The Kansas City MetroRegion Overnight News and Weather Report - Sunday, January 06, 2008

*** One Dead- Another Nearly So In KC-MO Shooting ***

*** Two people were shot- one was dead at the scene in the 2700 block of Grove around 2:20am Sunday morning.

The police are looking for 4 suspects who left the house in a burgundy-colored new-model Chrysler Intrepid.


The other very critically-injured victim was rushed to a nearby trauma center.

No other information available from uncooperative police on the scene.

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** Crash In Lee's Summit-MO Seriously Injures Two **

*** An early Sunday morning wreck on U.S. 50 near 3rd Street have left 2 young women- one 18-years-old- with serious facial injuries.

The wreck happened around 2:25am Sunday morning in the eastbound lanes when their car hit another.

No other injury was reported however and an officer was quite uncooperative to our TV news camerawoman.

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** Carjacking In KC-MO Leads Police On Chase- Hotel Search **

... The carjacking by "10 black males" of a man's 1999 GMC Denali happened in the 3000 block of Swope Parkway in south Midtown around 12:40am..

It was around 1:30am when police in downtown KC-MO spotted the blue and green Denali containing 2 black males and chased the vehicle west across the Lewis & Clark viaduct- then west on I-70 into KC-KS.. Speeds were reported by chasing cops up to "120 m.p.h.." The chase went to 78th Street in KC-KS- then back eastbound toward Missouri.

Officers finally get "stop-sticks" on the Denali around 38th Street as the suspects sped east at up to 100 m.p.h.. The driver got on I-670- and headed into the Downtown loop under Bartle Hall. Officers including a KC-MO PD helicopter lose sight of the Denali for about 5 minutes- long enough for the suspects to ditch the vehicle on the Central Street exit and- according to witnesses- run into the hotel at 1301 Wyandotte right around 2am.

Police conducted a floor by floor search of the at least 22-story structure and- at 5:21am- reported not finding any suspects.

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<><><> OVERNIGHT WEATHER <><><>

Spring-like temperatures prevailed over about the southern 2/3 of the Kansas City MetroRegion overnight. Temps were up to 40 degrees above average morning lows- from the mid to upper-50's generally along and south of I-70.

Winds continued to be gusty ahead of the broad-scale West Coast storm system- from the south with some areas gusting into the 25 m.p.h. range.

Skies were covered by a thin high-cloud (cirrus) partial to complete overcast at times- but no precipitation in the MetroRegion.

Spring-like temperatures will continue for generally the southeastern 2/3 of the MetroRegion through Monday. Late Monday and early Tuesday a cool front will move through- with showers and thunderstorms along the front- generally along and east of I-35 in Missouri and east Kansas.

Temperatures stay near to above-average through late week- then a series of small storms sets us up for another storm chance and a colder trend late next weekend.

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Kansas City's Breaking News Leader - NBC41 ACTION NEWS.

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