going to be able to do a lot with it. we re going to find special things that this ship is capable of doing. before leaving port, the sioux city, and the others in the lcs line, will already have an advantage. they can sail in shallower waters than most navy ships, and are among the fastest. here on the bridge, they can control the command of the ship, the engineering, but most importantly is the navigation, said breen. the u.s.s. sioux city s navigator, lt. ida quigley, says think of an lcs like a jet ski. there are no propellers, no ruddders in that sense, said lt. ida quigley, u.s. navy. it s all water jet propulsion. at lt. quigley s station on the bridge are two combinators . they control the direction, and speed, of the water pushing the ship forward. here you re using this to laterally move the ship, lt. quigley said. so, it can literally walk off the pier by using the different thrusters. for now, quigley, and ralston, train aboard the milwaukee, which is
breen on the uss sioux city later in ththshow. first, presidential l litics heating up in siouxland. republican presidential candidate rand paul visited morningside college today. this week alone, the u.s. senator from kentucky is visiting 11 colleges in iowa. it s all part of his iowa 10,000 college tour! rand wants at least that many students to caucus for him on february firststsaying his candidacy appeals to millenials. i think they don t want the government collecting all their phone records, they do believe in the right to privacy. they don t want the government putting them or their friends in jail for minor marijuana abuse and they don t want the government sending them off to a new war in the middle east. i m the one candidate who represents all three of those issues, said presidential candidate rand paul. after finishing in sio city, rand paul went on to speak at buena vista in storm lake. the latest fox news poll shows paul in 8th place with 3 percent support.
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 department s tri-county 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 97-98 percent pure meth compared to the home based meth labs are anywhere from 45-60 percent..so the yield is much higher. and they ve been working hard to get it off iowa s streets.. in the l
MADISON Gov. Tony Evers today announced he has appointed leaders and members of the military and veteran community from around the state to serve on the