you're watching Fox 17 news this morning your code red station if it's going on we're going to be there well it's a new day in the search for Riley strain the Coalition of outof State volunteers pitching in as as his family is now pushing for more updates plus new information this morning about the Covenant School shooters writings why they could soon be made open to the public waking up warm very nice this afternoon clouds creeping in and rain before the weekend we're timing it in your code red
forecast all right thank you Greg and thank you for watching here on Fox 17 news this morning welcome in it's a Thursday morning just after 4:00 a.m. I'm Justin McFarland we're going to begin with the non-stop search for Riley strain it continues on right now yesterday Crews were searching the waterways in chetam county for that missing University of Missouri student they focus in on an area around the cheetah Dam Riley's father says that after several days of somewhat frustrating searches with
Metro Police he is glad that more help is here it's a whole lot more resources than what we've had so far um of course I wish that this could have happened a week ago it takes time to get this stuff in place these people have been so good to come out and help us uh we're tired we're real tired so some fresh people coming in has has really helped well aside from the searches on the water the United Cajun Navy is also helping coordinate land searches for the uh Riverbank there along the Cumberlan
d which is very difficult to get access to well at this point detectives tell us that they are going to continue to filter through all the different tips that they're getting and all the leads out there they're also going to be doing some ravening of that area where Riley went missing they're also going to be talking to some of the people in the homeless camps as well we will have a complete live report on the search for Riley strain starting on Fox 17 news this morning around 7 o' we do have co
ntinuing coverage on another missing young person this one in SAR County we're talking about the teenager Sebastian Rogers the TBI says they are continuously going over surveillance video from the neighbors businesses so far there are no new details tells about where Sebastian might be Sebastian Rogers disappeared from his home in the shackle Island community back on February 26th waking up here looking at our forecast a little different than yesterday cloud cover going to increase throughout to
day the big three things to know heading into the weekend is that cloud cover will take over today and tomorrow we'll get it out of here in time for the weekend rain will move in after Sunset I've changed the timing and I've also changed how much we're going to get between now and the upcoming Saturday and Sunday for our weekend no storms expected but about a/ inch worth of rain will come in little doses on and off taking a look sunset's getting better and better we're stretching out that daylig
ht every single day and by tomorrow we'll have a 700 p.m. sunset for the first time since September 11th of last year it's been a while since we've been seeing that clock turn over and the sun still is not below the Horizon as far as today goes great day again to get outside for lunchtime you might see clouds increasing as I mentioned don't worry about rain today those clouds will do nothing but filter Sunshine a little bit 54° at 11:00 58 at noon and 62° will be your temperature at 1:00 now wit
h these temperatures we're going to have a little bit of a wind increase today and tomorrow as well that wind brings in the rain that we have going into tomorrow we're going to track that next check of your Cod red forecast and about 6 minutes from right now we work you into the upcoming weekend steer clear traffic out there for you this morning at 404 quick look here at I24 this is at Hickory Hollow Parkway as you make that drive in around the Antioch area things are looking very sharp out ther
e this morning no big problems that we've seen so far out there on the roads of course things are subject to change but right now if you're going to the airport things also looking really nicely I40 there at the Dallas and Pike exit uh there near BNA no big problems on the ground or even in the sky no delays so far over there at BNA either new details this morning in the federal lawsuit against the FBI die to release the Covenant Shooters writings to the public it comes almost a year after the T
ennessee Star newspaper sued the bureau now the federal judge is ordering the FBI to turn over the shootings writings of the shooters writings rather to the court now a judge will review those writings and determine if they should be released or not the Tennessee star previously sued the Metro Nashville government for not releasing the manifesto before taking it to the federal level what do you think that difference is between suing Metro versus you know FBI at first I thought we would be more l
ikely to obtain the documents in state proceedings but uh there are a number of parties uh who do not want those documents revealed and have taken uh the legal actions to impede its release and again I think that is contrary to the public public interest well the FBI tells Fox 17 they do not have any comment at this time next week marks one year since the deadly shootings at the Covenant [Music] School the Murray County shar's Office says a confirmed gang member is behind barns this morning we'r
e taking a closer look at the drug raid that landed him in jail providing you the information needed to prepare and stay safe Fox 17 news your code red station alerts empowers [Music] protects 4:08 is the time here on this Thursday morning Murray County deputies say that a gang member with a long criminal record is now back behind bars they say that you're watching James Rucker walk into his home just last week now minutes later deputies from Murray Williamson as well as the TBI agents they all
pulled up and swarmed that home they were executing a search warrant now that spot Shadow you see at the top of your screen is James Rucker running out of the back door of that home deputies say they found large amounts of cocaine meth ecstasy pot and around $47,000 of cash inside the home they also caught up with Rucker he's now facing a long list of charges [Music] once the longtime home to the bean Automotive dealership on Broadway it's getting a brand new look that will feature condos busine
sses and a lot more Fox 17 news Karen agalar live at the site along Broadway to tell us about the latest mix use development [Music] Karen good morning Justin well I'm right on mcgavic street across Bean automotive and right behind me you can see that there's construction for the the new development gbt realy and Monarch alternative Capital are moving closer to transforming the former Bean Automotive dealership into a multi-tower mix use development called Mid City from documents we obtained on
their plans take a look at the renderings the empty lot you just saw will look just like this it's a bird eyes view featuring a main street that will go towards a pavilion the approximate location is by Broadway and I40 and I65 phase one includes a Podium a garage and Towers a state M by JT Martin senior vice president at CBRE says in part quote it should be noted that any density figures included in these filings are preliminary and may not be reflected of final plans we're all very excited for
the transformative potential of this site and the project team is working diligently to deliver a vision that perfectly reflects the needs of Nashville this new development will likely bring more Revenue to the Music City along with tourists reporting live in downtown Karen aglar fox7 news your Cod red station here we are closing on 4:11 this morning and taking a look ahead to what we're tracking next this is not today but late tonight into tomorrow morning we've kind of shifted our timeline fo
r some rain which is actually good for all of today but here's what we're working through a few showers that will start after sunset tonight and we're talking one or two on the radar here leading into tonight steud of rainfall Moves In for Friday kind of In Pockets think rain for an hour or two nice break rain for an hour or two and nice break that'll be what we go through but about a half inch of rain is possible by Saturday no storms no severe weather grab the umbrella all day because we can't
exactly pinpoint every single neighborhood where that rain is going to be for those Pockets that do move in but here's the overall broad scope of everything taking a look Future track today looks good A little bit cloudier this afternoon then yesterday with the morning starting off fairly On the Sunny Side take a look here Future Track 4m. timing has not changed but how many showers we see that that has gone down a little bit taking this through 10: p.m. and then going into the overnight couple
little specs in the radar tomorrow morning looking much drier than it did even 24 hours ago and in the afternoon a few more showers we'll move in I got nothing to worry about just have that umbrella handy coming up I'll look at your 7-day forecast and we'll plan your weekend in a few minutes Justin steer clear traffic this morning and coming up on 412 quick look outside this is going to be I24 Bradley Parkway you make that drive in you can see for yourself how traffic is moving there really nic
ely no problems out there so far this morning of course things will change more more people will jump out there on the road a little bit later this is 65 of Trinity Lane on the North side things also looking really nicely there we're going to take a closer look at some of those Drive times we've got them in the oven they're almost ready we'll pull them out here in just a [Music] few protecting musicians in Tennessee we're going to break down the bill being signed by Governor Lee later today and
the US government could see a brief out of debt so you can start living again we're pus and pasus give us a call today pus and pus with offices in Nashville Clarksville and [Music] Franklin 4:14 is the time happening today Tennessee will become the first state in the nation to pass a law protecting musicians from the impact of artificial intelligence now Governor Bill Lee will be signing the Elvis bill into law today with the hopes of Tennessee setting the stage for the rest of the country to tr
y and follow now the ACT ensures that the likeness voice and image security of music artist plus the name image and likeness is already protected in Tennessee but State leaders are adding the voice to protect creators from AI States across the country that already have what we call a right of publicity law similar to Tennessee but it's not clear if those laws apply to digital replicas and AI uh not every state includes voice which you know why this bill in Tennessee is so important the Elvis act
will be signed into law at noon it's happening at the Roberts Western world that's down on Broadway it goes into effect coming up on July the 1st well despite strong bipartisan agreement the United States could still see a partial government shutdown this weekend supporters probably have enough votes to pass the deal but they might not have enough time Amy tyy takes this report where there's a will we've been very very consistent very adamant that we had to get our government funded we had to g
et the Appropriations process done there's not always a way parts of the federal government could briefly shut down this weekend despite a bipartisan budget deal the issue is time and whether it can overcome hurdles by the end of tomorrow even with bipartisanship it's going to be a tight squeeze to get this funding package passed the deal appears to have enough support to pass eventually it funds parts of the government an earlier package didn't cover there's absolutely no reason for a pointless
and costly shutdown but legislating requires a series of steps with everyone in agreement they go quickly but how often is Congress in total agreement you think you guys should shut it down I do makers who oppose the deal have ways to slow down the process some say they at least want more time to read the legislation you don't even know what's there and what's not in there in the house Expediting with a suspension of the rules requires a super majority in the Senate a speedy unanimous consent v
ote fails if a single person objects point isn't really about the process of whether it's Friday or Saturday or Sunday it's whether or not someone stands up and says the emperor has no clothes the country has no money I m m Kylie reporting well the good news is a brief weekend shutdown would not cause as many issues as a longer one that's because many federal workers already have those days off well a far star is expected to be visible to the naked eye in the near future NASA calls it a once in
a-lifetime Opportunity the star system 3,000 light years from Earth is too dim to see right now but when the Outburst happens it will be about as bright as the Northern Star the Nova outburst it's expected anytime now until September and will last several days before it finally Dems Outburst like this happen roughly once every 80 years Greg robis is here with us uh Greg this is a very rare occurrence the you heard uh once every 80 years do we know where to look or you know I know they said any t
ime so we're still waiting for it to happen I guess you know I'm already Googling so so we'll know and also if if the star is 3,000 light years away the light we're going to see when this burst happens is 3,000 years old so it happened 3,000 years ago the exact light you're seeing came from that star 3,000 years ago so we we're looking for something that's already happened is what you're talking a long long time ago oh I'm going to find where this is at cuz you know you got my interest here uh t
aking a look back home none of that kind of action going on right now but you can definitely see the stars in the sky if you get away from the city of course yeah the city lights kind of always dim our night sky when it comes to Stars the further away you go the better you're going to be but we are starting off good what you wearing today very similar to yesterday any kind of Summer Vibe you got maybe the summer hat you'll need the shades this morning this afternoon a little bit on the cloudier
side but no rain we're not grabbing umbrellas we're not grabbing the rain coat the rain boots that can stay in the closet until tomorrow so getting out the door what are we waking up to here March 21st you're waking up the temperatures that are in the 40s right now they're going to drop a little bit here throughout the morning and I've been stressing this the last week and a half or so because once that time change happens and we pull back the sunrise I should say push the Sun rise forward and t
hen bring also that Sunset a little bit later we do get our cooler temperatures that will settle in for an extra hour or two but we keep it in the 40s all morning long relatively clear now maybe you got a flight this morning someone's coming into town what does this mean at BNA for us another great day 43 then 58 at noon and 65 degrees later this afternoon the increase in cloud cover not going to be a problem not much wind either just checked the flight board and only four flight delays so far a
t BNA none of those are cancellations so always check your flight times but right now nothing big that you have to worry about getting up and getting moving if you're heading to the airport 67° today and tomorrow the rain tomorrow is going to be there and I'm also looking out ahead almost a week toward Tuesday into Wednesday of next week our next chance to hear some rumbles of Thunder will not be until next week but we're going to keep our eyes on that into and out of the upcoming weekend Justin
C clear traffic for you this morning at 420 here's a quick look at what we're dealing with north side of town I 65 at Trinity Lane no problem problem as you get out there this morning if you're making your way down from Rivergate from Madison from all the vills Millersville Goodletsville Hendersonville we're doing just fine here's a look at your overall Drive times right now Mount Juliet at 26 minutes Murphy's Boro 49 minutes Franklin at 25 minutes every single one of these times will be going
up as the morning goes on we got you covered with steer clear traffic live in local through 9ine well the EPA finalized tougher new vehicle emmission standards which are expected to speed up the adoption of electric vehicles now the new rules do not ban new gas cars the way California eventually will instead the new stricter uh instead they will get strictor year after year in an effort to try to encourage automakers to make more EVs and pull down their emissions average now it's all part of the
Biden's administration's goal to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 some Republicans say that Biden's policies are hurting the country's energy industry I think we have to lower the regulations the EPA the regulatory environment that stops the drilling here and drilling now and says we they're they're not even want us to Frack right now in the US and so we're trying to pass legislation that says we allow to frack in the us because we have energy here we can produce it here cheaper well
those that cannot meet the targets can buy buy credits from companies in compliance or be forced to reduce sales of gas powered vehicles we'll see how it plays out but the Tennessee Volunteers play their very first game in the NCAA tournament later tonight we're going to tell you what one key player has to say about their preparations and Wildfire continues to burn of your space try the Airwick way with Airwick essential Mist infused with natural essential oils to fill your moment with immersive
fragrance for up to 45 days now that's a breath of fresh Airwick 424 is the time the Tennessee Volunteers kicking off the NCAA tournament tonight and they're going to need this guy a whole lot back here behind me we're talking about the v's fifth year guard doton connect he was named the SEC player of the year last week and yesterday he was named a finalist for the Luke Olen National player of the year award now connect is averaging over 21 points a game while shooting 46.5% overall the balls w
ill definitely need those numbers tonight as they face off against St Peters the peacocks opening up the tournament now Tennessee is coming off of a very ugly loss in Mississippi State in the opening game of the SEC tournament last week in Nashville connect says they were not aggressive enough and that won't happen again we just weren't there we need to be uh we're we're going to be more competitive especially uh we know it's winner go home and this could be our last game and we definitely don't
want that to have it so we're going to come out ready to fight and be the aggressors the vs number two seed in their particular bracket will tip off against St Peters that game is at 820 St Peters a 15 seed we'll see what happens well The Madness of March has already started for the Vanderbilt Women's Basketball team they were able to come together to get the big win over Colombia commodor back in the tournament for the first time in a decade they barely defeated the Colombia Alliance but they
got it done by four points last night final score 7268 they will take on Baylor tomorrow night firefighters are now battling a wildfire that is burning right now in Virginia's shanadoa National Park the National Park Service says that the fire has burned 100 acres and was only 10% contained the Cause right now is unknown but red flag warnings were issued earlier uh just yesterday officials also implemented a complete fire band yesterday due to the high winds and dry conditions there in the area
again we're talking about Virginia some areas of that National Park are now closed let's talk to grank he's got a look at the local forecast that we do and this is also important back home we haven't had rain in about almost 7 Days leading up to right now this is a map right now where you're waking up and you're kind of getting the salon out of the eyes everywhere that is shaded in Gray is seeing a little bit of smoke in the upper atmosphere from fires somewhere see a lot of little red dots here
those are all active fires a lot of them are small but they are actual active fires whether it's Woodlands or just some areas where we know that they're not completely contained yet do not burn anything until we get towards Saturday that's when we'll have some rain tomorrow we'll get everything a little more on The Damp side and then you'll be good to go today nice just again no burning similar start to yesterday temperatures in the 40s 67° later on this afternoon clouds will build 7:00 p.m. is
the sun set for us your weekend out look Breezy and partly cloudy rain-free a super looking Sunday I've dialed back the temperatures a little bit on your Saturday unfortunately only in the low 60s but still a good day and a little bit on the breezier side if you like it cooler Saturday is your pick if you like it a little on the warmer side Sunday's your pick either way both days look great steer clear traffic out there for you let's get out to the very latest happening on uh your interstates t
hat includes I24 walren road coming in from the L area looking very nice out there so far no big problems no big drama nothing shutting down interstates or holding you up that is certainly great news there are other areas of town to check into including over in West Nashville are the trucks sleeping we've got the details on that coming up here in a few minutes a Midstate equipment operator rescued authorities say he was trapped for more more than half the day we're going to tell you how they eve
ntually got him out it gave me New Hope talk to your cardiologist today visit hcmt talk.com to learn [Music] more you're watching Fox 17 news this morning your code breed station well now on Fox news this morning a teacher is suspended we're going to tell you what the rord County school board says they saw her doing on school cameras waking up this morning here Sunrise right around 7:00 this morning we're in the 40s but we have rain we're tracking in before we get to the weekend the latest timel
ine in your forecast SE clear traffic takes us over to West Nashville that's I40 at White Bridge Road couple of trucks taking a little break we're going to tell you how common this is and other things happening across the Midstate thank you for joining us here on Fox 17 news this morning just after 4:30 I'm Justin McFarland thr to be here with you we're going to get started with news out of rord County this morning that is where a rer county school teacher has been suspended after the board of e
ducation says she was caught on camera forcibly physically contacting two students now the school board voted and says that Emily Roman was seen on camera at the Stewartsboro Elementary School cafeteria grabbing and pulling a student's arm and pushing a student and another physical ax and other physical axe over an 8-minute period of footage now the board voted last night to suspend her for 15 days she was on unpaid suspension before that vote happened a Midstate man is now safe after being resc
ued from a collapsed uh cheer pit this happened down in Murray County now the Murray County Fire Department says they were called to a land uh Landslide on keg Spring Road around 11:00 p.m. on Tuesday that's when they found the operator buried by debris they say he had been trapped for around 12 hours multiple agencies worked to dig that man out we're told he was eventually lifted out of that pit and flown to a local hospital that is where he is now [Music] recovering a new Midtown development i
s breathing new life into what was was once the ban Automotive dealership there on Broadway the dealership had been down there for decades Fox 17 news Karen agalar live on the site right now to tell us about the latest plans for development and what this could mean for that immediate part of the city Karen good morning Justin well the new development will more than likely bring Revenue to the Music City and it's expected to have things like retail stores condos and more take a look at the massiv
e size of that development behind me stretching from 14 Avenue South to 16 Avenue South on Broadway an extremely busy area these renderings give a bird eyes view featuring a main street that will go towards a pavilion we also see towers and the plans say that there will be a ton of trees to bring more life into the mid City development gbt realy and Monarch alternative Capital are responsible for transforming the former Bean Automotive dealership into the multi-tower mix use development called M
id City from documents we have ained a statement by JT Martin senior vice president at CB says in par quote this filing by the project team is a normal administrative Milestone as part of a 12-month process to further Advance the project due to its large scale scope the Redevelopment of the former Beaman Automotive will be executed in phases right now according to the plans it is in its first phase and that phase will include a garage a Podium and as I just mentioned Towers now again these are j
ust plans and are not finalized yet reporting live in downtown Karen aglar Fox 17 news your code red station 433 look at your Cod rad forecast no code rad weather but the three big bullet points here for your weather story waking up this morning get going at a regular Pace weather's not going to mess with you this morning when it turn when it comes to getting out the door and just you know turning the page to the next day we're getting closer and closer to the weekend another great day rain does
take over tomorrow that has not changed all week long we've been watching Friday as the day a little tweak here or there to the the timing and how much we'll see but generally speaking tomorrow's the day to have the umbrella for you weekend preview I've also messed the temperatures a little bit here I've gotten Saturday a little bit cooler and Sunday up near the 70° Mark right now 46° we are crystal clear outside nothing to worry about a look at some more Hometown temperatures the more south we
get the warmer we are the more toward the north we go the cooler we are a few upper 30s are going to be here on the map already one right now in tomkinsville you get out toward Bowling Green and then Hopkinsville we're at 40° Nashville itself is sitting at 46 we're going to aim for 67° this afternoon 700 p.m. is the sunset and I keep stressing this because this is the first time since September 11th of last year that our Sunset will be at 700 p.m. we'll talk about those rain chances and those l
ittle tweaks to the forecast coming up in about five minutes Justin steer clear traffic for you this morning let's get you out to I40 at White Bridge Road this is over in the West Nashville area we got a few trucks over there taking a bit of a break break uh this is a commonplace look that we see as a matter of fact this is not even uh half as many trucks as we normally see over there on i48 White Bridge Road in West Nashville is normally twice as many trucks in this but keep in mind they use th
at wide shoulder for a bit of a break no big problems as you get out there this morning we're looking fine same can be said for I24 this is down in the ruford County area near L beautiful drive to get started this will be a parking lot coming up in a couple of hours so take advantage while you can [Music] happening now a Midstate animal shelter is asking for your help they say right now they're completely full now the Murray County Animal Shelter says that they are bursting at the seams with dog
s especially that they have recently taken in if you're interested in adopting one of these uh furry friends right here you can visit the shelter on map leash Avenue that is down in Colombia now they are they are um open 7 days a week from noon until 5:00 no appointment needed just swing on by and see who you like adoptions are $25 for dogs you can see all the uh animals that are up for adoptions on the shelter website we've got a link right now on our website Fox 17.com well the lineup for this
year's pilgrimage Festival has been released we're going to tell you who you can expect to see down in Franklin for the this year's Music Fest and the cicas are coming oh we're going to tell you which uh broad we're expected to see or brood with 27 competitors this is the biggest Tournament of Champions ever week nights at 5 on Fox 17 4:39 is the time the search does continue this morning for a missing Colombia girl 20 years after she disappeared Amber Elizabeth Kates was 16 years old when she
vanished back in 2004 she would have turned 36 this year she was last seen at her mother's house in Columbia on her way to spend spring break with a relative now the Murray County Sheriff's Office is looking for any information regarding her disappearance anyone with information is asked to call are code 931 375 6601 well we now know the lineup for the 2024 pilgrimage Festival it's a music and cultural Fest happening down there in Franklin now the event celebrates its 10th anniversary this year
the performers for this year includes the Dave Matthews ban along with uh hoser Noah Klein and a lot more Canon and a lot more this year's Festival will be taking over uh the park over at the uh Harlandale at the park at Harlandale on in Franklin coming up on September the 28th and 29th we've got a full list of the performers on our website just search pilgrimage on Fox 17.com all right billions of cicas billions really billions they'll be buzzing around parts of the country very very soon and f
or the first time in more than two 200 years two different types of cicada offsprings will be emerging now the uh brood 19 cicas are expected to spend 13 years uh or they're expected to spring up uh after 13 years the 17-year uh cicas will be also emerging in five different Midwestern states now people in States like uh well Georgia Iowa Kentucky Illinois and okl will be able to see both different types of cicas when they start to emerge coming up in miday until late June here in Tennessee exper
ts say we are likely to see just one type of cicada thankfully let's get to Greg that's a very uh optimistically use thankfully there every year I feel like we're seeing them come up somewhere taking a look here next weather maker not to be a major concern but we have some rain moving in for tomorrow so we'll take a look here at Future Track and you know time out when this moves in really today is fine a little more cloud cover though than we had earlier in the week Creeps in from the north here
this is 4 p.m. 4:00 through 10:00 a few little specks of green on the radar most of us are dry through that time period but if you get some rain it won't last all that long it's overnight into tomorrow everything continues to track in from south to North there will be some decent rainfall that does come down on and off throughout tomorrow but overall the Rainy period of the day tomorrow Trends to be later now and it's not going to be as aggressive or last as long as it looked even 24 hours ago
C clear traffic out there for you this morning let's get a quick look here at what we're dealing with on I40 at 46 Avenue this is over on the west side as you can see traffic there moving along very nicely no big problems in either direction there this morning glad to see we'll be checking in on some other sides of town coming up here very soon but right now you cannot ask for a better drive getting out the door this morning well the FBI says that crime rates are dropping across the United State
s we're going to tell you what the Attorney General says is behind those falling numbers and spring is here which means many of us are looking forward to getting our Gardens for some natural stone how about Black Pearl leather very popular 15% off with this ad slide on down to EUR Stone come see these deals 805 Northwest Broad Street come and see me baby 4:44 is the time of almost 445 according to a new report from the FBI crime rates in the United States are dropping now the new data is from ap
proximately 13,000 law enforcement agencies that police more than 80% of the US the FBI says that crime declined significantly in the fourth quarter of last year in almost every category including murder violent crime and property crime the Attorney General of the United States mayor Garland is crediting the Justice Department's violent crime reduction strategy that was launched in 2021 the FBI will release the final data on 2023 crime coming up in October so we wanted to know what do you think
do you feel like your communities are safer well 91% of the people who have responded so far say no no they don't if you want to chime in for yourself you can do so by scanning that q r code right there on your screen you can also visit us over on our X page you can find us at Fox [Music] Nashville Well Spring is officially here which means some of you are itching to get out there in your home gardens and you're trying to get them up and running Fox 17 co-ed meteorologist Brett Luna spoke with o
ne local farmer about what crops you can safely plant right now and others you may want to wait on a little bit before getting into the ground what started is just a very small roadside stand selling extra stuff out of the family garden has now turned into the 65 acre ler farms in Lebanon this year they're growing Seven Acres of strawberries that'll be handpicked each morning and sold each day it's a beautiful site seeing these bright red fresh strawberries especially with a nice sunset in the b
ackground too and this time of year strawberries is all the top that is that's kind of what kicks off uh middle Tennessee's fresh fruit and vegetable season every year they still got a few weeks or so around April 15th until they start harvesting these berries and as for how long into the season they'll be able to pick for well it really just all depends on the weather but in the meantime they've recently had to deal with some freezing nights the average frost free date for Middle Tennessee is t
ypically April 13th to April 20th that's when historically we'll see our last frost but strawberry plants begin blooming out much earlier than that this year they started blooming around the 1 of March so that leaves about 2 months that they have to be ready to frost protect before the temperatures dropped into the 20s earlier this week they were covering all seven acres of strawberries with two layers of the floating row covers to keep them safe if you're growing a garden at your home and you'r
e trying to catch the season a little early and already have some vegetable plants put out Mitchell says floating row covers are a great thing to have on hand in case we have any more of these freezing cold nights you might want to hold off on putting all your vegetable plants into the ground right now though if you don't have any way to protect them but he says there definitely are some plants that are safe to plant right now right now would be an appropriate time to begin planting your earlier
season crops kale cabbage cauliflower broccoli lettuces any of your cold seasoned crops he says anything like tomatoes summer squash sweet corn watermelons any of the more summer crops you're going to want to wait until those frost free dates so that's going to be after April 13 to 20th or so if you're not prepared to frost protect them Brett Luna Fox 17 news your code red station and uh watch out for the quitters out there as well as we just saw in that last one there uh Greg Bob is is standin
g by with a look at your forecast is today a good day to get out there in the garden yeah if you're following all the protocol we just heard about absolutely nothing to worry about tomorrow not so much but weekend I can see a lot of folks going out and starting to you know get the process going getting the seeds you need getting some of the plants that we can be careful with right now we're beautiful kicking off this morning here no visibility problems temperature are in the 40s right side of yo
ur screen they're there all the way through the morning even through 9:00 a.m. and especially during the commercial breaks cuz we're getting moving all at different times here school day forecast first Bell 44 de that's good after school a little more cloud cover than earlier in the day but no rain when the clouds increase do not worry about a rain threat to today will be in the 60s so after school practice after school games that any of our students might have no problems there leave the rain g
ear at home now wash or weight our lights are all over the place here don't do it today don't do it tomorrow we have rain moving in kind of in droves overnight tonight into tomorrow Saturday absolutely go for it get the car cleaned up look good for the rest of the weekend however there will be some rain middle of next week so it'll be a shortlived car wash but hey if even a couple of days makes you feel a little bit better I would say go for it taking a look what we're watching the next rain mak
er we have two on the 7-day forecast but our first one that does move in overnight tonight into tomorrow scatter showers no severe weather is expected honestly no thunderstorms really even expected here just a weak disturbance in the weather moves in temperatures Hold Steady now they do cool a touch into our Saturday but not to the point to where you're going to notice a big shift what you will notice on Saturday is some wind that moves in 67 degrees today 67 tomorrow 62 degrees on Saturday goes
to 69 on Sunday and then we will have all eyes focused on late Monday and especially into Tuesday of next week so getting out of the weekend that's the next chance for some thunder and lightning in the forecast stair clear traffic this morning let's get you out and about this time let's get started on the North side this is going to be I65 at the Fern Avenue overpass there as you can see for yourself traffic moving along very nicely despite the fact we do have one disabled vehicle over there to
the far right hand side of the traffic uh but other than that we're doing very very nicely as you get out about on the road this is a look at I 24 near Bradley Parkway on the south and east side of town also look at really nice over there we've got the very latest look at your drive times we've got all that and more coming up on fox7 news this morning well spring is here and the CDC says more than a quarter of adults in the United States and nearly one in five children have seasonal allergies n
ow doctors say preparing now can help control them getting on a regiment of nasal sprays and antihistamines and also keeping windows closed especially in the early morning Peak at pentin that is the best way to try to avoid big outbreaks of all that sneezing they say uh trying to get rid of the allergies despite the dust and the dirt and particles in the air that covers the bedroom that could be a big place where the allergies can begin EPA air purifiers work well uh for mold and animal allergie
s but um those air purifiers don't purify everything well doctors also recommend changing your clothes when you get home and taking a shower so that that pollen doesn't come into the bed with you the FAA is now investigating a hot air balloon accident that's happened in Minnesota if you're away from your television come take a look you can see it right here you can see that balloon going down this is what a state traffic camera is showing us here right next to a very busy road around 700 p.m. la
st night that hot air balloon was carrying three people when to crashed into some power lines you'll be able to see it spark here for a few seconds right there before it drops to the ground and catches fire all three people on board that balloon somehow survived with just minor injuries somehow First Responders called it nothing short of a absolute Miracle look at them as they were able to get there I'm not sure we'll have enough time to watch it one more time but you can see the balloon uh get
there we'll uh try to check it out a little bit later but it's uh pretty [Music] wild if you ever wanted to be an astronaut here is your chance we're going to break down the requirements to apply to NASA and Taylor Swift's AAS tour is uh shaking the [Music] [Applause] ground [Music] 4:55 is the time there was no big winner for last night's Powerball jackpot but it's not all bad news although there was no winning ticket for the grand prize 27 lucky players won at least $50,000 each now the power
balls jackpot for Saturday's drawing is now up to an estimated 750 million if you are trying to buy a ticket you may want to get on uh the megail millions as well the jackpot there has grown big time it is now $977 million this is some numbers right there I'm just saying taking a look your weather's not going to slow you down going up maybe if you are getting that one lucky ticket as far as today go starting off with a similar start to yesterday we're in the 40 67 degrees later around this after
noon the only change you'll notice is a little more cloud cover this afternoon than what we had the previous couple of days sunset for us 7:00 p.m. Sunrise right around 7 a.m. no big problems your weekend Outlook we'll go with 62 this is the cooler day now both days are dry I want to stress that you can still make plans but the cooler day of the two will be on your Saturday 69 degrees on your Sunday Rain free for both just a couple of clouds that will be out there on and off and I will also tell
you this that not just Saturday being cooler a little Breezy as as well rain moves in tomorrow tracks out brings a little wind so Sunday is really the better day of the two when it comes to a calmer warmer day let's connect Facebook you can go to twitter.com you can go to Instagram just search any of our names you'll find us right there you can reach out and if you see any good pictures this weekend from any of your first weekend of spring events send them on into to us SE clear traffic for you
this morning at 457 quick look outside this is going to be I24 at uh Old Hickory Boulevard this is out there in Cane Ridge Antioch you can't see it but the Cane Ridge High School is right off screen over to the right side things are moving along really nicely out there so far this morning looks like we've got a little bit of a disabled vehicle there right on the ramp you see those flashing lights there on the shoulder unsure exactly what that is but not uh seeing big backups because of it there
as you get on the roads this is an area that will turn into a parking lot a little bit later but right now we're doing really nicely we'll check in on some other areas of town like near the airport coming up in our 5:00 hour well if you've ever wanted to be an astronaut this could be your chance NASA is now accepting applications for astronauts however there is a long list of requirements among them you got to have a master's degree in a stem field which is science technology engineering or mat
h from an accredited institution in addition applicants must also have a minimum of 3 years of related professional experience and the ability to successfully complete NASA's long duration flight physical now selected astronauts will be joining NASA's emis program which is preparing to land the very first woman and the next man on the moon coming up here in a few years well it is official Taylor Swift concerts are SI MC events a research group measured the effect of 70,000 fans jumping and danci
ng at the Los Angeles show where Swift filmed her uh airs tour movie the team calculated that the strongest trimmer was an equivalent to a magnitude 2 earthquake now they have uh set up their sensors after the report of a Taylor Swift concert in Seattle that caused the equivalent of a 2.3 magnitude earthquake I'm sure some NFL teams are watching going oh yeah watch this coming up here Rock and Roll Hall Of fam rerro Crow is celebrating the release of her 11th studio album with the concert this w
eekend down in Franklin at the Franklin Theater now Crow has two shows planned on the uh 23rd and at uh that's at 7 o'clock and at 8:00 so uh you can find a happening on our website uh on our Facebook page actually Fox Nashville is where you can find it all right almost twoth thirs of fourth graders in the United States struggle to read at grade level that's why Fox 17 and our parent company Sinclair broadcast are partnering up with reading is fundamental to support children's literacy you can s
can the QR code right there at the bottom of the screen to donate to our virtual book drive you're watching Fox 17 news this morning your code red station if it's going on we're going to be there it is a new day in the search for Riley strain a coalition of out of-state volunteers pitching in as his family is pushing for updates plus new information this morning about the Covenant School shooters writings why they could soon be made public and waking up to warm temperatures a little more Cloud c
overed today I've changed timing and how much rain we see leading into the week and I have those changes in your Cod R forecast thank you so much for waking up with us here on a Thursday morning for Fox 17 news I'm Erica Glover and I'm Jennifer wadell glad to be your live local news source through 9:00 a.m. kicking off your Thursday morning here uh we've got the top few headlines you'll want to know about before you walk out the door let's talk about politics President Biden is wrapping up his W
estern tour he did so yesterday he's leaving Dallas though this morning for Houston where he's going to campaign holding a reception early this afternoon he is expected though back at the White House by this evening by has been busy traveling since Tuesday with stats in Nevada Arizona and Texas and New York state lawyers say they don't buy the claims that former president Donald Trump cannot post his bond they are urging an Appel at court right now to reject Mr Trump's request to hold off on col
lecting until an appeal is heard the deadline to post is next week and Reddit is entering a new era as a publicly traded company today the social media platform's initial public offering is going to be set at $34 per share that puts the company's valuation at around $6.4 billion the stock will debut on the New York Stock Exchange with a ticker symbol R DDT 52 you time taking a look three big things taking us into the weekend they've shifted a little bit here even since yesterday morning so here'
s the heads up clouds will increase today do not worry about those clouds they do not bring in any rain at any point until well after sunset for us keep that in mind there will be some showers though after Sunset into tonight but the daylight hour looking good no storms possible with our upcoming weather maker that will bring in some rain primarily for tomorrow we'll get it out of here in time for Saturday and Sunday and a little bump in temperature that we'll look at but tracking that rain for
Friday Keeps Us in the all clear when it comes to any potential code red weather right now we're waking up at 44 degrees and you can see Lower Broadway doing their thing they do every morning getting the construction crews out there getting the beer trucks moving nothing to worry about here to start off your day let's get right to it 67 degrees later around this afternoon 67 tomorrow we're going to track the new time line and also a decrease in how much rain we expect to see for your Friday that
's coming your way on the next check of your code red forecast and then we'll talk about why temperatures have changed a little bit for your weekend Greg thank you so much 503 is the time do want to check in with a disabled vehicle you can see the car lights flashing over there on the right shoulder this is going to be a live look I24 at Old Hickory Boulevard that's the only issue that we're seeing right now okay so just keep that in mind again I24 Old Hickory Boulevard that car pulled over on t
he shoulder with the flashing lights 503 is your time and we have a breaking news update right now the non-stop search for Riley strain will continue today as we get you caught up in what happened yesterday we do know and you can see through our video here that Crews searched the waterways in chetam County for the missing University of Missouri student this is in Ashland City at the area right around the chetam dam strange father says after days of somewhat frustrating search efforts with Metro
Police he's now glad more help is here it's a whole lot more resources than what we've had so far um of course I wish that this could have happened a week ago it takes time to get this stuff in place these people have been so good to come out and help us uh we're tired we're real tired so some fresh people coming in is has really helped oh man now aside from the searches that we saw yesterday on the water the United cinjun Navy is also helping coordinate some crews around the riverbank in Nashvi
lle which is very Steep and hard to access it's worth noting that United Cajun Navy in case you had never heard of them before is not an official or even unofficial branch of the military they are simply a nonprofit volunteer group that goes into uh situations to just try to help people yeah and at this point detectives tell us they're continuing to filter through all the tips and the leads that they get and there's so many we're going to have live reports on the search for Riley strain starting
at 7 o'clock this morning with more of our investigative reporters sharing their updates yeah once that sun comes up we'll be out there with them also new details this morning now in a federal lawsuit against the FBI to release the Covenant Shooters writings publicly this comes nearly a year after the Tennessee star sued the bureau and now a federal judge is ordering the FBI to turn over the shooters writings to the court now that judge will review them and then determine if they should be rele
ased all right so the Tennessee Star had previously sued Metro Nashville government as well for not releasing the manifesto before taking it to the federal level what do you think that difference is between suing Metro versus you know FBI at first I thought we would be more likely to obtain the documents in state proceedings but uh there are a number of parties uh who do not want those documents revealed and have taken uh the legal actions to impede its release and again I think that is contrary
to the public interest all right so that's a representative from the Tennessee star the FBI tells Fox 17 news they don't have a comment right now next week by the way marks one year since the tragedy at the Covenant School where Audrey hail went in and killed three staffers and three students coming up the Murray County Sheriff's Office says a confirmed gang member is behind bars but you got to look at this video M them swarming in on his home W we're going to tell you how this drug raid landed
him in jail code red w [Music] good morning welcome into Fox 17 news this morning time right now 508 watch the video here on the top left of your screen we're going to detail what Murray County deputies went through trying to find a suspected gang member with a long criminal record they get him he's now Behind Bars wow so they say right here is what you're watching James Rucker walk into his home last week but yeah he didn't really get too far minutes later deputies watched this from Murray and
Williamson counties and TBI agents they pulled up and they surrounded his home and went in watch the white circle because that's the guy taking a taking a run for it out of the house that is James Rucker running out the back as soon as he realized everybody was coming in uh Jamie Rucker uh said to have large amounts of cocaine meth ecstasy pot more than $447,000 cash and that white house right there he is now facing a long list of charges I was telling Erica as we were watching the video earlie
r this morning that's a curious angle you know I wonder if they had a a camera mounted on top of one of their units like up on a big Mast to give that kind of a view or if that's from a neighbor's you know house camera or something but really interesting to watch it go down in that way [Music] well the once home to Lee Bean's auto dealership on Broadway is getting a new look that's going to feature condos businesses and a whole lot more yet again we're going to watch the changing face of Nashvil
le Fox 17 news reporter Karen agular joining us live to tell us the details and what this could be bringing to Music City good morning just think of the possibilities with the development this big right here on Broadway a busy part of Nashville behind me you can see that their construction is ongoing and for perspective the development is between Broadway and mcgavic Street gbt realy president CEO said previously in a release that it'll be a Monumental development because it will connect downtow
n to Midtown that will enhance the urban feel of Nashville these are the latest renderings we've obtained the empty lot you just saw will look like this it's a bird eyes view featuring a main street that will go towards a pavilion the approximate location is by I40 and I65 phase one includes a Podium a garage and towers gbt realy and Monarch alternative Capital are responsible for transforming the former Bean Automotive dealership into the multi-tower mixed use development called bid City you mi
ght eventually see condos retail stores and office spaces statement by JT Marton senior vice president at CBRE says in part quote a Class A office space will be a component of what will be a dynamic and worldclass mixed use District CBR is having preliminary conversations with potential offic users he says these plans are preliminary and not yet finalized reporting live in downtown Karen aglar box7 news your code R station Karen thank you so much I can't imagine the traffic though okay it's alre
ady busy over there true that's all I'm saying no you're not I mean that's just Nashville in general right now and people move in they don't know where they're going the whole nine yards taking a look here what we're watching here that I'm going to really hone in on in about eight minutes from right now is today and tomorrow showers move in do not worry about severe weather do not worry about thunderstorm and do not grab the umbrella today this really will be late going into tonight and then tom
orrow where some showers do move in and we might get about a half inch of rain out of this which is very good rain for our upcoming growing and planting season we'll look at Future Track we'll get you into the weekend and talk about a few little fluctuations in temperature coming up in the next check of your forecast Greg thank you Ste your clear traffic time right now really looking good across the Midstate we only had one car that was uh broke down on the side of the road down in Antioch but r
eally not causing a big problem and as we take a live look over by the airport same story looking good not a big traffic backup not a whole lot of volume just yet to kick off your Thursday morning we'll check back in in about 5 minutes just ahead though protecting musicians right here in Middle Tennessee we're breaking down the bill being signed by the governor later today and the US govern slip in pants just slip in and experience Sketcher Innovative Comfort technology fabric Sketchers slip in
pants this Fox 17 this morning newscast is sponsored by Xander insurance well happening today today Tennessee is becoming the first state in the nation to pass a law protecting musicians from the impacts of artificial intelligence we've talked about this in the past we have and it is a big concern for musicians Governor Bill Lee is signing the Elvis bill into law today with the hopes of Tennessee setting the stage for the rest of the country to follow the Elvis act ensures likeness voice and ima
ge security uh name image and likeness already protected in Tennessee but State leaders added the voice portion of this law in order to protect creators from artificial intelligence States across the country that already have what we call a right of publicity law similar to Tennesseee but it's not clear if those laws apply to digital replicas and AI uh not every state includes voice which is you know why this bill in Tennessee is so important the Elvis act will be signed into law at noon at Robe
rts Western World on Broadway today it goes into effect July 1st uh I do expect we'll have a crew out there as the governor signs this into law well despite strong bipartisan agreement the us could still see a partial government shutdown this weekend now supporters do have enough votes likely to pass this deal Fox news reporter Amy Kylie reports though Wyatt's in question where there's a will we've been very very consistent very adamant that we had to get our government funded we had to get the
Appropriations process done there's not always a way parts of the federal government could briefly shut down this weekend despite a bipartisan budget deal the issue is time and whether it can overcome hurdles by the end of tomorrow even with bipartisanship it's going to be a tight squeeze to get this funding package passed the deal appears to have enough support to pass eventually it funds parts of the government an earlier package didn't cover there's absolutely no reason for for a pointless an
d costly shutdown but legislating requires a series of steps with everyone in agreement they go quickly but how often is Congress in total agreement you think you guys should shut it down I do lawmakers who oppose the deal have ways to slow down the process some say they at least want more time to read the legislation you don't even know what's in there and what's not in there in the house Expediting with a suspension of the rules requires a super majority in the Senate a speedy unanimous consen
t vote fails if a single person objects point isn't really about the process of whether it's Friday or Saturday or Sunday it's whether or not someone stands up and says the emperor has no clothes the country has no money I may M reporting Amy thank you hey take a look at this a far away star is expected to be visible to the naked eye in the near future though the star system 3,000 light years from Earth is too dim to see right now but when the Outburst happens it will be about as bright they say
as the North Star wow yeah it's called the Nova Outburst it's expected anytime now until September so we got some time to wait here it's going to last for several days before It ultimately dims outbursts like this happened roughly once every 80 years so I got to ask Greg does did you know this Greg you're a science buff yes and I'll give you in just like two sentences I'll explain it there are two stars that are fighting the real big red giant fighting for energy and space literally in space bi
g old red giant it's kind of a Dying star M and a star that's almost kind of already dead going to eat it well they're trying to fight each other so they go boom about every 87 years and then you get a real bright flash now 3,000 light years away means that the light you're going to see it actually happened 3,000 years ago what blowing my mind it's early for that you know I'm throw novas at you call I'm going to call my uh my friend photographer uh Rick Murray a lot of great photos fantastic pho
tos he just got a brand new like telescopic camera I'm going to see if he'll take some pictures oh please do that'd be awesome would even just for my own personal pleasure just to see him taking a look here uh nothing really impressive about this we got some bars on the screen but this tells you how much rain we could possibly have Friday decent I always say the bigger the bar the better the rain chance nothing on Saturday Sunday weekend is primo now we going to Monday Tuesday and Wednesday and
rain really is most prominent on Tuesday it'll trickle in on Monday gets out of here on Wednesday but Tuesday is our next chance for some thunderstorms no storms today just some cloud cover but sometimes clouds moving in after a couple sunny days you might go is it going to rain today my dad always does that oh clouds are coming in no no rain today after Sunset there will be some showers that do track in and they will move in going into the overnight very hit and miss through 10 p.m. and then a
few more of those linger into 7:00 this is the big change yesterday morning the morning before that it seemed as though tomorrow morning would have us with an active radar scenario across the board now we're very much so so one or two decent showers on the radar that we tracking for you as you wake up on your Friday now the afternoon still in this hit and miss scenario most of our heavier rain is going to stay down to our South so we get those little bands that push off to the north and that'll
be the case for us here back home let's talk temperature let's talk 7day 67° today and tomorrow 62 that's the one temperature change I've got for the weekend I have dropped it a little bit for Saturday though maybe you're a morning Runner and you like the cooler air Saturday morning is my pick for you right there and then back up near 70 on Sunday stair clear traffic for you this morning let's get you out to I40 here on uh Spence Lane this is just east of downtown you can see their traffic movin
g along very nicely uh for both directions there as you make the drivein from the East side all these folks coming in from places like Donaldson Hermitage Mount Juliet making that drivein we're doing great this area will slow down a little bit later in the morning but right now you could not ask for better here's a beautiful look here at I40 in downtown Nashville along Broadway where the view continues to change more and more every single day right now though we're doing just fine no pedestrians
even out there and about we're doing good in both directions here Justin thank you 521 is the time the EPA finalizing tougher new vehicle emission standards which are expected to speed up the adoption of electric vehicles all right so let's take a look here these are new rules that uh don't technically ban new gas cars but California eventually will and there are a lot of folks who are concerned that this is going to be a trickle down effect stricter regulations year after year the government b
asically is trying to force automakers to make more EVs and they claim they're doing that to try to lower emissions um but there is all kinds of you know politics and money involved here and if companies don't get in compliance they could be forced to reduce the number of gas powered vehicles that are sold and this idea just in general has a lot of people really worked up on social media it's a story we'll be following closely to find out how it could impact us for sure hey coming up parents tea
chers students there is a new proposal that could take away phones from students we're going to tell you why some lawmakers say that that's a bad idea 5:24 is the time and new this morning Tennessee lawmakers are looking at a proposal that would ban cell phone use in classrooms across the state they say that phones are needed some say anyway phones would be needed in the classroom by students for emergency use what about those teachers with bad behaviors some of those moments that we've seen gon
e viral they wouldn't happen without cell phones however other people are saying that cell phones are way too much of a distraction to use in the classroom and they're also very concerned about what it's doing to the learning environment a policy that's applicable across the street across the state for learning is something that we in the general assembly not only have the right but we have the duty to address those local school districts that are whining about us interfering I would ask they wa
nt us to not interfere with giving them money we at the State Legislature the second largest item in our budget is education therefore that gives us not only the authority but the responsibility to ensure that the learning environment is set in the proper way and I totally disagree with my colleague to my left over here that uh discounted the safety portion of this I think it plays a great role in safety of our students across this state when it comes to cell phones and notifications because sec
onds matter in the event there's an active shooter now this bill did not pass out of committee and will not be moving forward 526 look at your forecast get you toward the weekend I do have a change here for you this is one distress here because a little bit cooler and a little bit breezier for Saturday a rain moves out on Friday a little bit later than it seemed it would even just 24 hours ago so we're dropping the temperature for the afternoon on Saturday down to 62 degrees but we're still righ
t up near 70 on Sunday I mean that's a real good looking first spring weekend of the Year taking a look Breezy and partly cloudy both of those days the windier day being Saturday rainf free don't worry about a drop coming down and a super looking Sunday for us how do you track the rain that moves in tomorrow we've been talking about you get the Fox 17 code red weather app scan that QR code go to the Apple store or the Google Play Store and you can get the radar even if you're not here back home
you can have your local radar anywhere in the country no matter where you're at steer clear traffic this morning takes us over to I24 this is a Hickory Hollow Parkway out there in the Antioch area moving along really nicely out there no big problems in either direction we are accident free out there on the interstate and that leaves us to drive times like this Hendersonville at 26 minutes Murphysboro so holding steady at 49 minutes watch this time jump up over the course of the next hour 25 minu
tes here at Kingston Springs though these are your traffic times right now as you get out the door a Midstate equipment operator rescued after more than half a day trapped under debris we've got a close CL look at that rescue ever week nights at 5: on Fox 17 this Fox 17 this morning newscast is sponsored by Electronic Express we make it happen you're watching Fox 17 news this morning your code red [Music] station now on Fox 17 news this Thursday morning a Midstate teacher suspect spend did what
the Rutherford County school district has to say about this and we go to Murray County a Midstate animal shelter says they are bursting at the seams with dogs we'll tell you how you can help and some of those sweet faces that are up for adoption and taking a look at a very nice forecast up near 70° this afternoon I've changed the timing of some rain that moves in on Friday that latest update coming up in your forecast thank you so much for waking up with us here on a Thursday morning for fox7 ne
ws I'm Erica Glover and I'm Jennifer wadell glad to be here for you through 9:00 a.m. getting to our top story this 5:30 half hour a Rutherford County teacher now suspended after the board of education says she engaged in forcable physical contact with two students the Rutherford County School Board of Education says that this woman Emily Romney was seen on camera from the Stewartsboro Elementary School cafeteria grabbing and pulling a student's arm pushing a student and then other physical act
it took place they say over an 8 minute period That's how long the video footage last the board voted last night to go ahead and suspend this teacher for 15 days she was on unpaid suspension though prior to that vote and now to a wild story right here in the Midstate we've got a man who is safe this morning after being rescued from a collapsed uh piece of equipment in Murray County he was working down in a pit uh we understand that the Murray County Fire Department got the call to what they thou
ght was a landslide on keg Springs Road uh yesterday or no rather Tuesday night they get out there they work into Wednesday realizing that equipment operator was buried in debris down in that pit and had been trapped for 12 hours crazy rescue here look at all the people wow agencies worked to dig the man out were told uh finally lifted out and flown to the hospital where as of this morning he is still recovering there is a new Midtown development that is breathing some say new life into once was
Lee Bean's auto dealership a very popular dealership over on Broadway listen it's just been a landmark uh just on the other side of the bridge from downtown Fox 17 news Ken agular joining us live right there this morning to tell us about the newest details on the plans for this piece of land good morning the new development will likely bring more venue to the city and it is expected to have retail stores condos and more but take a look at how massive this development is behind me here on Broadw
ay between gavic Street stretching from 14th Avenue South to 16th Avenue South an extremely busy area gbt realy and Monarch alternative Capital are moving closer to transforming the former Bean Automotive dealership into a multi-tower mix use development called Mid City from documents we obtained on their plants take a look at the renderings the empty lot you just saw will look like this it's a bird eyes view featuring a main street that will go towards a pavilion the approximate location is by
I40 and I65 phase one includes a Podium a garage and Towers a statement by JT Martin senior vice president at CBR says in part quote should be noted that any density figures included in these filings are preliminary and may not be reflected of final plans we're all very excited for the transformative potential of the site and the project team is working diligently to deliver a vision that perfectly reflects the needs of Nashville project is scheduled next month on the Metro Planning Commission a
genda when we have those updates on the plans we will bring them to you reporting live in downtown Karen agar Fox 17 news your code red station 533 quick look here at your weather story and the big three bullet points that will carry us through the next about 15 minutes or so another great day get up get moving weather's not going to slow you down getting out the door rain does take over tomorrow it'll be a little bit of a hiccup getting us into the weekend and the weekend preview does actually
cool us down just a touch on Saturday right now a nice 44 degre start we've had a clear night overnight we have clouds that'll pick up a little bit toward the afternoon don't worry about any rain today cloud cover can occasionally make you think what's coming in it's not going to be here until after Sunset 42 right now in Murphy's Boro 46 in T and Lewisburg 43 in Columbia and 44 in Dixon temperatures are relatively close to where they were yesterday and oh our later sunsets we had the whole time
change about a week and a half ago now we're talking about a sunset of 700 p.m. when is the last time we had a sunset at 700 p.m. or later September 11th of last year so that daylight keeps increasing see clear traffic out there for you let's get to the very latest happening something we just picked up at i840 at I65 this is down in Williamson County uh you can see it for yourself on the uh screen the flashing blue lights there uh on the corner of the road causing small delays right over there
uh it's actually clearing the way for some work that's happening further down looks like this may be in the clearing stages actually because the construction that was happening right here seems to have moved on so that's certainly good news so just heads up if you're down here at the junction 840 and 965 down in Williamson County ponville Road in that area could see some small delays walk uh Crews continue their work there other than that we are good to go across most of the Midstate we'll be wa
tching the drive especially in from ruford County coming up a little bit later Justin thank you happening now there is a Midstate animal shelter asking for your help and they say they're completely full we go to Murray County here where animal services tells us they are busting at the seams with all these sweet dogs they have taken in recently if you are interested in an adopting uh one and don't they look happy look at the little tongue sticking out there they're on Maple leash Avenue in Columb
ia opens 7 days a week from noon to 5:00 you do not have to have an appointment the adoption fees for dogs are just 25 bucks you can see all of the animals up for adoption right now on the shelter's website and we have a link for it over at Fox 17.com if we had more room we'd take them in I say that all the time I just I'd get in trouble if I brought more dogs home the line up for this year's prage Festival has been released we're going to tell you who to watch Fox 7 news at 9 alerts empowers pr
otects this Fox 17 this morning newscast is sponsored by EUR Stone all right let's talk about some music we now know the lineup for the 2024 pilgrimage music and cultural Festival if you're new to this area it's over in Franklin and very popular yeah it's a music festival lovers dream the event celebrates the 10th anniversary this year performers include the Dave Matthews Band hoser uh and so many others this year's Festival taking part at the Harlandale uh Farm in Franklin beautiful location by
the way it's happening September 28th and 29th we have a full list of all the performers on our website just search pilgrimage at Fox 17.com I love Dave Matthews man all right billions of cicas are going to soon be buzzing around parts of the country for the first time in more than 200 years two separate kinds of cicada offspring are going to emerge now you take it cuz you know I get this word wrong okay brood so we have brood 19 cicada set to emerge in the spring after 13 years of basically hi
bernating The 17-year Brood 13 cicada will also emerge in five different Midwestern states so uh we've got the two different Broods here in Tennessee we're likely to see brood 19 now if we were to get into the technicalities and the scientific difference between the Broods might not make much of a difference just know they're going to be loud and you'll see the little shells what's the singular version of a brood I don't know just talking what Greg I know you usually I can add a little tid it bu
t I have no idea what the singular a brood is it brood a brood is a group so I guess technically brood is singular so then would it BR would be sorry to start the conversation taking a look a little bit rainy tomorrow today's great up near 70° couple clouds creep in here's Future Track taking us into the rest of this week getting us toward the weekend and we'll get you toward 400 p.m. couple of showers begin to pop up in Northern Alabama those will lift toward Middle Tennessee throughout the ove
rnight and when I say a couple showers I mean just a couple really little showers that will be here overnight and then tomorrow morning hit and miss activity most of us are dry the majority of this time it's the afternoon toward the evening of your Friday when some showers get a little more persistent about a half inch of rain possible this moves out of here in time for Saturday we'll talk about that weekend and look ahead to next week and some possible storm stms coming up in the next check you
r forecast circular traffic out there let's get you out to I 840 and I65 this is down in Williamson County uh traffic down there moving along despite the fact we are dealing with uh a bit of a what I I think it's construction that's happening now police are on the scene along with some of those orange flashing lights uh which is a indication of uh them doing some construction work and if that's the case uh that should clear up here before too terribly long we'll also get a much better idea once
the sun comes up of exactly what they're doing out here but that is the story down there from Williamson County small delays to be certain as you make that drive in here's the north side 65 at 24 coming in here things starting to get busy okay don't say we didn't warn you we'll give you the latest detours when they become necessary Justin thank you 5:42 is your time right now still to come on Fox 17 news this morning are crime rates dropping where you live the FBI says they are dropping across t
he us we'll tell you what the Attorney General claims is behind the numbers and we're hearing from you and your personal experience right here in the Midstate also on our full line of F-150's plus 1.9% financing for 72 months available some scratched some didn't some not but all with big savings Town and Country Ford in Madison good morning and welcome back into Fox 17 news this morning time right now is 5:45 according to a new report from the FBI crime rates in the US are dropping their data is
from about 13,000 law enforcement agencies that police about 80% of the US the FBI claims crime declined significantly in the fourth quarter of last year in almost every category including murder violent crime and property crime attorney general Meritt Garland crediting the Justice Department's violent crime reduction strategy that they launched in 2021 now uh what the FBI reports and how you feel are two totally different things and we can see that in a couple of different ways first of all we
asked this question over on our Fox Nashville Twitter account you know we said the New FBI stats show that crime is down but do you feel like your communities are safer look at the response here 91.9% of you say no and we have a lot lot of comments from you explaining why you don't feel like your communities are safer coming up in our seven and 8:00 hour we're going to be reading comments directly from uh my fox uh Facebook page uh so many of you sounding off explaining you know how things are
going in your community so stick around as we work through some of those Erica Well Spring is officially here which means some of you are just itching I know I am to get in your Gardens try to get them up and running again our Fox 17 Cod rad meteorologist Brett Luna speaking with one local farmer about what crops you can safely plant right now and the others that yeah you might want to just hold off on what started is just a very small roadside stand selling extra stuff out of the family garden
has now turned into the 65 acre Lester farms in Lebanon this year they're growing Seven Acres of strawberries that'll be handpicked each morning and sold each day it's a beautiful site seeing these bright red fresh strawberries especially with a nice sunset in the background too and this time of year strawberries is all the top that is that's kind of what kicks off uh middle Tennessee's fresh fruit and vegetable season every year theyve still got a few weeks or so around April 15th until they st
art harvesting these berries and as for how long into the season they'll be able to pick for well it really just all depends on the weather but in the meantime they've recently had to deal with some freezing nights the average frost free date for Middle Tennessee is typically April 13th to April 20th that's when historically we'll see our last frost but strawberry plants blooming out much earlier than that this year they started blooming around the 1st of March so that leaves about 2 months that
they have to be ready to frost protect before the temperatures dropped into the 20s earlier this week they were covering all seven acres of strawberries with two layers of the floating row covers to keep them safe if you're growing a garden at your home and you're trying to catch the season a little early and already have some vegetable plants put out Mitchell says floating row covers are a great thing to have on hand in case we have any more of these freezing cold nights you might want to hold
off on putting all your vegetable plants into the ground right now though if you don't have any way to protect them but he says there definitely are some plants that are safe to plant right now right now would be an appropriate time to begin planting your earlier seasoned crops kale cabbage cauliflower broccoli lettuces any of your cold seasoned crops he says anything like tomatoes summer squash sweet corn water melons any of the more summer crops you're going to want to wait until those frost
free dates so that's going to be after April 13 to 20th or so if you're not prepared to frost protect them Brett Luna Fox 17 news your code red station that video was super cute with a squirrel trying to get a strawberry here's Greg with the forecast so why not go right for it maybe you're going to listen to Brett's tips right there you're going to be gardening a little bit later on today it's a good day for it no rain out there 9:00 a.m. 43° 12:00 will be at 58 65 degrees at 300 p.m. so as long
as you're following what we should and should be should not be putting in the ground right now you should be good to go for today is one of those days and honestly it'll help you because some rain tomorrow will help kind of soak the soil just a little bit more for you as far as our cameras look this morning nothing's happening we have no visibility problems no problems when it comes to anything with rain today what to wear kind of go with the same attire as yesterday you can go with the spring
summer attire when it comes to short sleeves a nice summer dress you get the summer hat going on here today too you will see some clouds umbrella you're holstering it for today leave it at home that also includes getting the kids to the bus stops this morning first Bell 44° 6 6° as the kids are getting home from school later on this afternoon temperatures continue to stay in the 60s all the way into and out of the weekend the only cool day for the weekend is going to be on Saturday a little cool
and Breezy with a temperature of 62 your latest timeline which we'll update going into 6 o' on Future Track will be for our rain tomorrow we'll get that to you as soon as we go into our six o'clock half hour Justin stair clear traffic at 550 as you make your way out and about here is the scene down there in Williamson County i840 at I65 uh police on the scene there we have seen uh other uh trucks and crews in this area I'm pretty sure this is a construction scene that is taking place here haven
't seen indications to the otherwise again though this is 840 at I65 down in Williamson County if you're making their way in please just heads up could be some small delays North Side here 65 24 looking pretty good there here is the drive on I24 Harding Place looking pretty nice there in from Annie all these times will go up more and more traffic will start to hit the road we'll continue to watch it for [Music] you thank you Justin the Tennessee balls kicking off their NCAA tournament tonight an
d they're going to need one person in particular Mr connect the B's fifth year guard Dalton connect named the SEC Player of the Year just last week and yesterday named a finalist for the lud Olson National Player of the Year award that is huge all right Mr connect averaging more than 21 points a game he's shooting 46 and a half% overall the BS are going to need those numbers tonight when they face St Peters to open up the tournament as we mentioned St Peters is based out of Jersey Tennessee comi
ng off uh kind of an ugly loss to Mississippi State in the opening round of the SEC tournament here in Nashville they had the time to go ahead and rest up then yeah K says they weren't the aggressor in that game and that is not going to happen again that's what he said not on my we just weren't there we need to be uh we we're going to be more competitive especially uh we know it's winner go home and this could be our last game and we definitely don't want that to happen so we're going to come ou
t ready to fight and be the aggressors all right all right vs tip off 8:20 it's going to be again against St Peters and of course we'll have the highlights tomorrow morning all right just a few minutes before 6 o' now the dirty dozen list is out this is the list that one Environmental Group claims has the highest level of contaminants with regards to pesticides on our Foods we're going to give you the rundown in for 72 months on these six new Nissans with 200 in sock to choose from at Hayes Niss
an of Rivergate in Madison again get 0% financing for 72 months on new Nissan here welcome back let's talk about produce an environmental group is now warning consumers who eat what they describe as dirty fruits and veget vegetables all right so the environmental working group has an annual guide that they put out that takes a look at the level of pesticides in our produce and they have this dirty dozen as they call it the worst offenders if you will um they say that for example about 95% of str
awberries that are not organic contain pesticides when you buy them at the store along with leafy greens so think lettuce haale that kind of stuff grapes peaches and pears H nectarines apples Peppers cherries blueberries green beans also on that so-called dirty dozen list having the highest level of pesticides on the produce itself now avocado sweet corn pineapples top the clean list you could imagine why right pineapples have a very thick outer coating so when you finally cut off the outside of
a pineapple and eat the fruit itself it's probably more protected from chemicals interesting yeah same with an avocado right it's got the that outer casing so if you think you know whatever you eat produce wise that has a thick outer layer tends to have lower levels of pesticides well let's check in now with our code red meteorology just just wash it wash it real good give water and baking soda will do the trick by the way we're learning a lot of stuff here at the 5:00 hour I'm just saying you
know from from Nova blast of sun all kinds of stuff to you know just pesticides and I'm just going to bring it back down to earth and down to ground level here 67 degrees nothing happening later on today a couple of clouds that'll build sunset for us 7 p.m. taking a look your weekend Outlook puts us at 62 on Saturday 69° on Sunday that's the warmer day it's also the less breezy day a little bit of a breeze especially early on your Saturday and no rain for either one of those days coming up in yo
ur forecast when we go into our 6:00 half hour we have a brand new look at Future Track when it comes to timing and also intensity of rainfall that will move in tomorrow we're tracking some rain the latest Outlook coming your way in just a few minutes stair clear traffic out there for you everybody we just picked up something brand new this one is north side I65 at Long Hollow Pik this is in the Goodletsville area uh this crash just happened less than 10 minutes ago according to the information
we have a couple of cars there uh collided on that drive as you make that drive in down towards Exit 97 so if you're coming in from Millersville Portland White House all of you we're talking to you this is going to cause a big backup not right now they can get rid of it quickly it won't cause that big of a deal but this particular Lane being shut down for a long period of time will cause headaches it will run back from here all the way to Kentucky State Line hopefully won't won't get that bad Hi
ghway 31 is the best way to steer clear in the mood for some spring shopping or perhaps a closet revamp you know spring cleaning want to let you know Amazon is holding their first ever Big Spring sale it's happening later this month think about prime day it's kind of like that but then focusing more on seasonal items to get cleaning up all right so everything from you know Fitness stuff to Fashion to like you said cleaning supplies some of the deals according to Amazon are going to be up to half
off it's a six- day long event it starts next Wednesday even right now Amazon has some like early deals that are marked down so do with that what you will also don't go into debt buying items just to buy stuff because it's a sale we're also talking about this initiative Sinclair cares we know that nearly 2third of fourth graders in the US struggle to read at grade level which is why we're teaming up with our parent company Sinclair broadcasting and partnering with reading is fundamental it's al
l part of our ongoing effort to support children's literacy do us a favor and scan the QR code right there in the bottom leand corner of your screen that way you can donate to our virtual book drive you're watching Fox 17 news this morning your code red station if it's going on we're going to be there well we have out ofate volunteers who are doing everything they can to find Riley strain even if law enforcement isn't involved we'll tell you the updates we know new this Thursday morning there's
also new information this morning about the Covenant School shooters writings why they could soon be made public car up in a few minutes we'll take a closer look at a new development that is set to break ground right here in the Music City very good Thursday morning to you thanks for waking up with us you're on Fox 17 news this morning I'm Jennifer wadell and I'm Erica Glover this Thursday morning we're going to get started by talking about the ongoing search efforts non-stop for 22-year-old Ril
ey strain we're now getting some more updates after yesterday where Crews were searching the waterways in chetam County for the missing University of Missouri students yeah and not just chetam County you were seeing video there as well from Nashville along the Cumberland River so as it pertains though to chetam County these Crews were in Ashlin City over near the dam Riley strains father says after days of somewhat frustrating search with Metro Police he's glad more help is here it's a whole lot
more resources than what we've had so far um of course I wish that this could have happened a week ago it takes time to get this stuff in place these people have been so good to come out and help us uh we're tired we're real tired so some fresh people coming in is is really helped well aside from the searches on the water the United Cajun Navy is also helping coordinate land search Crews for the riverbank which is very difficult to go ahead and access all right so at this point detectives tell
us they are continuing to filter through every tip every lead that they get we do have live reports on the search for Riley strain starting in our 7:00 hour this morning right now Switching gears to the search for another person who is missing in the Midstate uh this young man right here 15-year-old Sebastian Rogers the TBI says they are continually going over surveillance video from Neighbors and businesses so far we have no new details on the 15-year-old's whereabouts we understand though he d
isappeared from his shackle Island community home back on February 26 if you'd like to catch up on previous coverage go to Fox 17.com and search Sebastian Rogers let's check in now though for your Thursday forecast 602 your time and a quick check your forecast here not a lot of big notes for us here the big three things clouds increase today that's it for today waking up right side of your screen temperatures are in the 40s rain moves in after Sunset into tonight no thunderstorms expected no sev
ere weather but a couple of pop-up showers are likely overnight into tomorrow morning starting off with an all clear for our code red Threat Level and that will continue with a new look at Future Track coming your way in just a few minutes rain for your Friday is definitely in the cards for us here we'll be in the upper 60s later on this afternoon and we'll also detail your upcoming weekend I've changed your temperature profile for Saturday and it's dropped a little bit how much cooler we expect
to be that's going to be coming your way in just a few minutes right now a look at steer clear traffic Justin all right everyone we're dealing with a serious situation happening down on i840 this is i840 at I65 down in Williamson County we've just gotten confirmation that we've got a truck dangling off of the interstate uh we're still trying to get some details about it but the truck is dangling off of the interstate it is i840 East at the ramp to I65 it is closed because of a semi TR ramp or a
semi TR wack rather no injuries reported again this is coming from the Williamson County Emergency Management agency here's the photo right now being sent to us from the Williamson County Emergency Management agency you can see that truck there uh the front end uh the uh the the tractor shall we call it the tractor is still on the road the trailer though is hanging off of the interstate here this is for those traveling north from the Spring Hill area you want to seek an alternate route we've uh
just found out about this a short time ago so we're going to try to get you more Det downs but again this is going to provide a Major Impact to those traveling around the i840 area around I65 again that exit ramp is closed because of the semi TR uh wreck there where the uh tractor trailer the trailer from that tractor trailer is dangling off of the interstate as we speak no injuries reported we're going to try to get more details and more pictures from this area coming up in a few minutes all r
ight Justin thank you at 604 right now uh getting some new information this morning in a federal law suit against the FBI to release the Covenant Shooters writings publicly yeah this does come nearly a year after the Tennessee star suit the bureau and now a federal judge is ordering the FBI to turn over the shooters writings to the court that judge will then review them and then determine if they should be released the Tennessee star though previously sued Metro Nashville government for not rele
asing the manifesto before taking it to the federal level the FBI telling Fox 17 news they do not have a comment at this time next week marks one year since a deadly shooting at the Covenant School the once home of Lee Beaman and the auto dealership on Broadway is about to get a whole new look and this is as it goes in Nashville the future of our city with condos businesses and a lot more a lot more traffic Fox 17 news is Karen agular joining us live from the dealership area where it once was te
lling us about what this new area could look like good morning Karen good morning the new development is a sign of a growing city behind me the construction for that new development is ongoing and according to documents we've obtained the space is expected to have retail stores hotels even office spaces and more it's located between Broadway and mcgavic Street it's a way to connect Midtown to downtown take a look at these renderings DBT realy and Monarch alternative Capital are responsible for c
hanging the former Dem Automotive dealership into this multi-tower mix use development called Mid City the renderings show a main street that will go towards a pavilion phase one includes a Podium a garage and Towers there also will be trees to breathe life into the space a statement by JT Martin senior vice president cb says in part this filing by the project team is a normal administrative Milestone as part of a 12-month process to further Advance the project due to its large scale scope the R
edevelopment of the former Bean Automotive will be executed in phases says the plans are just preliminary and not yet finalized reporting live in downtown Karen agalar Fox 17 news your code red station for Law Firm on your side one with a proven record of success and it means the Peace of Mind of never paying us a fee unless we get money for you get hou and Coleman and get it done his Fox 17 this morning newscast is sponsored by Sarah chevr Buick GMC of Nashville 609 is the time and new this mor
ning Tennessee lawmakers are looking at had a proposal that would ban cell phone use in the classroom across the state period now there would be some exceptions but some people are saying that the need for cell phones are great right now in the classroom for emergency use what about catching bad behavior that happens in classrooms we've all seen those V uh viral moments over the years but some Educators believe that cell phones are way too much of a distraction to have in the classroom at all we
need to be protecting the instructional time and making that valid that's why schools exist schools exist to teach and as policy makers in Tennessee we should be doing everything that we can to make sure that our teachers have a clear path of instructional time we're trying to give everybody the same medicine when the illnesses are different it might be a cold it may be Co it may be the allergies but we want to give everybody the same medicine that doesn't work well the majority of lawmakers ag
reed there and this particular Bill did not pass out of committee and will not be going into an effect it doesn't mean that people can just still use cell phones in the classroom it just means it's up to each individual school system to have their own policy 61 our time when the upcoming precept chances here avoid the weekend but we've got one tomorrow and then another system that moves in Monday into Tuesday and Wednesday let's just focus on the one that moves in tonight into tomorrow here on F
uture Track clouds will build throughout this afternoon don't worry about rering our daylight hours after 400 p.m. 5 and then 6:00 rain will start to Bubble up here from right along the state line near Alabama and then up toward the I40 Corridor overnight tonight not a whole lot that does really happen but there will be a few light rain showers tomorrow morning relatively dry but again can't discount one or two pop-ups there on the radar most of our action for tomorrow now looks to be afternoon
toward the evening hours so say you got dinner plans tomorrow or the first half of tonight there will be some scattered rain showers that are out there and those will linger into tomorrow night and then finally wrap up getting into very early on your Saturday drying out for the rest of the weekend stair clear traffic for you this morning let's get you out and about to I 840 at I65 this is down in Williamston County we've uh just got the very latest there with this particular scene involving an 1
8 we that is dangling off of the interstate T dot uh seems to be trying to adjust their camera a little bit so while they do that can we go to the picture we just received from the uh Williamson County Emergency Management agency and uh you can see it right there uh that uh particular truck uh dangling from I65 this is right at the 840 East ramp to I65 North it is shut down because of this wreck thankfully no injuries but there is expected to be a lot of delay down there for clean up and uh tryi
ng to get that guard rail back uh under control here it is right here you can see where uh this is the trailer from the tractor tractor trailer this is the trailer the trailer hanging off of the interstate right now uh thankfully it's not hanging over another road so it's hanging down below the grassy area there but you can see where Crews have shut down that area this is where we're talking about if you're coming down I65 they say so you want to go I65 North from 840 here's 840 this would be 65
north this would be the ramp and this is where the closure is right here we're going to try to get back to it here coming up in a few minutes let you know whatever else we find out about it well protecting musicians here in Tennessee we're going to break down the bill being signed by Governor Lee later today Plus stocks have surged after the Federal Reserve indicated [Music] stair clear traffic we want to get back to the breaking news we are following out of Williamson County this morning that
is where we are dealing with a tractor trailer that is hanging off of the interstate now it is the trailer part that is hanging off of the interstate at i840 at I65 this is down in Williamson County thanks to the Williamson County Emergency Management agency who sent us this photo and uh we're getting a better idea of what's Happening Here thankfully no injuries reported but there will be some delays because of the Guard ra uh cleanup and all the debris clean uh clean up that needs to happen her
e so let's come on back and let's show it to you right here on the camera these are live pictures here at I65 and i840 down in Williamson County here is that tractor trailer you can see it there dangling off of the side of the interstate I don't know what they're going to do to try to get this out of the way I'm guessing they'll have to attack it maybe from the 65 side side of things to pull it down from there but again the ramp is closed and will be closed for the foreseeable future let's show
it to you here on the map here is I65 this is I 840 going eastbound and it's going eastbound to the ramp to 65 north right here so if you're trying to come in from Thompson stations let's say towards 65 north into Nashville that is where the closure is going to be you can see the backup right here starting to develop as more and more people start to get an understanding of what's going to happen now one more thing I need to tell you just like with the plane crash that we had a few weeks ago when
the sun comes up people are absolutely going to slow down to look at this even though it has no impact on their Drive whatsoever so please keep that in mind as you make that drive in and out of Williamson County period Murray County all of you are going to be affected by this in some way shape or form and that Sunrise roughly a half hour from right now so we'll start seeing even more visuals of that situation going on getting out the door as far as weather goes it's not going to slow you down a
ll that much very similar to yesterday morning temperatures are in the 40s we build a little cloud cover later today but beautiful sunshine this morning 43° by 9 a.m. temperature going to continue to climb maybe you got a flight later on this morning afternoon or toward the evening temperatures at BNA going to be right near 60 at noon 65 Dees at 3 p.m. Nashville weather looking great today however we do have some flight delays here 13 delays no cancellations just yet that's not our weather it is
the destination that's either coming into BNA or we're going to do keep that in mind always check your flight times that's the biggest number we've seen here in about a week as far as flight delays go this early in the morning lunchtime forecast go for it you want a patio absolutely get that chair get the umbrella get the shades you're good to go 62 degrees the high temperature today is going to be up near 70 later on this afternoon Greg thank you so much at 617 right now something that's happe
ning today is of note especially here in Music City USA Tennessee is going to become the first state in the nation to pass a law that protects musicians from the impact of artificial intelligence Governor Bill Lee is going to sign the Elvis bill into law today with the hopes he says of Tennessee setting the stage for the rest of the country to then follow now this particular act the Elvis act ensures likeness voice and image security name image and likeness is already protected in Tennessee but
State leaders added voice that way they can protect creators from artificial intelligence States across the country that already have what we call a right of publicity law similar to Tennessee but it's not clear if those laws apply to digital replicas and AI uh not every state includes voice which is you know why this bill in Tennessee is so important all right so again it is called the Elvis act it'll be signed into law in true Nashville fashion today at Robert's Western World right on Broadway
and then it goes into affect July 1st well the stock market saw a big time boost with positive news coming from from the Federal Reserve all right this comes as President Joe Biden campaigns on his economic policies Fox News correspondent Connor Hansen with the details this [Applause] morning it was a good day on Wall Street Wednesday the Dow NASDAQ and S&P 500 all seeing a boost it comes hours after the Federal Reserve announced borrowing costs will remain steady for now while indicating it's
on track for three Cuts later this year inflation has eased substantially while the labor market has remained strong Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell says the labor market is strong and wages are up on the campaign Trail President Biden is taking credit for the recent economic success at a speech in Arizona the president touted plans for more semiconductor production and more jobs in the US since I took office America's had the strongest growth of any major economy in the world nearly 15 m
illion new jobs along a stretch of unemployment under 4% in 50 years 450 growth is strong but many blame Biden for high prices and say the picture isn't as rosy as he's painting it from the gas station to the grocery store American families are hurting gas prices are once again on the rise and some worry about the impact of more government spending and higher taxes could have on the progress all the spending that they're doing to quote unquote help the economy help businesses help the consumer h
ow about you guys get out of the way let us spend our own money let us invest our own money and therefore that will take care of itself and so what if we get a little inflation out of it it's still unclear when a potential rate cut would come the FED will meet again at the end of April in New York Connor Hansen Fox News Connor Thank you there was no big winner for last night's Powerball jackpot but it's not all bad news at all not at all yeah no big jackpot po winner but we had 27 people across
the country who won at least $50,000 each that it work yeah Powerball jackpot for Saturday now estimated to be $750 million now we have the other Mega Millions jackpot as well which is close to a billion uh that jackpot sitting at 977 million so to Whopper Whopper uh jackpots there I like that hey balls fans the balls are playing their first game in the NCAA tournament tonight what one key player has to say about their preparations and as the Sun starts to just come up on the horizon here what a
beautiful shot pretty pictures and colors here pinks and plus give you an extra 10% during our anniversary sale going on now at all three Lazy Boy locations the good Feed Store improving people's lives 2 ft at a time 6:23 okay everybody it's time it's time to get your danc and shoes on the Tennessee valers invited to the big dance of course they in the NCAA tournament tonight they're going to need this guy to have his dancing shoes on in a big way we're talking about the all fifth year starter
Dalton connect who's the SEC player of the year he got that honor just last week yeah he did in another one the lud olon National Player of the Year award nominated for that as well so he's a final list uh number three is going to have to come up big here connect averaging 21 points a game shooting 46.5% overall BS will need those numbers tonight they're going to play St Peters uh based in New Jersey but you remember Tennessee didn't even get out of the first round of the SCC tournament here in
Nashville they lost to Mississippi State so they've had plenty of time to recruit recoup I guess you could say and regroup uh and get ready for uh the big game that kicks off tonight yeah now DTA connect says that last game they were not the aggressors he says that is something that's going to change we just weren't there we need to be uh we we're going to be more competitive especially uh we know it's winter go home and this could be our last game and we definitely don't want that to happen so
we're going to come out ready to fight and be the aggressors all right now listen the BS taking on St Peters St Peters is a dangerous team they beat Kentucky as the 15 seed a couple of years ago so don't take them lightly game tips off at 820 all right and the madness already started for for uh the women's teams the Vanderbilt ladies basketball team getting a win over Colombia the commodor uh back in the tournament for the first time in a decade and you can see it was a pretty close one they get
the win 72 to 68 uh so as we look ahead they're going to take on Baylor tomorrow night at 5: all right we are following some uh breaking traffic news coming down from Williamson County that's where we are dealing with a tractor trailer and the trailer portion is dangling off of I 840 at I65 this is right at uh the uh the exit there now you can see it for yourself right there this is right at Exit 59 the ramp is open to use to get on to 840 where it's not open is to get off uh so if you're on 84
0 trying to get off at I65 to go Northbound you cannot do so right now because of the damage caused by this accident that happened earlier in the morning now thankfully the driver were toad is okay but Cruiser out there right now trying to unload that tractor trailer and get it off the road that could take some time let me tell you uh so the results of this are going to be uh pretty steep because now that the sun is coming up it's going it's going to cause delays in a lot of different directions
let me show it to you here on the map and oh yeah yeah yeah yeah it's already starting here um once the sun comes up people are going to slow down and look and that's exactly what's going to take place as a matter of fact excuse us while we expand this is something I would normally do off the air but let's do it on the air is that rubbernecking delay right there ma'am that is what this is look at wow okay I'm finding out along with everyone else here uh about how bad this is this goes all the w
ay back to the Saturn Parkway that's what this area is right down here 3 uh 396 uh that's the Saturn Parkway this is exit 53 this is 6 miles well and you know what Justus what we're talking about here 6 miles look at the backup on Highway 31 already that's that detour that you would give folks yeah that is Thompson Station to Spring Hill along Highway 31 is what that is so um that's normally the way we would tell you to steer clear you could try to take Highway 431 Lewisville Pike maybe um you c
ould try that route to get around this a little bit uh but this is going to continue until they get that out of the way as more more people slow down to look at this we'll continue to follow it throughout the morning all right we sure will plus as we send you out to a quick break we've got your weekend Outlook looking really good for the weekend Greg will join us in about 2 minutes to get a more in-depth look at your forecast plus we're following the latest involving an equipment failure that re
sulted in a rescue one man tra farmers bring a new gal home to roost we are going to be spending a lot of time together I don't think so tonight at 8 on Fox 17 you're watching Fox 17 news this morning your code red station right now on Fox 17 news this morning the woman you see on your screen is a Mid-State teacher she's now been suspended what the ruer County school board says they saw her doing on school cameras plus the Midstate animal shelter says they're busting at the seams with dogs how y
ou can help them out he in Fox 17 news letting you know about your Thursday forecast but showers are on the way we're going to help you time it all out and help you plan ahead for your weekends all right thanks so much for starting your day with us here on Fox 17 news this morning where we're glad to be your live local news source through n9ine I'm Jennifer wadell and I'm Erica Glover we're going to get started with crisis in the classroom a Rutherford County teacher suspended after the board of
education says she engaged in quote forcible physical contact with two students all right let's break down what happened here according to investigators and the cameras that caught it all the Rutherford County Board of Education says Emily Roman was seen on camera from the Stewartsboro Elementary School cafeteria grabbing and pulling a student's arm pushing a student and other physical altercations over an 8-minute period the board voted overnight so this just happened last night the board vote
d to suspend uh this teacher for 15 days she was already on unpaid suspension before the vote last night we're also letting you know about a Midstate man who is safe thankfully after being rescued from a collapsed rock pit this happened over in Murray County and we have the photos listen to this the Murray County Fire Department says they were called to a landslide on keg Springs Road it happened around 11:00 I believe on Tuesday night yeah and then they get there they find this guy is buried in
debris and as it turns out he was trapped for 12 hours incredible Story of Survival here several agencies working to dig the man out were told they finally got him out they did take him to the hospital and as of this morning he is still recovering We are following breaking news this morning for your sear clear traffic as we continue to follow that scene south of town this is going to be I65 and i840 earlier in the morning we had a tractor trailer lose control and ended up dangling off the side
of the interstate now in the last few moments we've done some Junior detective work here at Fox 17 and um you know I've been covering news a long time I'm thinking the tractor trailer just me ran up the road not not falling off the road but ran up the road this is right at the exit here exit 59 uh you can't see it from here but there's a sign right there telling people to slow down because there's a really sharp curve watch this car here negotiate that curve it's pretty sharp if you're going 70
80 mil hour down I65 and you don't slow it down to take this curve you could end up well like this running up the side of the uh embankment here up on to i840 right through the guard rail which is what it seems like this tractor trailer may have done so again this is I65 at I40 down in Williamson County the tow truck uh guys are already here to try and get this out of the way what is this doing to your drive it's making it difficult let me tell you about it here so the crash itself is right here
it's imp packing those taking i840 coming from the East sa you're coming from Thompson Station you go up to 840 take 840 to 65 north into Nashville you cannot do that this morning because they have shut down the ramp here that you need from 840 to 65 north what you can do instead is keep going on Highway 31 perhaps hook up on Highway 431 right here which is this black line and keep going into town but the slowdowns are going to be caused because of people slowing down to look anytime you have s
omething like this this is unusual site people on both sides of the inter state are going to slow down to look at this even though it is not impacting either Lane on 65 as you come in or out of town so just know about that as you make that drive in from there one more thing to tell you about in that 65 at Long Hollow pint this is on the other side of the state essentially in Goodletsville this crash at one point has shut down at least one lane thankfully looks like things are much better there a
s they've moved it off to the shoulder you can get by 635 weather not an issue for us here this morning another great day the bullet points for your weather story that's the first one the second one rain takes over tomorrow not going to be a wash out not even close but just some showers you need the umbrella the weekend preview for you is going to be a little bit cooler on Saturday and a little bit warmer on Sunday right side of your screen current temperatures are in the 40s here kicking off th
is morning we'll be in the upper 60s a little more cloud cover today than yesterday but no rain until we get close to if not past sunset for today 67 degre this afternoon we'll follow that up with 67 for tomorrow there is that cooler day for the weekend at 62 and then 69 that's the pick of the entire week and also the pick of the weekend great looking day little Breezy on Saturday coming up the next check of your code rad forecast we will look at a new timeline when that rain moves in after suns
et going into tonight and how many hours worth of tomorrow you have to worry about showers that's coming up in about 5 minutes Greg thank you so much we have some new information this Thursday morning because a new Midtown development is breathing new life so to speak and to what was once Lee Bean's auto dealership over on Broadway uh just a landmark there it really is been around for decades gbt realy and Monarch alternative Capital those are the two groups responsible for changing the face of
this part of Nashville uh they're putting in a several story tall tower it's going to be a mixed use development it's called Mid City all right Mid City so it's just over the bridge from downtown as you would be heading toward like Vanderbilt um there's going to be a pavilion they're going to have to put in some New Roads um there will be a garage and Towers so a huge change is coming to this part of Nashville uh they're also building some more trees trying to breathe they say breathe some life
into the space uh we have a statement this morning from the group that is doing all of this they say in part this filing by the project team is a normal administrative Milestone as part of a 12-month long process to advance the project they say due to the large scale scope of it the Redevelopment of the former ban Automotive will be executed in phases it's so big they're doing it in phases uh they go on to say the plans are preliminary have not yet been finalized so stay tuned stay tuned all rig
ht we will the lineup for this year's prage Festival in Franklin has been released we're going to tell you who you can expect and MSRP on select 2023 Jeep brand Vehicles hurry don't miss this great offer this Fox 17 this morning newscast is sponsored by Southeast Financial Credit [Music] Union all right everyone 640 is the time we now know the lineup for the 2024 pilgrimage music and cultural Festival it's a big deal that happens every year down in Franklin it is Festival season after all we've
got bonaroo we've got pilgrimage we've got CMA Fest pilgrimage is celebrating its 10th year I remember the very first year that we moved to Nashville was when they started this thing uh they've got Dave Matthews Band hoser so many other performers uh this year's Festival will take part again at Harlandale Park in Franklin it's September 28th and 29th we've got a full list of all the performers on our website uh all you got to do is go over to Fox 17.com and just search the word pilgrimage we hav
e a an interesting story for you this morning this is a real head scratcher a Roman statue dating back nearly 2,000 years found by construction workers building a parking lot in the UK so there was a guy operating a digger in the parking lot and they found this Marble Head um at a 16th century country estate wow wow wow just wow I mean okay so this was able to be found uh just a couple of weeks ago the bus was found very close to the original uh site there the um relics were cleaned examined and
reassembled by conservator there the sculpture was dated back to the first or second century H the uh the estate says that it's a mystery exactly how that head and bust ended up where it did like I said it was a real head scratcher a head scratcher scratching that head mystery for the next little bit here as he tried to figure out what was here before this hey uh let's get to sear clear traffic Justin has been following us some big breaking news south of Nashville and we continue to follow it r
ight now this is I65 at i840 down in Williamson County that's where we are dealing with a tractor trailer that is uh hanging off of the uh Interstate there at i840 at I65 so uh what they're thinking may have happened here is the truck may have just kind of missed a turn ended up running up the grass and on to 840 right now I a stands if you're coming 8:40 East trying to get on 65 going north you cannot do that it is a slow down because of the uh accident here they've already got crews in place t
o try and get it out of the way it's unknown exactly how long that's going to take Highway 31 and 431 are the best ways to steer clear and 642 your time right now our curious question and then a look at Future Track our curious question has to do with stars and colors which color star has the hottest temperature we talking about red stars yellow stars white or blue answer coming your way in less than 10 minutes yeah think about it here for a moment you it might not be the answer that you intuiti
vely think take a look here Future Track nothing happening today we've got just a couple clouds to build for this afternoon that's it high is going to be in the upper 60s to right near 70 deges right side of your screen you're starting off in the 40s by 10 p.m. showers move in after Sunset couple of light showers track through the overnight and then go into tomorrow morning and then another batch Moves In for the afternoon no thunderstorms no severe weather just grab the umbrella tomorrow more b
reaking news this morning President Joe Biden cancelling another $5.8 billion of student loan debt it's the latest round of relief that impacts nearly 78,000 public sector workers throughout the Public service loan forgiveness program it's a story we're updating over on Fox 17.com [Music] well up next the FBI says that crime rates are dropping across the country we're going to tell you what the Attorney General says is I don't think so tonight at 7 on Fox 17 alerts empowers protects watch Fox 17
news at time good morning and welcome in to Fox 17 news this morning 6:46 let's talk about a new report from the FBI crime rates according to the FBI are dropping across the us but many of you are calling into question how they're ranking uh the statistics they reportedly surveyed 13,000 law enforcement agencies policing about 80% of the US and the FBI claims that crime declined significantly in the fourth quarter of last year in almost every category they say murders are down violent crime is
down and property crime is down but don't tell that to folks living here in the Midstate who have a whole different story to tell Attorney General Meritt Garland crediting the justice department and the violent crime reduction strategy that they launched in 2021 the FBI releasing its final information coming up in October but we were curious to know how do you feel in your community depending on wherever you live do you feel like your communities are any safer this is the question right now on o
ur Fox Nashville Twitter account and uh we said do you feel like your communities are safer and look at this 90% of you say no and that's the resounding feeling over on my Facebook page where I asked the same question and so many of you went into great detail as to why you feel like your communities are not safer these days so we'll take a closer look at that as we get into our 7 and 8:00 hours right now though let's talk about planting spring is officially here yesterday's temperatures has some
of us itching to get outside in our Gardens and maybe figure out what can I plant right now meteorologist Brett Luna speaking with a local farmer about what crops you can safely plant and the others not you might want to hold off on a little bit longer before planting listen what started is just a very small roadside stand selling extra stuff out of the family garden has now turned into the 65 Acre leester Farms in Lebanon this year they're growing Seven Acres of strawberries that'll be handpic
ked each morning and sold each day it's a beautiful site seeing these bright red fresh strawberries especially with a nice sunset in the background too and this time of year strawberries is all the top that is that's kind of what kicks off uh middle Tennessee's fresh fruit and vegetable season every year they still got a few weeks or so around April 15th until they start harvesting these berries and as for how long into the season they'll be able to pick for well it really just all depends depen
ds on the weather but in the meantime they've recently had to deal with some freezing nights the average frost free date for Middle Tennessee is typically April 13th to April 20th that's when historically we'll see our last frost but strawberry plants begin blooming out much earlier than that this year they started blooming around the 1 of March so that leaves about 2 months that they have to be ready to frost protect before the temperatures dropped into the 20s earlier this week they were cover
ing all seven acres of strawberries with two layers of the floating row covers to keep them safe if you're growing a garden at your home and you're trying to catch the season a little early and already have some vegetable plants put out Mitchell says floating row covers are a great thing to have on hand in case we have any more of these freezing cold nights you might want to hold off on putting all of your vegetable plants into the ground right now though if you don't have any way to protect the
m but he says there definitely are some plants that are safe to plant right now right now would be an appropriate time to begin planting your earlier seasoned crops kale cabbage cauliflower broccoli lettu any of your cold season crops he says anything like tomatoes summer squash sweet corn watermelons any of the more summer crops you're going to want to wait until those frost free dates so that's going to be after April 13 to 20th or so if you're not prepared to frost protect them Brett Luna Fox
17 news your code red station all right thank you Brett steer clear traffic out there for you this morning let's get to the very latest happening out there in the sea we've been following from Williams County I65 at i840 uh for the last little bit we've been following the scene where a tractor trailer somehow left the road and now is uh hanging off a part of the interstate this is uh down in Williamson County on that drive you can see it right over there this tractor trailer we believe was comi
ng up the ramp here at 65 trying to get on to 840 but somehow missed the curve and ran straight up the side of the uh of the grass there on 840 itself and that is where it's stuck nobody was hurt in all of this thankfully but it's going to take some grw some time to get this out of the way so let me show you what it's doing to that area there uh it's coming here 8:40 East is where it's impacting and uh if you want to take 840 to 65 going north you can't do it because they've got the ramp shut do
wn as that accident is right in here it is causing a big backup as a lot of people are coming gawking at this thing as they're driving by so heads up in that area you may want to use Highway 31 right here or 431 right here as the best way to steer clear other than that we are having some other types of drama across the Midstate we're going to try to get to your latest Drive times uh coming up here in the next few minutes as I've got those in the oven got to let them cool and you know present the
m to the people we'll have that in a few Justin thank you the good news is weather is not going to be issue when we talk about traffic conditions right now no weather does nothing to slow us down today it's just everything else that could be any daily impact to weather so don't worry about it here or to traffic I should say my Curious question that I asked you earlier about 5 minutes ago was which color star has the hottest temperature is it a red star yellow white or blue Erica is going with wh
ite is the answer here Chan what are you thinking I mean yes white hot but see I always thought for example when you have a fire at home or you li a match the blue is the hottest part of the flame or think of a or think of a torch when you start it up you are right it is blue then white then yellow then red so yeah both you kind of like A1 a yeah both you right there I mean those are the two hottest ones right there but there you go blue stars are the hottest ones they're also typically the smal
lest and have the most energy so just cuz you're big doesn't mean you're that strong taking a look here South Nashville Camera there's jodas Park home Nashville I see taking a look not much happening downtown school day forecast 44° first Bell as kids are getting home later today 66 if they have after school sports of any kind whether it's practice or any games no rain moving in just a couple of clouds that will pick up for us here a few showers overnight tonight into tomorrow a high of 67° toda
y and also tomorrow right side of your screen current temperatures are starting off in the 40s and then a dry weekend with both days in the 60s as well weather window presented by the National Weather desk Washington DC's famed cherry blossoms are in full bloom and provide the perfect frame from one of the city's iconic monuments and look is it a bird no and definitely not a plane but it sure looks like a puffy puppy dog Cloud taking a springtime stroll in the Skies over St Joseph Michigan Wedne
sday for more content like this follow the National Weather desk on Instagram hey chips aoy fans they're making some changes to the classic chocolate chip cookie recipe the company announcing yesterday yeah they're going to go ahead and launch a new recipe for their original chips aoy cookie why well you know something new something fresh it's spring just come on okay I I'll try to go with it here they say they're improving the taste with higher quality chocolate chips and they say more Madagasc
ar vanilla extract in the cookie that's very specific it is specific uh the new and improved cookie as they put it is also going to get a new package but listen don't be charging us more for it don't don't don't fix what's not broke and then charge us more for it we're going to be watching the big cookie debate let's talk about tax season it's Once upon once again upon us more on the deadline and what to do if you realize that yeah you made a mistake yeah it can happen and taking a live look thi
s morning over at First Horizon ballpark home of our Nashville Sounds uh did you know the first horizon Park was nominated for best minor league Bas on our full line of F-150s plus 1.9% financing for 72 months available some scratched some didn't some not but all with big savings Town and Country Ford in M welcome back to Fox 17 news this morning just a few minutes before 7:00 take a look at your screen right now look at these sweet faces they need good homes and over on our Fox National Faceboo
k page we've got so many of you talking about how you might be a great fit here uh an animal shelter this is in Murray County says they are just overwhelmed with the number of dogs that they have taken in recently and they are putting out the all call to try to get good homes for these sweet uh boys and girls here if you're interested in adopting you can visit the shelter it's on Maple leash Avenue in columia you can also head to Fox 17.com to find out operating hours and uh more links to how yo
u can bring one of these sweet look at the tongues out so sweet tongue out Thursday sweet babies's home now listen today is a great day weatherwise to get out there and see what dogs are available for adoption and walk a dog too oh 100% 67 degrees later on this afternoon we're looking real good similar start to yesterday morning in the 40s a little more cloud cover today than yesterday y but that's the one real feature the allergies are going to be tough just like they've been all week long that
's going nowhere until the end of tomorrow we need some rain to knock down all that pollen out of the atmosphere taking a look weekend plannner 62 degrees on Saturday 69 on Sunday I've really dialed it back a little bit on Saturday it made it a little bit breezier as well and I've also changed the timing of rain we'll see on your Friday a new look at Future Track as we go into our 7:00 half hour and become your only live in local new source straight through 9 ccar traffic for you this morning up
date coming in from the Williamson County Emergency Management agency they're telling us that they've got one lane now one lane of traffic open on i840 at I65 uh this is after they had that crash overnight uh involving that semi TR that uh somehow ran off of the road as a matter of fact we're taking a live look at it right there I65 at i840 there in Williamson County as you make your way out on I 840 East they do have one lane that is open thankfully you can see it right there as cars are trickl
ing by tow trucks are also in place to try to get this 18wheeler off of the uh off of the side of the road here in the meantime it is causing a bit of a backup there not just from I65 but also at 840 uh the backup runs all the way back down Thompson Station Spring Hill Highway 31 that could be a good way to see her clear 431 is another good way to see her clear we've got the latest Drive times for other parts of the Midstate yet yes there is traffic happening elsewhere we're going to get to that
coming up in a few Justin thank you talking about consumer news now and your taxes letting you know that you could avoid making some tax Mistakes by following some simple advice here yeah if you haven't filed already now would be definitely a good time to start and the experts say if you do make a mistake you the good news is you would have plenty of time to correct it before the April 15th deadline I know it can be complicated and and stressful but even the tiniest mistake can throw everything
off that happened to us once years ago we had to be audited because of one simple mistake uh so yeah give yourself plenty of time some of the common errors uh would be choosing the wrong filing status for example maybe you just picked the wrong filing status or you didn't list your dependence correctly or you have one number off on your social security number one number or one number off on an address the littlest thing can throw you off here and it could receive uh prevent you from getting big
ger credits and maybe even a bigger refund so if you're not sure what to do make sure you ask an expert also want to let you know about our reading initiative Sinclair cares nearly two-thirds of fourth graders in the US struggle to read at grade level which is why we're partnering with our Sinclair Sinclair broadcasting our parent company to go ahead and let you know about our reading is fundamental initiative it's all in an effort to support children's literacy scan the QR code on the bottom of
the screen to donate to our virtual book drive you're watching Fox 17 news this morning your code red station searching from the water from the land from the skies local volunteers ramping up their search for missing college student Riley strain what's law enforcement doing Fox 17 news live starting this hour as we work gather more information talking about the focus of this investigation moving forward and sunshine in mid-60s this Friday Eve but showers are in the future will it clear out in t
ime for the weekend we're tracking the full forecast steer clear traffic takes us to I65 and I 840 on the south side of town you can see a tractor trailer just barely hanging on to the pavement we're going to tell you more about this crash coming up in a few o not a good situation there thank you though for waking up with us here on Fox 17 news this Thursday morning I'm Erica Glover and I'm Jennifer wadell by the way that interchange is H common uh for problems like the one we're seeing right no
w so we'll get to Justin in moments glad to be your live local news source through 9:00 a.m. [Music] and we'll just do as exhaustive a search of the water and the banks as we can in that craft and we also have an air airboat coming back here he was here last week he's coming back here toward the end of the week this story has been making headlines for more than a week now in case you have not been following though we do want to take a minute to review the timeline of how we got to this point in
Riley's disappearance back on March 8th the 22-year-old college student disappeared after leaving Luke Bryan's Broadway Bar and then on March 12th we got a look at surveillance video that showed Riley walking down town on March 17th the bank card belonging to Riley's strain was found over on the riverbank and then on March 18th police released body camera video of Riley strain interacting with an officer on the night he disappeared that leads us up to now this Thursday a coalition of volunteers
from out of state the United Cajun Navy they have stepped in to help track down the 22-year-old Riley strain and it's now day two for their search efforts and the volunteers joining Fox 17 news is Kieran agular she's explaining what they've done so far and what they plan to do in the coming days good morning Karen good morning the United Cajun Navy has a mission to help Riley strain's family find him one of the volunteers tells me that they slept very late last night just to show you how much ef
fort they're putting into this and they also tell me that they're headed to the Cumberland River behind me near a boat R to begin day two of their search the director of operations David flag coordinated volunteers from North Carolina Alabama and Beyond came to Nashville with an airboat equipped with sonar and rescue and a hovercraft expanding the search that was done by Metro Police but there is still no trace of him heartbreaking news for the family Riley strain's dad says he is tirelessly wai
ting for any sign of his son and is grateful for the help it's a whole lot more resources than what we've had so far um of course I wish that could have happened a week ago it takes time to get this stuff in place these people have been so good to come out and help us uh we're tired we're real tired so some fresh people coming in is has really helped if you are interested in volunteering with the United Cajun Navy you can head to our website at Fox 17.com reporting live Karen aglar Fox 17 news y
our code red station 703 taking a look the three things to know when it comes to your weather forecast ining closer and closer to the weekend one of those is just about today clouds increase that is it temperatures very similar to yesterday upper 60s near 70° we're starting off on the right side of your screen with temps in the 40s the second bullet point is for tomorrow rain moves in after Sunset really will pick up on and off throughout your Friday not a rain out by any means but definitely gr
abbing an umbrella good news is though for tomorrow no severe weather and no thunderstorms are expected waking up right now 44° is sunshine beaten down on Lower Broadway barely a cloud in the sky but that will change very quickly leading into the second half of the afternoon especially a few more Hometown temperatures let's get into Southern Kentucky a little bit cooler cooler air already advancing ahead of our potential chance for the cloud cover later today we're talking low to Middle 30s all
through Southern Kentucky and then also out toward the Cumberland Plateau 46 right now in Lewisburg and 45 in Lawrenceburg so very hit and miss about a 10 degree temperature change and this is going to be our curious question for today yeah we're talking about stars and we'll tell you why in a few minutes but I want to know which star has the hottest temperature red yellow white or blue we'll be getting into that in a little bit and also your 7 day forecast and we'll time that rain for tomorrow
stair clear traffic for you this morning let's get you out to I40 at i60 Excuse me yes I40 at I65 they're on the South Side this morning that's down in Williamson County that's where we've been dealing with this tractor trailer uh that is uh hanging off of the interstate there t out adjusting their cameras thank you ladies and gentlemen over there at the Tennessee Department of Transportation can you zoom in for me can you do that I saw you tell can you zoom no okay maybe we'll see uh the tow tr
uck in place to try and get this out of the way thank you very much I know you guys watch I know you do I know you guys watch and it's okay we can see where that tractor trailer ran right up you can see it right there 35 M hours which is supposed to slow down to in order to take this ramp here but I don't know it would seem uh that the driver of this 18 wheather somehow missed a turn and ran right up the side of I65 on A40 right through the guard rail and that is what they're trying to deal with
right now as far as the cleanup is concerned we've got the contents of this truck hanging out of the back Cruis are on the scene now the good news is they've got one lane of 840 that has just reopened a short time ago so traffic can get by things are still a bit slow though Highway 31 Highway 431 those are going to be the best ways to steer clear now let let's get you the drive times happening from elsewhere because there is other things happening out there 35 minutes in from hitsville right no
w 84 minutes it's nearly an hour and a half coming in for Murphy's bro the good news is the longer you wait the more this time will start to come down coming in for Murphy's Boro just right now it's a tough spot 37 minutes coming in from Mount Juliet we'll continue to watch that as well Justin thank you very much 706 right now hey take a look at this the Murphy's Boro fire and rescue department just released some pictures of a big house fire that they put out this week these pictures coming from
their Facebook page the fire reported uh Tuesday evening you the flame spread quickly a family of five though able to get out safely no injuries reported thankfully the cause of the fire still under investigation no one wants to hear their voice or see their image taken without permission or used out of context this Landmark legislation will help protect Artists Against The those threats and set the stage for protection nationally and around the world a first of its kind could Tennessee be the
first state in the nation to pass a law protecting musicians from the impacts of artificial intelligence Fox 17 news is pton Muse breaking it down at 7:45 and up next we're going to tell you about a debate between State lawmakers who looked at a proposal that would ban cell phones from Tennessee CL this Fox 17 this morning newscast is sponsored by Tennessee home buyers coming up on 710 this morning and new this morning some Tennessee lawmakers were looking at a proposal that would ban cell phone
use in the classroom across the state of Tennessee now some say that the phones are a needed part of Tennessee classroom use for students they say they need need them for emergencies or perhaps catching students or teachers with bad behavior others say that the cell phones have become way too much of a distraction and are leading to more learning laws across the state now we heard from one Democratic lawmaker who is very concerned about safety and painted this example my daughter just graduated
from high school thank god um but but if she was in an emergency if there was an emergency at her school or shooting or something like that I absolutely would want her to call me first and not rely on y'all to save her life believe me it's best if the staff and faculty they're the ones with the devices to communicate with law enforcement with First Responders instead of confusing the issue a fifth grader with the cell phone is not the person who I want to be calling the shots is it relates to t
he protection of my grandchildren now keep in mind this bill did not pass that committee so there will be no Statewide law this year however local school boards can still make their own rules regarding cell phone use 7eleven your time the thing right now is the next weather maker it always is this time of the morning what's coming your way and it's going to be a rainy pattern for about 36 hours starting after after Sunset later on this evening into tonight and then tomorrow taking a look Future
Track just just a couple of clouds for this afternoon fairly easy to navigate through today upper 60s to right near 70 starting off in the 40s here this morning after 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. though a few shots begin to Bubble right near the state line they pull toward the I40 Corridor by 10:00 but look at how hit and miss these are this is not a rainfall uh event for everyone overnight tomorrow even rain coming in droves we're not talking about steady consistent rainfall Little popups here and there t
hroughout the afternoon and the evening but the time all is said and done after tomorrow leading into very early Saturday morning about a half inch of rain is possible and then we'll dry out after about 6 7:00 on Saturday for the rest of the weekend well up next we've got the very latest sincere clear traffic involving this crash on 65 at 840 how much could this slow down your drive in Williamson County we've got the details we're simply asking the FBI to follow of the law and release the docume
nts we've got new developments in the legal battles on our full line of F-150s plus 1.9% financing for 72 bus available some scratched some didn't some not but all with big savings Town and Country Ford in Madison 7:15 is the time and right now we're following a breaking news update this Thursday morning surrounding the Covenant tragedy and the fight over making the shooters writings public an online publication is taking the FBI to court and celebrating a victory Fox 17 news is Kylie Walker exp
lains more a federal judge has ordered the FBI to turn over the shooters writings to the court that judge will then review them and determine if they should be released last May the Tennessee star along with several other groups sued the Metro Nashville government for not releasing the shooters writings that case is currently tied up in court but the Tennessee star decided to take that battle a step further filing a federal lawsuit against the FBI the documents are public record and they should
be released uh Metro Government failed to release them we asked them nicely they didn't uh and they shared those documents with the FBI we asked them nicely in accordance with the law they didn't and so when the government entities don't comply with the law we have recourse through the courts Michael Ley with the Tennessee store says the documents could provide information to legislators and the general public that could possibly lead to steps to prevent terrible acts like this from happening in
the future what do you think that difference is between suing Metro versus you know FBI at first I thought we would be more likely to obtain the documents in state proceedings but uh there are a number of parties uh who do not want those documents revealed and have taken uh the legal actions to impede its release and again I think that is contrary to the public interest right now Ley believes it's more likely that the documents will be released either in full or in part first by the decision ma
de by the federal judge and I am fully confident that after she reviews them she will conclude correctly that it is in the public interest to have all these documents released and today we spoke with former FBI agent Scott augen bomb who broke down how cases like this work just remember there's evidence in a case the manifesto is evidence the evidence is property of the collecting agency Metro Nashville they turned over to the FBI the FBI would then turn it back over with the notes and everythin
g like that so the analysis and we also asked the FBI for their response to the latest developments at the federal level however we did not hear back as we've reported in the past Covenant parents have been very vocal this past year about not releasing the manifesto they've done this both in protests and in house hearings keep in mind we are just s days away from the Covenant tragedy's oneyear anniversary in Nashville Kylie Walker fox7 news your code red station Kylie thank you and if you would
like to catch up on previous coverage of this huge story just go to our website Fox 17.com and search Covenant want to say a big thank you this morning to all of our men and women who are serving our country in our community right now about 150 soldiers from the Tennessee National Guards 251st military police company are returning home today this this comes after a nearly year-long deployment overseas while deployed the majority of these soldiers performed missions in Bulgaria and Romania and pr
ovided security for other deployed military units scheduled to fly into smyrna's volunteer Training Site in two groups later today where family friends and fellow soldiers will be right there to greet them awaiting their return so thank you again for your service it is 7:18 right now and we've got a great morning on Tab as far as the weather is concerned and looking ahead Greg to uh potential rain moving in tonight might that calm down some of the pollen and the wind that's been blowing stuff ar
ound the last few days it will a little bit anyone who gets even just a couple drops of rain it's going to help the atmosphere is going to kind of Shuffle everything back down to ground level and thankfully we will feel a little bit better now we're not going to get as much rain as it looked like we were going to so it won't completely knock out all the allergies but it will definitely dampen them a little bit right now a look at giotas Park Nashville not back home until we talk about them playi
ng on March 30th taking on the Columbus Crew if you're looking to get tickets to go catch a game if you've never been to giotas park or actually caught a game it is such a great atmosphere out the door this morning the atmosphere is treating you pretty well as the weather goes Tak it a look here we have temperatures that are going to be in the 40s all the way through 9:00 50° at 10 and plenty of sunshine for now those are the two key words for now because later on this afternoon there will be cl
ouds that do creep in one last check of BNA for you this morning maybe you got that flight here later on this morning or this afternoon or vice versa someone's traveling into town 58 at noon 65° 300 p.m. no problems when it comes to Nashville itself when it comes to flight delays but we have seen about 13 delays so far thankfully no cancellations check ahead Nash weather's not going to slow you down so when the kids get home from school later today get them in the backyard get them outside if th
ey have any after school activities that maybe aren't in the backyard but they're on the baseball field and we're talking soccer here taking a look at temperatures that are going to be in the 60s throughout this evening right near 70 for a high we're not quite going to hit that Mark and we don't hit that Mark any day this upcoming seven days the one chance we might have to get that one would be Sunday but we have to worry about cloud cover that day too so the sunnier the the sunnier we are on Su
nday the better chance for a 70° High nighttime temperatures fairing pretty decently 40s right near 50 into the weekend C clear traffic we continue to follow that scene down uh to our South at I65 and i840 down in Williamson County uh that is where earlier this morning we had a driver lose control of that tractor trailer ended up dangling off the side of the interstate they're trying to get it clear right now but they've got a lot of work to do uh that is part of the load that the tractor traile
r was carrying there that is hanging off the side of the interstate the good news is one lane of i840 is open it was shut down for a couple of hours thankfully they've been able to reopen at least one lane there so you can't get by you can use Highway 31 or 431 to see her clear want to make note of one more thing coming out from Clarksville 81 minutes right now we do have a crash here along the uh I24 Corridor coming into Pleasant View you can take 41A to steer clear coming up Facebook comments
are continuing to pour in prayers as well we have not forgotten about 15-year-old Sebastian Rogers we're going to take a closer look at what we learned so far in the ongoing search efforts and the late breaking news this morning as we keep an eye out on the search for Riley strain in Nashville what you're looking at here is a live shot from C's Ferry where we've got teams of volunteers already out this morning as the Sun is up getting ready to continue their search we know that they searched the
Cumberland they searched near the chetam dam yesterday and they are back out again this morning we'll have live continuous updates for you also want to remind you if you are on the go this morning maybe you've got to leave in a few minutes and you want to stay updated on this story nmac loyalty cash during the Nissan Thrill of the drive Sales Event Matthews Nissan in Clarksville up to $9,500 off the MSRP on a new Armada plus get a lifetime warranty Matthews nissan.com just about 7:25 and we do
have a breaking news update regarding politics lawmakers unveiling a $1.2 trillion spending package just hours before a potential partial government shutdown while the package increases border spending and does include funding for the Departments of Defense Education Homeland Security State and the legislative branch a lot going on there House and Senate lawmakers face a Friday deadline this Friday to fund the government and it is possible that some government operations could shut down until a
deal is passed Erica thank you 7:25 is the time right now we have a heads up for you if you plan to travel at Nashville International Airport BNA is going to conduct a full scale emergency drill coming up Tuesday March 26th this is mandated by the federal Aviation Administration now the mock emergency scenario will feature an actual fire actual smoke and explosions during this planned simulation just want to emphasize this is a planned exercise okay there may be some taxi ways that are uh closed
during the drill but flight operations will continue on at BNA and other operational runways again one emphasize it's just a drill Dr we'll get the phone calls you'll see it you'll still be concerned we're going to remind you probably every day leading up to Tuesday yeah just to make sure you're aware 7:26 looking at your weekend Outlook I've changed things a little bit here nothing to worry about when it comes to rain today there'll be a few scattered showers overnight tonight into tomorrow bu
t that will also knock down our temperatures your Saturday 62 Dees and I've added a little bit of wind as well it will be a breezy day and partly cloudy the wind dies down a touch for your Sunday we stay rainf free for both days Saturday and into Sunday that's the pick of the forecast F if you want the warmth and the lack of wind but maybe you want to get up for an early morning jog on your Saturday looking really nice here we're drying out very quickly however there will be that rain that moves
in tomorrow how do you track it when you're on the go very easily scan the QR code right there on your screen you can get the Fox 17 code red weather app or you can go to the app store or Google Play Store good places to go you can also follow any of us on social media if you want to reach out just to say hi maybe you have a question a news tip or you're traveling I want to know your weather you can go to meteorologist Greg bobus on Facebook can go to our X pages on twitter.com or Instagram goo
d ways to find us coming up in our 7:30 half hour a new look at Future track for that rain tomorrow timing it out hour by hour and how much we will see coming up in a few minutes coming up next in our 7:30 half hour we'll take a look at steer clear traffic including this wreck in Bia semi that ran off the road at 65 at 840 Williamson County and an absolutely wild Story of Survival imagine being trapped for 12 hours under dirt and gravel that touch with Morgan Morgan office is so easy that even m
y grandson can do the good Feed Store improving people's lives 2 feet at a time you're watching Fox 17 news this morning your code red station volunteers are ramping up their efforts in their search for a 22-year-old Riley strain a University of Missouri student that has been missing for over a week now coming up I'll have the details waking up this morning here to some sunshine those clouds will take over for the afternoon and then rain tomorrow a brand new timeline in your Cod rad forecast See
r clear traffic takes us down to I65 at 840 in Williamson County we've had a mess here for hours we'll have the very latest on the cleanup efforts coming up in a few thank you so much for waking up with us here on on Thursday morning for Fox 17 news I'm Erica Glover I'm Jennifer wadell glad to be your live local news source always here for you through 9:00 a.m. want to get to our top story developing new this half hour yes so we now know it has been 13 days since 22-year-old Riley strain was ask
ed to leave Luke Bryan's bar on Broadway and has not been heard of since Fox 17 news reporter Karen agular joining us live near Shelby Park at the boat ramp there Karen telling us how one team is in there trying to uncover Clues and then what can we expect for their search efforts today good morning well Riley strain's dad was on the boat with the United Cajun Navy yesterday and he plans to be on the boat again today as you can imagine he is missing his loved one who still has not been found and
one of the volunteers of the United Cajun Navy tells me that they slept very late last night in their mission to help Riley strain's family they are still trying to make sure that they can find as many Clues as they can and even though they slept late they still plan to head to the Cumberland River behind me near the C's fairy booat ramp to begin day two of their search David flag Incident Commander with the United Cajun Navy tells me they didn't cover too much area because the air booat wasn't
working properly they did have a hovercraft however he says they scoured the banks of the river any sign that could lead them closer to being able to find him but again they didn't find anything he says they won't give up to help Riley's family found out from them what was going on and and the level of their frustration at that point we have the resources to be able to help we're not going to not help he says that six women are going to be in downtown passing out Riley's flyers and at 10:30 on
gay street they're going to be recruiting more people to help in this search reporting live in Nashville Karen agar Fox News your code red station Karen thank you let's get to another story that is making headlines here on your Thursday morning we have been working to keep you updated about what's going on in your communities and we go to Murray County uh to tell you about the man who was trapped in a chur pit shirt being a type of rock they were in there digging when equipment fell and he got t
rapped so he's safe this morning all right we know he's recovering in the hospital but this is the story right now over at Fox 17.com and you can see we have a gallery of about 27 pictures showing you an up close look uh at how this all unfolded we've got video on your screen right now showing you in detail so the Murray County Fire Department tells us they initially got the call out to a landslide just off of keg Springs Road uh around 11: :00 Tuesday night so they get there and they find this
equipment operator who was buried under debris and First Responders said they think he had been there for 12 hours by the time they got to him so the effort started very quickly a frantic effort to get this guy out uh they did finally do that after hours of working and they flew him to the hospital where he as I mentioned a moment ago is recovering this morning if you want to see the pictures up close they're impressive uh we've got them for you right now at Fox 17 right now though let's get a c
heck of that forecasting they're shaping up nicely here very spring likee on the baby Friday they absolutely are the weather story here mainly good things and I'll explain why rain really is a good thing we're going to have a little bit of it tomorrow but today another great day a little bit cloudier than yesterday when the clouds roll in early afternoon no indicators of rain after Sunset a few pop-up showers will be there this is a good soaking rain for us here maybe a half of an inch of rain b
etween tonight and the end of tomorrow no thunderstorm activ no severe weather we're leading into growing season planting season if you can put down rain steadily over a long period of time like that it's preo this time of the year weekend preview I've kind of dialed back the temperatures a little bit for your Saturday we're keeping the arrow down there on the all clear for our code rad Threat Level there will be that rain that does track in Friday I've got a look at Future track for you coming
up in a few minutes we'll time it out hour by hour and there's that dip in temperature starting Saturday today and tomorrow upper 60s 62 on Saturday 69 Dees on Sunday we'll look at tomorrow's rainfall and talk about next week's storm potential coming up in a few minutes Justin stair clear traffic for you this morning let's go to I65 and i840 at the junction down on the south side of town that's where we are dealing with this tractor trailer that left the road a little bit earlier in the morning
ran up the Hillside and onto another Interstate uh this is 65 uh if you were going Southbound here 65 going south to 840 that's where the crash is and authorities now have opened up one lane so traffic can get by here on 8:40 but the ramp itself is still closed for those of you trying to get out and about down there in Williamson County you can take 431 or Highway 31 as the best way to steer clear of that episode let's get you to 65 at Wedgewood on the south side of town still dealing with a bit
of a crash right here on the shoulder we had more cars involved than this but thankfully they've been able to get most of them out of the way here your overall Drive times and some of them are really slow Clarksville in the downtown at 85 minutes a real slowdown coming towards Pleasant View out of Clarksville Murphy's Boro 76 minutes that time is actually better than it was Mount Juliet at 48 minutes coming out of Wilson County in operation crime and Justice Murray County deputies are working t
o find answers in a cold case so we're going to ask you right now stop what you're doing take a look at your screen this photo this is Amber Kates 20 years ago Amber Kates disappeared well her family says they last saw the 16-year-old at her her mother's home leaving for a spring break trip with a relative we take and we have a lot of uh individuals that that may go missing through time and every one of those matter the Murray County Sheriff's Office putting together a Cold Case unit using retir
ed investigators as experts if you know anything about her disappearance we put the contact information for detectives over at Fox 17.com 7:36 is your time right now spring is sprung and I know a lot of you are ready to start planting in the garden we'll tell you what is good to go now but what you might want to hold off on uh for maybe the next couple of weeks yeah news you can use and state lawmakers consider the option of legalizing medical marijuana we're going to get your feedback on this p
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you are really starting to get that itch to plant something you know get the garden up and running a lot of people cannot wait to get out there Fox 17 Cod R neologist Brit Luna spoke with one local farmer about the kind of crops that you can go ahead and get in the ground right now and others that you may want to wait on just a little bit what started is just a very small roadside stand selling extra stuff out of the family garden has now turned into the 65 Acre leester Farms in Lebanon this yea
r they're growing Seven Acres of strawberries that'll be handpicked each morning and sold each day it's a beautiful s see these bright red fresh strawberries especially with a nice sunset in the background too and this time of year strawberries is all the top that is that's kind of what kicks off uh middle Tennessee's fresh fruit and vegetable season every year he still got a few weeks or so around April 15th until they start harvesting these berries and as for how long into the season they'll b
e able to pick for well it really just all depends on the weather but in the meantime they've recently had to deal with some freezing nights the average frost free date for Middle ten is typically April 13th to April 20th that's when historically we'll see our last frost but strawberry plants begin blooming out much earlier than that this year they started blooming around the 1st of March so that leaves about 2 months so they have to be ready to frost protect before the temperatures dropped into
the 20s earlier this week they were covering all seven acres of strawberries with two layers of the floating row covers to keep them safe if you're growing a garden at your home and you're trying to catch the season a little early and already have some vegetable plants put out m says floating row covers are a great thing to have on hand in case we have any more of these freezing cold nights you might want to hold off on putting all of your vegetable plants into the ground right now though if yo
u don't have any way to protect them but he says there definitely are some plants that are safe to plant right now right now would be an appropriate time to begin planting your earlier seasoned crops kale cabbage cauliflower broccoli lettuce any of your cold seasoned crops he says anything like tomatoes summer squash sweet corn watermelons any of the more summer crops you're going to want to wait until those frost free dates so that's going to be after April 13 to 20th or so if you're not prepar
ed to frost protect them Brett Luna Fox 17 news your code red [Music] station all right Brett thank you so much well in addition to getting out in the gardens you could have some visitors there too I mean it's also bug season yeah and uh big bugs this year the cicas are back for the first time in more than 200 years two separate types of cicada offspring are going to emerge we've got brood 19 which is set to come out this spring after 13 years of being dormant they will cover around 14 States yo
u can tell I'm so excited about this uh they will cover around 14 States across the southeast and the Midwest and at the same time the 17-year Brew 13 ccas will emerge in at least five different Midwestern states this is according to science alert.com this is the very first time that the double brood has happened in the last 221 years lucky us won't happen again until 2245 listen we get to live through history yes some people like the sound of the cicas by the way this is the kind of History you
wanted to live through 200 something years I think the country is barely 240 something years old so it's you know almost as old as the country itself we've survived a pandemic and now the double brood of cicas here we go hey uh this morning at 743 we've been following a lot of updates in ster clear traffic for you uh we certainly have we're going to get to the very latest uh happening there across that area we're going to get to uh I65 uh down in the Dickerson Pike area you can see where traffi
c is extremely slow there we're going to give you an update coming up in just a few and of course always keeping an eye on that forecast for you every few minutes we keep you updated with different angles on your forecast a live look now from Nashville over at giotas Park beautiful start to the day we'll join Greg in just a few minutes for AEP look in your forecast plus we'll tell you about the Mad Madness of March for the Tennessee Volunteers who they will take on in round one I'm Megan o' hall
erin Fox 17 is partnering with reading is fundamental to support children's literacy scan this QR code to donate to our virtual book drive I'm Blair Durham after a crash if the insurance company isn't helping you with your car how do you think they're going to deal with you about your injuries we say a Houston County Sheriff's Office vehicle crashed into a pickup truck and the pickup driver was killed we're told three others were also taken to the hospital but we don't know an update on their co
ndition the cause of the crash though is still under investigation 7:46 is your time new this morning here in the heart of Music City something big is happening today Tennessee is going to become the first state in the nation to pass a law protecting musicians from the impact of artificial intelligence Fox 17 news reporter pton is joining us live here in studio with how this law is supposed to work uh pton more importantly how many people it could impact right here in Music City good morning and
we are in the heart of Music City now this afternoon Governor Bill Lee is actually signing this bill into law with the hopes of Tennessee setting the stage for the rest of the country to follow the heartbeat of Music City Tennessee is home to some of the most talented musicians in the world which is why State lawmakers created the Elvis act ensuring likeness voice and image security people can take the image or the voice of an artist and create a whole new musical work a new sound recording tha
t sounds and copies an artist but is not actually the artist when a machine is able to take something and uh from someone's lifetime experience and recreate it without permission or take someone's voice and use it without permission uh let's just call it what it is it's wrong it's theft name image and likeness is already protected in Tennessee State leaders added voice to protect creators from AI there are many states across the country that already have what we call a right of publicity law sim
ilar to Tennessee but it's not clear if those laws apply to digital replicas and AI uh not every state includes voice which is you know why this bill in Tennessee is so important and we think there needs to be a federal standard you know there is no federal right uh to publicity to control your likeness or your image and we think that needs to change with support coming from both sides of the aisle I look forward to working together to address this proliferation of AI um that we're facing as a g
eneration this is we are in the future now colleagues and so this is something that we have to be proactive about it's only right that we lead the nation in this effort Tennessee is the music capital of the world and we intend to keep it that way now the Elvis act will be signed into law at noon today downtown at Robert's uh Western World and this law goes into effect July 1st this summer in studio pton news fox7 news your cared station pton thank you very much Tennessee State lawmakers consider
ing a bill right now that could lead to legalizing medical marijuana here in our state uh as it stands right now they are trying to pass a bill that would put that issue on the November ballot letting you weigh in on the issue 7:49 let's get a check of your forecast right now with our code red meteorologist Greg Bas Greg a very good morning to you happy baby Friday yes we're we're head so close to the weekend Spring weekend and don't let what's on your screen right now scare you away a little bi
t of rain tomorrow means nothing for your weekend weekend looks so good first weekend of spring we're going to be fantastic and honestly the rain that we're going to get is going to be helpful maybe you've started planting or you're going to just want to have a nice bed of soil that's nice and Rich with some water and not trying to chip away at it this weekend this is good rain moving in here overnight tonight into tomorrow starts very late today after Sunset steady rainfall on and off for your
Friday what I mean by Steady is when you get some rain that moves in it'll last you a good hour or two you'll get a break you may get another batch most of that afternoon toward the evening no storms likely but you'll want to have the umbrella and no major changes at the forecast other than smaller amounts of rain but still that steady rainfall is really going to be helpful here's 4 p.m. today rain starting to pop up in Northern Alabama other than that nothing happening in our area and here's th
rough 10:00 a.m. or 10 p.m. yeah not very impressive look dot dot dot you can connect the dots on the showers later today it's not going to be a line of widespread rainfall moving through the the morning hours of tomorrow this is a good change our rain chances for the morning hours of your Friday have gone down it is now afternoon and evening and they could linger into the overnight hours leading into your Saturday so that means that 6 7:00 in the morning Saturday a last push of a Sprinkle or tw
o cannot be ruled out you'll see that here going into 6 7:00 in the morning and then we're done the rest of the day looks great your Saturday and your Sunday shape up nicely Saturday I want to point out two things temperatures down a little bit we're not going to be in the upper 60s that day it'll be low 60s and it will be a little Breezy wind gusts up near 20 mph so if you don't like a windy kind of cooler day make Sunday your outdoor day but if you don't mind that both days look good to go nig
httime temperatures in the 40s to right near 50 for the next 7 Days our next bigger weather maker is going to be Tuesday of next week that'll be our big emphasis leading into and out of the upcoming weekend ster traffic out there for you this morning let's go to I65 at i840 at the junction this is down in Williamson County they have now two tow uh tow trucks in place trying to get this uh 18-wheeler that ran off the road earlier in the morning we believe firmly that it ran right off the road her
e this is 65 down below this is I65 this is the exit for 840 ran off of the exit and ran up the side of the road onto 840 there and nobody is hurt thankfully but uh it did cause quite a bit of damage one lane is now open there on 840 as you try to get by you can use Highway 41 as well as uh 431 Highway 431 and Highway 31 is a good way to see her clear it is causing a bit of a backup back behind this we're going to try to get to that a little bit later in the morning first there are other things
to tell you about this is 65 here at Armory drive just on the south side of town uh traffic is getting by here despite this crash no authorities getting there yet but when they do they're going to force everyone to move over and that is going to slow things down you want to take Franklin Pik is a good way to steer clear because this crash is going to get worse before it gets better Justin thank you you hear the music we're talking about sports this Thursday morning the Tennessee balls kicking of
f their NCAA tournament tonight and they're going to need they're going to need this guy okay that's number three the BS fifth year guard dton connect named the SEC player of the year last week now he's being named a finalist for the lud Olson National Player of the Year award this guy is on fire connect averaging more than 21 points a game shooting at 46 a half% overall and the vs are going to need those numbers tonight they're going to face off against St Peters to open up the tournament all r
ight so let's talk about Tennessee they're coming off an ugly loss yes to miss Mississippi State you know in the opening game of the SEC tournament at bridgstone Arena last week conect says they were not the aggressor in that game and that is not going to happen again listen we just weren't there we need to be uh we we're going to be more competitive especially uh we know it's winner go home and this could be our last game and we definitely don't want that to happen so we're going to come out re
ady to fight and be the aggressors all right we filled out our bracket this morning Erica and I did yes Erica's got Tennessee going all the way against Long Beach State I know some folks are like what I picked Tennessee to beat Long Beach State we'll see how it all fares out and it kicks off tonight the vaults are going to tip off at 8 to20 against St Peters we'll have all those highlights for you starting tomorrow morning at 4: and listen the madness already started for our Vanderbilt Women's B
asketball team the commodor is back in the tournament for the first time in a decade and they are fighting for their lives o okay we'll see the doors uh going to take on Colombia in the first four playin game winner moves on to the first round of the tournament we've got you covered with all the highlights tomorrow with the warm weather comes ample opportunities to embark on some Outdoor Adventures we're sharing some information as to where you can get some fresh air and hiking trails at parks a
cross Middle Tennessee and a gorgeous start to this Thursday morning a live look into downtown Nashville good morning to you whether you're waking up with us right here on your TV or maybe you're streaming live with us this morning we've got the show going up behind the scenes over on my Facebook page so if you want to join us live on Facebook head on over there and join in on the behind the scenes action the good Feed Store improving people's lives 2 feet at a time Hardy's Philly cheese steak f
avorites are back Handcrafted Creations with sauté peppers onions and melty cheese to reinvent the signature Philly Classics from sunrise to supper time asked you that question so let's take a look at some of your comments yes so we're showing you some of the comments right here on your screen we have one person Sayang spring and then Barbara Wilds writing spring and fall Jennifer Jameson says always summer Jennifer I agree with you Melissa Larson says I love spring my awesome birthday is tomorr
ow can't wait for the beautiful weather happy birthday to you and then Amy Lynette says flowers spring and fall are my favorite hey and if you don't like whatever season we're in just hang around cuz you know sometimes we get all four seasons in the course of 24 hours H lovely it is it is Middle Tennessee after all you never know Che now with our code meteorologist Greg I want to ask you Greg what's your favorite what's your favorite season Greg mine is summer but like the very beginning after e
verything is green vibrant we're not too terribly stuck in the 90s for two months in a row you're not sweating it out yeah early Summer's my favorite especially here and Jen's right we can get everyone's right we can get all four seasons literally in a day but there are also parts of the country that only get two seasons or they get all four of them and one of them is just like scrunched together so at least we get all of it taking a look 67 degrees later today similar start to yesterday yday wh
en it comes to morning temperatures in the 40s everyone always asks what's the weekend look like so just don't hide it here it is 62° on Saturday 69 on Sunday Breezy for Saturday so if you don't like the temperatures that are a little bit cooler a little bit cloudier and a little bit on the windier side that might not be the day for you but Sunday is nearly perfect up near 70 you can always follow along with any of us Jen right now is live on Facebook if you want to kind of see some behind the s
cenes I'm saying hello to them while I'm saying hello to you here on TV you can go there and always check out what's going on with us and you can also see that uh Twitter our X Pages or Instagram to reach out to any of us any questions or just want to say hi you're watching Fox 17 news this morning your code red station searching from the water the land and the skies we have local volunteers now ramping up their search for missing college student Riley strain Fox 17 news crews have been on the g
round Gathering more information we'll talk about the focus of the investigation here on your Thursday morning and this Thursday we are going to reach the mid-60s lots of sunshine but it's taking a turn tonight into Friday what about your weekend though we're going to have that full forecast help you plan it all out traffic this morning at I65 I40 as you make that drive down from the uh south side of town we're going to tell you about the trouble in waves and gy in just a few oo thank you so muc
h for waking up with us here in a busy Thursday morning I'm Erica Glover I'm Jennifer wadell Fox 17 news always your only live local news source through 9:00 a.m. when those other stations go to their National pre-recorded Network programming we are live and local just for you and we're going to get started with the story that is making international headlines for more than a week now in case you have not been following the story though we do want to take a moment to review the timeline of how w
e got to the point regarding 22-year-old Riley strain's disappearance back on the 8th of March the 22-year-old college student disappeared after leaving Luke Bryan's Broadway Bar and then on March 12th we got a look at surveillance video that showed Riley right here walking around downtown look at this and then March 17th a bank card belonging to the 22-year-old was discovered on the riverbank and then March 18th police sharing more body camera video of an officer in interacting with him on the
night that he disappeared that all leads us up to now this Thursday a coalition of out ofate volunteers they're called the United Cajun Navy have stepped in to help find 22-year-old Riley strain it is now day two of their ongoing search efforts and volunteers are out there busy right behind our Fox 17 news reporter Karen agular so Karen what can you share with us so far what are they planning to do now the United cjun Navy is on a mission to help Riley strain's family find him and one of the vol
unteers tells me that they slept very late last night but they're not giving up we already saw some of those volunteers behind me near the cumland river at the C's fa boat ramp they'll have an airboat and additional boats coming in today the Kines will be here any minute now according to a volunteer from the United Cajun Navy yesterday they spent hours scouring the Riverbanks and still no sign of Riley's strain or any new Clues yet metrop police and Emergency Management search teams also searche
d the water Riley's family is grateful for the help but they did need to bring those outside resources as the days go on and he is still missing Riley strain's dad says he is tirelessly waiting for any sign of his son it's a whole lot more resources than what we've had so far um of course I wish that this could have happened a week ago it takes time to get this stuff in place these people have been so good to come out and help us uh we're tired we're real tired so some fresh people coming in has
has really helped the public has also stepped into Help The Incident Commander of the United Cajun Navy says that six women will be in downtown passing out Riley's flyers and that they'll be holding an event at 10:30 on Gay Street to try to recruit more people for the search reporting live in Nashville Karen aglar Fox 17 news your code red station 8:03 our time looking at our forecast here and the big three things to know as we get closer and closer to finally being to the first weekend of spri
ng clouds will increase today throughout the afternoon toward the evening right now we're fairly Sunny rain moves in after Sunset and when I mean rain I don't mean blankets of rain thunderstorms the whole n no couple little popups after Sunset into tonight no storms expected no severe weather but rain will continue into tomorrow we'll see a few more showers in the morning and then a little bit of consistent rain on and off for the afternoon 45 degrees temperature right now Nashville seeing that
Sunshine right here on Lower Broadway everything beaming down couple of clouds are out there for now but overall we're mainly Sunny 42 in Murphy's Boro 45 in Lewisburg 41 in Dixon temperatures thankfully already getting a little bit warmer in Southern Kentucky where you were in the load of to Middle 30s about an hour ago now we're pushing mid to upper 30s if not hitting the 40° Mark let's get to your 7-day forecast just in case you got to get moving here I want you to know every little piece of
the information you need 67 degre today and tomorrow 62 cooler and Breezy on Saturday 69 degrees on your Sunday coming up in the next check of your code forecast we'll look at Future Track we'll do the hour by hour breakdown of that rain the pockets a dry time help you plan out your Friday and especially if you have plans Friday evening stick with me steer clear traffic at I65 at i840 let's get you down to the south side of town we've been following this since before the sun has come up and that
is that crash here at 8:40 here where this tractor trailer earlier this morning somehow left the road here at I65 ran up the grass and on to 840 right through the guardrail they've got a tow truck there in place theyve are lifting the uh tractor part of the tractor trailer in the air right now and are trying to get it under control I'm unsure what their plan is exactly uh but they're trying their best to uh uh try to remove this out of the way it has been causing delays in all directions everyb
ody around this wants to slow down and look including these cars they've been watching it now for a little while I promise you they want to slow down and look like see this there's nothing in front of this car he's just slowing down a look slowing down a look that's all this is so heads up there on that South Side you can take Highway 31 or 431 to steer clear we got a crash at 65 at Armory drive this is down on the south side of town near 100 100 Oaks couple of cars got together T dot is there d
ealing with that here's your overall Drive times right now as we get our 8:00 hour started 71 minutes in from Clarksville 67 minutes in from Murphysboro 37 minutes in from Wilson County wild story this morning from Murray County where Deputy say a gang member with a long criminal wrap sheet is now Behind Bars watch the video here on the top left of your screen because you'll watch James Rucker go into his home this all happened last week then you'll see the SWAT team move in and Rucker run out y
eah he doesn't make it too far deputies from Murray and Williamson counties and TBI agents look at this they pull up and they swarm inside of his home they were executing a search warrant for this area and you can see him in that top leftand corner right hand corner running off yeah right side white circle he runs out investigators say Jamie Rucker had been going out the back and when they went inside they found all kinds of cocaine meth ecstasy pot 40 $7,000 worth of money just stocked there in
cash Rucker now faces a long list of charges now a crisis in the classroom a Rutherford County teacher suspended after the board of education says she engaged in quote forcible physical contact with two students what does that mean well we've been diving into the records here this morning the Rutherford County Board of Education says Emily Romine was seen on camera from the Stewartsboro Elementary School cafeteria grabbing and pulling a student's arm pushing a student and then they said other p
hysical acts happened during about an 8 minute stretch of time the board voted last night to suspend the teacher for 15 days she was already on unpaid suspension before that vote no one wants to hear their voice or see their image taken without permission or used out of context this Landmark legislation will help protect Artists Against those threats and set the stage for protection nationally and around the world a first of its kind could Tennessee be the first state in the nation to pass a law
protecting musicians from the impacts of artificial intelligence our Fox 17 news reporter pton Muse breaking this story down at 8:45 plus State lawmakers looked at a proposal that would ban cell phones from every classroom in the state some education leaders say the phones are too much of a distraction but we're going to tell you why some of the lawmakers say the goods of these phones outweigh the bad th day a TMZ exclusive it's the Royal Scandal that's rocked the world tonight at 8 on Fox 17 F
ox 17 News investigates providing you more details more context more clarity on stories that matter to you the Blu behavior on the part of teachers and some students sometime we've all seen those videos go viral however education leaders on many different platforms are saying that the cell phones are way too much of a distraction and something needs to be done learning cannot take place unless a student is engaged and it's obvious that students are not engaged when they're spending time on their
cell phones when they're on their devices I've had the privilege of being in front of a classroom full of students and I will tell you firsthand my observation is cell phones are degrading the learning environment in a big way I would further submit to you that in my youth we didn't have cell phones and we got along just fine without them so saying that cell phones are a requirement is a bogus argument and I totally disagree with my colleague to my left over here that discounted the safety port
ion of this I think it plays a great role in safety of our students across this state when it comes to cell phones and notifications because seconds matter in the event there's an active shooter now this bill after a robust debate there did not pass the committee instead they have kicked it down to Local School boards who can still make their own rules in regards to cell phone use 811 your time looking at your CAD forecast we'll start here with Future Track working our way into our next weather
maker that does bring in some rain leading up to the weekend not for today thankfully we're going to stay dry just a little cloud cover that's going to pick up for us here on and off throughout the afternoon 4 P.M is the time to start watching well down to the south of Nashville right along the Alabama state line a few showers do track in for 4:00 until 10 p.m. a few of these little hit andm showers track into the area no Thunder no lightning not even heavy rainfall and those will linger in Mean
der on and off throughout the overnight and into tomorrow morning best chance for some more consistent and steady rainfall is going to be the second half of your Friday afternoon into the evening and then into the first half of the overnight leading into Saturday morning everything is light to really kind of grayish green here which means that it's going to be lighter rainfall by the time all is said and done leading Saturday into Sunday we'll have about maybe a quarter of an inch to a half of a
n inch of rain and again not worrying about severe weather this time around leading toward our weekend St clear traffic at 812 a quick look outside at what we're dealing with here I65 at i840 down in Williamson County they continue to work to try and get that 18wheeler off of the side of the interstate uh it's been there since around 5:00 5:15 this morning thankfully no one is hurt but it did cause quite a bit of damage there and a lots and lots of cleanup it's also causing Lots and lots of onlo
okers there in that area as well you want to take Highway 31 and Highway 431 as the best way to see her clear down there in Williamson County we'll continue to watch other things around town coming up in a few we're simply asking the FBI to follow of the law and release the documents we have new developments in illegal battle surrounding uh surrounding rather the Covenant School shooters writings in a few minutes we'll take a deeper dive into the lawsuit against the FBI we'll be right back North
Nashville's T of Country Ford in Madison scratchs and Dent time still going strong here and F-150s are the most popular in this big Sales Event F-150s xlts lariats Rous and Tuscany conversion trucks too do you need to sell a vacant house or a property that needs repairs inherited homes bad tenant celebrating a victory Fox news reporter Kylie Walker explains a federal judge has ordered the FBI to turn over the shooters writings to the court that judge will then review them and determine if they
should be released last May the Tennessee star along with several other groups sued the Metro Nashville government for not releasing the shooters writings that case is currently tied up in court but the Tennessee star decided to take that battle a step further filing a federal lawsuit against the FBI the documents are public record and they should be released uh government failed to release them we asked them nicely they didn't uh and they shared those documents with the FBI we asked them nicely
in accordance with the law they didn't and so when government entities don't comply with the law we have recourse through the courts Michael Ley with the ten star says the documents could provide information to legislators and the general public that could possibly lead to steps to prevent terrible acts like this from happening in the future what do you think that difference is between suing Metro versus you know FBI at first I thought we would be more likely to obtain the documents in state pr
oceedings but uh there are a number of parties uh who do not want those documents revealed and have taken uh the legal actions to impede its release and again I think that is contrary to the public interest right now Ley believes it's more likely that the documents will be released either in full or in part first by the decision made by the federal judge and I am fully confident that after she reviews them she will conclude correctly that it is in the public interest to have all these documents
released and today we spoke with former FBI agent Scott augen bomb who broke down how cases like this work just remember there's evidence in a case the manifesto is evidence the evidence is property of the collecting agency Metro Nashville they turned it over to the FBI the FBI would then turn it back over with the notes and everything like that so the analysis that was Kylie Walker reporting and as we have reported in the past here on Fox 17 news Covenant appearance have been vocal over the pas
t year in support of not releasing the manifesto Manifesto voicing their concerns at protesters and house hearings keep in mind next week does Mark the one year uh date since that tragedy now you can see all of our previous coverage since that shooting at the Covenant School back last year last March by going to our website Fox 17.com and search Covenant here's some good news in your community this morning want to give a big old welcome back to about 150 Soldiers the men and women serving our co
untry through the Tennessee National Guard the 251st military police company coming back home today it comes after a nearly year-long deployment while they were there a majority of the soldiers performed missions in Bulgaria and Romania and provided security for other deployed military units they are scheduled to fly into smyrna's volunteer Training Site in two groups later today they'll be greeted by the friends family and soldiers who have been uh very anxiously awaiting their safe return home
so thanks again for your service and uh we'll be glad to see them get home safely this afternoon uh looks like they're going to be able to dodge some of the showers Greg that you're predicting as we get into tomorrow so good flying conditions for them to come in this evening uh much better than it looked even yesterday so we've kind of lowered the rain chances and also kind of cond the rain timing but we'll still get enough to it'll help you out here when it comes to the growing season but noth
ing when it comes to Aviation and this should get in our way taking a look right now our camera overlooking geotus Park and Nashville SC taking on the Columbus Crew on March 30th here back home if you've not been to a game or been to gootus park boy is it a fun place to go and boy is the atmosphere electric take a look here what to wear kind of like yesterday any spring attire you want whether it's a dress it's just short sleeves maybe the shorts your favorite pair of shoes sun hat ball cap all
that's good you you can leave the umbrella at home nothing to worry about when it comes to rain today overnight tonight into tomorrow rain chances pick up a little bit but it's by no means an all day soaking event just a couple of showers here and there out the door here today on your Thursday your baby Friday goes 43 degrees at 9:00 a.m. 50 at 10 and 54 degrees at 11:00 continuing through the rest of today our temperatures eventually do get into the upper 60s so maybe when the kids get home fro
m school let them run around in the backyard get a little bit of that energy out and then take a look at the forecast going forward Ward we will dip a little bit in temperature going into the weekend we'll talk about that coming up in a few minutes St clear traffic this morning a couple of things to show you a couple of them are new this is going to be I24 at the Silman Evans bridge this is in downtown Nashville there uh as you approach the split between 24 and 40 there is a crash over to the si
de up against the barrier waiting on a tow truck in that particular situation is causing a bit of a backup through the heart of downtown want to give yourself an extra 10 to 15 minutes to get through the crawl there so you can get to your destination on the other side I also want to show you something happening on I65 this is at Armory drive on the South Side hey looks like it's over uh but authorities were just there with what they were calling police activity that is code forward for uh police
departments we're conducting some type of operation investigation handing out traffic ticket something like that but not an accident the other thing we've been following is this they are trying to remove this crash on I65 at i840 as this uh tractor trailer ran through a guard rail blocking up several Lanes here we're going to get into the details coming up in a few all right Justin thank you 8:21 is the time right now coming up in our newscast this morning as we're live through 9: the point str
eak continues for the PRS we'll tell you how the club is staying hot as they make a push for the postseason and hey just want to say thank you for waking up with us every morning on Fox 17 news we're your only local station with traffic and weather updates live from 4:00 all the way up until 99: you can also see the weather updates on the right side of your screen even during commercial breaks stay with us when your gut is out of balance your body gives you signs so if you're frustrated with occ
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e not forgotten about the missing 15-year-old with autism from suar County uh this is a story that has drawn a lot of attention and that is the search for Sebastian Rogers the TBI is saying that they are continuously going over surveillance video from Neighbors from businesses and so far there are just no new details about where Sebastian could be Sebastian Rogers disappeared from his home in the shackle Island community of su County not too far from Beach High School back on February the 26th i
t's hard to believe we're almost a month into into that story all right hey a heads up for you this morning if you head to Nashville International anytime soon especially next Tuesday BNA is going to conduct a fullscale emergency drill Tuesday March 26th and they're going to do all the things it's mandated by the FAA now this is not just something that they're going to do with you know a bunch of actors or something even though you know they will have that but full scale it's full scale which wo
uld include actual fire actual smoke actual explosion that are planned to happen during this simulation keep in mind it's all just a drill there going to be some taxi ways they going to be closed during this drill but flight operations we are promised will continue on there will also be several other operational runways taking place there at BNA as well all right 8:26 right now is your time getting closer to the uh time when the kiddos will be settled in school Greg for the morning and then befo
re you know we'll be looking ahead to the weekend that we will and later today upper 60s a little bit of cloud cover nothing nothing to worry about our rain chance that leads us into the weekend is tomorrow we'll turn off the rain and bring back some sunshine as we go later Saturday into Sunday a little bit Breezy though Saturday wind gusts around 20 M hour keep that in mind and also the cooler day of both of them it will only be 62 on Saturday we'll be up near 70 on Sunday rain-free both days s
uper looking Sunday and even the nighttime temperatures you wake up in the mid-40s both days you can always connect with us on Facebook our X pages on twitter.com or Instagram that's also where you would go me Al just greig Bas on Facebook to submit your dogs of the day and we'll have your curious question coming up for you as we go into our 8:30 half hour in just a few minutes also coming up at 8:30 we're going to get into deeper details about this crash at I65 and i840 down in won County how d
id this driver leave the road and uh the latest on the cleanup efforts the FBI claims that crime rates are dropping across the US how do you feel about that here at home we'll get some of your comments and why the Attorney General claims uh these numbers are legit imagine yourself in a new Toyota wow yeah I love it wo wa hey hey what are we Steve winners I love you get an exciting new 24K next waking up sunny and in the 40s but weather changes pretty drastically in the next 24 hours rain chances
move in then and then some wind and a cool down for the first half of your weekend in your forecast sear clear traffic takes us down to Williamson County I65 at i840 the work continues on a massive scene involving an 18wheeler I'll give you the details thank you so much you're waking up with us here on a Thursday morning for Fox 17 news I'm Erica Glover I'm Jennifer wadell Fox 17 news always your only live local news source through 9:00 a.m. and getting straight to our top story new this 8:30 h
alf hour yeah we're talking about how it's been 13 days since 22-year-old Riley strain was asked to leave Luke Bryan's bar on Broadway and has not been heard of since yeah so many questions about what happened to him and how for example Metro Police have responded that's coming on the part of the family Fox 17 news reporter Karen agular joining us live this morning at the Shelby Park boat ramp to tell us how far they've gone in uncovering Clues and what we can expect for today's search good morn
ing Karen we just saw volunteers from the United cjun Navy behind me by the C's fairy boat ramp checking out the current of the Cumberland River as they prepare to have their boats on there a volunteer tells me they will have an airboat and additional boats coming in today along with Kines I've seen Emergency Management search teams here already as well Metro Police and that search crew were on the water yesterday the United Cajun Navy made some progress on expanding the search but say they will
be going further today The Incident Commander tells me Riley's dad will also be on the boat with them so far no sign of Riley or any new Clues that's why the United cjun Navy decided to step in found out from them what was going on and and the level of their frustration at that point we have the resources to be able to help we're not going to not help the public is also wanting to help The Incident Commander of the United kingan Navy says that six women will be in downtown handing out Riley's f
lyers and at 10:30 today on gay stre they will be recruiting more people in this search reporting live in Nashville Karen AG Fox 17 news your code red station look at your forecast here at 8:32 and we're talking about temperatures right side of your screen that are already tempting with 50 degrees and some spots will be in the upper 60s later on this afternoon another great day a little cloudier by the time we get to the second half of today but right now sunshines winning the game rain takes ov
er tomorrow only for a day but we will have some showers that move in tonight and then the second half of tomorrow looking a little bit Rainier than the first half a preview of the weekend just tells us that we're going to stay dry but bold days about a 7 to 8 degree temperature difference during the afternoons that we'll look at we've changed that up a little bit here we're still all clear when it comes to any code red threats we have no severe weather no thunderstorms even as this batch of rai
n moves in but we will track it for you a new look at Future Track that we get every day between 8 and 9:00 you're when we're when you when we are your only live in local news sours take it a look here at your 7-day forecast 67° today and tomorrow there's the cool down Saturday 62 69° on your Sunday day Saturday a little bit Breezy we'll take a look at that updated timeline for your Friday rainfall and then I'll give you my first thoughts on any potential thunderstorms leading into next week on
Tuesday stair clear traffic let's get to I65 and I40 down in Williamson County that is where we are dealing with a tractor trailer that went off the road earlier in the morning and is now partially off of the interstate so let me paint the picture for you this is I65 right here this is I 65 uh going south as you head towards uh Murray County coming out of Nashville at some point right here at exit 59 this tractor trailer left the road and instead of making the turn on the ramp went up the grass
and on to 840 you can't do that they went right through the guard rail as a matter of fact we've got a picture that we want to show you here this is from the Williamson County Emergency Management agency they uh shot this picture overnight you can see where the tractor trailer came right up through the guard rail thankfully the driver is doing just fine you want to take Highway 31 and Highway 431 is the best way to steer clear because it is causing some delays as people just look at it as they d
rive by this morning Justin thank you 8:35 is your time right now there's a new report out from the FBI that claims crime rates in the US are dropping a lot of people calling into question how they've measured the data it's coming from about 13,000 law enforcement agencies that police more than 80% of the US the FBI says crime has declined significantly in the fourth quarter of last year in almost every category including murder violent crime and property crime but we've documented at least here
in the Midstate several communities where crime is on the rise attorney general Meritt Garland crediting the Justice Department's violent crime reduction strategy launched in 2021 but we wanted to get a pulse on this story right here at home what do you think do you feel like your communities are safer and as you can see based on our Fox Nashville Twitter poll that answer is absolutely no 87.9% of you saying no you don't feel like your communities are safer and uh not only that but so many of y
ou waigh in on this question over on my Facebook page uh where I ask this same question based on the stats from the FBI and the claims of communities being safer and crime being down I want to read some of your comments uh this is straight from you over on Facebook uh Brian Burke says unfortunately I don't believe a lot of what the FBI says anymore um John paage says yeah I guess it is referring to the crime numbers being down I guess it is when they let him go and don't record it uh you know we
've got a lot of folks Gary Luther saying no not in the buau doesn't feel saper uh Jerry says not in New York uh where he is myON Prader says no I don't believe it at all you've still got time to sound off leave your comment over on my Facebook page n operation crime and Justice Murray County deputies are working trying to track down any answers for a cold Cas so take a look at your screen maybe you can help this is a photograph of Amber Kates 20 years ago Amber Kates disappeared her family says
they last saw the 16-year-old at her mother's home leaving for a spring break trip with a relative we take and we have a lot of uh individuals that that may go missing through time and every one of those matter imagine if this was your relative the Murray County Sheriff's Office putting together a Cold Case unit using retired investigators and experts if you know anything about Kate's disappearance we have put contact information for detectives over at Fox 17.com just ahead State lawmakers cons
ider the option of legalizing medical marijuana we're going to get your feedback on the possibility and we know the cicas are coming go ahead and prepare now we'll tell you which brood we expect to see right here in the Midstate you're watching Fox 17 wztv Nashville one Perfect Pizza protein and a dough Fox Thursday go it's a Next Level Chef Pizza Park they want to directly Express their concerns over the Alaska Airlines accident and the production problems that are currently going over at Boein
g factories the journal says this meeting could happen as soon as next week as of right now though Boeing CEO is not expected to attend not expected Alaska Southwest America and United are the biggest users of that 737 Max plane Erica thank you 841 right now okay we warned you the critters are coming we're talking billions of cicas that'll be buzzing around parts of the country this spring and summer this is for the first time in more than 200 years we've got two different types of cicas too are
n't we so lucky they're expected to come out and emerge on us here now we're talking about The Brood 19 cicas they're expect to come on out after 13 years of hibernation they'll be out this spring they'll cover around 14 States across the southeast of the Midwest so that's the one that we'll likely see here and at the same time we've got this brood 13 so we have brood 19 and 13 13 is expected to emerge in the midwest according to sciencealert.com this is the first time that we've had a double br
ood happen in about 220 years and it likely won't happen again until the year 224 Twice The Brew twice the noise so uh won't that be interesting as well double your pleasure double your fun that's your feeling about it I have a different kind of feeling about remembering double mcum go ahead double mum yeah well double cicas out there let's get to your steer clear traffic uh we are dealing with some issues there on the south side of town uh Crews have been on the scene they're trying to remove a
ll of the uh content of that particular tractor trailer as you make that drive on I65 up near I 840 in Williamson County uh they've got a fork look a fork lift out there trying to remove whatever it is but it came dumping out of the back of that tractor trailer you can get by they've opened up Lanes on i840 and on I65 the biggest slow down you're going to get is people just slowing down to look at this as they drive by that is going to be the biggest thing everything else relatively tame as we c
ome towards the end of our 8:00 hour right now at 8:42 our uh Cod rad meteorologist Greg Boba says uh things are looking good uh for the early part of the day we're going to track some showers on and off as we get into your Friday live look from doodas park right now good morning to you and the governor will be down on Broadway later today and he'll be down there talking about artificial intelligence some people say it's the Devil in Disguise we're going to tell you how this technology could be
impacting Music Makers right here in Nashville good to be home Ashley's anniversary sale is going on now we're celebrating 79 years with exclusive deals on hot buys starting at just $3.99 or get low monthly payments with 0% interest for 7 years shop your local Ashley store today North Nashville's Hayes Nissan of Rivergate March Madness is here at Hayes Nissan has made special Arrangement all right Fox 17 news is pton Muse joining us in studio with how this law works now this afternoon Governor B
ill Lee is signing this bill into law with the hopes of Tennessee setting the stage for the rest of the country to follow the heartbeat of Music City Tennessee is home to some of the most talented musicians in the world which is why State lawmakers created the Elvis act ensuring likeness voice and image security people can take the image or the voice of an artist and create a whole new musical work a new sound recording that sounds and copies an artist but is not actually the artist when a machi
ne is able to take something and uh from someone's lifetime experience and recreate it without permission or take someone's voice and use it without permission uh let's just call it what it is it's wrong it's death name image and likeness is already protected in Tennessee State leaders added voice to protect creators from AI there are many states across the country that already have what we call a right of publicity law similar to but it's not clear if those laws apply to digital replicas and AI
uh not every state includes voice which is you know why this bill in Tennessee is so important and we think there needs to be a federal standard you know there is no federal right uh to publicity to control your likeness or your image and we think that needs to change with support coming from both sides of the aisle I look forward to working together to address this proliferation of AI um that we're facing as a generation this is we are in the future now colleagues and so this is something that
we have to to be proactive about it's only right that we lead the nation in this effort Tennessee is the music capital of the world and we intend to keep it that way now the Elvis act will be signed into law at noon downtown at Roberts Western World and this law goes into effect July 1st so this summer in Studio pton M Fox 17 news your CED station all right pton thank you very much Tennessee State lawmakers also working on something that could lead to legalizing medical marijuana in our state r
ight now they are looking at a bill that would do just that attempting to pass one that would put the issue on the November ballot uh letting you ultimately decide on the issue all right so we did ask over on our Fox Nashville X account what you think about this should Tennessee legalize medical marijuana is a lie poll asking that very question right now 77.1% of you all say yes you would not mind Tennessee legalizing medical marijuana you can go ahead and still let us know what you think by goi
ng to our Fox Nashville X account and here we are at 8:48 taking a look at the forecast quickly getting you going here on a Thursday morning what are we tracking what is the next big weather maker it moves in overnight tonight into tomorrow starting very late today really after Sunset a couple of pop-up showers South of I40 but really tomorrow is the main event of this and it's a smaller main event that we anticipated even 24 hours ago no thunderstorms grabbing an umbrella few morning showers af
ternoon and evening as well my Curious question this morning is which color star think about it stars are all different colors think about heat in general this will help you out a little bit matches blow torches which color star has the hottest temperature red yellow white or blue we'll have the answer for you here after we look at Future Track and time out that incoming rainfall nothing for today until well past 4 p.m. 4:00 to 10:00 popup shower at best that's pretty much it any little light ra
infall you get won't last that long tomorrow morning relatively dry we'll be tracking a couple light showers but it's not going to be a widespread event until late afternoon here's 5:00 p.m. tomorrow into the overnight a few more showers track in but the time all said and done about a/ inch worth of rainfall and the Curious question is which color star has the hottest temperature red yellow white or blue and if you guessed blue you are right if you guessed white you were real close those are the
two hottest stars we'll have one last look at your 7-day forecast in the last check of your forecast in general coming up in a few minutes steer clear traffic this morning want to continue to follow that crash on I 840 at I65 down in Williamson County we've been dealing with this crash since before the sun came up crews are out there trying to clear up the leftovers of whatever it is that was in this tractor trailer that left the road here at 65 supposed to take the ramp here this is a 35 mph r
amp right here on to 840 the driver missed it ran up the grass and on to 840 this way instead they've been there ever since Cru are trying to get it cleaned up but thp is on the scene telling us that it could be a while before they get it completely cleaned up and out of the way people are slowing down to take a look at it that is the biggest problem they've got going on right now you want to take Highway 31 Highway 431 as the best way to see her clear all Lanes of 65 by the way are open this is
840 up here that's being impacted we've also just picked this up this is I65 at the Fern Avenue overpass you make that drive into town heads up there as I just saw a t worker run out into the road Road heads up whoa slow down everybody looks like they are closing down the interstate here possibly so they can move this Crash from one side of the road to the other this is impacting everybody coming in from the north side you want to try to take Ellington Parkway or perhaps Dickerson Pike as the b
est way to steer clear until they get this ah I see now here comes the ambulance so the ambulance and the fire department are getting in they wanted to make room for them they're from the north side so heads up this could be with us for the next 30 or minutes or so talking about sports the Tennessee balls kicking off the NCAA tournament tonight and they're going to need the help of the guy right behind me here you know D connect yeah he's been the Superstar this season he's a fifth year guard fo
r UT named the SEC player of the year last week now being named a finalist for lud olssen National Player of the Year award this guy has definitely had a season connect is averaging over 21 points per game while shooting 46.2% overall balls are definitely going to need those numbers tonight that's when they face St Peters to open up the tournament all right Tennessee coming off that ugly lost to Mississippi State in the opening round of the SEC tournament here in Nashville last week that did not
go the way they had planned uh neck says they weren't aggressive in that game and he says that's not going to happen again so Dalton connect and the ball is going to tip off at 8:20 tonight against St Peters oh man I'm going to have to stay up late to bar height and everything in between seating for 8 to 10 or more not a problem make a Splash Pools and Spa starting at $29.99 huge savings on pool tables game tables and more spring sale going on [Music] now here's a recap of our top stories as we
uh wrap up our Thursday morning here all hands on deck in the search for Riley strain local authorities yes have been involved but we are seeing more and more volunteers show up they're searching the land they're searching the water even uh launching drones so we'll continue to press for answers and work gather more information as they are entering a new day of searching for that missing college student we also have some new information this Thursday morning when it comes to a federal lawsuit a
gainst the FBI to release the Covenant Shooters writings publicly we've been following this story from the beginning this does come nearly a year after the Tennessee star suit the bureau and now a federal judge ordering the FBI to turn over the shooter's writings to the court that judge will review them and determine if they should be released the Tennessee star previously sued Metro Nashville government for not releasing the manifesto before taking it to the federal level next week by the way d
oes Mark one year since the deadly shooting at the Covenant School where we lost three staffers and three children I State man is safe after being rescued from a collapsed rock pit this happened over in Murray County so look at the photos the Murray County Fire Department says they were called to a landslide on keg Springs Road it happened around 11:00 Tuesday night yeah so they get there they find the guy was operating equipment there he was buried in the debris they think they he had been ther
e for 12 hours so of course they frantically get in there trying to get this guy out they were able to do so they flew him to the hospital where he is recovering this morning we're going to check in now with our Cod meteorologist happy Thursday happy Thursday indeed 67 and partly to mostly cloudy by the end of today after dinner time a pop-up shower or two between then and midnight and then a couple more overnight tomorrow's rain Outlook looking relatively dry for the morning then the afternoon
toward the evening scattered rain showers no Thunder no lightning no severe weather about a half of an inch of rain ZTV Nashville the Fox 17 code red weather app your first line of defense when severe weather threatens download the Fox 17
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