good morning at 7 o'clock i'm grant
herms and i'm priya mann thanks for
joining us for local 4 news on a
saturday morning paul we are expecting
some pockets of rainier and severe
weather today
yeah we're going to see pockets of rain
that's a very good word priya because
it's not going to rain all day and like
you look at right now there's really not
a whole lot going on but we have some
activity that's starting to move into
the picture back to the west see a
little thunderstorm there near kalamazoo
and even farther back to the west here
toward northeast indiana so we're going
to be watching again batches of stuff
coming through just keep an eye on the
app's real-time radar and you'll stay
ahead of this stuff all right four zone
weather we have a front right across the
area look at this 75 at city airport 74
at taylor 73 at metro and then in our
south zone we're all in the 70s we're
south of that front in the warm air but
notice 66 at saline 63 at hollow 64 in
milford in our north zone temperatures
in the 60s even the 50s so today the
average high is going to be in the mid
70s south of that front but cooler to
the north with periodic showers and
storms be back in just a few minutes to
talk more about that gaylord tornado
guys
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all right thanks paul we do continue to
follow that breaking news a tornado
quickly moves through the town of
gaylord in the northern lower peninsula
leaving one person dead and dozens
injured and the damage is devastating
with many homes and businesses leveled
that tornado touched down at around 4 30
friday afternoon right in the heart of
the city our mar mcdonald joins us live
from gaylord and mara very busy right
where you are lots of activity this
morning
priya exactly we are on m32 which is
main street here which is essentially
the beginning of their central business
corridor you can see they got people out
here cleaning stuff up power crews are
everywhere it's been a steady stream and
i know you've heard a lot about the
hobby lobby damage it's the big box
store here one of many that was damaged
but take a look this is that hobby lobby
you can see the beginning of the damage
here but really it extends all the way
to the street
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oh dear jesus
the roof just came off oh my god the
tornado touching down around 3 45
yesterday afternoon and leaving a path
of destruction which started in a mobile
home park and then went careening down
the commercial corridor of downtown
gaylord i would say it was on the ground
for a good two miles
and i did wipe out a hobby lobby it did
wipe out jimmy john's the quick lube out
there
on our
west side of town and then it came into
town and it wiped out a lot of homes the
mayor estimates at least 10 homes are
just gone one person is confirmed dead
and 44 other people were taken to the
hospital the governor arriving in
gaylord late last night to sign an
emergency declaration i just want to say
to the families who have been through an
incredible stress and
fear and destruction and impacted by the
storm and everyone in this community
just want to say
we are here we are going to work closely
we are going to work together we are
going to recover consumers has 100
people arriving this morning to tackle
the power problem the town is in the
dark the tornado took out a cell phone
tower so communications have been rough
police locked down the town with a
curfew that will be expiring in about an
hour police checkpoints at major
intersections to keep anyone but
emergency crews out i've never seen
anything like it you always see it on
pictures and you always see it on tvs
from other communities but not in our
backyard
back here live not in their backyard for
sure the last time they had a tornado
like this in gaylord
was 1950 they're just not used to it um
if you what you're looking at right now
is a portion of that hobby lobby but
also that was at one point at jimmy
john's sub shop you can see
just utterly destroyed we're live in
gaylord this morning i'm mara mcdonald
local 4.
all right thank you yeah we certainly
appreciate her showing us different
portions of the cleanup as it begins
this morning we'll have another update
from her a little later on this morning
as well and let's check in with our
jason colethorpe who visited that
shelter that's been set up where
impacted families have been staying
overnight
people calling okay
yes
they can bring yes they can bring here
or into the middle entrance the united
way is going to have a room set up in
his 11 years in gaylord pastor scott
disler has seen blizzards but never
tornadoes
and that's why when they hit today he
rushed to his mother's house to get her
and then he surveyed the damage power
poles snapped in half
you basically had to navigate like a war
zone you had to navigate around things
just to try to get to her house and try
to get her out of the house to get her
to my house and then i kind of went down
in town just a little ways and started
to see all the damage to the buildings
didn't even make it down to the worst
part but yeah it was it's like driving
around a war zone his e3 church is ideal
to help during this disaster it's big it
has power and wi-fi in fact the red
cross was set up and ready to take
people in just two hours after the storm
hit the goal here is to have a safe
place for people to eat and
to have a place to sleep in a disaster
we want to make sure that they're well
cared for and then they feel safe and
there's a lot of people in gaylord
displaced right now there was trailer
parks that were leveled homes that were
demolished so we've just opened up our
building working with the red cross and
the united way kind of a team effort so
that anybody that right now has a need
has a safe place in fact if they need a
ride here we're even sending out our
church vans our church buses to pick
them up
jason colbert local four
the shelter is for the families who've
lost everything but also for those
who've lost power or might just need
something to eat yeah absolutely let's
send it back to paul for a look at the
tornado's impact it's from a
forecaster's perspective obviously we're
seeing a lot of colors behind you uh
paul you were tracking this storm for a
few days
yeah and and this is a perfect example
of how the radar technology
so benefits us now this is the classic
hook echo that we see with a strong
tornado you see this right here when you
see a counter-clockwise hook like that
you have a pretty good bet that you have
a tornado going on but we have a lot
more tools that we can use let's talk
about this one this is the velocity tool
and the radar can actually see wind
inside of a storm the way it does that
you know the wind is blowing the rain
drops and the radar can see the rain
drops well a raindrop that's blowing
toward the radar when that beam hits it
it bounces back to the radar at a higher
frequency than the beam that bounces
back when it hits raindrops that are
blowing away from the radar so these
reds the radar is down here these reds
are blowing away from the radar these
greens are blowing toward the radar so
you can actually see the circulation
there and now you can see how that
circulation went right across gaylord
and was off to the east we have another
product called correlation coefficient
this actually shows us debris in the air
so raindrops and snowflakes those are
all uniform targets that are dropping
but when you have leaves and stop signs
and branches and shingles in the air
that is a signal to the radar and we see
this right here that's called a debris
ball right there so even if this was at
night we didn't have confirmation we
would have known there was a tornado
just based on that guys
all right thanks paul and stick with
local 4 and click on detroit.com for
comprehensive coverage of the gaylord
tornadoes impact as new information
comes into our newsroom this morning
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breaking news just in the u.s and south
korea will consider expanded military
exercises to deter the nuclear threat
from north korea it comes during a time
where there's little hope of diplomacy
this is video of president biden
attending a meeting with the south
korean president this morning before
that meeting the president paid his
respects to south korea's fallen
soldiers including those who fought
alongside the u.s in the korean war
biden's next stop is japan this is his
first trip to asia since taking office
and here at home the search continues
for a driver in a road rage shooting and
crash that left an innocent woman dead
it happened thursday at the intersection
of middle belt and maplewood police say
a pickup and suv recklessly drove
through a red light when shots were
fired from one of those cars the pickup
driver then crashed into an innocent
woman's car and that driver then ran off
before police arrested them the woman
died from her injuries police say
they're looking for the other driver
two local police agencies are teaming up
it's all part of an effort to stop
violence in the summer months including
in greektown
it's important that we collaborate that
we're able to be able to
help each other
share information
and come together to be able to solve
crime fight crime
in the manner that we need to we want
people to be safe we don't want people
to come down and get into situations and
make impulsive decisions that literally
change their life or hurt someone or
hurt themselves
the plan includes increasing patrols and
installing metal detectors the chief and
sheriff are also planning to go after
those who are drag racing throughout the
city this summer
the michigan supreme court says it wants
more information from governor whitmer
about her request to erase the state's
1931 abortion ban the court wants five
points addressed including whether it
needs to immediately get involved this
week a judge at the court of claims
froze the dormant law with an injunction
if the u.s supreme court overturns roe v
wade abortion would be an issue for the
state governor whitmer wants the state
supreme court to declare that 1931 ban
on abortion illegal under the state
constitution and she also wants the
court to reach over lower courts and
settle it quickly
we are talking about some showers this
weekend after that severe weather we've
been tracking for several days and we've
been talking to a resident gardener all
morning long paul you know if you've got
some flowers that you want to plant
today is the kind of day that would be
great for you know if you can plant it
during that blip when there isn't rain
and then let mother nature do her thing
well if you can get out there and get
those plants in in between batches of
showers and storms yeah mother nature
will do the watering for you but we do
have those storm chances today there's
even a marginal risk for severe weather
for a part of the area we'll break that
down for you and talk about your sunday
as well just in just a few minutes
straight ahead