Those high winds today caused some minor damage in parts of lexington countywhere there were several reports of trees down. Our mike desumma is live along Mineral Springs road where a downed tree is still causing some problems. Here you can see crews are still busy trying to fix what the tree did. It fell across the road landing on some power lines causing lines causing them to droop. At one point the road was closed but now its back open. At last check there are more without power. Traffic is down to one lane out it was a close call for a taxi driver this afternoon in columbiawhen a large tree limb broke off and smashed into his windshield. This happened along millwood avenue near the epworth childrens home. The driver said he believes the high winds caused the branch to break off. He says hes lucky to be aliveas that branch left his cab a wreck. Crews were out cleaning up and removing the branch a short time later, and the car was towed away. Caught on camera near the North Carolina
Medicaid is a huge program. A 4. 2 billion dollar staterun program. Hundreds of thousands of iowans benefit from it, and at this point its on track to change hands in 13 days. Amerigroup, amerihealth, united healthcare. Iowa is only days away from these three Companies Taking over medicaid and the Hawki Program which insures kids. Letters went out to families asking them to make their decision by february 17th about which company they want to use. But theres a major hiccups for people who have to make this choice their healthcare provider, whether thats a doctor, pharmacist, a clinic, a pediatrician, or case manager might not be signed up with one of the companies. Acccording to the department of human services. fs only 60 percent of providers in the state have signed contracts with all three of the private companies. 70 percent have signed with two. And 90 percent have signed with just one of the companies. cms website thats a major concern of cms the federal group that has to give it
Explosives has been found but its a suspicion shared by britain. We obviously have a strong desire to get to the bottom of what exactly happened there. Noone is ruling out a technical fault as the cause the black box recorders are still being worked on. Well the egyptians are really kicking back now. The government minister saying he simply doesnt accept the us theory as fact. But egypt has now fired the head of the airport from where the plane took off and investigators have found really lax security there. The russians too dont accept the us theory. 23 russian tourist planes are flying into that airport today, but the russians have just sent anti aircraft missiles to protect their warplanes in syria. They clearly believe they are now a target. A recent poll shows the majority of americans disapprove of president obamas handling of the isis terror threat. The Associated Press gfk poll found that 61percent disapprove to an approval of 38percent. Last january the same poll showed 53perc
Make a wish history its shut down Jolly Holiday lights. Transformer went out, park went dark and power went out and we just had to make that decision the lighted event that takes around 1400 volunteers and three weeks to set up took one soggy weekend to ruin. Between the flooding and power outage concerns Jolly Holiday has shut down for the season. Which is a major hit for make a wish iowa. This is our largest fundraiser for make a wish, were lookking at aaround 200k of an impact to the org the event wouldve paid for about 40 out of the 190 wishes this year thats why now theyre relying on donations. Because even without the lighted parade the show for the kids, must go on. All the challenges that weve seen from volunteers and staff, compares nothing to what our wish kids go thorugh on a daily basis. We love what we do and well keep doing it. And well keep raising money on the state says they may lose but donations are still mail, calls or online. Are iowa dot com. From powell local 5 n
We cannn expect and more. The latino vote in nevada well have seen the democrats pushing hard especially Barry Sanders and hillary clinton. Who is winning that ground game . Is there a notable leader . I think early on clinton was first. She came to nevada to give her immigration speech. She has a lot of Battle Tested folks in nevada, a strong latino out reach team. And saunders came in late. Wasnt wellknown among latinos and had to introduce himself and competing in the other early states. Theyre playing catchup behind the clinton campaign. When that happens, tail end Saunders Campaign trying to open u a ton of offices i think 12. Hillary ground game is established, but it is not that large. Talking about the number of ofsz. Does it make up for the time i dont think so. You have to staff those offices. Eva you have to bring those people up to speed. A lot of people already there are not a lot of undecided. Clinton is wellknown and defined. Saunders is coming, introducing himself, part