administration, the democrats were going to make sure he did not appoint anybody to the suprcourt. cynthia: today grassley said , after giving it more thought, he implied he wouldn t rule out holding hearings on an obama nominee, but would only say senator grassley i will take it : a step at a time. he hasn t nominated anyone yet. cynthia: the constitution states the president can nominate with the advice and consent of the senate. matt sinovac, who questioned grassley about the process, was not pleased with his answers. the kept repeating that we will take it one step at a time, but he tried to be very vague and continued to play political games with this nomination process. cynthia: president obama today challenged republicans to offer any plausible rationale for refusing to consider a supreme court candidate, and he vowed to nominate an outstanding legal mind. stacey: the man looking to unseat senator grassley comes to the selection process for the next supreme court jus
act. todd: storm lake legislator gary worthan is sponsoring the bill. he says the dot tells him the the average speed on iowa s interstates is 72. all the more reason to boost it to 75. if you re not going to in 470 to slow that traffic down, let s make it legal. todd: one driver we talked with lung interstate north of des moines agrees. most of the people are going that speed anyway, so if someone is going 70 they are actually slowing the traffic down. todd: in fact, in a very unscientific test, we set our cruise control at 70 along i-35 and traffic constantly passed us. but not everybody is convinced faster is better. the thing is, they go fast enough as it is. in the winter time, people need to slow down. you know, it s a trade off. if you want to look at safety and that s all you want to look at, it should be 25 to 30 miles an hour. is dead set against raising the speed limit. the next step for this bill is the full transportation committee and the iowa house. tha
victory of a lifetime. a local college coach is in the fight for his life.why the des moines fire department is stepping in to help. transition time. iowa is about to make a move that will impact thousands of people. find out if those in charge of privatizing medicaid think the system is ready for it. water rescue. an indianola man s prayers were answered when two men rescued him from an icy lake. how he is doing tonight. and what he has to say to the men who rescued him. from who h-d iowa s high definition leader..this is the channel 13 news at nine on fox 17 he s used to battling for wins and losses but a community college s new coach has an even bigger opponent a lung condition that s killing him. good evening. i m lynning. thank you for joining us tonight. this spring, current ankeny centennial will also suit up for marshaltown community college. but it s his career in another uniform that s slowly killing him. justin surrency explains how he s battling to live longer and
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on a snowy sunday, weekend photographer rick rauzi was drawn to the call of the wild.. nats of geese as he snowshoed out onto the ice to capture the geese on lake ahquabi. he heard an unmistakable shattering sound. 03:11:13 the whole area just collapsed and i went right down over my head. it was not a slow sink. i went down instantaneously and came up and you know, had my initial extreme panic 27 once that passed, rauzi began yelling for his life. but as the minutes ticked by. he began to realize no one could hear or see him in the water. 03:12:54 i said goodbye to my wife, said goodbye to my kids said i didn t want to die two ice fishermen made sure he didn t die. after finally hearing his calls for help, they used a canoe to get close enough to throw him a lifeline. at first, rauzi didnt want to grab the rope.. 03:13:26 i was afraid to let go of the ice because i d gone down twice. i slipped off twice and went down over my head and the last time i did it, i knew if i did it