Spoke at the ceremony. A sentiment echoed over and over. We begin with nbc bay area sam brock. Reporter the memorial for mayor ed lee began right at 3 00 p. M. With the presentation of the colors. Punctual like lee. He told terrible jokes. He laughed because he was trying to build enthusiasm for his jokes. Most of the time he told jokes that he could barely get through because he was laughing so hard at them himself. Reporter humor at times can push in great pain. Both were evidence in abundance this evening. The ceremony glided from stately impromptu addresses. Trust is the realm. Reporter to soulful statements about lees legacy. Wake up every day just tying to add a little value. Not try to take them down. Try to help lift them up. Reporter lees wife, anita nodded aalong as california leaders put the cultural context into place. The citys first asianamerican mayor. Marked about prejudice against the Chinese Community. China, San Francisco First Chinese american mayor, he was like a s
We walk into the hotel and they have like super bowl stuff up. Just hit me like its here. Reporter feeling when you got off the plane. I was excited. Walked to my room. Everybody had nice stuff, nice duffle bags. Im sdi waiting on that. Other than that though its been a cool experience. Reporter whats with that . Youre an underdog everywhere you go. So i had to go in there get some shoes and get some stuff to wear, so, i dont know, underdog all day. Reporter underdogc all day. He actually bought a pair of jordans size 16. Oh, boy. Brandon and lane said its tough to go to mall and find things they can buy. I guess they made out okay] n. Lane johnson they have a big game. They have to protect nick foles. Lane johnson one of the players on the podium the building behind us for super bowl Opening Night live with the birds. Brian anda5rharrie, back over to you. All right, the team sticking with that underdog theme there. Dh hkjtymn course e to do business. Jamie ducis thanks. Speaking of bu
Fiery debate. President obama gets emotional. As he announces a push for more gun control. What hes proposing. And the backlash. From critics here in iowa. Pedestrian safety. Last month an iowa state student was killed while walking to class. How the city of ames is working to make the intersection where she died safer. Reopening. A fire closed down a popular des moines restaurant this summer. When adong plans to reopen. And a look at the fresh new interior from who hd iowas High Definition leader. This is the channel 13 news at nine on fox 17 taking aim at what hes called the biggest frustration of his time in office, president obama unveiled a series of executive actions on gun control today. Good evening. Im lynn melling. Thank you for joining us tonight executive actions. Nearly all gun sellers must conduct background checks. Or risk prosecution. The plan calls for new fbi and atf agents. 500 Million Dollars for Mental Health care. And a new push to develop smart gun technology. Du
Chamber alliance. The abi. Those groups wont be enough to make this change. Itll take lawmakers to pass the plan this legislative session. Heres how it works. The governor would extend the one cent statewide sales tax another twenty years. Instead of letting it expire in 2029. Schools use that for building projects. The governor instead would give schools their current share of the nearly 400 million a year. Plus hed give them 10 million more. They could have received more than that. If lawmakers simply extended the sales tax. But the risk is. What if lawmakers didnt extend it . Schools could lose that entire funding stream. If schools did go for this new plan. Then some of the growth in the sales tax money will go to Water Quality programs. That could be an for environmental efforts until this new sales tax extension expires in 2049. Reynolds. 1730 the powerful message is School Superintendents are standing with farmers and farm gruops with that. Let swork together. Branstad. 3531 nob
Finding that driver is what police are most focused on. But its not the only thing. Of course, they want to prevent Something Like this from happening again. And tonight channel 13s Justin Surrency shows us how. Recent improvements last construction season were put in place to prevent such losses like the death of emmalee jacobs. we tried to make improvements to that intersection at lincoln way and ash and make that as safe as possible but we will have to analyze the situation. almost a month later, ames police and city officials are left with little information. it makes it difficult when we dont have an eyewitness, we dont have a vehicle descriptionpolice say numerous leads have lead nowhere. i would say well over 5060 tips have come in but most have been insignificant. but they arent without a plan for future safety its more about awareness and education and in the end we ant everyone involved so thatll be our goal. We will hand out fliers and just talk about safety, our main concer