Meteorologist terry swails starts us off with your a potentially lifesaving injection is grabbing a lot of headlines right now. Now. Epipens are designed to save a person experiencing a liftthreatening allergic react. Reaction. But take a look at the cost in recent years. Nearly four times higher than just four years ago. Cbs 2 news first told you about this problem last month. Month. Now. Cbs 2 news anchor matt hammill joins us with an update, matt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Some parents tell us theyre paying thousands of dollars because they have to carry five or six epi pens for their kids. Tonight senator Charles Grassley is demanding the manufacturer explain why. It is not optional equipmenta the manufacture explain why. It is not optional equipment. A child stung by a bee or epipen but the epinephrine shot that has remained pretty much the same has jumped from about 100 to more than 600 in six years. s. I received senator. Grassley wants answers and he feels for the families.
School is back in session in eastern iowa cbs 2 News Reporter Stephanie Johnson is live right now in iowa city. City. Where students are getting ready to head back to class today. Stephanie good m. Morning. Good morning kelly yeah students in iowa city will need an umbrella or rain coat for their first day of school im right outside of southeast junior high where School Starts just before 9 oc. Different than Elementary Students who start class at 7fifty five. The School District is reminding parents about this swap in start times. They believe these start times better suit the different age groups. The district also made changes to discretionary buses, prioritizing areas where it is needed the most. Stephen murley, superintendent 22 41 48 we only had so much money that we could devote to discretionary busing, so given that, we couldnt bus every child that lives within two mil miles. Theyre planning for more traffic to start off the year. They hope drivers are paying attention so all k
Intense to even think about going inside himself. Firefighters say that was the right decision. Saw the victim on the room and was able to help here and without a doubt, without his actions we very much could have been looking at a serious injury or a fatality fire investigators later determined the fire was an accident. They say it started in the kitchen when someone left a pot with grease unattended on the stovetop. Dave franzman kcrg tv9 news. Quick actions this morning, the Cedar Rapids Fire Department plans to nominate him for one of the states lifesaving awards next year. An iowa lawyer is suing Johnson County prosecutors and Coralville Police after he says they falsely accused him of threatening jurors and witnesses. A judge acquitted Raymond Tinnian last year. That was after accusations that he left a note threatening to kill a juror who had found him guilty in a Disorderly Conduct case. Tinnian janet lyness, an assistant county attorney and two Coralville Police officers. Tinn
Others in the home were receiving care under optimae life services, which provides care to those with disabilities. In chicago, firefighters say someone intentionally set this fire that killed 4 people 3 of them children. The fire started around 1 30 this morning in a South Chicago neighborhood. Police say some set the fire on a porch after a domestic fight. It took around 200 firefighters from 58 Fire Companies about 3 hours say they saw several people jumping from windows trying to escape the flames. Police are now searching for a person of interest in this case, wanted for questioning. A roadside bomb in afghanistan claimed the life of an american solider and hurt another. It also injured six afghan soldiers. The us military says it happened during a training and advisory operation in the helmand province. The attack comes 1 day after the military sent 100 us troops to that area be at higher risk of falling to the taliban. Nats of explosion and in iraq, iraqi forces are pushing towa
Midnight but the next couple of hours just a few light showers and the heavier rains are expected later tonight and during the day tomorrow. Well have much more on that in your forecast. Keeping students healthy is important especially at this time of year. Why door or a Health Experts hope to see declining vaccination rates turn around. Reporter going back school can also mean back to gems, vaccination rates across the state have been on a decline and exemptions are on their way up. In the state students are required by law to be vaccinated against 7 common illnesses unless a student has an ex systems. In iowa wedonothavea philisophical exemption so you can not not get immunizations it. We do you a slight increase in those religious exemptions so that is concerning because immunizations are not only to protect the health of the child receiving the immunization but its also to protect all those other people at that child comes into contact with. Coming up we speak with a local school w