{"id":60072,"date":"2023-04-05T07:56:37","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T11:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=60072"},"modified":"2023-04-05T08:02:34","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T12:02:34","slug":"morning-news-april-5-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/05\/morning-news-april-5-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning News &#8211; April 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span id=\"timestamp\"><b>Apr 5, 2023 at 07:56<\/b><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Weather: <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Freezing Rain Warning<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Today &#8211; Periods of ice pellets mixed with snow changing to freezing rain this afternoon. Risk of freezing rain late this morning and this afternoon. Wind east 30 km\/h gusting to 50. High +3. Wind chill -13 this morning. UV index 2 or low.<\/li>\n<li>Tonight &#8211; Periods of freezing rain ending this evening then cloudy with 60% chance of rain showers or flurries late this evening and after midnight. A few flurries beginning overnight. Wind southeast 20 km\/h becoming southwest 40 gusting to 60 this evening. Temperature rising to +8 this evening then falling. Wind chill -11 overnight.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>News Tidbits:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs xlh3980 xvmahel x1n0sxbx x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h\" dir=\"auto\">The weather is particularly nasty today. Buses have been cancelled in the Algoma District. Schools in the Sudbury, Espanola, Massey and Manitoulin Island areas are closed Wednesday for all four boards and buses cancelled due to freezing rain. Lakehead Public Schools, the Thunder Bay Catholic District School Board and the French Catholic Board announce classrooms will be closed for the day, citing student and staff safety. Lakehead University has also cancelled all in-person classes on its Thunder Bay campus.\u00a0Hwy 11\/17 West of Kakabeka Falls, near Holland Road lanes may be blocked due to a jackknifed transport. There has been a power outage on St. Joseph Island.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>The Ontario government is investing an additional $202 million annually through the Homelessness Prevention Program and Indigenous Supportive Housing Program to help those experiencing or at risk of homelessness and to support community organizations delivering supportive housing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Provincial Announcements:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Steve Clark, Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing, and Doug Downey, Attorney General, will be joined by Nina Tangri, Associate Minister of Housing at 9 a.m. in London<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apr 5, 2023 at 07:56 Weather: Freezing Rain Warning Today &#8211; Periods of ice pellets mixed with snow changing to freezing rain this afternoon. 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