This project like she has been a partner in so many other things. The Vice President has done she has a deep appreciation for the history of the country. She has written great childrens history and adult history. And the Vice President wrote a wonderful book on speakers of serving inhen he was the house and we were lucky to have her come and visit with senators about her groundbreaking book on james madison. Member ofcheney was a the house, he told me that he and others founded the Dennis Thatcher society because mrs. Cheney was the chairman of the National Endowment for humanities and in the tradition of Dennis Thatcher, they thought they would band together to see what it was i to have a spouse of the more powerful job than they had but they have been great partners and so, when mrs. Cheney said that she thought the had trulyhrens captured the character of the Vice President when she and the Vice President got to see the bust for the first time, that was probably the most important i
President cheney and his loved ones as we receive inspiration from his contributions, remind us that with your power, we are Strong Enough to overcome the difficulties that trouble our nation and world. Lord, strengthen our commitment o you and country by turning ur thoughts toward hope, our hearts toward justice, and our hands toward works of peace. We pray in your sovereign name, amen. Please be seated. Ladies and gentlemen, the chairman of the Senate Committee on rules and administration, roy blunt. Hon. Blunt it is great to be part of this presentation, welcoming Vice President cheney to the capital as part of the collection of the senate started in 1885. 130 years ago, the senate decided it would be appropriate to recognize the Vice President , principally to recognize the Vice President in his job as president of the senate and certainly to get to recognize a person who spent a lot of time in both the house and senate as Vice President and before the 46th Vice President of the Un
With northwest wind of 1020 mph, should create wind chills in the 20s for the entire day. Friday still looks to be the coolest day with upper 20s to lower 30s common. A warming trend will be felt this weekend with highs on saturday into the middle 30s, with middle and even upper 40s likely on sunday afternoon. As early as sunday evening, some showers will be possible, which should last into early monday morning. Next week remains unsettled with periodic rain chances and highs generally into the 40s. Today mostly cloudy high 3036 winds nw 1020 alo 31 dbq 30 iow 33 tonight partly cloudy low 1824 winds w 515 alo 19 dbq 19 iow 21 tomorrow partly cloudy high 2733 winds w 1525 alo 30 dbq 29 iow 30 tomorrow night clearing cool low 1521 winds nw 515 alo 14 dbq 15 iow 18 thanks kaj. Family and friends for a waterloo teen plan to come together today to honor his life. Authorities found moe seds body in the cedar river a week and a half ago. Sed wouldve turned 19 earlier this week. He disappeared
On the democratic side, Hillary Clinton made two stops in iowa yesterday. She held a town hall meeting in iowa city yesterday afternoon. During her stop, she addressed the fight against terrorism. She attacked her republicans opponents, claiming they are targeting all muslims as terrorists. From there, she went to mason city for a town hall meeting. One supporter in the crowd said her father was supporting donald trump in the election. So mrs. Clinton recorded a message to try and get him to change his mind. Hi sean im here with your daughter. I hope you can see, i dont have horns and i really do hope as this election goes on youll listen to your daughter. Thanks bye. A recent Quinnipiac University poll shows clinton currently leads vermont senator Bernie Sanders by double digits in iowa. Meteorologist britley ritz has your first alert forecast, britley. It is definitely starting to there. Highs are expected to only top out into the middle 30s this afternoon. Winds today will still be
Right noww city workerrare preparing to keep roads clean as the snow storm heads in to eastern iowa. Kcrgtv9s Dave Franzman is in our newsroom. Da, what are the city crews using to keep drivers sfe . Anybodydywho looks outside can see theres nothing to plow yet. But theres certainly a lot of activity at the citys public works building as cree get the plowsseady to go cedar rapids has approximately 90 vehicles equipped to push snow some of the vehicles getting loaded with salt and sand has other work scheeuled for today. But that was before the forecast. That work, including some road construction, was put on hold as the vehicles returned to get reconfigured to plow snow. The first snow of thhseason isnt usually a big event although the forecast says this will be an exception. In any event, crews are ready and the plan is in place. Were very prepared for this event a first event we dont have brokeedown poiecessf equument and we hhe all the material ready to go so get the staff to stay o