The university of iowas Muslim Students now have a safe place to pray on campus. With the closest mosque miles away and students packing everywhere on campus, muslims didnt have a quiet area where they could pray without interruption. Now that space is available, students are saying its a step forward. Brea love brings us more [camio3 1 0091;one line l3 0093; iowa city 00 00 00 00 more than 30 thousand students attend the university of iowa. So you can imagine campus is constantly packed with people. Which makes finding a quiet area to pray, hard for students like mohammad ismail. [take sot to 0 14 duration 0 14]sot [camio 3 1 0091;two line l3 0093; Mohammed Ismail student 00 00 00 00 46 07 many other msa members felt the same way. Thats when the group decided to reach out. After a month of discussion and planning with university officials, they found a solution. [take sot to 0 13 duration 0 13]sot [camio 3 1 0091;two line students 00 00 00 00 59 34 two new completely renovated rooms.
Can see here, crews were on the scene for more than eight hours trying to put out the flames, but the structure collapsed and is a complete loss. The cause of the fire still isnt clear. Jack 1shot Senate Democrats will make a bold move to stop governor branstads plan to privatize medicaid. Local fives chief Political Correspondent amanda krenz was at the statehouse today to get the latest, amanda . Amanda jack, since the governor announced plans to change over the states Medicaid Program to managed care companies, the plan has received a lot of criticism. Even the feds said the state was not ready on january first so they moved the deadline of the rollout to march first. But Democratic Senators say its time to stop the whole thing and theyve introduced a bill to do that. Gronstal 11 20 they assured us back in november and december they were signing people up left and rightr and theyre still not the halfway point. We think its timr eto pull the plug on this, go back to the this issue. A
Saying. And how the School District is responding. Fatal fire. A father was killed in an Early Morning house fire. Why investigators are calling the scene suspicious. Explosive issue. Lawmakers are again considering lifting the state ban on fireworks. How far the bill has advanced so far this session. And the road block that could stop it altogether. From who hd iowas High Definition leader. This is the channel 13 news at nine on fox 17 good evening. Thank you for joining us tonight. Im lynn melling. A Des Moines High School teacher with decades of experience has resigned. After he was arrested this weekend at valley west mall. About the crime that police say he committed. Its a crime rarely seen. Not to my knowledge, we dont usually have things like that happen like this at the mall. But on saturday at 1 16pm west des responded to valley west mall. This individual approached a food counter at the mall and when he did so, he exposed the lower half of his body and his zipper was open on
One of us, a non-believing member of Congress, went to the recent National Prayer Breakfast. Christian nationalists moved it to the Capitol for the first time.
Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/GettyWashington, D.C. is home to hundreds of churches; any would have been a more fitting location for a Christian church service like last week’s National Prayer Breakfast than the U.S. Capitol. In the prestigious National Cathedral, for instance, 4,000 worshippers could have enjoyed Andrea Bocelli’s melodious tenor and the Christian speakers, sermons, and prayers.Unfortunately, some members of Congress—oblivious or hostile to church-state se