Warm, and an apartment to sleep in, tonight. But, hundreds of sioux cityans dont have that luxury, and sleep on the streets. Tonight, hundreds are sleeping outside, on purpose, to limit homelessness throughout the area. Housing or its very limited. As the opportunity to experience homelessness first hand, raises awareness and money in the community. They might not have anywhere to sleep, so were supporting them, said lacy barger homeless need help with getting food and shelter and people need to be aware to be homeless, said matthew christian. Were going to sleep in some boxes tonight, were going to build a castle to lay siege to homelessness, said alec devries, a junior at morningside college. Hoping sleeping outside results in siouxlanders sleeping inside. While theres 300 people that may be sleeping outside in the siouxland area on any given night. Theres around 2,500 people in total that are homeless in the area. Tonight, they aimed to raise 50,000 hoping to counter that number. Ma
If they have issues like one of them tonight mentioned that they were having more robberies in their neighborhood, so then our liaison pat, can get that information to the right department so they can maybe focus more on robberies in that neighborhood, said the Neighborhood Network is asking anybody in the community who would like to share any concerns or just learn about whats going on in the area, to attend neighborhood meetings. Dates and locations are all posted on the city of sioux city website. Theres a link inside this story, at ktivdotcom. Sioux city police are looking for a man they say robbed a Convenience Store with a gun early this morning. It happened around 4 30 at the kum and go at 14th and pierce street. This afternoon, Police Released video of the suspect who got away with some cash. Authorities are looking for a native american or hispanic man in his 20s, about 5 feet 10 inches tall, weighing about 160 pounds. He wore a grey hoodie and a flatbilled hat, possibly with
12 and a half million gallons of waste flows into the plant per day. There is a screening process to get out anything that may have slipped through the system, upstream. From there it goes to a settling process. Sludge settles to the bottom and the clear water from that will travel on through the system and be treated later through an activated sludge process. In that process, you have bacteria dependent on oxygen, which reduces organics and oxygen within the water. That is required by the plants permit from the state. From there, the water is pumped over and thickened. The water then flows through a set of clarifiers, and into the river. The sludge originally separated from the water, goes onto some anaerobic digestors where the sludge is heated up to around 95 degrees. Bugs will begin to eat the food that is in the waste. And biogas is produced and reused within the facility. In sioux city, tiffany lane, ktiv news 4. The plant uses 800 gallons of chlorine each day during disinfection
And volunteers were there to help celebrate. This is such an exciting day because weve moved to that next step, said steve struthers, president of the projects for patriots board. Weve been doing a lot of the background work and getting things going with all the things for financing and things like that to finally get to this point. The landen project is the first under projects for patriots. Organizers say they hope it leads to more projects to help other veterans down the road. Project Board Members say the renovations will cost about 125thousand dollars. 70 percent product and labor has been donated for the house. They say the project should be completed by no later than february first. And theyre hoping to have everything done sooner so that the family can move in as early as possible. Matt and sheila . If you wouldldike to support the landen family, there will be a fundraiser for the landen project tomorrow. It will be at the Orpheum Theatre in downtown sioux city. There is a soci
Come here. I think that there already is a very strenuous screening process. Some lawmakers dont see it that way, and blame the Obama Administration for the situation, today. The failure of this administrations middle east policy is why we have a refugee crisis today, said iowa senator chuck grassley. Abraham says they would help any syrian refugee if one came to them. As for the governors, who want to block refugees, thats a decision thats ultimately up to the federal government. In the newsroom, sam curtiss, ktiv news four. Totoorrow, the u. S. Housuswill vote to demand tighter screening in lht of president obamas plans to bring 10,000 Syrian Refugees to the united states. Sot House Speaker Paul Ryan R Wisconsin 18 25 it would mean a pause in the program until we can be certain beyond any doubt that those coming here are not a threat. The president defended the prigram saying each refugee would get months of security checks by agencies. Including the cia. Sot john brennan, cia direct