First, meteorologis t kaj omara has your first alert forecast, kaj. You need to get out and enjoy today. Seriously. Well have upper 30s in our northern areas, with lower and middle 40s the farther south you go. Tonight, a cold front approaches with limited moisture, but may be able to squeeze out some light, scattered rain or snow. None of this should cause an issue. Some scattered flurries are possible tomorrow as colder air starts to make inroads into the region with slowly falling temperatures. On saturday, temperatures will continue to fall with a powerful second surge of arctic air. This will likely generate some snow in the area on saturday night with increasing wind and dropping temperatures. Wind chills on sunday morning continue to look dangerous with 25 to 35 chills common. Some areas in Northern Iowa may experience wind chills around 40. This is dangerous for both humans and animals pets, and you need to ensure you have adequate shelter in place. Highs on sunday a smaller ca
Disparity. Johnson countys program is called ladders, and it started last school year. Through that program and others many are working to make sure kids have a bright future. Nats of dancing its not hard to find happy kids at the dream center. Here at the dream center we have homework support, we have mentoring, we have a performing artscademy. Frederick newell, who started the nonprofit, says its all about education and giving youth more opportunities. We are creating programs here that kind of help with making sure people dont get involved in the system. His organization isnt the only one striving to help kids. The ladders program is a team effort in Johnson County that includes law enforcement, the school l district, the Juvenile Court system and the county. It focuses on the offense of disorderly conduct, which often comes with fighting. Instead of getting charged kids go through the program, which includes a Mental Health evaluation, Community Service and a writing assignment to
February first. Just this week, republicans jeb bush, mike huckabee, rick santorum, and donald trump have campaigned in eastern iowa. And democrats Hillary Clintonon and Martin Omalley have also been here. But almost every time a candidate visits, it can put an added strain on local Law Enforcement. Police departments often staff candidate events to make sure the public and the candidate are safe. As kcrgtv9s Iowa City Bureau chief mark carlson reports, the candidate visits can challenge local departments resources. Over the course of the next couple of weeks many candidates will be stopping through iowa city, and beyond. Just next week Hillary Clinton will be here and the week after so too will donald trump two candidates that require lots of security. We have to maintain our current Staffing Levels for the streets and the neighborhoods. For the Iowa City Police department that means they have to call in extra officers who are paid overtime to protect a candidate and the public. But t
Said its not only about the Legislature Making much funding, but fashion. Branstad 13 19 i hope the legislature will make an early decision on state aid and not spend the whole session fighting over it. And lawmakers agree, schools districts want to know as soon as possible how much money they have to work with. Kaufmann 18 56 i think getting Education Funding done earlyis the key to this session. Amanda tag 31 54 even though an exact number or percentage has not been decided and wont be for a little while, there is agreement among these lawmakers they cannot wait until the end of the sssion to make a decision on Education Funding. From the statehouse, amanda krenz, local 5 news, we are iowa. Stephanie ots it was a historic day for the state as the first female was sworn in as speaker of the iowa house of represenaitives. Stephanie clear lakes Linda Upmeyer will be the first female to hold the position. The republican upmeyer replaces Kraig Paulson who served since twentyeleven. Upmeye
Tonight, a cold front approaches with limited moisture, but may be able to squeeze out some light, scattered rain or snow. None of this should cause an issue. Some scattered flurries are possible tomorrow as colder air starts to make inroads into the region with slowly falling temperatures. On saturday, temperatures will continue to fall with a powerful second surge of arctic air. This will likely generate some snow in the area on saturday night with increasing wind and dropping temperatures. Wind chills on sunday morning continue to look dangerous with 25 to 35 chills common. Some areas in Northern Iowa may experience wind chills around 40. This is dangerous for both humans and animals pets, and you need to ensure you have adequate shelter in place. Highs on sunday wont break zero. A smaller cast of republican president ial candidates is meeting tonight for another debate. When they take the stage tonight in south carolina, it will be the last time before the Iowa Caucuses on february