Transcripts For KCRG KCRG TV9 Morning News 20151030 : compar

Transcripts For KCRG KCRG TV9 Morning News 20151030

First, meteorologis t kaj omara has your first alert forecast, kaj. Clouds will still be an issue over parts of the area today, mainly in our Northern Counties. They should tend to break up as the day goes on. Temperatures will generally average around 50 degrees over our Northern Counties with iowa city and points south briefly touching 55 later today. Clouds will increase yet again by Late Afternoon as our next system moves in. This system looks to bring rain late tonight into the first half of our saturday. The bulk of the rain should be out and east of us by 2pm, though an isolated shower may yet linger into the iowa game. It still looks dry for trick or treating on saturday evening. Enjoy your weekend toda y partly sunny high 5056 winds s 510 alo 54 dbq 52 iow 55tonight showers late low 4248 winds s 515 alo 45 dbq 44 iow 45tomorrow showers likely high 4854 winds sw 515 alo 53 dbq 51 iow 53tomorrow night gradual clearing low 3945 winds sw 510 alo 42 dbq 42 iow 42 assault on a trail within the last 3 months. Right now they are looking into an attack. On a recreational trail near cedar bend park. A Woman Told Police a man pulled the hood of her sweatshirt over her eyes, and then pulled her off the trail yesterday afternoon. Police say the man tried to sexually assault her, but she got away. Police are trying to find out if this is the same man who attacked a woman in july. In that case, a woman said a man in his 20s dragged her off the trail inside george wyth park and sexually assaulted her. People found her unconscious in a wooded area. A woman is dead this morning, after a car hit and killed her when she was crossing a street in cedar falls. Police say 59 year old terry harp was walking across University Avenue in the 44hundred block about 5 30 yesterday morning. Thats when a car hit her, causing major head and internal injuries. She died at university of iowa hospitals and clinics. Police say the driver is not facing any charges. Two brothers in cedar rapids are waiting to be sentenced for conspiring to distribute meth. And it started when a boy brought a stuffed animal to school. A jury convicted 52 yearold Martin Lawrence and 54yearold Troy Lawrence on wednesday. The evidence showed martin headed a Drug Trafficking organization responsible for distributing methamphetam ine across eastern iowa. The jury says his brother, troy, helped the group distribute in the cedar rapids area. Police found out about the organization after martins stepson brought a stuffed animal with meth inside to his elementary school. In a tv9 followup this morning. All four prison Corrections Officers charged with either bringing drugs or cell phones into the anamosa state penitentiary have now pleaded guilty. Seth vogel entered a written plea wednesday and marques maryland pleaded guilty last week. Both are charged in jones county with possession of a controlled substance. A judge sentenced maryland to two days in jail and a 315 dollar fine. Vogel is expected to get the same sentence. Two other former Correctional Officers already pleaded guilty to federal charges. In all, nine guards have either resigned or been fired. Iowa cosmetologis ts are sharing their opinions following a lawsuit filed against the iowa board of cosmetology. Two des moines women are challenging the states cosmetology licensing requirements. Court documents say they want to open an africanstyle hair braiding business, but cant because they dont have cosmetology licenses. They say they have the skills and dont need to complete the 21hundred hours of training needed to get a license. Cosmetologists that we spoke with in cedar rapids, who are not part of the lawsuit, agree that the 21 hundred hours might be a bit much. But they do think some training is necessary to ensure customers are protected. Lawmakers introduced a bill to exempt africanstyle hair braiding from the definition of cosmetology during the last legislative session. Stylists say they worked hard to get to where theyre at and want to make sure theres some kind of oversight. 22 35 21 we pay a lot of money to go to hair school and you have to have the contact, the human contact to get the feel for it. So you dont just want anybody doing your hair. The Iowa Department of public health, which oversees the board of cosmetology, said in a statement that it cannot comment on pending litigation. But it also encouraged the legislature to look at the issue again in the upcoming session. A Clayton County casino agreement signed in 1994 has likely left millions of dollars on the table, instead of in the pockets of nonprofits. Attendance is down at the lady luck casino in marquette, and thats affecting money going to charities. State law requires casinos to give a minimum of 3 percent of revenue to the Nonprofit Corporation that holds the casinos license. But an old deal counts attendance and not revenue, which means person. For the past year, thats a difference of nearly 7 hundred thousand dollars that could have equipment or even schools. 2320 although wed like to be receiving the big dollars and, someday we will, at this time, were just focused on what we can do. You can find out more about the decline in revenue for the nonprofit and other details on kcrg dot com. Mcgrawhill Publishing Company in dubuque is offering its warehouse up for lease. Thats according to our partners kdth. The warehouse is located at 75 hundred chavenelle drive. Mcgrawhill closed it in march 2012, laying off 50 employees. The 330 thousand square foot building was built in dubuques Industrial Park west in 2002. Four School Districts in Northern Iowa want to make it easier for students to train for stem careers. Those are jobs that need a background in science, School Districts in charles city, new hampton, osage and Rudd Rockford marble rock announced the program at a charles City Manufacturing plant. Theyll receive 25 thousand dollars from the state and have 40 thousand dollars in donations from local companies to run a joint stem program. Organizers say the idea is to match students with learn about Technology Careers while Getting School credit. Its an extension of what we already have going on but it allows us to go deeper with job shadowing, partnerships and making it a trimester, semester long experience really digging in to stem careers and opportunities superintendent cox says smaller districts can be at a disadvantage compared to urban areas in providing stem opportunities. But a joint program in three counties should solve some of those problems. The governors Stem Advisory Council issued 12 grants. The Dubuque School district will use its grant to redesign the pre engineering rooms at senior and hempstead high schools. The rooms will have a special projector with a Wireless Connection to student laptops to project student projects. And north tama School District will use the grant to redesign the traditional kindergarten through 2nd grade classrooms to have an Early Childhood stem focus. Ghost peppers and a real ghost. One restaurant in marion says they have both. Employees and customers at a Carlos Okellys off of armar drive claim a spirit has been haunting the halls for decades. Tv9s Forrest Saunders is live at the Carlos Okellys. Forrest, people say its a spirit of a little girl . Thats what they say. It goes back, potentially, to the fifties. This spot used to be an Amusement Park, cemar acres. At that Amusement Park was a ferris wheel. A little girl, aged 10 to 13, was riding it when she fell off and died. Thats the story at least. Historians say its likely, someone at some point, fell from the ferris wheel, but theyre uncertain if there was ever a death. Regardless, employees say theyve experienced everything from falling plates and glasses, to themselves. We have a lot of fun with it. We talk to people. Were more than willing to share whatever stories we have. We love to have people come in and take a look and have dinner and see if they get any feelings from it when they come in. Employees say they havent ever felt threatened. More like someone is playing tricks on them. And if youre wondering, this place opened in 81. It was the first Carlos Okellys ever. Back to you guys in the studio. Tv9s Forrest Saunders. Thanks a lot. Apple officially opens its first store in the arab world. And were hearing a lot about drones up in the air. But what about underwater . Well clouds will still be an issue over parts of the area today, mainly in our Northern Counties. They should tend to break up as the day goes on. Temperatures will generally average around 50 degrees over our Northern Counties with iowa city and points south briefly touching 55 later today. Clouds will increase yet again by Late Afternoon as our next system moves in. This system looks to bring rain late tonight into the first half of our saturday. The bulk of the rain should be out and east of us by 2pm, though an isolated shower may yet linger into the iowa game. It still looks dry for trick or treating on saturday evening. Enjoy your weekend today partly sunny high 5056 winds s 510 alo 54 dbq 52 iow 55tonight showers late low 4248 winds s 515 alo 45 dbq 44 iow 45tomorrow showers likely high 4854 winds sw 515 alo 53 dbq 51 iow 53tomorrow night gradual clearing low 3945 winds sw 510 alo 42 dbq 42 iow 42 now heres abcs reena ninan and Kendis Gibson with this mornings techbytes. In todays techbytes apple is expanding the tech giant has opened its first two apple stores in the arab world. Both of them are in united arab em raets. They get the company to sell the apple watches. Facebook has a new way of display advertises to its users. Chances are you will not see in your newsfeed. Its intended for facebook users in the developing countries that have slow internet connection. And not all drones are in the air, trident is a remote controlled underwater drone, equipped with a camera. It works with any video game it works with any video game controller and can be hooked up to a Virtual Reality set. 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Talk to your doctor about tecfidera, and take another look terrifying moments on a runway in fort lauderdale, as more than a hundred passengers scramble to escape a burning plane. A team of ntsb investigators will arrive on scene this morning to figure out what led to the incident that nearly became a disaster. Abcs bazi kanani brings us the latest. The panicked moments just before takeoff. Alarms. Engines on fire engines on fire passengers sliding down the burning planes evacuation chutes. Then running to safety. I heard a loud bang, turned around saw the lights, saw flames. Ran to the fron of the aircraft. The emergency call. Just after 12 30. As the Dynamic Airways jet is taxiing for departure to venezuela. Another pilot on the tarmac. Spots the problem. Other pilot dynamic is, out of the left engine , it looks like its leaking a lot of . I dont know if its fuel, its fluid leaking out of the left engine. Tower okay dynamic, 4058, do you copy . Pilot uh, yes sir, we copy. Well probably need to go back, to the, um ramp. But just 10 seconds later. The fuel ignites. I heard a bump and heard screaming running to front. Its flames all over. Within three minutes, all 101 on board are off the jet. In another minute. The largest flames. Knocked down. All passengers are off the aircrat and the engine fire is out at least 21 passengers are hurt, mostly from bumps or falls during evacuation. Airport officials tout their quick response. As the ntsb and faa investigate this extremely close call. We averted a disaster today. Everything worked as is planned and is supposed to work. Bazi on camera tag Airline Officials say the boeing 767 was last inspected in june and had a brand new engine. They also credit the 9 crewmembers on board for a successful evacuation. Police in kentucky shot and killed a man early this morning he is accused of shooting a Tennessee Police officer Authorities Say theyve been looking for 62 year old Floyd Ray Cook for almost a week. Kentucky state Police Say Law enforcement shot and killed him. No officers were hurt. He was convicted of rape in the 1970s. Cook was wanted in marion county, kentucky, for failing to comply with the sex offender registry. Police in one eastern iowa city are concerned with a song on a childrens cd. They say the lyrics send the wrong message to kids about officers roles in the community. Heres a live look on our citycam this morning. Kaj omara will be back right after the break with a look at your school day forecast. Stay with us. Meteorologist kaj omara joins first alert forecast. Clouds will still be an issue over parts of the area today, mainly in our Northern Counties. They should tend to break up as the day goes on. Temperatures will generally average around 50 degrees over our Northern Counties with iowa city and points south briefly touching 55 later today. Clouds will increase yet again by Late Afternoon as our next system moves in. This system looks to bring rain late tonight into the first half of our saturday. The bulk of the rain should be out and east of us by 2pm, though an isolated shower may yet linger into the iowa game. It still looks dry for trick or treating on saturday evening. Enjoy your weekend today partly sunny high 5056 winds s 510 alo 54 dbq 52 iow 55tonight showers late low 4248 winds s 515 alo 45 dbq 44 iow 45tomorrow showers likely high 4854 nds sw 515 alo 53 dbq 51 w53tomorrow night gradual clearing low 3945 winds sw 510 alo 42 dbq 42 iow 42 the new university of iowa president starts his job on monday. Now the board of regents reveals the price tag the state has to pay for the search. Good morning. Heres a live look at our citycam. Its october 30th and heres what you need to know. A budget deal is on its way to president obamas desk this morning after the Senate Approved it. Thats despite backlash from two gop president ial hopefuls. Some small towns in eastern iowa wont have any names to check on election day new law. And that means it could take longer to count votes on tuesday. Police in waterloo are investigating the Second Attack on female runners on trails in the last three months. Police in iowa city are preparing for a potentially crazy evening tomorrow as trick or treaters go door to door the same time tens of thousands of fans leave kinnick stadium. And some customers are flocking to Carlos Okellys in marion because they hear its haunted. We hear from workers who have experiences with the ghost. Youre watching kcrgtv9. Now, from your 24 hour news source, this is kcrgtv9 news morning news. First, meteorologis t kaj omara has your first alert forecast, kaj. Clouds will still be an issue over parts of the area today, mainly in our Northern Counties. They should tend to break up as the day goes on. Temperatures will generally average around 50 degrees over our Northern Counties with iowa city and points south briefly touching 55 later today. Clouds will increase yet again by Late Afternoon as our next system moves in. This system looks to bring rain late tonight into the first half of our saturday. The bulk of the rain should be out and east of us by 2pm, though an isolated shower may yet linger into the iowa game. It still looks dry for trick or treating on saturday evening. Enjoy your weekend toda y partly sunny high 5056 winds s 510 alo 54 dbq 52 iow 55tonight showers late low 4248 winds s 515 alo 45 dbq 44 iow 45tomorrow showers likely high 4854 winds sw 515 alo 53 dbq 51 iow 53tomorrow night gradual clearing low 3945 winds sw 510 alo 42 dbq 42 iow 42 the us budget bill is on its way to president obamas desk. Senators approved the budget early this morning, finalizing the vote around 2 am iowa time. The house of representativ es passed a budget deal wednesday, despite many republicans voting against it. The twoyear fiscal proposal would increase federal spending and extend the debt limit. The proposal le

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