Thats the dd commitment. America runs on dunkin. Turnpike trouble from the fiery crash that killed a driver and closed part of the turnpike to a mangled mess of metal hours later. Chopper 2 is over the scene in carney, new jersey. The northbound lanes are closed at this how shall. The rush is on to clean the mess before the morning commute. Good evening. Im kristine johnson. And im maurice debois. The smoke and flames could be seen for miles, causing a major traffic backup, and lou young is live with more tonight. Lou . Reporter the traffic at but now the scene is right up ahead. Theres a kaleidoscope of lights where they work on the scene where tanker burst into flames and one man died. We are south of exit 15w, carney, new jersey. Reporter the flames were so intense, the Truck Drivers body was not recovered for hours. Heat and fire poured from every part of the ruptured tanker where it flipped over the guard rail, smoke visible for miles. A passing mow poortist on the turnpike shot t
Less effective care, a in some cases none at lent. That b brings me to our first guest this week. Two men w find themselves smack dab in t theiddle of this mid medicaid debate. Across from metate representative chris hall from sioux city, and next to mim the president and ceo of Mercy Medical center jim fits pt rblg. Thanks for taking time to talk to us about this issue, which is certainly in the spot light these days. Well geget into the details o of whats going on and how people are being impacteted but lets just start by saying is there any way this doesnt happen come next month . Right now that seems to be in the hands of the federal, uh, centers for medicaid. Theyre looking into whether this needs to be delayed which is what democrats are asking for, uh, or whether it will actually go into effect and be implemented on january 1. Medicaid costs inside of iowa have raised a ball pack park of 70 percent. Is that an indication that maybe something should be done in. Number ive got acc
The president went so far as to call the change a christmas miracle. Critics have said no child left behind gave too much power to washington in controlling state education policy. Earlier today, we talked to dr. Paul gausman, superintendent of sioux city schools gausman says he feels there was more good than bad in no child left behind, but there isis lot of anticipation and excitement leading up to these changes. Mostly in regards to standdized testing but the challenges with no child left behind have to do with assessments, every state takes a different approach to assessments, students perform at Different Levels many states like iowa continue to change the form of the assessment, the reporting of the sessment,so its very difficult to discover, but the federal governrnnt still has to underer the previous lawaw hand out these negaitive designations to different schools and different districts based on their performance. Deborah saying it involved and not enough teaching. It also had
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