WCBI News at Ten - Thursday, July 16th, 2020

WCBI News at Ten - Thursday, July 16th, 2020

Thanks for staying up with us tonight..

Schools across the state will be resuming classes in the coming weeks.

And while there's not a one size fits all solution for school districts on reopening plans, there are some universal concerns.

Some classroom leaders say they have some reservations about returning.

Courtney ann jackson explains.

Covid-19 case counts are higher now than they were when schools shut down back in march.

Mississippi professional educators say that's the source of some anxiety.

"i've had some heartbreaking calls with members who are at risk.the analogy that i've heard quite often from our members around the state is that teachers are being sacrificed or teachers are being thrown under the bus."

Federal guidelines are in place that cover two weeks of pay if a teacher has to quarantine with covid-19.

But anything past that would be up to the local district policies.

Mississippi has what's called "local rule" authority.

Because of that...the state board can't issue a blanket policy on exactly how to start back to school.

"we have 140 plus different reopening plans.

And so parents, students and teachers in district a see their district's reopening plan and then they look down the road and see the reopening plan for district b and so that adds to the concern and frustrations."

Mpe is asking the state board to lobby our congressional delegation to support any federal legislation to offset the added costs of local districts.

And to waive the state tests and accountability requirements.

"their main concerns is their students and the message from the state department tends to focus on testing, testing, testing.

" meanwhile, the newly formed "mississippi teachers unite" group plans to rally at the state capitol friday.

They're asking for teachers to sign a letter to the governor that calls for various items including---delayin g schools restarting till at least after labor day.

Courtney ann jackson, wcbi news most districts have plans in place.

The best bet is to check with your child's school to see how they plan to conduct classes.

Mississippi sees áanotherá record day for covid-19 cases and hospitalized patients..

The state department of health is reporting one thousand 230 new cases today.

18 new deaths were also reported.

That brings the state's death toll up to just over 13 hundred.

The number of hospitalized patients also continues to climb to one thousand 117 // 247 people are in intensive care with 125 of those on ventilators// there are 130 long- term care facility outbreaks.

In our area today, lee county had the highest amount of new cases with 33.

Pontotoc had 29, lowndes had 28, monroe is reporting 22, and chickasaw had 18.

Georgia's governor is going to court to stop the state's largest city from enforcing its covid-19 rules..

Governor brian kemp is suing atlanta to block a recently passed mask mandate from being enforced.

In a suit filed today, kemp and georgia attorney general chris carr argued that atlanta mayor keisha lance bottoms has overstepped her authority and must obey kemp's executive orders under state law.

The suit comes a day after kemp clarified his executive orders to block atlanta and several other local governments from requiring people to wear face coverings.

Bottoms says atlanta will continue with enforcement and is prepared to go to court.

First look stinger first look summary: hot and humid conditions will persist through the weekend and next week.

Storms are possible each and every day primarily during the daytime heating hours.

Heat indices are going to be generally in the 100-110 range for the next 7 days.

Be sure to stay in air conditioning as much as possible and drink plenty take developing story stinger a shallow grave off a country road.

Choctaw county investigators have spent much of the day in the northern part of the county.

According to sheriff brandon busby, investigators found human remains in a shallow grave in a wooded area near hebron road.

Today, deputies and officers from multiple agencies served search warrants on 2 properties in the area.

Those searches reportedly turned up drugs, money, and possible explosives.

6 people have been arrested on a variety of felony and misdemeanor charges ranging from drug possession to manufacture of explosive devices.

Choctaw county coroner keith coleman tells wcbi the body has been sent to the state crime lab for official identification.

The operation was carried out by deputies from choctaw and montgomery counties as well as agents from the mississippi bureau of investigation, mississippi bureau of narcotics and the a-t-f .

More charges are possible.

Some cross county cooperation leads to an arrest and a murder charge..

Sheriff eddie hawkins says donta kirby is the suspect in the death of a man found two weeks ago on burns road.

Lorenze halthon of columbus was shot to death.

A passerby discovered his body.

Kirby was stopped in webster county by the mhp.

He was captured and originally charged with possession of a firearm by a felon.

The murder charge was added late yesterday.

Sheriff eddie hawkins says getting a suspect in this case was a classic example of good police work// "this was a case that we didn't have a suspect identified.

We started developing information and developed a person of interest.

Working together and sharing information between agencies and divisions with the lowndes county sheriff's department, we were able to get information and actually obtain physical evidence linking this suspect to the crime."

Sheriff hawkins says the motive behind the crime is still under investigation// investigators did say kirby and the victim were friends.

Kirby's bond was set at half a million dollars this afternoon.

Wipe to gfx vo a woman is charged with attempted murder in the shooting of a noxubee county man.

27-year-old jeraldine campbell is also facing an attempted robbery charge.

She remains in the noxubee county jail.

Bond is set at one hundred thousand dollars.

Noxubee county sheriff tommy roby says deputies were called to grissom road early monday morning.

Roby tells wcbi the victim was shot in the head.

Deputies are still trying to determine what led to the gunfire.

The victim is still in a jackson hospital// stinger wx open summary: unsettled weather will remain in place through tuesday night with scattered rain and storm chances.

A cold front will sweep out the rain and humidity by mid morning wednesday leaving us with sunny and warm weather for the rest of the week and upcoming weekend.

Monday night: areas of showers will continue but gradually diminish in size and scope.

The threat of an isolated tornado should gradually end during the evening hours but we'll just have to monitor radar trends.

Look for a mild night with lows in the mid 70s.

Breezy se winds between 10 and 25 mph.

Tuesday: mostly cloudy with showers lingering first thing in the day.

A mix of sun and clouds is expected to develop as time goes on but that could lead to a few more showers or storms. highs are going to push 90?

With higher heat indices at times.

Winds ssw 10-20 mph.

Tuesday night: a cold front may spark a line of showers and storms after midnight.

While we can't rule out a few isolated strong storms most spots will not experience anything too rough.

Lows will be in the low to mid 70s.

Wednesday: any rain chance should move east by mid morning allowing sunnier and less humid conditions to build in on the heels of westerly winds.

Highs top out in the mid 80s.

Wednesday night: clear and refreshing.

Lows in the low 60s.

Thursday-monday: mostly sunny to partly cloudy, warm, and dry.

Highs in the upper 80s to around 90 hey everyone we're back with bobbie at restaurant tyler and we're talking about some of our favorite summer sippers.

She calls it our sparking summer.

It's so hot.

We're sipping in the sip.

What better way to celebrate summer than with bubbles.

Bubbles are your best friend.

You should always have a bottle in the fridge because you never know when you're going to need to celebrate like getting up in the morning.

This first one is a very pretty yellow color.

This one is going to be schramsberg blanc de blanc, it's 100 percent chardonnay from california.

One of the closet styles that we can get in the united states that compares to actual champagne.

You cant do bubbles without doing a rose.

Summer is rose season.

People thought that phase was going to die out but it hasn't.

Extra dry rose---the dryer the wine, the higher in alcohol, super fruity..comes from france, made from gamay.

The gama is a fruity variety.

Lambrusco comes from italy.

Lambrusco di sorbara.

There are 11 varietals.

This is one more floral and dry in style.

Brachetto d'acqui it comes from piedmont italy.

It's going to be a sweet, sparkling red.

This one is great for hot days.

If you're looking for ways to sparkle up your summer here are some great choices.

Take scott's reentry summer usually means fun in the sun, but how can you tell when your kids have had too much of a good thing?

We learn more in tonight's health talk with baptist..

Segment 2: what happens when my child gets too hot?

With the hot days of summer come summer sports, sports practice and long days of outside fun in the neighborhood, at school or at camp.

Before you send your children out this summer, learn how to protect your child against the dangers that come with the summer heat.

Watch for early signs of dehydration such as fatigue, thirst, dry lips and tongue, lack of energy and feeling overheated.

But if kids wait to drink until they feel thirsty, they are already dehydrated.

In the active child, reduce the level of activity after 15 minutes in high high or humidity.

Drink and hydrate prior to and during physical activities.

Water or sports drinks should be available at all times.

In the event of dizziness, nausea, or lightheadedness, retreat to a cooler environment.

Untreated dehydration can lead to three worse types of heat illness: 1.

Heat cramps - painful cramps of the abdominal muscles, arms or legs 2.

Heat exhaustion - dizziness, nausea, vomiting, headaches, weakness, muscle pain and sometimes unconsciousness 3.

Heat stroke - a temperature of 104 degrees or higher and severe symptoms including nausea and vomiting, seizures, lack of sweating, shortness of breath, unconsciousness and coma.

Both heat exhaustion and heat stroke require immediate medical attention.

If untreated, heat stroke can lead to death.

Any child with heat stroke should be rushed to the nearest hospital.

Stinger summer usually means fun in the sun, but how can you tell when your kids have had too much of a good thing?

We learn more in tonight's health talk with baptist..

Segment 2: what happens when my child gets too hot?

With the hot days of summer come summer sports, sports practice and long days of outside fun in the neighborhood, at school or at camp.

Before you send your children out this summer, learn how to protect your child against the dangers that come with the summer heat.

Watch for early signs of dehydration such as fatigue, thirst, dry lips and tongue, lack of energy and feeling overheated.

But if kids wait to drink until they feel thirsty, they are already dehydrated.

In the active child, reduce the level of activity after 15 minutes in high high or humidity.

Drink and hydrate prior to and during physical activities.

Water or sports drinks should be available at all times.

In the event of dizziness, nausea, or lightheadedness, retreat to a cooler environment.

Untreated dehydration can lead to three worse types of heat illness: 1.

Heat cramps - painful cramps of the abdominal muscles, arms or legs 2.

Heat exhaustion - dizziness, nausea, vomiting, headaches, weakness, muscle pain and sometimes unconsciousness 3.

Heat stroke - a temperature of 104 degrees or higher and severe symptoms including nausea and vomiting, seizures, lack of sweating, shortness of breath, unconsciousness and coma.

Both heat exhaustion and heat stroke require immediate medical attention.

If untreated, heat stroke can lead to death.

Any child with heat stroke should be rushed to the nearest hospital.

Stinger alabama week continues on the high school football tour...stop number 25 previews gordo, when we come back take sports full alabama week continues as we check in with the gordo green wave.

Head coach ryan lolley leads a team that believes it has what it takes to finish the season with a state title.

Gordo is stop number 25 on the high school football tour.

"business."

"business."

"we treat this like it's business like."

Back to business for the gordo green wave as they prepare for the 2020 season.

Coming off an undefeated regular season and 3rd round playoff exit, gordo has its sight set on not only another region championship, but a state title.

"i grew up here since i was in preschool and ever since they been winning, winning, winning.

We just try to keep that going and keep the same mentality and tradition going."

"when you don't get what you're trying to do the year before, it just makes you want to work even harder.

I feel like we all have that mindset this year."

"do bigger and better things than last year.

We put that in the past.

We just want to get back on the same track and have another undefeated season."

"i think we have a big group of motivated guys and we have some new guys coming in, but everyone is on the same page.

We have a strong feeling that we can win it this year so i think that's going to be our main goal."

The green wave bring back a strong core of skill position players on the outside that the team has full faith in.

"it's great to have skill players back.

They're hard workers and will go do their thing."

"getting some of our best guys back.

It makes getting a year or two years of experience under your belt makes it better for us."

Leading the charge to spread the ball around to those guys is junior quarterback and field general, tanner bailey.

"tanner is a great guy.

He's great to be around.

Definitely going to do big things this year.

The offensive line is definitely going to block for him."

Keeping bailey upright will be an offensive line that'll feature 4 new faces starting, but the team is confident that they have what it takes to dominate up front.

"we always say with whatever we're doing we'll have new faces all the time but the standard never changes and it doesn't change right now.

We're going to be the best that we possibly be and dominate our space every single day."

"where we are now i think they're in a really good position.

I got full faith in them, and they have full faith in me.

I think they have full faith in me.

Everyone has faith in each other.

It's just a brotherhood.

It really is so i'm really excited to see what we do this year."

The green wave believe the chemistry they've developed on and off the field is going to be key in their success.

"the chemistry in the locker room is great.

We love on each other, but when we come out here, we know it's business.

It's a great group.

I'm glad to be a part of it."

"off the field, on the field, we all hangout.

Everyday.

We all grew up together."

"every time we call each other at night we just tell us what we got.

We look at film.

We watch film every night so that's why we just keep on doing what we got to do."

All of gordo's hard work will be on full display with a home opener against oakman august 21st.

With the green wave on the high school football tour, chris bolton, wcbi sports.

Here's a look at the upcoming stops for any stops that you may have missed along the way you can always check out our website, wcbi.com last look stinger last look i sent this out we've been advertising this the last couple of days in the northwestern sky early in the evening below the big dipper you may be of the cnl the next couple of nightw earlier from west alabama to let the little guy that is not whether semi- forecast you got some misfiring storms possible tomorrow now libraries make it through the weekend but it will be high and he would we know that scott calling to now i recently i read prepare for the