Hes a waterloo native who served with delta battery and they went to desert storm 25 years ago. Hard to believe. And this is Derek Wittenberg who founded a very important Veterans Group called 22 no more. Now, derek is a combat veteran of a couple of wars, desert storm and also the afghan war and his new group is referring to the 22 veterans who commit country. So were going to talk about some of these key issues here as we go on. Derek, just real quickly, about your organization, youre really 22 no more obviously refers to that very tragic number of 22 veteran suicides a day. Youre also trying to develop quite a network of other organizations, so how is that going so far . Derek its overwhelming. We nationally launched 22 no more in january of this year and its grown exponentially. Organizations to help veterans not only dealing with pssd and suicide, but homelessness, food, paying the bills, the whole nine yards. Ron well get pour into that later. Kris, i had you on here five years a
Thanks kaj. Firefighters say they found a cedar rapids woman inside a burnt out mobile home. Fire crews responded to the home on the southwest side at 7 oclock last night. Firefighters arrived to the scene of 23 hundred block kelley street southwest to find the back half of the home on fire. Thats inside Grand View Village. During the search and rescue, fire crews found a woman inside the home. First responders pronounced her dead at the scene. The Fire Department has not released her name. The fire and the womans for the first time this president ial race a republican candidate has at least 40 percent support from voters. A recent cbs yougov poll of Iowa Republicans puts ted cruz and donald trump well ahead of the 11 other candidates. Texas senator ted cruz reached 40 percent he was at about half of that just two weeks ago. Donald trump has 31 percent. Florida senator marco rubio is third at 12 percent. The steepest drop is retired neurosurgeo n ben carson, still in h but only at 6 pe
Though colder air is creeping ever closer, and well keep a close eye on that one. Have a good day today am showers, cloudy high 3945 winds nw 1020 alo 38 dbq 40 iow 44tonight mostly cloudy low 2632 winds w 510 alo 27 dbq 30 iow 30tomorrow partly cloudy high 4046 winds s 515 alo 40 dbq 41 ioww43tomorrow night showers late low 3541 winds s 1015 alo 36 dbq 36 iow 38 firefighters say they found a cedar rapids woman inside a burnt out mobile home. Fire crews responded to the home on the southwest side at 7 oclock last night. Firefighters arrived to the scene in the 23 hundred block of kelley street southwest to find the back half of the home on fire. Thats inside Grand View Village. During the search and rescue, woman inside the home. First responders pronounced her dead at the scene. The Fire Department has not released her name. The fire and the womans cause of death are still under investigation. For the first time this president ial race a republican candidate has at least 40 percent su
Strength. You need to be president strong. You need strong. You cant play games. Yet with six weeks until the caucuses, trump is in the top tier against texas senator ted cruz. 27 41. If im wrong, im wrong. Ill say we didnt make it but i think that were going to win iowa and iowa is very important to me. A quiet week is ahead for republican president ial candidates visiting eastern iowa. Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee is due to spend monday all over the tv9 viewing area for a town hall meeting in toledo, a roundtable in van horne and then an evening stop at kava house and caf in swisher. Huckabee won the 2008 republican caucuses but has stayed far back in the pack for 2016. Last night in new hampshire, the 3 candidates for the democratic president ial nomination met for their latest debate. The top 2 in the polls will campaign throughout iowa this week. Vermont senator Bernie Sanders has 3 days of iowa stops planned, all in western iowa, secretary of state Hillary Clinton is sc
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