Coming up, we will let you know when we will also see a huge warmup. Anytime, anywhere, awardwinning coverage you can count on, this is abc 13 news. Danner there is a huge search going on in the blacksburg area tonight for a missing teenager who Police Believe is in danger. This is 13yearold nichole this is 13yearold nichole lovell. She disappeared from her apartment some time between midnight and 7 00 this morning. Her mom tells us she doesnt have some very important medication with her. When nichole was 10 months old she had a liver transplant and he has to take antirejection meds twice a day. She thinks the teen climbed out of her bedroom window early this morning with water bottoms and a minion blanket but not her medicine. So she already missed a dose at this point. At this point we are still we dont know if there is a runaway situation or foul play involved. We are asking for anybody with please contact us with anything they might possibly have. Anything can help us at that point
So the community is now lending a helping hand. Hand. Its a joint effort between Cedar Rapids Police and a new task force. Fox 28 News Reporter dora miller tells us how these new teams plan to work together. Together. In this connects against crime report. Report. The common denominator here is violence, so the plan is to attack it from all angles. This time, one group is addressing violence and the other is finding the root cause of it. It. We could say were like other communities because that is true, other communities around the country are also seeing incidents of gun violence on the rise, that might make us feel better, but it doesnt solve the problem. So police and the community are joining forces. The Police Community action team or pcat dressed in blues handling violence on the streets. Streets. They will focus on identifying crime trends and also address quality of life issues. The other out of public view but taking another approach. Approach. There will be individuals who ta
Investigation earlier on. Should the investigation lead to a felony crime, and that it will fall under jurisdiction of reno police. Both reno police and the washoe news4 they have not been contacted to investigate. The water crisis continues to be a nightmare for residents in michigan. As thousands of bottles of being delivered, several them. Lead poisoning can be crippling to the Mental Development of young children. Evidence shows lead may have been poised in the water and went for more than a year but a state of emergency was declared until just three weeks ago. The situation is being called a National Disgrace but this has happened in other American Cities before. Terry andry asks how safe is our Drinking Water. Talk about an issue of trust, you trust that when you turn on your tap water is clean and free of contaminants. Providing clean Drinking Water is raymonds job. Hes the supervisor for the truckee meadows water authority. What happened dashcam what happened in flint happen he
3 bill we begin this 3 morning with an update to a story we have been following on news 4. A longstanding lawsuit over the splitting of reno and truckee meadows Fire Agencies is now settled. The lawsuit was filed in september of 2014 by the city over unresolved costs from the 2012 deconsolidation of the agencies. So, now that things are settled what does that mean for each side. Under the settlement, both sides have agreed to drop Financial Claims against the other. And the district will pay back Workers Compensation money it began withholding when reno filed the suit. In the end, truckee meadows will pay more workers comp. Plus interest to the city of reno. During yesterdays meeting. Mayor Hillary Schieve actually brought up the possibility of consolidating the agencies again. Heres what truckee meadows fire deputy chief tim leighton had to say about that. 3 whether its my thoughts or someone elses thoughts, once again its up the elected officials to set policy for both organizations
You think the source is . And i just to the extent that you can say time and date and if you will, accountable individual who you think is the Decision Maker or the impediment, i would like that answer as succinctly as possible. Miss buller . In my case its very easy to pinpoint the time and the person. The passage of the act mandating the restrictive reporting was the impetus. The person was the general counsel. Basically, he has taken the opportunity to interpret the act to impede our access. Mr. Elkins . In my case, you know, i have two agencies that i oversee, the csb and Environmental Protection agency. In both cases, i have to say that issues relative to access starts at the top with a clear message from the top that access will be granted, it will be granted. To the extent that there is a muddled message or the message is not clear, you end up in situations that we have here today. Some of the on the csb side of the house, the issues started back in 2010, 2011. On the epa side o