CSW BREAKING: Flash Flooding in Blue Springs MO

Around 10:10 p.m.- a Central Jackson County Fire official reported Duncan Road east of Adams Dairy Parkway is impassable due to high water.


More than 6-inches of rain has fallen according to NWS Doppler weather radar estimates in northern blue Springs- along and either side of M-7 from north Blue Springs into the Lake City area of eastern Independence.

More torrential rains are to the west of these areas- and could compound an already serious situation in eastern Jackson county MO..


More information throughout the night as needed here at CSW and at KSHB.

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Woman Seriously Hurt in Leavenworth County Crash

The crash was reported around dawn Saturday morning- at 5:45 a.m.- the report of a 1-vehicle crash on 178th Street north of State Avenue near Basehor in southern Leavenworth county KS..

Once emergency crews arrived- they found the car had rolled-over and the female driver lying in the roadway.

Leavenworth county EMS tranported that critically-injured driver to K.U. Med Center and the crash was under investigation.

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CSW WEATHER: Severe Tstm Watch Includes Metro Kansas City

This is Watch Number  672 issued by the NWS' Storm Prediction Center (SPC) and it's valid for a large part of Kansas and Missouri until 10 p.m. this Saturday night.

All of Metro K.C. is included- along with that part of the MetroRegion generally along and south of U.S. 36 highway and those areas generally along and north of U.S. 54 highway

There are severe thunderstorms already in parts of Metro K.C.- a severe thunderstorm is located near Sugar Creek MO moving east at 30 m.p.h..

Showers and storms are firing-up right now along the I-70 corridor from near Boonville MO west through Topeka KS- and this trend will continue for at least the next 4-5 hours.

Warnings appear here at CSW down the right column of this blog- refresh your browser- or keep tuned to KSHB or your favorite information source for updated weather information

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Overland Park Eviction Standoff Approaches 24-Hour Mark

Imagine not being able to access your car and/or your home for 6 hours- 12 hours- nearly a whole day.

That's what some people who live or were around a house in the 8100 block of West 144th Place face after the 10 a.m. hour Friday morning standoff began.

As reported here at CSW since Friday afternoon- the standoff is a result of Johnson County sheriff's deputies attempting to serve an eviction order to a man when the man became threatening to the cops- who backed away- surrounded the house and closed off the neighborhood.

According to several media reports- neighbors say a man in his 40's to 50's had lived in the house for about the past 5 years but had lost his job during the past year.


By Friday evening- rounds of a pepper-spray-type substance was being fire into the house by police in an attempt to drive the man out.


By midnight- many tactical crews were sent home while other cops kept an eye on the house thoughout the night.


Now as of 8:30 a.m. Saturday morning and with police tactical teams back in place- new attempts are likely forthcoming to at least make contact with the man evicted from his foreclosed home.

UPDATE: The standoff ended around 3 p.m Saturday afternoon and arrested the man that was in the house- 43-year-old man Ian Goldsmith.

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Saturday Morning Shooting in KC-KS Wounds Teenager

Police are investigating an empty car shot-up followed by a shooting victim found on Parallel Parkway earlier Saturday morning. 


The shooting call first went out a 12:46 a.m. to a gas station/convenience store in the 4700 block of Parallel.

When police arrived the found a car with bullet holes- unoccupied- with no victims around.

Less than 5 minutes later another KC-KS police officer spotted an erratic driver near 77th Street and Parallel- and discovered a 15-year-old male who had been shot in the leg.

The teen was from the bullet-ridden vehicle in the 4700 block police say.

The boy's condition was good- and his wound not life-terminating- a KC-KS paramedic said.


There wasn't any suspect available.

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CSW BREAKING: Fatality Crash North of Odessa MO

Received at 4:52 a.m. Saturday morning was the report of a vehicle crash on Missouri or 'M' 131 highway about 3 miles north of Odessa- in west-central Lafayette county along I-70.

An Odessa police officer reports from the scene at 4:58 a.m.- the crash was on M-131 near Odessa Hills Road- and that it was a head-on with two occupants trapped in one vehicle's rolled-over crushed wreckage.

One of the occupants is declared dead at the scene 10 minutes later as Odessa medics order a medical helicopter for the remaining occupant and extrication gets underway.

That extrication is reported complete at 5:36 a.m. but it's nearly an hour after the crash was reported before the patient- "a large- about 300 pounds- 19-year-old male"  is loaded into the waiting Lifeflight med chopper and flown to a KC-MO hospital.

There's no word on occupant injuries in the other vehicle.

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The Missouri Highway Patrol will be investigating the crash.

Serious Injuries To Man Struck on KC-MO Freeway

First reported as a vehicle crash on northbound U.S. 71 near Longview Road at 1:44 a.m. turned out to be a man hit by a vehicle who left the scene.


The man who was hit reportedly was tending to another disabled vehicle by the side of the road when he was struck.

That vehicle was possibly either located or the driver returned to the scene about 15 minutes later.

No word on police charges against that driver.


The man who was struck had serious- but not believed to be life-threatening injuries a KC-MO FD-EMS paramedic said- and he was taken to a Metro hospital.

Northbound U.S. 71 was closed at Blue Ridge Extention while police investigated the incident.

Please watch KSHB-41 NBC Action News at 8 a.m.- 5 and 10 p.m....

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Man Shot in Independence MO

Police aren't saying much about a shooting reported near Pacific and Hunter Streets in Independence early Saturday morning.


In fact police told the KSHB Action News photographer they got the "shots fired" call "around 2:15" a.m. when the initial shooting call was reported to CSW at 1:15 a.m..

Nonetheless- EMS sources told CSW that their patient was "a 42-year-old male" with a "single gunshot wound (to the upper chest)."

He was taken to an Indy hospital in serious but not life-ending condition.


Police wouldn't say if the man was shot by someone else or by himself either.

Please watch KSHB-41 NBC Action News at 8 a.m.- 5 and 10 p.m....

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Eviction Standoff Continues in Overland Park

As initially reported here at CSW- the standoff between a man being served eviction papers and the sheriff's deputies that attempted to serve those papers continues in southern Overland Park KS..

The incident itself is reported to be in the 8100 block of West 144th Place and began around 10:30 a.m. this Friday morning when Johnson County sheriff's deputies attempted to serve a man who lived in a house in that block an eviction order.


The man shut the door on the cops- and reportedly indicated he was armed as the officers backed-out and called for back-up.

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CSW BREAKING: Amtrak Train Strikes Car Near Pleasant Hill MO

Cass County Sheriff and Pleasant Hill Fire crews have confirmed that an Amtrak train has struck a van just north of Missouri (M) 58 on Beattie Road- southeast of Pleasant Hill.

The driver is reported to be the only occupant- and emergency crews reported that driver was out of the vehicle but injured  when they arrived just before 5 p.m..

The Amtrak train- as well as other trains on that line- have been stopped while an investigation (driver fails to yield to train) begins.


I'll report back here if the driver's injuries are serious.


Here's the wrap of this story...

The "57-year-old male driver" of the van suffered non life-threatening injuries- according to a medic with the Pleasant Hill FD-EMS and that patient was transported to a Kansas City MO hospital.

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"Task Force" Needed To Confirm Possible New Record Hailstone in Kansas?

This is just one of MANY examples why government spending is waaaaaaaaaay out of control.

On Wednesday it was reported by The WICHITA (KS) EAGLE that a record-breaking-sized hailstone fell south of Wichita (diameter. 7.75-inches- old record from 1970 was 5.7-inches).

The article goes on to say that "A task force to confirm the record will be convened next week, weather officials (NWS?)-mine) say."

 
Reminds me of the old joke of 'How many people does it take to use a tape measure?'

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