High 5359 winds w 515 bruce and beth. Weve received a number of calls and emails about traffic issues and even more semi rollovers due to the wind. Remember, whenever you see news happening, call newsline nine at 319 3659999. You can n so send pictures and videos to newsroom at kcrg dot com. The flu virus is spreading throughout iowa. The centersrsor Disease Control lists iowa as one of 12 states that have widespread flu activity. In midjanuary, iowas flu activity was classified as rrional, color. But if we page forward a week, iowa jumped to widespread flu activity, indicated by the brown color. And if we page forward to the most recent wewe data is available, you can see more states are also seeing widespread flu activity. Kcrgtv nines Iowa City Bureau chief mark cason joins us live. Mark, this is ususlly the time year when we start t thinking that the flu season is almost over. A little bit of later season this year. And experts say we are still not at thth peak. But there is some g
Reality of a life lost. Little bit earlier this afternoon. Marcus mcintosh. Stacey new information in an overnight chase where Des Moines Police used a k9 to catch a man. It started before 3 00 in the morning south of downtown. The pursuit lasted nearly a half hour. It finally ended when the man ditched his vehicle and tried to run. The k9 caught the man at southeast 4th and mlk. 37yearold shaun phelan of des moines was wanted by the atf on a warrant of felon in possession he also faces charges from the chase. New at 5 00 a 28yearold man , faces 16 charges in connection with a chase on interstate80 early this morning. The iowa state patrol says James Earl Overton took off when a trooper tried to stop him. Troopers say at one point overton was driving on the wrong side of the interstate. Overton started running on foot after a trooper performed a pit maneuver on his car. He was arrested and taken to the polk county jail. Steve new information about those toilet paper bandits. Urbandale
One of the lessons of the last decade if it has to become pulled with a significant force on the ground. It depends on what your goal is. If youre all is to degrade urgent organization or terrorist group im a drug can be useful with the caveat that of course is very government you have to partner with saying it places a lot of political pressure because it is not popular with the people, but it is still a very useful tool integrating those organizations. Degrading and containing. That is exactly right. That is the problem with the free work when applied in syria because the president has said not only degrade, but destroyed and that goes far beyond anything he has achieved with the same framework in yemen or smalley have. Mary. I agree. Airstrikes are really an important tool and i dont think anybody believes airstrikes should be gotten rid of or drones should be gotten rid of. On its own, attrition will not deal with an insurgency. Most of these countries, that is what we are dealing
Be able to match the states with National Priorities that will be funded by our Congress Persons and also the local communities have spent so much time and effort, like davenport and burlington, to be able to create jobs on their own. Who knows jobs the best but the authorities, the City Councils . They know where the jobs are. The communities are that need it. They noa know know what theye do to get those jobs to become a reality in their community. State government is going to be provide refreshing new dollars instead of one Agency Getting it. Be disbursed to four Economic Development authorities with their own board of directors, appointed by the governor, to sit for three years. They will create the thertunities and identify match between our state investment and the local priorities. Senator, thank you. Governor branstad, 45 seconds rebuttal. Well, first of all, obviously my opponent doesnt know whats going on in illinois, because have the secondhighest Employment Unemployment in
Good evening, and welcome to iowa. Gton, tonight marks the second of three debates in the race for Iowa Governor. To bring it to you with our partners, the andington hawkeye newspaper the greater burlington partnership. Incumbentxt hour, Governor Terry and jack hatch, his democratic challenge, will chance questions from our panelists. Kenneth, danielle, and the managing editor of the hawk cay, dale allison. Getting questions from you, our viewers, and readers, through twitter and facebook, live throughout this program. Use the hashtag iowagovernordebate. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome republic Governor Terry and Democratic State senator jack hatch. [applause] the overall theme, if you will, economy. S on the from jobs to job creation to infrastructure. On jobs. Topic will be in this, we will talk about job insensitives, like those used to build the fertilizer plant being built not here, and the minimum wage. We begin with jobs. Job creation and sustainment is a very big political