SOUTHEAST BULLOCH WINS THE STATE TITLE THANKS TO THE 20- BREAKING RIGHT NOW ...N O WJCL 22 MORNING NEWS ... A FORMER GEORGIA TH EC FOOTBALL PLAYER ... WHO WENT ON TO WIN A SUPER BOWL ... FOUND DEAD INSIDE HIS ROSWELL HOME. WHAT WE KNOW SO FAR ... ABOUT HIS CAUSE OF DEATH. KYLE RITTENHOUSE SEEN WALKING THROUGH THE STREETS OF SOUTH CAROLINA. THE TOP STATE OFFICL IA ... HE MET UP WITH FOR LUNCH. "CRASH... GET OUT OF THE CAR SO WE CAN HELP H" INTENSE NEW BODYCAM FOOTAGE RELEASED ... DURING THE ONGOING "WRONG WEAPON" TRIAL. PLUS ... EMOTIONAL TESTIMONY FROM THE GIRLFRIEND ... INSIDTHE CAR ... WITH A MAN SHOT AND KILLED BY POLICE. BRAND NEW SURVEILLANCE VIDEO ... OUT THIS MORNING ... AS INVESTIGATORSN I ATLANTA ... WORK TO FIGURE OUT WHO KILLED A COLLEGE STUDENT FROM *SAVANNAH. WHAT THE VIDEO REVEAL S. IT'S 5 O'CLOCK ON YOUR - _-_- MNI. OR HERE'S A LIVE LOOK FR OM OUR SKYVIEW 22 CAMERA AT THE HOMEWOOD SUITES ON THE SAVANNAH RIVER. (ADLIB ABOUT WEATHER) THANKS FOR STARTING YOUR DAY WITH WJCL 2 2. GOOD MORNING - - I'M EMMA HAMILT. ON METEROLOGIST JONATHAN MYERS IS JOINING US NOW.... NOW, HERE'S YOUR STORM TRACKER RADAR. .. TODAY A CHANCE OF SHOWERS BETWEEN 7AM AND 1PM. PARTLY SUNNY, WITH HIGHS 68- 72. CALM WIND BEMICONG SOUTHEAST AROUND M 6PH IN THE AFTERNOON. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION IS 30%. FRIDAY NIGHT PATCHY FOG AFTER MIDNIGHT. OTHERWISE, MOSTLY CLOUDY, WITH A LOW AROUND 58. SOUTHEAST WIND AROUND 6 H.MP SATURDAY PARTLY SUNNY, WITH A HIGH NEAR 78. SOUTH WIND 5 TO 13 MPH. SATURDAY NIGHT SHOWERS LIKELY, MAINLY AFTER 1AM. MOSTLY CLOUDY, WITH A LOW AROUND 56. SOUTH WIND AROUND 7 MPH BECOMING WEST AFTER MIDNIGHT. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION IS 60%. NEW PRECIPITATION AMOUNTS OF LESS THAN A TENTH OF AN INCH POSSIBLE. SUNDAY A 40 PERCENT CHANCE OF SHOWERS BEFORE 10AM THEN BECOMING MOSTLY SUNNY, WITH A HIGH NEAR6 204 AT KING GEORGE BD LV BREAKING OVERNIGHT ... A PERSON WAS HIT AND KILLED WHILE CROSSING A MAJOR ROAD ON HILTON HEAD ISLAN D. IT HAPPENED AROUND MIDNIGHT ON HIGHWAY 278 NEAR SPANISH WELLS ROA D. THE SOUTH CAROLINA HIGHWAY PATROL TELLS US THE DRIVER WAS GOING WEST ... WHEN THAT PERSON STEPPED IN FRONT OF THEIR CAR ... AND WAS KILL. ED WE'RE ASKING THE BEAUFORT COUNTY CORONER'S OFFICE ... FOR THE IDENTITY OF THE PERSON KILL. ED ALSO BREAKG IN OVERNIGHT ... A FORMER GEORGIA TECH FOOTBALL PLAY .ER.. WHO WENT ON TO PLAY IN THE N-F-L HAS DIED. POLICE IN ROSWELL GEORA GISAY DEMARYIUS THOMAS WAS FOUND DEAD IN HIS HOME. THE 33-YEAR- OLD GEORGIA NATIVE PLAYED TEN SEASONS WITH THE N-F-L ... WINNI NG SUPER BOWL FIFTY ... AND ... TWO A-F-C CHAMPIONSHS IP WITH THE DENVER BRONCOS. AUTHORITIES BELIE VE THAT HE DIED FROM A MEDICAL ISSUE. FOUL PLAY IS NOT SUSPECTED. (KNOCKING ON DR)OO BRAND NEW VIDEO . JT .. INTO THE WJCL 22 NEWSROOM ... SHOWS SUSPECTS . .. GEORGIA AUTHORITS IE BELIEVE ... ARE CONNECTED TO THE SHOOTING DEATH OF A SAVANNAH MAN ATLANTA POLICE SAY TYRONE HOMES ... A MOREHOUSE STUDENT ... WAS FOUND DEAD ... BACK ON NOVEMBER THIRD. OVERNIGHT ... POLICE RELEASED THIS SURVEILLANCE FOOTAGE ... HOPING TO TRACK DOWN THE TWO SUSPECTS WHO SHOWED AUPT HOMES' HOU. SE ACCORDING TO THE ATLANTA JOURNAL CONSTITUTION . .. INVESTIGATORS BELIEVE DRUGS WERE INVOLVE D. THEY SAY THE MEN WERE LET INTO THE HOM E. AUTHORITIES ARE OFFERING UP TO *TWO THOUSAND* DOLLARS IN REWARD MONEY FOR ANY INFORMATION ON THIS CASE. ALSO NEW THIS MORNING ... KY RITLETENHOUSE WAS SPOTTED HAVING LUNCH WITH SOUTH CAROLINA ATTORNEY GENERAL ALAN WILSON. W-I-S T-V IN COLUMBIA IS REPORTING ... THE TWO MET AT MAURICE'S B-B-Q PIGG IE PARK ... AND WHEN WILSON W AS ASKED *WHY THEY WERE MEETING ... HE RESPONDED SAYING THEY WERE JUST HAVING LUNCH. LAST MONTH ... RITTENHOUSE WAS ACQUITTED OF A CLLHARGES AFTER TESTIFYING HE ACTED IN SELF- DEFENSE IN THE DEAY DL KENOSHA SHOOTINGS ... WHERE HE SHOT THREE MEN... KILLING TWO. "MR. SMOLLETT WOULD NOT HAVE LOST THIS CASE AS HE DID TODAY UNLESS THE JURY FOUND THAT HE LIED TO THEM." "WE FEEL 100 PERCE NT CONFIDENT THAT THIS CASE WILL BE WON ON APPEA" L. ACTOR JUSSIE SMOLLETT IS NOW FACING YEARS IN ISPR ... AFTER BEING FOUND GUILTY IN HIS "HATE CRIME HOAX" TRIA L. HERE A'SBC'S MONA KOSAR ABDI WITH MORE REACTION FROM ATTORNEYS. TH IS MORNING -- ACTOR JUSSIE SMOLLETT AWAITING SENTENCING... AFTER A JURY CONVICTED HIM ON FIVE COUNTS OF FELONY DISORDERLY CONDUCT. THE EX-EMPIRE STAR NOW FACING UP TO FIFTEEN YEARS BE HIND BARS FOR HIS CRIMES -- INCLUDING CHARGES FOR FILING A FALSE POLE IC REPORT IN CONNECTION TO THE FAKE 2019 HATE CRIME. SMOLLETT WAS WHISKED AWAY FROM THE COURTROOM MINUT ES AFTER THE VERDICT. .. BOTH THE PROSECUTOR AND THE DEFENSE SPEAKING OUT AFTER THE DECISION. SOT - NENYE UCHE // SMOLLETT'S ATTORY NE THIS CASE IS SERIOUSLY FLAWED FROM THE INITIAL INCEPTIO N. SOT - DAN WEBB// SPECIAL PROSECUTOR MR. SMOLLETT WOULDN'T HAVE LOST THIS CASE AS HE D ID TODAY, UNLESS THE JURY FOUND THAT HE LIED TO THEM. OLSMLETT ORIGINALLY TOLD INVESTIGATORS HEAS W WALKING HOME FROM THIS SUBWAY SHOP WHEN TWO MEN ATTACKED HIM -- THE PAIR YELLING SLURS AND PUTTINA G NOOSE AROUND HIS NECK. BUT AUTHORITIES QUICKLY BEGAN TO QUESTION SMOLLETT'S STORY WHEN HE DECLINED TO FULLY COOPERATE WITH THE INVESTIGATION. SOT - DAN WEBB// SPECIAL PROSECUTOR THE FACT THAT HE CAME UP WITH A COMPLETELY RIDICULOUS STORY TO EXPLAIN HIS MISCONDUCT DID NOT APPARENTLY HAVE AN IMPACT ON THE JURY'S VERDIC T. THE PROSECUTION'S STAR WITNESSES -- THE OSUNDAIRO BROTHERS -- TESTIFIED SMOLLETT HIRED THEM TO CARRY OUT THE ATTACK. SMOLLETT TOLD THE JURY TT HA THE ATTACK WAS *NOT* A HOAX... SAYING ON THE WITNESS STAND THAT THE BROTHERS WERE TRYINGO T EXTORT TWO MILLION DOLLARS FROM HIM. HE ALSO TESTIFIED THATE H AND ONE TOFHE BROTHERS, ABIMBOLA OSUNDAIRO, HAD SEXUAL ENCNTOUERS. BUT DURING CROSS EXAMINATION THEN SAID THE BROTHERS NEVER DIRECY TL CONTACTED HIM FOR THE MONEY ULTIMATELY -- THE JURY FOUND SMOLLETT GUILTY ON FIVE OF THE SIX CHARGES... HIS ATTORNEY'SOW N VOWING TO APPEAL THE VERDICT. SOT - NENYE UCHE // SMOLLETT'S ATTORNEY THIS IS AN INCONSISTT EN VERDICT // HE SMOLLETT COULD SERVE UP TO THREE YEARS IN PRISON - *PER CHARGE-* COMING UP ON GOOD MORNING AMERICA... LEG AL EXPERTS WILL WEIGH IN ON THE LIKELIHOOD THAT THE ACTOR WILL SPEND YEARS BEHIND RSBA YOU CAN WATCH GMA RIGHT AFTER OUR SHOWS.. STARTING AT SEVEN. "CRASH..GET . OUT OF THE CAR SO WE CAN HELPIM H" DAY THREE OF THE "WRONG WEAPON TRIAL.." . IN MINN ESOTA ... IS SET TO RESUME LATER THIS MORNING ... AFTER -D*AMATIC DEVELOPMENTS IN THE COURTROOM YESTERDAY. MORE NEW BODYCAM FOOTAGE WAS RELEASED YESTERDA FOR THE FIRST TIME ... WE SAW THE MOMENTS AFR TE FORMER MINNEAPOLIS POLE IC OFFICER KIM POTTER SHOT DAUNTE WRIGHT CRASHING HEAD- ON INTO ANOTHER VEHICLE. POTTER SAYS SHE ACCIDENTALLY SHOT WRIGHT DURING A TRAFFIC STOP ... BE CAUSE SHE MIS-TOOK HER HANDGUN FOR A TASER. WRIGHT'S GIRLFRIEND W HO WAS INSIDE THE CAR WITH HIM ... SHARED AN EMOTIONAL TESTIMONY IN COURT YESTERDA Y. I JUST REMEMBER LI, KE HEARING LIKE JUST LIKE T HE BOOM, THE BANG OF THE N GU I TOOK MY BELT OFF AND I GRABBED LIKE WHATEVER WAS IN THE CAR, AND PUT IT OHIN CHEST LIKE I, LIKE YOU KNOW YOU SEE IN MOVS IEAND TV SHOWS, AND I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO DO SO I JUST, I JUST PUT MY HANDS OVER HIS CHEST AND I JUST TRIED TO HOLD IT IN. POTTER IS FACING FIRST AND SECOND-DEGREE MANSLAUGHTER CHARG. ES RIGHT NOW ... GARDEN CITY POLICE ARE SEARCHING FOR THIS TEEN ... ACCUSED OF SHOOTING AND KILLING ANOTHER TEEN MONDAY NIGHT. OFFICERS Y SA 17-YEAR-OLD JA- MA BRORYWN ... SHOT 16-YEAR-OLD AMARIAN ROBINS. ON IT HAPPENED JUST BEFE OR THREE IN THE AFTERNOON ... AT CHATHAM CITY APARTMENTS ON AUGUSTA ROAD. WE'RE TOLD ROBINSON DIED AT THE HOSPITAL. BROWN ... NOW FAS CE SEVERAL CHARGES .. INCLUDING MURDER. IF YOU HAVE ANY INFORMATION .. CALL GARDEN CITY POLE. IC RIGHT NOW ... HEALTH OFFICIALS ARE BRACING FOR A COVID WINTER SUR. GE NEW STUDIES REVEAL ... WHILE THE NEW VARIANT "OMICRON" MAY NOT BE MORE - *SEVERE THAN DELTA ... IT - *COULD BE MORE CONTAGIOUS. OUR AIXA DIAZ IS IN WASHINGTON ... WITH WH AT OFFICIALS ARE NO-W*BEGGING PEOPLE TO . DO THE PRESIDENT SAYS ROUGHLY A MILLION PEOPLE A DAY ARE GETTING THEIR BOOSTER SHOTS - WHICH WE LEARNED THIS WEEK COULD BE KEY IN FIGHTING OMICRON. PFIZER SAYS ITS THIRD DOSE APPEARS TO BE EFFECTIVE AGAINST THE NEW VARIANT ... BUSAT YS EVENTUALLY A - *FOURTH* SHOT MAY NEEDED - AS VACCINE MAKERS WORK ON AN "OMICRON- SPECIFIC" VAINCCE. HEALTH OFFICIALS ARE URGING ALL ADULTS TO GET A BOOSTER SHOT AHEADF OTHEIR HOLIDAY GATHERINGS ... AND BOOSTER ELIGIBILITY - *NOW* INCLUDES 16-AND- 17-YEAR-OLDS. DR. CLAIRE BOOGAARD/CHILDREN'S NATIONAL HOSPITAL "THE BENEFITS OF GETTING VACCINATED WILL PROTECT YOUR KIDS WHO ARE 16 AND 17 YEAR OLDS LONGER, KEEP TM HE IN SCHOOL, KEEP THEM IN THEIR SOCIAL GATHERINGS AND WILL HOPEFULLY PREVENT THEM FROM HAVING ANY BAD MEDICAL CONSEQUENCES FROM FUTURE VARIANTS AS WELL" THERE'S STILL NO COVID VACCINE FOR THE YOUNGE ST KIDS - BABIES, TODDLERS, AND PRESCHOOLERS. VACCINE MAKERS ARE HOPING TO RELEASE DATA FROM THE IR CLINICAL TRIALS - IN THE NEXT FEW WEEKS. IN WHIASNGTON, I'M AIXA DIAZ. MEANWHILE, THE F-D-A AND C-D-C HAVE YET TO SAY IF THEY WILL GREEN-LIGHT MERCK'S COVID-19 TREATMENT PILL... WH