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I'm kay blevins thanks for joining us.

We will have more on the clean up progress from the tornadoes that swept through our area last weekend in a moment.... but first...we want to tell you about a massive fire at a business on mcfarland avenue this morning.... take a look at this video.... an early morning fire has gutted an empty 50 year old building near downtown rossville.

City spokeswoman elizabeth wells says the two story building has been empty for about 10 years.

Smoke could be seen for miles----as fire units arrived from rossville, catoosa county, fort oglethorpe, walker county and east ridge.

Wells says it was the north furniture retail store..but like the other vacant buildings nearby were part of a planned revitalization program.

Fire destroyed a building behind this one a few weeks ago.

No one was hurt today..and no damage estimate has been made.

Sunday's tornado is causing many families in the tennessee valley to rebuild... the owner of hamilton auto on jenkins road says this is the second time his business has been destroyed by severe weather... news 12 now's danielle moss joins us live with more.

That's right kay, in 1997 12 tornadoes touched down in tennessee.

One of those tornadoes hit chattanooga and destroyed hamilton auto on jenkins road.

Unfortunately, the family on business was hit again on sunday night.

As you can see behind me some of the cars that are on the property have their windows busted out and there's a tree on one of them.

Take vo now the video that you're seeing is footage that we have from that 1997 tornado.

I talked to the owner son and while this morning and he says that they have already started trying to rebuild.

Take sot take live i also talked to the owner this morning and he said that the community has really come together during this time.

He says even though the damage isn't as bad as it was in 1997 he plans to be open in the next couple of weeks.

Live in chattanooga danielle moss news 12 now some good news to pass along to you this afternoon.... epb has now restored power to 51 thousand 5 hundred customers who where impacted by the tornados and severe weather.

8 thousand 5 hundred customers remain without power today.

We have learned the utility expects to return power to thousands of additional customers within the next 24 hours.

A four year old killed in sunday's tornado is being honored as a hero.

Over 150 vehicles drove down east 3rd street for 4-year-old grayson meadows' organ donor honor drive-by.

Family members and friends filled vehicles holding red heart balloons.

Red was his favorite color.

Many first responders were a part of the drive-by.

A nurse practitioner who recently got to know grayson and his family says grayson is a true superhero.

: "one thing that sticks out about grayson is he is a such a superhero.

He always to act like a superhero.

He was super tough.

Mom always talked about how strong he was.

He's donating his life to save other people and that's the ultimate mission.

Mom was so proud talking about like this is exactly what he would've wanted.

A go-fund-me page for grayson has already raised 80 thousand dollars.

That money will go to help pay for his hospital expenses.

Food city is giving back to tornado victims.... the company has already pledged 50 thousand dollars to aid in tornado relief efforts for our community.... wdef news 12 now's taylor bishop joins us now live from food city to tell us how we can all help make a difference.... good afternoon taylor... food city says for the next five days the are working to collect donations from customers to go towards tornado relief efforts.

Food city has pledged a fifty thousand dollar contribution to kick off the drive.

Several vendor partners are also coming along-side to make contributions like coca-cola, pepsi, frito-lay and moon pies.

"over the next five days we're gonna allow our customers to come in and help us out.

We're going to make available for contributions if they want to do that off any amount at the cash registar when they come through" funds raised will be allocated to the salvation army of greater chattanooga to assist with the relief efforts.

The campaign will run from friday, april 17th through tuesday, april 21st in tennessee, virginia and georgia area food city locations.

In chattanooga, taylor bishop news 12 now bradley county suffered severe damage from sunday's tornado.

This is video of tina hysni's home.

She's the owner of tina's tummy yummys in cleveland.

As you can see her home has been destroyed.

She has been on our show several times before showcasing her delicious treats.

Tina posted a video on facebook wednesday letting everyone known that she's okay and tina's tummy yummy's is still open.

All of us here at news 12 are keeping you in our thought and prayers tina.

The chattanooga house of prayer is holding a day for prayer and fasting today.

They had been planning this, because of covid-19, but then tornadoes hit.

So, they realized now might be a time when folks need prayer the most.

"there is thousands of people praying for you because todayis a day of prayer and fasting for the metro chattanooga area and on behalf of pastors and ministry leaders all over this city i wanted to invite you to be a part of it...you can do so at chatthop,org."

If you want to participate, the chattanooga house of prayer if you want to participate, the chattanooga house of prayer has a prayer guide on their website.

Time to check in with chip now for our first look at the weather.

Here's a live look from our c-h-i memorial camera at covenant college, from the e-p-b fiber op this gorgeous day underway in more ways than one.

Plenty of sunshine back in the forecast, at least for today, and believe it or not see a little bit abou popping up tomorrow, breezy but at least today the winter comin in and out of the cell, not those pesky north winds.

We hav a couple of days ago really put an extra in the atmosphere is forceful we have going on right now.

Here we have got some clouds forming back out to the south and west, and that's what's going to pick up some moisture and pay us a visit early morning for tomorrow temperature wise actually is really comparable 64 right now until i called 65 in lafayette bodyguard 66 in the carpet capital 67 we have 680 here downtown now take morbid about looking at seven-day forecast a couple of changes coming up ove the weekend will get some more on that right here within minutescountry in three phases.e says it's up to each state's governor to call their own shots about when that should happen.

Natalie brand has more details from the white house.

:48 - :58 1:00 - 1:12 1:29 - 1:37 "we're opening up our country."

President trump is recommending the country reopen in phases...but only when communities meet criteria including a decline in cases for two straight weeks.

"you have very different states.

If you look at montana, wyoming, north dakota that's a lot different than new york, it's a lot different than new jersey.

It will be very dependent on the governor."

In phase one..

Vulnerable individuals still shelter in place..

While allowing for a limited return to work with social distancing in place.

Phase two allows schools to reopen and non-essential travel can resume.

And phase three is being called "the new normal" with vulnerabl people still social distancing but a return to unrestricted staffing at worksites.

"through all phases, continuing the good hygiene practices, continuing the respect for spaces between individuals because we know we still have an issue with asymptomatic spread."

The guidelines say a robust testing program should be in place for at risk healthcare workers..

But put the responsibility on the states to deliver widespread testing and contact tracing.

"they're going to be doing the testing, it's got to be a localized thing and it really has been since i've been involved because i came in and the federal government is supposed to do testing of parking lots in the middle of a certain state that's 2,000 miles away?

It's ridiculous."

But some states say they need more federal help.

Minority leader/credit: msnbc) "each state can't come up with their own tests, many of the states are inadequate to come up with their own tests.

We need a national program, distribute it to the local governments."

The administration says testing capabilities are getting better each day...with dr. anthony fauci saying he believes the u-s should be in good shape by the fall.

Natalie brand, cbs news, the white house.

Still to come here on wdef news 12 at noon... chip says expect rain on sunday in the storm team 12 seven day forecast.

And later... small business loan concerns... why the nation's small business loan program is now out of money.... your monewatch report is coming up next.... now from the epb weather center, maybe five.

If you look down to the south and west.

You can see a lot of clouds forming right over texas in the cloud cover i heading in our erection.

All it needs is moisture and will see little bit about popping up as we have through tomorrow mornin early and made another round of rain pops up as we get into sunday, especially during the but today it looks absolutely gorgeous.

We're talking a lot o sunshine right now 64 in tellico and blue ridge.

We have got 67, dalton and somerville 66 in grundy county and cleveland 68, and that is our current readings.

We check out the viewpoint of the epb fiber optics weather cam network checking out the soddy-daisy area and a gorgeous gorgeous da 680 unity at 42%.

South wind between 15 and 20 mph 30.20 on the barometer were continuing to see this warm air lifting up from the south and southwest, and the temperatures later on today are going to be nice guys between 73 and 75 is a light shower activity early tomorrow morning.

We probably are looking for to 65 to 7.

For this to step in and out.

A lot of this will be not by the relatively dry here, but some o will make the ground as it passes through a lot of temperatures down another feud trees but it should rebound nicely for tomorrow afternoon with a mixture of clouds and sunshine lies between 66 and 68 's rainfall for saturday night overnight heading into sunday morning and it does look like we could pick up a half an inch to an inch of rain, especially from the chattanooga area cell will see this continuing on all sunday evening lasting into the first few hours of monday as well and by monday afternoon were going to be looking much nicer, much drier, at least temporarily.

More rain does roll back into the forecast for the latter part of next week will probably not until thursday.

Another quick little system.

After that, when it's thursday evening, six through on friday, but next weekend by a large should stay mainly dry 74 this afternoon with lots of sunshine.

We'll talk more about that seve- day forecast coming up after self went today and 7453 tonigh that will stay into the upper 60s for saturday and sunday.

Don't forget sunday, it's going to be the wettest day out of th bunch will have moral that coming up tonight at six and was used 12 now at noon.

Stay with us.

We will be right back after the nation's small business loan program is out of money.... plus....starbucks is rolling out re-opening plans for their stores.... let's take a look at today's moneywatch report... script: stock futures are indicating a higher open and stocks edged slightly higher yesterday higher open and stocks edged slightly higher yesterday the dow rose 33 points the nasdaq gained 139 the s&p 500 added 16.

/ the nation's small business loan program is already out of money.

All $349 billion dollars set aside was tapped dry by yesterday.

The payment protection program was created under the economic relief bill to help keep businesses afloat and protect payroll for workers whose jobs were impacted due to the nation's lockdown orders.

The trump administration has been urging congress to greenlight another $250 billion dollars for the program.

/ a status update from facebook.

The social networking giant says it is canceling all events with 50 or more people through june of 20-21.

And all of its employees will be required to work from home until at least the end of may.

The company is also extending its no business travel policy through at least june of this year.

/ and starbucks is brewing up a full reopening by summer.

C-e-o kevin johnson says the java giant is rolling out re-opening plans for stores across the country...and predicts a return to normal operations in june.

Stores without drive-thrus have been closed nationwide since march 20th.

/ and that's your cbs moneywatch report.

For more head to cbsmoneywatch.com.

I'm diane king hall.

Stay with us.

More news 12 now at noon to come... one man in iowa is tackling a marathon in his apartment.... its all for a good cause....details are coming up after this short break.... here's a live look from our c-h-i memorial camera at lee pointe from the e-p-b fiber optics weather cam network.

The e-p-b fiber optics weather cam network.

Des moines runner mark neyens will run 26.2 miles inside his apartment unit sunday morning to raise money for the city's disaster recovery fund.

He has run 20 races and was originally scheduled to run a road race this sunday downtown.

Instead he will run up and down his hallway in his apartment unit - 1, 800 times and livestream the event, all while interacting with people on social media.

Thanks for spending a little bit of your afternoon with us.

Our hats are off to a risqui wa mentioning if you are heading out for a run this afternoon.

It'll be a nice day for we got lot of sunshine temperatures right at either day around 70 clouds will pick up tonight wil see a few rounds of showers may be a brief rumble of thunder early morning tomorrow, but the heavier of the rain will happen should be out-of-the-way by the time taken.

I joined monday morning starting 5 o'clock and then it will be warming up for the middle part of next week looks like rain developing for late thursday, and hopefully that will be out-of-the-way by early morning on ... friday we run okay i'll have a safe and happy weekend.

We will see you back