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What a weekend to enjoy outdoors! Friday brings one more day in the 40s. But another big warmup is waiting for us this weekend -- up to the mid-60s for southern Minnesota! Check out the weekend forecast on Updraft.
 
Family of a Minnesota native killed in a Russian attack says he was stranded, looking for food in Ukraine

Jimmy Hill, 68, who's from Eveleth, Minn., became stranded in Chernihiv, a city north of Kyiv after taking his partner there for medical treatment.

Two days before the attack, Hill took his partner Iryna for multiple sclerosis treatment. They soon became stranded in a hospital in Chernihiv, about two hours from the Ukrainian capital.

“The last message I got from my brother said that the bombing was intensive, and the food was almost gone,” said his sister Katya Hill of Pittsburgh.

Hill said her brother was out looking for food when he was killed. In a message posted to Twitter on Wednesday, the U.S. embassy in Kyiv said that Russian forces “shot and killed 10 people standing in line for bread in Chernihiv.”
 
How long COVID has upended this 12-year-old's life

Anna Burt has the same interests as most other 12-year-olds. “Arts and crafts. I like animals. I like hanging out with my family. I like playing video games."

But beneath the surface of her wide smile, Anna said that since she contracted COVID-19 in the fall of 2020, things haven't been the same for her body.

The fatigue and severe abdominal pain from the virus never went away. 

"Even though it looks like I'm normal. I'm still always in pain."

It's rare for kids to experience long COVID for as long as Anna has, says her doctor Bazak Sharon at M Health Fairview. But her symptoms are common among people who have long COVID. And with some estimates suggesting that around 20 percent of the population will have lingering symptoms after they're over the worst of the virus, he only expects to see more cases like Anna’s.  

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What else we're watching:
Equity issues are at the center of strike discussions in Minneapolis. The Minneapolis NAACP this week called on the city’s public school district to raise wages for Education Support Professionals. They also asked the union to put more protections from layoffs in its contract for teachers of color. Our education reporter Elizabeth Shockman explains some of the equity issues at stake in the ongoing strike in Minneapolis. 

By the end of this century, we could see 55 fewer days with snow here in Minnesota. That's according to a new study from climate scientists at the University of Minnesota. Researchers project winters could get another 6.5 degrees warmer by 2100,  and our summers will be 7 degrees warmer than their 20th century average. That’s a Minnesota climate that looks and feels very different from today. 
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