Their weapons behind and breaking news overnight. Overnight. The four remaining occupiers at a wildlife refuge in oregon will turn themselves in this morning. Morning. Sean anderson is one of the men Still Holding out t and he says he spoke with the fbi and agreed to leave their weapons behind and walk onebyone to a police checkpoint. This standoff has been going on since the beginning of the year when it started to protest federal landuse policies. The leader of the group ammon bundy was arrested back in january and the groups spokesman was killed the same day in a shootout with police. And righghnow ammons fathererliven bundy is in an oregon jail cell. Cliven traveled to a Portland Airport but no charges have been at the center of a nevada standoff back in 2014 with federal officials over the use of public lands. Well continue to track this story for the latest developments. New this morning out of the isolated nation of north korea, korea,it appears leader kim jong un has executed h
We should have teen in the afternoon hours tomorrow but another cold shot of weather for the weekend and we have snow in the forecast for sunday so theres a lot of winter to talk about in few minutes. Back to you. Thank you. Cedar rapids city leaders are getting together downtown to stay one step ahead of an epidemic they fear is coming towards the corridor. Kevin berry joins us from the Public Library where the Eastern Iowa Heroin Initiative will tell the community what to look out for. Kevin . Reporter yeah, karen, plenty of room for plenty of people to talk about the problem on the east coast, heroin. Thats affecting cities from states like massachusetts all the way down to virginia and plenty of communities inbetween as well. Until recently, its largely been thought of as an hes coast problem, but now heroin chicago, wisconsin, and now even iowa. The numbers in the Hawkeye State arent as bad as elsewhere, but u. S. Attorney kevin tedchaw said its a matter of time. Massachusetts had
Milestone. Fox 28 News Reporter and host of iowa in focus, kevin barry joins us now live from the governors celebration in des moines with more on tonights festivities. Kevin . More than a thousand people came to the fair grounds tonight to celebrate with the governor. The night included a discussion with the governor where he talked about his time in office. Early on he spoke about how he grew up in a family of democrats until he got to college. He said he didnt fit in with the College Democrats at the time so a friend invited him to a College Republicans meeting. And the speaker that night was a state representative named Chuck Grassley. So the first republican meeting i went to Chuck Grassley was the speaker and ive been an active republican ever since. Says from then on, he was a republican, and eventually got his mother to switch parties house. At the bottom of the hour. Hear what the governor has to say about how iowas worth ethic helped him get reelected over and over again. In
For anothe prime time debate. You can catch Detailed Analysis of the debate on iowa in focus at 10 30 sunday morning. Recent attacks with gunfire ve voters again considering gun policies. While terrorism remains a top priority to voters, gun policy is still in the top ten. This is all too familiar for parents in connecticut whose lives changed forever three years ago today. December 14th 2012 marked the sandy hook massacre in newtown connecticut. That is where 20yearold adam lanza shot and kiled 20children and six adults. The town and School District are handling the anniversary in a lowkey manner, briefly mentioning a prayer gathering set for seven tongiht. Defense secretary ash carter is on his way to iraq to see the fight against isis up more people are seeing isil for the thugs and the theives and the killers that they are. Are. This morning, president obama announced carter trip, saying isis will be defeated. He said the us is hitting isis harder than ever but offered no new strat
For more than 30 years, gay and bisexual men were not allowed to donate blood. But yesterday, that all changed. The fda lifted its lifetime ban allowing men who have sex with men to give blood. Though there are still some restrictions on this new rule. Cbs 2 News Reporter dora miller shows us how the new plan will work, dora . The 12month rule still applies meaning, if youve the past year, youll have to wait to give blood. And because this change is still new, itll take some time to fully it. All blood cells matter. Thats the new ruling after the food and Drug Administration lifted a lifetime ban on gay men donating blood. Blood. They have missed so many blood donations by people who would have liked to have done so. Gay and bisexual men are now under the same category as anyone else who engages in risky behavior. If a man has sex with a man, to donate. Donate. Its a little hard to understand why the fda took so long when the blood banks that are out there, actually doing the work and