Good evening and thank you u r joining us tonight good evening and thank you for joining us tonight im tim seaman. Jenna rehnstrom has the night off. Many folks have childhood memories of spending time at the city pool. But as costslimb and attendence drops. Sioux city officials are facing a tough balancing act. A special committee wants to close 2 pools after next season. Tonight tuesday users got one last chance to speak out on the issue. Last month a special Pools Committee unananously supportsts a plan to close cook and leeds pools after 2016. With leif erikson and lewis pools eventually closing as well. Building splash pads and a new Regional Water park are the alternatives. The commitees final report will be presented to city council for consideration but not before final 4 people spoke at tonights meeting. And all supported changes. Times are changing and i take my kids, between 9 and 16, we take our kids out of town to go do stuff. Please im begging the city council give us rea
Been about 30 have been since noon today. Officer mcclure those accidents cause serious injuries, but he cannot express enough how serious these conditions can be and to not risk it if you dont have to and to check your tires and to make sure that withstand these circumstances. Reporting live in sioux city, bria bell abc 9 news. Tim thanks for that report bria jenna the timing of the snow made for a bad situation for some busses trying to get kids home from school. A parent took this vodeo of a bus stuck at north high school. You can see a car start to lose control as it comes down the hill. And runs right into the stranded bus. We dont know of any injuries, but we have heard multiple reports of kids that got home hours laters than tim this afternoon, Woodbury County put a tow ban in effect, meaning cars that get stranded will have to stay there until at least tomorrow. Hills around town wererespecially tricky, and i29 and Lewis Boulavard were backed up for a good part of the late afte
And mastermind attacks on the which claimed the people. 28 yearold adelhamid abaaoud, is coordinater of this morning, two suspects who belgium the day after the shooting are being held on terrorism charges. Five others who were arrested on suspicioun have been released jessica rae in the us, the house of representative is receiving a classified briefing g about those paris tacks. Ononof the attackers was carrying a aake syrian passport sparking fears in the us about the refugee crisis. So far half of this nations governorhave vowed not to take any syrian refugees. Its a movement frustrating thats present obama and gaining speed across the us. Led by republican governors. Sot obama the people who are fleeing syria are the most harmed by terrorism. Since the start of the civil war in syria, the us has taken 21 hundred refugees. But thousands expected next year. The state department s ss refugees are the most highly vetted and d dnot pose a real threat. Its believed the isis terrorists in
Safety. Fred is talking about heavy snow totals. Jenna and we have some pictures from todays storms. This picture comes to us from looking at a arnolds park. This is a before emmetsburg. Sending this in barb. And finally. Christine snapped a picture in cherokee for us. This was from earlier in the day. So more snow has accumulated since than. Tim were switching seasons a bit now for an update on the future for a couple of sioux citys public swimming pools. A Public Meeting is coming up on december first. To give your input on the plan to close a couple pools after next season. The proposal is to close cook and leeds pools after next summer. Eventually, lief erikson will also close and lewis will be replaced center. Eric griffith, recreation kind of the misconception i hear from everybody is wild water west in looking at a family similar to riverside, version of riverside. Tim if you want to voice your opinion about the future of the pools, again the Public Meeting is december first in
Project in downtown sioux city. That was chosen to receive part of an 8 million grant from the Iowa Economic Development board. Next, the project must secure a 2 Million Dollar pledge from Woodbury County in order to become a reality. The 2 Million Dollar pledge from the city. Will be distributed over a so far. One pointfive million committed to the project from the if all goes as planned. The ag open for business beginning of 2017. Deborah souverain abc 9 news tim on cam a close call for in a single vehicle accident in downtown sioux city monday tonight. They were headed north on nebraska street when the pickup they were in went out of control careening through a parking lot fence and over a retaining wall before running headon into a concreate wall. Two men believed to be in thier twenties had to be pulled from the wreckage by firefighters. Both were taken to Mercy Medical with non life threatening injuries. It could have been much worse. A post from the chain link fence speared the