Good place for the community and state dupont pioneers Current Employment is at 26hundred and more layoffs are expected as the merger continues. But in the end, both johnstons city council and mayor believe the Global Center will be a positive for iowas ag development. I think the fact that we have a really positive tax incentive system, good tax credit at state level, promotes nad encourages companies to put jobs here in iowa. See some more loss of jobs in short term. But over long term we believe theyll do Research Activities here in johnston, employment numbers will go back up again, possibly higher than what we have currently claire bam there are mixed reviews on this dowdupont announcement. Senator joni ernst said shes disappointed, thinking of the families who have faced and will face layoffs. While governor brandstad said hes proud the company is chosing to keep johnston as a world class Biosciences Company and Global Center. The dowdupont merger is expected to be finalized some
Back in 2012 sharon rearicks son john was killed on new falls road. An addition to that road has been improved in hopes that what happened to him will never happen again. Trish heart assemblyman in middletown township tonight with the full story. Trish. Reporter well, rick, monica, this busy stretch of new falls road is where john rearick lost his life in 2012. A memorial still stands across the street and plans to make this stretch of road a little bit safer are under way thanks in large part to rearicks mother. We got the approval and i got the standing ovation. Reporter sharon spoke with action news in her levittown home her granddaughter on her happen less than a day after the vote she had been waiting for for four years. I started it as a grieving mother but everybody else helped make it happen. Reporter with the unanimous vote from Bristol Township Council Plans will move forward to install signs along a stretch of new falls road where her son was killed by a hit and run driver.
Happening. Reporter the situation, ayman, good morning, is escalating rapidly. If you look at a graph of cases in florida, it has been stable all the way through early june. Then it shoots up like a rocket ship. Y you mentioned seven day averages, cases are up 219 in the last four days. That is a lot and it has prompted local officials here to take renewed measures to try to curb the spread of the virus. That includes shutting down the gem of the economy here, the state beaches. I should say Miamidade Countys beaches, a mile from where im standing. The july fourth holiday, not just here but all over south florida as well, you have palm beach county, broward county, monroe county, all closing down their beaches. I was out there this past saturday, pretty packed. Going to be empty this upcoming weekend, and that is a significant problem for the businesses down here. Im standing on lincoln road at the moment, huge shopping district in miami beach. If you look around me right now, it is al
Stay. Stay. Very happy to see you both. Stay with us. Lots of stuff is weird right now in your life as well as ours. This is the first night of a Party Convention unlike any other in history. The bottom line of course will be the same. This years dnc will be joe biden and Kamala Harris for president and vice president. But other than that, everything is different. Despite its name, for example, this years convention will not actually convene any people. You are looking here at the Wisconsin Center in downtown milwaukee where the dnc is kind of still being held but instead of being filled to the rafters with delegates and Party Faithful and the press and balloons and streamers, because of the pandemic, the Wisconsin Center is home tonight only to a broadcast control room, which you see here, which will be handling video feeds of speeches being delivered remotely from all over the country. Those speeches tonight will include one from possibly the most popular person in the country, forme
To say a lot of pomp and pageantry and crowds that as chad pergram was just telling bill hemmer virtually nonexistent in this new world we call coronavirus world. They will be addressing the public in about a half an hour. In the meantime, Jacqui Heinrich on whats at stake as these two get ready to introduce themselves, right . Hey there, neil. Well, the Biden Campaign brought in close to 50 grand a minute in the four hours after senator Kamala Harris was announced as the running mate. Total of 10. 8 million that comes close to the Campaign Fundraising record for a single event 11 million back in june when former president barack obama and biden hosted a virtual event. So this, today, they hope will bring in some money. Harris has some good fundraising power during the vp surge she brought in most of the any vp contenders 5 million according to politico. Only Elizabeth Warren brought in more at 7. 7 million. Donors who backed harris 2020 president ial campaign have reportedly already g