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live from downtown detroit local 4 news
at noon starts now
we begin with some big news copa 19
vaccines for kids under the age of five
could soon be available
that tops our news here at noon thank
you for joining us i'm evrad kassamy
pfizer says that it will seek emergency
use authorization for a three-dose
course of its covet-19 vaccine in
pediatric patients ages 6 months to 5
years old the company says results from
their latest study showed the vaccine
which is one-tenth of the dose that's
given to adults was well tolerated among
the more than 600 children in the trial
pfizer says the efficacy rate for the
vaccine is over 80 percent pfizer and
biontech plan to submit these findings
to its rolling emergency use
authorization application sometime this
week
also making headlines this afternoon the
parents of oxford shooting victim justin
schilling are added to a lawsuit joining
the families of multiple other victims
their attorney has also filed an
additional lawsuit in federal court that
new lawsuit is against oxford community
schools and oxford high school teachers
counselors and administrators local 4's
shawn lay joins us now live this
afternoon sean that attorney just spoke
what did he have to say about all this
he has said a lot and so did the family
of justin chilling as well very very
emotional let me break it all down for
you as you mentioned ever good afternoon
to you the schilling family now has
stepped forward they're joining the
class action lawsuit with those other
oxford families in civil court state
court but new and new overnight is this
federal lawsuit attorney ben johnson
saying federal claims now he is going
after the schilling family also joining
that federal lawsuit on behalf of their
son justin schilling killed in the
oxford shooting now this federal lawsuit
going after oxford school's suicide
prevention program johnson explains
that's a process that the school has put
in place to assess someone for
intervention to prevent suicide attorney
johnson says the school had the duty to
determine if the school shooter was a
threat to himself or a threat to others
when they encountered him he says they
failed to do so now as i mentioned we
heard from justin shilling's mother
today on how this awful tragedy has
absolutely of course devastated her
we're beyond heartbroken
traumatized they were 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
i will never be the same
never be the same that's justin
schilling's mother attorney ben johnson
says he's representing these families
because he says the families want
answers into what went wrong he says
that's what he's fighting for on behalf
of the families much more coming up at
five o'clock i'm right back to you our
hearts of course going out to that
mother and all the victims of such a
tragedy sean thank you
let's turn our attention now to the
aftermath of the deadly tornado in
gaylord the michigan attorney general is
now sending investigators to the city to
investigate reported instances of price
gouging in the meantime as you can see
here these images are powerful after
that ef-3 tornado wreaked havoc in less
than 30 minutes this was just friday
afternoon local four's nick monticelli
joins us now live in the city and nick
these images are forever ingrained in
your mind
they will be and you mention how it was
on the ground for 30 minutes but
devastation like this
only took about 30 seconds you talked to
these homeowners who were literally
running for their lives hiding wherever
they could and this is just one area of
the nottingham forest mobile estates
park now take a look at this video this
gives you an even better perspective
live
drone four is in the air right now and
this again those debris fields those are
people's homes and then in this trailer
park there are 72 lots the fire chief
telling us that
95 percent of this area destroyed that
means that close to 70 homes are now
gone and we met up with a couple of
residents who were here early this
morning searching for anything and
everything they could find
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
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 grateful is probably the only word
that some of these folks can use right
now because the other word that they
want to use is angry frustrated and
confused they don't know what to do next
is insurance going to cover them do they
have insurance how do they get any of
this cleaned up but they've got to move
a lot of debris and their homes out of
the way lawn mowers washing machines all
this is going to take big heavy
construction equipment to move out of
the way so we're talking about weeks if
not months of cleanup yet to come here
so this is just the beginning phase of
all of this and
just to make things worse this is just
one area right you've got businesses and
homes the other side of main street also
hit as well so evron brandon it's very
hard to imagine just how much damage
happened and how many lives are
destroyed because of this it really puts
it all into perspective the the mountain
of personal belongings that we see right
there behind you somebody used to sit
and watch tv right there on that couch
and now their whole life is just in one
big pile
nick thank you
of course we've been keeping our eyes on
the forecast uh all this time and and
watching what has happened and then here
we are today yeah and you know 10 years
and two months after the big ef-3 that
hit dexter
hits uh another one big one up north and
we think you know top five or six
strongest tornadoes ever to hit
northern lower michigan there have only
been
four or five of these ef-3 or stronger
storms and this was friday afternoon
and mother nature does not discriminate
this thing came across
i-75
right into the downtown area of gaylord
and then into residential areas just
walloping everything in its path with
150 mile an hour winds swirling around
it was 3 30 to about 3 55
17 miles on the ground
from that storm so nick is checking out
all of that damage and and every
negative thing that comes with it
unfortunately
back here we're middle 50s to near 60.
unfortunately ev rod's going to be tough
to shake the clouds so only low and
middle 60s but a dry monday
brandon thank you so much we'll be
checking in with him in just a little
bit
texas authorities are on the hunt for a
michigan native who's accused of
shooting and killing an elite cyclist
the u.s marshals say that they're
looking for caitlyn marie armstrong in
connection to the killing of anna mariah
wilson authorities say that armstrong
killed wilson on may 11 after finding
out that the athlete had been
romantically involved with her partner
colin strickland an arrest affidavit
revealed that armstrong had been in a
relationship with strickland but during
a break strickland began seeing wilson
sources say that armstrong became
furious
detroit police chief james white plans
to hold a news conference later this
afternoon he's expected to discuss the
search for two men who allegedly fired
shots at detroit police officers this
happened around four saturday morning
right near davidson street and dexter
avenue
police say the men were driving a black
ford fusion fortunately nobody was hurt
but that squad car was hit
president biden said today that the
united states would intervene militarily
if china attempts to take taiwan by
force
you didn't want to get involved in the
ukraine conflict militarily for obvious
reasons are you willing to get involved
militarily to defend taiwan if it comes
to that yes
you are
that's the commitment we made
we agree with the one china policy we
signed on to it and all the attendant
agreements made from there
but the idea that
that it could be taken by force just
taken by force it's just not it's just
not appropriate it'll dislocate the
entire region
the white house has walked back on
biden's statement saying that there is
no change in the u.s policy toward china
and big developments now in the
country's ongoing baby formula shortage
the first shipment from europe arrived
in the u.s and more is expected in the
coming days about 78 thousand pounds of
formula was flown in from germany and
unloaded in indiana on sunday last week
president biden authorized a program to
import formula from abroad the white
house says a second flight of formula
from germany will make its way to
washington d.c on wednesday but sunday's
shipment will not hit store shelves
it's going to go on trucks
and it's going to be delivered in
hospitals
and home healthcare clinics all across
the country
providing support and help
i'm told that this shipment provides
enough formula
to take care of nine thousand babies and
eighteen thousand toddlers
uh for a week
the white house is also allowing abbott
nutrition and another company to get
priority shipment of formula ingredients
abbott's michigan plant you might
remember was shut down because of a
recall but the fda hopes to have it up
and running in just the next few days
meanwhile we continue to get the word
out about a recall of jif peanut butter
the fda is investigating a salmonella
outbreak that's linked to the peanut
butter 14 people have gotten sick in 12
different states because peanut butter
can have a two year shelf life people
are asked to check their pantries we've
got a complete list a complete rundown
of how to check if your peanut butter is
included in this recall list on the home
page of our website just go to
clickondetroit.com for that
heads up if you shop to meier this
weekend you're going to want to check
your bank statements the chain says that
all meijer stores had problems with
debit and credit card payments some
customers were charged more than once
for their purchases meanwhile meyer
saying that they're working with banks
to remove those charges but if the
charges are still in your account or
your statement you need to reach out to
your bank personally to get that fixed
and if you need to fill up for the work
week and the school week gas prices are
still going up here in michigan aaa says
that we're paying an average of 457 per
gallon in metro detroit we're paying 14
cents more than that
per gallon the average is 459 per gallon
today just last week we were paying 4.45
and the city of detroit has figured out
a way to try and save on gas it's going
electric with its buses ddot unveiled
four electric buses this morning the
first of its in the fleet and the buses
from manufacturer proterra will be put
into rotation today ddot says the buses
produce fewer emissions and they're more
energy efficient and they're even
quieter d-dot also says that it's
committed to adding more green
technology