Looking into a racist comment that someone carved into campus property. President Bruce Harreld says they found it in a bathroom in the spencece labororories which contains faculty offices and research labs. He says crews immediately sanded down the bathroom door to remove the comment. Harreld told students, faculty, staff that quote the act is o oensive to our community and will not be tolerated. Late last year, an assistant professor put this statue resembling a kkk member on the pentacrest. The professor said it was meant as a protest to the violence against black people. But some students found it offensive and authoritieremoved it. Today voters in black haw county will make the final decisions on some key city elections. They will choose mayors in waterloo and cedar falls. Councilman quentin hart and former mayor tim hurley are both vying for the seat in waterloo. And mayor jon n ews and businessman jim brown will crews recently announced plans to step down and urged people to vo
Christmas decorations out have a good day today windy, scattered flurries s gh 3238 winds sw 1525 alolo35 dbq 37 iow 37tonight chance of flurries low 2531 winds w 1020 alo 28 dbq 28 iow 29tomorrow a waterloo family is back in their home this morning after a close call with high Carbon Monoxide levels in their home. Late saturday night, two Carbon Monoxide alarms went off in the rental home at 1732 mulberry street in waterloo. At first, all four members of the family thought it was just a failing battery. But when the alarm wouldnt quit, they called 9 11. The Fire Department measured 74 partsper million of Carbon Dioxide in jari engles home. Normal indoor air should be 10 or below. A rustedout exhaust pipe from thfurnace was causing the odorless, colorless and deadly into the home. Engle said sattday night she had a splitting headache and figured it was a migraine. Then the co detector started beeping. They saved out lives. If it wasnt for them. Weve probably be dead to be very honest e
Russia remain at odds over assads role in syria, president obama says its possible russia could change its position in syrias civil war. For him to simply get bogged down in an inclusive and paralyzing civil conflict, is not the outcome he is looking for. President obama is in paris f fr a 2week climme change conference. Well have more from the conference coming up in our next half hour. Today secretary of state john kerry is expected to talk about turkeys shooting down of a russian plane over syria. He left the paris Climate Conference to meet with other Foreign Ministers in brussels this morning. Secretary kerry will be overseas for meetings in 4 Different Countries through thursday. The white house wants to assure states across the countryrybout the safety of resettling Syrian Refugees. All 50 governors, saying that upon request, the state department of the refugees settled in their states this year. This comes after several governors, including iowas Terry Branstad, said they would