Following last months unres,t with an annoucement this morning about a major boost towards creating stronger families and neighborhoods. Im proud today to say that the city of milwaukees office of violence prevention has been awarded a five year federal grant. To the Substance Abuse and Mental Health service administration. Administration. Its called the resiliency in communities after stress and trauma grant and mayor barrett says its one of the largest grants ever awarded to milwaukees health the purpose of the program is to assist highrisk youth and families and promote resilience and equity in communities through violence prevention, Community Youth engagement programs, and Behavioral Health services. Local Officials Say its a step towards a great solution. Its not as if 5Million Dollars changes this, but its the ability to pull together people to have a common vision about how to approach it and then bring the right partners to the table to address it. Well have much more on today
Its tuesday, february 16th. Announcer everyone abc news, this is world news now. And everybody, good morning on a busy tuesday. Im kendis gibson. Im reena ninan. All i ask. The way i belt it out, it kind you have sounded like the way because. Technical difficult. The tune was a little bit off. She drowned her sorrows in in and out burger. It was still a beautiful performance. Weegin with the all out brawl new South Carolina. A nasty war of words on the campaign trail. As the democrats battle over middle class and minority voters and former president bush stumps for his younger brother, donald trump is doubling down on his 9 11 comments. Its your voice, your vote. And abcs lana zak has the latest on the candidates starting with the republicans. Bush 43 was on the campaign trail trying to make younger brother jeb bush 45. We need someone who can fix the problems that cause our anger and frustration and thats jeb bush. [ cheers and applause ] reporter and jeb needs the help. The South Car
Immediate impact. For one, its the off season and the cricket hollow zoo is closed. And the ruling gives the owners 90 days to find new homes. Pam sellner, shown here in a 2009 interview, didnt want to comment before sitting down with an attorney but one man who was part of the suit called it a victory for the animals. Im very happy about this ruling, but at the same time saddened becausustheres another 290295 animals that are living under very similar conditions having these exotic animals in a habitat that isnt meant for them is just inappropriate braumann and four other individuals had visited the zoo over the years and became concerned saw as lack of care for exotic aninals. Thatshy they took part in the lawsuit. The attorney in the case, by video phone, said a big goal now is to find a new, proper home for the tigers and lemurs that must go. Finding sanctuaries that are well l epared and well equipped to accept these ready to accept them to live out their lives in favorable condit
First, meteorologis t kaj omara has your first alert fororast, kaj. Any light snow showers are quickly moving out of the area. The sky should rapidly clear and the wind will be picking up as well. Plan on highs in the upper teens to lower 20s with a slow fall in temperature during the afafernoon. Many areas s suld either touch zero or go a bit below zero tonight with wind chill numbers briefly approaching 20 tomorrow morning. Saturday continues to look great, with a good chance of snow on sunday all across the area. At this time, 24 continues toook like a very reasonable amount with a light fluffy consistency. Next week, plan on some e s to start off, with a r rurn to some 40s by next thursday and friday today clearing, turning windy high 1723 winds nw 1530 alo 17 dbq 18 iow 21tonight mostly clear low 42 winds nw 515 alo 4 dbq 3 iow 0tomorrow mostly sunny, chilly high 1117 winds nw 510 alo 13 dbq 13 iow 15tomorrow night chance of snow late low 511 former secretary of state Hillary Clin
Threat was. The scare yesterday didnt cancel classes today, activities. Social media posts are the reason this consultant, edwin javius , is no longer being paid by the cedar rapids javius heads a consulting compancalled, san jose california. The district hired him back in 2014 to help promote equity within schools. And was worth between 189,000 and 219,000, plus travel expenses. But the district says social media posts alleged javius lied about his credentials to past clients. A 2014 faceok post from a california a chool district javius had contracted with said it had discovered he misrepresente d himself. It said javius claimed to have a doctorate from usc, even though he did not. Javius responded the post, saying he completed his doctoral coursework, but not hh dissertation. Since, the Cedar Rapids School district is noting the importance of and procedures for hiring vendors and working with vendors in our district, and we do background checks that are required by the state of iowa