Interviewed by police. Morales Attorney Says after his client was read his miranda rights, he barely nodded his head. Attorney peter tenny claims his client made no verbal statement, and was completely silent. Tenny says that is insufficient to satisfy the burden of a valid, voluntary miranda waiver. An estherville, iowa, man says he wont seek a change of venue in his murder trial. Lee christensen is charged with 1st degree murder in thomas bortvits death back in june. Bortvits family reported him missing on june 6th. The 19yearolds body was found the next day in a rural part of emmet county. The day after that, christensen was arrested at the minneapolis airport. Christensens trial was orginally set for today. That trial was delayed over concerns about a potential conflict of interest regarding the attorney representing christensen and members of his family. Transportation Security Administration Officials Say they found a loaded firearm at the sioux gateway airport. The weapon was fo
Hoping that not only can we maintain where they are at but elevate them to a higher level, ys reynolds. The Governors Office says about 25 percent of the states third graders arart reading at their grade levelel thisisrogram is to help ththe students who are struggling. What we want to encourage them to do is enter their child into the Summer Reading program so we can get them to the level they need to be so we arent passing them on unprepared and setting them up for failure and its about making sure our kids our successful and they can compete, says reynolds. Several School Districts in siouxland have signed up for the program, including sioux city. A former Storm Lake City Council member announced she will run for a seat in the iowa legislature. Sarah huddleston served three terms as a Council Member in storm lake. She was appointed by governor tom vilsack as a commissioner for the Latino Affairs commission under the department of human district 11, which includes buena vista and sac
He was accused of pulling out a machetetype knife during a disturbance at the Super Walmart on floyd boulevard. Wanatee was charged with assault while displaying a dangerous weapon. He still hasnt been sentenced in that case. Wanatee was also give credit for time her served inj prison prior to his conviction. That also reduced the time he spent behind bars. While serving his sentence, wanatee was placed on work release, and parole, and violated both. matt thanks tiffany. While the temperatures may be nice, the wind not so much. matt chief meteorologis t ron demers joins us now to tell us more about the wind advisory in most of siouxland. Weather adlib high wind warning for holt county from until noon friday wind advisory for most of siouxland weather reaching the 60s out in oneill and the 40s and 50 for most of the rest of us. Even more warming will be coming our way on friday but it will be at the expense of having to put up with very gusty winds. The cold front bringing that wind mov
nats casket arriving carried up stairs his casket arrived here earlier today, carried inside by Supreme Court police officers, as nearly 100 of Justice Scalias former law clerks stood on the marble steps acting as honorary pallbearers. President and mrs. Obama will be here later today to pay their respects, and the Supreme Court is open to the public today for those who want to file past and say their final goodbyes. Then tomorrow, the funeral at the basilicia of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception here in washington. Vicepresident biden will attend. s Pete Williams nbc news washington, dc when the two days of ceremonies honoring Justice Scalia have concluded, president obama may announce his choice of a nominee as early as next week to fill the vacancy on the court. Im Pete Williams at the Supreme Court, back to you. A bill that woud impose statewide rules for Police Body Cameras in nebraska is stoking a debate over how and when the recordings should be made public. A leg
The winds will be very strong mainly during the morning when gusts upwards of 50 Miles Per Hour are possible in the high wind warned areas 40 mph for the wind advised these should diminish by this afternoon with temperatures still expected to top out in the 50s and 60s across most of the region with lots of sunshine. Itll be a bit cooler, but much calmer too tonighh and saturday with lows near 30 and highs in the middle 50s with decent sunshine. Another weak cold front will move through on sunday which will increase our winds from the northwest and bring in some cooler air. Still though, highs in the 40s is still not bad at all for late february, and thats where well be for the better part of next week. See graphics. Wx timer 40 suspececElias Wanatee went before a judge thursday for the First Time Since his arrest in sioux citys first murder of the year. The 47yearold was arrested on a charge of Second Degree murder in the stabbing death of 50yearold vernon mace. Court documents says w