WCBI NEWS AT TEN - 11/16/2020

WCBI NEWS AT TEN - 11/16/2020

Show open show open show open show open ?hospitalizations and icu use are factors that state leaders watch closely.

From the start, the governor has said a key part of the decision making is not allowing the healthcare system to be overwhelmed.

Courtney ann jackson checks on the current status of hospital capacity.

Here's the chart that shows from early march until last tuesday.

The red line represents patients with confirmed covid-19.

You see the spike in late july and early august.

And back to the right...the upward trend in not only hospitalized covid- 19 patients but also those in the icu and on ventilators.

The state health officer making this comment last week.

"be safe because if you get seriously ill, our resources are tapped out."

The state's only trauma center once again feeling that pressure mounting.

"our hospital beds are full.

Our icus are full.

So, if in fact we see more of the covid patients that are coming in and sick covid patients, then what we get into is can we take transfers?

Can we schedule surgeries for our own patients."

"i really think it's going to get bad for quite a while before it gets better with all these numbers we're seeing and how widespread it is around the country and around the world."

The university of mississippi medical center says it's better prepared for another wave.

"we're using those lessons that we learned to make sure that we can kind of ramp up and ramp down when needed as necessary as covid volumes change around us."

Some of the hospitalization numbers could be held to a lower number because they are expecting some antibody treatments to soon be available."

"it's for outpatients only and it's one infusion and we hope that the benefit is to keep them out of the hospital, to keep them from decompensating more so that they require hospitalization."

That antibody treatment will be for those most at risk of covid complications---so those who have underlying conditions or are immunosuppressed.

Governor tate reeves adds several north mississippi counties to a growing mask mandate.

Itawamba, montgomery, pontotoc, and winston are now part of growing lists.

Lee and yalobusha counties are under the same order until december 11th.

Last week, mississippi saw at least three days where more than one thousand new cases were reported.

Reeves uses certain criteria, such as how many cases over a period of time per one thousand people.

Oktibbeha county supervisors vote to extend the county curfew and reinstate the mask mandate.

District 2 supervisor orlando trainer says every meeting the board discusses whether or not to keep the county's curfew-- which right now is from midnight to 4 am.

This meeting, they unanimously chose to keep the curfew in place for another two weeks.

With the holiday season coming up, the board also decided in a 3-2 vote that it was in the best interest of the citizens to reinstate a mask mandate.

Trainer says oktibbeha county's covid-19 case number are lower than other counties, and he attributes those results to the curfew and mask mandate.

25 to 39-year-olds continue to lead the covid-19 case count in mississippi.

Today, that number topped 30 thousand.

The mississippi state department of health is reporting 589 new covid-19 cases and two deaths.

Those deaths occurred in pontotoc and winston counties.

778 people are in hospitals across the state with confirmed or suspected coronavirus symptoms. 185 patients are in i.c.u.

Right now, only 10 point seven percent of infected people need to be hospitalized.

More than 116 thousand people are presumed recovered from covid-19 in mississippi.

This means there are over 14 thousand presumed active cases in the state.

New at 9 stinger goes here a man is in custody and another is on the run after a shooting in west point tonight.

Police chief avery cook says a shots fired call came in just before sundown monday night.

An officer responded to the scene, and that's when a nissan altima with two men inside took off from the scene.

The suspects lead police on a brief chase before they crashed into a nearby house on grove street.

The two suspects attempt to get out of the car and run away.

One man was caught by police.

The other is still on the run.

No one was injured in the shooting.

If you have any information, contact the west point police department.

First look stinger summary: high pressure will keep our region sunny for the rest of the work week.

Seasonable temperatures are in order for the next few days with a gradual warm up heading into the weekend.

The next chance of rain looks like it'll be either late sunday or monday.

Monday night: clear, quiet, and chilly.

Lows mainly in the 30s.

Light wind.

Tuesday: sunny.

Breezy nw winds 10-15 mph.

Highs in the low to mid 60s.

Columbus firefighters rescue a man from a burning home.

The fire happened happened about 3- 15 this afternoon on miller lane.

Assistant fire chief duane hughes says the man was found in the back of the home.

The victim was taken to baptist golden triangle with smoke inhalation issues.

An investigation is underway to determine a cause of the fire.

Off top monroe county investigators believe remains found sunday are the body of a man missing since july.

Deputies recovered the remains in the woods - about a half mile from mike brown's home in bigbee/cason community.

Brown was reported missing on july 9th.

This is an image of investigators and deputies as the state crime lab prepared the scene for processing.

Monroe county sheriff kevin crook says the investigation into the case continues.

The remains have been sent to the state medical examiners office.

Vo off top a columbus man is still missing.

It's been 4 months since 39 year old james ryan taylor disappeared.

Taylor has been missing since july 14.

And according his mother laura taylor..

He stopped by her house on plymouth road in columbus to visit that night.

Laura says to her it was just a normal time with her son as they ate dinner and spent time together.

Taylor's mother says there have been numerous leads.

But she says the leads have so far not panned out for investigators.

Vo off top a teenager charged with manslaughter in aberdeen is out on bond today.

18-year-old amyia verner of hamilton was charged with manslaughter after allegedly shooting 26-year- old robert jackson of aberdeen.

Jackson died at the scene from the gunshot wound.

Aberdeen police chief henry randle says bond for verner was set at one hundred thousand dollars.

The shooting happened at southview apartments on november 10th.

Investigators believe verner and jackson were playing with a gun they thought was unloaded when it fired.

Randle says this is a sad situation for the families involved.

111620-vo mooreville middle and high schools received the first round of new chromebooks today.

These chromebooks became available after the mississippi legislature passed the equity in distance learning act at the beginning of the year.

This bill allows for the use of millions of dollars in federal covid-19 funds.

More chromebooks are scheduled to be delivered to other schools in the lee county school district later this week.

The roadmap to move the confederate monument from the lowndes county courthouse is becoming clearer.

County supervisors discussed the move this morning at their meeting.

The mississippi department of archives and history is requiring the county to catalog the demolition of the monument and have an archeologist on site during the rebuilding process.

The county has the approval to move forward but needed more information about the requirements for a permit.

One of the next steps in the process will be to solicit quotes.

Supervisors voted earlier this year to move the monument to friendship cemetery.

Stinger wx open summary: high pressure will keep our region sunny for the rest of the work week.

Seasonable temperatures are in order for the next few days with a gradual warm up heading into the weekend.

The next chance of rain looks like it'll be either late sunday or monday.

Monday night: clear, quiet, and chilly.

Lows mainly in the 30s.

Light wind.

Tuesday: sunny.

Breezy nw winds 10-15 mph.

Highs in the low to mid 60s.

Tuesday night: clear and chilly.

Lows in the mid to low 30s.

Wednesday & thursday: sunny.

Highs in the mid 60s.

Lows in the 30s and 40s.

Friday & saturday: sunny to mostly sunny.

Highs from the upper 60s to lower 70s.

Lows in the 40s and lower 50s.

Weather looks great for football once again.

Sunday: variably cloudy.

Highs in the 70s.

A chance for late day and evening rain.

Thanksgiving week: the weather pattern could become more active for our region with several cold fronts/disturbanc es that could give rise to rain and storms. some severe weather can't be ruled out.

We'll keep watching.

Follow @wcbiweather on facebook, twitter, instagram, and the wcbi news app stinger summary: high pressure will keep our region sunny for the rest of the work week.

Seasonable temperatures are in order for the next few days with a gradual warm up heading into the weekend.

The next chance of rain looks like it'll be either late sunday or monday.

Monday night: clear, quiet, and chilly.

Lows mainly in the 30s.

Light wind.

Tuesday: sunny.

Breezy nw winds 10-15 mph.

Highs in the low to mid 60s.

Tuesday night: clear and chilly.

Lows in the mid to low 30s.

Wednesday & thursday: sunny.

Highs in the mid 60s.

Lows in the 30s and 40s.

Friday & saturday: sunny to mostly sunny.

Highs from the upper 60s to lower 70s.

Lows in the 40s and lower 50s.

Weather looks great for football once again.

Sunday: variably cloudy.

Highs in the 70s.

A chance for late day and evening rain.

Thanksgiving week: the weather pattern could become more active for our region with several cold fronts/disturbanc es that could give rise to rain and storms. some severe weather can't be ruled out.

We'll keep watching.

Follow @wcbiweather on facebook, twitter, instagram, and the wcbi news app stinger we're coming up on the anniversary of the great american smoke out.... coming up... health risks associated with nicotine.

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No script billboard attached stinger the rebels matchup with texas a&m has been postponed due to covid-19..

Next in sports what the next few weeks will look like for ole miss... spx open after last week's matchup with vanderbilt was postponed due to passing the threshold of positive covid-19 cases....mississippi state football is back... this weekend... for now..

Mike leach's crew will travel to athens to take on 13th ranked georgia... he says the uncertainty this year has been tough leach: the distractions have been very frustrating for everyone.

We have tried to practice and lock in there.

Pracrtice has been one of the pleasant reliefs our players have and im sure that has been the case around the country.

ááátake mon gfxááá after a dominant offensive performance in saturday's 59-42 win over south carolina... the rebels attempt at ááátake mon gfxááá after a dominant offensive performance in saturday's 59-42 win over south carolina... the rebels attempt at three wins in a row will have to wait... ole miss's matchup with number 5 texas a&m is postponed due to covid-19 the aggies have a high number of players who are quarantining... since texas a&m already rescheduled its game against tennessee for dec.

12, the league will look for other opportunities to play the ole miss game, including dec.

19, provided that the aggies are not competing in the sec championship game that day... this will be the rebels second off week in a four week span 00-05 :14-:19 kiffin says: when you're playing well you want to keep playing.

Two- game winning streak, i wish we were still playing but same as we did with elijah we'll just find ways to get better.

Carter says: last four weeks here will be very fluid.

There are some games that will be moved around potentially based on covid.

The thought is we don't want to have two teams who are at home healthy not playing if we can have someone playing that game we will want to do that.

One of the best high school one of the best high school baseball players in the state is planning to stay nearby.

Heritage academy senior infielder aaron downs signed with mississippi state today.

The five tool star athlete is one of the best high school pro prospects in the country and may not step onto dudy noble field but today, downs celebrates his commitment to the bulldogs.

After breaking his fibula and dislocating his ankle last season playing football, downs is extremely thankful for this day..... "i was thinking about it this morning how a year ago today, i was in my bed with a cast on my leg after having surgery.

I had a big football injury.

I was thinking my dreams were starting to go away.

I just kept going, kept going looking for god.

You just keep pushing forward and dreams come true."

"his power and his speed to me standout.

When a kid his size that can run as fast as he can and the power he has at the plate all stands out.

The ball just sounds different off his bat when he hits the ball."

Congrats to aaron and the heritage academy baseball congrats to aaron and the heritage academy baseball family on the special day.

High school football playoffs are in full swing... week 11 of endzone did not disappoint... let's take a look at the top 5 plays number 5 let's head to winona... early on darius townsend gets all the way to the outside and turns on the jets for the 40-yard touchdown... they'll take on amory this week in the playoffs..

Number 4... heritage academy and adams christian... jonathan peal reading this route all the way through... coming up with the interception..

The patriots fell though in overtime 22-20 number 3... tcps put up 62 points friday... but one of their defensive plays makes the cut... tucker higgins picks off emmitt bell's pass..

Tupelo christian will take on biggersville this week number two... choctaw county against amory... connor jewell's pass is tipped and picked off by jakobey cope he takes it to the house... huge momentum swing for the panthers right there and they defeated the chargers 27-26 to move on... our number one play of the week... nanih waiya hosting myrtle..

Opening kick tyquan mccully putting the moves on!

He is certainly shifty... making a few cuts along the way and returning this one 64 yards to the house... warriors got the win 45-8 still to come..

Chief meteorologist keith gibson returns with tonights last look.

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