this morning but good news the rain breaks up we'll see a clearing Skies we may see a flake or two flying a flurry here or there uh as we get into the afternoon as the energy moves its way on through we still have some lowle moisture but the atmosphere really dries out from top to bottom uh already starting to see some drier weather conditions for the Cumberland plateau uh from Crossville FIS County all the way down to Ray Megs County still with us here in the valley locations with some heavier
showers pushing into Sweet Water but that's the whole storm system I boy I tell you what travel conditions have deteriorated around our region rapid ly and through the day today this will quickly race its way on out of here so improving weather conditions for us staying on the chilly side here today but at least there's warmer weather on the way not today but as soon as tomorrow we just got to get through today the weekend's looking pretty good the weekend is looking awesome I think we're all si
ck of the rain uh clearly I am done all right you go back to practicing Talent okay we'll come back and and see how's it going over there in your morning headlines today the TBI is now identified a woman killed more than 30 years ago who may have been a victim of the redhead killer on April 14th 1985 a young woman's body was found along I 81 in Green County investigators now say the victim was 17-year-old Elizabeth Lamont the teen disappeared from Manchester New Hampshire in November 1984 she wa
s placed at a Youth Development Center left the facility on Furlow and never returned she wasn't reported missing to police though until 2017 after they got a tip about a separate case her brother submitted DNA samples as part of the missing person's case and then police learned the DNA matched the murder victim in Green County her family has now been notified the TBI wants to hear from you if you have any information on her death at least one person from me Tennessee is now dead from a growing
hepatitis A outbreak the State Health Department couldn't release any other information about the death there are 449 cases Statewide that includes 134 in Nashville and 2011 in its surrounding counties the state's second most impacted city is Chattanooga with 40 cases hepatitis A is a liver infection caused by a virus symptoms include fever nausea abdominal pain and jaundice it's most commonly spread through contaminated food and water or close contact with an infected person hepe vaccines have
been standard for children for about 10 years now but most adults haven't been vaccinated some noox area hospitals didn't make a grades when it comes to patient safety that's according to a recent study from the nonprofit group Leap Frog here's a breakdown Parkwest Medical Center Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center and Turkey Creek Medical Centers all got b-grades Blunt Memorial Hospital got a C and lant Medical Center got a d a professor at the UT College of Nursing says patients should pay at
tention to scores on handwashing patient falls and blood infections I think people have to be appropriately assertive and vigilant and keep the conversation going ask the providers what they're doing ask your doctor about a score that might concern you UT Medical Center Morristown Hamlin healthc care system and Methodist Medical of Oakridge did score a greates students in Oak Ridge now have access to therapy services right inside their schools it's thanks to Rich viw Behavioral Health Services t
he students together advancing resilience or Star program started at Willowbrook Elementary educ say they needed a way to help address childhood trauma now star is districtwide Teachers say since it started in 2015 attendance has grown and behavioral issues have gone down today is America recycles day and keep Knoxville beautiful is celebrating with a get off your glass event if you bring a glass to recycle at beard and Beer Market between 5:00 and 8:00 p.m. they'll give you a free Sierra Nevada
beer when you purchase a pint keep Knox still beautiful says the event is to encourage recycling since residents can't put glass in their regular bins also today thousands of people are registered for the America's Got Talent auditions right in downtown Knoxville and Abby has been there all morning all right you've seen an Elvis impersonator you've seen someone with a whip who else have you seen out there the whip that one really stood out you know you got to make your mark somehow I guess um w
e have seen I don't know we've seen a lot of singers we've seen some young kids we've SE mini Dolly Parton I mean this is going to be an interesting day for East Tennessee to Showcase its talents and I think it's going to happen in a big way we know East Tennessee has talent now America's got talent's going to know it too thousands of people expected down here today the audition's just started 7even minutes ago they opened the audition room doors they did let people early in though because it's
cold and rainy so people were able to file in and enter the convention center doors which is great news for all those folks they were really grateful um we should remind you if you're headed down here know where you're going to park that is very important there are of course parking garages the cat bus is offering service if you park at a certain location they'll bring you down here and also Security's tight you've got to have your ID on you and if you are younger than 18 you have to have a pare
nt or Guardian with you so just make sure to keep these things in mind if you're headed down this way still we plan to see a ton of people out here today and ju we are going to be here live all show um and then tonight we'll have a full recap on our six :30 and our 10:00 newscast Heather oh it's so much fun I can't wait to see people's talents and you and Russell and Mike actually are going to show us some of yours tomorrow right maybe uh yeah let's just say uh this is going to be interesting I'
m sure it will be all right Abby thank you you're watching Fox 43 news this morning coming up colleges are becoming more aware of a growing problem on campuses how they're trying to to help homeless students plus if you're heading to a concert at the Tennessee theater you might want to check your ticket how it's trying to help people be aware of ticket scams from third-party sellers that's next [Applause] good morning another sloppy start to our workday school day but uh hopefully rain will be t
apering off here just a little bit we'll check in with might can get details on that but so far we're okay interstate traffic you know volume picking up and stuff here especially circle around on 640 coming around from say Clinton Highway or 75 all the way over to 40 over on the west side a little slow but not too terribly bad Interstate 40 traffic in pretty decent shape as you head through downtown 40 East and West there right around 275 in James White Parkway no major wrecks caus any problems
on the interstate one wreck did happen at Johnson and Louisiana vehicles running into a house there we will keep keep you updated in the 10 News traffic center let's get those weather details from Mike morning Mike and good morning to you once again and so kind of another cloudy gloomy winterlik day and I say winter-like because average temperatures for this time of year are 61 degrees not in the 40s we're going to stay in the 40s again here throughout the day today let's take you outside show y
ou what it looks like up and down Alcoa Highway here at this hour kind of like that uh just that gray sky that we're hanging out with us here this morning uh so really just some nasty conditions to uh get the morning started temperatures right now 43 we're going to see those temperatures stay steady or steadily decline as as we get past about noon to 1:00 this afternoon that's when temps start to fall into the 30s and for the evening Rush Hour we're going to be right into low to mid-30s and I th
ink fre you folks in Cumberland County you're going to be much much colder than that still have some uh steady rain showers a little bit of banding going on here on the back side of this low pressure system uh something that you typically see with the winter weather uh in the snowfall you get those little bands that set up you can kind of clearly see that as it rotates through the atmosphere but uh the big old system is moving its way on out it's a mess across the Ohio Valley in the Pacific nor
Pacific Northwest not even close uh the Upper Midwest and even along the Appalachian Mountains where we have some cold air it's called cold air damning means it gets stuck uh cold air is very shallow and so it just can't go up and over the mountain so we have rain here but it's a winry mess off to our East and Northeast and that's where uh the national weather service has upgraded winterstorm warnings up and down the Appalachian mountain region uh from Virginia West Virginia even over into North
Carolina winter weather back off to our north and west cold down across the Deep South and possibility of some flooding across parts of the Carolinas throughout the day today but again this whole system quickly moves its way on out so the impact is going to be a little bit lower because it is moving faster and then look at this Sunshine returns tomorrow it's going to be a beautiful end of the week heaviest rainfall nation's capital heaviest snowfall over into Pennsylvania and parts of New Engla
nd along the Poconos and we'll see some icing we've already had reports of icing up near Boone North Carolina across Beach actually being report reported by uh law enforcement up there forecast high temperatures staying stuck in the 30s and 40s and look at this 7-day forecast we're going to see those uh temperatures rise into the 50s by tomorrow upper 50s uh later on this for the upcoming weekend and then next week looks like we're going to moderate a little bit and believe it or not the climate
Prediction Center Heather has been predicting maybe slightly above average weather here by the uh let's see by the end of the month it's about time it's been so cold it's been cold man I need the Sun and you know what I'm looking forward to washing my car it's so dirty yeah yeah yeah are you going to wash it or is the hubby I'm going to take it to the car wash oh fair enough to the car wash you can wash it if you want are you going to dance at the car wash no I am not going to wash your car I'm
not even washing my car I DED in your morning headlines today Tennessee released a result of its first ever safety review of every school in the state and there's are some areas that need improving the areas where most schools scored the lowest include surveillance and vehicle and access control to buildings the report says these areas may have the lowest scores because they often cost the most it also found weaknesses across the state in the documentation of Emergency Operations plans and not
meeting emergency drill requirements the department of Ed plans to offer districts more training in both of those areas Governor Haslam ordered the assessment after the Parkland Florida shooting where 17 people were killed Knox County Schoolboard members approved a plan to offer early retirement to hundreds of employees veterans in the classroom and administrators need at least a decade of service in the county their salaries would drop but those retirees could return on a part-time basis if the
ir jobs aren't filled by the end of the summer nearly 700 employees would be eligible for the early retirement program colleges across East Tennessee are bringing awareness to hunger and homelessness on their campuses many students rely on food pantries at the schools and donated clothes to make ends meet others take the bus for more than an hour every day just to make it to campus but they say getting an education makes the sacrifices worth it at least 60% of our students right now if free and
reduced lunch were available to college students would qualify fippi State also has a scholarship for homeless students it was started by a previously homeless student and so far they've given eight people the chance to get an education with plenty of holiday concerts coming up the Tennessee theater is warning about ticket scams it says third party sellers are buying up tickets to create a demand then selling them at massive markups Daniel secton explains how you can avoid the scam if you go onl
ine looking for Tennessee theater tickets click on any of the first four links that come up you'll see this tickets to the upcoming Beach Boy show as high as $600 go to the actual website the most expensive tickets are just 104 sometimes I've heard someone say wow I can't believe you're charging $800 for that concert and we say well we're not but somebody is third party sellers less fondly known as scalpers are buying up tickets creating a demand and upcharging Big Time their websites look legit
they even have phone Representatives it's not illegal just a ripoff and it happened to Bob Greenberg when he tried to buy tickets to an Allison cruss show what bothered me was that this was supposed to be the pre-sale and we were already in the back of the theater he paid about $135 for each of his four tickets they should have cost between 60 and 80 3 days before the concert he got an email saying there were no tickets I don't know if they wound up selling our tickets for a much higher price o
r if they simply never had the tickets at all this is not an isolated incident in some pre-sales thirdparty buyers had over 15% of tickets we sold 54 tickets to someone in Hawaii that definitely tipped off a red flag for us I don't think that we really would have sold 54 tickets to real people in Hawaii Bob got his money back but many don't The Unlucky people are the ones that show up the night of the show with a ticket that's not a good seat and if they did not buy the ticket from us we can't r
efund their money it's not our money that was Daniel seon reporting they say to verify their website that's where you should buy the tickets the vs basketball team's future is looking pretty bright two class of 2019 prospects have now signed their National letters of intent that includes five-star point guard Josiah James he's the highest rated Prospect to sign with UT since tobius Harris back in 2009 beard and forward Drew pimber also signed to play for the balls he says it's an opportunity of
a lifetime and the lady balls are celebrating a couple wins this morning the team had three players signed letters of intent to round out a top 10 recruiting class that includes the nation's number two overall Prospect and the current team is on a roll with their second win of the season they beat UNCC Asheville last night 73 to 46 they host Texas A&M on Sunday you're watching Fox 43 news this morning when we come back with Christmas almost here nearly half of Americans are stressing out over fi
nances how you can avoid all that stress next you're watching fox43 news this morning Sam Club is offering the first taste of the holiday season starting tomorrow the retailer is hosting a special sample session in some of its stores you can taste test appetizers dips turkeys mac and cheese even pies before deciding what to make on Thanksgiving each participating Sam's Club will host the event daily from 11:00 a.m. until 6:00 p.m. through November 21st and get this the company estimates they'll
hand out more than 15 Tons of food during that time well you know that feeling you get when you eat way too much a new study shows Americans spend 213 hours every year in a food coma that's nine whole days some of the most common culprits of putting you in a food coma turkey mashed potatoes Pizza fries tacos all those carbs experts also say the best food to eat is oatmeal because it balances your blood sugar well it looks like it will cost you a little less to get Thanksgiving dinner on the
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