WCBI News at 10 - 09/10/20

WCBI News at 10 - 09/10/20

Up with us tonight, i'm cash matlock.

The number of new covid-19 cases in mississippi is above 500 today.

The report from the state department of health shows 517 new cases and 33 deaths.

The number of people in hospitals across the state with covid symptoms continues to go down.

683 people are in the hospital with confirmed or suspected symptoms. 185 patients are in i.c.u.

In our area, lafayette county has the most new cases with 34.

Lee county has 33.

Oktibbeha county is reporting 21 new cases.

More than 88- thousand people have tested positive for covid- 19 and more than 26-hundred have died from it.

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Monitor intro roll vo in monitor a lamar county, alabama jail escapee is back in jail after police say he robbed a bank in mississippi.

A bare-footed john scott glasgow escaped from the lamar county jail wednesday night.

The 53 year old apparently went home, grabbed some shoes, packed his bags and headed east on highway 82.

But that's where the story becomes even more interesting.

Our stephanie poole has more on the story.

Alabama jail escapee, john scott glasgow, adds more charges to his rap sheet.

Winona chief investigator dan herod says it all began with a phone call around 8 am.

" a concerned citizen spotted the individual leaving out of the bank.

The way this guy was dressed ,you know, it's pretty hot this time of year and he was wearing a big sweatshirt and a hat so he looked out of the ordinary for this type of year."

That's when the witness realized something more serious was happening...a robbery.

" during the exchange of money during robbery one of the bank tellers was able to put a red dye pack in the money.

When the suspected exited the business the citizen saw the dye pack go off in the parking lot.she immediately called 911."

Glasgow gave the teller a note saying "this is a robbery, put all the money in the bag.

No tricks, no one will get hurt."

Winona police say the suspect showed what appeared to be a weapon under his shirt in a threatening manner.

" the teller complied with his demands and gave him the money."

Glasgow left with nearly 2-thousand dollars.

But his heist was short-lived.

A beer truck making a regular delivery was parked in the street, blocking the getaway.

Officers caught him just two hundred yards from the bank.

" we located a truck, a semi-truck and it have been reported stolen out of alabama.

He had a suitcase packed, a cooler with food and drink in it so if it hadn't been for the caller he could've been well on his way to another state or something like that."

Glasgow is being charged with escape in lamar county where he was originally charged with theft and drug charges.

Now he's in trouble in winona also where police are charging him with armed robbery.

" they're going to come over here and they're going to speak with him and that's when we'll begin going through the extradition process and all that stuff."

Bond is set at 500- thousand dollars.

First look stinger first look summary: september has been pretty dry so far but that looks to change a bit heading into the weekend and next week.

Daily chances of showers and storms are back along with cooler temperatures.

Thursday night: mainly clear and quiet.

Lows around 70.

Light ne winds.

Friday: partly cloudy with a 20- 30% chance of a few pop-up showers and storms during the afternoon and evening, especially across our southeastern counties.

Highs in the lower 90s.

Winds ne 5-10 mph.

Centered tonight president trump is campaigning in the battleground state of michigan after calling a last-minute press conference at the white house, where he defended himself against the bombshell revelations in the new book by journalist bob woodward.

This as the president's recorded comments on covid are having a big impact on the presidential race.

Here's cbs's ed o'keefe a defiant - and defensive -- president trump today tried to argue he was showing strength not downplaying the dangers of the coronavirus.

3:49:10 i didn't lie, i said we had to be calm, no panic but trump was privately telling author bob woodward he knew the coronavirus was a deadly airborne disease in early february... you know it's a very tricky situation.

Its- indeed it is it goes through air bob yet still the president went on to hold 7 indoor campaign rallies over the next month, packed with thousands of people.

It'll go away today, the president denied any responsibility.

This is china's fault.

And blamed woodward for not publishing sooner.

If bob woodward thought it was so bad, he should have gone to the authorities....immed iately, not waiting 4 months it's unclear what mr trump meant by the authorities.

The biden campaign sees the president's comments as a pivotal moment in the race....an admission that thousands of lives could have been saved had mr trump spoken up.

"he waved the white flag.

He walked away he didn't do a damn thing.

Think about it .

Think about what he didn't do.

It is almost criminal."

The campaign was already on the air this morning with a new ad... running mate kamala harris kept up the offensive while courting african an voters in miami today.... this is the same man, donald trump, who for days, weeks, if not months thereafter, called it a hoax.

Dismissed the seriousness of it to the point that he suggested people should not wear masks.

Tag: here in michigan, democrats are circling this airport where mister trump we're learning new information today about a monroe county bus fire.

This is a photo sent us by a viewer.

The bus fire happened on cotton gin port road, near amory, yesterday afternoon.

Monroe county schools superintendent brian jernigan tells wcbi the bus had a mechanical failure.

There were very few students, who were from smithville school, on the bus at the time and no one was injured.

Jernigan credits the bus driver for noticing the smoke and evacuating the students.

The bus is a total loss.

Centered vitalant is showing how many donors have positive covid-19 antibody tests.

The company examined more than 250 thousand donations from june until july.

In what the company considers the tupelo region, which is north mississippi, the antibody positive test rate was two point 51 percent in july.

Vitalant says it is releasing the numbers to encourage those who test positive to consider becoming a convalescent plasma donor.

The plasma donors could help current covid-19 patients with their recovery.

The deadline for the 2020 census is just 20 days away, and folks in alabama are pulling out all the stops to get their numbers up.

Earlier today, the town of carrollton hosted a special census event at the pickens county community college career center.

The purpose of the event was to bring attention to importance of the census, and get local people involved in getting the word out.

Guest speaker kenneth boswell says more people counted on the census means more federal tax dollars for their county.

"you either want your federal tax dollars to go to another state, or either stay in your state so that that can improve the quality of life for the citizens of alabama... think about it this way, if your child is 10 years old now, he'll be 20 at the end of ten years, let he or she have the same opportunities that you've had over the last decade and lifetime."

September 30 is the deadline for the 2020 census.

For more information on how to fill out the census, visit our website at wcbi dot com.

Top educators in the tupelo public school district are being honored this week.

The association for excellence in education is honoring "teachers of distinction" all this week.

This afternoon, awards were given to teachers at the tupelo middle school who received the honor.

Teachers who get the honor receive one thousand dollars, while assistant teachers receive 500 dollars.

The awards are made possible by many community partners and sponsors.

"one of the biggest things we do is the aee luncheon, grants, each year teachers submit grants for various projects they want to implement and we fund raise throughout the year to help support the funds we provide to each of these grant winners."

"it definitely takes a village and having partners from the community, not only does it allow us to do more for our students, but it also means we get to show our students what they get to do one day, being part of the community as well."

Typically, the "teacher of distinction" awards are presented to all winning educators at a luncheon, but because of covid 19, teachers are being honored at their schools all this week.

Stinger wx open summary: september has been pretty dry so far but that looks to change a bit heading into the weekend and next week.

Daily chances of showers and storms are back along with cooler temperatures.

Thursday night: mainly clear and quiet.

Lows around 70.

Light ne winds.

Friday: partly cloudy with a 20- 30% chance of a few pop-up showers and storms during the afternoon and evening, especially across wx open summary: september has been pretty dry so far but that looks to change a bit heading into the weekend and next week.

Daily chances of showers and storms are back along with cooler temperatures.

Thursday night: mainly clear and quiet.

Lows around 70.

Light ne winds.

Friday: partly cloudy with a 20- 30% chance of a few pop-up showers and storms during the afternoon and evening, especially across our southeastern counties.

Highs in the lower 90s.

Winds ne 5-10 mph.

Friday night: variably cloudy.

Lows in the lower 70s.

Saturday & sunday: warm and humid with a 50% chance of scattered rain and storms both days.

Highs from the mid 80s to around 90.

Overnight lows in the lower 70s.

Monday- wednesday: a 40% chance of scattered showers and storms. highs in the mid to upper 80s.

Lows around 70.

Follow @wcbiweather on facebook, twitter, instagram, and the wcbi news app stinger coming up, part summary: september has been pretty dry so far but that looks to change a bit heading into the weekend and next week.

Daily chances of showers and storms are back along with cooler temperatures.

Thursday night: mainly clear and quiet.

Lows around 70.

Light ne winds.

Friday: partly cloudy with a 20- 30% chance of a few pop-up showers and storms during the afternoon and evening, especially across our southeastern counties.

Highs in the lower 90s.

Winds ne 5-10 mph.

Friday night: variably cloudy.

Lows in the lower 70s.

Saturday & sunday: warm and humid with a 50% chance of scattered rain and storms both days.

Highs from the mid 80s to around 90.

Overnight lows in the lower 70s.

Monday- wednesday: a 40% chance of scattered showers and storms. highs in the mid to upper 80s.

Lows around summary: september has been pretty dry so far but that looks to change a bit heading into the weekend and next week.

Daily chances of showers and storms are back along with cooler temperatures.

Thursday night: mainly clear and quiet.

Lows around 70.

Light ne winds.

Friday: partly cloudy with a 20- 30% chance of a few pop-up showers and storms during the afternoon and evening, especially across our southeastern counties.

Highs in the lower 90s.

Winds ne 5-10 mph.

Friday night: variably cloudy.

Lows in the lower 70s.

Saturday & sunday: warm and humid stinger coming up, part three of our conversation on fall allergies.

Health talk with baptist is after the break.

Intro tonight..

Our final installment on fall allergies.

Here's health talk with baptist.

No script as always as close to home international trade principle of our trip pearson others to set up on old for word-of- mouth on drawing some drawers obtain is sneezing and since well tired of having a website somebillboard attached stinger only one rebel can wear number 38...ole miss selecting this year's chucky mullins courage award recipient...find out who receives the honor, next in sports spx open the n-f-l season kicking off this evening the kansas city chiefs taking on the houston texans inside arrowhead stadium the reigning n-f- lchamps, kansas city making quite a statement to start the season the chiefs scoring 17-pts to start out the first half final score: the number-38 is anything but ordinary on an ole miss jersey each year, one player gets the honor to dawn that number...this year the honor of representing chucky mullins goes to ole miss defensive back jaylon jones for 31 years, the chucky mullins courage award goes to a defensive player that best represents the spirit of former ole cornerback chucky mullins, who became paralyzed from a tackle in 1989 jones becomes the 30th recipient of the award, following a season of adversity in 2018 where jones suffered an a-c-l injury against texas tech, ending his season ole miss head coach lane kiffin saying that jones' story resonated with the award kiffin: "we had a lot of kids who could represent it, but jaylon just stood out by the way he works, plus the adversity before we got here that he had been through with injuries.just really excited for him."

Jones: "when he said my name my heart, my hands started sweating immediately.

Overall, it's an exciting honor just because of how serious this award is.

The legacy chucky left so getting it back in a db's hands is just an honor."

If there's anything that this year has taught everyone is that it's important to be flexible high school football state championships are no exception to that due to scheduling conflicts at mississippi state, the m-h-s-aa has moved this year's state title games to jackson now, the 2020 state championships will be held at mississippi veterans stadium in jackson...originall y this year's title games were supposed to be held at mississippi state on december 4th-5th however, due to scheduling changes and a delayed schedule, the bulldogs host missouri on the 5th obviously directly conflicting with state championships now, title games will be in jackson from december 3rd to the 4th the first full week of high school football gave the first look at how team's will be stacking up amongst each other in mississippi this season the mississippi ap releasing it's high school football poll this week coming in as the overall top ten: at number one...surprise surprise...the starkville yellowjackets claim the throne following their season opening win against rival west point followed by, 2.

South panola 3.

Oak grove 4.

West point 5.

West jones 6.

Madison central 7.

Oxford 8.

Picayune 9.

Madison- ridgeland academy 10.

Neshoba central lafayette also receiving votes in the overall category in terms of individual divison in 6a: 1.

Starkville at number one 2.

South panola 3.

Oak grove 4.

Madison central 5.

Warren central oxford also receiving votes 5a: 1.

Goes to the greenies, west point, may have not won last week but putting up 28 against the top team in the state will earn you that spot lafayette coming in at number 5 that match-up against oxford this week should be a good one 4a: 2.

Louisville earns the number two spot...the wildcats host starkville this week 3a: noxubee county coming in at number two, and houston earns number 5 nettleton and choctaw county also receiving nettleton and choctaw county also receiving votes 2a: east webster claims the number 5 spot calhoun city and east union earning votes 1a: the nanih waiya warriors earn the number one spot baldwyn at number votes 1a: the nanih waiya warriors earn the number one spot baldwyn at number four and t-c-p-s at number five the warriors and the eagles match- up this week so keep your eyes on that game m-a-i-s -- heritage academy sitting with the academy schools at number four reminder: catch all the highlights and scores every week on wcbi endzone