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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 beh...

About a dozen members of local union 347 were racing to take down boxes and retrieve miles of chords as the raccoons raced around them. You get up close to it, and all of a sudden it buckles. Reporter it took dozens of Union Members and other volunteers three weekends to set up the electrical grid. Theyre trying to take down as much as they can. In one day. Were not going to get it all out, a few more hours and we would have been in pretty good shape but we didnt quite make it. Reporter now the ...

Stay dryryntil late this arrive overnight as a cold front begins to move through. This front will only drop our temperatures into the upper 30s, keeping us above normal for monday. Our temperatures will continue above normal for the rest of ur work week nd into christmas day. Thanks britley. Today, family and friends will gather to remember the life of a waterloo teenage a trapper found 18 yearold moe seds body on december 6th in the cedar river near gilbertville. Investigators used dental recor...

Some have taken to social media to criticize local leaders for the way they have spent tax dollars. So, why spend money on studies . Yesterday, ktivs tiffany lane asked local leaders that question. Not one of the major markets in the country, doesnt mean we cant use ideas from some of those bigger arenas here. The Tyson Events Center was awarded 68thousand dollars for a study to look at physical improvements, as well as, a review of concessions and programming. The cone park project had the most...

Rules of the road today, friday, december 11th, 2015. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a friday morning. Nice warm friday morning here in new york. Got to roll that footage again of a guy on a bicycle. When those gates are down, youre supposed to stop and he hits that train or that train hits him, one way or the other. Its amazing. The other Vantage Point even more...

Thursday on two charges of aiding in animal cruelty and four counts of contributing to the delinquency of a child, all misdemeanors. The case involves cell phone video that allegedly shows the graphic torture of a cat. Four stanton teenagers are also charged as juveniles in the case. Former wayne county attorney amy miller has been assigned as the special prosecutor. She says the case also involves the torture of a possum. Van pelt could face up to six years in prison if convicted on all six cou...

Recreation director. Salvatore says without the study and design, they would have been going in blind into the project. City leaders say another reason studies are beneficial are because they allow parties, that arent affiliated with city, to make a neutral observation. In sioux city, tiffany lane, ktiv news 4. Other sioux city studies approved for fiscal year 2016 include community assessment, a bridgeport traffifistudy, campground site analysis, a trail study, the leeds floyd Corridor Study an...

The track may go. Heres how it this is wheee the low pressure, or center of the storm will be friday morning, friday evening, and saturday. Widespread one to again, this starts friday afternoon. Well have the timing coming up in just a few minutes. French Officials Say they have confirmed that the mastermind of fridays terror attacks in paris was killed in a police raid wednesday. Nbcs keir simmons is in paris with more this afternoon. This is bigignews. Abdelhamid abaaoud is now believed, accor...

Local 5 news midday. Im sabrina ahmed. Sabrina a call to drop part of the lawsuit Des Moines Water Works has filed against three iowa counties. The department is suing sac, calhoun, and buena vista counties over high nitrate levels in iowa rivers. It says that farm run off there is affecting the Drinking Water coming from the des moines and raccoon rivers. Lawyers say 8 of the 10 counts should be dropped, because the drainage districts dont have authority over private land owners. Sabrina calls ...

Evening lasting into saturday. We are now looking fairly cold to end the weekend with a significant snow possible leading into early next week. Temperatures should fall cold and closer to average during the remainder of next week. Sabrina lets get into the top five this morning. Sabrina a wild scene near the drake campus tuesday, where cops say a drunk driver rammed into cars along carpenter and forest avenues. This is the moment when the guys minivan finally hits a power pole and the whole thin...