Terrorism programs. Governors from across the country are meeting in des moines, iowa. Gary herbert and vice chair Terry Mcauliffe held a News Conference at the start of the conference joined by iowas Governor Terry branstad. We will go ahead and get started. I am scott madison, the executive director of the National Governors association. Feel free to take your seats. Welcome. This is the 108th summer meeting of the National Governors associati association and taking place with the backdrop of a lot of serious issues across the nation and world and of course two major Party Conventions taking place in the next couple weeks. I am happy to introduce the chairman of the National Governors association from utah, governor branstad and we have the vice chairman, governor mcauliffe from virginia and the host, the longest serving governor in the mystery of the United States terry branstad. We are happy to have him. [applause] and now, it is funny, people say the meeting is going great so far
We will go ahead and get started. I am scott madison, the executive director of the National Governors association. Feel free to take your seats. Welcome. This is the 108th summer meeting of the National Governors associati association and taking place with the backdrop of a lot of serious issues across the nation and world and of course two major Party Conventions taking place in the next couple weeks. I am happy to introduce the chairman of the National Governors association from utah, governor branstad and we have the vice chairman, governor mcauliffe from virginia and the host, the longest serving governor in the mystery of the United States terry branstad. We are happy to have him. [applause] and now, it is funny, people say the meeting is going great so far and i say it is good laws of governor branstad. I am turn it over to david yepsen and many of you probably know david. Heavy has been with the Des Moines Register and on Public Television in different capacities and now he is
Temperatures have dropped back to the 40s. A winter talking about hand sizes and the ku klux klan on super tuesday eve. News at four front door open good afternoon. Im sonya heitshusen. And im dan winters. Thanks for joining us. Skies are cloudy and temperatures have dropped back to the 40s. A Winter Weather advisory begins at 6 pm. A light rain snow mix will develop through 9 pm. It will transition to all snow by 11 pm. It will continue through early tuesday morning. 1 to 2 of snow looks to fall in the metro, but should be done by the morning drive in. It will be colder and cloudy through the day on tuesday. Temperatures the community of grimes will have to find a new place to workout. Today the ymca announced its closing its grimes location and also ditching plans to build a new town. Stephanie moore joins us with an update, steph residents and city leaders in to the city. And some feel like the rug was pulled out from underneath them when the news hit. The grimes ymca opened in spac
Votes in washington. Tonights showdown will primarily be focused on jobs and the economy. Millions tuned into the last two republican debates. That often turned heated and ugly. As we now wait to see what happens this time around. Brandi hitt abc news boulder, colorado. Jenna as former Florida Governor jeb bush prepares for tonightsdebate, his campaign released a video targeting one of his rivals. But the target is not one of bushs republican rivals. The campaign ad hits democratic frontrunner hillary clinton. jeb bush weve had six full years of tax increases, endless new regulation, vast new federal programs, eight trillion dollars borrowed and spent. And what has it gotten us . Jenna bush goes on in his ad to say the way he believes the way to bring jobs back to america is to quote take the power out of washington and give it back to the american people. Tim the house gop conference has made up its mind about who should be the next speaker of the house. rep. Paul ryan i want to thank
Story. Its a case where the state governments rule makers. Were the rule breakers. Because of a whistle blowers tip, the state Auditors Office looked into the department of administrative services. Thats the state agency that manages government operations. What the audit found is that a former top attorney in the Branstad Administration was not qualified for the position that he was in. And was paid 22thousand dollars more than he should have been. Attorney ryan lamb left his job last year after a scandal involving secret settlements paid to former state employees. Essentially, hush money was given to employees with grievances. The auditors report shows lamb was paid for the nearly four months was serving in the Army Reserves as a lawyer. Even though he should have only been paid for 30days. There was no notice of a military leave in the persons employee file. That led to us questioning the rest of the time sheets for this particular individual. And lambs time sheets, according to the