chilly, too, as we head towards the east, st. louis 44 degrees. we will be cool today. we have an area of high pressure that's bringing some clear weather in the plains, that's bringing that cool weather, we have an area of low pressure keeping the breeze in place in the northeast, the great lakes, also portions of the tennessee valley. tours 10 to 15 degrees below what is typical for this time of year. even down to portions of the southeast, tallahassee today 69 degrees, that's 13 degrees below normal for this time of year. another chill day tomorrow, another cool day, crisp day, >>> starting off with some patchy areas of dense fog an increase in fog during the day. temperatures in the 70s for a s of sunshine in parts of the southern plains, 69 in new orleans. and that's your monday forecast. >> okay. thank you, michelle. >>> "early today" is back in 60 seconds with an update on the auto workers strike. >>> and a live report on the future of rite aid, what bankruptcy means for the drugstore chain. 12 hours!! not coughing? hashtag still not coughing?! mucinex dm gives y

so we went back to east st. louis. and i remember walking all over the town, looking for a football field. and i came back, and i told my mom, i said, "mom, i can't play football over here," you know? i said, "we don't have football here." and she told me, "don't worry about that, baby." and it seemed like it was like [chuckles], you know, as a little kid, it seemed like it was like a week, couple weeks. but next thing you know, we had a new house over in the suburbs. and then, man, that was, i was in third grade. i remember being the only black kid in my class. no one really liked me at first. no one liked me until they seen me run. and then i realized that i started getting treated differently then. and so i think my mindset set me up to think, "okay, if i want to make it, i gotta play football, 'cause that's the only time people are nice to me is when they see me play football." [bird chatters] [insects chittering] go get 'em. [reel clicking] go to college, play football, play a little bit of pro. i was signed as a

my hometown of east st. louis, a tiny little town of 20,000, 25,000 in comparison to the large metropolitan of chicago and yet the rate of gun violence there is even higher in east st. louis than it is in chicago. we have to do everything we can to deal with it. let me tell you what everything we can means. it means we have to look at the flood of guns coming into these cities from out of state fry merrell without background checks that are getting into the hands of criminals who are turning around and killing innocent people to ignore this flood of guns in the united states and condemn crime is to take a position that you're not going to take a look at reality. that's what we're faced with. we have to have a sensible policy when it comes to background checks, universal background checks to make sure guns are not ending up in the hands of people that will misuse them. when they confiscate thousands of guns every year, which they do in chicago, they find that they come from the surrounding states which have lax law

when i was in college i spent four summers working in a meatpacking plant in east st. louis, illinois i can tell you it is no place for a kid. you can lose a limb or a life. children as young as 12 years of age water working in slaughterhouses and factories make us think of the 1830s and 1930s and not modern times. our hope in today's hearing will be an opportunity to continue bipartisan spirit protecting unaccompanied children who risk their lives to remind everyone these unaccompanied children are just that, children. i would like to show the story of one eyed teenager named eric. he came to the united states is unaccompanied child, took a job to help his family back home. his employers stop paying him protect derek's birth certificate and immigration documents he threatened to call immigration if eric stopped working and even worse he threatened to harm eric's family in his home country. fortunately eric had the support of an adult who stepped in. i trusted social worker from the department of human services. to social worker connected him to federal law enforcement as we

st. louis 92 in little rock. we're warm in the east too boston 80 degrees tomorrow still cool in the west temperatures into the 60s. also low 50s in some spots looking at 57 in salt lake city. we'll keep that pattern in place on wednesday but look what's happening here there is that cold front i was talking about. back behind it, it is cool it is wet in a lot of spots. ahead of it high pressure in a lot of parts of the east with lots of sunshine, really warm temperatures along the cold front, we're looking at the chance for heavy rain, also the chance for mountain snow showers. it's that time of year also the chance for some strong to severe storms in west texas also new mexico into parts of colorado as well with that threat, we're looking at the chance for really large hail winds.eavy rainfall and damaging especial ly normal for that time of year too. warm in the south and southeast. temperatures 96 in houston and that's a look at your warm monday forecast. >> we will take it thank you, michelle. >> sure. >>> gold medal simone biles m

east. in support of israel defense secretary lloyd austin said the us would send more military assets to the region. the st. louis patriot ad defend systems and more truth. washington says it's been response to court recent escalations by yvonne and its proxy forces. now, a group of us senators has been voicing support for israel on a visit to tel aviv as the guys of war continues. we probably can send a lindsey graham had this message for yvonne were here today to tell or ron were watching you if this war grows is coming to your backyard, they won't be too for us, that'd be 3. there's an effort to unleash, has blah on the jewish state, to destroy it. my attention won't be to, to run these innocent hostages get slaughtered, hold you around accountable. of course you could stop if you chose to. well, let's discuss all these latest developments now with i shot and a boss free who is a researcher at the center for research and policy studies. i think you should for being with us once again. let's talk about the us position and all of this supporting his route with, you know, military hardware, more assets being to f

east, pushing rock top to the black sea. getting close to the people most affected by those in power is often st. louis, but it's absolutely vital. the story is to control we pushed as far forward as we can to the front line. now the smells of power. a lot of the stories that we cover a highly complex, so it's very important that we make them as understandable as we can do as many people as possible no matter how much they know about a given chrisy. so issue as always is there a correspondence? that's what we strive to do. a feeling the heat of the world, garza israel says the financing is costing it millions of dollars every day and the devastation in the strip is unprecedented. so what's the real cost to both sides and what's the impact in the region and globally this is inside the story. the .

east of napa, solved is rarely forces fund. take s and sound. forms of protest is that both roads as soldiers as school did hundreds of st. louis to perform rituals at. josephs to need to abraham has moved from from iowa and the occupied west bank. there are no funerals taking place today in total cutting as these really forces have taken the bodies of the 2 palestinians that were shot and killed on the spot. now there is one is wally policy. that is where it has a it continues implementing since 2016, which is withholding buddies of palestinians that believe has committed attacks against is really targets. we're talking now about more than $140.00 withheld bodies. now these, this escalation has called and is radiate a to, to cut him and we've been seeing more often the palestinians, their shows as and illegal is really supplements nearby. after is really with the, with read this time with us to say that the to palestinians have fought against a suck there. that have been, has been rising a motorbike on an old. we're talking about 10 situation in the occupied westbank for the past couple of years. not the only the in the number

st. louis. the and rome. you're also backed up onto 38. that backup is now stretching over to 5.82. so the east bay shoreline really just been a tough one this morning, richmond center fell 12 minutes to make your crossing. you've got the sunshine overhead and not a big backup for you and the golden gate bridge perfectly crystal clear in the skies and nothing holding you up on the roads. back to you. thank you very much, john 902, is the time. and the san francisco giants have made it official. bob melvin. >> is their new manager and only on kron for an exclusive interview with kron four's will tran who is live this morning with the latest. what happened will? >> bob melvin will be introduced at the san francisco giants, new manager at 10, 30 this morning. but i spotted him before he actually enter the ballpark. let me show you video. he was just walking down the street. we were outside. yulia 7 is an eye. we're outside on the street looking for interviews and all of a sudden i see this man here and i'm saying to myself, wait a minute. that looks like bob melvin. he takes more steps to me and i