Gentlemen standing back there dont have to go home and tell their wives, or their kids or their husbands when the next job is going to come. Ryan by the end of this afternoon, more than 200 people spoke out for and against this controversial pipeline project. It is now in the hands of the threemember iowa utilities board. Kevin a total of 280 people signed up to speak at todays open hearing on the bakken oil pipeline. 134 were listed in favor of the project. 80 of them list an out of state address. 143 were opposed to the pipeline. Only 3 say theyre from outside iowa. 3 of the speakers saying they were neutral. The Public Comment portion of the pipeline hearing is over. But the evidentiary hearings continue until early next month. With the last hearing scheduled for thursday, december 3. With the boards final decision expected sometime in late december or early january. Kevin we asked our kcci. Com users if the pipeline should be built in iowa. So far, the vote in our unscientific poll
Time. A 16yearold girl was in the truck with him during the chase and was injured in the crash at the end. She was treated and released from Mercy Medical Center Friday afternoon. Her name is also not being released. 3 3 sioux citys city council wants to spend millions of dollars to improve access to a new pork plant in the southbridge industrial park. The council is applying for a 4 point 6 Million Dollar grant from the revitalize iowas sound economy, or rise, program. The money would be spent on signs and other street work recommended in a traffic study of the area where the seaboard triumph plant will be built. That plant will employ more than 1 thousand people when it opens in 2017. 3 3 and if youre getting sick of onelaneineachdirection traffic on northbound i29 between Singing Hills and floyd boulevard. Good news the iowa dot plans to shift the traffic to the newly rebuilt southbound lanes starting tomorrow morning. The process is expected to happen gradually throughout the week.
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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
Councilwoman rhonda capron says concerned citizens have reached out to her about the dangers of that hill. Capron says the area is a death trap. But it doesnt have to be. 3 i know that we had a hill like that on 24th street and what we did was make it a green space, so we cut it off. You cant drive over it obviously, so maybe we can do Something Like that to make it safe. Residents in the neighborhood are concerned more lives will be lost. And they want to see changes made 3 3 South Sioux City is nearing completion of a bike trail will circle the city. Work on the final phase of that trail is taking place along highway 77 near the walmart and hyvee stores. This segment. Which is a little more than a mile long. Started at 21st street and will stretch to crystal cove. Parks director gene maffit moffet says this final leg cost 650 thousand dollars to build. It will complete work on a bike trail that runs 14 miles around South Sioux City. 3 it looks like two teens accused of stealing from