Transition to march 1st, saying the state wasnt ready. The bill to stop the switch altogether shouldnt have trouble passing the iowa senate where democrats have control. But it could face trouble in the republican controlled house. Speaker Linda Upmeyer said she likely wont let the bill on the house floor, because governor branstad will veto. Senator liz mathis says she hopes upmeyer will reconsider if republicans have a good show of support today and in the house. Hopefully shell see that there maybe a lot of republicans and democrats who will support this bill when it gets over there and it wont be dead on arrival. Senator david johnson, a wellknown senate republican, is supporting the bill. Governor branstad is pushing privatization to help cut costs for medicaid. Is meeting for the final time to make a decision on the proposed bakken oil pipeline. The pipeline would carry oil from north dakota to illinois, cutting through 18 week to make a decision. Its held a closeddoor session to discuss the project yesterday. Todays meeting in des moines is open to the public. A local union leader tells the Des Moines Register hes in favor of bringing the pipeline through. Chad carter, the uice president for operating engineers local 234 ys quote i believe thihi will be good for iowa, good for the taxpayers, independence. Opposes the bill and the way the utilities board is handling the issue. He told the register quote i think these meetings, these deliberations, anything of this importance to the public, should be conducted entirely in the light of day. Fallon has been against the pipelines construction fo quite some time. Yoyomight remembererast winter when he walked the entire route of the pipeline. This is from when he walked in Jefferson County last march. The entire walk took him 32 days to complete. Meteorologist Justin Gehrts has your first alert forecast, justin. Were okay for now but watching for a system our aftftnoon starts with plentiful sunshine, but clouds will slowly increase as the day goes on. Flurries and lighghsnow move in late this evening and continue into the night. However, accumulation s will be light, staying under an inch. Highs climb to near 20 today and stay in the upper teens overnight. Well be close to 20 tomorrow with snow ending early in the morning witd clearing inhe afternoon winds do pick up, putting an extra chill in the air. Saturday will be cold with morning lows near zero and highs in the teens, despite a mostly sunny sky. Another round of snow arrives saturday night and stays through sunday, probably dropping a few inches of accumulation. It wont last long, though, as warmer weather takes over next week. Togay turning partly sunny high 1824 winns light o1ddq 19iow 22 new at midday. 52 people are dead after a prison. 12 others were also hurt when Authorities Say 2 rival factions in the prison fought overnight. An Infamous Drug Cartel was a key player in the fight. A fire started at the prison around 12 30 this morning. Witnesses say they heard several shouts and explosions coming from the prison. Prison Officials Say the fire likely started on an inmates mattress. Authorities say the fire wasnt extinguished until after sunrise. The remaining occupiers at a Federal Building in oregon are expected to surrender to Law Enforcement today. 4 peoeoe have been holding g t inside the maleur National Wildlife refuge. The situation started january 2nd, when protesters took over the refuge to decry what they called government overreach of federal land. Several others were arrested last month. Free at last, free at last cruise goers stranded off the new jersey coast are back on dry land today. Their Royal Caribbean arrived back in port late last night. The ship left that same port on saturday for a weeklong cruise in the bahamas. But bad weather forced the ship and its 4,500 ssengers to for hours. It was like on a roller coaster you cant get off of and youre not strapped in. It was scary but the crew and captain were great. Horrible, horrible. Dont even want to talk about it. Dont even want to talk about it. Today the coast guard is investigating the ship for any damage. In the last 10 days, both Hillary Clinton and vvmont senator Bernie Sanders have split the first caucus and primary of the 2016 election seas. Tonight theyll try to sway voters in nevada and South Carolina at a debate in wisconsin. Joe johns has a preview from wisconsin. Bernie sanders raising over six Million Dollars in the 24 hours after polls closed in New Hampshire gaining momentum before tonights crucial pbs democratic president ial debate bernie, bernie, berniedescending on new york city in a victory lap celebrating his sweeping win in tuesdays New Hampshire primary bringing his anti establishment message to the late show with stephen president ial ndidate our Campaign Finance our economy is essentially owned and controlled by a relatively small number of people whose greed in my view is middle class in this country. And to day time talker, the view. President ial candidate this be a nation of fairness and were not seeing that fairness. Meanwhile Hillary Clinton laying comparatively low after her crushing defeat. No longer the undisputed Democratic Front runner tonights critical Debate Campaign back on track. The former secretary of state ready making changes promising a more aggressive edge. The challenge for sanders Going Forward will be capturing the African American vote a key piece of the democratic electorate in the pivotal South Carolina primary later this month. Courting the African American vote sanders took his campaign to harlem tuesday eting with civil ririts leader Iowa City Police are hopeful a new program will help locate people with alzheimers and autism or mother and daycare operator meghan schwalm plans to sign up her 5year old son maddox for the system. Maddox is on the autism spectrum and has gone missing several times. Lost will create a database including the of anyone officers someone who may have special needs. Tool to give the Police Department information to find someone, a training tool because its information about things that trigkers for folks with autism. Police also plan to provide electronic program. The devices will give officers and loved ones an exact location of someone who goes missing. Plans to expand its Outpatient Mental Health clinic. Tanager place helps children and families with social and psychological needs. Outpatient Mental Health clinic last june. Today is the kick off event to the next phase of fundraising to reach a 6. 5 Million Dollar goal. The event is tonight at 5 oclock at the truenorth building. A hospital here in cedar rapids says it needs more nurses. Patients are getting older and needing more medical care. B b so are some of the retirement. Meteorologist Justin Gehrts updates our first alert our afternoon starts with plentiful sunshine, but clouds will slowly increase as the day goes on. Flurries and light snow move inn late this evening and continue into the night. However, accumulation s will be light, staying under an inch. Highs climb to near 20 today and stay in the upper to 20 tomorrow with snow ending early in the morning with clearing in the afternoon. Extra chill in the air. Saturday will be cold with morning lows near zero and highs in the sky. Another round of snow arrives saturday night and dropping a few inches of accumulation. It wont last long, though, a a week. Today turning partly sunny high 1824 winds light alo 18 dbq 19 iow 22 tonight light snow likely low 1420 winds sw 510 alo 15 dbq 15 iow 18 tomorrow early am snow, clearing high 1723 winds nw 1530 alo 18 dbq 19 iow 21 tomorrow night mostly clear low 33 winds nw 515 alo 4 dbq 2 iow 2 saturday mostly sunny, chilly high 14 low 0 sunday snow likely high 26 low 8 monday mostly high 34 low 17 tuesday chance of rain snow high 38 low 23 wednesday partly cloudy high 39 low 25 thursday mostly cloudy high 45 low 24 thanks justin. A shortage of registered nurses spread across the country through the year 2030. And Unity Point Health stst lukes hospital in cedar rapids needs to fill 57 positions. But with that demand increasing keeping up with the job pace can be challenging. Rgtv9s brea love r rorts. The Digestive Health department inside of st. Lukes hospital isnt busy right now. But, its usually packed with patients. 53 44 colonoscopys, upper we see a lot of patients in and out. Recently hirededurse Paula Bulicek just started here three months ago. Shes one of the many the hospital. 54 07 its a good place to work, i like the business of it, you kind of get to knkn your patients a little bit. And its all about the patients. St. Lukes Officials Say patients are aging, as well as the nursing force, and as they both grow older, nurses will retire, and patients will need more healthcare services. 46 16 that puts a demand for more nursing additionally theres been some changes qn legislation that really increased access to health care, so you have e ore of a demand for those services as a result. Those changes have diversified health care, houlihan says healthcare is now much more than coming to a hospital for care. 47 11 thats just one piece of the experience. How health care is changing, is its outreach, to homes, to clinics, things that were previously done in a hospital are being done in an ambulatory basis. And that means there are positions open at hospitals. Houlih says its important to have a team thats ready to take care of patients when they need it. Thats why they are looking toward existing interns and partnering with local nurses the chance to talk about how much they love what they do. 54 31 i like the change everyday, nothings the same everyday. Brea love with that report. Houlihan says they have had ups and downs in the past, and will continue working to adapt. She says theyre looking for motivated, caring, individuals. Lieutenant governor kim reynolds focused on ag conference. She focused on the future of education and Water Quality funding. Thats coming up next in todays agribusiness report. David geiger. The iowa its save initiative. At the agribusiness conference. Lieutenant governor kim reynolds was speaking on some of the ag issues in iowa. She spoke mostly on the governors proposal funding education and Water Quality until 2049. In 2009 a 1 percent sales tax was approved for 20 years for school infrastructure. The governor wants to extend it another 20 years. Guaranteeing the first 10 Million Dollars of annual the extra growth for Water Quality funding. He estimates it would make 20 point seven billion dollars for schools. And four point seven billion for Water Quality. But the proposal is struggling against the legislative branch. Reynolds says theyre willing to compromise to get it through. Reach out to your legislators and encourage them to work willing to look at different ideas, different certainly if they have a better idea that can generate that kind of money were more than happy to work with them. But there is a sense of urgency and we just kind of say dont let perfect be the enemy of good. Reynolds says they think with designated funds, scientific based programs, dealing with absentee across the state. Theheew initiative wouldd end criticism of iowas Water Quality goals. In the wasde report. Corn higher. And soybean endings stocks are up 10 million. But the marketetdont seem to be reacting much. Mostly neutral what we expect. No big surprise. The grain markets still. Very choppy really thin, break this week. Nice seeing business from them. If you have a dollar, via dollar trading back higher today as well too. Corn did have a fresh sale to japan this morning to market a little bit but a whole lot of yesterday, pretty much what was expected and this time choppy and thats what were seeing with the market right now. We got kind of an up and down, a big whipsaw big selloff on monday and the cash did not come in as good as expected late on friday of last week. And then here were back higher. The key is can we pull of that 136138 this chugging had some profit taking had a nice, roughly over ten dollar rally in some of these contracts. Still think the trend is still up right now longer term as weights are dropping and cash is still very some fresh demand as we come into spring here too. Wants to slice up crop on tuesday. President obamas suggested a ten year. 18 billion dollar cut to the federal crop ininrance program. It was just a couple months ago congress rejected three billion the request also includes Meat Inspection fees under the food safety and modernization act. As well as an increase in agricultural chairman pat roberts says the budget proposals are essentially dead on arrival. And today. Thanks for report. Ill well post a video every day in the agribusiness it under the news tab. Im david geiger with the agribusiness report. Trt 3. 33 oc webtease good news this midday for frequent fliers. Airfare for domestic flights in the United States are the lowest theyve been this decade. Airline ticket prices fell more than 6 percent in the Third Quarter of 2015. Experts say an expansion of Lowcost Airlines and the lower cost of jet lower prices. From the gaelic tones. To illusions. To ragtime the musical, the gazettes diana nollen will be in with the best bets this weekend to take in whats playing here in eastern from ragtime the mususal. To from ragtime the musical. To tricking the mind and the eye. An active weekend awaits us for arts and culture in eastern iowa. Welcome to thursday, which means also an ideal time to look ahead to saturday and sunday and plenty to take in throughout the region for entertainment. Diana nollen from the gazette and hoopla now joins us for the thursday diana. For your best bets, letgo Paramount Theatre in cedar rapids, ragtime the musical. Back to saturday, also at the paramount, Jay Owenhouse will offer his skills to trick the mind and please at the englert theatre in iowa city, gaelic storm is returning for a valentines day Public Education funding is once again a hot topic in des moines. High School Students in cedar rapids spent part of their school week in des moines to give lawmakers a piece meteorologist Justin Gehrts updates our temperatures coming up in your first alert Hillary Clinton and vermont senator Bernie Sanders take the stage for their latest debate. The us senate is discussing more than a billion dollars in funding to fight the zika virus. Its an issue thats even affecting some iowans in coming weeks. And the department of justice is taking action against the ferguson Police Department for not cooperating with a monthslong investigation. Youre watching kcrgtv9. Now, from your 24 hour news source, this is kcrgtv9 news at midday. New at midday. The cricket hollow zoo in manchester to remove its days. Claiming the species act. It claimed the kept endangered animals in unsanity and poorly maintained conditions. The judges order also blocks the zoo from acquiring any animals on the endangered species list unless it can demonstrate it can care for the animals. Stay with kcrgtv9 and kcrg updates on this ruling today the iowa senate could move forward with a plan to stop the states change to a privataized medicaid system. State senators started debating a bill on the floor early this morning. The bill shouldnt have trouble passing the iowa senate where democrats have control. But it could face trouble in the republican controlled house. Speaker Linda Upmeyer said she likely wont let the bill on the house floor, because governor branstad will veto. Senator liz mathis sponsors the bill and says she hopes upmeyer will have a good show of support today and in the house. A group of cedar rapids students who lobbied lawmakers for more Education Funding are back in class today. The group School Students talked to lawmakers in des moines yesterday. Cedar rapids schools superintendent brad buck says the District Needs at least a 3 point 72 percent increase to maintain current staffing and programs. One metro sophomore has a good feeling about their work. I feel like we got a lot of answers told to us. Hopefully that will have some effect on the outcome. The district says it hasnt made any decisions on cuts, if the School Funding increase isnt large enough. Meteorologist Justin Gehrts has your first alert forecast, justin. Our afternoon starts with plentiful the day goes on. Flurries and light snow move in late this evening and continue into the night. However, accumulation s will be light, staying under an inch. Highs climb to near 20 today and stay in the upper teens overnight. Well be close to 20 tomorrow with snow ending early in the morning with clearing in the afternoon. Winds do pick up, putting an extra chill in the air. Saturday will be cold with morning lows near zero and highs in the teens, despite a mostly sunny sky. Another round of snow arrives saturday night and stays through sunday, probably dropping a few inches of accumulation. It wont last long, though, as warmer weather takes over next week. Today turning partly sunny high 1824 winds light alo 18 dbq 19 iow 22 Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders will meet for another debate tonight this time in milwaukee even though the wisconsin primary is not for eight more weeks. Senator sanders captured the New Hampshire primary easily on tuesday over the former the next three weeks are critical for both democrats and republicans as nevada and South Carolina are up before super tuesday on march 1. Todays debate starts at 8 pm iowa time and will air on pbs and cnn. Economic issues like minimum wage reform could be a topic tonight. Fast food workers are expected to hold rallies outside tonights debate in milwaukee, calling for 15 an hour. Organizers expect more than 1,000 people to be there. Senator sanders supports the 15 wage. Mrs. Clinton says she would cap the wage at 12 an hour. The robust republican field is still large but its thinning out a little more after each caucus or primary. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie suspended his campaign for the 2016 nomination, the notable legacy was his debate takeover of marco rubio back on saturday night. Former Hewlett Packard ceo Carly Fiorina also is leaving the campaign. Her debate performances in august and september led to a surge in the polls but she was unable to build on that momentum. Faces a new challenge after the department of justice announced it is suing the city. This comes after attorney general Loretta Lynch investigated fergusons Police Department for Excessive Force and racial discrimination. Abcs bazi kanani reports. A new battle in ferguson, missouri. The Justice Department is now suing the city for violating its residents civil rights. The Ferguson Police depts. Violations were expansive and deliberate, stopping people without reasonable suspicion, arresting them without cause, and using unreasonable force. These violations were not only egregious they were routine. They were driven at least in part by racial bias. The lawsuit comes after a surprise move this week by the city council. Voting to push back against the settlement the city had reached with the Justice Department after months of negotiations. You know the things that we asked for are i think very reasonable. City leaders want to amend the agreement which they say the city cant afford to implement. But attorney general Loretta Lynch isnt buying that argument. The department of justice and fergusons that was both fair and costeffective lynch says city leaders leave her no other choice forcing litigation to protect the rights of residents the Justice Department says are treated unfairly by police and a profitdriven court system. They have waited decades for justice. They should not be forced to wait any longer. Bazi on cam tag this case now goes to trial. Unless the city and the Justice Department are able to settle first. Attorney general lynch did not indicate much hope for that. Civil Rights Groups in iowa are pushing for legislation that reform the criminal justice system. Groups are in favor of a bill that would ban racial profiling and keep juvenile records confidential. Lawmakers ban the box on job applications to expand Work Opportunities for people with criminal to applications that asks if youve been convicted of any crimes. The cost for a road project in the cedar rapids area has tripled since the original estimate. So now, transportatio n planners want to defund the road that would connect marion, robins, hiawatha and northern cedar rapids. Linn county was hoping to build 3 4 of a mile of Tower Terrace road from robins road to council street. The estimated cost for this is now almost 19Million Dollars. Planning organization is recommending taking 760,000 from that project and putting it into a different stretch of Tower Terrace road. It would connect Tower Terrace from c avenue ne in cedar rapids to alburnett road in marion. Today a Us Senate Committee is discussing the funding to fight the zika virus outbreak. Cdc director doctor Thomas Frieden and the head of the National Institute of allergy and Infectious Diseases are testifying. The committee is discussing president obamas proposal for 1 point 8 billion funding to fasttrack a zika vaccine. Doctor frieden says the cdc is learning more about this virus every day. Zikas new. New diseases can be scary and particularly when the affect the most vulnerable among us. Right now the most important thing for americans to know is if youre pregnant its better not to travel a place where zika is spreading. Some opponents to the zika funding says Us Health Officials should just use the surplus money from the fight against ebola. Doctors in dubuque say pregnant women are calling with questions about catching the zika virus. It can cause babies to be born with small heads. A dubuque obstetrician urges pregnant women to follow the c dc recommendati ons. Patients who are pregnant and have gone to an affected country, its now recommended that they get tested when they come back, even if they did not have symptoms. Medical providers tell us the zika virus is not a influenza. Its now the season of lent and students and faculty at Loras College in dubuque are encouraging people to do simple acts of kindness in the time leading up til easter. The committee duit forward made a calendar where each day offers Something Different for students to do on campus. The goal is to bring joy to other people each day. They can be as simple as, todays act of kindness is hold a door open for somebody, it is a super easy thing to do, there are fun ones such as, you know, put a hand written note in somebodys mailbox, uhm, just as simple as making somebodys day, make somebody smile. Loras invites everyone to join in. The committee is using the hashtag duitforward where people can post pictures, comments, and more on twitter. Now at 50 years since the beatles were at their apex. A new way of seeing them and, more accurately, hearing them. But only on netflix. Our showbiz wrap is coming up. Plus, instead of a crossover drive and score one iowa group wants to add empathy for its basketball tournament by inviting all people to play basketball. On two wheels. Meteorologist Justin Gehrts updates our temperatures coming up in your first alert forecast. Stay with tv9. Our afternoon starts with plentiful sunshine, but clouds will slowly increase as the day goes on. Flurries and light snow move in late this evening and continue into the night. However, accumulation s will be light, staying under an inch. Highs climb to near 20 today and stay in the upper teens overnight. Well be close to 20 tomorrow with snow ending early in the morning with clearing in the afternoon. Winds do pick up, putting an extra chill in the air. Saturday will be cold with morning lows near zero and highs in the teens, despite a mostly sunny sky. Another round of snow arrives saturday night and dropping a few inches of accumulation. It wont last long, though, as warmer weather takes over next week. Today turning partly sunny high 1824 winds light alo 18 dbq 19 iow 22 tonight light snow likely low 1420 winds sw 510 alo 15 dbq 15 iow 18 tomorrow early am snow, clearing high 1723 winds nw 1530 alo 18 dbq 19 iow 21 tomorrow night mostly clear low 33 winds nw 515 alo 4 dbq 2 iow 2 saturday mostly sunny, chilly high 14 low 0 sunday snow likely high 26 low 8 monday mostly cloudy rain snow high 38 low 23 wednesday partly cloudy high 39 low 25 thursday mostly cloudy high 45 low 24 thanks justin. The beatles will find netflix. Plus, paying homage at the grammys to another musical legend who passed away in 2016 glenn frey of the eagles. Jason wrap. Shondaland is back tonight greys anatomy, scandal, how to get away with murder are all returning to abc for the 2nd halves of their seasons. Martin henderson is one of the newbies on currently in its 12th season and he says thanks to netflix and hulu people are still discovering actor, greys anatomy tonights greys episode, by the way, is directed by denzel washington. Apaptn1800 us recently went under some heavy but hes nearly unrecognizable in his new project as donald trump he plays the republican president ial candidate in a new comedy video on funny or die the secret 50 minute movie hit the site wednesday with no advance notice. Ron howard, Henry Winkler and more make cameos. The beatles are getting animated, on netflix. The into the new animated kids series beat bugs and everyone from pink to sia will cover hits from the beatles for use in the show pearl jams eddie vedder does Magical Mystery Tour check it out on netflix in august. And another tribute has been added to the grammys this one to eagles Founding Member glenn frey, who died last month. Don henley, joe walsh, and the rest of the eagles will be joined by jackson browne. David bowie and b. B. King are also getting tributes during the show, which airs live coast to coast on monday. And thats whats happening in hollywood, im jason nathanson, abc news, los angeles. Some people in des moines are getting exercise on the Basketball Court and learning a lesson in empathy. Courage League Sports is hosting a 3 on 3 wheelchair basketball tournament. The facility offers a wide range of recreational sports and activities for kids and adults with special needs. But, this tournament is hopes people who can walk will learn something about life confined to 2 wheels. They really enjoy having that opportunity to play and share with people what they may be living through everyday. I think it is really important to raise awareness to what others are going through. Last year the tournament brought 16 teams to the hardwood. The group hopes to double the number of teams this year. In five weeks, both iowa and indiana will make the ncaa mens basketball tournament. Thats a given. Yet with des moines hosting an opening weekend, victories by iowa could make it easier and easier for the ncaa to play the hawkeyes in their home state. Tonight, iowa plays at indiana. The hawks are still in first place in the big ten. Indiana is a game back. 8 pm tip off on espn. Over the past two weeks here at midday, weve seen the choppy seas of the markets stocks up some days, down others. Our financial expert will be in with more guidance on navigating through the uneven seas to financial security. Next on kcrgtv 9. Welcome back to midday. As of right now, the dow is , nasdaq is. The fact that were looking at little more at the indices reveals the volitality within. Jan beal from Securian Financial Services in hiawatha joins us. With these choppy sessions, jan, how can people take a breath amid the uncertainty . At least with some stock prices down, they can be grabbed on a discount. For the investor still 20 or 30 years from retirement, this can also bring an opportunity to increase 401k or retirement contributions and get more value . Jan beal from securian, thank you for your time. Coming up tomorrow, our fitness segment and like last weekend, in time for stay with your 24 hour news back to our top stories this midday. Iowa state senators are debating a bill that would stop the states move to privatized medicaid. The democratic controlled senate will likely pass the measure but it will likely face an uphill battle in the republican held house. Move in an costs. Today the iowa utilities board is meeting for the final time today to discuss the proposed bakken oil pipeline. The pipeline would cut across 18 counties in iowa. If project would start this spring. Today senator Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton will debate in milwaukee candidates are trying to sway voters in nevada and South Carolina after each won iowa and New Hampshire. Tonights debate starts at 8 00 on cnn and pbs. Now, one last look at this mornings weather, justin. Our afternoon starts with plentiful sunshine, but clouds will slowly increase as the day goes on. Flurries and light snow move in late this evening and continue into the night. However, accumulation s will be light, staying under an inch. Highs climb to near 20 today and stay in the upper teens overnight. Well be close to 20 tomorrow with snow ending early in the morning with clearing in the afternoon. Winds do pick up, putting an extra chill in the air. Saturday will be cold with morning lows near zero and highs in the teens, despite a mostly sunny sky. Another round of snow arrives saturday night and stays through sunday, probably dropping a few inches of accumulation. It wont last long, though, as warmer weather takes over next week. Today turning partly sunny high 1824 winds light alo 18 dbq 19 iow 22 tonight light snow likely low 1420 winds sw 510 alo 15 dbq 15 iow 18 tomorrow early am snow, clearing high 1723 winds nw 1530 alo 18 dbq 19 iow 21 tomorrow night mostly clear low 33 winds nw 515 alo 4 dbq 2 iow 2 saturday mostly sunny, chilly high 14 low 0 sunday snow likely high 26 low 8 monday mostly cloudy high 34 low 17 tuesday chance of rain snow high 38 low 23 wednesday partly cloudy high 39 low 25 thursday mostly
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