cars, crime, and the weather

3/4, top stories:  #1 - It's snowing!!   Winter storm warning still in effect till 7 a.m. -- Wyandotte had thunder along w/ snow tonight.   (the weather)

Peggy Agar out in a parking lot in Allen Park picks up a handful of snow to show you how much has fallen -- Southfield Rd (a major road) is totally clogged w/ snow (that's because they DO NOT PLOUGH out here) -- She talks to someone who saw a car spin out -- "Crews are nowhere near keeping up w/ this storm" -- b/c they don't bother to plough until there's already 4 or 5 inches of snow on the roads.  (cars, the weather)

Live cam on I75 shows the highway completely whited out -- cars going by.

Snow emergency in 8 cities.

#2, the primaries  (doesn't count)

#3, Cheryl Chodun "live outside police headquarters" in downtown Detroit, in the snowstorm at 11 o'clock, talking about stuff that happened this afternoon re: the Tamara Green murder.  Ella Bully Cummings, the reprehensible Detroit police chief, at an outdoor press conference (what, they don't have a room inside police headquarters for this?) being reprehensible.  (crime)

City council puts off the vote on the resolution calling for the mayor to resign  (crime)

The strike at American Axle will shut down a 6th GM plant, in Toledo  (cars)

Back to Peggy Agar, still out in the snow on Southfield Road (which has still not been touched by a plough)  (cars, the weather)

3/3, top stories:  #1 - The rain has changed to snow (yes, this was the top story) -- light snow, in fact -- Radar shows most of the storm has moved out -- "The snow event is over for tonight."  (the weather)

A reporter outside in the dark by an I94 overpass with flooding underneath.  (cars, the weather)

#2, Cheryl Chodun (with no hat!) reporting "live from downtown Detroit" on the renewed investigation into Tamara Greene's death.   She was a stripper murdered in a drive-by shooting, following a party at the Manoogian mansion that Kwame Kilpatrick says never happened.  Now they are saying she was shot with a "police gun."   (violent crime)

#3, City council votes tomorrow on whether Kwame should stay or should he go -- his mother, Rep. Carolyn "Cheeks" Kilpatrick says it's "up to the voters to decide".  (crime)

3/2, top stories:  #1 -  "A terrifying crash involving 5 children" -- 3-car accident caused by driver w/ open alcohol in car.  The reporter was outside, as usual, but for once talking to the "5 children" in question -- all of whom were fine.   (The guy with the open alcohol hit them, then another car; he, his passenger, the other driver in hospital.)   (cars, violence)

#2 - A reporter was outside of some building in downtown Detroit, in the middle of the night, reporting on the Wayne Co sheriff's new initiative to prosecute drug dealers for homicide when people OD.   (crime, drugs)

#3, the weather -- the dreaded "wintry mix" coming / Jerry Hodak (weatherman) informed us the previous night that March would "come in like a weasel."  (the weather)

2 more GM plants about to close as a result of the strike at American Axle -- but they're in Texas and Wisconsin, for a change.  Also, Big 3 to report "dismal" sales tomorrow for the quarter.   (cars)