Kansas City MetroRegion Overnight News Report - Sunday - March 22, 2009

** Man Shot In East Side KC-MO **

*** Around ten minutes until 5am Saturday morning- a gunshot victim was reported at a motel in the 6000 block of East 31st Street.

Police arrived about 5 minutes later to find the victim- "a 20-year-old male"- shot twice.

The victim claimed it was a street robbery- and that the black male suspect with braided (dreds) hair and a black coat walked west on 31st Street.

MAST-EMS took the victim to a city trauma center in at least serious condition.

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** KC-MO Woman Pedestrian Lucky To Be Alive **

*** A woman reportedly in her early-40's was intoxicated- but otherwise "had no obvious injuries" after "walking into the side of a semi-truck that was moving at (freeway) speed" around 5:50am Sunday morning.

The incident happened on westbound I-70 near the beginning of the ramp to northbound I-435 just west of the Stadium Drive overpass. Parts of the roadway was closed for an investigation until a short time ago.. .

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** House Damaged By Fire In KC-MO Northland **

... Five KC-MO fire companies - at least 20 firefighters- battled a house fire in the 400 block of Northwest 81st Street just after 6:30am Sunday.

The occupancy status of the structure is not yet known- but no one was found inside and there were no firefighter injuries.

Cause is under investigation.

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** Awaiting Crash Results From Henry County-MO **

... At 4:45am Sunday- Henry County-MO sheriff reported a vehicle wreck "car submerged- the north side of Montrose Lake by the campgrounds" west of Clinton.

Nothing further on the result of this tip yet.

Other wrecks overnight- no fatalities nor critical injuries:

12:03am- KC-KS - 2-vehicles- 10th Street & Kansas Avenue- male with serious injuries.

12:30am- Grain Valley-MO- 1-vehicle- U.S. 40 & Barr- 2 non-major injuries.

1:10 am- KC-MO - 2-vehicle- 20th Street & Grand - 2 non life-threatening (NLT) injuries.

2:07am- KC-KS- 1-vehicle- Northbound I-635 ramp to eastbound I-70- male- (NLT) injuries.

2:37am- Johnson County-MO- 1-vehicle- Missouri(M)-58 east of Highway O." 25-year-old female driver flown to a KC hospital- injuries (NLT).

3:15am- North KC-MO- 1-vehicle- North Oak at M-9. One (NLT) injury.

6:39am- KC-MO- 1-vehicle- 5900 block of Noland Road." Male driver "fell asleep and drove off the road." Injuries (NLT).

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

Temperatures remained just below average highs in the middle-50's overnight while some scattered showers developed north and northeast of Metro KC-MO. Winds were south to southeasterly around 10 MPH..

A wet week is in store with some possible severe thunderstorms in the Kansas City MetroRegion Monday afternoon through Tuesday morning.

General rainfalls of one to three inches are possible by Thursday over much of the MetroRegion.
Even more precipitation possible next weekend.

A seasonally-strong low pressure storm system with it's fronts will move slowly across Nebraska toward Minnesota by Wednesday.

A second storm system is expected to develop by next weekend in Oklahoma.

Temperatures will remain seasonally cool- at or to 10 degrees below average.

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