Especially one who dedicates his life to protecting others. Josh would have to undergo nextday surgery and multiple rounds of chemotherapy. I tried to stay strong, i remember telling him youll be all right, id leave and come back, im an emotional guy, i couldnt hold it together, said sheriff drew. A gun and a badge could do not good. But those at the june e. Nylon could. Thats why more than 70 percent of the Sheriffs Office participates in no shave november, each donating 30. To give back to the community. One of the ways we do it we have everybody hear grow beards and we donate the money to june e. Nylen. A fact thats not lost on josh, who today, is cancer free. It shows that they support individuals with cancer and want to help in someway, and as the Sheriffs Office continues to grow their beard to show their support, josh continues to grow his family they told me, maybe a 10 percent chance that i could have kids, and then my daughter came and then not a year later my son came and th
Story with ktivs sam curtiss. Bad weather wasnt going to stop Gerald Muilenburg from speakin wednesday morning. I asked them whatre you going to do, said Gerald Muilenburg. They said oh just make it faster. The korean war veteran says its not often he talks of the time he served. Let alone in front of a crowd. Im basically a shy person so i stay away from that stuff if i can, said gerlad muilenburg. Muilenburg was drafted once he finished college in 1952. He spent almost t year in korea. Working in a Headquarters Company mainly running a post exchange. Selling things like food and clothes. Did not have to fight on the front as they [say] on the line, said Gerald Muilenburg. But those memories are distant. The sibley, iowa, native doesnt ponder much on whats ahead either. At 85 years old, he walks with a cane. Its kind of like a wooden reminder for his interpretation of veterans day. It makes you think of where you were and man how time passes, said Gerald Muilenburg. Following his year
Morning. Hmm . That person clearly was right. Well check in with al in a check. Also, today, the weather is our top story. Damaging winds sweeping east after a rough wednesday for tens of millions of people. Nbcs ron mott is in chicago this morning, hawaii, ron. How are you . Reporter good morning. A rough night in the midwest, especially in chicago, which is living up to the nickname today. It is very breezy. You can see the flags behind me dancing. This wind is expected to gust today 50 to 55 Miles Per Hour, and it wont go away any time soon. They will blow all day today into tomorrow. In chicago overnight, stunning lightning lit up the windy city as the nearby suburbs had to dial with downed power lines and massive downpours. The storm moving east after nine suspected tornadoes touched down in iowa wednesday, destroying homes and overturning a semi the roads. Uprooting trees and lifting this parked car into the air. In iowa city, wind gusts combined with rain and lightning. Causing
Theit kids to stand up and lock up cancer. It was a day full of lauter and hope as students at hartley melvinsanborn Elementary School came together for a cause. Over 300 students came to School Friday ready to fill up this fish tank with pennies, which will all go to charity. And since it was filled. The principal got locked up in jail. Not real jail. But a cage in the lunchroom. We try to do something a little different to get the students excited and motivated so that we can do our part even as small as it may be to help create awareness and show people that we care, said hms elementary principal, cathy jochims. Cancer hits home for those at hms elementary as they lost an associate, a past secretary and a former teacher to cancer. All within three months last year. A few years ago, a current third grade teacher got Breast Cancer and a special Education Teacher was diagnosed with uterin cancer. And now they have an associate who is diagnosed with lymphoma. Staff, she is going through
Warm, and an apartment to sleep in, tonight. But, hundreds of sioux cityans dont have that luxury, and sleep on the streets. Tonight, hundreds are sleeping outside, on purpose, to limit homelessness throughout the area. Housing or its very limited. As the opportunity to experience homelessness first hand, raises awareness and money in the community. They might not have anywhere to sleep, so were supporting them, said lacy barger homeless need help with getting food and shelter and people need to be aware to be homeless, said matthew christian. Were going to sleep in some boxes tonight, were going to build a castle to lay siege to homelessness, said alec devries, a junior at morningside college. Hoping sleeping outside results in siouxlanders sleeping inside. While theres 300 people that may be sleeping outside in the siouxland area on any given night. Theres around 2,500 people in total that are homeless in the area. Tonight, they aimed to raise 50,000 hoping to counter that number. Ma