we don't get a whole lot of tornadoes in
the state of michigan in general we
typically average about 15 or so in the
entire state and more of those are
downstate than they are for the north so
it is pretty unusual for up here
local four on the ground and in the air
with a first hand look at the damage
from the galer tornado plus brandon is
tracking sunday morning showers and a
cool down for the rest of the week
live from downtown detroit local 4 news
today at 6 starts now
good morning it's seven o'clock i'm
priya mann and i'm grant herms joining
us here this morning a local 4 news
today on a sunday morning a little muggy
out there some rain on the way for us
that's right again today i could feel it
when i was walking in for sure but this
is the kind of morning where some rain
brings relief and i'm glad it's
happening earlier
rather than later get out a little later
yeah get out the nice smell after it
rains and everything the grass just
smells so great although taking the dog
out that's a quicker walk that's that's
a good wipe off their paws afterwards
brandon oh for sure i've got our shoes
yeah yeah it's lighter stuff though
today and it's pretty spotty so it looks
worse than it is
it feels worse than it is kind of muggy
to get going live look from belle isle
we're not far from the grand prix
really looking forward to that
temperatures have cooled in our north
zone down to 48 but we're still 62
at metro a little stationary front over
the area so some pockets of slightly
cooler air but most of us middle upper
50s to low 60s
storm tracker 4 just showing a little
spit and drizzle very light showers
especially along and north of m-59 but
over into harper woods in the gross
points getting a little area of drizzle
southern ontario as well
cold front
8-9 a.m
pushes all of i should say most of the
moisture out so we start with a little
muggy
negative hair cast early on today but
through the day improving conditions
middle 60s and a little more afternoon
sun
so let me just finish this off the
afternoon
much better
like that
thank you
well let's get back to the latest on the
deadly tornado that tore through gaylord
the national weather service confirms
yesterday's tornado was an ef-3 with
winds of 150 miles an hour at least two
people were killed and 44 others were
hurt during the storm one person remains
unaccounted for state police are
confirming that both victims who died
were in their 70s and lived in a mobile
home park the national weather service
says the tornado was on the ground for
20 minutes across nearly 17 miles
governor whitmer has issued a state of
emergency for otsego county as well and
consumer energy reports thousands remain
without power right now saturday
afternoon lieutenant governor garland
gilchrist was in gaylord to assess the
damage
we can now direct resources to people
who need them in this community to make
sure that we can
recover that we can build that we can
come forward stronger together one thing
that's true about the people of michigan
is that we have each other's back we've
seen people already uh step up not just
for their family members we're going to
see volunteers from every single corner
of michigan are going to come here
and a curfew is in place until later
this morning
meanwhile the cleanup begins for
thousands across the city of gaylord
homes and businesses now destroyed by
the powerful twister tim pamplin is live
in gaylord for us all morning and tim
the community really coming together
here to help each other through this
tragedy
they really are grant you heard the
lieutenant governor say their people are
coming in from across the state
volunteers to help and that is much
needed semi-trailers flipped over
shipping containers just dropped where
the winds took them of course with 150
mile an hour winds bowing through here
cars didn't stand a chance
it might sound cliche but it looks like
something out of a movie upturned cars
snapped power lines absolute devastation
as you hop on m32 i-75 heading through
gaylord
that was an oil change shop collapsed as
the walls gave way
this is main street but behind me is a
mobile home park and the scene there is
simply horrific
out of the mobile home park there is
probably 95 percent destruction in there
it was the first community to get hit
when the twister touched down
friday evening
and unfortunately we found another
deceased person early this morning
shortly after 1am in the nottingham
mobile home park
from drone 4 you can see a couple of
investigators down there in their yellow
coats searching for more victims
back in the commercial district it's
time to start the cleanup destroyed cars
litter the parking lot of the plaza
over the little caesars pizza is still
sitting in the oven from the day before
massive rooftop air conditioners blowed
off
the roof ripped away we're up here to
assess damage see what support we can
provide former troy firefighter tom
comic now works for jarvis property
restoration
they just want to help any way they can
just lend support and in our prayers
yeah this community needs a lot of
prayers a lot of help absolute
devastation you see the okay on the side
of that vehicle means it's been searched
cleared of any victims but again back
over
the nottingham estates
mobile home park
the search i'm being told will continue
for the next few days
there is still one person reported
missing up here
this is a garage structure out here at
dpw yard just around the corner
completely destroyed again the sun rises
here on this sunday morning the cleanup
is going to get going to get underway in
earnest yesterday a lot of people up
here were just in shock you know
sunday sun rising it's time for all
hands on deck
get this place together again back to
you guys downtown
that truck in particular tim is just so
harrowing to think that they had to
search that and then right okay on the
side no tim we've seen a lot of the
damage in the commercial district right
in that main street drag there but what
about the neighborhoods what have you
been seeing
well we have been in the neighbors let
me spin around here let me show you the
path again so that's heading towards the
mobile home park beyond those buildings
and those tankers the uh hurricane
tornado came through here
straight through here and then off over
that direction that 75 over there beyond
75 is the neighborhood coming up at
eight o'clock we're going to relocate
over there we'll bring you the scene
from the neighborhoods back to you guys
downtown all right tim thank you so much
you could stay with local 4 local 4 plus
and click on detroit this morning we'll
be continuing our coverage of the
gaylord tornado cleanup all day long as
tim just said he'll be live there
throughout the morning and our nick
monticelli will be in gaylord live
tonight at six
time now is 707 and to our other top
story a national historic destination in
detroit dealing with devastating damage
after a water main break the prince hall
grand lodge on gratiot avenue on the
city's east side was in the middle of
renovations when water flooded its
basement here's megan woods with more
it was a live dish
roderick anderson is the grand master
here at the most worshipful prince hall
grand lodge and says friday afternoon he
got a call about this
that water also got into their basement
when i finally did get down here i was
like oh my god lord no what are you
telling me the city of detroit's water
and sewerage department says it was a
water main break they sent crews friday
to slow the leak and again saturday to
make the repair roderick says that's
just not enough especially when a
similar situation happened last june
city's equipment it's just faulty
equipment the claim that we put in last
year
they came back and denied the claim and
told us because we could not prove
it was their equipment which meant they
weren't going to get reimbursed for the
125 thousand dollars they spent in
repairs so here we are again
year later
and having to
you know redo the same thing over again
we're hoping that the city is going to
come through with this and honor what we
know is rightfully the right thing to do
and that was megan woods reporting for
us this morning the city of detroit's
water and sewerage department says they
apologized to surrounding businesses for
the inconvenience and in a statement
said unfortunately water main breaks can
cause flooding due to the leak and in
most cases there is no warning until the
leak occurs dwsd will reach out on
monday to prince hall grand lodge staff
and we'll have our engineers assess the
water main for possible future
rehabilitation we do have that full
statement on click on detroit.com
and the first shipments a baby formula
being sent to the u.s from europe
arrived at an air base in germany white
house says 132 pallets of nestle formula
is headed to plainfield indiana another
114 pallets of gerber good start
extensive h.a formula are set to arrive
in the coming days in total about 1.5
million eight-ounce bottles of the three
formulas will arrive in the u.s this
week president biden signed the access
to baby formula act of 2022. this bill
allows wic to waive certain program
requirements to buy more types of infant
formula glad to see that some relief is
on the way yes not the only shipment
just the first ones hopefully we get a
lot more of those bottles that we need
desperately i mean i've been reading
stories about people driving like
hundreds of miles trying to get some
baby formula for their child very scary
absolutely