They put up billboards comparing climate scientists to the unabomber. And americans for prosperity is another influential Nonprofit Organization which is a front for, guess whom, the koch brothers, ie, the fossil fuel industry. They got ramped up by the kyoto protocol. They went on a spending spree to thwart the kyoto with information campaigns in 1997. The cool the Cooler Heads Coalition had a Clear Mission of countering what they called the myths of Global Warming. In early 1998 this cooler heads group met with Energy Industry executives and lobbyists in closed door meetings at the American Petroleum institute and began to soak up more money. And heres what the plan was im quoting from the story in the post one former cooler heads member who spoke on the condition of an nementy because of a fear of a backlash thats how classy this group is they enforced against each other this are former member said the coalitions mission was to simulate voices against Climate Change science. Theres
They would have found the name on the i. D. Looked at the face and knew it was you. Reporter kelly went back and asked one of the officers why they were checking i. D. S on a domestic flight that had not made any stops. He said leave it alone, this is something we do on a regular basis. I said, ive been on hundreds of flights, i dont know anything that has been through this. And this seems sudden with the change in administration and all the declarations that have been made he said leave it alone. Reporter when the officer walked away, she took a picture so she would remember the name of the agency. U. S. Customs and border protection. She says if there was a wanted criminal on the plane there was probably a way to find that person without inconveniencing dozens of people. Its almost like they wanted their presence known. And it makes me afraid, honestly. Reporter we reach out, and they said the customs and Border Agency has an explanation on why they checked the i. D. S on the plane.
With northwest wind of 1020 mph, should create wind chills in the 20s for the entire day. Friday still looks to be the coolest day with upper 20s to lower 30s common. A warming trend will be felt this weekend with highs on saturday into the middle 30s, with middle and even upper 40s likely on sunday afternoon. As early as sunday evening, some showers will be possible, which should last into early monday morning. Next week remains unsettled with periodic rain chances and highs generally into the 40s. Today mostly cloudy high 3036 winds nw 1020 alo 31 dbq 30 iow 33 tonight partly cloudy low 1824 winds w 515 alo 19 dbq 19 iow 21 tomorrow partly cloudy high 2733 winds w 1525 alo 30 dbq 29 iow 30 tomorrow night clearing cool low 1521 winds nw 515 alo 14 dbq 15 iow 18 thanks kaj. Family and friends for a waterloo teen plan to come together today to honor his life. Authorities found moe seds body in the cedar river a week and a half ago. Sed wouldve turned 19 earlier this week. He disappeared
On the democratic side, Hillary Clinton made two stops in iowa yesterday. She held a town hall meeting in iowa city yesterday afternoon. During her stop, she addressed the fight against terrorism. She attacked her republicans opponents, claiming they are targeting all muslims as terrorists. From there, she went to mason city for a town hall meeting. One supporter in the crowd said her father was supporting donald trump in the election. So mrs. Clinton recorded a message to try and get him to change his mind. Hi sean im here with your daughter. I hope you can see, i dont have horns and i really do hope as this election goes on youll listen to your daughter. Thanks bye. A recent Quinnipiac University poll shows clinton currently leads vermont senator Bernie Sanders by double digits in iowa. Meteorologist britley ritz has your first alert forecast, britley. It is definitely starting to there. Highs are expected to only top out into the middle 30s this afternoon. Winds today will still be
Right noww city workerrare preparing to keep roads clean as the snow storm heads in to eastern iowa. Kcrgtv9s Dave Franzman is in our newsroom. Da, what are the city crews using to keep drivers sfe . Anybodydywho looks outside can see theres nothing to plow yet. But theres certainly a lot of activity at the citys public works building as cree get the plowsseady to go cedar rapids has approximately 90 vehicles equipped to push snow some of the vehicles getting loaded with salt and sand has other work scheeuled for today. But that was before the forecast. That work, including some road construction, was put on hold as the vehicles returned to get reconfigured to plow snow. The first snow of thhseason isnt usually a big event although the forecast says this will be an exception. In any event, crews are ready and the plan is in place. Were very prepared for this event a first event we dont have brokeedown poiecessf equument and we hhe all the material ready to go so get the staff to stay o