The 26 hundred person facility. Johnston mayor Paula Dierenfeld says the company in johnston expects to hover around that 26hundred employee level in the shortterm. And while there may be some layoffs still, she believes the Research Focus johnston is getting from dowdupont will create more jobs in the future. 1 55 50 as they work through this merger theres going to be a little shakeout, and we can probably expect those numbers to decline a little bit. And well see some more loss of jobs in the short term, but over the long term, we believe because theyll continue to do their Research Activities here in johnston, the employment numbers will go back up again and maybe even be higher than what we have currently. 01 23 dupont began reducing its Global Workforce by 10 percent back in december as part of its merger agreement with dow. So far, thats resulted in about 175 jobs lost at pioneer in johnston, but the company says most of its layoffs are complete. Thank you reid. While officials in johnston say theyre satisfied leaders are. Stephanie moore joins us live from the statehouse. Where some lawmakers are raising concerns. The deal has all the bells and whistles for dupont but some of iowas democratic lawmakers feel at least part of the money could have been allocated differently. The deal breaks down the 16 Million Dollars into 14 million the deal breaks down the 16 Million Dollars into 14 million for Research Tax Credits and two million in a forgivable loan. Senator Tony Bisignano says while hes okay with the 14million in Research Tax Credits because it benefit agriculture in the state, he has a problem with the forgivable loan at a time when the state is struggling to fund other areas. He said he questions why multibillion dollar corporations like dupont and dow need a forgivable loan at at the expense of iowa tax payers without a guarantee of additional jobs. 1 56 well it seems like its become the trend that we give incentives to corporations that are downsizing just to maintain the jobs that they are leaving, and we dont want to lose all our jobs but at the same time incentives for downsizing at a time when dollars are scarce for essentials like education. 2 23 i also had a chance to speak to senator joe bolkcom who is also not hay wi the deal. He saidtremely generous taayer subsidies to large profitable rporations are the reason nt have money for iowas attention of lawmakers. The first step is to determine how many untested kits there are. And where theyre located. According to radio iowa. The bill approved by a House Committee would require Police Departments to participate in a survey detailing how many kits each department has. Once the extent of the backlog is known. Lawmakers will develop a meanwhile after years of failed attempts. A bill requiring Insurance Companies to cover autism therapy treatment is moving forward. Kerry lust is counting on its passage. Her son brandon receives applied Behavior Analysis or aba therapy. When her Insurance Company declined to pay for the therapy. The lusts were granted a medicaid waiver for special needs children. That waiver expires at age nine. Brandon is 8. The new bill would require Insurance Companies to cover treatment programs until the age of 21 412404 we all know that after the age of 9, brandon has a lot of growing and developing to do and brandon has alot of progress to made and we are really excited about where he can go and we dont want anything to stop that Insurance Companies like wellmark are against the bill, arguing that the state already has a program that is funded to cover several Services Related to autism. The Collins Maxwell school board has accepted the abrupt resignation of the districts superintendent. Jason ellingson resigned after being placed on administrative in a statement the district says, earlier this week, the district received a report making certain allegations against the superintendent. The allegations releated to off duty matters. There is no evidence that any persons have been harmed. We are looking into this story and hope to have more for you on the channel 13 news at ten. The iowa utilities board needs another month to make a decision on the proposed bakken oil pipeline. The three member board met today to discuss details of the construction. Maintenance. And repair of the pipeline. They are trying to decide if the private developer can locate the pipeline on land against the wishes of the land owner. The board expects to have a final decision at either their march 9th or march 10th meetings. Strong winds are blamed for at least five semitruck accidents today. In many cases they were blown off the road. Many Truck Drivers in the metro arent willing to risk it. We found many pulled over at rest stops along interstate35. Miserable. The wind gusts are so strong that, im running empty, hardly keep my truck on the road. So i just decided to get off and go to sleep for a while wx tease its down to the quarter finals at the state wrestling tournament. And a 42andoh record was on the line today. Find out if the win streak continued for the fort dodge wrestler. President obama is set to pick a Supreme Court nominee. And that could be as far as it gets. The process coming up. And shuffle up and deal. Find out what is replacing coin flips a final honor for a 30year career on the us Supreme Court. Justice Antonin Scalia is laying in repose at the Supreme Court building. His funeral will take place tomorrow. The president and first lady paid their respects this morning. That followed a call from the president to legislative leaders obviously the significance of the call with senator grassley is that hes the chairman of the Senate Judiciary committee. And again this will be part of the president s process about making a decision about who the best person is to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court. The president likely didnt care for senator grassley had to say. This morning grassley and senator Mitch Mcconnell wrote an oped in the washington post. It reads in part, no one disputes the president s authority to nominate a successor to scalia, for this president , article ii, section 2, of the constitution grants the senate the power to provide, or as the case may be, withhold its consent. Democratic president ial have backed herself into a corner. Last night she took part in an msnbc townhall forum. During the event she was asked about released the transcripts of paid speeches she gave to financial companies. S Hillary Clinton happy to release anything i have when everybody else does the same. This race has given speeches to private groups, including senator sanders. Sanders spokesman Michael Biggs released a Statement Today agreeing to clintons terms. Biggs says, thats easy. The fact is there werent any. Bernie gave no speeches to wall street firms. So now we hope secretary clinton keeps her word and releases the transcripts of her speeches. We hope she agrees that the American People deserve to know what she told wall street behind closed doors. There wont be any coin flips at tomorrows democratic caucuses in nevada. Coin flips helped determine the winner at at least five precincts on caucus night. In nevada. A tie will come down to the luck of the draw. Fittingly for nevada. Precinct captains will each draw a single card from a deck. And the high card wins. Winds will finally die down this evening as a low pressure system to the north continues to slide mostly clear tonight with lows dropping back into the upper 30s. Saturday will be a lot less windy with highs expected to top out in the upper 50s and lower 60s. Another cold front will move through on sunday, winds will shift toward the northwest and highs will drop back into the upper 40s and lower 50s. Although this is still over 10 above normal for central iowa. Besides a light rain snow mix on tuesday the next week ahead looks fairly dry. Wrestling. Day 2 from the well brings us quarterfinals and semifinals from all classes. Up first class 3a. Michael admire joins us, and michael there have been some huge matches already today. 3a team scores after the southeast polk 1 point better than fort dodge. Valley still in the mix in 3rd. Class 2a quarterfinals. Albia freshman, aden reeves starts off the session with a big pin at 106. Blue demon crowd is fired up. Perrys unranked Zach Thompson scrappin his way to the semifinals with a 63 decision. Defending champion, Josh Portillo of clariongoldfielddows is one win away from another title bout. The pin sends him to the semifinals. Crestons wyatt thompson, two point take down. 83 winner. Moving class 2a team scores heading in to the semis. Creston orient macksburg on top. 5 teams within 10 points of first. 1a semifinals. Winners head to the championships. 160. I35s sal arzani, ranked 3rd. 143 major decision over nate van buren. 120. 2nd ranked brady kyner of se warren winner by fall. Kyner on to the finals its a 2 team race in class 1a. Alburnett and lisbon neck and neck. I35 is in 7th. Its crunch time for iowa state. 5 games left in the regular season, 6th place in the big 12. The coming up next on the news at last week Patrick Papino took his two children to a Bruce Springsteen concert. When they didnt get home until after one in the morning. Papino let his children sleep in. 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