WEATHER: We Wuz Got!

Lo and behold- south and eastsiders got their first measurable snowfall of the season.

About 1/2 to 1-inch of snow has fallen across east and south areas of Metro Kansas City- as shown on some traffic camera images from 75th Street and Metcalf in Overland Park and I-435 on the Missouri side near Blue Parkway.

Not to worry about roadways- temperatures remain ABOVE freezing (35 here in South KC-MO).

A few more snow/rainshowers over Missouri portions of the Metro for the next few hours but no ice-slickened roadways expected....

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BREAKING NEWS: Armed Business Robbery In Gladstone MO

Gladstone Public Safety (GPS) reported an armed robbery at 7650 North Oak at 4:57 pm Monday afternoon.

Confirmed reports from GPS says the business was "PDQ- a check-cashing" concern- and the suspect was "a black male- dressed in a black hat- jacket and clothing- and having 2 gold front teeth."

The suspect left on foot south from the business- says GPS..

No word yet on what was taken (cash) in the robbery but nobody was hurt.

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Ice-Snow Slick Raods No Metro K.C. Issue

With Metro temperatures ranging in the mid-30's to 40-degree range- no problems with icing on any K.C. area roadways through at least late evening.

Frozen roadways are not an issue in either St. Joseph MO- where the 3 pm temp was 35- or in Topeka or Lawrence KS- where temperatures were 35 and 37 respectively.

Near I-435 and 87th Street in South KC-MO- the temperature at post time is 42-degrees and cloudy.

The heaviest precipitation is pivoting around- south to north- in northern parts of Metro K.C. with nothing immediately south or southeast of us to move in.

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Snowfall In Lawrence - Emporia KS

These are "live" images- taken moments ago.

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Some Snow Images From Around The Kansas City MetroRegion

As Kansas City is about to experience it's first winter weather of the 2009-10 season- other parts of the MetroRegion are already experiencing accumulating snowfall.

In Marysville KS:

In St. Joesph MO:

In Overland Park KS (just wet roadways thus far):

Current weather radar:

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American Airlines Will Owe KC-MO More Than $23-Million For Overhaul Base Lease

The KANSAS CITY BUSINESS JOURNAL says American Airlines will still owe more than $23-million on it's lease of the old TWA overhaul base at K.C.I. airport.

American is planning to close-out their operations at the overhaul base by September 2010.


IF the City of KC-MO can rent out part of the base- American could be off the hook for the more than $23-mil lease payments the story states.

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Snow- Sleet Causing Slick Roads In Platte County and Kansas

Our mobile reporter Phil Wall is reporting snow and sleet as far south as Northwest 72nd Street in Platte County MO and crash reports in that northwestern Metro county are on the increase over the past hour.

Slick roads are also reported in and around Topeka-KS- as reported by The TOPEKA CAPITOL-JOURNAL.

Temperatures in south KC-MO are slowly falling- 41-degrees at 10:50 am- and this trend will continue throughout the afternoon Metro-wide with scattered rounds of rain becoming mixed with sleet and snow- possibly turning to all snow after sunset.

NO significant accumulations are expected on Metro streets and roadways through midnight.

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Actress-Singer Connie Stevens Recalls Summer In Boonville-MO With Film

Miss Stevens says she spent the summer of 1951 in Boonville and was reunited with those memories while driving by Boonville as she was headed home to California from the East Coast after the September 11- 2001 terrorist attck in New York.


The actress was so taken with those memories of Boonville she producted a motion picture 'Saving Grace B. Jones' that stars Michael Biehn, Tatum O’Neal and Penelope Ann Miller.


The film 'Saving Grace B. Jones' will have it's world premeire in Boonville on November 21- according to The BOONVILLE DAILY NEWS.

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KC-MO Firefighters Battle Vacant House Fire

This blaze was in the 6600 block of Broadmoor- not the street in Johnson County but the 1-block street in South-Midtown KC-MO- southwest of Research Med Center.

The initial alarm sounded at 9:27 am Monday morning and fire crews found a working fire when they arrived.

Interior crews reported "the furnace had been removed with the gas line left open"- but no one inside the structure.

This fire was reported "under control" at 9:53 am..

There has been no reported firefighter injuries from this incident.

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BREAKING WEATHER: Snow Accumulating On I-29 North

A report from a mobile CSW reporter within the past 20 minutes is that "moderate to heavy snow is falling in the St. Joseph area" with "I-29 becoming snow-covered as far south as the Platte-Buchanan county line."

Our reporter also says "there are NO road crews out" at the time of his report and drive to St. Joe.


Here are the latest weather images: the 9 am weather map- showing snow in St. Joe with a surface temperature of 32-degrees- and the Central States and MetroRegion weather radars- that clearly show the upper low pressure area causing this precipitation centered over southeastern Kansas.


The temperature here in south KCMO is still in the lower-40's- so I do NOT anticipate any accumulating snows in the city itself- but areas west through northwest and north of Kansas City should continue to see deteriorating winter conditions through early afternoon.

More up-to-the-minute weather information here at CSW through the day as needed.....

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BREAKING NEWS: Young Man Near Death After KC-KS Shooting

Police- fire & EMS units were called to an alley south of Armstrong off 9th Street at 4:50 am Sunday morning on a reported shooting.


There lay the victim: "an approximately 20-year-old male shot twice in the chest" said a KC-KS FD-EMS paramedic.

The victim's heart stopped while enroute to a hospital and CPR became necessary.

(UPDATE) The man was declared dead shortly after arriving at the hospital.

Police don't have any witnesses to the shooting. A woman who had called in the inital report didn't hang around to talk to the law.

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