Gathered in cedar rapids tonight, to plan and heal togegeer after a tragic lolo of three liveve michka kabeya, platini namputu, and dickson mandiki, all from the democratic republic of the congo, died in a crash on highway 30 near keystone early thursday morning. They were among 9 people who were traveling to work in tama in a minivan, when the iowa state patrol says it hit ice and lost control. Singing members and representativ es of the Congolese Community sang prayers and discussed Funeral Plans at Central Assembly of god church. People there say they need any help they can get, like prayer support for the other people still recovering from the crash, and donations to cover burial costs. Peter nkumu says planning for three burials at once will be daunting. Its going be a very challenging situation. Were just trying to cope with this, whahawe can do ourselves. Thats why, again, we are counting on anyone, any organization, that can help our community. These people did not have close f
Right now, Iowa City Police suspect. They say the incident nenetonightformer governor chet culver wants iowans to get involved in the debate over privatization of the states medicaid program. N tuesday, culver will hold meetings in cedar rapids and coralvilil to hear how people are being affected. Culver says the states swift move toward privatization is putting the 560thousand people who rely on medicaid, at risk. Implementation is scheduled d for march first. Some believe culver may have a congressional run in the works. The slim lead that Hillary Clinton had over Bernie Sanders in last weeks Iowa Caucuses has slimmed down even more. More. The Iowa Democratic party announced today it found counting errors in five of the 14 precincts it doublechecked. The new numbers brought sanders closer to the end. Clinton will get 49point84 percent of the delegates. And sanders with 49poioi55percent,. The Sanders Campaign says it is conducting its own review of the results. One man is behind bars
Because he suffers from a mental disorder. His attorneyiled for a competency hearing last week. A judge granted that request, and scheduled the hearing for april 4th. Police say betwell attacked krapfl while she was walking near her home backn september. They say betwell admitted to raping and killing her, because he had Nothing Better to do. He faces life in prison if convicted. Authorities are searching for two inmates who escaped from the newton correctional release center. They say Michael Amodeo and jessy foley were missing from a routine inmate count last night. Amodeo is serving a 10 year sentence, and foley is seseing a 27 year sentence on drug related charges. An operation quickfind is still in effect for 17year old leslie pettie. Cedar Rapids Police says she was last seen thursday morning at her home in the 39 hundred block of falbrook drive northeast. Shes 5 foot 9, and weighs about 130 pounds. Police a Dodge Stratus with the license plate duk 126. If you know where she is,
Make a difference, even my one email or one phone call. People are definitely feeling like we can do that again. The wednesday bus trip is still on. And while the reason for it has changed for some passengers, karen muters opinion has stayed the same. I cant understand how they are so out of touch with the families. Muters adopted nine kids who use medicaid. She says all the questions the last few months have been incredibly stressful. Muters has no idea if her kids doctors will be available under the new system. She doesnt even know which of the Care Companies will hold their plans. She wants privatization scrapped. Our ideal would be that they fix the sometime problems in the system that we have now. Rhonda, the organizer of that bus trip, says theyll likely focus on lobbying for the medicaid oversight bill. Last week it cleared committee with bipartisan support. It would give lawmakers new privatized system in iowa. If the bill passes the senate, it faces an uncnctain future in the
Early tomorrow. And its bringing a blizzard warning along with it good evening thanks for joining us. Im dave price. The snow is not expected to amount to a lot. But the winds that come with it. Could make it very difficult to see outside. Meteorologist Amber Alexander has a first look at our forecast. The Iowa Democratic party has iowa caucus night results. Those errors turned the closest candidate finish ever. Even closer. The party said today they found errors in the final results in five of over 1600 total caucus precincts. But the Democratic Party still doesnt change which candidate won. But you can see how close it is. The new results show Hillary Clinton on top with 49 point 84 percent of the state delegate equivalents. Bernie sanders had 49 point 59 percent. Some are calling for changes to how democrats caucus because of the problems and confusion from caucus night. New hampshire holds the next major contest. With its primary on tuesday. Clinton has been trailing badly to sande