WCBI New at Six - 09/09/2020

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WCBI New at Six - 09/09/2020

WCBI New at Six - 09/09/2020

Show open show open roll vo in monitor two people continue to recover from gunshot wounds, as columbus police look for a gunman.

Police chief fred shelton says there was an argument that started at a store and then moved to the 100 block of gaylane drive.

The incident happened about 10 pm in the east columbus pm in the east columbus neighborhood.

Shelton says several people were involved in the argument.

Officers are looking for at least one suspect and possibly more.

No arrest has been made.

The people that were shot had non life-threatening injuries.

If you have any information call golden triangle crime stoppers.

Wcbi new at six stinger an aberdeen man who's wanted by several mississippi law enforcement agencies is found in tupelo.

The lee county sheriff's department says it located 22-year- old bruce dilliner earlier today on west garrison street.

Dilliner is wanted for felony offences in pearl.

After the arrest, officers found a stolen 2019 kawasaki dirt bike from tuscaloosa, alabama.

A new 5 by 10 utility trailer and a new hammerhead side by side atv were also seized for evidence and investigative purposes.

Dilliner has a history of felonies including grand larceny, false pretenses, felony taking of a motor vehicle, and identity theft.

Some lee county residents say they should be lounging in the pool, instead they're out thousands of dollars.

Now, 33-year-old scott corley of saltillo is charged with two counts of home repair fraud.

Two homeowners filed reports with the lee county sheriff's department.

One victim claimed to have given corley 16 thousand five hundred dollars to begin working on a swimming pool.

The other victim alleges they paid more than three thousand dollars for pool repairs.

Both say the work was never done.

Some monroe county students escape injury after their bus goes up in flames.

The incident happened about 12:30 this afternoon on cotton gin port road, near amory.

Here's a picture from a wcbi viewer.

The bus was carrying students from smithville school and was returning from the monroe county career and technical education center.

The monroe county sheriff's department and the monroe county school district were unavailable to provide any information about the incident.

Oktibbeha county deputies have been spending a lot of their time over the past several weekends breaking up parities.

Sheriff steve gladney says more than a hundred people at these bashes.

Wcbi's bobby martinez tells us about the latest move to keep more people at home.

It's been an ongoing issue as of late.

Large parties taking place here in oktibbeha county.

And on tuesday, the board of supervisors implemented a strict curfew for the county.

Where citations will be issued for those who disobey.

"the people that live in these communities, they don't want to hear loud music and all that to one or two or 3 o'clock in the morning."

Oktibbeha county sheriff gladney says large parties are also making it difficult for deputies and first responders... if an ambulance, fire truck, or patrol car can't get down the road, they won't be able to help in an emergency.

"we get there and the roads are blocked.

So the deputies have to park and then they have to walk, we can't even go in our vehicles and that becomes an officer safety issue then."

Back in april, oktibbeha county supervisors enforced a month long curfew from 10 p.m.

To 5 a.m.

And gladney is hoping the county will have the same success this time around... and fewer celebrations.

"the people respected the curfew.

We didn't really have a problem then.

You know people understood it was a curfew and most of them abided by it so now i'm hoping the same thing will happen this time."

Currently, the restricted travel hours are from midnight until 4 am.

And for those who disobey this curfew?

"we can issue them a citation for court and the fine i think they said yesterday was up to $200.

And that will depend on what the judge you know fines them with that."

On cam tag gladney says supervisors will meet next monday to see if they will extend this curfew.

Reporting in oktibeeha county..

Bobby martinez wcbi news..

The number of people in mississippi's hospitals with covid symptoms continues to dwindle.

State health officials report 426 new coronavirus cases today, along with 39 deaths.

683 people are in the hospital with confirmed or suspected symptoms...that's the first time that number has been below 700 in months.

185 patients are in i.c.u.

Right now, mississippi is seeing a 13 point two percent hospitalization rate with the people that test positive for the virus.

In our area, lee county has the most new cases with 36.

Lafayette county has 35... prentiss is reporting 15, oktibbeha 14, and union 13.

First look stinger first lookfirst look summary: quiet and summer-like weather continues for the end of the work week.

Some rain and storms are possible during the weekend and early next week as a front stalls in the region.

Wednesday night: mostly clear and quiet.

Lows in the upper 60s.

Light winds.

Thursday: mostly sunny to partly cloudy.

Still warm with highs in the lower 90s.

Winds ne 5-10 mph.

Top lowndes county is lowndes county is no stranger to severe weather, and that's why county leaders are trying to be proactive instead of reactive when it comes to tornados.

The county is installing three storm shelters for city employees incase severe weather strikes while they're on the job.

The new shelters are primarily for workers who work outside.

Ema director cindy lawrence says the county wants to provide a safe working experience for its employees.

"lowndes county is not immune to disaster, you know, several tornadoes... we did have a tornado come through here last year and we just want to be prepared and have our employees a safe place to go in the event we have severe weather."

The three new shelters will be in caledonia, jess lyons road, and crawford.

North mississippians are doing their part to help those impacted by hurricane laura.

As wcbi's allie martin reports, a disaster relief ministry extends its outreach in louisiana, while members of a lee county church return from the hardest-hit area.

Steve metcalf is a volunteer with eight days of hope.

He's been on numerous disaster relief trips with the ministry, but the devastation he's seeing in the wake of hurricane laura is unprecedented.

"i've seen some of the most depressing, devastating wind damage here that i've ever seen on any of the rapid response trips.

It's pretty intense."

The retired pharmacist from north carolina has been on the ground in jennings louisiana, helping teams of volunteers and missionaries.

They assess damage to homes, interview families to see what their needs are, then send out work teams to cut trees, remove debris, and other tasks to help.

Homeowners don't pay a dime for the work.

Metcalf says it is rewarding to see people's reactions and share true hope with storm victims. "we strive to be the hands and feet of jesus, to touch a life, make a difference, demonstrate grace and mercy jesus has given us, flows through us to demonstrate love to them."

Belden baptist church recently organized a relief trip to louisiana, in fact, the lee- itawamba baptist associations disaster relief building, supplies, and trailers are all headquartered at the church.

"people in our world today, they have lost hope, everything, especially with covid-19 and the struggles.

People are hurting and we get to let them know we care about them.

It's more than cleaning up the trees, tell them about jesus, and that we love them."

Doctor shane mcgivney served as the statewide director of disaster relief for the mississippi baptist convention before he became senior pastor at belden baptist.

He says cleanup and relief efforts in louisiana will last for a while.

"they're talking about weeks, to months of getting power back, water treatment facilities down, it's very tough situation, i anticipate mass feeding probably six to eight weeks."

Southern baptist disaster relief teams from across the nation are helping in louisiana.

Allie martin, wcbi news helping in louisiana.

Allie martin, wcbi news mcgivney will organize a relief trip to louisiana with a group from the university of anchorage in mid- october.

Stinger a small act of kindess leads to a bigger chain of events, we take you to ackerman next on wcbi news at six roll vo local police departments rely on their city leaders to determine budgets for the year.

But declining sales tax revenues and a bumpy economy has most towns tightening their belts and cutting their budgets.

It takes funding to keep equipment updated.

And, the ackerman police department has struggled to stretch every dollar.

But as our savannah gaido found out, small donations can make a big impact retailers, law firms, and grocery stores are just a few of the local businesses that have donated to their small town police department "well, we're a small department so small budget so a lot of stuff that we couldnt get for the officers, these donations have been able to get that stuff for them to help the officers out."

With the help of the community, ackerman police chief tim cook says the department is now able to upgrade police uniforms, tools and equipement -- and even add a new copier standup: around 25 businesses have donated to the police department.

But right here at alpha is where the donations started."

Alpha insurance agent dakota brasher says the idea started from talking with the assistant chief martha caradine??

"me and her through conversation thought hey i can help out in any way possible with getting a little money and maybe some other folks will too and it just kind of took off from there."

People have helped.

In just 2 months, the donations jumped from $500 to $5,300 cooks says the genorousity of the community has brought ackerman closer "people jsut supporting the police department and the police, and that gives us an even greater relationship with the public."

"everybody is going to take care of everybody and this is just another deal where you see so many things going on that's negative, and then you come to ackerman where you see the community members giving back to the first responders and the police department and it jsut kind of shows you the representation our city means and what it means to people."

Reporting ?

In ackerman, savannah gaido wcbi news.

And, to share the love - the ackerman police department gives facebook shoutouts to businesses that have given them donations.

Stinger weather open weather open summary: quiet and summer-like weather continues for the end of the work week.

Some rain and storms are possible during the weekend and early next week as a front stalls in the region.

Wednesday night: mostly clear and quiet.

Lows in the upper 60s.

Light winds.

Thursday: mostly sunny to partly cloudy.

Still warm with highs in the lower 90s.

Winds ne 5-10 mph.

Thursday night: staying quiet.

Lows around 70.

Friday: sun & clouds with just a 10% chance of a shower or storm, especially across our southeastern counties.

Highs in the lower 90s.

The weather still looks to be pretty good overall for high school football activities.

Weekend: warm, humid, and summer- like with a 40% chance of showers and storms. highs ranging from the upper 80s to around 90.

Lows in the lower 70s.

Monday & tuesday: a continuing chance of a few showers and storms. highs in the upper 80s to around 90 with lows near 70.

Follow @wcbiweather on facebook, twitter, instagram, and the wcbi news app stinger weather open summary: quiet and summer-like weather continues for the end of the work week.

Some rain and storms are possible during the weekend and early next week as a front stalls in the region.

Wednesday night: mostly clear and quiet.

Lows in the upper 60s.

Light winds.

Thursday: mostly sunny to partly cloudy.

Still warm with highs in the lower 90s.

Winds ne 5-10 mph.

Thursday night: staying quiet.

Lows around 70.

Friday: sun & clouds with just a 10% chance of a shower or storm, especially across our southeastern counties.

Highs in the lower 90s.

The weather still looks to be pretty good overall for high school football activities.

Weekend: warm, humid, and summer- like with a 40% chance of showers and storms. highs ranging from the upper 80s to around 90.

Lows in the lower 70s.

Monday & tuesday: a continuing chance of a few showers and storms. highs in the upper 80s to around 90 with lows near 70.

Follow @wcbiweather on facebook, twitter, instagram, and the wcbi news app stinger ole miss football continues to battle through the rebels coronavirus issues...details on how the rebels have been practicing next in sports spx open summary: quiet and summer-like weather continues for the end of the work week.

Some rain and storms are possible during the weekend and early next week as a front stalls in the region.

Wednesday night: mostly clear and quiet.

Lows in the upper 60s.

Light winds.

Thursday: mostly sunny to partly stinger ole miss football continues to battle through the rebels coronavirus issues...details on how the rebels have been practicing next in sports the countdown to s-e-c kick-off continues mississippi state is just three weeks away from the bulldogs season opener at l-s-u m-s-u working with a lot of new this season first year head coach mike leach is implementing his air raid offense and getting ready to select a starting quarterback and defensive coordinator zach arnett is switching things up on the defensive side of the ball with a 3-3-5 scheme just last season alone, state went from finishing as the 2nd best defense in the country in 2018 to finishing 2019 sitting in the bottom half of the s-e-c according to arnett, his defense still has plenty of room to grow arnett: "teams are going to make some plays but if you're giving up plays that lead to points because you misalign or you're doing the wrong thing, just have a flat out assignment error..those are things that lead to really bad defense and will get you beat in a hurry.

We've got to eliminate those.

When you eliminate those it comes down to are you able to make more plays than the opponent.

Right, they're going to make some plays, you're going to make some plays, who's going to play harder longer come out on top and make the crucial play in the end."

Over in oxford, although ole miss continues to battle covid-19 the rebels continue to practice like any other season while some teams have opted for less contact in practices this season...ole miss is tackling like normal head coach lane kiffin sharing an anecdote in his press conference monday that during his time at usc because of sanctions and limited player numbers his team didn't tackle as much hurting his team in the long run kiffin doesn't plan on making that mistake this season kiffin: "we didn't tackle and didn't do the same practice formats and then we went out and played really poorly that year.

So, we've tackled like we normally do and practiced like we normally do for those reasons.

I mean, it doesn't do any good to stay healthy if we can't tackle on gameday.

We've been doing everything as normal."

It's only right that it's only right that this week's wcbi player of the week goes to the top performer from our game of the week.

Starkville senior quarterback luke altmyer put on a show in the team's season opener against rival west point.

The florida state commit showed why he's ranked as one of the nation's top quarterback recruits throwing for 295 yards and 2 tds.

Altmyer also showcased the legs rushing for 77 yards and a td.

He credits the chemistry he's built with the team during his 4 years as a yellowjacket for the big night!

"we've been in this system for 4 years, and i've been with these guys since junior high ball.

Even the young ninth graders and tenth graders being on scout team.

I've always been with these guys.

After practices in the winter and all summer long, we've been close and always working out together.

Coach said this will be a game you will always remember.

It was a huge statement win.

Coach said before the game this is where legends are made.

Starkville west point is a huge game and i'm so glad we're on the winning side of it."

Altmyer and the yellowjackets take on louisville this friday.

One endzone game of the week down and now it's on to the next one of the best team's in 2a ball, east webster heads to ackerman to face off against choctaw county the wolverines dominated vardaman last week 55-21 earning the number five spot in this weeks mississippi high school football ap poll meanwhile, choctaw county just shying by calhoun city last friday 14-12 looking to make a statement with its home opener we'll be live in ackerman friday getting you ready for all the action ahead of wcbi endzone shelters will be in caledonia, jess lyons road, and crawford.

Lyons road, and crawford.

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