live from downtown Detroit Local for News at 6 Starts Now an Oak Park woman in a battle to get life-saving medication tonight she's calling Hank for help and what's happening right now to her may be happening to you thanks for being here with us for the news at 6 I'm Kimberly Gill I'm Devin kilan a massive Cyber attack affecting one of the largest Health Care Providers now impacting the insurance and billing for many who rely on critical meds to survive our consum investigator Hank Winchester li
ve tonight very concerning story here Hank Devin absolutely and as we mentioned not just for that Oak Park woman but for people across the country dealing and being stuck in the middle of this big mess take a look it it's very scary it's it's nerve wrecking for Ailyn McCulla the clock is ticking if she doesn't get her prescription medication soon she could face a medical crisis it it affects me it's on my mind constantly I'm nervous I can't sleep I can I mean understand like you you are thinking
am I going to get the medication I need to live right exactly the liver transplant recipient relies on these anti-rejection meds to live but her Pharmacy and insurance provider telling her they may not get delivered that's all because of a massive Cyber attack and they said they're working on it you know but does that solve my problem it doesn't not at all she just received this text message notifying her that the third- party processor is currently experiencing an issue that may prevent the di
scount from applying at the pharmacy there are many medications anti-rejection medications even insulin that are very common and without them people can die and aelin is not alone this problem affecting millions of people across the country here's local Ford doctor Frank McGeorge a lot of forethought has to go into it though if you're on a lot of these critical medications essentially having a stockpile in case of an emergency like this but sometimes unfortunately it just means someone has to bi
te the bullet and really pay cash for it until they can get these kinds of issues sorted out and these issues are very complicated and confusing we've been working the phones all day long regarding aelin's own situation now we are being told from her insurance provider that those meds should be to her by the end of the week and that she would only be responsible for the co-pay but as you heard Dr McGeorge say many people who are dealing with the situation right now not able to get their meds or
have the co-pay waved well they could be on the hook if they need that medication ASAP we're live here tonight Hank Winchester help me Hank back to you I'm curious and I'm afraid I know somewhere where the answer will head but if insurance is not an option because of this glitch what do these medications out of pocket cost yeah Devin you're right there because in this particular case her medication would be at least $2,000 a month that is a 30-day Supply and that is on the low end so you can ima
gine why people are scrambling trying to get this taken care of but as we mentioned it is very complicated right now sure there is all right Hank now this woman reached out to Hank for help and you can too go to Hank you can reach Hank via the local for help desk which is a click on detroit.com the QR code here on the bottom of the screen will take you right there you can also text pictures or video to the phone number that you see listed here 31 3588 0425 but today was not the first time securi
ty camera footage of the Oxford school shooting has been shown in a courtroom but this was the first time the jury and the James crumblyy involuntary manslaughter trial saw that footage Shan L live at the Oakland County Courthouse where it was apparent the defendant himself was seeing that video for the first time today Sean very likely seeing the video for the first time Kimberly Devon good evening to you I can I can't even express how gut-wrenching the afternoon session here in the James Crumb
ley trial was for everyone in that courtroom including the defendant of course including the jury the final images the prosecution is leaving this jury with is of the defendant James crumley's son opening fire on his own classmates with the 9mm he bought for him let me know please when you recognize the shooter in this Frame late today prosecutors playing for the jury the security camera video from inside Oxford High School 12:51 p.m. November 30th 2021 that is a defendant son yes James Crumbley
reacting to the sight of his son coming out of a restroom and opening fire on his fellow classmates with the 9mm handgun his father had just bought his son 4 days earlier prosecutors say Crumbley is in part responsible for the deaths of Justin Schilling Madison Baldwin Hana St Juliana and Tate Meir prosecutors presenting his son's Journal his plan cover to cover detailing the shooting so out of the the pages with writing in that journal how many contain reference to the school shooting all 20 t
o prosecutors alleging crumbly of ignoring his son's cries for help I want help but my parents don't listen to me so I can't get any help that's page five this is page 19 what does it say my parents won't listen to me about help or a therapist Crumley buying the 9mm Sig sour semi-automatic handgun for his son his son's Journal spelling out exactly why he wanted that gun for first off I got my gun it's a SP 2022 Sig hour 9 mm second the shooting is tomorrow I have access to the gun and the ammo b
ack here live some of the final words the prosecutors are leaving this jury with I have access to the gun and the ammo that is the prosecution's case right now they're expected to rest sometime tomorrow morning guys back to you yeah all right Sean we appreciate it and you can watch the trial live every day on local for plus we're streaming all the testimony as it happens with Christie McDonald guiding you through the process if you don't have local for plus you can scan the QR code on your scree
n or download the app wherever you find your streaming content the search for a missing 13-year-old girl from Detroit leads police to the Rouge River on Detroit's West Side Isiah Harris last seen January 9th as she got off a school bus there's been no sign of her since Pamela Osborne's been following this story all day uh police say they have spoken to a number of people about Nazi's disappearance pamel Devon that's right and there is one person that the chief says concern them with just how muc
h information that they knew about this case but the chief did fall short of calling that person or any of the other people they've spoken to as a person of interest that search it went on for hours today and investigators they came up empty the goal of course is to bring some closure to the family uh to identify uh where uh little naah is for hours specialized teams of investigators from all over Southeast Michigan walked the Rouge River near 7mile in shasi there's something you know very speci
fic about this area that we want to take off our list in all 13 different agencies worked alongside Detroit police in hopes of locating naziah Harris today's search ended with without her she will come up she look at me say hey D mvin Jennings is missing his daughter he's out every single day passing Flyers out 1800 speak up crime stopper flyers every single day in every area that the search has been commissioner Tamara Smith says in all of her years of handling missing persons cases she's yet t
o see one like this naiah hasn't been seen since January 9th mvin is desperate to know what happened to little girl and why the grandmother who was Raising her has cut off communication why aren't you helping us y'all claim to love that baby that baby was over in your care mama you said you would take care of her for us and Isaiah's father believes somebody out there has information that could help bring her home he alongside Detroit police are asking anyone with information to come forward by c
alling Crim Stoppers at 1 800 speak up reporting live at Detroit Police Headquarters I'm Pamela Osborne Local 4 boy all right Pamela a local man is convicted of setting a string of semi-truck trailer fires in the southwestern parts of the United States the six fires were set over a span of 10 months in 2022 in parts of California all of the trailers set on fire belong to Swift Trucking and they were all parked at or near a truck stop putting other people's lives in danger well today a jury found
vril preop of Allan park there he is there on your screen found him guilty of six counts of arson pre-ops cell phone was present at all six California fires as well as 18 others across the country investigators believe he held a grudge against Swift Transportation after he was caught stealing items from Swift trailers the fires began soon after pre-op served time in that case what a day was it nice just to get outside a little bit and oh it felt so good I I was saying earlier it felt more like
May than March let's get over to Kim Adams in the forecast Kim it really did I mean this is just such a gift for us March can be a really tough month to get through here in metro Detroit we're all kind of tired of winter and cold weather so this has been a really nice stretch for us 66 in Detroit 66 in house 67 in Pontiac upper 60s even 70s in some spots it hits 70 at City airport and 70 in Mount Clemens this afternoon and it's about 10 to 15° warmer than it was yesterday we get one more warm da
y tomorrow and then some changes we've also seen some clouds roll in and kind of sck us in the last hour and a half of daylight is pretty cloudy but it's still mild and then tomorrow we go right back into the upper 60s now for the 313 Day celebration it's going to be close at this point it does look like it will be dry there's a slight chance of a shower after about six o'clock but most of that rain should stay down along the Ohio border but we'll talk about a big change to the weekend forecast
and it I don't think you're going to like it but you need to see it if you're making plans for St Patrick's Day that's coming up
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