a day of good luck and green beer how you can celebrate St Patrick's Day this morning and your St Patrick's Day forecast is looking pretty good I'm going over what you can expect we didn't know last game it's going to be our last game with him Incarnate Word basketball facing a challenge bigger than just the Championship today in St Louis weekend edition starts right [Applause] now this is today in St Louis focused on you are you up are you up I hope you got your radios turned on and your ears p
erked up because right now you are getting a live look at the Gateway Arch downtown St Louis yes it is St Patty's Day with two D's in fact so we just want to say good morning to you and happy St Patrick's Day St Louis it's Sunday March 17th I'm Travis coming and I'm Mercedes McKay thanks so much for waking up with us this morning you know Travis St Patrick's Day is so special in St it's almost like it is a weekend long event but sometimes it feels like a week long oh yeah and just for everyone a
t home Travis KN do have our green on we do because the viewers were asking yesterday Where's your green Where's your green we were preserving it for you exactly but now we went full out Tracy even has green but we'll get to her in just a minute with your full forast yep well we had some great festivities here yesterday in downtown the parade was amazing it was so awesome and now that St Patty today is officially here Dogtown is keeping that party going in just a couple of hours the 40th anniver
sary of the Hibernian St Patrick Day Parade kicks off in Dogtown now it starts at 11:00 a.m. on Oakland Avenue and then it'll make its way south on Tam all the way to Manchester this year organizers are stepping up security so you may see more officers today than usual we'll have more on the history of the Dogtown parade in just a little bit and of course we'll be covering St Patty's Day at Dogtown all day long so make sure you're keeping up with us on air online and on our streaming app 5 plus
Tracy obviously you are the woman of the hour what is that forecast going to look like we have a really nice forecast for us today which is great it is going to be a little bit cooler and yesterday you probably noticed the wind out there that's going to be prevalent again today temperature wise out there not too bad it's 43° it does feel like 35 though with that wind chill we have those it's like turning on the air conditioning those Northerly winds there that are up to 17 M hour pretty strong f
or this time of the morning now through the rest of our St Patrick's Day we have our big parade in dog Town temperatures will make it into the low 50s good healthy mix of sun and clouds throughout the entire day today it should be quite beautiful out there a little windy with gusts up to 25 miles hour yesterday they were certainly enough to shake the trees around as well Breezy conditions for us overnight again again we're looking at gusts up to 20 mph our Sunset is at 7:05 and yes overnight muc
h cooler air is pushing in we drop from the 40s overnight which is where we were at tonight we're going to drop all the way down into the mid 20s so a much cooler night is ahead coming up I'll outline what the rest of your week has in store and overall it's looking pretty good thank you so much Tracy new this morning we're following multiple overnight shootings in downtown St Louis the first happened a little after two this morning two people were shot in Well's good fellow along c brilliant Ave
nue the second happened around 3:13 one one was shot in the leg near 14th in Washington and police arrested one suspect there the third was only minutes later around 3:20 when a 50-year-old man was shot at Broadway in B re now every one of the victims survived and are currently in the hospital right now our Newsroom is working to learn more about these incidents and this morning invest tigators are continuing the search for Riley strain the 22-year-old missou student who went missing in Nashvill
e and that was more than a week ago now his friends last saw him Friday March 8th at Luke Bryan's bar when he told them he was headed back to their hotel surveillance videos however show him going the other direction authorities and his family are still trying to piece together a timeline and then we'd also like to know what happened after he crossed down onto Gay Street there's something there that going going to fill some gaps strange fam is asking businesses and people who live near that brid
ge to check their security footage well this morning incarnate words quest for a seven straight basketball title has turned into something greater yeah the team's head coach Dan raus is currently in the hospital after suffering a medical emergency our Annie crawl shows us how the team played with heavy hearts and brought home a somber state championship it's not the same without this sorry we didn't know last game it's going to be our last game with him so it's it's really rewarding but it's not
the same unclear if Incarnate Word would even be playing on Saturday night facing one of the toughest challenges a team could go through in the class 6 State final game their coach Dan Rus hospitalized on Friday after a medical emergency following their semi-final matchup a long pause after closing out their fourth undefeated season Tanner Wilkinson stepping in as head coach holding his incarnate family tight for Rus still in recovery Rus replaced this man Jim Johnson as head coach in 2000 I al
ways said the two best things I ever did for incarnate basketball is I quit and then I hir Dan to take my place former Incarnate Word head coach Jim Johnson tells me that one of the things that makes this team so special is their defense because they have constant pressure the whole game one of Dan rus' signature strengths he is just a very humble person who is just an excellent coach and just um gets the most out of his girls alums driving from across Missouri to missou Arena to watch incarnate
win their fourth title in a row because it's a good place to be at this time of year I we we've made many trips down here in the past over the years an emotional win for so many reasons Incarnate Word gets a closer than expected victory over Kik aoo it was a little too close we'll say that a little too close for comfort but we always know we can we can pull through in the end reporting in Colombia a craw five on your side and last night's Victory marks the 131st straight win for Incarnate Word
Cory Miller will have game highlights later in Sports will'll continue to keep you updated on the coach's condition on air and online at ksdk.com and you're running forecast today you can scan that QR code for your local race information no doubt we've got some St Patty day runs happening out there temperatures will mostly be in the cool crisp 40s and of course you can't have St Patrick's day without some festive food and it wouldn't be tisle right up next the fast food joint that's giving its m
enu a splash of Green ooh plus if transportation's got you troubled we've got you covered how you can catch a free ride home from today's St Patrick's Day celebrations
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