Morning. Its the first of 5 stops in western iowa. Fiorinas husband frank is joining his wife on the campaign trail. Its the first time hes made a western iowa appearance. Fiorina took several questions during the hour long event, including how she plans to hold washingtonaccountable if electete as for as s tuesdays debate where fiorina said quote obama care isnt helping anyone. We asked the candidate to clariffy her comment. The question is how much better could we do for people. Are we really helping people when we throw them into medicade and fewer and fewer doctors are accepgting medacade paymenst. The truth is how much better cocod we be doing for r people and theswer is a lot better, said carly fiorina. If elected, the former Hewlett Packard ceo said shell push for a zero based budget. Meaning every lineitem in the budget would be scrutinized, not just proposed increases. Its something that Tami Chrisman of sgt bluff says makes sense. Shes a ceo, this is the deal. Shes nono doubl
Now the Company Bakken pipeline. Dakota access, l lc. Has mentioned that the 3 point 78 investment will and 12 thousand jobs during construction. Of hours of labor during the construction phase from all they also stated that the pipeline will create millions in state revenue during the construction 100Million Dollars in sales and income tax. Says the pipeline will generate roughly 55 Million Dollars annually in property tax. Tim finding a way to fill a growing gap in the siouxland skilled work force, brought governors from the three Siouxland States to South Sioux City today for the 14th tristate governors conference. Nebraska governor pete ricketts, who attended for the first time. Said work force concerns rank as the biggest barrier keeping business from coming to siouxland. Todays gathering gave governors the opportunity to share and learn about best practices not only from each other but also Business Leaders on hand. The governors say its important that future workers understand w
The update. Jenna fred is back inside. And has an update on what we should expect. Tim fred fred up to 1of slushy, sloppy accumulation will be possible tonight. After midnight, the precipitation will end, but the wind will not. Here is a look at the storm reports for today. Jenna todays storms caused problems afternoon afafr lightning struck a me. Authorities say thatightning hit the chimney of this home on the 4900 block of morningside avenue around 1 30 this afternoon. Two people were home at the time the incident happened however, they were able to get out of the home ok. The home did suffer minor smoke damage to the chimney and attic area of the home. Tim over 11 thousand people in the sioux city metro were without power briefly today after some problems with a local sub station. Officials with mid American Energy say that the outage only lasted about 4 minutes right around 11 this morninin the company y ys that the outage occured at a sub station where crews were already working,
Oclock. Clinton will speak to a crowd at s. T. Morrison park. Then she heads off to grinnell for another town hall at 6 45 tonight. Both events are open to the public. On the republican side, Ohio Governor john kasich is also in eastern iowa today. Hes scheduled to speak any mjinute now at Loras College in dubuque in a recent wall street journal nbc poll kasich has 3 percent support among republican primary voters. And heres a live look this midday at our city cam. Our unusually warm november weather continues today with plenty of sunshine to go around. First, meteorologis t Justin Gehrts has your first alert forecast, justin. Another mild afternoon is ahead of us with highs pretty close to 70. Watch out for patches of fog late tonight into tomorrow morning. Well start tomorrow off mild with lows near 50, climbing back into the lower 70s during the afternoon after any fog lifts. Showers will move in thursday afternoon, with most of our rain falling thursday night. Itll move out early f
3 3 todays weather to blame for a fire call in morningside earlier this afternoon. Lightning struck the chimney of a home in the 49 hundred block of morningside avenue at around 1 30 this afternoon. Fire crews responded after the homeowner reported smoke in her attic. They found damage to the chimney and some minor scorch marks to the top of the home. A woman and her son were home at the time. But were not injured. 3 3 and in western nebraska. Theyve seen their first recorded snowfall of 2015 out of this storm system thats now moving through siouxland. This video is from north platte, nebraska. While they saw some heavy, wet snow. Parts of southwest nebraska, northeast colorado and northwest kansas were included in a blizzard warning today. Thankfully, it doesnt look like were not going to see those conditions in siouxland just yet. 3 3 despite the rainy and miserable conditions outside for most of the day. Today is veterans day. Sioux citys Hyvee Grocery stores got the days celebratio