welfare checked were speaking with 43-year-old amy anderson as she sat in a parked s.u.v. with a young girl. according to police the officers called for child protective services. gunfire erupted killing one officer at the scene and another died at the hospital. first responders found the woman dead from what was believed to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest. residents of this small town are in shock. any time of the year they are no more tighter than what you re coming on right now with christmas. for this, you know, three people lost their lives that won t be celebrating christmas. that has to be heartbreaking for the family. base st. louis police identified the fallen officers as sergeant steven robin and officers brandon. the department posted on social media the tragic loss is a sad day for the bay st. louis community and law enforcement. governor tait reeves tweeted every day across mississippi our law enforcement members place their lives on the line in
86 degrees right now. that s the fuel to this storm. when you lose the fuel, like over land, that s when the storm dies. but right now we still have at least ten hours of uninterrupted potential strengthening, as this thing makes landfall. five to nine-foot storm surge. that s not katrina. katrina was 20, 22 feet from base st. louis, past biloxi and gulf port, but nine feet, plus the waves on top will be a significant surge to places that are very they are fragile. i mean, we re talking about lowlands, wetlands, beaches, and also even some offshore islands that may get completely overwashed. significant weight height, we re talking about waves ten to 15 feet as this moves onshore. the wind, especially on the east side of the eye, this was 8:00 tonight, biloxi, that could do damage and the storm is hours away from making landfall. biloxi, mobile, gulf shores, somewhere 90 to 95 mile per hour
cleaned up and this is an issue for jesse with the office of emergency management here in hancock county. listen. i see tar balls here all in the sand. it s here, it s here, it s here. this is your county. this is your beach. i wonder it s kind of like having a neighbor come down to the community pool and leave his mess in the pool and leave and don t want to do anything about it. it s leaving the impact in the community. that plus what we re finding daily, we re having tar balls and other products that we re not really sure what is coming up in the county. we had the big fish kill yesterday that was very near. you want it cleaned up? we want it cleaned up. there are a lot of impacts on local communities, including base st. louis. what is the biggest challenge you re facing today? we face a lot of challenges,