from downtown Detroit local board news
at noon it starts no
Tigers are out of town they're playing
the Angels tonight but Comerica Park
remains here and check this out there
were some boarded up doors why we'll
have the answer
Plus this weekend the weather story was
heat but now severe weather is heading
our way
Paul Gross is watching the radar for us
this afternoon he's going to tell us
when the storms are likely to hit we
also continue to follow the breaking
news out of Detroit where an ammonia
leak has prompted a hazmat situation you
are looking at live pictures of the
scene right now with firefighters down
below live view from Sky 4 there this
breaking news does top our news this
noon thank you so much for joining us
there are reports of strong odors in the
area the leak was reported at an
industrial building on John R Street and
State Fair Avenue and roads in that area
are being shut down as police and fire
crews respond local fours Larry Spruill
has been on the scene ever since the
news first broke and what are you
learning I remember last time we checked
in with you you could smell the very
very strong scent of ammonia
and good afternoon Ronda and everyone
that is still the case out here you can
still smell some sort of what is known
as ammonia now crews have been down here
for the last three hours working this
spill I want you to take a look at the
scene you can see several fire crews and
hazmat crews are here as well they are
blocking off the intersection of State
Fair and John now what we know since my
last breaking news hit about an hour and
a half ago is that they have about two
areas two neighborhoods a block top here
smells of ammonia is coming from an
industrial building right now they are
still trying to investigate the cause
and what happened out here around 9:00
or 9:30 this morning grads are right now
there have been no evacuations only
evacuations has been the building where
the leak is coming from I spoke of
several neighbors out here several gas
station owners there are car dealerships
they were telling me that there were
possibilities of them of those
businesses being evacuated but that is
not the case for right now I spoke with
one neighbor she tells me her mother
lives just behind that building she was
calling her because she was very
concerned about her well-being she's not
she's not that so strong but it is a
feeling that's out in the air right now
so yeah it is not out here
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and as I mentioned before the smell is
very strong several people are driving
by and walking by covering their noses
and covering their mouths we were closer
by that area earlier this morning we had
to move back because the smell was just
that strong I just spoke with a fire
department we are told that the fire
chief it's supposed to come talk to us
any minute now see or wait we are
waiting for that news conference we will
have that on our newscast hopefully
within that 30 minutes of within this
hour or so but we're still waiting a lot
of questions seems to be unanswered how
does this start where is the smell
coming from a lot of questions we are
still waiting to find out have Ron
Rhonda back to you and certainly the
dangers of inhaling it which many people
are doing there so we'll look forward to
that update and hopefully we'll get it
during a next hour of our newscast Larry
thank you right now we went to the
breaking news from northern Italy that's
where a highway crash and explosion has
killed at least two people this is video
from the scene it's near the city of
Bologna which you can see the smoke and
the flames that have interrupted after a
tanker carrying liquefied petroleum gas
was involved in that crash police report
two people have died and 70 people have
gotten hurt from this that blast caused
a portion of the highway to collapse as
we're also seeing there on your screen
now to Indonesia where news developing
there is of the death toll that
continues to rise after this magnitude
7.0 earthquake hit the Indonesian resort
island of Lombok so far 98 people have
have died and more than 230 others have
been severely injured those numbers
could go up as search-and-rescue teams
continue to sweep the impacted area that
earthquake hit just before 7:00 p.m.
local time on Sunday
here at hope the other big story that
we're following this afternoon is the
weather obviously not anything like what
we're seeing over in Indonesia the heat
wave here is what's continuing to grip
metro-detroit making the humidity even
more uncomfortable yes it is very
uncomfortable and that might just be the
recipe for severe weather for us later
today as we take a live look outside in
downtown Detroit 86 degrees it says
steamy hot one and our skycams all
across the metro area as we take a look
at other communities yes we want to go
to Mount Clemens now where you can see
the temperature there is 85 degrees mmm
the same story over at Metro Airport
this morning in Romulus where the
temperatures are in the mid 80s as well
Paul we see the storms on radar are they
eventually gonna get here well yeah and
let's get to the bottom line right now
now the threat for the severe storms is
roughly between mid-afternoon and about
11 12 o'clock tonight the biggest threat
are 60 mile-per-hour wind gusts and
everybody always asked well what about
tornadoes well the tornado threat is
very low but it's not zero and I'll be
back to explain that in about 10 minutes
but let's get right to radar now we have
a few scattered light showers and parts
of the area but we're watching this area
of developing thunderstorm activity to
the west this is not severe right now
but let me get you right to the computer
model and show you how this is gonna
evolve we'll go hour-by-hour here so by
1:00 2:00 o'clock you can see continuing
to develop moving eastward that one of
the things that we're watching are these
little pop-up developments ahead of that
again we're going to talk about the
importance of that in 10 minutes but
notice by the time we get toward the
late afternoon period this congeals into
a big blob of storms with severe
potential here moves on through and then
there's another batch about to form here
that's gonna get us later in the evening
we'll be back with the timetable on that
in just a few minutes don't forget local
forecasters app is very important this
afternoon just go to the App Store
search under WDIV download it it's free
it has radar that you can customize it's
everything you need on a day like this
everybody all righty Paul thank you
let's get your story that's developing
right now a man with a sledgehammer
called the attention of Detroit police
after smashing windows at Comerica Park
I want to show you video of the damage
our Ron Maloney joining us live now
downtown and rod first of all tell us
when did this happen
early early this morning ever odd and in
fact one of the things about it is is
that you know they keep this place
pretty well lit up out in the front of
Comerica Park
the Greenglass part of sort of what
makes the neighborhood here but it
became very attractive to a man with
that sledgehammer and he had an attitude
and he left a lot of this early this
morning like around 2:30 a.m. a security
guard discovered broken glass in the
ground upon further examination around
the front of the stadium entrance not
just a couple but six windows were
smashed now the glass is at least double
pane and very difficult to break but a
sledgehammer got the job done at the D
shop and also with the corner tap room
Comerica parks are pretty tightly run
ship and it didn't take long but a
couple of hours for the repair crews to
move in take out the broken glass and
replace it with particle board while
they await replacement panes and then
leave now itself the Detroit Police
Department who are looking for the man
responsible the plaza outside comb
Erica's entrance is a favorite place for
pictures Orlando and Sheila Cameron of
Westland brought their grandkids here to
see the big Bengal and memorialize the
kids cuteness to the Camerons the
sledgehammer assault is a disturbing
development I think that's awful I
really don't come on I mean the city is
trying to come back and there's a lot of
things new things and good things here
so where someone does that that just
that's really awful this is a time when
people should come together we don't
know what the band's problem was so we
should find out what's going on with him
to keep it from happening again
well Detroit police would certainly like
to do that they put out a description of
the man they say he was an
african-american male in his 30s they
say he had a long-sleeve dark hoodie on
and also jean shorts and tennis shoes
wielding a sledgehammer obviously and
they say that fortunately he didn't go
in the in the stores and that he fled on
foot reporting live downtown rod Moloney
alrighty rod thank you for the update in
other news this afternoon there is a
stranger danger alert this Monday in the
North Ville and Novi community
after 12 year-old girl reported to
police on Saturday afternoon that she
was followed by a man after she left on
Taft near 8 mile to going to her home in
the city of Novi well the suspect is
only described as a white male so very
vague description they also say that he
was driving a blue sedan anyone who
might know more about this incident has
asked to contact the North felt Police
Department making political headlines
Donald Trump and now acknowledging that
his oldest son was trying to dig up dirt
on Hillary Clinton when he met with a
woman linked to the Kremlin back in 2016
as Commons delivered on Sunday by
Twitter directly contradicting a July
2017 statement in which Trump's team
claimed that the purpose of Donald Trump
Jr's meeting a year earlier was to
discuss adoption policy regarding
Russian children and stay close because
later in this newscast we will take a
look at how President Trump is get tough
approach to Iran is moving up another
notch today
but here at home the countdown to the
polls opening up tomorrow for our
primary is on we are less than a day
away now before the polls open and you
certainly want to make your voice and
opinions heard by voting on Tuesday
don't let someone else make those
decisions for you absolutely and last
time that we had an election for
governor or US Senate Congress and even
the Michigan Legislature most people
didn't vote 56% of registered voters in
Macomb County did not vote 62% in Wayne
did not vote either 56% in Washtenaw
County did not vote as well and then
come flat with 52% of registered voters
in Oakland County who did not cast their
vote and that's over 50% in almost every
County now you have political opinions
we know that we see them always on
Facebook but don't just share them on
social media make sure you go out into
the voting booth and share them there by
trust level the primary election is very
important very important all right still
to come here in local 4 News at Noon
Michigan's governor trying to assure
people on the west side of the state
that they will soon have safe drinking
water
yeah we'll tell you what he had to say
when pressed about the issue but first
after nearly being beaten to death well
this person is now thriving we're gonna
tell you who they are and we've got an
exclusive look at their recovery and of
course we're continuing fathers breaking
news from Detroit's West Side where a
house that situation is still happening
right now at an industrial building the
area of State Fair and John are we're
told that it's an ammonia leak only the
building where that leak is coming from
has been evacuated so far but a large
area is being blocked off as a
precaution our Larry schools there live
on the scene we are going to check in
with him for any updates as soon as they
come in we'll be right back