Troops in the future if the situation continues to slide. The us will keep bases open throughout the country. The conflict in afghanistan has been our longest war. This announcement means it will ntinue. Live at t e white house. Edward lawrence nbc news. Carly fiorina says president obama has simply recognized reality by delaying a planned drawdown of us forces in afghanistan. The republican president ial candidate responded to todays announcement following a Campaign Event in spencer, iowa. Fiorina accused the president of not listening to military advivi in both iraq and afafanistan. Something she would rectify if elected. She says the us withdrew forces too quickly from iraq leading to a fractured nation. And says telegraphing a pulldown from afghanistan has been a flawed strategy. S Carly Fiorina r president ial candidate 24 the reality is the complete withdrawal of all our troops from iraq destabililed that country and he obama n n is recognizing thth afghanistan is becoming poten
For many, we wont see much relief this afternoon as temperatures for some chilly friday night football festivities tonight there is another frost freeze threat late tonight saturday morning for areas east of sioux city where your temperatures will drop to near 30 degrees. Temperatures will rebound a bit better over the weekend with highs in the 60s both saturday and sunday courtesy of steady southerly winds. Eventually the 70s make a brief return next monday and tuesday with shower chances tuesday and wednesday. Wx timer 40 a special tribute to honor our nations Fallen Soldiers is on display for a short time in siouxland. That exhibit might be quite a bit different from others youve seen before. The remembering our fallen exhibit serves as a stark reminder of soldiers duties. It features more than 90 fallen nebraska soldiers depicted in personal and military photos. There are similar exhibits in 14 states. You can see the exhibit at the little red hen theatre during wakefields balloon
Bottom out near 30 degrees. This afternoon, the main conceen will be the wind and dry air which will create high outdoor fire danger for a chunk of the viewing area as gusts could top 30 miles per hour. Temperatures, meanwhile will be in the middle to upper 60s this afternoon with sunshine before only reaching the 50s at their highest on friday see graphics. Wx timer 40 meth is a huge problem in the state of iowa, but now a highly concentrated form of the drug is on the se in the state. Iowa senator Chuck Grassley says he wants to change that. Lauren moss reports on how he plans to do that. Police departments tricounty Drug Enforcement team says a pure form of meth is coming from over the border. And ending up here in iowa. The yield of ice meth our lab results indicate around 9798 percent pure meth compared to the home based meth labs are anywhere from 4560 percent. So the yield is much higher. And theyve been working hard to get it off iowas streets. In the last probably 4 years sinc
Possibly some fishing piers and some overlooks. Mayor bob scott says its critical the public have a major input with developing the area. The process should be that citizens have input first, then take it to the different planning deals and then put it on paper, said sioux city mayor bob scott. I think its important to have something down there that we can be proud of for years to come. Mayor scott was also asked what hed like to see, but he reiteratined he wants the publics input. Sticking with sioux city parks and rec department. Last night, the City Council Also approved submitting a grant of 318thousand dollars to the Vision Iowa Program for cone park. Those dollars reflect the remaining money thats yet to be committed for the nearly 4 milliondollar project. Summer is over, and sioux citys pools have been closed for two months. But, the discussion continues about what pools should close permanently. Ktivs Brianna Clark is live in the newsroom with the details. Brianna . Good mornin
Nebraska, accocoding to the gage county sheriffs office. The crash was about 30 miles south of lincoln. The Lincoln Journal star reports that cortland fire and rescue crews responded to the crash around 8 45 a. M. Saturday. The plane went down in a field near cortland. Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation safety board officials were on their way to the crash site to investigate. The Sioux City Police department and sioux City Fire Marshals Office are currently investigating after a structure fire on silver strtrt. Sioux x ty fire rescue responded to the fire saturdayayvening where there was smoke visible from the two story Single Family home. The fire was quickly put out. There were noccupants in the home at the time. The fire was determined to be intentional and anyone with information is asked to contact Sioux City Police at 7122796440. Our winds picked up as temperatures went up for our sunday. Highs made it into the 60s in eastern siouxland to the low to mid