>>> FIRST AT 4, THE PARENTS
OF SHOOTING SUSPECT ETHAN
CRUMBLEY GO TO COURT TO FACE
THEIR OWN CRIMINAL CHARGES.
WHAT HAPPENED TODAY AND ALSO
THE MESSAGE JAMES CRUMBLEY
WAS CAUGHT SENDING TO HIS
WIFE.
WE’VE GOT THAT.
PAULA.
>>> ONE YEAR AFTER THE FIRST
VACCINE WAS ADMINISTERED AT
ONE LOCAL HOSPITAL AND
WORKERS REMEMBER SHEER HOPE
THEY FELT AT THE TIME.
>> THERE WAS LIKE SO MUCH
HOPE AND LIKE ABOUT WHAT THE
VACCINE WAS GOING TO BRING.
>> AND EXPLAIN WHY NOW THAT
HOPE IS FADING AWAY.
>>> WELCOME TO YOUR TUESDAY
HERE WE GO AGAIN.
YES WE HAVE CLOUDS BUT
TEMPERATURES BACK ABOVE
AVERAGE WELL INTO THE 40s
THRMPT ARE SHOWERS ON THE
WAY BUT ALSO SOME HIGHER
TEMPERATURES YOUR COMPLETE
WEATHER FORECAST FIRST AT 4.
>> Announcer: LIVE FROM
DOWNTOWN DETROIT LOCAL 4
NEWS FIRST NOW.
>>> GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYBODY
I’M KAREN DREW.
FIRST AT 4.
THE PARENTS OF THIS TEENAGER
ETHAN CRUMBLEY THEY WERE IN
COURT HE IS THE SUSPECT IN
THE OXFORD HIGH SCHOOL
SHOOTING.
NOW HIS PARENTS ARE FACE
INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER
CHARGES.
KIMBERLY GILL FOLLOWING
THIS.
KIM THIS WAS A PRETTY
ROUTINE APPEARANCE BUT IT
LOOKS LIKE THE CRUMBLEY’S
WILL OBVIOUSLY TRY TO BE
GETTING THEIR BAIL LOWERED.
>> KAREN DEFENSE ATTORNEYS
FOR JAMES AND JENNIFER
CRUMBLEY INDICATED THEY WILL
INDEED FILE A MOTION DEALING
WITH THEIR BAIL THEY’RE EACH
BEING HELD ON $500,000 CASH
BOND.
THEIR ATTORNEYS DENY THE
CRUMBLEY’S WERE ON THE RUN
BUT THE COUPLE WAS TAKEN
INTO CUSTODY IN DETROIT IN
THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT.
SO TODAY, WE WERE STREAMING
THIS PROBABLE CAUSE
CONFERENCE AT
CLICKONDETROIT.COM JAMES AND
THEN JENNIFER CRUMBLEY
SHUFFLE INTO A ROCHESTER
COURTROOM THEY HAVE BEEN IN
THE JAIL SINCE DECEMBER 4th.
TODAY THE COUPLE AGREED TO
SHARE YOU COULD SEE
MR. CRUMBLEY ANNOUNCING THE
WORDS I LOVE YOU TO HIS WIFE
AS THEY SAT IN FRONT OF THE
JUDGE.
BOTH SIDES DUE TO HUGE
AMOUNT OF EVIDENCE THAT
NEEDS TO BE GATHERED.
WE GOT PROSECUTOR KAREN
McDONALD --
>> THE VOLUME STAGGERING.
IT INCLUDES A TREMENDOUS
NUMBER OF POLICE REPORTS,
DIGITAL EVIDENCE, PHOTO
TEXTS, SEARCH WARRANT
REPORTS, A.T.F. REPORTS.
WITNESS STATEMENTS RECORDED
INTERVIEWS.
THIS CASE IS UNPRECEDENTED
IN OAKLAND COUNTY AND
PERHAPS THIS STATE.
>> Reporter: CRUMBLEYS ARE
ACCUSED OF INVOLUNTARY
MANSLAUGHTER IN CONNECTION
TO THE SHOOTING AT OXFORD
HIGH SCHOOL ON NOVEMBER
30th.
THAT LEFT FOUR STUDENTS DEAD
PLUS, A TEACHER AND SIX
OTHER STUDENTS INJURED.
PROSECUTORS SAY THEY GAVE
THEIR SON A GUN AND DIDN’T
DO ENOUGH TO STOP THE CRIME.
NOW IT’S RARE FOR PARENTS TO
BE CHARGED IN THESE CASES
BUT McDONALD’S HAS HELD THE
EVIDENCE OVERWHELMING.
THEIR ATTORNEY DENIES THE
CHARGES.
SO FOR NOW THE CRUMBLEY’S
REMAIN BEHIND BARS.
THERE’S A BAIL HEARING SET
IN THE NEW YEAR THAT WILL BE
ON JANUARY 7th.
THE COURT ALSO SET THE DATE FOR THEIR PRELIMINARY
FOR THEIR PRELIMINARY
HEARING ON FEBRUARY 8th.
-- FOR NOW, KAREN WE’LL SEND
IT BACK TO YOU.
>> THE CRUMBLEY’S APPEARED
IN COURT 24 HOURS AFTER
THEIR SON HIS ATTORNEYS
TRYING TO GET HIM BACK TO
CHILDREN’S VILLAGE INSTEAD
OF THE OAKLAND COUNTY JAIL.
THE JUDGE REFUSED.
THE 15-YEAR-OLD FACES A
PRELIMINARY HEARING ON
JANUARY 7th CHARGED AS AN
ADULT WITH FOUR COUNTS OF
FIRST-DEGREE MURDER AND
SEVERAL OTHER CHARGES.
IN THE MEANTIME, OXFORD
SCHOOL DISTRICT IT’S THE
FIRST SINCE THE TRAGIC
SHOOTING.
WE WILL OF COURSE BE THERE
HAS DECIDED NOT TO RETIRE.
SAYING IN PART HE HAS "MADE
DECISIONS TO HIT PAUSE ON MY
PLANNED RETIREMENT TO AVOID
ADDING ADDITIONAL
UNCERTAINTY OR DESCRIPTION
TO OUR SCHOOL COMMUNITY
WHICH HAS SUFFERED SO MUCH.
HE ADDED NOW IS SIMPLY NOT
THE RIGHT TIME TO LEAVE.
NO WORD ON EXACTLY HOW MUCH
LONGER HE WILL STAY.
SEVERAL AGENCIES JOIN
DETROIT POLICE FOR A MAJOR
CRIME INVESTIGATION TO GET
DANGEROUS CRIMINALS OFF THE
STREET.
ON DECEMBER 7th, TUESDAY
NIGHT OFFICERS MADE 70
ARRESTS.
INVESTIGATORS SAY THE CRIMES
INCLUDED MURDER AND ASSAULT.
25 PEOPLE WERE ARRESTED FOR
CRIMES RELATED TO GUNS.
OFFICERS ALSO SEIZED YOU
LOOK AT 70 HARD-CORE FELL --
FELON IS A BEGUN THAT’S NOT
GOING TO HURT A CITIZEN OF
DETROIT OR ONE OF OUR POLICE
OFFICERS.
IT’S JUST A COOPERATION.
WE ACTUALLY DO IT EVERY DAY.
WORKING FEDERAL STATE, AND
LOCAL AND EVERY ONCE IN A
WHILE WE GET TOGETHER WE PUT
EVERYBODY OUT THERE.
>> MEMBERS OF THE U.S.
MARSHALS, A.T.F. AND DETROIT
APPREHENSION TEAM ASSISTED
DETROIT POLICE IN THAT
MASSIVE OPERATION.
>>> IN YOUR FIRST FORECAST
WE’RE SEEING SOME SUNSHINE
IN DOWNTOWN DETROIT.
RIGHT NOW BUT RAIN IS MOVING
IN OVERNIGHT.
METEOROLOGIST ANDREW
HUMPHREY GOT A QUICK LOOK
AHEAD.
HEY, THERE KAREN IT’S
INTERESTING THIS TIME OF
YEAR WE’RE TALKING ABOUT
RAIN NOT SNOW BECAUSE
TEMPERATURES WILL BE WELL
ABOVE FREEZING AS THEY ARE
NOW.
EASILY IN THE MIDDLE 48 OVER
IN GROSSE ILE.
47 NOW OVER AT METRO ACH.
40s ONCE AGAIN ALL THE WAY
INTO THE THUMB.
42 IN SANDUSKY WAY ABOVE
AVERAGE THIS TIME OF YEAR.
AVERAGE HIGH IS NORMALLY IN
THE 30s.
47 DEGREES OVER AT THE
AIRPORT AND VISIBILITY IS
STILL ALONG GOOD.
RAIN -- AFTERWARDS THE
TEMPERATURES REMAIN IN THE
40s LOW 40s IN THE NEXT FEW
HOURS TEMPERATURES AROUND 40
DEGREES.
SKIES WILL BE CLOUDY BUT IT
REMAINS DRY THROUGH THE
MIDNIGHT HOUR.
ESPECIALLY TOMORROW
MORNING’S COMMUTE YOU SEE
THIS WHERE RAIN SHOWERS
START TO APPEAR.
SO WE’LL TALK ABOUT HOW
THANKSGIVING AS THE MORNING
COMMUTE BUT ALSO TALK ABOUT
TOMORROW AFTERNOON AND THE
REST OF THE WEEK IN MINUTES.
>> THANK YOU, ANDREW.
>>> GIVING US A PEEK AT HOW
WELL ITS EXPERIMENTAL
COVID-19 PILL WORKS.
THE PILL CALLED PAXLIID CUTS
THE RISK OF HOSPITALIZATION
AND DEATH BY 89%.
THE STUDY FOCUSED ON 700
PATIENTS.
IT WORKS BY BLOCKING AN
ENZYME INVOLVED IN VIRAL EP
ARE INDICATION.
FIDSER HAS ASKED THE F.D.A.
FOR EMERGENCY USE
AUTHORIZATION BUT THE AGENCY
HASN’T SET A DATE TO DISCUSS
THE PILL.
STARTED GOING INTO ARMS
PFIZER’S -- AUTHORIZED BY
THE F.D.A. FOR EMERGENCY
USE.
THERE WAS A SENSE OF HOPE
AND RELIEF AS THE VACCINES
ROLLED OUT WE HOPED IT WAS
THE BEGINNING OF THE END OF
THE PANDEMIC WATCHING THOSE
200 MILLION AMERICANS ARE
FULLY VACCINATED MANY ARE
ONTO THEIR BOOSTERS.
TODAY PAULA TUTMAN CHECKING
IN WITH THE BEAUMONT
HOSPITAL SYSTEM.
PAULA IT SEEMS THOSE HOPES
ARE UNFORTUNATELY BEING
DASHED.
>> Reporter: YOU KNOW, WHAT
KAREN, I REMEMBER THAT DAY,
TOO, IT WAS REALLY EXCITING.
ESPECIALLY FOR HEALTHCARE
WORKERS SO I’M ON THE TROY
CAMPUS OF BEAUMONT HOSPITAL.
I’VE BEEN TALKING TO THESE
FRONT LINE WORKERS AND THEY
WERE SO EXCITED BECAUSE THEY
SAID THEY COULD SEE AN END
IN SIGHT BUT THAT IS QUICKLY
DIMMING.
>> TIME TRAVEL IS NOT
SOMETHING IN A CAPSULE WHEN
YOU ARE WORKING THE FRONT
LINES IN TERMS OF COVID-19
TODAY IS YESTERDAY.
DECEMBER 15th, 2020,
BEAUMONT HOSPITAL
ADMINISTERED ITS FIRST SHOT
OF HOPE.
THE VACCINE HAD ARRIVED AND
IT WAS ELECTRIFYING.
>> I HAVE BEEN REFLECTING ON
THIS BECAUSE ABOUT A YEAR
AGO IS WHEN I GOT VACCINATED
AND THERE WAS LIKE SO MUCH
HOPE AND LIKE ABOUT WHAT THE
VACCINE WAS GOING TO BRING
HOW WE WERE GOING TO GET
THROUGH.
THIS I EVEN SHED A FEW TEARS
WHEN I GOT VACCINATED AND
NOW IT’S JUST FRUSTRATION.
>> WE’RE TIRED, LIKE WE JUST,
WE WANT TO BE DONE.
WE KNOW THAT THE VACCINE
KEEPS YOU OUT OF THE
HOSPITAL FOR THE MOST PART.
WE KNOW IT’S NOT PERFECT.
NO VACCINE IS PERFECT.
AS WE WERE PREPARED FOR
THERE TO BE YOU KNOW A
SECOND OR A THIRD BOOSTER
BECAUSE A LOT OF VACCINES
REQUIRE MULTIPLE DOSES.
>> Reporter: ALMOST EXACTLY
A YEAR LATER AND EVEN WITH
THE VACCINE NURSES AND
PHYSICIANS ARE CANCELLING
SURGERY SEEING UNTOLD
SUFFERING AND LIVING THROUGH
THE EARLY DAYS BECAUSE THOSE
EARLY DAYS HAVEN’T GONE
AWAY.
>> WHEN NOT ENOUGH PEOPLE
GET VACCINATED IT AFFECTS
EVERYONE, EVEN THOSE WHO DO.
>> IT DOES NOT TAKE A
MEDICAL DEGREE TO WALK DOWN
OUR WARDS AND SEE WHO IS
RATED AND WHO HASN’T.
>> Reporter: THE PATIENTS
ARE GETTING YOUNGER.
>> THESE KIDS DON’T HAVE TO
GET SICK YOU KNOW THEY
REALLY SHOULDN’T BE GETTING
SICK.
THEY BECOME A VECTOR FOR
PUTTING THINGS ON.
THERE’S NOT NO RISK WITH
COVID IN CHILDREN.
THERE IS STILL RISK.
>> TODAY THE TOOLS ARE
AVAILABLE SO THAT THIS
DOESN’T HAVE TO BE THE THING
THAT RUINS LIVES.
BUT A YEAR AFTER THAT FIRST
SHOT WAS GIVEN COVID IS
STILL THE THING THAT CAN
RUIN LIVES.
>> I REALLY WISH I COULD
UNDERSTAND WHY PEOPLE HAVE
CHOSEN THIS ONE THING TO NOT
WANT TO PUT IN THEIR BODIES.
THERE ARE SO MANY THINGS
THAT YOU GO TO THE GROCERY
STORE AND YOU READ THEY HAVE
WHOLE LOT OF THINGS THAT WE
CAN’T PRONOUNCE AND PROBABLY
DON’T KNOW WHAT THEY DO TO
US LONG TERM.
-- AND I THINK IT’S A
MISTAKE.
>>> YOU KNOW THIS IS SO
INCREDIBLY FRUSTRATING FOR
SO MANY FIRST LINE WORKERS.
GO BACK TO WHAT THAT DOCTOR
SAID WHEN SHE SAID THAT IT’S
LIKE MASS CASUALTY TRAINING.
THAT’S HOW THEY TREAT THIS
AND IT’S CHRONIC.
THEY’RE DOING IT EVERY
SINGLE DAY.
STAY WITH US BECAUSE AT 5:00
WE ALSO GO BACK TO THE NURSE
SHE TALKS ABOUT THE ONE CASE
THAT CHANGED HER AS A PERSON
AND AS A NURSE AND IT’S
HEARTBREAKING.
KAREN.
>> I WAS GOING TO SAY IT
REALLY IS PAULA.
EARLY ON IN THIS PANDEMIC --
THEY STILL ARE WORKING SO
HORRIBLY HARD SOME OF THE
HOURS AND TIMES AND THINGS
THEY HAVE TO SEE AND
SOMETIMES I THINK PEOPLE
FORGET THAT.
>> KEEP IN MIND WE’RE LIKE A
YEAR AFTER THE VACCINE AND
THEY’RE WORKING JUST AS HARD
THEY WHEN WERE WE DIDN’T
KNOW ANYTHING.