3 record rainfall continues to pound parts of the Pacific Northwest. As over the last few days the unrelenting storm system has caused flooding, landslides and evacuations in washington and oregon. Cole miller is in portland with the latest. 3 as the rain continues to fall for a Third Straight day across the northwest. Already swollen rivers and creeks have caused major flooding, evacuations, and landslides around the area. Crews in portland worked into the night to clean up tons of debris along a local highway. sot don hamilton odot spokesman this has been a big mess but we hope to get it cleaned up quicklythe record rainfall dumped a little over three inches of rain on the hours. Triggering dozens of rescues. Officials say it could take months to repair this giant sinkhole that opened up in nearby gresham. Where powerful winds also toppled trees onto cars. sot dale hall resident all of a sudden i heard a big woosh come down and next thing i know we got tree down standup cole miller c
Closing crossings will create. Ellis says if the project proceeds on schedule. Design of the viaduct will wrap up this summer. Construction would begin in 2017 and wrap up in 2018. A final update on the 20 Million Dollar plan is set to take place next month. 3 3 sioux city is looking for help from the state of iowa to build a new park in the Singing Hills area. At this mornings coffee with the Council Event at the sweetwater cafe in the ho chunk centre. Parks and rec director Matt Salvatore gave an update on fundraising for cone park. Hes trying to secure a 300 thousand dollar grant from the Iowa Community attraction tourism board to help build the park. 3 the Community Attraction and tourism board really loves our project, they were also very impressed with our fundraising, they would like to see more private contributions towards the project, it just shows buy in from the community. So were going to look at getting a few contributions here in the next month and hopefully we are able
Brother to watch the assault. Afterwards, they stole tvs, game consoles and a cell phone. 3 i think that not neccesarily just because this incident took place that people should always be vigilant to their own safety and well being and always keep their doors locked; and take Home Security into consideration. And lighting, locking the doors. Erything should always be taken into consideration cause you never know when Something Like this could happen. Anyone with information on this crime is asked to call the Sioux City Police crimestoppers hotline at 258 tips. 3 3 3 police are also searching for the person or persons who vandalized a popular comic book shop in sioux city. About 6pm saturday employees of acme comics heard a crash and discovered threreof their windows were cracked. When taping up the windows they found rocks that apparently had been used to crack them. So far there are no leads as to who may have done this. They will press charges. 3 we would appreciate if anybody does k
With members of his task force that have been looking into 21st Century Police practices. He traveled to selma, alabama for the anniversary of the historic civil rights march. We want to pick up on the question from bloomberg news. Whats next for republicans in congress . 202 7488000 is our line for democrats. 202 7488001 is for republicans. Independence, 202 7458002. You can also join us on facebook. Www. Facebook. Com cspan. You can also send us a tweet cspanwj. Or send us an email journal cspan. Org. Happy first day of march. We want to get your comments. Can House Republicans govern . You probably saw much of this on friday, well into the evening. Bloomberg news has this piece, again, the piece begins by saying, mark your calendars originally set for midnight, it has been rescheduled for march 6. The house of representatives did not, and said it pushed through a oneweek extension. That means two things. The department will continue to hobble along under the threat of defunding. Som
Sequester. They wouldnt allow a vote on the plan we offered to prevent the sequester thats going to hit on march 1 and which our republican colleagues in statement after statement on this floor have said is going to hurt the economy and which we know from the last quarters economic report is already hurting the economy just because businesses are anticipating the possibility these acrossthe board cuts. So thats the plan that we should be focused on. Thats a plan that helps the economy, that will help save jobs and its just unfortunate that weve been denied an opportunity in the peoples house to even have a vote on the one plan thats been submitted in this congress, in this house to prevent those job losses and prevent the harm being done to our economy. So i would hope, madam chairman, that we put aside this political gimmick. The president will submit a budget. Our republican colleagues can do with it whatever they want, but lets put aside the political games and focus on jobs and the