Transfered each day. The pipeline path includes 18 iowa counties. Woodbury count may not be included. But that esnt mean people like electrician craig g vine arent papang attention. Infact hes one of 134 who will speak in favor of the project on thursday. I just think that it would be good for the state of iowa, its a lot of good jobs and Dakota Access has done a very good job of keeping high safety records. Its a lot safer than the railcars that which are currently used and it is good for iowa, said levine. The utilities board has identified abother 143 people speaking against the project. Including Rosemary Partridge of wall lake. Thirdparty firm hasas statatpasses the Energy Transfer has projected 50 million thousand jobs for iowans during construction. If needed, the december second. The iowa utilites board is expected to vote no later than early january. On thursday, a livestream video link of the hearing will be avaialble on our website. Siouxlandmatters dot com. Live in the stst
Voters hit the ballot yesterday. The results from siouxlands elections coming up. An increase in car thefts has sioux city on high alert and a preview of tonights Country Music awards all this morning. Jessica rae northwest iowa voters hit the polls yesterday to elect mayors and City Council Members to represent siouxland sioux city has about 47thousand registered voters. But less than 3 thousand people cast a ballot in this election. Woodbury county auditor pat gill says, those numbers werent suprising because he wasnt expecting a large turnout. But after a day of voting, it was mayor bob scott. Who was elected to another four year term after running un opposed. He collected. Two thousand. And 87 votes. Scott. Says he will not run for reelection. So during his last term. He wants to focus on creating more opportunities for unger generatitis. I think thatst the way were going to attract and keep young people in this community and weve done a bad job of that for about 10 to 12 years aro
Transitioning into a snow mix later this evening and toninit. Weather today. Its currently gathering strength in the Southern Plains and looks to deliver showers by the mid morning with t storms also possible current temperatures are in the 30s and 40s. Theres a wind blowing in from the northwest between 5 and 15 Miles Per Hour which will school. Heres susan risisier with the details. The planned career academies for norfolk senior high students will require some renovations and expansion at the high school building. At monday nights meeting the board of education approved seeking bids for renovation of the Career Education facilities. A renegotiated lease between the Norfolk Airport authority and barnstormers restaurant is on hold while the state Auditors Office completes a review of the relationship between the twtw entities. Cityty attorney clinthukei says the auditor is expected to issue the report in the next few weeks. And friday is the deadline to nominate an individual, organiz
Im tim seaman jenna and im Jenna Rehnstrom the man and woman involved in a bad car crash with a stolen car this afternoon. Have died from their injuries. Tim witnesses say the car went airborne on 25th street as it flew over a steep hill. We have more details tonight in our top story. Jenna heres what the car looked like when it finally stopped after hitting a tree. The red nissan altima. That was reported stollen last thursday. Flipped on its top after striking two other cars. The accident happened near the corner of 25th and morgan streets on the northside. The 34yearold driver and his 28 yearold female passager had to be cut out of the car and were rushed to the hospital. Police say witnesses report seeing the car driving very fast down 25th street when it rammed the front of an suv that was backing out of a driveway. Sgt. Scott hattig, scpd says, there was no pursuit we did have witnesses who saw the vehicle come up over the hill they went as far to say that it caught air, was airb
Airlines plane onboard a Spirit Airlines p pne continues to escalade after seven passengers were kicked off the plane over a disagreement about seat assignments. Or was it racial discrimination. Heres abcs Pierre Thomas you are watching a confrontation which ends with a group papaengersall black being removed from this commercial jet. Some those kicked off are crying racism. Wright sot im really humiliated, just for the simple fact that, you know, you hear about this stuff happening in america, you know discriminationissues. But was it really happened is in dispute. Police say they were called after an argument broke out over a double booked seat. Nats an African American male passenger apparently was frustrated. And some witnesses say a white Flight Attendant considered at lelet one in the group a threat. Willie french, passenger the stewardess got a little nervous and they wanted him to leave the plane. But while harsh words clearly were exchanged, other passengers were confused gges