City council said it is vitally important to keep the company in johnston. Jack lam governor branstad released a Statement Today about the move, saying quote we are proud that dow duponts leadership has selected iowa as its Global Business center for its newly formed agriculture company. For the past few months, weve had the pleasure of showing them what iowa has to offer a worldclass biosciences company. Stephanie 2shot the waiting game continues for the iowa utilities board decision on the bakken pipeline. Jack 2shot today, the board resumed its discussions about any and all conditions several concerned groups have expressed about the pipeline. Jack and stephanie, its been a very deliberate process. But the board appears to be getting closer and closer to a decision. The talk today was about timing, easements and overall communication with land owners while no one on the board has given an indication of attendance today, seem to think the pipeline will happen. Chad carter, business e
March first. Liz mathis 4 56 37 which ones have they said are completed to them . Mikki stier 4 57 15 0 4. 5. 6. 7 is a network, of those one theyre monitoring is 5. The development of our network. That one of the biggest concerns of these lawmakers, the network. Will the 560thousand iowans on medicaid have the Health Care Providers they need within a reasonable distance. Republican senator David Johnson who represents one of the most conservative districts in the state says the whole plan needs to be revisited. 5 15 10 why was the legislature left out of this last year . Why . I really feel like we were just left out. Amanda bam a couple of other important notes. We keep talking about march 1st but theres a deadline coming up tomorrow february 17th. Day for individuals on which of the three managed Care Companies they want for their health coverage. Also, still no word from cms on whether this is all a go for march 1st. Many expect to hear from cms in the near future. Live in the stud
Driving. Dont be standing outside your car, youre safer in your car than the side of the road claire its best to use common sense if you get into an accident, get off the busy street onto a quiet one. Take photos, Exchange Information with teh other driver. Then call 911, so the accidents on record. Next to the body shop all and all its been a very busy winter for us with todays deceiving flakes, mike kauts local body shop is now booked until march were seeing it all front back side, i even saw a car with rightnow rear control arms willbe replaced as a twoman repair shop, he and his side kick marty are pulling starting price is 14,000 of what we can see six days a week. Shop in town is the same way taking care of the cars, but the owners too. Some are bewildered some are upset, sometimes owning a body shop youre part time counselor didnt sustain any injruies, youre in good get a new one claire state patrol said enough slow down and give extra space. A lot of todays crashes were into th
Iowas ag economy. No other states are doing anything like it. 8 15 its not only a concern to farmers that own the land, its a concern to iowa business and the entire state. The fight for this new plan will now begin as the governor prepares to to introduce it to the legislature. 9 52 were hopeful as people learn about what this would really do, we could get support, convince legislature, address school infastructure, Water Quality and do it without raising taxes. Amanda bam i can tell you from talking to the governor today, this is a piece of legislation he is very proud of and will likely talk about in his condition of the state address on tuesday. The start of the session is on monday. Live in the studio, we are iowa. Stephanie 1shot in other legislative news, eople are learning more about medicaid tonight in des moines. Its meant to help medicaid members get familiar enrolling in a new program. It starts goes until 7 tonight at the polk county river place. People who are transitioni
Jack happening now in the metro jack power outages. The lights are just coming back on for more than 15hundred people in urbandale. Their power was out for several hours this evening. It wasnt directly from the snow. Mid American Energy says somebody hit a power pole at last check, 132 homes were still not yet on the grid, but crews are working to restore them. Jack and if you have to do anymore driving tonight, heres what the interstates look like. This is a live look from the dot Traffic Cameras of i235 at 42nd street. The dot reporting the conditions on the interstate as partially jack 2shot im joined right chief meteorologist has stopped. Damage . Fusion brad on cam jack there was plenty to be worried about on the roads earlier tonight. This video is from West Des Moines just a couple hours ago. As the snow piled up, so did the accidents. However, no major crashes to report in the metro tonight. Jack ots many flights out of the Des Moines International airport were delayed. Or even