Plan on a warm and windy day clouds this morning , will be quick to lift north as warm and breezy conditions take over. There is no precipitation anticipated with either the warm front today or cold front tonight. Highs will be within a few degrees of record in some spots, and well be monitoring the potential of breaking these. Records are as follows cedar rapids, 86, 1950. Dubuque, 86, 1950. Waterloo, 86, 1910. Iowa city, 88, 1950. Plan on dry conditions tomorrow and wednesday with only a small rain chance still on track for thursday morning. Today partly sunny, windy, mostly clear. Wind w 1020 low 59 tomorrow mostly sunny. Wind nw 515. High 70 tom. Night mostly clear. Wind nw 510. Low 48 thanks kaj. Two people are dead in a small on a report on gunfire. Investigators say no one is in custody and that the public is not at risk last night, Law Enforcement responded to a Mobile Home Park on dogwood road in freeport, thats just east of decorah. Thats where we find kcrg tv9s brea love thi
Thats a look at the morning commute, back to you. Ben ben looking ahead, you might notice flags flying at halfstaff today all across the state. Its in honor of a state senator who died last week. Thema ponton is live with more on the tribute to the senator. The tribute today. The flags are ordered to fly staff. The senator will be buried today. Officials say senator rick gudex shot himself. Gudexs family says he suffered from depression. Back in the spring t senator said he wouldnt be running for a second term. He leaves behind a wife and two half staff from sunrise to sunset today. Ben looking ahead, in the race for the white house. Donald trump will campaign in green bay today. The republican president ial nominee was supposed to be at an event in west allis too, but the Trump Campaign canceled that appearance. We are live with a look ahead. Good morning, hillary. Reporter donald trump was supposed to end the day here at the fairgrounds, but that event was cancelled because of schedu
Priority of the agency now. I have one more question. You recently stated that the sole basis for recommendation to the ban of most widely used chemicals was cumulative Risk Assessment which found the majority of Citizens Advisory Panel recommendation which found the majority of risk associated with chemicals was from another chemical, dehp. Can you explain concerns for using cumulative Risk Assessment as a basis for such regulatory determination . Thank you. The chap and the proposed rule is of great concern to me has been of concern to me since the chap issued its report because i believe the chap report should have been a public should have been subject to public peer review at that point. From that point onto me the system and whole process has been flawed. The cumulative Risk Assessment youre talking about is one of my concerns in that the process thats used, thats not well accepted in the Scientific Community, cumulative Risk Assessment, so i think that goes to the process and va
Rule. All the Public Comment except one was against that. But i think what im hearing is you move forward with a little bit more of a heavy hand than what you would represent to us. And you say you want to be engaging the industry and you want to be collaborative, but what i the feedback im getting, those are your words but your actions are much more heavyhanded. That youve determined what you want as the outcome. Thereby, youre going to let people think theyre participating, but in the end youre the rule maker and youre going to get your way. So do you feel like that is a collaborative atmosphere in trying to work with the industry and how would you respond to those type of comments made about the way you all are approaching rule making . Is that for me . Yes, sir. Youre the chairman. And is that question specific to the 1110 rule or more general . It is specifically to 1110, but in general when it comes to dealing with industry. Sure. So ill address both. The 1110 rule is in indefini
To you that with this in mind what actions have you taken in the past year to provide relief to companies with respect to costs of Third Party Testing requirements . Thank you congresswoman. One of the areas we found interesting, and this was discovered by Small Business ombudsman, i dont want to get the commissioner upset since it involves his prior occupation, but we found a lot of Third Party Labs are testing for services that are not required and so our Small Business ombudsman and his Office Provide phenomenal support and assistance working with Small Businesses and i encourage any members with Small Businesses that have issues, reach out to neil cohen of cpsc because he can work with companies to go through testing reports and find out whether or not they really need certain testing. He doesnt actually go line by line, but he says here are general guidances and questions you should be asking. He really does a phenomenal job of empowering a lot of companies. Thats gone a huge way