live from downtown Detroit local 4 News
at 5:00 starts now you know that masks
on northbound i-75 yesterday well it may
be just the beginning as crews planned
more emergency repairs and potholes keep
popping up for the first time in a long
time residential property values in
Detroit are up but what's that gonna
mean for people's taxes all coming up
here at 5:00 but we're going to begin
today with a change another change big
wood in our weather you're right a
winter weather advisory set to go into
effect in a couple of hours here Bennis
things kind of warm up what weather is
going to move in yeah we thought we
could hold this off for most of the
commute but Mother Nature had other
plans and even though for live radar
showing all blue we've had freezing rain
reports out in Washington County into
central Oakland County so there's a
chance that a lot of this is falling as
freezing rain even though air
temperatures are well into their mid-20s
still although they are rising we're
starting get a little bit of pink
showing up in the radar here in parts of
our South Zone
this will start transitioning to more of
a mix but north of 8 mile you can see
there's flakes there how Flint Lapeer
all reporting snow but freezing rain is
being reported at Metro right now so
here's the bottom line there's gonna be
a lot of moving parts to this forecast
but the two main threats were watching
are the ice in the snow we could be
seeing glazed roads and there is
possibility power lines could be coming
down we may get up to 1/4 inch of ice
accumulation before this stuff
transitions if you're north of a mile
plan on 1 to 3 inches of snow before
this becomes all rain by Dawn that's why
those winter weather advisories are out
they technically start at 7 p.m. but
treat them like they're in effect now
we'll talk more about this in your 4
zone forecast that's all coming up in
just a few minutes Kim and Devin all
right then at the top of our 5 o'clock
news yesterday we were showing you this
these backups on i-75 as northbound was
suddenly closed for emergency pothole
repairs yeah it's a mess and now we're
told to expect more of the same here
Larry squirrel is live for us tonight
along one of the bumpiest stretches of
freeway in southeast Michigan Larry good
evening good evening Kimberly things are
moving very smoothly right now here on
75 northbound with an O for the north
part of it anyway but it was a
completely different story earlier this
morning and MDOT crews tell me they will
continue to shut down this section it's
all a part of fixing the potholes
interstate 75 northbound in Troy look
more like a parking lot
instead of a busy freeway that's because
crews had to close down the freeway
Tuesday morning only allowing cars to
use one lane the weather is really just
wreaking havoc on a roadway that's in
rough shape Michigan Department of
Transportation spokeswoman Dianne cross
tells me the extreme cold temperatures
caused a lot of trouble over the weekend
that cold weather and snow form potholes
things were so bad Monday night crews
had to shut down parts of 75 northbound
to fix the holes and I was in the fast
lane and I seen a car pulled over to the
side so I you know veered over to give
them courtesy and as soon as I did that
boom boom that's what Joseph Perry heard
on his way to Flint Monday night he was
one of the drivers who experienced the
jagged road Monday night it's $160 to
get my car out of the impound mind you
it's 160 more dollars to get the two
tires on it so now I'm out like five
hundred bucks for a situation I really
have no control over
Tuesday we drove that same route and
just like Perry we hit bump after bump
after bump
we even saw more drivers on the side of
the road I didn't even see the pothole
soon as I hit it I heard my tire go down
and I was I knew I had to get over to
the side of the road and that seems to
be the situation along Interstate 75
northbound so the question remains is
there any permanent help in the near
future well I'll have that Aaron said
I'll tell you all about it coming up
tonight at 6:00 we're live on Interstate
75 northbound I'm Larry sprawl local 4
all right Larry meeting could be in the
works between the epsilon e Native
American and the students with whom he
had a confrontation in a viral video
from a march in Washington DC reports
tonight indicate Nathan Phillips has
changed his mind and is willing to open
a dialogue about racism and respecting
diverse cultures previously it said it
was not the right time to meet with the
students but now apparently wants to use
the controversy as a teachable moment
the students are from a school in
Kentucky not too far from Cincinnati
which had to be closed today because of
threats to students and the school
today's shows Savannah Guthrie of NBC
News sat down to interview Nicholas
sanmon the boy in the red hat in that
video and you can see that interview
coming up tomorrow morning it's the
Today Show right here on local 4 without
warning the st. Clair River started
rising overnight Sunday night yesterday
it spilled its banks in East China
Township sending the residents
scrambling today things have gotten
better and the Coast Guard's been out
there breaking up the ice local force
riding alone he shows us the mess people
are still dealing with the st. Clair
River spilled its banks and came down a
couple of blocks and it is dangerous
walking out here but take a look the
water has subsided but it didn't change
the fact that this van is now locked
into the ice and is probably going to be
at least for a few days a lot of the
people got so concerned they evacuated
and stayed somewhere else last night
waking up to the gorgeous waterfront
views is intoxicating and it's why you
live here and yet while it's not known
for doing so the st. Clair River can
turn on you very quickly and without
warning and that's what exactly what
happened a strong north wind pushed Lake
Huron ice down the river caused an ice
jam near allegan ACK resident John Byrd
Knicks
what it's been like the past two seasons
here everybody goes into a panic if we
know that if we don't if we don't see
the ice going to the right down stream
we're in deep trouble neighbor Bruno
tracks evacuated his riverfront house
last night
his biggest fear the lake ice would
slide through his front plate glass
window
he returned this morning glad to see
that his house was fine but the
neighbors who were not home well they
didn't fare quite as well there's came
up up to their house so they probably
have some flooding in the house or in
their crawl spaces and in their garage
the water came up to the gas meters they
would have to shut off the gas and that
would have been a real tragedy
the ice froze so thick on several side
streets they had to close them
snow plows weren't up to this job they
brought in a road grader that needed
several passes to clean things up
residents are doing all they can to keep
their houses intact Bruno told us things
were getting dangerous so when the
furnace gets flooded you have to call in
the heating company and of course a lot
of people like having ice-skating rinks
in their front yards but that's not how
they wanted it here the belief though is
that because the Coast Guard cutters are
now up and down the st. Clair River that
the worst of this he is over and he's
trying to challenge you abroad not only
local for its hope all right rod for the
first time in nearly two decades
residential property values in the city
of Detroit are seeing an increase mayor
Duggan announced property values picked
up twelve percent in 2018 a spring in
cocoa McEvoy cocoa there are a lot of
implications here I suppose for
Detroiters especially we start think
about tax time exactly this means a lot
of things for Detroit residents as you
mentioned and city officials really
believe that it shows the growth in this
city but one thing that it also means is
tax increases for residents by about one
percent the city of Detroit is seeing a
rise in property values for the first
time in nearly two decades are you gonna
see more money and now an opportunity to
access credit where it hasn't been
available to Detroiters in the past
residential and commercial property
values are seeing double-digit increases
in one neighborhood showing very strong
numbers is southwest Detroit you will
see very few vacant houses in that area
you'll see houses well-maintained and
you'll see a thriving community filled
with businesses and it's great it's
really good for our community
Laura Luna says the change is evident in
southwest Detroit what an improvement
we've come so far and I think we've just
got a lot more to go but higher property
values means an increase in taxes though
by 1 percent
if it cost us a little bit one two
percent I think we could manage a
resident Ruth Carmona believes owning a
home in Detroit is already tough and
when I told her about the taxes
d Haren que los impuestos para subir
Carmona believes it will be difficult
for many owners being she says it is
another thing to add on and a lot of
homeowners do not make enough it will be
an adjustment for Detroiters but city
officials believe it will have a big
payoff in the end and if you are a
resident in the city of Detroit you're
going to want to keep an eye out for
your mail because the city of Troy
Detroit is sending notices starting this
week to about 270,000 people and another
wave of notices will go out that
following week reporting live this
afternoon I'm Coco McAvoy local for ya
what a turn all right Coco well we've
hit day 32 in the longest government
shutdown in US history and the
president's latest attempt to end it
faces an uphill battle on Capitol Hill
NBC's Susan McGinnis has the latest from
Washington both sides continue to dig in
here in Washington while the rest of the
nation waits for a deal that will reopen
the government as the government
shutdown moves into a second month
furloughed workers do what they can to
get by unfortunately the bills don't
stop I have two children in Knoxville
Aaron Patrick earns extra cash cleaning
storage units I have been doing anything
and everything in Washington DC
celebrity chef Jose Andres world central
kitchen feeds thousands of furloughed
workers a day House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
stopped by today
afterwards she rejected president
Trump's latest proposal insisting on one
condition to start negotiations open
together
let's talk his offer would temporarily
protect 1 million illegal immigrants
including dreamers brought to the US as
children and still demands 5.7 billion
dollars for a border wall insisting
today he won't cave on that point Senate
Republican leader Mitch McConnell is
setting the stage for a Senate vote this
week that will fail without Democratic
support it's a strong proposal it's the
only thing on the table McConnell has
refused to bring multiple Democratic
bills to reopen the government to a vote
including one today meanwhile small
business owners like Elizabeth Wynn of
Richmond are feeling the heat feel a
little bit like political pawns right
now she can't get her hot sauce business
fired up with FDA approval on hold
travelers continue to deal with mounting
TSA absences the FBI says lack of
funding is undermining counterterrorism
operations with neither side here giving
an inch federal workers go the extra
mile whether or not the government
reopens the president says he'll deliver
the State of the Union address a week
from today in Washington Susan McGinnis
local 4
it is one of the most common questions
we're hearing about the shutdown how is
this affecting air travel here in Metro
Detroit and if TSA workers walk is your
flight refundable well we're here at
Metro we'll have all the answers for you
new tonight all right Hank also ahead
emotions run high at the sentencing for
a woman who killed her neighbor the
victim's family making it very clear
today they are not ready to forgive also
for the first time we're seeing video
footage of the moments leading up to a
crash in downtown Detroit that killed a
retired Sterling Heights police officer
and we'll have that next