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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — You have certainly noticed the cold air in Kansas City over the last 36 hours. In fact, Thursday was our coldest day so far of 2023 with a high temperature of only 29 degrees!

Friday morning’s low was 10 degrees and we once again struggle to hit the freezing mark this afternoon. This is the type of cold where any moisture moving through could result in light ice.

To that end, the National Weather Service issued a Winter Weather Advisory on Friday afternoon just after 1, and it’s in effect until 11 p.m.

The big question or “IF” for this afternoon is will moisture present at all levels of the atmosphere.

Above is a forecast profile for the atmosphere this afternoon at 4 p.m. in Kansas City. At 15,000 feet up is where snowflakes normally form, but there will be no moisture present in the mid-levels of the atmosphere this afternoon, so snow is out of the question.

However, as we move closer to the surface, around 6,000 feet, we do have moisture. But temperatures there are barely above freezing, so rain drops would be the precipitation type forming. Based on this information alone, I would forecast isolated showers or drizzle for this afternoon.

The catch of course is that temperatures near the ground will be at or just below freezing. So any precipitation falling would likely try to freeze on contact with the ground or form into a small pellet of ice (sleet). That results in this pink shading on our Microcast for this afternoon, which is an icy precipitation type, however it is very light.

All that said, I will be watching for moisture in the lower levels of the atmosphere and surface temperatures later this afternoon for a chance of light freezing drizzle or sleet. This looks most likely east of the 435 Loop on the Missouri side.

Could a few spots see impacts? Possibly, but with the precipitation staying likely very light and temperatures marginal, impacts are very unlikely.

If there is any moisture present on roadways or elevated surfaces overnight, there could be an isolated patch of ice by sunrise Saturday with lows near 20. But the weekend gets much warmer with highs near 50 degrees on Saturday afternoon. Look ahead to the full FOX4 Weather Team weekend forecast.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The KC Streetcar Extension from Union Station to the University of Missouri – Kansas City still has a lot of work left until it’s ready for business in early 2025.

While tracks have been laid from Union Station to just south of 36th Street, the massive project is really hurting some local businesses.

Mary Johnson is the manager of Fragrance World at 37th and Main. Tracks have been put down outside that business, but the lane is still closed to cars. Orange barricades and cones sit outside, welcoming those who figure out where to park.

“It’s really hard because there’s nowhere for our customers to park, and it’s a mess out there,” she said.

Another issue is the ever-changing driving lanes. Johnson said it’s dangerous and scary, especially at night.

“It’s like an obstacle course,” she said.

Johnson said eight businesses on Main Street have closed in the last few months. While she can’t say if the streetcar extension project is to blame, she suspects it’s a major factor. As for sales, she said Fragrance World is doing a fifth of what they would have done in normal years.

“We have to pay the mortgage, the light bill, our stock, and we have way less customers. So, it’s making it more difficult to keep functioning the way we should be,” she said.

Further south, near 40th and Main, Christina Decker doesn’t have things as bad. Streetcar work only started in the last year, and she said it’s only impacted her twice: once when crews had to work on the water lines, and the other when crews hit a gas line on Tuesday.

“Oher than that we’re sustaining. Could it probably be more sales? Yes.”

But she said it’ll be worth it in the long run when she’s able to hop on a streetcar and head to the KC Current’s new stadium near the River Market.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. —

A Missouri house committee on Tuesday unanimously passed a bill that could prevent a landfill in South Kansas City.

The bill would extend the buffer zone from a one-half mile to one mile between a new landfill and an area with more than 400,000 residents.

The Missouri house committee on Local Government passed the bill after members said they received hundreds of complaints over the past week from city and school leaders, business owners, and residents against the proposed landfill.

The house also received more than 440 pages of witness statements about the project.

The bill now moves to the full House of Representatives.

“People have sunk their life savings into their homes, and now they're facing a landfill which they didn't expect to see,” said Kansas City Central Seventh-day Adventist Church Pastor Kent Dunwoody.

Dunwoody testified in Jefferson City last week against the landfill, saying he is hearing from people in his congregation about the negative effects a landfill would bring to the area to their health and their property values.

At the same committee meeting last Tuesday, Jennifer Monheiser of KC Recycling and Waste Solutions, said that a company she owns is under contract for or has purchased nearly 500 acres with plans to build a landfill on 270 acres of that property.

Grandview waste transfer station proposes alternative to landfill

The property in question is near an area publicly identified by the city of Raymore as East 155th Street between 150 Highway and from Southwest Peterson Road on the west to Horridge Road on the east.

Neither Monheiser nor her husband have agreed to an interview with KMBC 9 Investigates about their plans for the landfill.

On Tuesday, KMBC asked the Monheisers and their spokesman for four specific items:

KMBC did not receive a response to those specific requests.

Next Wednesday, Kansas City, Missouri council members will consider joining neighboring cities like Raymore, Grandview, Belton, Lee’s Summit and Peculiar with resolution that would formalize opposition to the landfill at this time.

The resolution would also give the city manager six months to detail the City’s future needs with respect to solid waste as well as provide potential alternative solutions.

The council resolution comes after Kansas City, Missouri City Manager Brian Platt said last November, “We aren’t doing a landfill anywhere in Kansas City.”

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He also has said the proposed area is a great location for housing.

KMBC 9 Investigates on Tuesday emailed both Platt and Public Works Director Michael Shaw to see if they believe the current proposed location is necessary or correct location for a new landfill in the Kansas City region.

KMBC also asked if either of the men or their staffs have had any previous written, phone, or in-person communication with Aden or Jenny Monheiser or their representatives about a potential landfill project in South Kansas City.

Neither Platt nor Shaw answered.

City press secretary Sherae Honeycutt responded to the email, saying the resolution will be on the committee agenda next Wednesday.

“The City’s elected officials will discuss at that time,” Honeycutt said. “Any communication on this topic at this time should come from the sponsors of the ordinance.”

KMBC 9 Investigates continues to look at all angles surrounding the landfill project.

If you have any tips you would like to share, please email investigative reporter Matt Flener at investigates@kmbc.com

he 2022 NFL season will be remembered for the Kansas City Chiefs' incredible run to the Super Bowl and the way Patrick Mahomes won the most important game of the year while half-injured.

It'll also be remembered for some of the trash talking and euphoric celebrating from Mahomes' wife, Brittany Mahomes.

She was very vocal this past year, both on social media and at the stadiums, and this angered several fans.

Brittany Mahomes even got into a war of words with Aftab Pureval, the mayor of Cincinnati, around the AFC Championship game.

Meanwhile, she has been receiving abuse via social media DMs, so it was understandable when she let all her emotions out to celebrate the Chiefs' win.

Joe Rogan mocks Patrick Mahomes' wife

The latest to taunt Brittany Mahomes is Joe Rogan, who suggested on a recent episode of his famous podcast that she wouldn't be such a Chiefs fan if the pair were to get divorced.

"Promise they keep that same energy when you get divorced," he said.

"They come after you. They come after you with that same energy."

Brittany Mahomes on dealing with the haters

In a recent interview, Brittany Mahomes spoke about how she tries to deal with all the haters she comes across.

"I had to change my phone number because people were texting me and harassing me and saying all these mean and hateful things," she said.

"It's hard because I have feelings just like they do.

"When they say things like I'm ugly and Patrick could have someone better than me, they have no idea what they're saying.

"It's always going to be a concern for any girl who's dating an NFL boyfriend ... but you just have to know that they're just there for that and so you can't let it get to you.

"It's really hard. Even when we go out girls come up to me and ask to take pictures with him and I just look the other way and let it happen. That's the healthy thing to do."

Beginning as a popup, District Biskuits opened its own brick-and-mortar location in December 2022. Beyond serving up chicken biscuit sandwiches, chef and owner Guroux Khalifa says he's passionate about using his restaurant to uplift other Black-owned businesses around Kansas City.

Guroux Khalifa had $150 to his name when he set out to serve the best biscuits Kansas City ever tasted, he shared.

“A lot of painstaking work, time, love and passion has been put into creating this amazing product. The people who really understand the value and quality of that product have stuck around and grown over the years, even when we have to close down because of COVID,” said Khalifa, the head chef and founder of District Biskuits.

District Biskuits officially opened its first brick-and-mortar location in December 2022 after years of pop-ups and catering. The restaurant, located in North Kansas City, has been highly anticipated, Khalifa said — noting that some of his customers have been around since he started District Biskuits in 2017 as a concept within Lutfi’s Fried Fish on 63rd Street.

“We had a soft opening in November, and there was nothing soft about it,” Khalifa said, laughing. “We had a line out the door and wrapped around the parking lot. The response from the community has been amazing. They’ve really embraced us.”

‘Why you mad though?’

Before the success of opening a new restaurant, Khalifa was a culinary graduate passionate about cooking and sharing food with others. He worked in restaurants across Kansas City before quickly realizing that he wanted to be his own boss, he shared.

“I started out as a private chef,” Khalifa said, noting that his time at the prestigious Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts in Atlanta prepared him as a classically-trained chef. “It was difficult because it was only me and my services. I was spread so thin, and there were no opportunities to scale.”

Feeling extreme burnout, Khalifa took a trip to the Dominican Republic. When he came back to the States, he had his epiphany: do something simple, he said.

“My mother would make biscuits growing up, and I’ve taken her process and tweaked it over the past 15 years,” Khalifa said. “… I struck a deal with [Lutfi’s Fried Fish] to operate during the hours that they weren’t open. They opened around 11 o’clock, so I served my chicken biscuits from 7 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.”

Business for District Biskuits in the beginning was extremely slow. Bored in an empty restaurant, Khalifa called into Hot 103 Jamz! to encourage the hosts to try his chicken biscuit sandwiches.

“They had a segment called ‘Why you mad though?’ and I said I was mad because you guys haven’t come and tried these chicken biscuits,” Khalifa recalled. “We were just having a conversation, and afterwards I didn’t think much about it. The next day, a flood of people started coming in.”

District Biskuits went from three customers a day, to 15, to 35, to 50 to a couple hundred customers on the weekends, Khalifa said.

“In a matter of two months, I would have a line wrapped around the building,” he said. “I had to start closing earlier because I was bleeding into the restaurant’s opening time.”

When Khalifa started popping up with District Biskuits, his focus was primarily on not letting himself walk away from the business, he recalled.

“Early on in my career, I had an issue with not following through when things weren’t working out the way I wanted them to,” Khalifa admitted. “With this particular concept, I told myself that I was not going to quit. Even if I only served one person a day, I was going to push forward. I am not going to stop.”

Moving to North Kansas City

It was clear to Khalifa that there was a strong demand for him to open a restaurant of his own.

With the COVID-19 pandemic affecting the food and service industry in 2020, he closed the Lutfi’s Fried Fish pop-up location to focus on catering, other pop-ups and consulting for restaurants.

“That’s how I stayed afloat,” Khalifa said. “This location in North KC became available to me because a friend of mine gave me a call and said that the business he had opened here wasn’t working out. I talked with some of my mentors, and we decided on the spot in November 2021.”

District Biskuits’ colorful location includes both indoor and outdoor seating. Khalifa envisions the space as a place where the community can come together for good food, good music and good drinks, he said, teasing that a cocktail menu is coming soon.

“We have a liquor license, so we will be offering brunch style-cocktails; we also have milkshakes and juices on our beverage menu,” Khalifa noted. “We’re putting a few more tables on our patio and installing our shade sails, lighting and music. We plan to host day parties on the weekends. It’ll be a nice, vibrant environment for people to have a good time.”

When customers walk into District Biskuits, they are greeted with the tagline “crafted for the culture.”

“It means that this business has been crafted for the culture of Black people, melanated people,” Khalifa explained. “It centers itself around the culture of Kansas City and what it means to be a part of this city.”

From partnering with Black-owned businesses to naming the menu items after iconic Kansas City landmarks and business, Khalifa is passionate about uplifting and celebrating his fellow entrepreneurs, he said.

“If we all help each other, we can win a lot faster,” Khalifa said. “Why rely on outside sources to build up our community when we have so many here?”

The coffee served at District Biskuits is Black Drip Coffee — a local, Black-owned coffee brand. The hot honey sauce on “The Charlie Hustle” sandwich is from Kansas City’s Mother Clucker, and the freshly ground chicken sausage is from Wiener Kitchen in Overland Park.

The most popular menu item at District Biskuits is “The Wonder,” Khalifa’s staple chicken biscuit breakfast sandwich named after the historic Wonder Bread building on Troost Ave.

But don’t ask him to pick his favorite menu item.

“People ask me that all the time, but it’s like choosing your favorite kid — you can’t!” Khalifa said, smiling. “The Wonder is our best seller. The Charlie Hustle sandwich we just introduced has become super popular. People love The Crown, which is our double smash burger. OK, if I had to choose, my personal favorite is the DB Hash; I add a little drizzle of hot honey on the top to give it a kick. Just be sure to come hungry.”

This story was originally published on Startland News, a fellow member of the KC Media Collective.