LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Lisa Dansby Williams loves connecting students in need with mental health resources.

"It's just been hard for many of the students and their families to navigate some of the resulting issues of the pandemic, whether that be domestic violence within the family, homelessness, maybe mom, dad lost a job," she said.

As the need rises, services are stretched thin.

"We do have a limited pool of mental health professionals to employ. Some of the main issues are that they are moving to different platforms to provide services. Some have been burnt out themselves by the pandemic and some of the increase of need for services and so that's been a major issue as well," Dansby said.

The national recommendation for school counselors is 1 for every 250 students. According to the National Association of School Counselors, only 17.8% of school districts met that requirement. Only 4.2% of urban school districts met it, according to pre-pandemic numbers.

"We are definitely seeing an increase in the number of students, families, and staff, and even administrators that are referring students and families to us," said Alma Lopez, who is a school counselor at a California middle school.

"It's been a challenge, you know, we're putting in some full days and then some and so definitely the need to have more mental health professionals in the school building is an essential need right now," she said.

What's been helping, Lopez said, is the waning stigma around mental health and the increased awareness from lawmakers. However, she believes more needs to be done, including help for counselors.

"More people need to actually understand the role of the school counselor and of mental health professionals right in the school building," she said.

For mental health workers, no matter what assistance comes, they're going to show up for the students, and be their much-needed rock, even if everything is so uncertain

"Right now there's a greater need to help family, so if I can make it happen, that's what I try to do," Williams said.

ODESSA, Texas — When the pandemic started, Michelle Villegas was in 6th grade. Now she's finishing up middle school, but not without some unpleasant memories from remote middle school.

"The tests would just, it would just load and load and load. Like I hated seeing that circle was just, it was in my nightmares, the circle!" she said.

The nightmarish loading circle is something that so many families across the nation can relate to as the pandemic exposed a weak link in rural America’s access to the internet. Michelle's mom says her heart broke watching her daughter struggle just to simply join a class.

"It was stressful, it was overwhelming, it was frustrating," she said.

The Villegas live on the outskirts of Odessa, Texas – a boom or bust oil town that’s one of many spots on the map without access to reliable internet.

According to the FCC, 6% of the country’s population lacks internet access. Narrowing in on rural communities, one in four lacks access – that’s 14.5 million people.

"I couldn't get on and I would call my mom crying because I was like, mom, I'm going to fail this. Like, my grades are so low because I can't do this," Michelle recounted.

Scott Muri is the superintendent in Ector County, where Odessa is located. When the pandemic hit and they had to move to remote learning over the course of a weekend, they found that 39% of their student body lived in areas with inadequate internet or no internet at all.

"Many of our kids do not live in an area of our community, that even if they had the money, they could access the internet, it's simply didn't exist," said Muri.

With that large of a percentage of students that couldn’t log on for remote school, they had to think of solutions. So they decided to shoot their shot and contacted SpaceX to be a part of their Starlink internet access pilot project and the multi-billion dollar company said yes.

"This big dad started to cry because he understood as a parent, what that a simple little dish was going to mean for his children because he had watched his kids struggle mightily to connect with their teachers," he said.

What Ector County has is a unique public-private partnership. However, federal dollars will trickle into tackling this same issue nationwide. $45 billion dollars from the infrastructure bill is going toward equitable broadband access.

"I think we need to appreciate broadband as a utility. You know, it is not a special thing that only certain people have. It is not something that you earn through wealth. It is something that is a right and a privilege and an opportunity for every American," he said.

Next year, Michelle is entering high school and both her and her mom are relieved to have reliable service because it will help put her on an equal playing field for the rest of her education.

"Everything is technology now. And if you don't have a good internet source, you're not going to be caught up with everything that's happening now. Like you're going to be left in the past," said Michelle.

UVALDE, Texas —

The school district police chief who served as on-site commander during last week's deadly shooting in Uvalde said Wednesday that he's talking daily with investigators, contradicting claims from state law enforcement that he's stopped cooperating.

In a brief interview, Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District Police Chief Pete Arredondo told CNN that he's speaking regularly with Texas Department of Public Safety investigators.

"I’ve been on the phone with them every day,” Arredondo said.

Nineteen children and two teachers died in the attack at Robb Elementary School, the deadliest school shooting in nearly a decade. State officials have said 19 police officers waited outside the classroom where Salvador Ramos, 18, had opened fire, despite repeated pleas from children calling 911 for help.

Travis Considine, chief communications officer for the Texas Department of Public Safety, said Tuesday that Arredondo had not responded to DPS requests for two days, while other officers in the Uvalde city and schools police departments continue to sit for interviews and provide statements.

Arredondo has not responded to multiple requests for comment from The Associated Press.

The confusing and sometimes contradictory responses in the week since the deadly shooting continued Tuesday with the revelation that the exterior door used by the gunman was not left propped open by a teacher, as police previously said.

They have now determined that the teacher, who has not been identified, propped the door open with a rock, but then removed the rock and closed the door when she realized there was a shooter on campus, Considine said. But, Considine said, the door that was designed to lock when shut did not lock.

“We did verify she closed the door. The door did not lock. We know that much and now investigators are looking into why it did not lock,” Considine said.

Investigators confirmed the detail through additional video footage reviewed since Friday's news conference when authorities first said that the door had been left propped open. Authorities did not state at that time what had been used to prop open the door.

Video: Funerals begin for Uvalde victims

Considine said the teacher initially propped the door open but ran back inside to get her phone and call 911 when Ramos crashed his truck on campus.

"She came back out while on her phone, she heard someone yell, 'He has a gun!', she saw him jump the fence and that he had a gun, so she ran back inside," removing the rock when she did, Considine said.

Steve McCraw, the head of DPS, hadn’t said why the teacher initially propped open the door when it was first detailed Friday. The first mention of a door left propped open, which officials now say didn't happen, led to questions about the teacher's actions and whether she had made a horrific mistake.

Since the shooting, law enforcement and state officials have struggled to present an accurate timeline and details of the event and how police responded, sometimes providing conflicting information or withdrawing some statements hours later. State police have said some accounts were preliminary and may change as more witnesses are interviewed.

San Antonio attorney Don Flanary told the San Antonio Express-News that the Robb Elementary School employee, whom he’s not naming, first propped open the door to carry food from a car to a classroom, and that she immediately moved to close it when she realized the danger.

"She kicked the rock away when she went back in. She remembers pulling the door closed while telling 911 that he was shooting," Flanary told the newspaper.

"She thought the door would lock because that door is always supposed to be locked,” Flanary said.

Video: Flowers, tears as Bidens stop at Uvalde memorial

Flanary did not immediately return telephone messages left at his office from The Associated Press.

Later Tuesday, the Combined Law Enforcement Association of Texas, which represents police officers, urged its member officers to cooperate with "all government investigations" into the shooting and police response and endorsed a federal probe already announced by the Justice Department.

The organization was also sharply critical of the constantly changing narrative of events that has emerged so far.

"There has been a great deal of false and misleading information in the aftermath of this tragedy. Some of the information came from the very highest levels of government and law enforcement," CLEAT said. "Sources that Texans once saw as iron-clad and completely reliable have now been proven false."

UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Uvalde’s embattled district police chief is set to face becoming the first officer to lose his job over the slow and bungled law enforcement response to one of the deadliest classroom shootings in U.S. history.

The Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District board will decide Wednesday in a rescheduled meeting from July on Pete Arredondo’s future, three months to the day after a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers while hundreds of police officers waited in the hallway of Robb Elementary and outside the campus.

CNN reported the meeting is slated to start at 5:30 p.m. CT, first allowing comments from the public to be heard before going into a closed session to decide Arredondo's possible termination.

Arredondo, who has been on administrative leave since June, has faced heavy criticism for his handling of the May 24 tragedy.

A nearly 80-page report released in July criticized Arredondo for not taking charge of the scene and wasting "precious time" by looking for a key to a likely unlocked door.

The Department of Justice has been reviewing the law enforcement agency's response to the massacre. According to the report, it took nearly an hour after the shooting began for the gunman to be confronted.

Meanwhile, questions remain as Uvalde students are set to begin a new school year on Sept. 6.

School officials say the Robb Elementary campus will no longer be used, stating that classes for the elementary students will take place in temporary classrooms at various campuses in the town.

OAKLAND, Calif. —

At least six people were wounded in a shooting at a school in Oakland, California, on Wednesday, officials said.

The scene of the shooting was “no longer active,” according to Alameda County Sheriff spokesperson Lt. Ray Kelly. Paramedics had transported six patients to hospitals, all with gunshot wounds, according to Oakland Fire Department spokesperson Michael Hunt.

Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf tweeted that all of the wounded were adults and the shooting happened at Sojourner Truth Independent Study, an alternative K-12 school.

Officials didn't say if any of the victims might be students age 18 or older.

Three of the wounded were in critical condition at Highland Hospital in Oakland, the other three were taken to Eden Medical Center in Castro Valley and their conditions were not known, officials said.

John Sasaki, a spokesperson for Oakland Unified School District, said in a statement that district officials “do not have any information beyond what Oakland Police are reporting.” He said the Sojourner Truth Independent Study headquarters has no students and is located on the same block as three other schools.

Television footage showed dozens of police cars and yellow tape on the street outside the school and students leaving nearby campuses.

City Council Member Treva Reid said investigators told her the shooting may be tied to rising “group and gang violence.”

Oakland Police Capt. Casey Johnson confirmed in a brief news conference that six people were shot, and didn't answer any questions.

City Council Member Loren Taylor, who was outside the school, declined to confirm any details about the incident, telling KTVU-TV, “Guns were on our school campuses where our babies were supposed to be protected.”

There is new evidence of how significantly the COVID-19 pandemic impacted learning loss in the classroom for students.

Those impacts — declines in reading and math scores in a majority of states — were noted in the release of the National Assessment of Educational Progress, or The Nation's Report Card.

The report compared math and reading test scores in the fourth and eighth grades pre-pandemic in 2019 and post-pandemic this year.

In eighth grade, every state except Utah showed math test score declines. More than three dozen saw similar declines in the fourth grade.

In the fourth grade, a majority of states saw declines in reading test scores.

"I don't make this statement lightly because these aren't the kind of data that I would normally attribute cause and effect to," said Peggy Carr, commissioner at the National Center for Education Statistics. "But, it is very clear what we're looking at now is unprecedented disruption in the lives of everyone, including students, their academic careers, ya know, really pushed off-kilter, really knocked off rack. It is because of the pandemic."

Moving forward, Carr said school systems need to use this data to do a "reset" and refocus on learning and tutoring programs, as well as social and emotional mental health services for students.

Watch the video above for the full story.

PLEASANT VIEW, Tn. — Dana Wallace believes in the power of her profession.

"Whether there had been a pandemic or not, teachers are rock stars and we're gonna take them from where they are to where they need to be," she said.

She’s been an elementary teacher for close to two decades, but for this school year, she’s taking on a new challenge: tutoring to combat covid-era learning loss.

"It definitely affected their academics but affected them socially too, and I look at my position as the cherry on top—that I just get to love on these kids and give them one more person to be their cheerleader," said Wallace.

This kind of tutoring isn’t the afterschool tutoring we might have endured years ago; this is high-dosage or high-impact tutoring as part of her state’s strategy to help kids bounce back. For 45 minutes, in small groups during the school day, she helps 42 kids throughout the week bridge gaps in their understanding of their classroom curriculum.

Last week, the National Assessment of Education Progress, or NAEP, released numbers that showed just how much students’ skills suffered since 2019. Math scores dropped 5 and 8 points in fourth and eighth grade respectively, the lowest since the early 2000s. Reading scores dropped by 3 points.

Kevin Huffman is the former education commissioner for the state of Tennessee and the current CEO of Accelerate, a new national initiative to help school districts across America integrate high-impact tutoring in their lesson plans through grants and research.

"A lot of districts are saying, 'We want to do tutoring. We know that it works. We've read the research.' But the challenge of finding the people to deliver," said Huffman.

While there’s no hard data yet to see how intensive tutoring has helped students post-COVID learning loss, years of studies on the positive impact tutoring has on student success has led to some states—like Tennessee Colorado, Texas, Lousiana and New Mexico— using some of their portion of the billions allocated through ARPA funding to invest in tutoring efforts.

Dana Wallace’s state of Tennessee, for example, is matching funds for school districts that decide to integrate tutoring. Tutoring works— the challenge is figuring out how to make it happen on a larger scale to fit the need.

"All districts across the country have federal stimulus money, and so they've got resources right now to deliver tutoring. price is not the barrier right now," he said. "So, we have a window right now to experiment, learn, try to figure out how to do this in a way that is more cost-effective, but hopefully still delivers results."

While the national scores are alarming, those working on helping students say that parents should have confidence in the people behind the efforts to help their kids get back on track.

"Every person is working our tails off for these students, not because of that score that came out, just because that's our heart and that's what we want to do is help them do their very best," said Wallace.

WEST JORDAN, Utah (KSTU)— A person who wanted to make a difference found a way to provide relief to families who owed student lunch debt.

Tua Kealoha raised $12,050 to help pay off school lunch debt at Heartland Elementary in Utah.

“I believe that food is one of those things that kids shouldn’t have to worry about,” said Kealoha. “I see these guys as my kids, and these are anybody’s kids.”

For two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, the students receive free lunches. But this year, their families had to pay for the meals. it’s on their families to pay for it.

“There’s always this middle ground of families that don’t qualify for free or reduced lunches, or their family situation has recently changed – a donation like that of Kealoha’s helps bless a whole bunch of families," said principal Buddy Alger.

When Kealoha learned about lunch debt, he made it his mission to help.

“I’m not from this district, but I believe when it comes to helping kids, there is no such thing as districts," he said.

“I also want to help spread awareness to this issue that there is such a thing as school lunch debt, so find it in yourself to pay off the lunch debt for a student or the whole school,” added Kealoha.

Kealoha hopes his good deed will inspire others to help out in their communities.

“It takes a community to help our community. Hnstead of looking for outside help, we have to just come together and unite and we can help each other out,” he said.

This story was originally reported by Mythili Gubbi on fox13now.com.

CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y. (Video above: WKBW via CNN) —

As a deadly and historic blizzard barreled through Erie County, New York, last weekend, some residents found themselves in a dire scenario — stranded in howling snow with nowhere to go, their cars dwindling in gas supply with police unable to come to the rescue.

Among those trapped last Friday was Jay Withey, a mechanic in the town of Cheektowaga who had ventured out to help a trapped friend, but instead got caught in the snow himself. Over the course of the night, he would be turned away by several people he begged for help, eventually committing a final act of desperation to save himself and more than 20 others from the brutal storm.

His night began at 6 p.m. when he got a call from a friend who had become stuck in the quickly mounting snow.

"He said I'm the only person he knew that would come over so I figured I would go get him," Withey said.

Withey drove toward his friend, weaving between abandoned vehicles that littered the road. Suddenly, he saw a young man named Mike walking in sneakers and wrapped in a light jacket. He told Mike to hop in the truck to escape the cold.

As he drove past snow drifts several feet tall, Withey said, his truck became stuck twice. The first time, he was able to shovel his way out, but the second time felt hopeless.

"I'm trying to dig myself out, but the snow is coming down just as fast as I'm shoveling," he said. With his clothes soaking wet and only a quarter of a tank of fuel left, Withey started to grow concerned.

'I'm fearing for my life'

Leaving Mike in the truck, he began knocking on the doors of houses lining the street to see if anyone would give them shelter.

Withey said he went to 10 households, offering each $500 to spend the night on their floor. All of them turned him away. "I plead with them, 'Please, please can I sleep on the floor, I'm in fear for my life,' and they say, 'No I'm sorry'," he said.

Feeling defeated, Withey tried to walk back to his truck but became lost in the blustery wind and thick snow.

"My vision is getting foggy, my body is cramping up, and I'm fearing for my life," he said.

Finally, he saw a light glint in the distance, the same blinking light he remembered parking his truck next to.

After marching back to the truck, Withey called the police but was told that due to the dangerous storm conditions, they couldn't come to rescue him, he said. He also learned that the friend who had called him for help had been rescued by authorities.

With the gas running precariously low, Withey was concerned, but tired, so he tried to take a nap.

At around 11 p.m., he heard a knock at the car window and opened the door to find Mary, an elderly woman who said she had been stuck in her car since 4 p.m. and needed help. He told her to get in the truck, too.

'I didn't leave until I made sure everyone was OK'

By the next morning, Withey's truck had run out of gas, leaving the trio to huddle in Mary's van, which was also running low on fuel.

Eventually, Mary needed to use the bathroom. It was then that Withey, sensing she felt embarrassed, looked at his phone's GPS and noticed that a school — EDGE Academy — was nearby, he said.

"I say, 'I'm going to that school, and I'm going to break into that school, because I know they have heat and a bathroom,'" he said.

Using an extra set of brake pads, Withey smashed through a window of the school so he could open the front door and let Mike and Mary in, with the security alarm blaring.

"I walk outside in the immediate area and there are a lot of older people that are stranded in their cars," Withey said. "One person had a dog, and I get them all into the school. At this point, I have about 10 people in the school." He estimated their ages ranged between 20s and 70s.

With the group settled in the school, Withey scavenged for cereal and apples in the cafeteria, managed to turn off the alarm, and found mats in the gym for everyone to sleep on.

"Everyone is just so happy to be in the school and to be warm and have food," he said.

On Christmas morning, Withey and the others were able to use snow blowers from the janitor's closet to free their cars from the mounds of snow.

'I had to do it to save everyone'

Withey, who describes himself as a religious man, said he views the whole ordeal as a blessing in disguise. If just one person had taken him up on his plea for shelter that night, he would not have saved all those people, he said.

One man who turned him away saw Withey snow blowing the cars and approached him in tears to apologize, saying he couldn't sleep that night knowing he had denied Withey shelter.

Withey stayed at the school until 8 p.m. on Christmas. "I didn't leave until I made sure everyone was OK," he said, adding that they started a group chat to stay in touch.

Before he left, he made sure to leave a note apologizing for the break-in, which police found when they were eventually able to respond to the alarm Withey set off when he entered the school.

"To whomever it may concern, I'm terribly sorry about breaking the school window and for breaking in the kitchen," it read. "Got stuck at 8 pm Friday and slept in my truck with two strangers, just trying not to die," it continued. "There were 7 elderly people also stuck and out of fuel. I had to do it to save everyone and get them shelter and food and a bathroom." He signed the letter, "Merry Christmas Jay."

Cheektowaga Police were able to find Withey with the public's help after sharing his note and surveillance camera images.

Police Chief Brian Gould told CNN that Withey was in a section of town that they were having a hard time getting to. The chief called Withey's actions heroic and an example of the sense of community among people in the area.

"We were absolutely shocked to see that he had over 20 people in the school (and) two dogs," he said.

"Not only a heroic action, but just an overall good person." "He definitely saved some lives that day," Gould said.

THE PLAINS, Ohio —

Before Joe Burrow was an NFL star, he was a small-town kid growing up in southeastern Ohio.

Those who have coached him along the way say Burrow has not forgotten where he came from.

Sam Smathers coached Burrow as a youth. Smathers assisted author Scott Burson in writing "From Bulldog to Bengal: The Joe Burrow Story Through the Eyes of His Hometown."

Ahead of its release, Smathers walked WLWT through the making of a champion.

"We're just, we're very proud, very proud of him. He's just Joe," Smathers said.

Plains, Ohio is where it all started for Burrow.

Smathers has video footage from when Burrow was a quarterback in third grade. With no one open downfield, he decided to run the ball.

Videos from sixth grade show Burrow executing more plays.

"They bring back all the memories. All the memories come back," Smathers said as he watched a highlight reel. "I've watched him grow up, and I've watched damn near every game he's ever played.

Fast forward to high school, Burrow became more competitive.

"He was very competitive in practice and the game, but he wasn't a rah-rah guy," Smathers said.

Burrow led by example.

"Everybody can see that. He's a silent leader," Smathers said.

Burrow led Athens High School to the playoffs and the state championship his senior year.

"That whole group of kids that came through there was just a talented group. You get that every so often, a good group of kids coming through, and Joe was part of that," Smathers said.

Burrow also excelled in basketball. Academics came easy to him. Teachers described him as shy and likeable. Students voted him most likely to become famous in addition to most athletic.

Smathers gives a lot of credit to Burrow's parents, Jim and Robin Burrow.

"They're just that type of people. Down to earth, well-grounded, and that's where Joey gets it," Smathers said. "He hasn't forgotten. He knows where he's from. He's proud of where he's from. I know he is," Smathers said.

That was evident throughout college at Louisiana State University and during his Heisman trophy moment, where he highlighted the issue of food insecurity in Athens County.

"People here understand that he's fed a lot of people, and they're very grateful for what he's done here," Smathers said.

And what he continues to do as a Cincinnati Bengal.

"When we win it, we're gonna win it, and it'll be our way, and way we're going to do it," Smathers said.

Smathers said he helped write the book with blessings from Burrow and his parents.

It's set to be released in the spring.

More information can be found, here.

It’s January, the middle of the school year, and yet tenth grader Lala Bivens is preparing for her first day at a new school.

Bivens started fall classes at One City Preparatory Academy, a new charter middle and high school in Madison, Wisconsin, but on January 13 a teacher shortage forced the school to shut down classes for more than 60 9th and 10th graders, including Bivens, who then had to switch schools.

“Teachers were just dropping like flies,” she told CNN.

Since the beginning of the school year, Bivens says she lost her math, chemistry and history teachers. The charter school’s CEO, Kaleem Caire, tells CNN the school lost “five core academic teachers” since the high school opened last fall.

On the second day of school, the Academy lost a humanities teacher. Then, four weeks later, a math teacher resigned. The school would lose three more teachers throughout the fall.

“We have quite a few students who are behind academically, the teachers found it hard, and some teachers came on not knowing how hard it was,” Caire told CNN by phone.

In addition to having to deal with low pay, high student-to-teacher ratios, poor working conditions, post-pandemic learning loss, school shootings and social or emotional issues with students, teachers across the nation are also grappling with culture wars over what they can and cannot teach in the classroom.

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Despite a national recruitment effort, Caire says he could not fill the open positions at the school. “Competition is intense. There are 16 school districts in this area.”

By the time Caire made the decision to shut down classes at the school for ninth and tenth graders, he had been filling in as a math teacher while other teachers at the school were teaching more than one class at a time.

The charter school helped Bivens and 61 other students scramble to find new schools midsemester. After a week of missed classes, Bivens’ mother was able to successfully enroll her at a local public high school.

It’s not just Wisconsin

What’s playing out in Madison is the worst-case scenario of a national teacher shortage gone unchecked.

Department of Education data shows 47 states have reported teacher shortages this school year with the problem being most acute in urban and rural areas. Meanwhile, desperate state legislatures are passing laws making it easier to become a public schoolteacher by lowering or eliminating certain qualifications.

The National Council On Teacher Quality told CNN that over the last two years, 23 states have lowered teacher qualification requirements for beginning teachers. That includes lowering or removing assessment tests designed to determine whether teachers have a firm grasp on the subject they will teach and creating emergency teaching certificates to expedite candidates into the classroom without a teaching degree.

Arizona, Florida and Oklahoma have created new pathways for people without a bachelor’s degree to teach in classrooms.

“Making it easier to become a teacher is an overly broad, short-term solution to staffing challenges that amounts to saying we just need ‘warm bodies’ in classrooms. It’s harmful to students and insulting to the teaching profession,” said Heather Peske, president of the National Council on Teacher Quality, a Washington, D.C., think tank that researches and evaluates teacher quality nationwide.

Linda Darling Hammond, president of the Learning Policy Institute, an education research and policy advocacy group, says state efforts to repeal teacher qualification requirements will only exacerbate the teacher shortage.

“When states respond to shortages by reducing standards rather than increasing salaries and improving working conditions, what they’re doing is creating a vicious cycle. They get people in who are underprepared. Those people leave at two to three times the rate of those who have come in with preparation.”

Hammond says at the same time the quality of education for students suffers. “You’re undermining student achievement.”

A Band-aid on a gaping wound

Since Florida opened teaching roles to veterans without a bachelor’s degree last August, the initiative has only netted the state 11 new teachers, according to the state’s education department, raising the question of whether lowering standards is an effective solution to the shortages.

Florida’s Department of Education denies that there’s a teacher shortage and instead says, “The purpose of this new pathway was to value the unique experience military service provides while simply offering additional time for these veterans to obtain a bachelor’s degree and other requirements to receive a full professional educator certification.”

Back in Madison, Superintendent Dr. Carlton Jenkins’ school district will absorb most students transferring from One City Preparatory Academy, despite his district dealing with its own teacher shortage.

“I know our staff is amazing and they do magical type work but it’s still a challenge that will eventually bring stress on the staff here.”

“We have to try to make sure that what they learned aligns with what we are getting ready to teach. We don’t want the regression to happen,” he added.

But the learning loss he fears may have already begun.

“When I didn’t have enough teachers in my classes it was very hard because we didn’t really learn anything,” Bivens tells CNN.

Michael Jones, president of the Madison Teachers Inc. union told CNN, “We need to change the way public schools view educators as a never-ending supply of energetic martyrs and treat them more like the professionals they are and that we expect for our children.”

Kimberly Walkes, Bivens mother, says when she sent her daughter to school, she always assumed there would be enough teachers on staff to teach, so she was surprised when she learned that was not the case at her daughter’s school.

“You set your child up for greatness and they have so many great opportunities and to hear that was no longer being afforded to her, it broke my heart and brought me to tears," she said.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released its recommendations on what kids should be eating after conducting a survey focused on the consumption of fruits, vegetables and drinks sweetened with sugar.

The health agency asked three questions about children between one of five years, requesting that participating households reveal how often vegetables, fruits and drinks with sugar are consumed by children, and how much they had consumed during the previous week.

The CDC said households are "randomly sampled from the Census Bureau's Master Address File" and then they are contacted by mail to see which have at least one child or adolescent.

The CDC found that in 2021 at least 32.1% of children between one and five did not eat fruit on a daily basis and that 49.1% did not eat vegetables during the entire week before the survey was conducted. 57.1% of those questioned had a drink sweetened with sugar, according to the responses given to the CDC at that time.

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2.4% of the respondents did not answer at least one item and were excluded from the findings.

The CDC indicated that many children do not have enough fruits and vegetables on a daily basis, but they were regularly consuming sugary drinks.

According to the agency's data, out of 20 U.S. states, over half of the children from those states did not eat a vegetable daily during the entire week before the survey, according to responses.

Out of children from 40 U.S. states and the District of Columbia, over half of those kids consumed a sugary drink at least once in the week before the survey.

Numerous schools in Colorado and Idaho were put on lockdown Wednesday after someone reported threats, which police believe were part of a hoax.

Boulder Police Chief Maris Harold told reporters Wednesday that dispatchers received a call in the morning from a male who said he was going to Boulder High School when the sound of gunshots could be heard in the background.

Boulder Police cleared the school, but there were no confirmed injuries.

Threat calls were also made to schools in Colorado, including in Aspen, Alamosa, Brighton and Canon City. In all the cases, the schools were cleared of any threat.

In Idaho, the Caldwell Police Department said there were a number of "non-legitimate" threats made at several schools Wednesday morning. Officers continue to respond, but they believe the threats are part of a wide-reaching hoax.

"In the past week, similar instances involving hoax calls into schools have occurred in Oregon, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Nevada," the Caldwell Police Department said in a statement.

A spokesperson for the Boulder Police Department said the FBI is now helping investigate the source of the calls.

DENVER — Oftentimes, hoax perpetrators are seeking attention and reaction from the community, and we don’t want to help them in that pursuit. We also don’t want to encourage copycat hoaxes.

However, as at least 14 Colorado schools received “swatting” calls Wednesday, specialists point to a growing trend we believe you should be aware of.

Swatting is the act of calling first responders with a fake emergency to coax them into sending a significant police presence to a specific address

Ken Trump, president of National School Safety and Security Services, says he’s been tracking a “spate of school swatting threats that has gone on for months” across the United States. He says many previous mass swatting events have been traced to actors from foreign countries.

“Swatting threats typically cross multiple school districts, multiple communities, oftentimes multiple states and originate internationally,” Trump said. “They create anxiety, fear, uncertainty about school safety, drain local first responders from other needs out in the broader community, and can extend over a period of time while the investigation goes on — oftentimes for weeks or sometimes months.”

While it is, at this point, unclear if the multiple threats to Colorado schools were coordinated, Trump says these bad actors often have the specific goal of creating chaos, confusion and fear.

“These threats typically turn out to be unfounded, not credible, but every threat needs to be treated seriously [and] investigated thoroughly,” Trump said. “There’s not only a massive drain of law enforcement resources, but also swatting fatigue and fatigue by school districts: the risk of school communities not taking threats seriously, becoming complacent, and not treating each one seriously when there could be one possible threat that turns out to be credible.”

Sergeant Ryan Scheevel with the Boulder Police Department says he was impressed by the response of students and staff at Boulder High School Wednesday morning. The entire school’s lockdown procedure made law enforcement’s job of evacuating and sweeping the school for the potential threat much easier.

“It was very obvious that they had trained for that,” Scheevel said. “I would implore all schools, employers, anything like that to have a plan in place.”

Scheevel was just a couple hours into his shift Wednesday morning when he heard a weapons tone over his radio, and dispatchers relaying reports of a possible active shooter at Boulder High School. He and his fellow officers quickly realized the threat was likely a hoax, both through conversations with school administrators and messages from dispatch of other fake threats being called in across the state. Still, they had to push forward, per protocol, to ensure it was, in fact, a false alarm.

“We went and had them go into lockdown, and then started going [on] a systematic search of the school, hoping that we weren’t going to find anything, but planning that if we [did] find something — whether it’s a suspect or a victim or somebody’s injured — that we have the resources and a plan in place to deal with that,” Scheevel said.

Even after the all-clear, Scheevel and his fellow officers had to rely on their training and support from one another to process the other great cost of swatting threats: the emotional drain it puts on our law enforcement, teachers, and students.

“Two of my kids are school age, so anytime we get a call at a school, it definitely heightens your sense of what’s going on there,” he said. “When you’ve removed yourself from you that situation, you really think about like, 'That could have been my kids in there.’”

This article was written by Rob Harris for Scripps News Denver.

On Feb. 14, 2018, 17 students and staff were killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

They included a football coach, an athletic director, and young, eager, and forward-looking students.

Video above: Victims' families give emotional testimony in the sentencing trial of Parkland school shooter

It's now been more than four years since the shooting, and people are taking a moment to remember the lives of those lost and what's happened since.

For many families, they said there will never be closure for the loss of their loved ones.

These are the victims:

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Alyssa Alhadeff, 14

Alyssa, 14, was a student at Stoneman Douglas and a soccer player for Parkland Travel Soccer.

Lori Alhadeff, Alyssa's mother, told HLN she dropped her daughter off at school that Wednesday and said, "I love you." When the mother heard about the shooting, she hustled to school but was too late.

"I knew at that point she was gone. I felt it in my heart," she said. "Alyssa was a beautiful, smart, talented, successful, awesome, amazing soccer player. You'll be greatly missed, Alyssa. We love you so much. You'll always, always be in our hearts."

"Alyssa Alhadeff was a loved and well-respected member of our club and community," Parkland Travel Soccer said on Facebook. "Alyssa will be greatly missed."

Alyssa also attended Camp Coleman, a Jewish sleepaway summer camp.

"On behalf of the entire Coleman community, we offer heartfelt condolences and prayers for comfort to Alyssa's family and friends. May Alyssa's memory forever be for a blessing," the camp said on Facebook.

Scott Beigel, 35

Beigel, a geography teacher, was killed as he tried to usher students back into his classroom when the shooting broke out.

Kelsey Friend, one of Beigel's students, told CNN in an emotional interview that he was shot outside the classroom door and that he saved her life.

"Mr. Beigel was my hero and he still will forever be my hero. I will never forget the actions that he took for me and for fellow students in the classroom," she said. "I am alive today because of him."

Kelsey said the teacher was an amazing person and his memory would live on with her.

"If I could see him right now ... I'd give him a huge teddy bear to say thank you. But unfortunately, I can't do that," she said.

Beigel, 35, was also a counselor at Camp Starlight in Pennsylvania, which called him a "friend and hero" on Facebook.

Martin Duque Anguiano, 14

Miguel Duque mourned the loss of his younger brother, Martin, and set up a Go Fund Me page to help pay for funeral expenses.

"He was a very funny kid, outgoing, and sometimes really quiet. He was sweet and caring and loved by all his family. Most of all he was my baby brother," Miguel said on the page.

"My family and I have no words to describe the event that's has happened on this date, all my prayers to the lost ones. My family and I will appreciate anything that we can get helped with. R.I.P Martin Duque."

Nicholas Dworet, 17

Nicholas, a 17-year-old senior, was killed in the shooting, the University of Indianapolis confirmed. He was recruited for the university swim team and would have been an incoming freshman that fall.

"Nick's death is a reminder that we are connected to the larger world, and when tragedy hits in places around the world, it oftentimes affects us at home," said Robert L. Manuel, University of Indianapolis president.

"Today, and in the coming days, I hope you will hold Nick, his family, all of the victims, as well as the Parkland community and first responders in your prayers."

Aaron Feis, 37

Feis, an assistant football coach, was killed when he threw himself in front of students to protect them from oncoming bullets, according to football program spokeswoman Denis Lehtio. Feis, 37, suffered a gunshot wound and died after he was rushed into surgery, Lehtio said.

"He died the same way he lived -- he put himself second," she said. "He was a very kind soul, a very nice man. He died a hero."

Colton Haab, a 17-year-old junior who had a close relationship with Feis, told CNN he saw the coach running toward the sounds of gunshots.

"That's Coach Feis. He wants to make sure everybody is safe before himself," he said.

"(He) made sure everyone else's needs were met before his own. He was a hard worker. He worked after school, on the weekends, mowing lawns, just helping as many people as possible."

Chad Lyons, a student and football player, said Feis was there for him when he was going through leukemia treatments.

"He guided me through them. He would send me prayers. He would send me Bible scripts and just stuff to cheer up my day. Funny memes," the player said.

"He was just an amazing person to be led on and taught by, and I'm thankful enough to even be in his presence, just going through high school."

Jaime Guttenberg, 14

Jaime, 14, was among the victims, according to a Facebook post by her father, Fred.

"My heart is broken. Yesterday, Jennifer Bloom Guttenberg and I lost our baby girl to a violent shooting at her school. We lost our daughter and my son Jesse Guttenberg lost his sister.

"I am broken as I write this trying to figure out how my family gets through this. We appreciate all of the calls and messages and we apologize for not reacting to everyone individually," he added. "Hugs to all and hold your children tight."

Skidmore College, where Fred Guttenberg attended, released a statement saying their hearts go out to Jaime's parents and others affected by the tragedy.

"There really are no words to lessen the suffering that the families of victims are feeling at this moment, but perhaps knowing that we stand with them can provide some small measure of solace," the college said.

Chris Hixon, 49

His widow, Debra, was telling CNN that he was "probably the best man that I ... " when she couldn't go on.

She had just described Chris Hixon -- who was the school's athletic director -- as an awesome husband, father and American.

"Every one of those students he thought of as his own kid," she said earlier.

Hixon, 49 would give students rides or lunch money and, if they needed it, open up his home to them. "He just loved being around kids and giving back to the community," Debra Hixon said.

A Naval reservist, Chris Hixon deployed to Iraq in 2007.

"He loved being an American and serving his country and he instilled that in our kids," she said.

Hixon was also the school's wrestling coach, something that was his passion.

Luke Hoyer, 15

The killing shocked Luke's close-knit family.

Grandparents Eddie and Janice Stroud in Simpsonville, South Carolina, learned about the news of the shooting from TV reports, they told sister station WYFF in Greenville.

"The day went by and we didn't hear anything about Luke. We kept hoping they would find him wandering around in shock," Janice Stroud told the station.

"By 7 o'clock, I said, 'I don't like this. This is not good,' " her husband said, according to WYFF. "Finally, (police) called us at 1 a.m. and said Luke was among the students that had been killed."

Janice Stroud said, "He was a good kid. He ... never got in trouble. He was the last of my daughter's children who still lived at home."

Cousin Grant Cox called Luke "an amazing individual. Always happy, always smiling. His smile was contagious, and so was his laugh.

Another relative, Mary Beth Stroud-Gibbs, posted on Facebook that the family is "very close" and is "devastated by this senseless shooting."

"Our Luke was a precious child."

Cara Loughran, 14

Cara danced at the Drake School of Irish Dance in South Florida.

"Cara was a beautiful soul and always had a smile on her face," the dance studio said in a statement. "We are heartbroken as we send our love and support to her family during this horrible time."

Danny Vogel, a neighbor, posted condolences on Facebook.

"It is with a heavy heart and much regret that I write these words. Our next-door neighbor's daughter was one of the lives taken (too) soon by a senseless act of violence at Stoneman Douglas High School.

"RIP Cara, and fly with the angels. You will be greatly missed, and we will always love you and celebrate your beautiful life."

Gina Montalto, 14

Gina was a member of the winter guard on the school's marching band.

The Winter Guard International mourned her death Thursday, saying, "Unfortunately, one of the victims in yesterday's St. Valentine's Day Massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School was a member of the school's winter guard.

"No student should ever go to school afraid," the group said.

One of her middle school color guard instructors told The Miami Herald that Gina "was the sweetest soul ever."

"My heart is broken into pieces. I will forever remember you, my sweet angel," Manuel Miranda told the paper.

Shawn Sherlock, Gina's aunt, posted a tribute on Facebook, describing her niece as a gifted artist.

"I know somewhere in the heavens she's designing the latest and greatest trends and has her art book she always carried with her as well," she wrote.

Joaquin Oliver, 17

Joaquin was born in Venezuela, moved to the United States when he was 3 and became a naturalized citizen in January 2017, the Sun-Sentinel reported.

"Among friends at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, he was known as 'Guac,' a moniker that appeared on his Instagram account. His interests: football, basketball, the Venezuelan national soccer team, urban graffiti and hip-hop," the paper said.

An Instagram post dated December 31 was his final social media post -- a message to his girlfriend, the paper said.

"Thank you lord for putting a greater blessing than I could ever imagine into my life this past year," he said. "I love you with all my heart."

Alaina Petty, 14

Alaina's family said she was vibrant and determined. She had volunteered after Hurricane Irma hit Florida in September 2017.

"Alaina loved to serve," the statement from her family said.

She was also a part of the "Helping Hands" program of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

"While we will not have the opportunity to watch her grow up and become the amazing woman we know she would become, we are keeping an eternal perspective," her family said.

Alaina, 14, was also a member of the junior ROTC at her school, a leadership program taught by retired Army personnel.

Meadow Pollack, 18

Meadow, 18, had been accepted at Lynn University in Boca Raton, spokeswoman Jamie D'Aria said.

"Meadow was a lovely young woman, who was full of energy. We were very much looking forward to having her join our community in the fall," D'Aria said.

Condolences were posted on an online guestbook kept by Star of David Memorial Gardens Cemetery and Funeral Chapel.

"Please accept my deepest condolences on the loss of your beautiful daughter, Meadow. May she rest in peace. Your family is in my continued prayers," said Alisa Thomas of Youngstown, Ohio.

Friend GII Lovito said on Facebook: "Please say a prayer for the family of an amazing girl I got to call my best friend growing up Meadow Pollack ... her life was taken way too soon and I have no words to describe how this feels. Rest In Peace my beautiful angel.

"You are and forever will be loved."

Helena Ramsay, 17

"My family lost an absolutely beautiful member today, due to a senseless school shooting," Curtis Page Jr. said in a Facebook post about Helena, who would have started college the next year.

"Helena was a smart, kind-hearted, and thoughtful person. She was deeply loved and loved others even more so. Though she was somewhat reserved, she had a relentless motivation towards her academic studies, and her soft warm demeanor brought the best out in all who knew her. She was so brilliant and witty, and I'm still wrestling with the idea that she is actually gone."

Page said he hopes others can be inspired by Helena's "life well lived, no matter how short."

Fena Cooper, identifying herself as a cousin, said in a Facebook posting, "Valentine's Day will never look the same for my family.

"Helena, we miss you dearly and are so incredibly sorry that your life was cut short. You didn't deserve this. We love you so much and will miss you greatly."

Alex Schachter, 14

Alex participated in the school marching band and orchestra, playing baritone in the former and trombone in the latter, the Sun-Sentinel reported.

"I felt he really had a bright future on the trombone," Alexander Kaminsky, director of bands at the Parkland high school, told the paper.

A Go Fund Me page was set up by Alex's family as a scholarship fund.

"In an effort to continue his memory, this scholarship is being created to help other students experience the joys of music as well as fund increased security at schools. Please help keep Alex's spirit alive," the page said. "The money raised will be sent to the Stoneman Douglas Marching Eagles."

Carmen Schentrup, 16

Carmen was a National Merit Scholar semifinalist.

"Marjory Stoneman Douglas had 10 students qualify as semifinalists for 2018, which is the second year in a row 10 students have qualified," the Eagle Eye student blog said.

Carmen was mourned in the community and on social media.

"Rest In Peace Carmen Schentrup," one tweet said. "Your family is forever in my thoughts and prayers. I'm so sorry."

Peter Wang, 15

Peter had been a member of the junior ROTC program, and his parents owned a restaurant in West Palm Beach, the Sun-Sentinel reported.

Kelsey Friend, who shared a culinary class with Peter, said she "started screaming and crying" when she found out about her friend's death by looking at images on Google of those who had died.

Kelsey said Peter had been excited about the Chinese New Year, which fell on Friday.

"Me and my family celebrated it for him, eating Chinese," she said.

Kelsey said the two of them were close.

"It's hard to not have him in the hallways anymore because me and him used to laugh with each other. He used to make me smile. And now he's gone."

Kelsey and other friends said Peter was shot while holding a door open to let fellow classmates get to safety. Thousands of people have signed a White House petition asking for him to be buried with military honors.

"His selfless and heroic actions have led to the survival of dozens in the area," the petition says.

Jesse Pan, a real estate agent in Parkland, posted images of the boy on Facebook, including a couple of him wearing his ROTC uniform.

"Rest in Peace Peter!!!" he said.

Officials at several school districts in Texas are traveling to Mexico to interview potential teacher candidates to meet the growing demand.

The ‘Exchange Teachers’ Visiting International Teacher Program was approved by the ESC-2 Board of Directors in December 2021.

District officials in South Texas are conducting interviews in the Mexican state of Tlaxcala.

“There are 65 candidates available right now. It does not mean we are going to use all 65, it’s just what the district is needing at this time,” said ESC-2 Associate Director of Curriculum, Instruction & Accountability, Dr. Daniel Ceballos.

District leaders say COVID-19 exacerbated the demand for educators. The need goes beyond teachers in core subjects like math and science.

“Now it’s really English teachers, special ed teachers, bilingual teachers, those are in high demand,” said Kingsville ISD Superintendent Dr. Cissy Reynolds-Perez.

“There may be potential other vacancies, because usually about May or April is when people start deciding if they are going to retire or not and so we just need to have a pool ready to make sure that we can fill those vacancies quickly and easily.”

Region 2 directors are looking forward to bringing highly qualified candidates into the classrooms through this specialized partnership.

“Making sure that all the shortages positions are taken care of, I think it’s going to be important not only to the teachers but the kids and the communities there,” said Dr. Ceballos.

“And what a better way than to have somebody also, an international teacher that comes in to also learn about the different culture as well, I think it’s an added benefit.”

This story was originally reported by Reyna Rodriguez at KRIS in Corpus Christi, Texas.

HIGHLAND HEIGHTS, Ky. —

The victim in a deadly home invasion shooting in Madison County was a graduate of Northern Kentucky University's Chase College of Law and was a former assistant commonwealth attorney for Boone and Gallatin Counties.

32-year-old Jordan Morgan was shot and killed Tuesday at her parent's house.

"She came from a political family. Her father was a state legislator. She had a lot of access to the world of Kentucky politics," said NKU law professor, Ken Katkin. "She was working for congressman Massie part-time while she was going to Chase, and she was also working on Governor Bevin's campaign in 2015."

Katkin said Morgan just started a new job at an elite law firm in Lexington. He described Morgan as intelligent, resourceful and a natural leader.

"In the student organization, the Federal Society, they pretty much made her the president by acclimation. It wasn't even really seriously considered that anyone else could be the president. She was obviously presidential that she was the automatic choice for that," Katin said.

Kentucky State Police said Shannon Gilday, who is from Taylor Mill, Kentucky, forced his way into the home on Willis Branch Road around 4 a.m. armed with a rifle.

Police said once he was inside, he shot and killed Morgan while she was in bed.

Police then say Gilday allegedly confronted the homeowner, when gunshots were exchanged between the two.

The homeowner suffered non-life-threatening injuries, and Gilday left the scene in a 2016 white Toyota Corolla.

Former state Rep. Wesley Morgan owns the home, according to the Madison County property valuation administrator’s office.

Morgan told the Lexington Herald Leader that his daughter was killed.

Morgan served one term as a state representative for Richmond and Berea in Madison County.

Shannon's mother, Katie Gilday, said that she is saddened for the Morgan family's loss. She said her son has "not been of sound mind the last couple of weeks, distraught with the certainty a nuclear war is imminent."

The mother says her son spoke of building a bunker and the CIA following him. She said she tried to get him psychiatric help but was unsuccessful.

"I plead to Shannon to turn himself in so that he can get the help he so desperately needs. Meanwhile, I thank my family and friends for their love and support and ask for our privacy as we navigate through this unthinkable tragedy," the mother said.

Kentucky State Police told WLWT the bunker could be what led Gilday to the mansion. Online realtor postings show the $6.5 million home was built with a fallout shelter underneath.

KSP said until Gilday is located, they are looking at all possibilities.

Shannon Gilday has an active arrest warrant for murder, burglary, criminal mischief, assault and two counts of attempted murder.

He is considered armed and dangerous. He is believed to be driving a White 2016 Toyota Corolla with minor damage to the front grill, and a license plate of 379-VMJ.

Gilday is 6 feet tall and weighs 167 pounds. He has brown hair and blue eyes. Surveillance footage showed him wearing a camo or tactical style pants and jacket, dark-colored hooded sweatshirt, gloves and a light-colored face mask.

People are asked not to approach the vehicle or attempt to contact the driver for safety reasons. Anyone with additional information about the investigation is urged to call KSP Post 7 at 859-623-2404.

RICHFIELD, Minn — Two suspects were arrested and a handgun was recovered following a shooting outside a school in Richfield, Minnesota, authorities said.

The shooting left a student dead and another critically injured.

Police chief Jay Henthorne called the incident a “tragic day in the city of Richfield.”

Police officers found the two students with injuries outside the school Tuesday afternoon.

Special agents from the ATF and FBI also responded to the scene.

Both students taken to a hospital and one of them died after arriving.

Nearby schools immediately went into lockdown.

The lockdowns were lifted after police initially searched the area and did not find the suspects.

The suspects were found after police acted on search warrants at two different addresses, authorities said.

CINCINNATI — Local educators were on high alert after a reported social media challenge that encouraged students to threaten to shoot and bomb their schools on Friday. In response, districts across the Tri-State increased security efforts. Investigators said a post urging students to skip school morphed into something that encouraged students to threaten violence.

The Department of Homeland Security said it's monitoring the "TikTok Challenge," but wasn't aware of any credible threats to schools.

"This is the most extreme challenge I've ever heard of," said Lt. Ron Murphy with the Norwood Police department. Murphy said law enforcement has to take these threats seriously, but they can deplete resources and cost departments a lot of money in overtime payments.

All local districts ended Friday without any incidents of gun violence, but the psychological impact of these types of threats is something that teachers, students and their parents will have to deal with.

“I don't think for the kids it was too overwhelming, but I do know that my son was worried about going to school today," said Norwood Middle School parent Michael Kirkland. “It’s sad. Unfortunately, the sad world we live in. With technology comes, obviously, a lot of bad sides with the good.”

WCPO had not been able to independently confirm the challenge, and TikTok announced on Thursday it had not found evidence of threats originating on the app.

Related: Schools adding police presence ahead of TikTok challenge calling on students to make threats Friday
Related: Department of Homeland Security on TikTok Challenge: 'Remain alert'

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(LMK) December 11, 05:00 AM CST UNK 2 E MANTACHIE Itawamba County, MS LARGE TREE DOWN ON RIVER RD. NEAR MANTACHIE. (MEG) December 11, 05:00 AM CST UNK LAWRENCEBURG Lawrence County, TN SEVERAL TREES WERE BLOWN DOWN ACROSS LAWRENCE COUNTY. (OHX) December 11, 04:45 AM CST UNK LIVINGSTON Overton County, TN TREES AND POWER LINES WERE BLOWN DOWN IN AND AROUND LIVINGSTON AND RICKMAN. (OHX) December 11, 04:31 AM CST UNK 4 NNE MARIETTA Prentiss County, MS TORNADIC DEBRIS SIGNATURE NORTHEAST OF MARIETTA. (MEG) December 11, 04:22 AM CST UNK 8 NE RED BOILING SPRING Clay County, TN TREES DOWN NEAR OLD CLEMENTSVILLE ROAD... DAMAGE TO CHICKEN HOUSES. (OHX) December 11, 05:17 AM EST UNK 3 NE RICHMOND Madison County, KY TREES DOWN BLOCKING ROADWAY. (LMK) December 11, 03:48 AM CST 59 SMYRNA AIRPORT Rutherford County, TN SMYRNA AIRPORT AWOS MEASURED A PEAK WIND GUST OF 51 KNOTS / 59 MPH. (OHX) December 11, 03:36 AM CST UNK 2 NNW LA VERGNE Rutherford County, TN TREES WERE BLOWN DOWN INCLUDING A TREE ON A HOUSE ON PEARCY STREET. (OHX) December 11, 03:35 AM CST UNK HENDERSONVILLE Sumner County, TN DUE TO HIGH WINDS... MULTIPLE STREETS WERE BLOCKED BY DOWNED TREES AND POWER LINES. (OHX) December 11, 03:30 AM CST UNK NASHVILLE Davidson County, TN TREES AND POWER LINES WERE BLOWN DOWN ACROSS NASHVILLE AREA. AROUND 80...000 CUSTOMERS LOST POWER. (OHX) December 11, 03:30 AM CST UNK MOUNT JULIET Wilson County, TN NUMEROUS TREES AND POWER LINES WERE BLOWN DOWN. SOME STRUCTURE DAMAGE WAS ALSO REPORTED. (OHX) December 11, 04:30 AM EST UNK 1 NW RICHMOND Madison County, KY TREE DAMAGE... TIME ESTIMATED BY RADAR. (LMK) December 11, 04:30 AM EST UNK 4 W REDHOUSE Madison County, KY DOWNED POWER LINES AND NUMEROUS PEOPLE WITHOUT POWER. TIME ESTIMATED BY RADAR. (LMK) December 11, 04:30 AM EST UNK 3 W REDHOUSE Madison County, KY DOWNED TREE BLOCKING ROADWAY NEAR EXIT 95 ON I-75. (LMK) December 11, 03:28 AM CST 78 NASHVILLE INTL AIRPORT Davidson County, TN NASHVILLE INTL AIRPORT ASOS MEASURED A PEAK WIND GUST OF 78 MPH. THIS IS THE THIRD HIGHEST WIND GUST EVER MEASURED AT THE AIRPORT. (OHX) December 11, 04:23 AM EST UNK 1 N PEYTONA Shelby County, KY TREES/WIRES DOWN IN THE BAGDAD/WADDY AREA. (LMK) December 11, 03:20 AM CST UNK 3 NNW BRENTWOOD Williamson County, TN NUMEROUS TREES AND POWER LINES WERE BLOWN DOWN. (OHX) December 11, 03:20 AM CST UNK 4 NW NASHVILLE Davidson County, TN TREES... POWER LINES... AND SIGNS WERE BLOWN DOWN ALONG CLARKSVILLE PIKE. (OHX) December 11, 03:15 AM CST UNK 7 NW BELLE MEADE Davidson County, TN TREES AND POWER LINES WERE BLOWN DOWN AND STRUCTURE DAMAGE WAS REPORTED ALONG OLD HICKORY BLVD AND TIDWELL HOLLOW RD. (OHX) December 11, 03:05 AM CST UNK 5 NNE PEGRAM Cheatham County, TN MULTIPLE TREES WERE BLOWN DOWN ON CARS ON INDIAN SPRINGS RD AND POND CREEK ROAD. (OHX) December 11, 03:00 AM CST UNK KINGSTON SPRINGS Cheatham County, TN SIGNIFICANT STRUCTURE DAMAGE WAS REPORTED TO HOMES AND BUSINESSES. NUMEROUS TREES AND POWER LINES WERE BLOWN DOWN... BLOCKING ROADS THROUGHOUT KINGSTON SPRINGS. (OHX) December 11, 02:45 AM CST UNK 3 S DICKSON Dickson County, TN AT LEAST 12 STRUCTURES ON MURRELL RAD AND CROSSROAD COWARN ROAD HAD HEAVY DAMAGE. SOME PEOPLE WERE TRAPPED IN THE STRUCTURES. (OHX) December 11, 03:35 AM EST UNK 2 SSE FLAHERTY Hardin County, KY A FEW TREES AND POLES DOWN ON SALT RIVER RD. (LMK) December 11, 03:34 AM EST 59 3 ESE FAIRLAND Shelby County, IN ASOS STATION KGEZ SHELBYVILLE. (IND) December 11, 02:32 AM CST UNK 2 SW CAVE CITY Barren County, KY DOWNED TREES AND LINES BLOCKING ROAD ON HERBERT TURNER ROAD JUST OFF 31W. (LMK) December 11, 03:22 AM EST UNK 2 NNW HOBSON Taylor County, KY EMERGENCY MANAGER REPORT OF COLLAPSED STRUCTURE WITH PEOPLE TRAPPED ON FEATHER CREEK RD NORTH OF CAMPBELLSVILLE IN NORTHERN TAYLOR COUNTY. (LMK) December 11, 02:20 AM CST UNK LOBELVILLE Perry County, TN TREES DOWN ON POWER LINES. POWER OUTAGES REPORTED THROUGHOUT PERRY COUNTY. (OHX) December 11, 02:15 AM CST UNK 6 N LOBELVILLE Humphreys County, TN NUMEROUS TREES WERE BLOWN DOWN... BLOCKING THE ROAD. (OHX) December 11, 02:10 AM CST 60 PARSONS Decatur County, TN (MEG) December 11, 03:06 AM EST UNK 2 S ADA Hardin County, OH ROOF BLOWN OFF AND HALF A BUILDING COLLAPSED. TIME ESTIMATED FROM RADAR. (ILN) December 11, 02:05 AM CST 74 CANMER Hart County, KY THE MUNFORDVILLE KENTUCKY MESONET STATION REPORTED A WIND GUST OF 74MPH. (LMK) December 11, 02:57 AM EST UNK 1 N BALL STATE UNIVERSI Delaware County, IN REPORT FROM MPING: 1-INCH TREE LIMBS BROKEN SHINGLES BLOWN OFF. (IND) December 11, 02:53 AM EST 59 3 WSW WHITEHALL Monroe County, IN ASOS STATION KBMG BLOOMINGTON. (IND) December 11, 02:53 AM EST 59 3 NNE BALL STATE UNIVER Delaware County, IN ASOS STATION KMIE MUNCIE. (IND) December 11, 01:45 AM CST UNK 3 W LEXINGTON Henderson County, TN WIDESPREAD DAMAGE TO TREES AND POWERLINES ALONG HIGHWAY 412 JUST WEST OF LEXINGTON. (MEG) December 11, 01:45 AM CST UNK 4 N LEXINGTON Henderson County, TN SIGNIFICANT STRUCTURAL DAMAGE TO HOMES AND MOBILE HOMES NEAR THE TIMBERLAKE INDUSTRIAL PARK. TREES WERE UPROOTED. (MEG) December 11, 02:36 AM EST 61 6 NW FORTVILLE Hamilton County, IN NOBLESVILLE NEAR THE MUSIC CENTER RELAYED VIA TWITTER. (IND) December 11, 02:34 AM EST 76 GALLUP Henry County, OH (IWX) December 11, 02:22 AM EST 65 4 SSE ZIONSVILLE Marion County, IN AT 79TH AND GEORGETOWN. (IND) December 11, 01:20 AM CST 75 2 NW PLANO Warren County, KY CORRECTS PREVIOUS TSTM WND GST REPORT FROM 2 NW PLANO. THE BOWLING GREEN KENTUCKY MESONET MEASURED A WIND GUST OF 75MPH. (LMK) December 11, 01:15 AM CST UNK BOWLING GREEN Warren County, KY MULTIPLE REPORTS OF DAMAGED OR COLLAPSED STRUCTURES DUE TO TORNADO. PEOPLE TRAPPED. DAMAGE TO THE CORVETTE PLANT WITH FIRE ON ITS ROOF. (LMK) December 11, 01:15 AM CST UNK 3 SE SOUTHEAST MEMPHIS Shelby County, TN UTILITY POLE DOWN ON CASTLE HEIGHTS DR. (MEG) December 11, 01:01 AM CST UNK 9 NE RUSSELLVILLE Logan County, KY TREES DOWN... POWER OUTAGES... STRUCTURAL DAMAGE TO BUILDINGS AND MOBILE HOMES. REPORT NUMBER 2 FROM THE AREA WITH SAME DAMAGE. TIME ESTIMATED BY RADAR. (LMK) December 11, 01:01 AM CST UNK 10 NE RUSSELLVILLE Logan County, KY TREES DOWN... POWER OUTAGES... STRUCTURAL DAMAGE TO BUILDINGS AND MOBILE HOMES. (LMK) December 11, 01:00 AM CST UNK 2 SE MIDTOWN MEMPHIS Shelby County, TN TREE DOWN ON CAR ON GREER ST IN ORANGE MOUND. (MEG) December 11, 01:50 AM EST UNK 2 NNW HIGHGROVE Spencer County, KY SOCIAL MEDIA PICTURES SHOWS STRUCTURAL DAMAGE TO TWO DIFFERENT BUILDINGS... TREES BLOWN ACROSS OLD LOUISVILLE ROAD. TIME ESTIMATED BY RADAR. (LMK) December 11, 01:50 AM EST UNK 2 WNW NEW WHITELAND Johnson County, IN ELECTRIC POLES AND SOME TREES DOWN IN THE COUNTY. TRANSFORMER FIRE IN SOUTHERN PART OF THE COUNTY. (IND) December 11, 01:36 AM EST 60 HARTFORD CITY Blackford County, IN TIME ESTIMATED BY RADAR. (IWX) December 11, 01:30 AM EST UNK 4 WSW MOUNT WASHINGTON Bullitt County, KY MANY TREES AND POWERLINES DOWN FROM SHEPHERDSVILLE TO MT. WASHINGTON. (LMK) December 11, 01:30 AM EST UNK 1 SSE SUMMITVILLE Madison County, IN SEVERAL TREES AND SOME POWER POLES DOWN ACROSS MAINLY NORTHERN MADISON COUNTY. TIME ESTIMATED FROM RADAR. (IND) December 11, 12:24 AM CST 61 6 NW CLARKSVILLE Montgomery County, TN CLARKSVILLE OUTLAW FIELD ASOS MEASURED A PEAK WIND GUST OF 53 KNOTS / 61 MPH. (OHX) December 11, 12:15 AM CST UNK 1 WSW LAFAYETTE Christian County, KY POSSIBLE TORNADO JUST SOUTHWEST OF LAFAYETTE. (PAH) December 11, 01:15 AM EST UNK 1 E FRANKFORT Clinton County, IN REPORT FROM MPING: 3-INCH TREE LIMBS BROKEN POWER POLES BROKEN. (IND) December 11, 01:15 AM EST UNK 5 N ELWOOD Madison County, IN SEVERAL TREES DOWN AROUND NORTHERN PARTS OF COUNTY... POWER POLES DOWN AS WELL. TIME ESTIMATED FROM RADAR. (IND) December 11, 12:14 AM CST UNK 5 N DOVER Stewart County, TN EMERGENCY OPERATIONS HAS RECEIVED REPORTS OF DAMAGE AND INJURIES ON LINK ROAD AND WALKER RIDGE. 700 POWER OUTAGES WERE REPORTED ACROSS NORTHERN STEWART COUNTY. (OHX) December 11, 01:12 AM EST UNK EKRON Meade County, KY REPORTS OF MANY POWER LINES DOWN... TREES DOWN... AND STRUCTURAL DAMAGE TO CENTRAL - SOUTHEAST MEADE COUNTY. (LMK) December 11, 12:05 AM CST UNK 9 NNE DOVER Stewart County, TN *** 1 INJ *** MULTIPLE TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN. MULTIPLE STRUCTURES DAMAGED CONCENTRATED IN THE 2300 BLOCK OF HIGHWAY 120 IN BIG ROCK. 1 MINOR INJURY REPORTED. (OHX) December 11, 12:05 AM CST UNK 2 SE MIDTOWN MEMPHIS Shelby County, TN TREE DOWN ON HOME ON SPOTTSWOOD AVE (MEG) December 11, 01:01 AM EST UNK 1 E LADOGA Montgomery County, IN LARGE BRACHES AND TREES DOWN. TIME ESTIMATED FROM RADAR. (IND) December 11, 12:00 AM CST UNK 9 NE DOVER Stewart County, TN *** 1 INJ *** MULTIPLE TREES AND POWERLINES WERE BLOWN DOWN. LOCAL RESPONDERS REPORTED MULTIPLE STRUCTURES WERE DAMAGED MAINLY IN THE 2300 BLOCK OF HIGHWAY 120 IN BIG R (OHX) December 10, 11:49 PM CST UNK 2 SE BEDA Ohio County, KY DISPATCH REPORTS LOTS OF STRUCTURAL DAMAGE TO AREAS NORTH OF HARTFORD... KY. (LMK) December 10, 11:48 PM CST UNK 3 WNW JEFFERSON Marion County, TX POWERLINE DOWN ON A TREE CAUSING THE TREE TO CATCH ON FIRE. (SHV) December 10, 11:48 PM CST 64 3 SSW DE SOTO Jackson County, IL MEASURED BY CARBONDALE AIRPORT ASOS. (PAH) December 10, 11:45 PM CST UNK 1 W HARDINSBURG Breckinridge County, KY REPORTS OF TREE DOWN ON 992. (LMK) December 10, 11:38 PM CST UNK 2 E ROSSTON Nevada County, AR SMALL TREES DOWN ALONG HWY 278 TOWARD THE OUACHITA COUNTY BORDER. (SHV) December 10, 11:35 PM CST 62 EDGAR COUNTY AIRPORT Edgar County, IL AWOS STATION KPRG EDGAR COUNTY AP. (ILX) December 10, 11:32 PM CST UNK CLOVERPORT Breckinridge County, KY REPORT OF LARGE TREE DOWN IN CLOVERPORT ON 105. (LMK) December 10, 11:31 PM CST UNK COFFEEN Montgomery County, IL REPORT OF TREES DOWN AND A DAMAGED MACHINE SHED. (LSX) December 10, 11:31 PM CST UNK 2 WNW TREMONT Tazewell County, IL THE DOME WAS BLOWN OFF THE SALT STORAGE BUILDING AT THE TAZEWELL COUNTY HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT. (ILX) December 11, 12:25 AM EST UNK 4 ENE NEW MARKET Montgomery County, IN POWER LINES DOWN. TIME ESTIMATED FROM RADAR. (IND) December 11, 12:18 AM EST 68 GOLDEN HILL White County, IN (IWX) December 10, 11:08 PM CST UNK DRESDEN Weakley County, TN *** 1 INJ *** TORNADO WITH AT LEAST 1 PERSON INJURED IN DRESDEN WITH 6 BUILDINGS DAMAGED. (MEG) December 10, 11:06 PM CST UNK BEECHER CITY Effingham County, IL POWER LINES WERE BLOWN DOWN. (ILX) December 11, 12:06 AM EST UNK 4 SW SPENCER Owen County, IN AT LEAST 4 TREES DOWN PROMPTED IN67 CLOSED BETWEEN CARP AND FREEDOM. TIME ESTIMATED FROM RADAR. (IND) December 11, 12:06 AM EST UNK 1 ENE GRAND JUNCTION Van Buren County, MI DELAYED REPORT FROM MPING: 3-INCH TREE LIMBS BROKEN POWER POLES BROKEN. TIME ESTIMATED FROM RADAR. (GRR) December 11, 12:05 AM EST UNK 1 ENE ARLINGTON Rush County, IN REPORTS OF TREES DOWN AROUND THE COUNTY. REPORTS BEGAN TO COME IN TO DISPATCH AFTER MORRISTOWN LOST POWER AROUND MIDNIGHT. (IND) December 10, 10:57 PM CST UNK 3 NNE MORTONS GAP Hopkins County, KY SEMI AND CARS FLIPPED OFF INTERSTATE 69 NEAR EARLINGTON. (PAH) December 10, 10:56 PM CST 60 2 ENE REMINGTON Jasper County, IN MESONET STATION IN048 1.7 E REMINGTON (INDOT). (LOT) December 10, 10:55 PM CST 100 4 N DYER Gibson County, TN QUARTER SIZED HAIL NEAR DYER... TENNESSEE... WITH ABOUT 30-40 MPH WINDS. (MEG) December 10, 11:55 PM EST UNK KINGMAN Fountain County, IN GRAIN BINS BLOW OVER TIME ESTIMATED FROM RADAR. (IND) December 10, 10:53 PM CST 59 LAWRENCEVILLE AIRPORT Lawrence County, IL ASOS STATION KLWV LAWRENCEVILLE AP. (ILX) December 10, 10:52 PM CST UNK 1 NNW MORTONS GAP Hopkins County, KY POSSIBLE RAIN WRAPPED TORNADO BETWEEN MORTONS GAP AND EARLINGTON. (PAH) December 10, 10:52 PM CST UNK 2 NNW MORTONS GAP Hopkins County, KY TRAIN CARS KNOCKED OFF TRACK NEAR THE COMMUNITY OF BARNSLEY. (PAH) December 10, 10:51 PM CST 59 1 SE COLES COUNTY AIRPO Coles County, IL ASOS STATION KMTO COLES COUNTY MEM AP. (ILX) December 10, 10:47 PM CST UNK KENTON Gibson County, TN REPORT OF MULTIPLE POWER LINES DOWN... TREES DOWN... AND IMPASSABLE ROADS. (MEG) December 10, 10:45 PM CST 100 3 NNE NASH Bowie County, TX CORRECTS PREVIOUS HAIL REPORT FROM 3 NNE NASH. LAW ENFORCEMENT HAS RECEIVED NUMEROUS CALLS REGARDING QUARTER+ SIZED HAIL ACROSS THE NW PORTION OF TEXARKANA. (SHV) December 10, 10:40 PM CST UNK DAWSON SPRINGS Hopkins County, KY MAJOR DAMAGE WITH BUILDINGS LEVELED... MULTIPLE INJURIES. (PAH) December 10, 10:38 PM CST UNK FILLMORE Montgomery County, IL REPORT OF POWERLINES DOWN. (LSX) December 10, 10:38 PM CST UNK NOKOMIS Montgomery County, IL REPORT OF A TREE DOWN. (LSX) December 10, 10:38 PM CST UNK WHEATFIELD Jasper County, IN COUPLE LARGE TREES DOWNED IN THE AREA... AS WELL AS SEVERAL DOWNED MEDIUM TO LARGE TREES SCATTERED ABOUT THE COUNTY. (LOT) December 10, 10:37 PM CST UNK 4 ENE NEWBERN Dyer County, TN TORNADIC DEBRIS SIGNATURE NOTED NORTHEAST OF NEWBERN. (MEG) December 10, 10:35 PM CST UNK 2 NW RENO Bond County, IL TREES AND POWERLINES DOWN. (LSX) December 10, 10:35 PM CST UNK TAYLOR SPRINGS Montgomery County, IL REPORTS OF DENSE STYROFOAM MATERIAL SCATTERED ACROSS TAYLOR SPRINGS AS WELL AS NEIGHBORING COMMUNITIES. (LSX) December 10, 10:35 PM CST 69 2 WNW RENSSELAER Jasper County, IN AWOS STATION KRZL RENSSELAER AIRPORT. (LOT) December 10, 10:29 PM CST 65 4 W RENSSELAER Jasper County, IN MESONET STATION IN005 2.7 W COLLEGEVILLE (INDOT). (LOT) December 10, 10:23 PM CST UNK 1 SSW OGDEN DUNES Porter County, IN TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN NEAR STAGE COACH ROAD. TIME ESTIMATED BY RADAR. (LOT) December 10, 10:22 PM CST 59 LAWRENCEVILLE AIRPORT Lawrence County, IL CORRECTS TIME ON PREVIOUS TSTM WND GST REPORT FROM LAWRENCEVILLE AIRPORT. ASOS STATION KLWV LAWRENCEVILLE AP. (ILX) December 10, 10:17 PM CST 72 DEMOTTE Jasper County, IN (LOT) December 10, 10:16 PM CST 65 SIDNEY Champaign County, IL (ILX) December 10, 10:05 PM CST UNK 5 SE REDFORD Reynolds County, MO REYNOLDS COUNTY DISPATCH REPORTED AT LEAST 2 MOBILE HOMES DESTROYED ON CR 428... A PERMANENT HOME WITH ITS ROOF LOST ON CR 442... POWER LINES DOWN ALONG CRS 440... 428. (LSX) December 10, 10:04 PM CST UNK 3 NW MATTOON Coles County, IL A HOUSE WAS SEVERELY DAMAGED WITH PEOPLE TRAPPED INSIDE. (ILX) December 10, 10:02 PM CST UNK 3 SE COLES Coles County, IL A MACHINE SHED WAS DESTROYED AND NUMEROUS POWER LINES WERE BLOWN DOWN NEAR 800 NORTH AND 200 EAST. (ILX) December 10, 10:00 PM CST UNK 3 WNW MATTOON Coles County, IL A SEMI WAS BLOWN OVER NEAR THE RURAL KING DISTRIBUTION CENTER. (ILX) December 10, 10:00 PM CST UNK 2 W CROWN POINT Lake County, IN MULTIPLE POWER POLES AND TREES DOWN ALONG FATHKE ROAD IN CROWN POINT. POSSIBLE TORNADO BASED ON SUBTLE TORNADO DEBRIS SIGNATURE ON RADAR. TIME ESTIMATED BY RADAR. (LOT) December 10, 09:53 PM CST UNK 2 WSW GAYS Moultrie County, IL FS PLANT WAS DESTROYED ALONG RT 16 WEST OF GAYS. (ILX) December 10, 09:52 PM CST UNK 2 W GAYS Moultrie County, IL TREES DOWN AND POWER POLES BENT ALONG RT 16 JUST NORTHEAST OF WINDSOR. SILOS BLOWN DOWN AND HOUSES DAMAGED BETWEEN WINDSOR AND GAYS. (ILX) December 10, 09:50 PM CST UNK 1 ENE WINDSOR Shelby County, IL TREES WERE BLOWN DOWN AND POWER POLES WERE BENT ALONG RT 16 JUST NORTHEAST OF WINDSOR. (ILX) December 10, 09:48 PM CST UNK DONOVAN Iroquois County, IL COUPLE LARGE TREES DOWNED ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF TOWN. (LOT) December 10, 09:45 PM CST 100 3 NNE NASH Bowie County, TX LAW ENFORCEMENT HAS RECEIVED NUMEROUS CALLS REGARDING QUARTER+ SIZED HAIL ACROSS THE NW PORTION OF TEXARKANA. (SHV) December 10, 09:45 PM CST UNK 2 WNW BENTON Marshall County, KY A MOBILE HOME ON JACKSON SCHOOL ROAD WAS COMPLETELY DESTROYED. A NEARBY GARAGE WAS SWEPT OFF ITS FOUNDATION. POSSIBLE TORNADO. (PAH) December 10, 09:35 PM CST 100 1 NE PRESCOTT Nevada County, AR CORRECTS PREVIOUS HAIL REPORT CORRECTION FROM 1 NE PRESCOTT. LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTS MULTIPLE CALLS REGARDING QUARTER SIZED HAIL AROUND THE CITY OF PRESCOTT. (SHV) December 10, 09:34 PM CST UNK CHEBANSE Kankakee County, IL TWO SEMIS BLOWN ON TO THEIR SIDES ON I-57 NEAR MILE MARKER 302. TIME ESTIMATED BASED ON RADAR. (LOT) December 10, 09:30 PM CST UNK 3 WNW ROBERTSVILLE Franklin County, MO FRANKLIN COUNTY DISPATCH REPORTED A TREE OVER THE ROADWAY AT STATE HWY O AND ROUTE MM. TIME ESTIMATED FROM RADAR. (LSX) December 10, 09:30 PM CST UNK GIBSON CITY Ford County, IL ROOF PARTIALLY BLOWN OFF A RESIDENTIAL BUILDING AND A COUPLE TREES DOWNED. (LOT) December 10, 09:28 PM CST UNK SAINT CLAIR Franklin County, MO FRANKLIN COUNT DISPATCH REPORTED POWER LINES DOWN AT 75 SOUTH MAIN STREET IN ST. CLAIR. TIME ESTIMATED FROM RADAR. (LSX) December 10, 09:27 PM CST UNK MAYFIELD Graves County, KY MAJOR DAMAGE REPORTED IN MAYFIELD. NO FURTHER DETAILS AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME. (PAH) December 10, 09:27 PM CST UNK 1 S MINOOKA Grundy County, IL LARGE TREE DOWNED. TIME ESTIMATED. (LOT) December 10, 09:24 PM CST 107 4 NNE WINGO Graves County, KY MESONET STATION PRYB MAYFIELD KY 6 SW. (PAH) December 10, 09:15 PM CST UNK TRUMANN Poinsett County, AR MULTIPLE BUILDINGS DAMAGED IN TRUMANN. (MEG) December 10, 09:15 PM CST 58 3 WNW SCOTT CITY Scott County, MO ASOS STATION KCGI CAPE GIRARDEAU MO. (PAH) December 10, 09:15 PM CST 58 3 NNE PONTIAC Livingston County, IL AWOS STATION KPNT PONTIAC AIRPORT. (LOT) December 10, 09:13 PM CST UNK 2 SSW UNION Franklin County, MO FRANKLIN COUNTY DISPATCH REPORTED TREES DOWN ACROSS NORTH BEND LOOP SW OF UNION. TIME ESTIMATED FROM RADAR. (LSX) December 10, 09:10 PM CST UNK PARIS Logan County, AR STORM SPOTTER ESTIMATED 60 MPH WINDS AND NOTED POWER OUTAGES IN THE CITY. (LZK) December 10, 09:09 PM CST UNK GERALD Franklin County, MO FRANKLIN COUNTY DISPATCH REPORTED PHONE LINES DOWN IN GERALD ACROSS WEST 6TH STREET. TIME ESTIMATED FROM RADAR. (LSX) December 10, 09:09 PM CST UNK 5 SW UNION Franklin County, MO FRANKLIN COUNTY DISPATCH REPORTED TREES AND POWER LINES WERE DOWN ALONG CAMP MO-VAL ROAD WSW OF UNION. TIME ESTIMATED FROM RADAR. (LSX) December 10, 09:08 PM CST UNK 1 ESE COFFEEN Montgomery County, IL MONTGOMERY COUNTY DISPATCH REPORTED TREE LIMBS IMPEDING TRAFFIC ALONG ILLINOIS ROUTE 185 NEAR ROCKY FORD ROAD AND ALONG HAPPY LANE AND MERRY LANE. TIME ESTIMATED FROM R (LSX) December 10, 09:06 PM CST UNK 1 ESE COFFEEN Montgomery County, IL BOND COUNTY DISPATCH REPORTED TREE ON HWY 185 JUST SOUTH OF COFFEEN. TIME ESTIMATED FROM RADAR. (LSX) December 10, 09:05 PM CST UNK 3 SSW COFFEEN Montgomery County, IL TDS EVIDENT FROM KLSX. (LSX) December 10, 09:05 PM CST 60 CAULKSVILLE Logan County, AR (LZK) December 10, 09:05 PM CST UNK 4 S COFFEEN Montgomery County, IL BOND COUNTY DISPATCH REPORTED A TREE DOWN ON MOUNT MORIAH AVENUE JUST WEST OF RED BALL TRAIL. TIME ESTIMATED FROM RADAR. (LSX) December 10, 09:03 PM CST 58 2 NE OZARK Franklin County, AR FIRE CHIEF REPORTS WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 58MPH. (TSA) December 10, 09:01 PM CST UNK CAYCE Fulton County, KY DAMAGE REPORTED IN CAYCE TO A CAFE AND THE FIRE DEPARTMENT. (PAH) December 10, 08:58 PM CST 150 WILLOW SPRINGS Howell County, MO (SGF) December 10, 08:55 PM CST 175 4 S HICKMAN Fulton County, KY (PAH) December 10, 08:52 PM CST 60 1 NNW CAPITAL AIRPORT Sangamon County, IL ASOS STATION KSPI SPRINGFIELD CAPITAL AP. (ILX) December 10, 08:50 PM CST UNK 3 NNE LATHAM Logan County, IL POWER POLES WERE SNAPPED ALONG 600 STREET JUST WEST OF 2400 AVENUE. (ILX) December 10, 08:48 PM CST 100 ARKADELPHIA Clark County, AR (LZK) December 10, 08:45 PM CST UNK CENTRAL CITY Muhlenberg County, KY DAMAGE TO HARDWARE STORE ON WEST EVERLY BROS. BLVD. (PAH) December 10, 08:45 PM CST 125 BLEVINS Hempstead County, AR PUBLIC REPORT OF SLIGHTLY LARGER THAN QUARTER SIZE HAIL FROM A CONVENIENCE STORE IN BLEVINS. (SHV) December 10, 08:40 PM CST UNK 6 SW BONO Craighead County, AR NUMEROUS LIMBS DOWN IN THE BONO AREA. UTILITY POLES SNAPPED 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TOWN. POSSIBLE TORNADO. (MEG) December 10, 08:40 PM CST UNK 4 W STAUNTON Macoupin County, IL MACOUPIN COUNTY DISPATCH REPORTED POWER LINES DOWN ON SCHOOL HOUSE ROAD EAST OF DORCHESTER ROAD WEST OF STAUNTON. TIME ESTIMATED FROM RADAR. (LSX) December 10, 08:39 PM CST UNK 1 SW CENTRAL CITY Muhlenberg County, KY DEBRIS FROM HOMES AND BILLBOARDS ALONG THE WEST KENTUCKY PARKWAY JUST WEST OF CENTRAL CITY. (PAH) December 10, 08:38 PM CST UNK SAMBURG Obion County, TN SAMBURG FIRE STATION TOOK DIRECT HIT WITH PEOPLE TRAPPED IN DAMAGE. (MEG) December 10, 08:38 PM CST UNK 2 WSW CENTRAL CITY Muhlenberg County, KY POWER FLASHES JUST NORTH OF THE WEST KENTUCKY PARKWAY JUST WEST OF CENTRAL CITY. POWER IS OUT. (PAH) December 10, 08:38 PM CST 65 GOODFIELD Woodford County, IL POWER OUTAGES HAVE OCCURRED. (ILX) December 10, 08:36 PM CST UNK 1 NW BUFFALO Sangamon County, IL SEVERAL POWER POLES BLOWN DOWN IN THE SAME DIRECTION. TIME ESTIMATED BY RADAR. (ILX) December 10, 08:35 PM CST 100 1 NE PRESCOTT Nevada County, AR LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTS MULTIPLE CALLS REGARDING QUARTER SIZED HAIL AROUND THE CITY OF PRESCOTT. (SHV) December 10, 08:33 PM CST UNK 1 S BUNKER HILL Macoupin County, IL MACOUPIN COUNTY DISPATCH REPORTED TREE DOWN ON HWY 159. TIME ESTIMATED FROM RADAR. (LSX) December 10, 08:33 PM CST 60 1 NNW CAPITAL AIRPORT Sangamon County, IL CORRECTS TIME ON PREVIOUS TSTM WND GST REPORT FROM 1 NNW CAPITAL AIRPORT. ASOS STATION KSPI SPRINGFIELD CAPITAL AP. (ILX) December 10, 08:32 PM CST UNK 3 NNW PRESCOTT Nevada County, AR LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTING TREES DOWN JUST OUTSIDE THE PRESCOTT CITY LIMITS ALONG HIGHWAY 19 NORTH. (SHV) December 10, 08:30 PM CST UNK 1 W CASH Craighead County, AR BRIEF TORNADO TOUCHDOWN NEAR CASH. (MEG) December 10, 08:30 PM CST 100 9 SE CABOT Lonoke County, AR (LZK) December 10, 08:30 PM CST 100 CABOT Lonoke County, AR (LZK) December 10, 08:29 PM CST UNK 2 ESE MITCHELL Madison County, IL TRACTOR-TRAILER OVERTURNED ON I-270 WB NEAR MILEPOST 7 WITH CABLES ACROSS THE ROADWAY. (LSX) December 10, 08:27 PM CST UNK 2 S POAG Madison County, IL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT REPORTED A PARTIAL ROOF COLLAPSE AT AN AMAZON WAREHOUSE SOUTHWEST OF EDWARDSVILLE. MULTIPLE PEOPLE ARE TRAPPED AT THIS TIME. (LSX) December 10, 08:25 PM CST UNK CHATHAM Sangamon County, IL POWER LINES WERE BLOWN DOWN NEAR RT 4 AND COTTONWOOD DRIVE SOUTH OF THE WALGREENS. (ILX) December 10, 08:25 PM CST 72 2 NW TREMONT Tazewell County, IL MEASURED AT THE TAZEWELL COUNTY EOC. (ILX) December 10, 08:24 PM CST 64 1 ESE LITTLE ROCK AFB Pulaski County, AR LITTLE ROCK AFB MEASURED 64 MPH WIND GUST. (LZK) December 10, 08:20 PM CST UNK 3 SSW WELDON SPRING St. Louis County, MO FENCE BLOWN DOWN NEAR CHESTERFIELD MALL. 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YADKIN COUNTY, N.C. —

Forty-five middle school students from North Carolina got sick Monday afternoon for an unknown reason.

Sixth graders at Starmount Middle School in Yadkin County began complaining about feeling nauseous with headaches. Some students had thrown up.

Only sixth graders were affected, neither seventh nor eighth-graders reported becoming sick, according to the Yadkin County Schools superintendent.

In response to the mysterious epidemic, the school did a shelter in place to keep unaffected students away from the others that were ill.

"I understand parents were nervous and upset. No messaging went out [from the school] because I can tell you, I saw first hand, administration and front office staff were focused on helping students. That's first priority," Yadkin County Schools Superintendent Todd Martin said.

First responders came to the school to help and check the students out.

Yadkin County Schools and the Yadkin County Health Department are investigating the strange illness that affected the 45 students.

Most of the affected students returned to school the following Tuesday.

There were rumors of a CO2 leak, but Martin said that was ruled out.

Officials are investigating possible food poisoning, but this has not been confirmed as the cause of the sickness.

Parents should hear from the school Monday evening.

This is a developing story, check back for more updates.

FORT MYERS, Fla. (WFTX) — Learning is done a little differently for some students at Gateway Charter High School, in Fort Myers, Florida.

For the school’s garden club, it’s about digging in and learning to grow something of their own.

“It’s not often that I’m just able to go outside and get dirty and be able to see and build something that I know is going to blossom into something later,” said senior, Ashley Cieza.

The project this year is building lifted garden beds from wood pallets delivered to the school.

Teachers, like Catherine Dejongkelbosis, say all of the vegetables that are grown will be served as healthy food options at their school.

Dejongkelbosis said it's an experience students don't get inside the classroom.

“I give them a goal, 'Okay, you are going to plant these seeds. Here is the instructions, learn, figure it out. If you make mistakes, it’s okay.' It’s almost an experiment on its own,” she said.

An experiment that’s teaching students to not only be self-sufficient but also more creative when it comes to addressing their mental health.

“One of the teachers who are very special in our school passed away and I was really upset about it and I needed something to de-stress because I was having a really bad day and I was crying a lot so Mrs. Dejongkelbosis offered for me to come outside and help her,” said Cieza.

Since 2017, the Garden Club has been helping their vegetables and their students continue to grow.

The club just got started on this year's garden, but already hopes are high.

“There is going to be so many veggies that were are going to be able to produce that we are going to be able to give away to students be ale to give await to staff,” said Dejongkelbosis

Students say they can already feel the impact it’s having on campus.

“Since me and my family do this at home, and I thought it was really nice you know, a way to liven up the backyard of my school,” said Cieza.

This story was originally reported by Colton Chavez on fox4now.com.

Video above: AG Garland defends school board memo amid GOP critics

Clutching a page of notes, Bob Russo sat in the middle of the boisterous audience in the school gymnasium, reviewing what he wanted to tell the Douglas County School District board members. When it was his turn to speak, Russo stood and approached the microphone.

"I don't know about you, but I don't want Marxist blood in this country," he said, generating widespread applause.

This was Russo's third school board meeting in eight days. Officials were holding town halls across the rural northwest Nevada county to address concerns roiling the community, such as whether students were learning critical race theory (CRT) in classrooms, or whether children should wear masks or get vaccines to protect them from COVID-19.

"I'm concerned about kids being taught theories, ideologies that are going to divide them and set them apart from each other," Russo said to CNN in an interview. "I'm concerned about our freedom."

Russo, a 68-year-old retiree, has no children in the school district.

"I love the kids, even though I don't know them," said Russo. "I just want to see them have happy lives, being able to pursue happiness the same way I was able to. It's more of a national issue, that's my concern. And I'm just doing a little bit that I can do."

Russo was not alone. Mladen Chargin also has no children in the school system but says he's interested as a taxpayer about what's going on.

"The only purpose," Chargin says of CRT, "is the division and destruction of the United States. That is the purpose."

For months now, school board meetings across the nation have been targeted with angry protests over masks and vaccines, joined more recently by concern about racial equity. Elections have become vitriolic and divisive and the National School Boards Association has asked for help from the federal government to investigate threats.

Douglas School District Superintendent Keith Lewis told the crowd that CRT was not a part of the public-school curriculum.

That mattered little to a non-resident of Douglas County, Adam Laxalt. A former attorney general of Nevada who now wants to represent the state in the U.S. Senate, Laxalt has seized on the national GOP strategy of clashing with Democrats on cultural issues. This appearance before this small town's school board would not be any different.

"I call on this board to permanently ban critical race theory and all of its appendages," Laxalt said at the board meeting to loud applause from the crowd.

Children try to school the adults

The behavior of the adults on this night -- and for many months in the majority White community of 50,000 on the shores of Lake Tahoe -- has been astonishing to watch, say Jacob Lewis, 16, who is not related to the superintendent, and 17-year-olds Sydney Hastings and Kimora Whitacre. All of them are students at Douglas High School.

"I think that sometimes people misinterpret discussion of racial issues to be critical race theory," said Hastings, a senior.

"I feel they don't understand that our school doesn't even have CRT," said Lewis, a junior. "They're arguing for something that we don't even have."

Whitacre, a senior, listened in on one of the school meetings via the public Zoom link. She didn't recognize any of the speakers who complained to the school board as parents. But she knows what the rancor was doing to her teachers.

"You can see the wear it takes on our administrators," Whitacre said. "They're just trying to educate us. That's where I get disappointed. We're just trying to learn."

Whitacre says she felt the impact too, particularly when anti-mask protesters were on the sidewalk outside her school. "There have been times where I've driven through this town and been scared because of protests going on," she said.

"This is a good community," Hastings said. "That's why it's disappointing when you hear about people who are threatening violence, who are getting aggressive at these meetings, because I think that really is a minority."

The three students say anger at the school board meetings over masks, vaccines and CRT overshadows the more substantive problems facing the district -- a lack of substitute teachers, emotional struggles with returning to school and the ongoing fear of a shutdown of schools.

"I'm trying to balance everything that's on my plate," Lewis said in explaining how he is juggling the stress of athletics, homework and advanced placement exams. "I feel like I'm running a 5K when I had barely walked last year because of COVID. It was a very different time."

Hastings agreed. "It has been a really hard few years because of the pandemic and just the amount of social strife and political division going on in our country right now," she said.

National politics usurping local issues

Superintendent Lewis helped to organize the town halls so the board could hear directly from people about their concerns. But he wishes there was less talk about CRT and more passion for helping students directly.

"It's taken the eye off of what we're really trying hard to do and that's educate our students and provide a great learning environment for them," he said. We're spending a lot of time and energy on issues that don't help that."

Douglas County schools rank their test scores in the top 20% of public schools in Nevada and have a graduation rate in the top 5% of the state.

But it's been hard to find substitute teachers and deal with the social and emotional learning of students after the disruption of the pandemic and virtual schooling, teachers said.

"The thing that is the most important that we're dealing with now is social, emotional learning and getting students equipped to handle what they have in front of them and all the expectations that society has thrust on them," Douglas High School English teacher Jim Tucker said. "It's never been harder to be a teenager."

Few people at the town hall raised those concerns.

"There's a lot of misinformation out there from people who have never been in any of our schools, who have never talked to any of our teachers, who have never asked any questions of the district. They hear things and they make assumptions," Superintendent Lewis said.

The fear and anger at the Douglas County school board meetings are echoed around the country.

In central Florida, a woman wearing a Stars and Stripes T-shirt with the words "Free America" told a Brevard County school board meeting that children were being brainwashed by a CRT-driven public education system. "We need to come together to pull our children out of these government camps and not let them socially condition them anymore, because our children have a voice."

In West Bend, Wisconsin, a woman who spoke before the school board called CRT "divisive, biased, radically left Marxism designed to further alienate our American children from each other."

These school board debates are being amplified in early campaigns from the Rust Belt to the Sun Belt, as national Republicans focus on cultural issues to rally conservative voters.

In Virginia's gubernatorial race, GOP candidate Glenn Youngkin has made what he calls parental rights key to his campaign, focusing earlier this month on CRT at a rally in Culpeper, Virginia.

"We've seen parents saying, 'Tell us what material is being used in the classroom and the library, just tell us so that we can choose if we want it in our kids' lives or not.' Because guess what? Parents have a fundamental right to be engaged in their kids' education," Youngkin said. "We're going to stand up for parents. We're going to stand up for students. And we're going to stand up for so many teachers that have just been asking for help."

Rage reaches Congress, and is likely to persist

Laxalt, who wants voters to make him the Republican candidate to oppose Democratic incumbent Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, struck a similar tone back in Douglas County.

"It's important to rise for our children today and in the coming days ahead," Laxalt said to the school board and the crowd. Saying the country faced a "legitimate, existential threat for the future of our country," Laxalt called CRT "inherently racist and oppressive."

He said, "We will not let these people take our children. We will not let them indoctrinate them. We will not let them poison our children with this rhetoric. We will stand up for them and I'll be right there with you!"

Hostility at school board meetings across the country has even been discussed in Congress.

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland was before the Senate Judiciary Committee when he addressed a memo asking federal agents to consult with local law enforcement to assess threats. At that meeting, Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas defended a parent who made a Nazi salute to school board officials.

That once-mundane school board meetings are now discussed at the Senate Judiciary level shows the national reach of this cultural issue. And it's one reason the fury is unlikely to wane until after the 2022 midterms.

The Douglas High School students find that both demoralizing and poor modeling for the children in the public schools.

"We should be listening to each other instead of fighting and understanding how the other person thinks," said Jacob Lewis. "And more importantly why they think that way and listening to their argument. Those adults are supposed to be our role models."

As start dates for school inch closer, educators and health officials are unveiling plans to go back to school safely. One focus: face masks.

“It’s important for people to understand germs,” Laura-Anne Cleveland, an associate nursing officer at Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children, said.

Cleveland says everything starts with education.

“Trying to get them to understand that air and breath from us can have germs in it," she said.

Cleveland said the best way to do that with younger kids is through a little science experiment.

“Putting a container of water, putting pepper in it and putting soap on their finger and putting your finger in. The pepper disperses, and so showing that the pepper is the germs and soap and things like that are really good to be able to use,” she explained.

As schools finalize plans for reopening--whether that be online, in person, or a combination of the two--masks have become one of the biggest talking points.

“I have never dealt with anything like this,” Marty Gutierrez, an 8th-grade math teacher, said.

Gutierrez has been teaching for 26 years.

“So much is up in the air and we start back to school in three weeks,” he explained. “And we don’t have guidelines or they are changing every day or even two, three times a day.”

One of those guidelines is whether masks will be recommended or required.

“Like anything recommended or required with middle school kids, it’s that year where you push boundaries,” Gutierrez said. “I get parents and their ideals and values and what they want their freedoms to be. Just getting kids to wear masks is going to be difficult enough, and we know we’re going to have some kids that ‘You know what? My parents don’t want me wearing a mask.'”

If schools recommend masks instead of requiring them, there are fears this could open up doors for bullying.

“I’m sure that there will be some kids that are harassing kids for not wearing a mask, or kids that have a different mask,” he said.

Or conversations about fairness.

“If you have a sibling that has to wear a mask but you don't have to, it’s going to not feel fair,” Cleveland said.

Masks have become controversial, but to Gutierrez, it’s just an extra layer of safety for everyone in the building, including those who may be at high-risk for getting COVID-19.

“People are scared. I have friends that have children that are recovering from cancer, or I have friends that take care of elderly parents that are immunocompromised,” he said.

Cleveland and Gutierrez, both parents, themselves, want to keep kids in school and make sure kids remember the why.

“Why are we wearing masks? Why are we wearing face shields? Things like that, and getting the children to understand that,” Cleveland explained.

“This is the best we can do right now, and if we don't follow these guidelines, you're not going to be seeing these friends again, we’re going to go back to that situation where you’re only going to see them online. So, I think it’s expressing that trade-off,” Gutierrez said.