News desk with what authorities are saying right now, kevin . Tonight County District attorney 6 children dead police wont confirmelementary School Children kindergarden 5th grade35 people on the bus 23 brought to hospitalChattanooga Police bus turned on its side and hit a tree speed is a focus of their investigation. Driver cooperating hired an tomorrow with counselors and for support. Notify every Single Family but Chattanooga Police say what they are focusing on a lot is the speed of that bus and how fast it was going they say the bus driver is cooperating we hear from some of our partners in local television that bus driver has gotten an attorney tonight but is cooperating and being interviewed by police. This is a picture from much ambulances left there were 35 people on board the lion share of those people were most likely Elementary School students aging from kind garden to fifth grade weve been tracking this all day long what we know is that School District will have School Tom
Still to come. Ill bring you the Details Behind this shocking video out of johnston iowa. Involving a bus driver hitting a special needs student. This story is coming up next. Scott well have. Youre watching abc9 news this morning. Jessica rae. And scott larson. This is abc9 news is morning. Dear future, please help. The present is kind of a scary place. I have no money, no job, no clothes. I feel completely helpless. But i hear good things about you, future. Like ill have hair, and friends, Scott Jessica rae scott adlib to wrap in during the afternoon. Rain showers will begin during the afternoon and last through the overnight period. On halloween tomorrow, expect the clouds to clear out fast. Then well have mostly sunny skies and warming temperatures as we move through the weekend and 70s return for next week todays high is 55 and itll be partly cloudy and cool with rain later. Tonights low is 40 with clouds and showers. Tomorrow for halloween, well have a high of 63 with temperature
Allowed to reconsider sentences within a year of the sentencing date, without notifying the county attorney attorney general or the victims family. Sioux county attorney Thomas Kunstle had this to say today. This is sort of an unprecedented move. Undermines any closure the victims may have had. Tim the family of autumn elgersma says they plan to attend all future parole hearings so the iowa parole board is aware of the impact sapps crimes had on them and their community in general. Jenna the elgersrs family is honoring the memory of autumn by helping start a center for children who have been abused. Autumns center, will be the newest addition to the Seasons Center for Behavioral Health located in spencer iowa. Theyve just recently received a grant for just over 35 thousand dollars from the Iowa Department of Public Health to recruit child and adolescent phychiatrists within the next few weeks, Seasons Center plans on begining renovations for autumns center. Nat walking jenna today advo
Snow chance is monday, lived service from sioux city to denver. But now the company is pulling flights from sioux falls as well. Temporarily, beginning january 3rd. The company says flights will resume in april. Jessica rae iowa is about to go through a huge undertaking, a complete re vamp of the states medicaid system. Five weeks remain until the new plan is supposed to start. Insurance packets have arrived but the plans arent in place. Amanda krenz brings has an update. Iowans currently on medicaid received this packet in the mail. It tells them to choose an m co a managed care organization. There are four out ofstate mcos to choose from. Greg no other state in the country has tried to move to managed care in this compressed timeline. Greg boattenhamer of the Iowa Hospital Association says governor branstads deadline of januarty 1st to change over the states Medicaid Program is way too agressive. How do people know which of these companies to pick . Which one will include their curre
Around the state and, and talking to people. We just got a really great news that iowa has moved up to be the third best managed state in america behind only north dakota and wyoming. And we dont have the oil of north dakota or the coal they have in wyoming. So were pretty proud of the achievements that weve had. And we also have a Record Number of people employed in iowa now. Amanda mmhmm. Some big accomplishments. Lets dive right into some legislative issues. One of the things that a lot of iowans followed closely last session was the back and forth over Education Funding. Mr. Branstad yeah. Amanda the house and senate, they couldnt reach that agreement until the final hours of the session on those funding levels. They ended up settling on a 1. 25 increase in state aid and a one time cash infusion of 55. 7 Million Dollars. You later vetoed that extra money which kind of angered a lot of people. In fact, according to a Public Policy poll from over the summer that was done, 57 of iowan