southeast Georgia and the low country. This is W J. C L 22 morning news. See us now right now on W. J. C L 22 morning news at six vaccine incentives on the way for Savannah city employees, which local groups are working together to make the announcement later today. And there's still questions after this explosion at an Atlanta area apartment building when investigators are looking into as a possible cause and also making headlines. Another live look at Galveston beach texas this morning. One of the areas that could see heavy rain and flooding from tropical storm Nicholas. We are tracking the latest developments in the tropics this morning. It is six o'clock now on your monday morning. I'm Ashleigh Garrett and I'm Emma Hamilton and our meteorologist Jonathan Myers, he is also here that certified most accurate forecast, Jonathan, gorgeous weekend and that's going right into the work week. Yeah, exactly. Right. And we're gonna see more beautiful weather starting the morning off into the sixties right now. Mid sixties Savannah and we're gonna see temperatures for today, a little bit warmer than we've seen the last couple of days of more humidity around as well. So out the door for school and work this morning, starting out mid sixties, a little patchy fog in a couple of spots. But not a big problem with the fog this morning and throughout the morning we'll see mostly sunny skies temperatures upper sixties by eight o'clock. You can see across the southeast, nice and quiet all the shower activity as well. To our south and southeast off the mid atlantic coast detail more of our forecast for today showing those temperatures in the upper eighties and also tracking the tropics in less than 10 minutes. Jonathan, thank you. Take a step outside. This morning. We are looking live at the Georgia south Carolina state line and I 95 where everything is moving along just fine. Well later today, the city of Savannah will announce new incentives for covid 19 vaccinations. We're going to take a live look here at the Chatham County commission building were that announcement will take place? It is a joint effort between Savannah Chatham County schools, Chatham area transit the county and more. They're encouraging city and county employees to get the vaccine. Savannah, Mayor Van johnson says he believes President biden's vaccine mandate is leading the way to help states like Georgia in proof it's vaccination rates and it's the start of the fall quarter for Savannah, not Savannah Chatham County. If we're the Savannah College of Art and Design students moved in over the weekend. Now, daily health checks and masks are required on campus. Regardless of your vaccination status, Anyone who chooses not to wear masks on scat property will be asked to leave. People who are unvaccinated must also social distance and present a negative covid 19 tests in order to attend classes. Well, Liberty County students will return for in person learning today. District leaders say the schools have been deep cleaned and all students are expected to attend in person until an online option is ready in person learning will also pick back up in emanuel County today. The district says the number of covid cases among staff and students has been consistently declining for the last three weeks and to stay up to date on the changes impacting our schools due to covid 19. You can find that information on our website. That's W J C L dot com. Well right now, one in four new COVID-19 cases are in Children. ABCS Alex Brechet details the timeline on when we could see vaccine approval for kids younger than 12 this morning. The FDA is out with a new warning to parents don't get Children under 12. The covid vaccine until the agency gives approval saying in part, Children are not small adults. The former head of the FDA laying out his best case scenario for when the shots will be available for Children. You could potentially have a vaccine available to Children aged 5-11 by Halloween. If everything goes well right now, Children make up one in four new infections across the U. S. The delta variants, not slowing down icu beds in seven states are running out, leaving little room for other emergencies. Raid ammonia. As family says, it took calls to 43 hospitals across three states to get the 73 year old a cardiac iCU bed. He died in a facility in Mississippi 200 miles from his Alabama home. His relatives writing in his obituary. Please get vaccinated to free up resources for non covid related emergencies. President Biden's mandating businesses with 100 or more employees to either require vaccinations or enforce weekly testing the U. S. Surgeon general defending the move. Let's help us get through this, keep our kids in school, keep our economy going and give us a peace of mind. But the Republican governors of at least 19 states vowing to fight back this is an unprecedented assumption of federal mandate authority that really disrupts and divides the country. Vaccine mandates already resulting in resignations at one rule new york state hospital. The number of resignations received leaves us no choice But to pause delivering babies further south in New York City. Today, anyone over the age of 12 must show proof of vaccination for things like indoor dining gyms and theaters and that was a BCS Alex push a now to the covid case numbers in our area in Georgia. More than 8600 people testing positive for the virus on friday alone and in south Carolina close to 2300 people testing positive Wednesday these the latest numbers we have from the both states. You can see much more on this story on good morning America. That's coming up after our show at seven 605 now And today is the earliest some people can return to their apartments after an explosion rocks the building in Atlanta. EMA. Yeah. Ashleigh at least four people are recovering in the hospital this morning. This video here is brand new this morning and it shows us what that apartment building looked like after that explosion this weekend. Now the Cobb County dispatchers say that the first calls that people were making, They were saying half the building is gone. Now. This happened about 16 miles north of Atlanta in Dunwoody. Investigators are looking into this as a possible natural gas explosion. We do not know at this time. We do know that the call was put into Atlanta gas about a very large gas odor. Well, Emma, is there anyone still unaccounted for at this time? So there is some good news here. Ashleigh authorities tell us that the people who were unaccounted for are now safe. That's a sigh of relief. We can breathe this morning. Emma, thank you. Meantime, Savannah police say someone is in custody for a shooting that left a man With serious injuries. We're told it happened on average Corn Street around four yesterday afternoon And a motive has not yet been determined. Of course we'll be sure to stay on top of this story and provide you updates as soon as they come in right now, Savannah police need your help finding a missing woman. They say this woman, 25 year old J. Maria Cooper was last seen near Pennsylvania Ave On the east side of downtown. She's five ft 2 and £220 and was last seen wearing a baby blue blouse, blue jean shorts and white sneakers. Police say if you see her to call Savannah P Dean and this morning recess is over for Congress and now lawmakers get back to work on Capitol hill are exit is details what's on their to do list and what may put President joe biden's plans in jeopardy. Yeah. President Biden needs the support of all 50 Senate Democrats to pass human infrastructure. But right now one of those senators is a no, he will not have my vote on 3.5 and chuck knows that west Virginia Senator joe Manchin says Democratic leader chuck, schumer will not have his vote on the $3.5 trillion human infrastructure package. President biden is hoping to make big investments on childcare, family leave, education and climate change, but moderate democrats say they're opposed to the bills price tag. We've already put out 54 trillion and we try to help americans in every way we possibly can. And a lot of the help that we put out there is still there and it's going to run clear until next year. Democratic leaders have said they are open to spending less angering progressives who say this bill is vital what we are trying to do in this bill is more significant for working families than any bill probably since FDR and the new deal. The Senate has already passed a traditional infrastructure bill with bipartisan support the House votes later this month. But progressives say their support of that bill hinges on the fate of human infrastructure. It would be a really sad state of affairs for the american people for Congress if both of those bills went down, Republicans are opposed to raising the corporate tax rate to pay for human infrastructure. They also say the bill worsens federal debt in Washington and my accidents. And democrats who control both chambers and Congress are also hoping to pass legislation to strengthen voting rights. Well, more documents related to the 9 11 investigation are expected to be released this in the coming months. The first was released by the FBI this weekend after ceremonies marked the 20th year since those attacks. The document included a report from 2016. It did not find any evidence that Saudi leaders were involved in the attacks, but it did say Saudi nationals played a pivotal role in funding Al Qaeda. This release comes after more than 1600 people affected by the attacks sent President biden a letter asking for that information to be released In a local church is supporting a group who's there for the families of fallen first responders. The Coastal Empire 200 club now has $10 of new funding. It's, it's tremendous to have a congregation like Bible Baptists come together to provide such a significant contribution because it's about a $250,000 commitment every time we respond to a lot of duty death. And so contributions like this are so critical for us because we have so still so many family members that need to go to college. Well, the senior pastor at Bible Baptist is also a chaplain of the Chatham County Police Department. He says it was an emotional moment seeing the number of firefighters and police officers who attended this 911 9 11 Memorial Service yesterday. We really weren't sure how many, but we ended up with about 60, 1st responders, um, and some family members. And so, uh, of course there were some active military and, and retired military as well. So we were very pleased with the attendance of first responders. It just shows how much on their heart. Uh, this special anniversary is Today. The 200 club has responded to 27 line of duty deaths and provided more than $3.5 million to families south Carolina. State senators will continue traveling across the state this week to work on redistricting based on the 2020 census. The low country public hearing is this Wednesday at the Technical College of Low Country in Beaufort. That meeting starts at 6 30 in the evening. Lawmakers will also take feedback online. The meeting will be streamed at the south Carolina. State House website