Demand at the holidays. Obviously were anticipating more growth this year and thats why we have the need for all the additional folks. Three years ago, during christmas 2013, ups guessed wrong about the surge in Online Shopping and disappointed some buyers with after christmas deliveries. One driversupervisor remembers that year and says the Company Learned a valuable lesson. Get the holiday help in early. It created significant challenges for us. We worked to see a surge again. The u. S. Postal service is also on a hiring spree for holiday help now with hundreds showing up at job fairs in september in cedar rapids and des moines. The iowa usps district also needs 600 more people to get through the holidays and its not for cards and letters. Theres pressure for all the Delivery Companies obviously but postal workers are good about chipping in and making sure were successful. Have a good shipping experience. Extra help hired for the holidays might mean working only 4. Or. 6. Or maybe ei
Town. The fire happening on winslow road between janesville and finchford. Elizabeth emanieh was on the scene for us. Kwwls Elizabeth Amanieh is live in studio with more on the fireliz ronthat fire happening this morning just after eight thirty and im told the owner of the home is a firefighter himself. A familys house erupting in flames early this morning. These janesville firefighters responding to that call battling the heavy smoke and eventually containing the fire. Aaron anderson everybodys safe, were just here helping out. The family out of town during the firebut these firefighters making every effort to clean up the damage. Were just repairing the roof getting it covered up for any rain or Something Like that. Firefighters having to cut through the roof earlier to reach the flames. Panel by panel making sure no part of the house is left exposed. Standup now firefighters say boarding up windows and helping to clear out some of the familys items that were damaged in the fire. Tha
Roads excuse me, blue is partially covered, pink is totally covered. Plenty of slick roads. Stacey right now violent criminals face a major reduction in mandatory time served. Its part of a proposed shakeup to iowas mandatory minimum sentencing laws. Steve kccis ryan smith is live in the newsroom to show us why the county Attorney Says this a Public Safety concern. Ryan the proposal would cut mandatory sentences for some violent felonies including kidnapping, attempted murder, and seconddegree murder. We have to be protected from violent criminals. Ryan strong words from the attorney, reacting to a house file 2171. The bill would slash the states mandatory sentence of 70 timeserved to 30 . For example a seconddegree murder conviction carries a 50 year sentence, 35 years mandatory. If passed, and if and it could are we best served by keeping the mayor, taking up a bed, better to maybe put more money into community corrections. Ryan representative mary wolf hopes lawmakers will consider
Those details public yet. Police have said the shooting wasnt a incident. Witnesses who heard the gunfire last night found perkins body in the parking lot and started cpr. Several said the wounded man, who was shot in the leg, limped from behind some buildings as police arrived. Police have not identified him yet for his own safety. Some witnesses also believed they saw a vehicle leaving the scene but police say there are conflicting descriptions. We do know the shooter got into a vehicle. We dont have a confirmed description of that vehicle also the vehicle was occupied by at least two other subjects and possibly even a fourth person involved. Scene of another parking lot shooting incident last september. In that case, as many as 17 shots were fired striking a vehicle and several Cedar Rapids Police say this was the first homicide of 2016. There were six murder or murdersuicide deaths last year. One case remains unsolved. Live in cedar rapids, Dave Franzman kcrg tv9 news. Out of the f
State. Human trafficking is modern is a form of modern day slavery. Laura to educate about all the stings hes busted and the young sex slave victims hes rescued. To be able to return a child who has been kidnapped was very gratifying. Laura thats why kinney is behind a new bill that would create an office within the department of Public Safety where several agents would focus solely on Human Trafficking. The way to effectively combat Human Trafficking is by setting up a task force. Some of the most vulnerable ages when it comes to Human Trafficking are ages of 11 to 14. Laura senator rita hart is behind another bill that calls for adding Human Trafficking to the states Legal Definition of child abuse. That means more training for educators and other mandatory reporters. Trained on what to look for. How to ask the right questions. What the criteria might be that would help them to understand that this child is being affected by Human Trafficking. Laura hart and kinney say these two bill