A federal regulator will be in des moines today to approve or deny the changes to the states Medicaid Program. Tse changes are supposed to happen january 1st. Yesterday, an Oversight Committee took a vote to delay the switch by six months, but the vote tied, and failed. The Committee Also questioned the companies that will oversee medicaid and heard public comments. Several dozen medicaid recipients and family members packed the meeting room and an overflow area. Nearly every patient complained ththswitch to private operation of the system is happening too fast. One activist hopes they stop the rush to managed care. T outpouring from iowa and the outcry is unprecedented and cms has never seen that and theyreretudying it cms stands for centers for medicare and medicaid services. The organizations regulators will question the four companies the state selected for the Medicaid Program. Cancer are living longer today than they did 20 years ago. Thats what a new university of iowa study fou
Also put you in eldora the judge also told humbles what happens to him after age 18 depends how he does in juvenile custody. Good behavior might mean adult probation after he turns 18. On the other hand, problems in juveveile custody could mean he would serve out his remaining prison time in iowas adult system. In an earlier hearing that move humbles to adult court, records shohumbles killed richardson in a suddede violent burst following threats made against the defendant on social media. Live in the newsroom, Dave Franzman kcrg tv9 news. In a tv9 followup. A judgdg resentenced a dubuque man to 50 years in prison for robbing a bar and shooting a Police Officer in 2009. Th was 77 year old eddie chests third senteteing. Chest took a plea agreement and was charged with robbery and the Armed Robbery at knickers saloon. Thats where he shot Dubuque Police lieutenant scott baxter. His last two sentences went a ainst that plea agreement. In court yesterday, prosecutors made a stronger case fo
Night mostly cloudy low 2127 winds nw 515 alo 22 dbq 22 iow 24 thanks kaj. A mysterious substance shouldnt impact flights this morning at the Eastern Iowa Airport. A hazmat team arrived late last night to investigate. They found it at baggage claim, which is where we find tv9s Forrest Saunders live this morning. Forrest what did Airport Security tell you when you arrived . Chris, nicole, its back to business as usual here at the Eastern Iowa Airport. Earlier this morning though, totally different scene. Airport police had closed off this entire area, the bag claim, while hazmat checked out an unknown substance. Heres what authorities are telling us this started just before 7 pm. Airline personnel altered suspicious bag had come in on a flight from chicago. The bag area was closed off a little while after. Hazmat was called in to investigate. That unidentified substance was tested. Authorities say it was determined to be non hazardous. The bag claimed area reopened around 4 a. M. No one
Republicans by a wide margin in national polls. Its still tight here in iowa in recent polling against ted cruz. Yesterday, trump stopped at the university of iowa yesterday where plenty of supporters and protestors showed up. Kcrgtv9s Sarah Mccarthy has more. This space inside the university of iowa fieldhouse was completely filled with people waiting to hear from republican president ial frontrunner donald trump. But not everyone was a supporter. Scenes like this stopped Donald Trumps speech at least half a dozen times tuesday night. An organized group of protestors with bright red tshirts reading i stand with my muslim neighbors interrupted trump with plastic whistles. For one iowa city mother, shes here for her son. Stand up when he sees things that he doesnt agree with, so i feel like i needed to be here. I really feel strongly that love is more powerful than hate. But several supporters also stood in the crowd including several university of iowa football players. Cj beathard and
Around at minimum, and possibly generate some rain or snow saturday night into sunday. Looking ahead to next week, a substantial storm system is still on track to impact parts of iowa in the tuesday wednesday time period. Stay tuned today 3036 32 iow 33tonight scattered flurries low 2329 winds w 1015 alo 26 dbq 27 iow 26tomorrow m cloudy, sct. Flurries high 3137 winds nw 1020 alo 34 dbq 33 iow 34tomorrow night mostly cloudy low 2127 winds nw 515 alo 22 dbq 22 iow 24 a mysterious substance shouldnt impact flights this morning at the Eastern Iowa Airport. A hazmat team arrived late last night to investigate. They found it at baggage claim, which is where we find tv9s Forrest Saunders live this morning. Forrest what did Airport Security tell you when you arrived . Chris, nicole, its back to business as usual here at the Eastern Iowa Airport. Though, totally different scene. Airport police had closed off this entire area, the bag an unknown authorities are telling us this started just befo