Success after graduation. Jenna and now to the race for president. Tim time is slipping away as the field could narrow further following saturdays republican primary in South Carolina. Jenna and all the candidatesrepub licans and democrats are hitting Party Loyalists with their message. Heres abcs lana zak sanders we have come along way here in South Carolina. I think we are going to surprise people here on election day. cheers it was back to their bases for republicans and democrats on the campaign trail. Sot Bernie Sanders the top 1 10th of 1 owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 democrats Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton were talking about Socio Economic issues sot Hillary Clinton the work that each and every one of your organizations do is in furtherance of civil rights and Economic Justice and social justice and political participation. Republicans were focusing on the military. Sot jeb bush as president you can talk a good game . Every word is listened to . If you dont ha
If they need help then, better to have the help there then not need it, to not have the help and to need it. The bill would require the home team at High School Varsity games to provide a licensed athletic trainer to assess concussions and other injuries. The goal of this bill is to increase quality of injury assesments by using professional medical providers to decrease the number of lifelong debilitating injury. The estimated cost for these trainers is between 2thousand to 5thousand dollars annuallymoney that would come from a proposed increase in state school funding. The superintendent at westwood thinks that that number may actually be a little higher. Theres gonna be high demand for those people, so cost is going to go up. I think its going to end up being a lot higher than that. The cost however is not the only thing to consider but also the availability. Its difficult, the cost is high and the availabilty of certified people that could come down and take care of our athletes an
Coming up this morning on abc9 news. Iowa lawmakers are debating a speed increase on state highways. Details are up ahead concerns rise over the upcoming changes to iowas medicaid program. Well head to the state house later this morning. Plus. Hundreds of siouxland women came together for a special conference. Including our own Jenna Rehnstrom these stories and more. On abc9 news this morning. Lukas good morning and thanks for joining us this wednesday morning. Im lukas voss. Lawmakers in des moines are considering bumping up speeds on state highways. The change would increase the speed from 55 to 65 Miles Per Hour on two lane highways throughout iowa. But not everyone agrees. Abc9 News Reporter jess plue has more on the pros and cons of the potential increase. If all the roads were like this, then yes, speeds could be a little higher, but Woodbury County these roads, says officer todd wingert. The roads officer todd wingert is talking about are twolane highways in iowa. On tuesday, a
Jenna a sioux city west high graduate is pushing back against donald trump. As the campaign gets ready to use his high school for a Campaign Stop next week. Tim abc9s bria bell tells us how that movement is gaining momentum. Bria Franciso Valadez started a petition against trumps visit to west high on wednesday that already has over 11hundred signatures. But its not just about the republican president al candidate, but, they say, the opportunity to get people involved in national politics. Bria bell donald trump is no stranger to controversy. But when it was announced that the republican candidate for president was coming to sioux city. Where he would be speaking didnt sit well with francisco valadaz hes influencing a lot of people to hate certain groups, certain groups of people, said valadez. Trump is scheduled for a Campaign Stop tuesday at west high school. Francisco and his family are concerned as to what kind of message that sends to students. They say trump is a bully and incite
Gets labeled depending on its origin. Common practice in the u. S. For quite some time. Now however the World Trade Organization is enforcing tariffs on u. S products in reponse to the law. Something local pork producers think is a big problem. Sot anytime they are going to impose tariffs on our product its going to hurt us in the long run. Its going to hurt everybody in this local area. It cost the u. S. Livestock industry billions of dollars to implement labeling laws. Trade agreements with two of its largest export partner. Mexico and canada were violated and the laws had no effect on price or demand. Canda and mexico can impose more than 1 billion dollars of retaliatory tariffs and this is the fourth time the wto said that cool violates trade obligations. Sot every meeting wie discuss this. Basically nothing got done. Which is pretty frustrating because we knew we were going to didnt get it repealed. Nats hogs and farmers are not just concerned about the price of the pork itself. B