Season many people say as the 91 the prime reform bill is why violence has gone up but one group says it is surely to cast blame Buffett need a job we know of an easy fast way to make it happen that story in just a few minutes. You re watching g.g. You use general to Anchorage Alaska is news. In the 5 o clock report with Rebecca culture. Believing they re trying to turn the tide on a growing problem for Alaska today the u.s. Attorney s Office announced a new strategy to investigate and prosecute violent crimes more efficiently as Cameron Mackintosh has details on that plant camera for back of this multi-agency initiative announced today is basically an effort to bring more collaboration between local state and federal criminal investigators and to bring tougher charges against suspects involved in violent crime through a plan puts a heavy emphasis on crimes involving guns under the new strategy and on duty federal agent will respond every shooting scene and murder scene being investig
Good afternoon and welcome to hometown Alaska I m Kathleen McCoy we re right in the thick of salmon harvest season here in Alaska tomorrow August 10th is an annual state designated day to learn about and celebrate salmon that s why we decided to invite experts on today s show to talk about how fish policy is made what science can tell us about how our salmon are doing and to explore the cultural value of salmon among Alaskan natives but of course there is salmon news tomorrow also happens to be the start of a closure in Southeast Alaska for King Salmon commercial and sport fishing it s a window into deep concern over how best to sustainably manage Chinook salmon so they continue to come back into our rivers year after year salmon is a huge topic and we certainly can t cover everything our goal is to share information so together we better understand the state of salmon in Alaska here to help us I d like to welcome our guests we have Dr Dan Rinella the senior fisheries biologist for th
Good evening further trouble probably lies ahead that s the headline of the anchorage economic development corporation s latest latest information it was presented today and in front of a sold out crowd eager to learn what encourages future holds now while the group s earlier forecast had predicted the state s recession would bottom out this year it s now expected to continue for another year but it wasn t all bad the forecast for job losses for 2017 has been revised earlier estimates had $2200.00 jobs leaving the city while it s now expected that $2100.00 jobs think which will be lost next year s losses are expected to be much fewer at just $700.00 the health care industry had a booming year when it comes to the number of jobs and it s expected to keep growing and leisure and hospitality which includes Russia and hotels is on the same track and on the negative side for people like engineers architects lawyers and accountants those field laws those fields lost 1500 jobs from 2015 to 1
To Lose. Anything everyone new information tonight about just what the Senate Republican health care bill would do for Americans the Congressional Budget Office estimates it would leave 22000000 more uninsured 520-2626 today Republican leaders revised portions of the bill aimed at the turn people from dropping health insurance and change requires a 6 month waiting period for people who let their coverage lapse for $63.00 days 5 Republicans have come out publicly against the bill and Senator Lisa Murkowski said she had to vote today she would vote No 4 of the others opposed say cuts didn t go far enough others worry about the cuts to Medicaid but Health and Human Services secretary Tom Price defended the bill saying it will bring premiums down and that the Senate s proposal brings Medicaid up every year channel to try to catch a torrent brings us details on where Alaska s congressional delegation stands on the issue Travis castle and Senate Democrats are reportedly unified in their opp
Our I.D. s. This is one of our favorite outdoor explorers and has been edited to be replayed here today. Was a good chunk short for trouble for a few years ago I got interested in a group that was cleaning up marine debris from beaches in Prince William so I volunteered and it wasn t blown away by what a rewarding experience it was to pick up trash pay plenty of time in the wilderness but this was unique because I felt like I was improving the price and if the kind of place that normally if you re way too good to ever be approved by humans unfortunately garbage is everywhere especially you know waterways so you can make a difference when you help get rid of it you feel like you re recreating something magnificent The Today Show we re talking about beach cleanup both on the wild outer coast where stuff is washing up from Japan and our own beaches here in Anchorage and we ll talk about the upcoming Creek cleanup too which is going to be starting here shortly and where we get to tend to