Honored guests, friends, my family and, of course, our first lady, miss lori. Before i begin, allow me to add my welcome and my best wishes for all the new members of the legislature joining us here today. Thank each of you for bringing your Life Experiences and your unique perspectives to our important work here in the peoples house. Also, i have the privilege today of introducing newly elected Supreme Court Justice Robin brodin to this chamber and to the idaho judiciary. Congratulations, madam justice. The new year also brings some key departures from our executive branch of government. Im sure you will join me in wishing kevin kemp god speed in his new responsibilities as two eventful and successful years as the director of the department of corrections. We are also losing sam hodge to a well deserved retirement from the office of aging. And kelly pierces experience and leadership will be missed with his recent retirement as administrative of the division of building safety. I exten
Before i begin, allow me to add my welcome and my best wishes for all the new members of the legislature joining us here today. Thank each of you for bringing your Life Experiences and your unique perspectives to our important work here in the peoples house. Also, i have the privilege today of introducing newly elected Supreme Court Justice Robin brodin to this chamber and to the idaho judiciary. Congratulations, madam justice. [ applause ] the new year also brings some key departures from our executive branch of government. Im sure you will join me in wishing kevin kemp god speed in his new National Responsibilities after two eventful and successful years as the director of the department of corrections. We are also losing sam hodge to a well deserved retirement from the office of aging. And kelly pierces experience and leadership will be missed with his recent retirement as administrator of the division of building safety. I extend my thanks and best wishes to each and every one of t
Our temperatures are varying quite a bit. Cooler in the northwest counties. We will continue with a cooler but dry start this morning. Temperatures today top out in the mid 60 s with more sunshine. Into the weekend, we are limited for sunshine as rain returns and a chance for some thunderstorms return. Kyla . Kyla good morning, everyone. This is what you will see. Pretty dry and clear roads. East or westbound, no issues. There were ago. Usually if i give a pause i get one car. No issues there. Along2, north and southbound. We will start to pick up over the next hour or so. 75 at mitchell is looking good. Right now. Mark thank you. Butler county with a mother and her daughter found dead. Dan griffin is live in Fairfield Township with investigators calling this a murdersuicide. Good morning. Dan good morning to you. The details in this case police are still developing. A mother and her adult daughter are dead. Investigators say the mother, in her 50 s, shot and killed her daughter, who w
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M mark hayes. Kyla and i m kyla woods, in for lisa cooney. We had the headlines are straight ahead. But first a check of the weather with wlwt news 5 meteorologist jennifer schack. Jennifer good morning. Kind of a steady and soaking rain. The rain has come to an end. The total,. 83 of an inch at the international airport. Sunspots have seen over an inch of rain. It is still a little bit damp outside from last night s showers. We do have the cloud cover in place. Limited sunshine for the first half of the day. Visibility about seven miles. Wilmington is the exception, there could be some patchy fog or dense fog. We haven t seen too many problems yet and not a lot of wind for the morning. The overnight showers have moved off to the east. We should keep the cloud cover this morning and the roads should be pretty nice this afternoon. Mid 40 s in the northwest counties. We ll drop off a couple of more degrees. More sunshine today. We decrease the clouds for the midday. We have a lot more in