Spirit this debate will not be like others. Our candidates join us remotely. After several days of confirmation hearings, miss greenfield is live from altoona. Matt breen anchors the evening news, the chief politics reporter for the Des Moines Register and ron steele is evening news anchor in waterloo. Senator joni ernst running for her second term in u. S. Senate, native of iowa answer for 23 years, normally the first woman in iowa to serve in federal office but the first female veteran elected to serve in the u. S. Senate. Teresa greenfield, raised on a small harmon soda, moved to iowa to attend college, has a background in planning and real estate and development in iowa. In 2018 she briefly ran for congress, she was in the morning with her husband. For the rules of the debate, candidates get 50 seconds to answer a question. Of the candidate is mentioned by name she will get 30 seconds to respond. The yellow light indicates 10 seconds remain. Candidates get 60 seconds for closing st
Great to be back and a special honor to be invited to introduce tom wolfe and a huge burden because how does one introduce tom wolfe . One read the economist, of course. Two weeks ago was a wonderful article on literary realism and i will quote as a way of introduction. For use tom wolfe has been lambasting the establishment for ignoring the best story around, their own country. America positively titillate with fantastic stories and get its writers ensconced in their manhattan lofts and residentss cant be bothered to look further than the ends of their noses. This week, a moment in American Literature, he wrote in one of his manifestoes on behalf of literary realism we need a battalion, a brigade of zolofts to head into the wild bizarre, heart stopping country of ours, reclaim it as literary property. The trouble turning yourself into an american is you expose yourself to being trump by reality, better sort of critics are forever lambasting tom wolfe for going over the top, using cart
Leandro, hayward, union city and fremont. It has been pretty good at the peninsula as the bands are rotating. 40s and 50s and we are getting a rather robust southerly breeze and when the front passes the wind turns northwest and cold air is moving in. There will be a stronger system coming thursday and the rain continues friday even saturday as the pulse rotates, that would be thursday with the best system. Today up to one inch of rain but look at thursday and friday, up to three inches and if that happens in sacramento you know what that will do for the mountains. We have 50s for your temperatures, what are you seeing on the roads . Highway 24 is not doing well. We had a crash at central lafayette. Kevin who operates the camera is looking for the crash but we cant find it. Look at the slow traffic though, 24 is slow from the walnut creek interchange and it will be slow until the tunnel. We had a crash in this area that has not affected traffic too much. We have a lot of fender bender
A federal regulator will be in des moines today to approve or deny the changes to the states Medicaid Program. Tse changes are supposed to happen january 1st. Yesterday, an Oversight Committee took a vote to delay the switch by six months, but the vote tied, and failed. The Committee Also questioned the companies that will oversee medicaid and heard public comments. Several dozen medicaid recipients and family members packed the meeting room and an overflow area. Nearly every patient complained ththswitch to private operation of the system is happening too fast. One activist hopes they stop the rush to managed care. T outpouring from iowa and the outcry is unprecedented and cms has never seen that and theyreretudying it cms stands for centers for medicare and medicaid services. The organizations regulators will question the four companies the state selected for the Medicaid Program. Cancer are living longer today than they did 20 years ago. Thats what a new university of iowa study fou
Also put you in eldora the judge also told humbles what happens to him after age 18 depends how he does in juvenile custody. Good behavior might mean adult probation after he turns 18. On the other hand, problems in juveveile custody could mean he would serve out his remaining prison time in iowas adult system. In an earlier hearing that move humbles to adult court, records shohumbles killed richardson in a suddede violent burst following threats made against the defendant on social media. Live in the newsroom, Dave Franzman kcrg tv9 news. In a tv9 followup. A judgdg resentenced a dubuque man to 50 years in prison for robbing a bar and shooting a Police Officer in 2009. Th was 77 year old eddie chests third senteteing. Chest took a plea agreement and was charged with robbery and the Armed Robbery at knickers saloon. Thats where he shot Dubuque Police lieutenant scott baxter. His last two sentences went a ainst that plea agreement. In court yesterday, prosecutors made a stronger case fo