His story in this weeks voices of diversity. Diversity. A lot of hard work goes into cooking arbys meal. Meal. But your full experience at this arbys on blairs ferry. Ferry. Comes from one man who has nothing to do with whatou eat. Eat. Bbs very enenergetic. He loves customers, he loves people he just wants to do a job and hes always wanting to work. Bud wharton whartonrrdy . Spray spray does it all with a smile. Smile. smile clean stools, or when im not cleaning stools, greeting people, do tables. Tables. I mean he does ten times more than what we started withhe started with what many may call nothing. Nothing. Its hard to see sometimes but i do it anyway. A cardiac arrest as a teen and another accident left him blind and bound to a wheelchair. Now hes part of stems unlimited. Unlimited. Its an iowa citybased nonprofit helping people with disabilities gain stability. Stability. We need to look outside the scope on our hiring and our training practicesstarting with a job. Job. B. we we
The people behind the walls cameras just got a lot easier. Eaer. Theres always gonna be ideas on how to make traveling better. I have to drive through highway 100 so just the construction, its down to one lane and theres like a lot of businesses aroundre, city can do anything, but people in general be considerate of others. Cedar rapids has its own plan of action. Action. Well be enhancing our capability to observe ininrsections and cocoidors throughout the city. Theyll be using a new video system with walltowall monitors to controltraffic flow. Flow. Kinda what youre seeing now is basically going to a webpage ana individually logging into eachchamera one by one. So with the upgrade, our traffic will be controlled hundred cameras. Cameras. The biggest benefit that i think were gonna see is really gonna help us with the traffic signal timing. So your wait time at that red light might bebeut short. Short. Using software to retime the signals and come up with the most optimized timings fo
Sharing between france and america. Intelligence leaders have given instructions that will allolomilitary personnel to more easily share information. Both took part in a series of strikesin one of them in syria, they took out 116 fuel trucks being used by the terror group, also hitting storage depots and tactical units. There are many we talked to today who fefl its not enough. There is also some very tense since one of refugees. Should there be a halt on accepting syrians. What can be done to better vet thenenif at all . One of the most controversial refugee camps in calais, called the jungle. I was there just two months ago looking into the possibility of terrorist posing as refugees. And investigators conducted raids in calais today. So much more to be discuss on that front scott thuman, back to you the debate over how to handle the millions of refugees is also raging here in iowa. Iowa. 24 states now say they will not accept any refugees from syria after the attacks in papas. And i
Alqaida or any other known terrorist groups. Theres a lot of evidence in this case that doesnt quite make sense so were trying to be very thohohtful to understand it and make sense of it so we understand the full extent of what we have here. Here. The fbi also says there is no indication the couple wasart of a larger terror cell. Ocal Authorities Say there is no longer any threat to the public. Fox 28 news, along with our sister stations, conducted a National Survey on twitter. We wanted to know if you thought the government could keep you safe from acts of terrorism. Terrorism. After more than 12 thousand votes were cast, 78 percent told us, no. Just 22 percent said they f ft the government could protect them,. Thanks to everyone who took part in our online survey. Despite the actions of just a few radicalized people, the vast majority of muslimsmsboth here a a around the world are to prevent people from using their religion to justify violent acts . Acts . In a story youll only see o
Security says it has not detected any plots targeting the u. S. 26 states now say they will not accept any refugees from syria after the paris attacks. Attacks. And iowa is now joining them. Fox 28 News Reporter matt hammill hammilljoins us now from the newswsom with reactctn here at home. Iowa has welcomed people with open arms several times in the past including vietnamese laotian and bosnian refugees right here in the corridor. But e vernors view of keeping an open mind about refugees from syria changed abruptly this afternoon. Afternoon. So this situation is very serious even this morning the governor stopped short of refusing to let Syrian Refugees come to iowa. But after evidence suggesting paris terrorists snuck in with refugees ten other governororstopped the process. Just hours later branstad did the same. The isis threat i think is throughout the free world. As iowans watched the investigation unfold today in france many expressed strong views on the ten thousand Syrian Refug