Mountain News Morning Edition 6:30 a.m. 8/23/2024

coming up on Mountain news this morning the strike lingers on as for AT&T employees but hope isn't lost yet and some high school campuses are Banning students from attending football games without Parental Guidance dedicated to Eastern and Southern Kentucky this is WMT Mountain news this morning good morning I'm Madison Carmo we are coming up on 6:30 this Friday morning and it's Friday so let's send it over to meteorologist Tim drawbridge for a look at your forecast and Madison I know you said you're the only one thinking you wanted the warm weather to come back in I don't think it's just because you know we like the cool break from the heat and humidity it's because football is on the horizon so I know we can have football with heat and humidity 50° low clouds and fog outside right now in the visibility lower in some spots as you make your way closer to the Tennessee line from Harland County all the way through Middlesboro to Jacksboro so please keep that in mind visibility has dropped as well your way up at Ashland where the temperature right now is at 52 55 at WISE 55 at the London Corbin airport just a few clouds dotting the skies as we gone through the overnight period above us don't worry high pressure in charge and as things slowly and gradually come back into play regarding an increase of temperature and yes an incre inreasing humidity that summertime feel to the air it's back big time as we hit through next week so in the meantime enjoy the break as it continues today and we have more of a seasonable day average is 85 we're forecasting 84 here in Hazard the bus stop forecast coming up in a few moments Madison Tim thank you in Lee County Virginia Daniel vanover has been convicted of 11 charges of rape after a multi-day trial in Lee County Circuit Court here is what the Virginia commonwealths attorney H Fuller kidin had to say about the conviction quote I want to thank the members of the jury for their careful attention throughout this trial and their commitment to upholding Justice their service is vital to the Integrity of our legal system and we are grateful for their role in this process end quote klin also added that due to the sensitive nature of the case specific details will not be provided to protect the victims two people are dead and two more injured following a crash in Clayborn County Tennessee Tennessee Highway Patrol officials say it happened at approximately 11:15 Wednesday night police were called out to a crash on Old Highway 63 at Dan Bean Road the driver of an SUV went off the road before hitting several trees the two passengers injured in the crash were flown to a hospital no names have been released a vehicle crashed into a building yesterday afternoon in Laurel County and happened on South Main Street around 4:30 yesterday London mayor Randall wed posted these pictures on Facebook wed said he thought initially dozens of people might be displaced but nobody was one person was transported to a hospital main street at arm Armory Street was partially shut down but has since reopened a student at one element School in Harland County was arrested following an incident school officials viewed as threatening school officials say they were made aware of a gesture made by a student at James A kwood Elementary School following an investigation the student was charged with terrist terroristic threatening officials say disciplinary action will follow they also say no weapon was found and one was never on school grounds a Pik County man is facing a host of charges after police found drugs on him after pulling him over the incident happened Tuesday when police noticed that the right tail lamp on jimie Brown's vehicle was out after failing a sobriety test Brown was arrested during a search of his vehicle police found meth heroin along with two scales and a glass pipe Brown was taken to the Pike County Detention Center a Laurel County woman is behind bars after police found meth in her possession police were called out to a crash involving a dirt bike on Highway 1376 on Wednesday while they were heading to the crash police were notified a woman was trying to get the driver of the bike into her vehicle to leave the scene with her police were told Rebecca blevens thre something into a field which was later found by police she was taken to the Laurel County Correctional Center kentuckians have 1 month left to reapply to apply for FEMA assistance following storms that happened around Memorial Day weekend this is for homeowners and renters in a few of our counties including clay Whitley and Knox applicants who wish to apply for Disaster Assistance need to have things ready for registration such as a social security number and types of insurance coverage you can call FEMA at 1 800621 3362 the communication workers of America is continuing its strike against 18 workers in the cwa's Third District are picketing for what they claim are unfair labor conditions saying their contracts expired at the beginning of August and AT&T Representatives have yet to show up to the table to sign a tentative agreement for the next contract session local 3317 President Joe Fields says they are asking for consideration and communication before returning it's not about pay or benefits it's just getting someone to the table that can bargain for those things and and actually sign you know have the authority to sign their name you know and get this thing going the strike just wrapped its seventh day Fields says he is hopeful that something will be worked out now that a moderator has been asked to work between the union and the company the hospital Angelico Tennessee has been around for decades but not without trouble since 2020 it has been closed reopened opened and changed management several times now it's closed again but there are new developments and hope for a new group to reopen the hospital once again since 20203 groups have tried to manage the facility mayor Sandy Terry says it has not worked out due to inaccurate expectations I think it's all about the money that they think they're going to earn and be able to put in their pocket last week the city approved a proposal with Community Hospital Management in Kentucky they are working to get approval from the federal government to identify this facility as an acute care hospital as well as a rural emergency hospital ky's unemployment numbers for the month of July were released yesterday according to the res report numbers of unemployed Kian Rose in 119 counties with Lee County being the only County to have numbers fall Cumberland County had the low lowest rate in the state followed by Woodford mcgoffin and Martin Counties have the Commonwealth's highest both around 11% some commonwealths attorneys were honored at the county and Kentucky prosecutors conference in Louisville and there was one commonwealths attorney that was recognized in our area Jackie steel was recognized by attorney general Russell Coleman as the 2024 outst outstanding County attorney and outstanding Commonwealth attorney Awards steel is the commonwealths attorney for the 27th judicial circuit and a good start to your FR a 6:36 just a few clouds above us on the overnight period the thing right now and we know this fire drill is time of the year yeah low clouds and fog so we got to just get to about 8830 and yeah we're all done with that 50° wind are C and yeah we're actually at 49 right now in Irvin we're back up to 54 as we head towards 7:30 7:45 the lunch hour mid 70s we'll top out with a lot of sunshine this afternoon to 84 in Hazard summer is coming back we'll time it out with the weekend forecast in a couple of minutes Madison Tim Thank you new numbers from the Kentucky High School Athletic Association or khsaa are shining a light on disqualifications the group keeps track of dqs for all sports during All Seasons K Kristen Kennedy is combing over their most recent numbers the khsaa keeps track of disqualifications to try and pinpoint areas where they may see bad behavior they've done it before in years past referees have complained that coaches and players are making their jobs harder to do so they increased penalties and they watched the numbers closely the high school football season is underway players are racking up stats for tackles and touchdowns referees are reviewing plays and sometimes disqualifications but the grid iron isn't where we see the most dqs you'll find those on the pitch soccer it is a contact sport I mean it it is there is some rough play in it but also they're playing rules you know if I get two yellow cards it may not have anything to do with unsporting um acts I'm ejected Butch cop is an associate commissioner for the khsaa he's supervises their sportsmanship bylaws soccer players made up more than one out of every three athletes disqualified last school year you can't judge it by that because the playing roles are a little bit different we know the reason for disqualifications vary they can include fighting or punching spitting UNS sportsmanlike conduct and what's seen most in soccer rule violation overall soccer racked up the most disqualifications 226 players and 18 coaches followed by basketball football and baseball more than a third of baseball's dqs were coaches being tossed from a game sometimes they say well I got to get my team fired up you hear a coach say well I I got to take one for the team to get them fired up I don't really buy into that U as a motivating factor on that but for some reason in that sport that seems to be the norm khsaa also breaks down numbers by school Butler County in Western Kentucky had the most 27 followed by Senai in Louisville breathett County and then Anderson County this is a map showing the schools with the most disqualifications cop says a large amount of disqualifications at one school usually means there was a bench clearing incident in those cases each player that leaves the bench is disqualified we've seen the last couple of years more more bench clearing instances whether it's on the basketball court or the football sideline on the baseball diamond we pulled numbers for the last six years but they're hard to compare there were no Sports in the spring of 2020 the seasons were greatly reduced The Following fall and in the spring of 21 but cop says now those numbers are back to prepandemic levels in Lexington Christen Kennedy WKYT kids will no longer be admitted to high school football football games without a parent or adult at some Kentucky school campuses this fall Anderson County High School in Central kentucky is among the schools making that policy change the athletic director says last year they had fights and other problems mostly with Middle School aged kids kids are only required to be with adults when they come through the gate you know if the kids want to you know hang out and get you know get some concessions or or or stand on the fence with a friends that's fine but we want to make sure that the parents are responsible for their children the new student policy also states that if a child becomes disruptive at a game the parent will be removed along with the child thank you for joining us the time is now 6:41 still to come on Mountain news this morning the fight for the White House heads to the southern border as both sides take aim at each other over the current state of immigration