COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)
Flooding remained a concern in Mid-Missouri Thursday morning after rain fell, causing flooding in several areas.
According to the MoDOT traveler map, Route ZZ, Route E are closed in Boone County due to flooding.
Route A near Moniteau Creek was reported closed due to flooding along with Route P in Cooper County, according to MoDOT.
Boone County Joint Communications sent out alerts Thursday morning about several flooded roads.
At 5:25 a.m. BCJC sent out an alert for flooding on South Providence Road and Locust Street. Just before 6 a.m., an alert was sent out for flooding on South Airport Drive and east Route H.
Water was also reported in Boone County on the 4800 block of South Old Mill Creek Road.
Large amounts of water were also seen at Strawn Park and on Strawn Road.
ABC 17 News crews also saw high water levels at the Moreau Creek Access in Cole County.
Three Rivers Electric took to Facebook and reported 109 of its customers were without power Thursday morning in Cole, Osage and Gasconade Counties.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Missouri Highway Patrol issued a Silver Alert on Saturday for 78-year-old John Michael Culbertson, who was last seen in Raytown at about 11:30 a.m.
The highway patrol says Culbertson has dementia and wandered away from his home. They add that he has a history of eloping and has entered strangers’ homes in the past.
He’s a white man who is 5’10” and weighs 160 pounds. He has white hair, blue eyes, and was wearing a navy blue sun hat, dark blue shirt, and cut-off jeans. His home is on Northern Avenue near 53rd and Sterling.
If you’ve seen him or know where he is, call 911 or Raytown police at (816) 737-6020.
Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway has announced a partnership she hopes will lessen human trafficking during the FIFA World Cup in Kansas City. Large events such as the World Cup are known to have an increased rate of human trafficking, and Missouri is working to get ahead of this trend.
Safe House Project is a nonprofit organization that aims to end human trafficking. The group has developed an app called Simply Report that gives people the ability to report to law enforcement any activity they feel is concerning.
Safe House Project CEO Kristi Wells said the Simply Report app uses artificial intelligence to parse the information people report.
“Everybody has a gut instinct, and there are times where we see something where we just aren’t confident, but we are concerned. And so the beautiful thing about using Simply Report is that they can share the suspicions and the things they’re seeing and they don’t have to know everything to report,” Wells said.
The app has been available for a year and there has already been considerable success in supporting victims of human trafficking.
“Within three months we saw a 371% increase in the number of victims identified and served by our organization and after 10 months we had a 1,200%,” Wells said.
A 2023 report from the Missouri Statewide Council on Sex Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation of Children, citing an analysis of 2021 data from the National Human Trafficking Hotline, said “As recent as 2020, Missouri had the fourth highest incidence rate of human trafficking at 4.32 per 100,000 people.”
Missouri was the fifth state to partner with Safe House Project. The state’s Director of Anti-Trafficking Operations, Diana Haines, said this issue is important to the Attorney General.
“Catherine Hanaway is committed to protecting victims and preventing exploitation,” Haines said. “The attorney general will always work to get every tool available into the hands of law enforcement to catch traffickers and hold them accountable.”
There is no intention to get rid of Simply Safe after the World Cup.
“We will continue to use and promote Simply Report following the games,” Haines said, “continuing to put the victims first.”
This story was produced by KBIA and shared through the Missouri News Network.
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