Morning. Its the first of 5 stops in western iowa. Fiorinas husband frank is joining his wife on the campaign trail. Its the first time hes made a western iowa appearance. Fiorina took several questions during the hour long event, including how she plans to hold washingtonaccountable if electete as for as s tuesdays debate where fiorina said quote obama care isnt helping anyone. We asked the candidate to clariffy her comment. The question is how much better could we do for people. Are we really helping people when we throw them into medicade and fewer and fewer doctors are accepgting medacade paymenst. The truth is how much better cocod we be doing for r people and theswer is a lot better, said carly fiorina. If elected, the former Hewlett Packard ceo said shell push for a zero based budget. Meaning every lineitem in the budget would be scrutinized, not just proposed increases. Its something that Tami Chrisman of sgt bluff says makes sense. Shes a ceo, this is the deal. Shes nono doubl
Transitioning into a snow mix later this evening and toninit. Weather today. Its currently gathering strength in the Southern Plains and looks to deliver showers by the mid morning with t storms also possible current temperatures are in the 30s and 40s. Theres a wind blowing in from the northwest between 5 and 15 Miles Per Hour which will school. Heres susan risisier with the details. The planned career academies for norfolk senior high students will require some renovations and expansion at the high school building. At monday nights meeting the board of education approved seeking bids for renovation of the Career Education facilities. A renegotiated lease between the Norfolk Airport authority and barnstormers restaurant is on hold while the state Auditors Office completes a review of the relationship between the twtw entities. Cityty attorney clinthukei says the auditor is expected to issue the report in the next few weeks. And friday is the deadline to nominate an individual, organiz
Steep fines under federal law if those alerts are not issued. In usds case however. Where that picture came from or if there was still a threat when the message was sent out. Is in question sot there was no additional danger to the public. In our view. Those photos were not part of our investigation and we didnt release them to anybody. Later we found out they were facebook photos. Vermillion police chief Matthew Betzen said. Vo according to information from the university the pictures were used by Campus Police as part of their own investigation. The problem . After it had been sent to the complete student body. The picture. Including a man that turned out to have no relation at all to the case. Quickly spread on social media. Sot if Sexual Assault is the worst thing that can happen to a women probably one of the worst things that can happen to a man is being accused of a crime that he didnt commit. Sot our intent was never to publish them broadly our intent was to inform our immediat
Airlines plane onboard a Spirit Airlines p pne continues to escalade after seven passengers were kicked off the plane over a disagreement about seat assignments. Or was it racial discrimination. Heres abcs Pierre Thomas you are watching a confrontation which ends with a group papaengersall black being removed from this commercial jet. Some those kicked off are crying racism. Wright sot im really humiliated, just for the simple fact that, you know, you hear about this stuff happening in america, you know discriminationissues. But was it really happened is in dispute. Police say they were called after an argument broke out over a double booked seat. Nats an African American male passenger apparently was frustrated. And some witnesses say a white Flight Attendant considered at lelet one in the group a threat. Willie french, passenger the stewardess got a little nervous and they wanted him to leave the plane. But while harsh words clearly were exchanged, other passengers were confused gges
Departments efforts gets the ball rolling for others in the community to get engaged and become aware of the alcohol issues that the city faces as they look to get a handle on it. Live in studio, bria bell abc 9 news tim on cam a semi rig hauling hogs ended up on its side just north of merrill tonight thursday . Plymouth county Officials Say the semi was headed south on highway 75 when it tipped at about eight oclock. Officers are still investigating a cause for the mishap, but the truck tipped in the middle of a curve entering town. The driver was not injured and theres no word on the condition of the pigs on board. Southbound traffic was slowed to one lane while crews worked to get the rig back upright. Tim on cam governor branstad has a plan for outof state companies to take over iowas medicaid program. But its not going smoothly. The latest hiccup is this hearing. That involves a former state lawmaker. Renee schultee is on the one on trial. Shes defending herself against accusation