Good afternoon I’m 41 meteorologist Kim Adams the national weather service has issued a winter weather advisory I’ll tell you what that means for your morning commute tomorrow coming up also first at four Local District faces a big restructuring that includes closing some schools parents have a chance to ask questions tonight and
Bernie is live for us covering Michigan football Bernie National Championship tonight Karen Michigan against University of Washington Michigan favor by 5 and A2 we’ll tell you all about it coming up live from downtown Detroit Local 4 News first at 4 Starts Now good afternoon everybody I’m Karen drew first
At 4 we’ve escaped the wrath of winter for weeks now but that could change overnight and impact your morning drive here is a live look at the Detroit Riverfront right now it’s quiet this afternoon but a winter weather advisory goes into effect 12 hours from now forward meteorologist Kim Adams is
Standing by with her first look ahead Kim what’s in store well you know this wouldn’t be as big of a deal if it didn’t hit right during the morning commute and that’s what’s going to happen tomorrow as we expected winter weather advisory has been issued for all of Southeast lower Michigan from 4:00
A.m. until 11:00 a.m. Tuesday so right during the heart of the morning commute we’ll get a very wet and heavy snow could total up to a few inches and then in the afternoon all of it washes away with some heavy rain right now if you don’t like driving in rain and snow
You’ve got a few hours to get out and get things done as it will be dry for the rest of the evening Detroit’s at 34 H 33 35 in Pontiac and low 30s in Adrian clouds and radar dry here now but here comes that snow down to our Southwest
And some rain we’ll talk more about the timing of it coming up in a few minutes all right thanks Kim are big story we’re just hours away for the National Championship Game for college football University of Michigan fans have got to be really excited here’s a quick look at
The countdown clock right now the Wolverines face off against the Washington huskys at 7:30 tonight both are putting their perfect seasons on the line the big game is in Houston Texas which is getting some nasty weather of its own right now let’s take a live look luckily of course Houston’s Energy
Stadium is an indoor venue so the weather won’t be a factor during the game Bernie smilovitz is inside the stadium to set the scene for the biggest college game of the year so tell us about the vibe and how things look right now Bernie this is going to really get
Vibing up here shortly because the place is empty now they’re just playing music but there’s a lot of media the marching bands of both teams are here and soon they’ll start letting the fans in and that’s when this place will start rocking National Championship tonight they’ll kick off at 7:45 Michigan 5 and
A half Point favorites as I said earlier over the University of Washington both teams are 14-0 great matchup two great teams the two best teams in college football so this should be a terrific evening Karen not sure if you can hear me Bernie obviously you know they come in with
These two strong records everyone’s looking at their quarterbacks obviously to see how they’re going to pull this through what are your thoughts on that well Michael penx for the University of Washington is a terrific quarterback will be one of the top picks in the NFL draft used to play at Indiana
And then transferred over to Washington for this year and he has led them to this game he is terrific for Michigan JJ McCarthy has also been terrific uh a big part for JJ McCarthy is his running attack and his legs and he h he’s able to keep drives alive for Michigan so
Quarterbacks will play a huge role here tonight and the defenses will play a huge role WID defense can shut down the other team’s quarterback that will be a huge key I know you’ve been there for a bit talk to me about fans are we seeing
A wave of uh blue or what are we seeing out there in terms of who’s showing up Maze and blue Maze and blue everywhere I don’t see as many Washington people here but we we were at the team Hotel this morning and there is a boatload and I do mean a boatload of
Fans that are just outside Milling around wherever you go in the town you see the Block M on everyone’s hat or on their shirt so yeah Michigan well represented uh they travel really well also you saw the rose bow last week they had a tremendous contingent out there so
I’m expecting the same thing here tonight ticket price is very steep extremely uh heavy if you want to get into to see this thing but uh I think Michigan fans uh will pay whatever it takes to be a part of this they sure will all right Bernie we appreciate it
We’ll check back with you a little bit later our coverage continues B Beyond five and six Bernie will be back again with Hobie artig for our special pregame show live from Houston Chase for the championship will include player interviews and also those Super Fan stories you don’t want to miss the
Special kicks off at 6:30 tonight of course Michigan football isn’t the only big Sports story in town the Detroit Lions will be hosting a playoff game and just just six days to Mark the occasion the city has Decked Out The Spirit of Detroit in a lions jersey Detroit will
Play the Los Angeles Rams Sunday night at Ford Field it is the first playoff game at that stadium and brings the return of former lion Matthew Stafford now the quarterback for the Rams you can watch the game right here on Local 4 next Sunday night in other news the
Taylor school district will be focusing on a really big restructuring plan that’s going to go on tonight at a special meeting after announcing plans for some schools to close last month the board revealed severe budget issues that it blamed on the previous administration also laid out a series of proposals to
Solve the problem including closing Eureka Heights Elementary School at the end of the current school year a series of wider changes will also involve shifting School boundary lines the community can ask questions tonight at the Taylor Board of Education on Northline Road in person or via Zoom the meeting starts at
6:00 late today we received a sad update on the shooting of an 11-year-old boy on Detroit’s East Side Detroit police just telling us the child has died after being shot in what appears to be totally random gunfire happened over on beaconfield about 7:30 Sunday evening told a group of kids were outside just
Roller skating police say people in a vehicle drove past those children stopped and open fire on them police say the children had no interaction with those in the vehicle that 11-year-old was hit police are now asking for the Public’s help to find those responsible if you can help in this case please give
Them a call deadly fire is under investigation this afternoon over in an arbor so far authorities are not sharing much information we are told the fire broke out at Baker Commons over on Packard the Flames were spotted on the second floor shortly after 2:00 this morning officials on the scene tell us a
Woman died but her age isn’t known we’re monitoring the investigation and we’ll bring you updates as we learn more so some new evidence has been found in that airplane blowout that terrified passengers on board an Alaskan Airlines flight that still managed to land safely meantime the FAA says Boeing’s 737 max9
Will remain grounded Kimberly Gill in The Newsroom with the latest on the investigation Kim hi Karen good afternoon for anybody who flies this kind of story might really make you a bit nervous by now you’ve probably heard about the door plug that blew off the side of an Alaska Airlines jet at 16,000
Ft this happened back on Friday this morning we learned part of the plane was recovered a teacher in Portland Oregon contacted the NTSB after he found the wreckage in his backyard the plane was flying from Portland to California when the plug blew out causing oxygen masks to deploy and sucking headrests and
Other items through that hole several guests on the plane were injured but have been cleared after receiving medical attention investigators have revealed some of the critical cockpit audio recordings have been lost because of a device setting we’ve also learned this particular plane had a pressurization warning light come on
Three times in the past month and was not allowed to fly to Hawaii in case it needed to land quickly it’s not clear if the incidents are related meanwhile passengers continue to share their stories some of them with NBC Nightly News yeah those first few moments were disorienting alarm
Terrifying um you know and then the moments that followed the kind of that kind of pressure and anxiety and those fears kind of bubbled up even more um yeah I was starting to text my my girlfriend my my mom my other loved ones and um didn’t know if I was going to
Make it on the other side how scary luckily the two seats right next to that door plug where it happened those two seats happened to be empty during all this but each seat had their headrests torn off and the back of one seat is completely gone the crew is being
Credited with their incredible actions to land the plane safety Karen we’ll keep you posted as the investigation continues what a story all right thank you Kim sure
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