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. >> ALL EYES ARE ON STORM TRACKER 4 AND THE SKIES THIS AFTERNOON
AS WE TRACK SOME PRETTY WILD
WEATHER MOVING ACROSS METRO
DETROIT.
WE’RE TALKING NEARLY 50 DEGREE
TEMPERATURES SO GOOD NEWS THERE,
BUT WE HAVE THE STRONG WINDS, A
FLASH FLOOD WATCH, SLEET, A FEW
INCHES OF SNOW AND ALL OF THIS
IN A SHORT AMOUNT OF TIME SO
HANG ON, EVERYBODY, BECAUSE THE
WILD WEATHER TOPS THE NOON.
THANK YOU FOR JOINING US.
LET’S TURN OUR ATTENTION TO OUR
FORECAST AS WE GIVE YOU A LIVE
LOOK OUTSIDE THROUGH THE SKYCAM
AND METEOROLOGIST BRANDON RUE
WITH WHAT WE ARE EXPECTING AND
BOY, IT WILL BE AN INTERESTING
NEXT DAY OR, SO BRANDON.
>> YEAH, THREE BIG EVENTS OVER
TWO DAYS AND THE CHRONOLOGICAL
ORDER IS WIND, FLOODING AND
SNOW.
LET’S TAKE CARE OF THE WIND
FIRST, WITH A WIND ADVISORY FOR
SOUTHERN ONTARIO, 40 TO
45-MILE-PER-HOUR GUSTS SO THE
CONCERNS FOR SWAYING SEMIS
BLOWING THINGS ON THE ROADS AND
WEAKENED POWER LINES AND THE
WINDS ARE GUSTING OVER 30 MILES
PER HOUR IN A LOT OF SPOTS, BUT
THROUGH AFTERNOON, THE POTENTIAL
OF 40 TO 45 RIGHT WHERE OUR
TEMPERATURES ARE, 45 TO 50
DEGREES.
ON THE DRY SIDE, STARTING TO
DEVELOP RAIN SOUTHWESTERN LOWER
FOR MOST OF THE DAY DAYLIGHT
HOURS, OUR CONCERNS ARE THE WIND
NEAR 50 DEGREE HIGHS AND THE
RAIN WILL BE SCATTERED AFTER
3:00, 4:00 P.M., VERY WIDELY
SCATTERED AND VERY INTENSE
GETTING INTO TONIGHT, SO MELTING
SNOW PLUS AN INCH OF RAIN
POSSIBLE SO WE HAVE A FLASH
FLOOD WATCH, IN THE MEANTIME,
THIS IS WHERE YOU HOLD YOUR
PHONE CAMERA UP TO THE MIDDLE OF
THE SCREEN AND THE QR CODE WILL
GET YOU TO THE FORECASTER’S APP
WITH NEW INFORMATION UPDATED
INCLUDING NEW SNOW TOTALS THAT
I’M ABOUT TO GET ON AND POST A
NEW STORY ABOUT THE NEW SNOW
TOTALS ON THE AIR HERE COMING
UP.
>> SPEAKING OF THE TEMPERATURES,
IT’S A PERFECT TIME TO TAKE THE
DOG OUT, BRANDON, NOT A BAD
IDEA.
LET’S SEND THINGS OUT TO HANK
AND WHAT HE’S WORKING AROUND THE
CLOCKING ON FOR "LOCAL 4 NEWS"
AT 5:00.
>> THIS NEIGHBORHOOD HERE,
JEFFERSON CHOMERS BRACING AND
CONCERNED OF WHAT COULD HAPPEN
NEXT.
WE’RE TALKING TO PEOPLE HERE IN
THE COMMUNITY AND WILL BE LIVE
HERE STARTING AT 5:00.
BACK TO YOU.
>> NOW AT NOON, WE WANT TO GET
TO BREAKING NEWS THAT WE ARE
FOLLOWING THAT DETROIT WHERE
NORTHBOUND I-75 AT 14 MILE ROAD
FINALLY BACK OPEN AFTER STATE
POLICE INVESTIGATED A REPORTED
FREEWAY SHOOTING.
TROOPERS GOT A CALL THAT
SOMEBODY IN A WHITE VAN WAS
SHOOTING AT HER VEHICLE.
THEY THEY NO BULLET DAMAGE WAS
FOUND, BUT THE INVESTIGATORS
CLOSED THE FREEWAY WORKING TO
CLOAK EVIDENCE, BUT THAT STRETCH
AT 14 MILE NORTH ON I-75 NOW
BACK OPEN.
>> ALSO BREAKING, STATE
REPRESENTATIVE JEWELL JONES
PLEADED GUILTY IN A DRUNK
DRIVING CASE THAT HAS BEEN A
YEAR LONG COURT BATTLE AND WE
CAUGHT UP WITH JONES TO SEE WHAT
HE’S SAYING AFTER ALL THIS.
>> Reporter: JEWELL JONES
PLEADING NOT GUILTY BUT IT’S
LIKELY HE WON’T GET ANY JAIL
TIME AT ALL.
>> I’M GLAD WE WERE ABLE TO HAVE
A WIN AND WALKING OUT OF THE
BUILDING.
>> STATE REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRAT
IS NOT RESIGNING HIS STATE HOUSE
SEAT AFTER PLEADING GUILTY TO
THE VERY CHARGES HE WAS
INSISTING HE WAS NOT GUILTY OF.
HE MAINTAINS THAT HIS ARREST WAS
UNLAWFUL AND SAID THE JUDGE IT
WAS A LAWFUL AMOUNT.
HE PLED TO TWO FELONY COUNTS OF
RESISTING AND OBSTRUCTING
TROOPERS LAST APRIL AND PLED
GUILTY TO DRUNK DRIVING, HAVING
A FIREARM WHILE INTOXICATED AND
PLED GUILTY TO SNEAKING A KEY
INTO TO LIVINGSTON COUNTY JAIL
FOR PURPOSES OF ESCAPE AND
ADMITTED HE COULD HAVE HARMED
SOMEONE WITH THAT KEY.
HE APPEARED TO BE RELIEVED
AFTERWARDS.
>> I’LL KEEP MOVING FORWARD AND
DOING GREAT THINGS.
>> Reporter: THE JUDGE HERE WILL
SENTENCE JONES IN MARCH.
IT’S UP TO HIM IF JONES GETS ANY
ADDITIONAL JAIL TIME.
MUCH MORE ON WHAT HAPPENED IN
COURT TODAY LIVE AT 5:00.
IN LIVINGSTON COUNTY, LOCAL 4.
>> ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU, FOR THE
UPDATE.
FORMER MACOMB PROSECUTOR ERIC
SMITH IS SCHEDULED TO BE
SENTENCED IN FEDERAL COURT
ACCUSED OF EMBEZZLING $600,000
ON HIS CAMPAIGN FUND FOR
PERSONAL EXPENSES.
THEY ARGUE THAT HE BROKE HIS
PLEDGE AND USED HIS AUTHORITY TO
COERCE OTHERS TO LIE AND PROTECT
HIM.
HE PLED GUILTY TO OBSTRUCTING
JUSTICE AND FACES UP TO 20 YEARS
IN PRISON AND A $250,000 FINE.
>> PRESIDENT BIDEN REJECTED A
REQUEST BY FORMER
PRESIDENT TRUMP TO BLOCK WHITE
HOUSE VISITOR LOGS FROM THE
COMMITTEE PROBING THE JANUARY
6th SIEGE IN THE U.S. CAPITOL.
WRITTEN TO THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
THAT BIDEN DETERMINED THE
EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE IS NOT IN
THE BEST INTEREST OF THE UNITED
STATES AND THEREFORE NOT
JUSTIFIED.
THERE IS NO DETAIL ON WHAT THE
LOGS WERE AND WHAT THEY
REVEALED.
>> THE FORMER G.O.P. CHAIR LAURA
COX IS SUBPOENAED BY THE JANUARY
6th COMMITTEE.
COX SERVED AS THE HEAD OF THE
PARTY DURING THE 2020PLEX
2020PLEX -- 2020 PRESIDENTIAL
ELECTION.
THEY WANT TO QUESTION HER AND
APPEAL FOR A DEPOSITION FOR A IN
APPEAL MARCH 8th.
A LOOK AT WHAT SOCKS IS SAYING
ABOUT THE SUBPOENA AND WHY THE
JANUARY 6th COMMITTEE WANTS HER
PERSONAL CELL PHONES RECORD ON
"LOCAL 4 NEWS" AHEAD AT 6:00.
>> NOW TO A "LOCAL 4 NEWS"
UPDATE, SOUTH FIELD POLICE
RELEASED NEW INFORMATION ABOUT
YESTERDAY’S WILD CHASE THAT WENT
ACROSS TWO CITIES.
THIS IS NEW DASH CAM VIDEO THAT
SHOWS THE CHASE THAT WENT
THROUGH SOUTH FIELD ENDING IN
DETROIT.
POLICE SAY THAT IT STARTED WITH
THE DRIVER SHOOTING AT ANOTHER
CAR RIGHT IN THE AREA OF SCHOOL
CRAFT AND THE SOUTH FIELD
FREEWAY.
THREE PEOPLE WERE INSIDE
INCLUDING AN 18-MONTH-OLD BOY
AND THANKFULLY, THEY WERE NOT
HURT.
POLICE USED A PIT MANEUVER AND
GOT THE DRIVER TO STOP AND HE
ENDED UP CRASHING INTO A HOUSE.
A 19-YEAR-OLD MAN IS IN CUSTODY.
>> AN 18-MONTH-OLD PRECIOUS BABY
BOY IN THAT VEHICLE THAT THIS
SUSPECT FIRED UPON, SO, AGAIN,
WE ARE SO VERY THANKFUL THIS
CHILD WAS NOT INJURED.
>> POLICE BELIEVE ROAD RAGE WAS
A FACTOR IN THIS SHOOTING.
>> RUSSIA SAYS THAT IT’S PULLING
BACK SOME OF THE 150,000 TROOPS
THAT THE UNITED STATES AND ITS
ALLIES WARNED AND UKRAINE
LEADERS HAVE PLAYED DOWN THE
INVASION AS THE COUNTRY HELD A
NATIONAL DAY OF UNITY IN
DEFIANCE OF A PREDICTION OF A
RUSSIAN ATTACK.
WE HAVE THIS REPORT FROM KIEV.
>> Reporter: TODAY IS NATIONAL
UNITY DAY IN UKRAINE.
THIS MORNING AT THE NATIONAL
STADIUM HERE IN KIEV, THEY
UNRALPHED A 200 METER LONG
UKRAINIAN FLAG IN A SHOW OF
PATRIOTISM AND SOLIDARITY, THE
FLAGS ARE FLYING THROUGHOUT THE
COUNTRY, PEOPLE ARE WEARING BLUE
AND YELLOW RIBBONS.
WE HEARD FROM THE PRESIDENT THIS
MORNING IN A SPEECH SAYING WE
ARE UNITED BY THE DESIRE TO LIVE
IN PEACE WITH ONE FAMILY,
CHILDREN AND PARENTS AND WE HAVE
EVERY RIGHT FOR ALL OF THIS
BECAUSE WE ARE AT HOME AND IN
UKRAINE AND NO ONE WILL LOVE OUR
HOME LIKE US AND NO ONE BUT US
CAN PROTECT OUR HOME TOGETHER.
THE NATO GENERAL SAID THEY HAVE
SEEN NO SIGNS OF THE MILITARY
DEESCALATION PROMISED BY RUSSIA,
QUITE THE CONTRARY.
THEY SEE THAT MILL BUILDUP ON
THREE SIDES OF THE MILITARY
BORDER CONTINUING AND PUSHING
RUSH TO ENGAGE IN THE DIPLOMATIC
PROCESS.
ERIN McLACHLAN, KIEV, UKRAINE.
>> STILL TO COME HERE AT NOON,
CORONAVIRUS CASES,
HOSPITALIZATIONS AND DEATHS ARE
ALL DOWN, BUT THE CDC HASN’T
BUDGED ON THE MASK GUIDANCE JUST
YET.
A LOOK WHERE THINGS STAND BEFORE
THE BREAK, BUT WE WANT TO REMIND
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