WCBI New at Ten - 05/07/2020

WCBI New at Ten - 05/07/2020

Thanks for staying up with us tonight..

Columbus police release video of an incident that led to an officer's suspension.

"they say he is slow.

I said well, he better speed him up on how to take care of that dog when he come out that door.

He let him come out that door.

And he's just standing right there looking all crazy.

Are you good?

Yeah, i'm good.

I told him i would shoot that mf'er."

That's cpl tabertha hardin describing an incident with a dog and a young boy after answering a call in east columbus back in february.

This is hardin's body camera footage, obtained through a freedom of information request.

You see the dog come toward her and hardin falls to the ground.

Later she says she kicked the dog before it went back in the house.

Hardin can also be heard saying she would shoot the dog.

A city spokesperson says the officer belittled the teen and cursed at him.

Mayor robert smith broke a tie tuesday night to suspend hardin three days for the incident.

Wipe to vo columbus police arrest five people today in connection with a carjacking and armed robbery.

Keyonta macon, j.r.

Edwards, monroe richards, montevias williams are all charged with armed robbery and armed carjacking.

Velncia taylor is charged with hindering prosecution.

A mugshot of macon was not available today.

All five suspects remain in jail tonight.

A stolen truck was crashed into friendship missionary baptist church early wednesday morning.

Columbus police chief fred shelton says the four male suspects got into the victim's truck at walmart on tuesday night.

Investigators believe during the ride a gun was pulled and money demanded from the victim.

The victim was later dropped off and the truck was taken.

Police spotted the stolen truck and gave chase before it crashed.

Take developing story stinger we have new developments tonight in the week long fight over mississippi's share of the federal cares act money.

The legislature will basically move forward as planned.

But lawmakers and the governor have found some common ground--including a desire to get relief to small businesses.

A week of back and forth is seemingly coming to an end.

"mississippians don't need to see their political leaders fighting in the middle of this crisis."

Governor tate reeves invited lt.

Governor hosemann and speaker philip gunn to his home wednesday where they found some common ground.

"the conclusion that we have reached is that the legislature will appropriate dollars in conjunction with the governor administrating those dollars."

So, what about that bill passed last friday where the legislature was asserting spending authority for the 1.25 billion in federal cares act dollars?

"at his request, we are going to hold the bill we currently have before the mississippi legislature.

I'm going to ask my senators to hold that bill for a few days as the governor said.

And the purpose of that is for us to reach an agreement on going forward on the plan.

While we may be holding that bill, we're not holding our work."

Reeves says he'll be closely involved in the process and for now---he thinks this is the best path forward---adding he's never cared who had control but rather the speed of getting the money out.

"what i say to the people back home is given where we find ourselves today, thursday, i have made a determination that the best way, at this time, to get money to the people who need it is to make the decision that i made yesterday to reach out to the lieutenant governor and the speaker and find a solution."

Caj wcbi news first look stinger first look summary: areas of rain and embedded thunder will push across the region friday with a cold front.

This will be our only chance of rain over the next week.

Unseasonably cool air will stick around through next tuesday.

New record lows are possible saturday morning and sunday morning.

Thursday night: increasing clouds and milder.

Lows in the low to mid 50s.

A few showers are possible late.

Friday: mostly cloudy with areas of rain.

Some thunder is also possible but no strong or severe weather is expected.

Rainfall during the day may range from 1/3" to 1 1/2".

Highs top out in the upper 60s.

Southerly winds will become breezy between 10 and 25 mph, northwesterly in the afternoon.

Gusts may be between 30 and 40 mph.

Take vo in monitor their buildings may be closed to little readers, but children's librarians at the starkville and columbus-lowndes public libraries haven't forgotten the kids.

Stephanie poole has more on how summer programs are going high- tech to reach those budding bookworms..

Donut open- reading is such a fundamental part of every child's development.

That's why local libraries are connecting with students to make sure they don't fall behind.

Loraine walker is a childrens librarian for starkville public library.

She says her department has created a virtual reading program.

" so many things are up in the air for the kids schools, just their regular things are not available and things are different.

I wanted to be a constant for them."

Walker says after each video, families can select literacy exercises,arts and crafts,and other activities based on the daily story.

" it's a fun thing that can keep them involved.

So every day when they do that they're involved with more than just watching something.

And they can interact with their library friends also."

Tori hopper with columbus-lowndes public library says their reading program follows a similar model, except they're using a website called "beanstack."

"they can just go ahead and do some activities that are educational depending on their age group.

Then we can log their reading minutes based on the badges that they earned.

And we'll be providing paper options for those who can't access the internet at home."

Hopper says participants can listen to stories and log the number of books they've read.

" it's an avenue for them to keep reading and to keep exposing themselves to educational opportunities that they already been doing inside the safety of their own homes and away from large groups of people.

We're just trying to continue that opportunity for them in a new and inventive way."

And hopefully students will learn effectively using the virtual program.

" i'll do anything for my kids.

Anything to make it fun for them and more fun for them to watch."

Donut close- hopper and walker says families can find activities for their children on their facebook page and library website.

Reporting in lowndes county, stephanie poole, wcbi news.

Take vo in monitor the beanstack website will launch in a few weeks.

Some of the activities offer free prizes for readers..

Take vo off top pontotoc high school seniors are enjoying some graduation traditions, in spite of covid 19.

The school district brought in a photographer to make cap and gown photos for the class of 2020.

Teachers and administrators have worked hard getting everything ready - even steaming all of the gowns..

Seniors and their parents say they appreciate the extra efforts.

"i'm very grateful because some people just got all their stuff canceled and they didn't get to go through it and but they are giving us an opportunity to actually go to it, even though it might not be the way we wanted to do it."

"i'm just excited to graduate and see what the future holds and i'm thankful for my school district for allowing us this opportunity" the district is planning graduation week activities for nest week.

A noxubee county church is going outside its walls to help the community// second baptist church in brooksville is serving up grab and go meals// pastor roderick chandler says the sack lunches are for students in grades k through 12.

But anyone who needs a meal will be provided one// members have given out about 100 meals a day// everybody knows brooksville is a very, very small community and the school did all they could.

So, i felt like the church, it was time for the church to do something.

With this church being right the center of the community, i decided with my leadership and my ministry that we have going on, we can try to reach others by giving back to the community.

Lunch will be available again tomorrow from 10:45 until noon// stinger wx open summary: areas of rain and embedded thunder will push across the region friday with a cold front.

This will be our only chance of rain over the next week.

Unseasonably cool air will stick around through next tuesday.

New record lows are possible saturday morning and sunday morning.

Thursday night: increasing clouds and milder.

Lows in the low to mid 50s.

A few showers are possible late.

Friday: mostly cloudy with areas of rain.

Some thunder is also possible but no strong or severe weather is expected.

Rainfall during the day may range from 1/3" to 1 1/2".

Highs top out in the upper 60s.

Southerly winds will become breezy between 10 and 25 mph, northwesterly in the afternoon.

Gusts may be between 30 and 40 mph.

Friday night: clearing skies.

Lows in the low 40s or upper 30s.

A few new record lows could be established.

Saturday: sunny and cool.

Highs mainly in the mid 60s.

Saturday night: clear and chilly.

Lows in the upper 30s to around 40.

More record lows could be established.

Mother's day: mostly sunny.

Pleasant.

Highs in the low to 70s.

Next week: look for comfortable low 70s monday & tuesday.

A return to the 80s is expected starting wednesday.

It will look and feel more like may by the end of next week.

Summary: areas of rain and embedded thunder will push across the region friday with a cold front.

This will be our only chance of rain over the next week.

Unseasonably cool air will stick around through next tuesday.

New record lows are possible saturday morning and sunday morning.

Thursday night: increasing clouds and milder.

Lows in the low to mid 50s.

A few showers are possible late.

Friday: mostly cloudy with areas of rain.

Some thunder is also possible but no strong or severe weather is expected.

Rainfall during the day may range from 1/3" to 1 1/2".

Highs top out in the upper 60s.

Southerly winds will become breezy between 10 and 25 mph, northwesterly in the afternoon.

Gusts may be between 30 and 40 mph.

Friday night: clearing skies.

Lows in the low 40s or upper 30s.

A few new record lows could be established.

Saturday: sunny and cool.

Highs mainly in the mid 60s.

Saturday night: clear and chilly.

Lows in the upper 30s to around 40.

More record lows could be established.

Mother's day: mostly sunny.

Pleasant.

Highs in the low to 70s.

Next week: look for comfortable low 70s monday & tuesday.

A return to the 80s is expected starting wednesday.

It will interview set let's do this one on the interview set if you you're a fan of wine and california...then get your taste buds ready.

Scott and bobbie are talking wines from santa barbara in tonight's uncorked.

One note about tonight's episode; it was shot before social distancing rules went into effect..

Hello all wine lovers, we're back with bobbie and today we're featuring wines that were made in santa barbara are in the santa barbara area in california and let me tell you, they're all fabulous.

You're going to love them if you don't.

Well, i just i don't know.

So, bobby, we are starting out with a really nice chardonnay.

Santa barbara county.

Yes so we're going to start with presqu'ile.

They actually used to have a house in mississippi.

Really cool.

So we got some mississippi tied to this.

I love it.

Their house was destroyed during hurricane katrina.

You hate to hear that because hurricane katrina, it's still i mean, it's been what, how many years?

Just what 10-12 are trying to think i was 16 when it happened.

So i'm not really good at math.

But anyway, i mean, it's still impacting people.

So yeah, hate to hear that, but they're still making this wine.

Yes and it's very cold climate so they don't use a lot of new oak so it's not super buttery.

It goes really well with food.

It's a very light i really like it.

And this one here is my one of my favorites.

Love you bunches.

I've actually came in to get this wine because it's so good.

Yes nothing says love you bunches like carbonic sangiovese say so so time for idol that peter stolpman and jessica stolpman are growing out, and lompoc, california, and i love their wines.

I went to mission santa barbara and they had a zip line, and that's probably my favorite experience of the whole time.

I'm the only one how did it.

Okay, so if you go anywhere and they have this one, i highly recommend you you give this one because it's really really good.

Alright, so this next wine, we actually a guy that works at this vineyard was here in mississippi and putting on a wine tasting, we got to try some.

This is bien nacido pinot noir.

They also do solomon hills.

It's owned by the miller family.

We had a master sommelier will costello come for our dinner.

And i love the wine.

So just very classic very like we're at the forefront for santa barbara county.

And just for a fun fact tell us how many master sommlier's there are in the us.

There's about 270 and i believe 26 of those are women.

Okay, that is awesome.

That is really awesome and 270 that's not a lot.

It's not last but not least a syrah.

This is made by chad melville.

Melville winery is very family oriented.

I love going to their winery.

I actually got to step on some of the grapes.

This wine paris really well with a rib eye with a fillet.

All right, well, now we may go where to find out right?

All right till next time everyone.

Cheers.

Shingles can be painful and inconvenient, but there are treatments to ease symptoms, and for some people there is even a way to prevent the disease.

Here's more in tonight's health talk with baptist.

No script available stinger mississippi state men's basketball is giving the gift of tournament play this season...more information on that, next in sports spx open take spx full mississippi state men's basketball continues to plan for the upcoming season that all starts with the schedule...per m-su athletics, the bulldogs are set to compete in the holidays hoopsgiving tournament in atlanta the tourney takes place on november 27th and december 12th ben howland's squad will play that december 12th date, a saturday against the dayton flyers the bulldogs are one of five s-e-c teams to compete in the holiday tournament the decemeber quadraple header also features auburn vs memphis, alabama vs clemson, and lsu vs south florida the tournament kicks off on november 27th with a match-up between kentucky and georgia tech broadcast schedules for these games will be released at a later time in juco news....east mississippi community college announcing that cheer and mascot tryouts will be conducted virtually tryouts will run from may 8th through 5 pm on may 15th anyone interested in trying out should send a video submission to cheerleading head coach laura posey at lposey@eastms.co m for cheer tryouts, video submissions should include challenging standing skills, running tumbling passes, and advanced stunts for mascots, video submissions can include video from past sports seasons or an at- home skit more information on tryout guidelines can be found on e-m-c-c athletics website...that's www.emccathletic s.com fans are ready for live sports to start up again ... even if games are closed to the public.

In a survery conducted by e-s-p- n with one thousand people 65 percent said they would watch sports without fans in the stands.

That number rose to 76 percent... when participants were asked if they would watch a game where athletes "were kept in hotels and contact with others was closely monitored."

Live sports games have been canceled for weeks because of the coronavirus... many leagues are now weighing options on how to return as states start to re-open.

One thing that is for certain in the leagues schedule..

N-f-l teams will not play any games outside of u-s this upcoming season.

The league made the announcement monday saying it wants to focus on the well-being of players and personnel.

According to the nfl's website, one game was supposed to be played in mexico city and four games were supposed to be played in london.

The arizona cardinals, atlanta falcons, jacksonville jaguars and miami dolphins were set to be home teams for international series games but now that's not happening.

The n-f-l said it hopes to return to having international games in mexico and the united kingdom last look stinger last look stinger last look stinger last look stinger last look