System helped them learn about a potential school threat. But they say it also revealed a downside to procedure. The Monticello School district says Police Received a text message indicating a student might bring a gun to the high school yesterday. As a precaution, police were at the school, and students were not allowed in hallways during classes. Parents, if they wanted to, could take their kids out of school for the day. Early yesterday morning, Monticello Police chief britt smith got a message on his phone. It was a notification that someone had sent an anonymous tip about the gun threat to the jones county text to tell system. Once the tipster sends the text, officers can respond asking for more information. But the tipster can end all communication at any time, by simply typing stop. With this program granting that anonymity we arent able to clarify. We its just an unknown until we are able to get someone to admit that and say i submitted it. Monticello, anamosa, the jones county
Winds s 1020 alo 72 dbq 70 iow 72tomorrow night partly cloudy low 5157 winds sw 510 alo 57 dbq 55 iow 56 Monticello Police say an anonymous tip texting system helped them learn about a potential school threat. But they say it also revealed a downside to the procedure. The Monticello School district says Police Received a text message indicating a student might bring a gun to the high school yesterday. As a precaution, police were at the school, and students were not allowed in hallways during classes. Parents, if they wanted to, could take their kids out of school for the day. Early yesterday morning, Monticello Police chief britt smith got a message on his phone. It was a notification that someone had sent an anonymous tip about the gun threat to the jones county text to tell system. Once the tipster sends the text, officers can respond asking for more information. But the tipster can end all communication at any time, by simply typing stop. With this program granting that anonymity w
Candidate. Got a brandnew book out this morning called crippled america. Were going to get to him in just a moment. A lot of Campaign News out there. Were going to get the latest on that right now. Two new polls out this morning as president obama taunts the republican candidates. Abcs tom llamas starts us off. Good morning, tom. Reporter george, good morning. Lets get right to those numbers. The big headline this morning, dr. Ben carson surging seven points since the last time this poll was conducted. Everybody else pretty much the same. Jeb bush still in single digits. But the other big headline, take a look at this now. When voters were asked their first or second choice ben carson, 50 , donald trump, 35 , outsiders. Voters, 8 in 10 of them, want an outsider more than somebody from washington. So many people now paying attention to the race, even president obama. Have you noticed that every one of these keys say, you know, obamas weak. You know, putins kicking sand in his face. When
At any time, by simply typing stop. With this program granting that anonymity we arent able to clarify. We arent able to update people. Its just an unknown until we are able to get someone to admit that and say i submitted it. Without that kind of admission, police cant do much more to investigate the school threat. We have this sort of anxiety with parents that just because this day is over doesnt mean that theres not going to have some anxiety when sending the kids back to school tomorrow. Monticello, anamosa, the jones county sheriff and jones county safe and Healthy Youth coalition split the two thousand dollar annual subscription cost for the texting program. So far, chief smith says thats money well spent. Most generally is drug use. And people are around people using drugs in a situation where they dont feel comfortable. Its very easy for them to discretely pick up the phone and send a message, because who doesnt do that . Its the ups and downs that come with advances wiedemann
University of iowa shows how improperly fitted hearing aids can affect Language Development in hard of hearing kids. Youre watching kcrgtv9. Now, from your 24 hour news source, this is kcrgtv9 news morning news. First, meteorologis t kaj omara has your first alert forecast, kaj. Plan on some fog to start off your wednesday. While this fog may be locally dense, it doesnt appear itll last very long and should be out of the area by 9 or 10 am. Temperatures will take off once the fog burns away, leading to another day with highs around 70. This should be the end of the road for any 70s for a while as november reality moves in later this week in the form of a cold front. This front should generate some rain for us late thursday into thursday night. While a shower may linger through sunrise in our eastern counties on friday, this system will largely be gone and off to the east. Itll be much cooler too, with highs of only 5055. Enjoy your 3 newcomers and 1 incumbent are banding together after