Temperatures have arrived and the snow is sticking. Over the weekend. Snow fell near the great lakes. And widespread flurries across the northeast. Abcs Stephanie Ramos has the latest. Its beginning to look alot like. Winter. Snow falling and plopping the weather is changing on us fast. Just last week near syracuse, new york this is what it looked like. A week later. This. Kennedy lamb mexico new york i woke up this morning and thought it was christmas. It may be the season has already swept from thest into parts of the east. Across upstate new york a blaststf winter bringngg dangerous conditions . More than 50 accidents in syracuse blamed in part on icy roads. Snow. Collecting on this backyard deck. Nine inches so far. And another backyard buried under the snow. Lynnette west resident i have not seen this snow this early in a long time . The snow also falling early in parts of upper michigan. Nats more snow nats . But in grand rapipi. Just plain cold. Natsrace temps in the mid30s didn
Tight the house is. The goal is to drop it as much h possible, sasa fillipi. On average, the northeast Nebraska Community acacon partnership has weatherized about 175 houses each year. For more information on how you can have your house weatherized, go to www. Siouxlandma tters. Com tim the Energy Program keeps growing and hopes to alleviate the ever increasing costs of heating and cooling homes, jenna officialalwith the omaha a ibe of nebraska addressed the public today after a huge vote yesterday. Where they majority voted in favor of legalizing marijuana during the tribes elections members of the community participated in a referendum which allowed residents to vote on the legalization of the drug. And whether ithould be used for medical, recreational, or grown industrialal. Tim all three received support. The newly elected Council Members will begin weighing the reservations options to ensure that the tribe is in compliance with federal regulations we took that guidance and corresp
Racer is the champ of the and hes from city. Abc9 News Reporter Deborah Souverain has his story inside the dirt track. You can hear the the fans cheering. Air. This is where Chris Abelson feels the most at home. Confident, the trying to anticipate where the other drivers are going to go and where you have the possibility of making a pass, said abelson. Chris abelson went from a dirt track racing fan. To getting behind the wheel himself. Natpop abelson getting into car in his 13 years behind the wheel. Hes racked up. Dozens of awards. And after one failed attempt. He now holds the top title. As the 2015 national modified division champion. Of the International Motor contest association. Which is the largest dirt Race Track Organization in the country. Went for it a little bit last year and ended up fourth in the points and just got lucky this year and got some lucky breaks, said abelson. This video from a 2011 race. Gives a taste of what abelson can deliver on the track. Race car Engine
Which was worth millions of dollars. And as the tribes. Venture into the marijuana hold. The omaha is using the incident as a learning lesson. Flandreau santee sioux tribe in south dakota to build the ever. Marijuana reservation. Have been smoked out. Saturday the tribe the burning of millions of dollars of marijuana it was growing. It was a move. The omaha tribe of nebraska. Which recently voted in favor of legalization. Didnt see coming. It was a little bit surprising but i do understand that each tribe has their own prerogative with how theyre going to move forward with it, said vernon miller. The santee sioux tribe released a statement saying they wanted to suspend their efforts to get clarification from the federal government. According to the associated press, tribe president , Anthony Reider , says the tribe was at risk of a raid by federal authorities if the governments concerns werent met. Miller says. Because of grey areas in the law. The omaha tribe is taking extra precautio
Iowa. Natpop lenters shooting at target. He just wishes he could go alone. I always have someone go with me in case i get stuck, said lenters. Natpop did you get stuck . Wife pulling lenters wheelchair. The issues begin once he leaves his vehicle. Right now its just paved with these round rocks and my chair does not have much ground clearance. These peebles. Natpop al driving wheelchair over pebbles. Make it hard to get around. And getting comfortable at a nearly impossible. Changing the bench set up here, to something that i can get under with my chair. Its kind of hard to reach, said al lenters. Hes hoping to change all of that by teaming up with the tristate range association. The non profit. Which already works to clean up the range. Plans to make the facility accessible. A double wide parking spot, we are going to make a new entrance off of said parking spot and we are going to pave some access sidewalks and a concrete shooting pad the renovations are being done through volunteer