Board members have been talking about a solution for the last year. One says this decision benefits the entire county and state. Our number one resource in iowa is the topsoil and a lot of its flowing away. Reporter the Johnson County board is not changes ordinances. The regulations are staying the same but theyre expanding the importance of maintaining sensitive areas. In most of iowa last summer, you couldnt swim in any body of water whether it was a lake, stream, river. They were all contaminated and thats a pretty scary thought. The county says the ordinance will apply to all developmentsincluding sub divisions of three lots or less. Its going to ensure that undisturbed or if they are disturbed, they will be mitigated. Mitigated. In some cases you may have to build a retaining wall, some kind of retention ponds or plant certain types of vegetation. Experts will survey the land to see what kind of Flood Control to put in place, but they guarantee this solution will help prevent floo
3 3 today is National Signing day. Its the first day that a High School Senior can sign a binding National Letter of intent for college football. And uscs head football coach Will Muschamp is expected to talk about the 2016 signing class. Thats at 3 oclock today. And coming up in our 6 oclock hour well talk to gamecock centerals wes mitchell on on the prospects. Sports director Reggie Anderson will have updates on where our midlands High School Seniors are headed when you join us for news 19 at 6 3 today former president bill clinton will be in columbia to rally for support for his wife hillary clinton. The rally is taking place at 6pm at allen university. 3 3 Columbia Police are asking again. If you know this man. They say he is a person of interest in a Sexual Assault on uscs campus. Police believe he may have information that could help the case. But so far he has not made contact wtih officers. The Sexual Assault took place on january 30 at about 3 30 in the morning in the 800 bloc
A big friends in overnight lows the 40degree range for the high tomorrow. That is the north star snow steak and we will add at least a foot or two to that i the time we finish this storm on sunday. Temperatures are above average and above average in spots, high today in reno was officially 61. The windsor strong but not as strong as they were unless you are at stabbed, 31 miles per continuing. Doppler is a wet commute over the great find but will turn to rain and snow by 11. Accordingly. We now go live to meteorologist Cassie Wilson who joins us up at the national the winds have really been kassie. Reporter they have been extremely gusty. We had to move. We were standing about 200 yards almost knocking is over. We moved toward the National Weather service but they still received almost 40mile per hour sustained winds right here. Take a look at these winds that we received across the region. Some of these numbers are in the hundreds, hundred mile per hour gusts and almost an 80 mile per
Marcella robertson thirteen is now were so thick you switching gears to the weather is going to be another warm and sunny day as i take a look at that shot of the Virginia Beach oceanfront those temperatures are going to continue to climb throughout the afternoon craig is tracking the warm temperatures and a chance for showers later crack at temperatures are up from this time yesterday across syria take a look right now we have those towns in the mid to upper sixties already seventy Virginia Beach chesapeake seventy two williamsburg we are seeing this warm up thanks largely to south and southwest winds are blowing right now sustained winds ten to fifteen mph and gusts up closer to twenty mph wind is reporting there from chesapeake. He gets he gets to twenty and suffocating dust eighteen there at petersburg so little breeze is warm right now the sunshine out there is going to be a gorgeous day there will be a chance for a few showers later tonight and i talk a lot more about that coming
Found on factory farms. We are bringing in all of a the feedback throughout the show. Twitter is lit up over this topic. Yes. I do the research and then maybe lisa right i have to go vegetarian and the pros and cons over these new inspections. The cons core prate greed will lower the quality and safety. To be fair, daniel says. The u. S. D. A. Is revamping the inspections and shifting the responsibility to industry employees. The u. S. D. A. Says that plants are required to conducting their own tests for the bacteria, and this will lead to 5000 fewer illnesses each year. It is a move they favor. It is much more preferred and the data is true. It is good for u. S. D. A. And good for the industry and good for the consumers. Chickens zip through the rate of the lines 140 per minute and a second to view every 2. 3 and the high speeds raises the questions on the slaughter and the live birds are moving quickly and not rendered fairly. Will the new rules make you feel better and safer about t