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we begin tonight with live pictures from
drone 4 over the town of gaylord cleanup
of the destruction from friday's tornado
still just beginning glad you're with us
tonight at five off the top here fema
crews now say they'll be on the ground
on wednesday to assess the damage
initially they were expected tomorrow so
let's go ahead and get you caught up on
the latest today michigan attorney
general dana nessel said she was sending
investigators to gaylord to look for any
price gouging that comes after two
people were killed in that ef-3 tornado
that was on the ground for 26 minutes
26 minutes considered a pretty long time
in the case of a tornado but it shows
the distance that it covered as well on
the ground for 16 and a half miles to
give you a sense of how long that is
look at this that distance equivalent of
downtown detroit up to somerset mall in
troy so let's get to nick monticelli
who's live in gaylord and nick this is a
very small tight-knit community and
we're seeing just how tight knit now
yeah with all the people showing up to
help it's the kind of place where almost
everybody knows everybody and you talk
about 26 minutes on the ground but mere
seconds in destruction so imagine being
in a trailer like this in this mobile
home community when the warning goes off
on your cell phone your kitchen this is
a kitchen gets blown out from behind you
the refrigerator the stove still
standing but then your living room gets
demolished and the man who lives here
shawn says as he was crouching down in
this hallway he could feel
these walls kind of bowing and caving in
on him his son's room right over here
it's miraculous his son wasn't hurt as
well and then it's even worse because as
you look outside
this is what's left of his home and this
is what's left of the mobile park
you know this is the hard way to
downsize
it is surprising to see a smile but sean
law considers himself lucky friday night
his cell phone warning went off i didn't
even get through reading the alert when
it said every window in the house just
blew in
i wasn't thinking i might not make it
i'm thinking i can't hold on to my wife
and my son tight enough to i wasn't
thinking about myself
fortunately all three are fine their
home and their community is not it
peeled the trailer completely off the
frame
and the frame and the wheels were at the
very top of that tree just hanging shawn
spent hours today looking for a needle
in a haystack the only thing i'm missing
that i would truly like to find before i
walk away because we like said we spent
all day here yesterday and most of
friday
is my grandfather's military flag from
the funeral sitting there looking at the
umbrellas and then somebody went running
to the back going run from the break
room across the street rachel mccallico
looks at the very spot she was standing
in the goodwill store i started running
towards the back the lights went out the
emergency lights came on for about a
second
and then they were gone despite the two
lives lost and more than 40 injured all
of this proves it could have been much
worse and survivors know that all too
well yeah i know i am very grateful to
be alive
you know you just pick up the pieces and
move on that's all you can do try and
put it behind you be grateful you're
alive
yeah rebuild your whole life is really
all you can do so this is the opposite
side of
sean's property and this trailer you got
to watch your step as you get around
here but this is this type of situation
where devon and kimberly as you can
imagine again
mere
seconds
they had to find some kind of cover
he's okay his family is okay as you
heard but
two lives lost in this mobile home park
and about 70 of these are destroyed they
can't come home
really really tough situation we know
that was one of the first areas hit on
on friday night yeah all right nick yeah
all right well we've uh we've posted a
16-minute drone for tour of the damage
in gaylord and it really puts it into
perspective all the damage and the
destruction we've posted that link on
the home page of our website just go to
clickondetroit.com
now to new information we're learning
tonight into shots fired at detroit
officers over the weekend this happened
on the davison on the west side you see
a man hanging out of a car this is right
before the shots start flying rod
maloney just got the update from detroit
police rod
yeah you know devon one of the police
commissioners said to me that this whole
situation this incident is the result of
an immature video game
mentality essentially what he's saying
is look these cops were real the bullets
were real and these officers nearly died
trying to enforce the law
4 am overnight saturday morning on
detroit's west side
the davis and a dexter two officers
respond to a report of drifting and drag
racing the video will end here because
the gunman hit the engine block and the
vehicle died but another shot landed
just eight inches above the driving
officer's head detroit police chief
james white said a news conference with
much of detroit's police commission and
his staff this afternoon the department
came that close to announcing a funeral
this is unacceptable this is
unacceptable and we have to do something
as a community and i'm confident
that our community will do what it does
often and that's help us identify who
these folks are here's what white
believes happened while the officers
look for the drifting vehicle they find
this car with a young man hanging from
the passenger side window it's an
apparent decoy car doing illegal things
to distract them and he's angry about it
as they approach the vehicle to just
inexplicably get shot at and and this is
the moment we're going to take your life
because you're going to interfere with
our fun
that's just absurd it's absolutely
absurd the chief asks that two women and
a man turn themselves in because they
are persons of interest they could face
charges of being accessories to assault
commit murder if they don't
eight shots fired in all officers
getting praise for continuing that
pursuit they stopped immediately to make
sure everybody was okay and then
continued that pursuit we're going to be
putting better versions of the pictures
of the persons of interest on click on
detroit.com police want to identify them
you can find them there in the meantime
the chief is saying that this trend of
drifting and drag racing is a way to
attain social media clicks and people
are getting hurt maimed badly injured
it's dangerous deadly and he says he
fully intends to completely enforce the
laws and he's looking for more laws to
give them more strength against this
activity reporting live downtown rod
malone local video game mentality
frightening way to put it all right rod
well his mother says his soul cannot
rest until the truth comes out the
parents of oxford shooting victim justin
shilling joining a lawsuit and filing an
additional federal lawsuit against
oxford schools that new lawsuit is
against oxford community schools and
oxford high school teachers counselors
and administrators shawn lay is live on
this story for us tonight sean the
bottom line is they say this should have
been
prevented correct and we're going to get
to the heart of what this new federal
lawsuit is all about and you mentioned
it we did hear today from the mother and
father of justin schilling who was shot
and killed in the oxford shooting we
learned about justin that after the
shooting he helped six people through
organ donations we also learned that
during the shooting he helped save his
friend
justin's final moments were spent
protecting keegan
no 17 year old should be put in that
position
the mother and father of justin shilling
say they should be planning graduation
parties for their son but all of that
was taken from them last november 30th
inside oxford high school we're beyond
heartbroken
we're traumatized and we're devastated
and we are not okay
it's been 174 days since he was murdered
and it feels like it was just last week
for me there will never be healing there
will only be coping you only wish that
they will have what you had when you
graduated you know the fun times with
your friends
the parties
justin schilling's parents joining two
lawsuits filed on behalf of other
families devastated by the shooting one
in state court a new lawsuit in federal
court attorney van johnson says the
point of the lawsuit's finding out for
the families what went wrong
understanding what happens is they don't
getting full transparency and then
exposing that calling attention to it
coming up with better processes so no
one ever has to go through this again
back here live ben johnson says the crux
to the federal lawsuit is the school
district suicide prevention policy that
mandates that staff should evaluate a
student to see if that student who is
under scrutiny is a harm could harm
himself or others he says that did not
happen in that case we reached out to
oxford schools and not commenting on the
new lawsuit tonight we're live tonight
shawn lay local four much more to come
on this all right sean thanks
gasoline prices continue to jump
significantly from week to week here in
michigan
aaa says prices are up 19 cents compared
to last week we're paying an average of
457 per gallon that's 64 cents higher
than this time last month so it'll cost
you an average of 68 dollars to fill up
a 15 gallon tank experts say tighter
supply and more demand push prices up
and that it's likely to continue as we
head into the summer tonight pfizer one
step closer to having a covid vaccine
for children under the age of five
company announced the results of its
three dose vaccine trial for that age
group saying the vaccine appears safe
and generates a strong immune response
it's welcome progress for parents who've
been anxiously waiting for a covert
vaccine for the youngest children
pfizer says it'll seek emergency use
authorization for a three-dose series of
its vaccine for kids ages six months to
five years of age the vaccine for this
age group was delayed when two doses
didn't provide the expected level of
protection a third dose was then tested
in nearly 1700 kids during the recent
omicron surge pfizer's antibody levels
tested a month after the third dose
showed the vaccine produced a similar
immune response as two full doses in 16
to 25 year olds no new safety issues
were identified preliminary results
found the vaccine was more than 80
percent effective at preventing
symptomatic cases of covet but the
company warned that efficacy rate may
change as more data comes in
there may soon be two options available
for this age group modernist submitted
its vaccine data for children ages six
months through five years to the fda in
april modernist vaccine is two doses
given 28 days apart the white house
covert response team recently addressed
the frustration of parents with young
children i think we all feel the sense
of urgency we want to get this done as
quickly as possible but i think we also
all agree we want to get it done right
and i remain very confident based on the
conversations i've had
that as soon as the fda feels like
they've got the data
analyzed and as soon as it meets their
standards they're going to make a
determination