FOUR OVERHEAD RIGHT NOW YOU
CAN SEE THE FIRE HAS DESTROYED
OR BADLY DAMAGED SEVERAL
BUILDINGS THERE ON ONE BLOCK OF
BROAD STREET. WE DON’T KNOW YET
WHAT CAUSED THE FIRE OR THE FULL
EXTENT OF THE DAMAGE, BUT WE’RE
WORKING TO GET MORE INFORMATION.
WE’LL HAVE A CREW ON THE WAY ON
THE GROUND, AND WE’LL LET YOU
KNOW WHEN WE KNOW MORE. ALRIGHT
OUR OTHER TOP STORY A WEATHER
ALERT OVER THE DANGEROUS HEAT
EXPERIENCING RIGHT NOW THE HEAT
AND HUMIDITY, MAKING IT FEEL
LIKE IT’S NEARLY 100 DEGREES, SO
THEY HAVE PLANS OUTSIDE TONIGHT.
WE WON’T GET MUCH RELIEF FROM
THIS HEAT FOR A BIT ABOUT THAT
WITH THE FIREFIGHTERS RIGHT NOW
IN HOLLY TRYING TO DEAL WITH
THESE HOT TEMPERATURES. WE START
THINGS OFF HERE AT SIX WITH
ANDREW AND WHAT YOU NEED TO
KNOW. ON THE FIRST DAY OF
SUMMER, ANDREW AND MANY FOLKS
STILL WORKING OUTSIDE RIGHT FROM
LAW ENFORCEMENT TO POSTAL
WORKERS, EVERYONE, CERTAINLY
SWELTERING EVEN AT THIS LATE
HOUR AS WE GO INTO THE EVENING,
AND THIS IS RECORD TYING HEAT.
96 WAS THE HIGH TEMPERATURE THAT
WE HAD SO FAR FOR TODAY, DATA
WILL STILL BE ANALYZED BY THE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICES LATER
AT EIGHT P.M. TO SEE IF WE MADE
IT TO 97 BUT OFFICIALLY 96
DEGREES LAST HOUR THAT TIED THE
RECORD FROM 1933 HEAT ADVISORY
FOR DETROIT AND ALL OF SOUTHEAST
MICHIGAN. IT’S NOW 1 DEGREES
COOLER BUT STILL SWELTERING OVER
AT METRO AIRPORT AND ELSEWHERE
95 OVER AT METRO AND IT FEELS
LIKE 98 A WINDOW OF THE WEST
THAT AROUND 16 MPH. NINETIES ALL
THE WAY INTO THE THUMB. THAT’S
WHY THE HEAT ADVISORY STRETCH
ACROSS ALL OF SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN
THUMB INCLUDED. IT FEELS LIKE
100 MILE. CLEMENS. SAME THING
OVER AT CITY AIRPORT, SO STILL
TAKE CARE OUT THERE IN THE HEAT.
THE HEAT ADVISORY DOES NOT
EXPIRE UNTIL EIGHT PM, AND EVEN
BY THAT TIME WILL STILL BE
AROUND 90 OR MORE AND STILL VERY
WARM TEMPERATURES IN THE
EIGHTIES THROUGH MIDNIGHT. WE’LL
TALK ABOUT OVERNIGHT
TEMPERATURES TOMORROW IS
FORECAST TO 70 FORECAST IN
MINUTES, ANDREW THANK YOU.
MICHIGAN HAD A MAJOR ROLE IN
TODAY’S JANUARY 6TH HEARING.
SURE DID REPUBLICAN LAWMAKER
DETAILED WHAT HAPPENED WHEN
FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP TWEETED
OUT HIS PERSONAL CELL PHONE
NUMBER? AND WE LEARNED TRUMP
SUPPORTERS WANTED TO HIDE OUT IN
THE STATE CAPITAL TO TRY TO
OVERTURN THE ELECTION RESULTS.
MARA MACDONALD FOLLOWING ALL
THAT TESTIMONY AND STARTS US OFF
WITH FORMER STATE GOP CHAIR
LAURA COX MORROW. DE’VEON IN HER
TESTIMONY. LAURA COX SOUNDS
UTTERLY FLABBERGASTED BY THE
IDEA OF THIS FAKE COLLECTOR
SCHEME. TAKE A LISTEN. MICHIGAN
REPUBLICAN ELECTORS WERE
PLANNING TO MEET IN THE CAPITAL
AND HIDE OVERNIGHT SO THAT THEY
COULD FULFILL THE ROLE OF
CASTING THEIR VOTE IN HER LAW IN
THE MICHIGAN, UH, CHAMBERS. AND
UM, I TOLD HIM NO UNCERTAIN
TERMS THAT THAT WAS INSANE AND
INAPPROPRIATE. COLLECTORS
ULTIMATELY DID NOT DO THAT, BUT
DID TRY TO ACCESS THE CAPITAL
AND WERE TURNED AWAY BY MSP.
SENATE MAJORITY LEADER MIKE
SHIRKEY TESTIFIED WHEN THE
PRESIDENT INVITED TOP MICHIGAN
GOP LEGISLATORS TO D. C HE TOLD
THE PRESIDENT THEY WOULD BE
FOLLOWING THE LAW IN MICHIGAN.
TRUMP WASN’T PLEASED BY THAT
RESPONSE AND THEN TWEETED OUT
SHARKY’S PERSONAL PHONE NUMBER
AS PART OF A PRESSURE CAMPAIGN.
ALL I REMEMBER IS RECEIVING JUST
SHY OF 4000 TEXT MESSAGES OVER A
SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. IT WAS A
LOUD NOISE, LOUD, CONSISTENT
CADENCE OF YOU KNOW, WE HEAR
THAT THAT THE TRUMP. FOLKS ARE
CALLING AND ASKING FOR CHANGES
IN THE ELECTORATE. AND YOU GUYS
CAN DO THIS. WELL, YOU KNOW THEY
WERE THEY WERE BELIEVING THINGS
THAT WERE UNTRUE, AND SECRETARY
OF STATE JOCELYN BENSON
TESTIFIED THAT ARMED TRUMP
SUPPORTERS SURROUNDED HER
DETROIT HOME AFTER THE ELECTION,
SHOUTING STOP THE STEAL ONE
YELLING! MURDERERS SHE DESCRIBED
IT TO THE COMMITTEE IS SCARY,
NOT KNOWING WHETHER SHE AND HER
FAMILY WERE GOING TO BE
PHYSICALLY ATTACKED. IT WAS
REALLY HARD TO WATCH AGAIN
TODAY. BECAUSE I WAS REMINDED
HOW FOR A GOOD 45 MINUTES, THE
ONLY THING THAT STOOD BETWEEN
THAT CROWD AND MY FAMILY WAS ONE
NEIGHBORHOOD SECURITY GUARD HE
COULD SEE STANDING ON THAT PORCH
. DETROIT POLICE ARRIVED THAT
NIGHT AT BENSON’S HOME. THE
CROWD DISPERSED. THERE WERE NO
ARRESTS. NOW, AS FAR AS THAT
FAKE COLLECTOR SCHEME GOES. DINA
NESTLES OFFICE HAS TURNED OVER
ITS FINDINGS TO FEDERAL
PROSECUTORS WERE DOWNTOWN. I’M
MARA MACDONALD, LOCAL 4. ALL
RIGHT, MARA. THE NEXT HEARING IS
SCHEDULED FOR THIS THURSDAY.
TEAM AT NIGHTLY NEWS WILL BRING
YOU MORE OF THE BIG MOMENTS FROM
TODAY’S HEARING AHEAD AT 6 30
HERE ON LOCAL FORWARD JUST AS
SOON AS THIS NEWSCAST IS DONE. A
BIG BUST IN MADISON HEIGHTS HOME
. POLICE SAY NEIGHBORS HAD NO
IDEA THEY WERE LIVING NEXT TO A
MAN WITH DRUGS, DOZENS OF GUNS
AND THOUSANDS OF ROUNDS OF
AMMUNITION. SHAWN LEY HAS BEEN
THERE AS THE MAN APPEARED IN
COURT TODAY. SEAN JOINS US LIVE
FROM MEDICINE HEIGHTS WITH MORE
SEAN. WE’RE ON HECHT HERE IN
MEDICINE HEIGHTS. KIMBERLY SMALL
HOME HERE RIGHT ON THE CORNER.
POLICE SAY CONTAIN THIS HUGE
ARSENAL HERE YOU CAN SEE ON THE
TABLE 37 DIFFERENT KINDS OF
FIREARMS AND SO MUCH AMMUNITION
FOUND INSIDE THE HOME. POLICE
WERE ACTUALLY CONCERNED FOR THE
NEIGHBORS AROUND HERE IN THIS
PLACE CAUGHT FIRE. LOCAL 4
CAMERAS IN COURT LATE THIS
AFTERNOON IN WARREN HAS THIS MAN
DENVER HENSLEY JUNIOR WENT
BEFORE A JUDGE AND HE HAD A LOT
TO SAY NOT ABOUT HIS CASE, BUT
ABOUT HIS BACK PAIN. AND I MEAN
I’M JUST TRYING TO GET TO A
DISABILITY TURNPIKE. I CAN’T
EVEN FIGURE BARELY PARK LITTLE
STAND HERE RIGHT NOW. MY BAGS SO
BAD. HENSLEY IS CHARGED WITH
FOUR COUNTS OF SELLING
METHAMPHETAMINE IS ALSO CHARGED
WITH A STAGGERING LIST OF FELONY
FIREARMS CHARGES AFTER WHAT
WARREN POLICE FOUND INSIDE
HENSLEY’S HOME, INCLUDING 35, G
OF CRYSTAL METH AND THIS ARRAY
OF 37 DIFFERENT FIREARMS, ALONG
WITH A SHOCKING AMOUNT OF
AMMUNITION. OFFICER SEES 37
FIREARMS WALKING AMMUNITION 27 G
OF METH SCALES, PACKAGING AND
LEDGES OVER 10,000 ROUNDS OF
AMMUNITION SEIZED THAT THAT
WOULD INCLUDE 24 CRATES OF
AMMUNITION. AND ALSO 100
INDIVIDUALLY LOADED. FIREARM
MAGAZINES. POLICE RAIDED
HENSLEY’S HOME MONDAY AFTER AN
UNDERCOVER OFFICER SAYS HENSLEY
SOLD HIM METH THERE THAT
OFFICERS SOLA HANDGUN, BUT THE
ARSENAL WAS FOUND WHEN POLICE
WENT IN WITH A SEARCH WARRANT.
IMAGINE 10,000 ROUNDS OF
AMMUNITION. THIS HOUSE WOULD
HAVE CAUGHT FIRE OR WHATEVER.
THE DAMAGE THAT COULD HAVE
CAUSED MAYBE THE DEATH COULD
HAVE CAUSED TO INNOCENT PEOPLE
LIVING IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD DID
NOT SAY WHAT THE ARSENAL WAS
FOUR BUT CLAIMS HE CAN’T PICK UP
A GUN BECAUSE OF HIS BACK PAIN,
EVEN PICK UP AND GO TO HOLD THE
GUN AND SO HURT, YOU KNOW? BACK
HERE LIVE IN MADISON HEIGHTS
HENSLEY BEING HELD TO THAT
$100,000 BOND. ALSO MORE ABOUT
THAT ARSENAL. WE ASKED
INVESTIGATORS. WHAT WAS IT FOR?
THEY SAY ALL THAT REMAINS UNDER
INVESTIGATION LIVE IN MADISON
NIGHT SHAWN LEY LOCAL WAR.
THANKS FOR THE UPDATE, SEAN, WE
APPRECIATE IT. A BABYSITTER IS
ACCUSED OF ABUSING A BABY IN
MACOMB COUNTY, ROSEVILLE. POLICE
SAY CAMERA, HODGES ADMITTED TO
PHYSICALLY ABUSING THE 11 MONTH
OLD LITTLE BOY. POLICE SAY THE
BABY’S MOTHER PICKED UP THE BOY
LAST WEEK FROM HODGES HOME ON
LITTLE MAC NEAR 12 MILE. THE
BABY WAS RUSHED TO THE HOSPITAL
WITH SEVERE HEAD TRAUMA. THE
BABY HAD EMERGENCY SURGERY AND
IS IN VERY SERIOUS CONDITION.
HODGES FACES FIRST DEGREE CHILD
ABUSE CHARGES. DEARBORN HEIGHTS
MAN WILL BE RE SENTENCED
TOMORROW IN THE SHOOTING DEATH
OF A WOMAN WHO KNOCKED ON HIS
FRONT DOOR. THEODORE WAFER WAS
CONVICTED OF SECOND DEGREE
MURDER AND MANSLAUGHTER FOR
SHOOTING RENISHA MCBRIDE THROUGH
HIS FRONT DOOR BACK IN 2013.
PROSECUTORS SAY SHE WAS LOOKING
FOR HELP AFTER A CAR CRASH.
WAFER CLAIMS SELF DEFENSE.
EARLIER THIS YEAR, THE STATE
SUPREME COURT THROUGHOUT HIS
MANSLAUGHTER CONVICTION, THEY
RULED HIS CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS
WERE VIOLATED WHEN THE JURY WAS
ALLOWED TO CONVICT HIM OF BOTH
CHARGES. HE HAS SERVED EIGHT
YEARS OF THE MINIMUM 17 HE
RECEIVED AT HIS SENTENCING.
WE’LL SEE WHAT THE COURTS SAY
TOMORROW. ALL RIGHT NOW TO A
STORY OF COMMUNITY OUTRAGE,
BRINGING ABOUT CHANGE IN PONTIAC
SMART SUDDENLY DECIDED TO END
BUS SERVICE TO THE PHOENIX
CENTER LEFT A LOT OF PEOPLE
SCRAMBLING TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO
GET AROUND THE CITY’S DOWNTOWN.
WELL LATE TODAY. SMART REVERSED
COURSE. PRIYA MANN JOINS US LIVE
WITH MORE ON WHY THE COMPANY
SCRAPPED THE ORIGINAL PLAN TO
CUT SERVICE PRIYA. DE’VEON KIM.
GOOD EVENING, YOU KNOW, SMART
SAYS THAT INITIAL DECISION WAS
BASED ON CONVERSATIONS THEY HAD
WITH WRITERS AND STAKEHOLDERS
OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS, BUT IN
A STATEMENT, THEY SAY, BASED ON
A STRONG RESPONSE FROM THE
COMMUNITY, WE HAVE DECIDED TO
POSTPONE THE CLOSURE UNTIL AT
LEAST SEPTEMBER TO GIVE MORE
TIME TO ANALYZE AND DISCUSS THE
ISSUES AND IMPACTS IN A PUBLIC
FORUM RIDERS WE SPOKE TO WERE
AGAINST THE CLOSURE. TRYING TO
GET UP TO WORK WAS WAITING FOR A
SMART BUS AT THE ONLY COVERED
BUS SHELTER IN DOWNTOWN PONTIAC.
HE SAYS A PROPOSAL TO CLOSE THE
PHOENIX CENTER BUS STOP WOULD
HAVE BEEN DEVASTATING.
SCIENTISTS AFFECTS PEOPLE’S
LIVES, YOU KNOW, EVERYDAY BASIS
, YOU KNOW, GETTING TO THE
GROCERY STORE GETTING TO WORK.
RIDERS WERE CAUGHT OFF GUARD
WHEN THEY SAW THIS SIGHT SEEING
THE TRANSPORTATION HUB WOULD BE
CLOSING NEXT WEEK. GOOD JOB
BUSIEST SPOT IN PONTIAC.
COMBUST. POVERTY CLOSED. CITY
LEADERS IN PONTIAC SAY THEY WERE
BLINDSIDED BY SMART, NO PONTIAC
RESIDENT AND NO SMART DRIVER
SHOULD HAVE BEEN KEPT IN THE
DARK, AND THAT’S FOR SURE FOR
PONTIAC LEADERS AS WELL. COUNCIL
MEMBERS SAY THERE HAVE BEEN
CONCERNS ABOUT CRIME IN THE
AREA, WHICH IS WHY THE PREVIOUS
ADMINISTRATION CONSIDERED
SHUTTING IT DOWN. WE ARE
POTENTIALLY RUINING A LOT OF
THINGS FOR A LOT OF PEOPLE. OUT
OF AGAIN SOMETHING THAT COULD BE
PERCEIVED OR SOMETHING THAT
COULD HAVE BEEN FIXED CRIME
PROPOSAL HAD GONE THROUGH,
WRITERS WOULD HAVE HAD TO RELY
ON FIVE UNCOVERED BUS STOPS
ACROSS DOWNTOWN PONTIAC MIGHT
HAVE TO WALK A LITTLE BIT BEFORE
I GET THERE TREATING, HUH? IT’S
A LITTLE FRUSTRATING. DON’T DO
WHAT THEY’RE DOING, BECAUSE IT
DOESN’T HELP. OF PEOPLE. AROUND
HERE IS HOMING. NO, NOT HELPING.
CERTAINLY HAD A BIG IMPACT. CITY
COUNCIL HAS A MEETING SCHEDULED
FOR TONIGHT. SMART WAS ALREADY
SUPPOSED TO SPEAK. THEY WERE
TALKING ABOUT MISCOMMUNICATION
THAT LED TO THAT INITIAL
DISCUSSION. CERTAINLY AFTER THIS
STORY AND OTHER REPORTS, IT WILL
BE A VERY DIFFERENT DISCUSSION
TONIGHT AT THAT. CITY COUNCIL
MEETING REPORTING LIVE. I’M
PRIYA MANN BEFORE ABOUT THAT.
ALL RIGHT FOR YOU. RIGHT NOW.
POLICE ARE ASKING FOR HELP
FINDING THE MAN WHO PAINTED A
RACIAL SLUR ON A DETROIT HOME.
THIS IS WHO THEY’RE AFTER. THEY
SAY THE MAN KNOCKED ON THE DOOR
OF A HOUSE ON VON, NEAR
EVERGREEN AND PLYMOUTH ROAD
SUNDAY AND SHOUTED A RACIAL SLUR
AT THE HOMEOWNER. POLICE SAY HE
THEN PAINTED WHITE LIVES MATTER
AND A RACIAL SLUR ON THE MAN’S
HOME. IF YOU KNOW WHO DID THIS
CONTACT DETROIT POLICE ARE STILL
TO COME HERE AT SIX. A NEW
WARNING FOR PARENTS WHO LET
THEIR BABIES INTO THEIR BEDS.
AND WHO IS MORE LIKELY TO
EXPERIENCE LONG COVID WOMEN OR
MEN. DOCTOR MCGEORGE IS IN WITH
THE NEW RESEARCH. AND WE
CONTINUE TO FOLLOW THE BREAKING
NEWS FROM DOWNTOWN HOLLY CREWS
CONTINUE TO FIGHT A FIRE IN THE
HISTORIC DOWNTOWN AREA SKY FOR
LIVE OVERHEAD. RIGHT NOW, YOU
CAN SEE THE FIRE HAS DESTROYED
OR BADLY DAMAGED SEVERAL
BUILDINGS ON ONE BLOCK THERE. WE
DON’T KNOW WHAT CAUSED IT. WE