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now reflecting on a tragedy that
has changed lives in Atlanta.
How Northside Medical Midtown hopes you'll
help lift up the victims. Right now,
the community is preparing for a
day of reflection nearly two days
after the deadly active shooting in
Northside Midtown Medical Center. It
comes as we are learning more
about the four victims that are
still recovering this morning and
also the one woman who was killed.
Ariana Manise has the latest.
It's a day of reflection and
recovery less than 24 hours ago,
Grady's Chief Medical Officer,
Doctor Jansen says.
The four women who were shot
here Northside Medical Hospital.
They continued to recover 3 remaining
critical condition and the 5th victim,
Amy Saint Pierre,
the one who died here at the hospital,
her family is remembering
her as the best of the best.
The 39 year old was an employee with
the CDC and even help establish
their maternal mortality team.
Her colleague said she
loved her family dearly.
She loved her two young kids and
was also very passionate about
her work and her team at the CDC.
Now today, Northside Medical Hospital,
they're asking everyone to take a
moment to pause and remember those
victims as well as remember their families.
Back to you.
Thank you, Ariana.
This morning we are waiting to
hear when the accused shooter,
Deon Patterson, will be back in court.
He waived his first court
appearance scheduled for Thursday.
Police tell us Patterson is not
cooperating in the investigation.
The question so many are trying to
understand is why did this happen?
Within hours of the shooting,
Patterson's family was
pointing to mental illness.
So we turn to a mental health expert
and a counselor for some insight.
They emphasize that people
should not automatically link
evil behavior to mental.
Illness.
The impulse for people to think
that any sort of severe, tragic,
almost unbelievable incident
is related to mental illness.
I do feel like something has
got to change and we cannot
scapegoat really anything.
If it is a mental health issue,
where are the resources?
They say it's important to look at
societal drivers when we're talking
about preventing these horrific events.
They both brought up the issue of
gun availability in our country.
We've been tracking this investigation
every step of the way for you and
we'll bring you each new development
here and on 11 live.com that was look
at your Friday morning headlines
heading out the door for your kick
off to the weekend. Chesley McNeil
Yeah, you're looking at clouds to start off
this morning and we'll have a chance for
rain as we head through the weekend, in fact,
through the weekend and into next week.
Right now what you see and it's entering into
our state really not reaching the ground.
I just looked at the wrong camera there
to see if we saw any raindrops at all.
I haven't seen any. So a lot of this
probably not make it into the ground,
but eventually it will saturate the
upper levels and then eventually we'll
make it all the way down to the surface.
So we're looking at temperature starting
off a little bit milder this morning than
we have been, thanks to the cloud cover.
We're in the 50s and a lot of spots.
Yesterday we started out the same the
same time in the 40s and 30s out there.
You do have some 40s.
Mixed in, but for the most part
you're going to see 50s for example
over towards Stockbridge,
you're at 5449 degrees right now in Conyers,
54 degrees in Fayetteville,
52, over toward Noonan 51,
Chattahoochee Hills 55,
Marietta Powder Springs at 51.
Hiram the same 50 right now in Dallas.
Over there in Paulding County,
Tucker,
you're at 5653 degrees at the Fulton
County Airport at the current
tower you're what to wear forecast
calls for what you get away.
The long sleeves today I think as well
as temperatures will be in the low 70s.
Yesterday we had up to 75, felt pretty good.
I've I I did hear somebody say
it was hot yesterday.
I was thinking not yet yet.
You know how to gets around here.
30% chance for a scattered
or isolated shower,
especially as we head toward the
afternoon couple thunderstorms
you see pushing into Jackson, Ms.
almost down into New Orleans.
I think the thunderstorms will
remain down to the South of us today.
In fact that is where we have
the threat for severe weather.
That dark green shade means a level one
threat or a marginal risk for severe weather.
This light green shade that
approaches our area,
but it just means a general threat
for a thunderstorm I don't think.
We'll see it today at all.
Maybe tomorrow we'll get a clap
of Thunder in very early,
see the light green stays over
us even as we head into Sunday,
that marginal risk not moving
any further toward the east.
So we're not anticipating much
in the way of any severe weather,
but we will have the wet weather around.
Here it is,
our forecast track model.
You can follow along with you with the
time Right there at the top of the
screen shows again that rain pushing
in isolated to scatter showers around.
Not everyone gets wet.
It's only a 30% chance,
but we'll hold on to that threat
right on through the overnight.
Going into Saturday morning,
I think we'll have the rain around
at least through early afternoon
before it begins to
subside. Maybe even a few breaks
in the clouds here and there.
That's going to boost that temperature up
a bit as well as we head into the weekend.
Despite the clouds around on Sunday,
I think we'll get a break during
the afternoon is a 20% chance for an
isolated shower too. We will see.
A little bit of sun and the rain.
Again, those temperatures will be going up.
Because of that, we'll see temperatures
approaching 80 by Saturday. Sunday 83.
And we're going to hold on to those
80s as we head into next week.
In fact, by the middle of the week,
Upper eighties 87 on Wednesday
with a slight chance for showers.
Right now, police are investigating
a shooting at a Cobb County park
that left a high school student hurt
this morning.
Police say that shooting was targeted.
It happened at Nikka Jack
Park less than 24 hours ago.
Police say several students from
area high schools were hanging
out when the shooting happened.
Today, a memorial service will honor
the life of a missing business owner
whose remains were recently found.
Jason Salter and his friend and
business partner Kenny Guerra were
last seen alive in late February.
Police say Salter's remains were
found in March with another body,
but that person has not been identified.
Salter's family and loved ones will
gather at the light of Joy Church
in Riverdale to remember him.
That service begins at noon.
We finally know Georgia's new
presidential primary date is
now set for March 12th, 2024.
The new date will give Georgia
voters 2 weeks of early voting
prior to Super Tuesday.
Flavor packets can add a little
bit of a boost to your water.
They've been around for a while,
but there is a new trend on social
media where people are giving
it a little bit of a remix.
Welcome to the side of TikTok,
where people are throwing in everything
but the kitchen sink in their H2O.
The category is called Water talk.
That's where you find people mixing
multiple of these sugarfree flavor
packets along with sugarfree syrup.
The trend is kind of controversial.
So in addition to that,
does this defeat the purpose
of actually drinking water?
So we talked to our medical
expert to see if it's safe for
you to Add all this mixing,
if it's still beneficial.
Reading the ingredients of a
lot of these flavoring packets,
adding artificial sweeteners or sugar,
or mixing the flavor packets
together should be safe.
You just heard from Doctor Sujatha Ready
who says if mixing the flavors is what
you need to do to get your water in,
then it's safe to do so.
However, you will want to make sure the
ingredients are as natural as possible.
If the idea of drinking water is
to avoid things like, let's say,
diet sodas and things like that,
then if you're adding a lot of
artificial chemicals to the water,
I'm not sure there's a big
difference between, you know,
flavored water and a diet soda
my my first grader.
Is not on TikTok, but it's asking
me for flavor packets to add it.
Yeah, it's really interesting for me.
The flavor packets are okay.
It's when you get the syrup
that kind of makes me think
of the consistency changing.
Yeah, I'm going to hard
pass on that this weekend.
Make sure to watch 11 Alive this
Sunday morning at 11 for a sports
extra Braves pregame special.
Ahead of Sunday's game and
then after the special,
you can watch the Braves take on the
Orioles right here on 11 Alive as
part of NBC's Major League Baseball
Sunday Leadoff Series Chesley.
Thanks a lot.
We're looking at temperatures by noon,
right around 67 degrees, but we're
going to have cloudy skies out there.
There may be a couple drops of rain
as well that will continue as we
head toward the 4:00, O'clock hours,
71 degrees our afternoon high,
so a little bit cooler,
thanks to the cloud cover and the
threat for some rain by 6:00,
o'clock temperatures will
be right around 68 degrees.
You're looking at just a few
showers around, in fact,
that I think they'll last through
the overnight going into tomorrow
and we'll hold on to it.
Through next week,
we leave you with some good news.
It is official. The outcome we hoped for.
The votes are now counted. Mr.
Rich to me at Kelly Mill Elementary
School was just named the 2023 Custodian
of the Year. The kids love Mr.
Rich. They're thrilled. So Mr.
Rich wins a title $10,000 in the school.
Incoming gets $5000 in some
cleaning and Rubbermaid supplies.
Congratulations, Mr. Ray.
Happy Friday. Have a great weekend.
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