For many, we wont see much relief this afternoon as temperatures for some chilly friday night football festivities tonight there is another frost freeze threat late tonight saturday morning for areas east of sioux city where your temperatures will drop to near 30 degrees. Temperatures will rebound a bit better over the weekend with highs in the 60s both saturday and sunday courtesy of steady southerly winds. Eventually the 70s make a brief return next monday and tuesday with shower chances tuesday and wednesday. Wx timer 40 a special tribute to honor our nations Fallen Soldiers is on display for a short time in siouxland. That exhibit might be quite a bit different from others youve seen before. The remembering our fallen exhibit serves as a stark reminder of soldiers duties. It features more than 90 fallen nebraska soldiers depicted in personal and military photos. There are similar exhibits in 14 states. You can see the exhibit at the little red hen theatre during wakefields balloon
Allowed to reconsider sentences within a year of the sentencing date, without notifying the county attorney attorney general or the victims family. Sioux county attorney Thomas Kunstle had this to say today. This is sort of an unprecedented move. Undermines any closure the victims may have had. Tim the family of autumn elgersma says they plan to attend all future parole hearings so the iowa parole board is aware of the impact sapps crimes had on them and their community in general. Jenna the elgersrs family is honoring the memory of autumn by helping start a center for children who have been abused. Autumns center, will be the newest addition to the Seasons Center for Behavioral Health located in spencer iowa. Theyve just recently received a grant for just over 35 thousand dollars from the Iowa Department of Public Health to recruit child and adolescent phychiatrists within the next few weeks, Seasons Center plans on begining renovations for autumns center. Nat walking jenna today advo
Snow chance is monday, lived service from sioux city to denver. But now the company is pulling flights from sioux falls as well. Temporarily, beginning january 3rd. The company says flights will resume in april. Jessica rae iowa is about to go through a huge undertaking, a complete re vamp of the states medicaid system. Five weeks remain until the new plan is supposed to start. Insurance packets have arrived but the plans arent in place. Amanda krenz brings has an update. Iowans currently on medicaid received this packet in the mail. It tells them to choose an m co a managed care organization. There are four out ofstate mcos to choose from. Greg no other state in the country has tried to move to managed care in this compressed timeline. Greg boattenhamer of the Iowa Hospital Association says governor branstads deadline of januarty 1st to change over the states Medicaid Program is way too agressive. How do people know which of these companies to pick . Which one will include their curre
Who was shot 16 times by a Police Officer. Jessicicrae plus. Ill show you u w a siouxland soup kitchen is preparininto feed the homeless a traditional turkey dinner for thanksgiving. Jessica rae and. If youre not a fan of turkey. How about turkducken instead . Well show you how to make one. These stories and more. On abc9 news this morning. Jessica rae good morning and happy thanksgiving thank you for joining us. We begin this morning with protests in chicago. After dashcam video of a shooting at the hands of police was released tuesday. Reporter ryan young has more when Laquan Mcdonald was shot and killed more than a year ago his death went by with little notice. But the release of dash cam video showing how the 17 yearold was gunned down by a Police Officer has propelled his case into the national spotlight. shyrell hnson Laquan Mcdonalds uncle wgn my nephew was shot in the back and all them other places 16 times. nats 16 shots. The phrase protesters having been chanting as they call
Icy coniditions are difficult for siouxlanders to travel on the roads. This holiday morning. Plows were out and about on the snowy and icy roads. As elisa mentioned earlier, were expecting as much as three inches of snow here in the metro so make sure if you are traveling you are driving at a safe speed and be sure to clear all of your car windows of frost before you start driving. Nearly 47 million traveling today. And the president is calming fears of a potential terror attack just two weeks after those deadly terror attacks in france. President obama says its understandable to wonder if there could be a possible terror attack on the homeland. But hes assuring citizens of the us there is no credible threat on the united states. Sot obama we know of no specific and credible intelligence indicating a plot on the homeland. Despite no indication of a potential attack, an increase of Police Forces are being seen around the nation at stations. Security a reinforcement of existing security.