And even a few low 60s are possible this is the warmest day, plus we have some rain in the forecast. Ill have that for you in a few minutes. Breaking news this morning. A man walks into an eastern iowa restaarant after bbing stabbed. Waterloo police arent sure where the stabbing happened. They learned about it after the victim walked into the perkins restaurant on University Avenue shortly after two this morning. The victim m s taken to allen hospital. Police are not sure of his condition at the time. Continuing coverage this morving. A Baltimore Police officer takes the officer is the first of six to go to trial in connection with freddie grays death. Andrew spencer has the latest. Officer William Porter testified that he knew freddie gray from his patrols of the west baltimore neighborhood. He said, quouoe, freddie lawyers asked if he was sorry gray had died, porter responded, absolutely. Gray died in april, aaweek after officers put him in the lt. During the ride, somehoo, gray suff
Clouds, but will end up with partly sunny skies oday and pretty warm temps. Highs will be in the mid to upper 50s and even a few low 60s are possible this is the warmest day, plus we have some rain in the foreca. Ill have that for you in a few minutes. New this Morning Police are investigating a fire theyre calling suspicious. It happened on mulberry street in waterloo last nigt. Officers were collecting evidence at the scene. Police tell us firefighters smelled gas and thought it may be an arson. Everyone got out of the home safely. Also new this morning several kids were taken to the hospil after a police tell us the childrens are minor. It happened yesterday. They saw a truck hit the school van and the driver was ticketed. Bond issset for a High School Basketball coach accused of sexually abusing a student. 46yearold gerald tig johnson worked at Roosevelt High School in des moines. According to a criminal complaint johnson cacaled a student on her cell phone while making sexual cont
War in the middle east. Tonights debate could not be in more timely. Our debaters also could not be better suited to giving us different points of view. Here below we have john yoo on the left. John, stand up. Jen was Deputy Assistant attorney general for the office of Legal Counsel and the bush Justice Department. John wrote a number of key legal memo supporting bushs post9 11 counterterrorist policies. Then bruce, standup bruce was associate Deputy Attorney general under president reagan and also was chief policy adviser to rand paul during the 2012 president ial campaign. And harvey is going to be our moderator. Harvey is currently the dean of the national war college. Harveys last job was director, the Less Government job you worked for the director of national intelligence. So thank you Harvey Rishikoff. [applause] there wasnt a single founder who doubted that going to war with the most important decision a republican made. The war power is the most important are because war is th
Been removed theres speakers who e who will be adding that and also the closed session is a performance evaluation of the director of transportation has been removed from the agenda. Do we have a sense on agenda item 12 good morning, mr. Chair. At this point not specifically but well likely have an item of one form or another at the next meeting september 2nd relating to the contract item 6 introduction of new business by the board members. Seeing none, okay. Item 7 directors report. Again mr. Chair and members of the board and staff and the public. Good morning. Just a brief do i want to an opportunity during this report to recognize couple of outstanding employees first ask our director of finance and information and technology to come forward. And good afternoon good afternoon directors its my pleasure to introduce Emmett Nelson who has been in office since 2012 hes taken a leadership roll in implementing some of the programs youve approved the free muni for youth it was administere
Director lee. Commissioner rosales. Director rubke mr. Chair you have a quorum id like to recognize one of the colleagues in the District Attorneys Office and item 3 the announcement of advised please be advised the ringing of and use of cell phones, pagers and similar soundproducing Electronic Devices are prohibited at this meeting. Please be advised that the chair may order the removal from the meeting room responsible for the ringing or use of a cell phone, pager, or other similar soundproducing Electronic Devices. The board respectfully requests cell phones be turned off. The approval of the july 30th meeting theres a motion. A motion to approve. Second. Discussion all in favor, say i. Thank you very much. Item 5 communications things of the board we received a letter from mayor ed lee regarding the board meetings the mayor said he was hopeful for a working goal of a hundred percent attendance and he hoped that 90 percent attendance will be regular, you know, and he stated it the b