After days of rain and stormy weather, river levels were rising and communities were flooded. The Missouri Humane Society took boats and trucks to those areas to save stranded animals.
One man in the community got in his private plane and took to the skies to take pictures and video of the flooding. I reached out to him over Facebook messenger to talk to him about what he saw.
Like the story above, being a digital producer requires keeping an eye on social media. I saw this on the Columbia Fire Department's Twitter page, and we were able to send a reporter to the scene before the fire was put out.
After a dispute between Planned Parenthood and the state of Missouri over the renewal of a St. Louis clinic's abortion license, Missouri Gov. Mike Parson held a press conference addressing the dispute.
After an overnight search, the Missouri State Highway Patrol found the body of a man who went missing while swimming. For Troop F, this was the first boating fatality of 2019.
This is a story combining a lot of KOMU's coverage of the tornado that wrecked through Jefferson City in late May 2019.
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