Voters hit the ballot yesterday. The results from siouxlands elections coming up. An increase in car thefts has sioux city on high alert and a preview of tonights Country Music awards all this morning. Jessica rae northwest iowa voters hit the polls yesterday to elect mayors and City Council Members to represent siouxland sioux city has about 47thousand registered voters. But less than 3 thousand people cast a ballot in this election. Woodbury county auditor pat gill says, those numbers werent suprising because he wasnt expecting a large turnout. But after a day of voting, it was mayor bob scott. Who was elected to another four year term after running un opposed. He collected. Two thousand. And 87 votes. Scott. Says he will not run for reelection. So during his last term. He wants to focus on creating more opportunities for unger generatitis. I think thatst the way were going to attract and keep young people in this community and weve done a bad job of that for about 10 to 12 years aro
Occurence within the community. Often times, owners of stolen vehicles dont get their cars back in same condition they once were. A stolen red Nissan Altima was traveling at a high rate of speed on tuesday when it rammed the front of an suv that was backing out of a driveway. Shane stapleton, owner of shanes towing, has towed many stolen cars found in bizarre places, i actually had to take a payloader to get it out of there. It was in like a twenty foot hole. So we had to push about 3 trees out of the way and then hook up chains to it and just start pulling it out, said shane stapleton, owner of shanes towing. This truck was found by the police with stolen plates. Stapleton mentioned that he gets calls almost every day to have stolen vehicles towed. Rachel if your vehicle has been stolen has been burglarized, please notify local Law Enforcement to have a report filed immediately. Live in the studio, rachel ramos, abc9. Tim another election day is winding down, and locally Woodbury Coun
The programs youre watching. Tonight on cspans American History tour going west. First to st. Louis to visit the museum of westward expansion. Then a look at the expedition led by William Clark and mary lewis. And well speak with an author who wrote a book about the lewis and Clark Expedition. After that, first Transcontinental Railroad. After that journeys along the mormon trail, the pony express from the National Historic trails Interpretive Center in casper wyoming. Next a tour of the museum of westward expansion. Our tour guide is a historian with the National Park service. Were in the museum of westward expansion which is the main museum here at Jefferson National memorial. It tells the story of the settlement of the American West during the 19th century. Were actually underground directly below the 630foot stainless steel arch. Originally there were going to be surface buildings that would have housed museums and restaurant complexes and things like that but the National Parks se
Did you make any commitments . We are above 2 . We are one of only four countries. Estonia, greece, and britain in the european union, and america, four out of 28. We have stayed above 2 even at a time when we have one of the biggest budget deficits anywhere in the world. I think that is important. I think it is worth looking at what the declaration says pretty what is remarkable is there has always been the 2 pledge in nato, but it has never been set out as clearly as this. It is very clear what has been signed up to. It makes a differentiation. It says those meeting 2 should aim to continue. Some year after year have not been spending 2 . It says allies whose current proportion of gdp spent is below on this level will default any aim toward [indiscernible] an aim to move toward the 2 within a decade. I would argue theres a lot that has been achieved. Proper Training Missions that will go to countries like jordan and georgia and iraq. Here an important breakthrough in terms of getting
So i got the impression theyre going to the world series was the single most exciting thing that any human being could do. Ive always ate to go to the world serve. Of all the things i wanted to do, going to the world series was the most important thing to me. I never got to go. I had all these other wonderful experiences. I was sent to the olympics in 2000, and they went to the soccer world cup in korea and japan and lots of other important global sporting events. I was delighted to go to. But the one thing that bothered me was the world series. It so happens that almost exactly 10 years ago, 2003 season was coming to an end, a very good friend of mine, a guy named Keith Blackmore was a Sports Editor called me up at home. I was living in england. He said, have you been following whats going on in baseball . I said, have i ever . Because what was happening as the 2003 season was coming to close was that the two teams that have the most momentum going into the playoffs period with the ch