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The driver of the vehicle was evaluated and didn't need to be hospitalized.

And John Nodar, a meteorologist for more than 40 years at WKRG-TV in Mobile, is retiring, reports AL.com's John Sharp.

Appropriately, though, he'll wait until the official end of the Atlantic hurricane season.

Nodar will call it a career on November 30th.

Cape Cod, MassDOT reports the Sagamore Bridge replacement is, uh, moving forward with about a $1 billion contract, uh, federal funding helping out on that.

Mobile, Alabama TV station WKRG TV reports the state secured $2.5 billion as a loan for the Mobile Bridge, uh, Bay Way project.

And the Alabama Department of Transportation says full construction, uh, will begin, um, later this month.

WALA TV reports the tolls on the new bridge will start rising a little bit each year to keep up with inflation, help pay some of those loans down.

In all the news focusing on giving airtime and healing to big bloated heads and protest leaders, it should be emphasized how there were any protesters against Doug Jones.

Will there be such a right-wing extremist threat and southern white intimidation or oppression that has to be quite a surprise? WKRG focused on traffic problems for businesses, but if anyone will be disrupting that, it will be the crazy cracked-up protesters.

Talk about Trump.

The thought process of Doug Jones, our science person, quote, I don't want anyone to think I am a racist southern white Trumper and vandalize my house, so I'll put up the sign for the white Democrat good old boy.

So we really appreciated that.

And matter of fact, WKRG did a news story about that today.

Timing was perfect.

That's amazing.

We want to get a couple more in patrol because they're the ones that are going to be first on the scene.

But it's had a big impact with that.

And listening to one of the guys today who was being interviewed by WKRG, he could not have done a better job explaining what he learned in that 40-hour class for that ultimate critical incident, how much that has helped him in his everyday job as a police officer.

The example he used is Crisis may run from somebody who's going through a divorce, the absolute worst point in their life, to somebody who's upset because their neighbor's car is partially blocking their driveway.

I ain't rich, but Lord.

Good morning, I'm Shemana Baker for WKRG News 5.

After posting a $450,000 bond in Mobile County to get out of jail, a local neurosurgeon will have to post another $400,000 in Baldwin County.

Sean Clark had a bond hearing yesterday in Foley.

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