A federal regulator will be in des moines today to approve or deny the changes to the states Medicaid Program. Tse changes are supposed to happen january 1st. Yesterday, an Oversight Committee took a vote to delay the switch by six months, but the vote tied, and failed. The Committee Also questioned the companies that will oversee medicaid and heard public comments. Several dozen medicaid recipients and family members packed the meeting room and an overflow area. Nearly every patient complained ththswitch to private operation of the system is happening too fast. One activist hopes they stop the rush to managed care. T outpouring from iowa and the outcry is unprecedented and cms has never seen that and theyreretudying it cms stands for centers for medicare and medicaid services. The organizations regulators will question the four companies the state selected for the Medicaid Program. Cancer are living longer today than they did 20 years ago. Thats what a new university of iowa study fou
Heres a look outside. Our temps are in the 20sour winds are a bit breezy from the west satellite and radar shows some clouds in eastern iowa. Partly sunny skies today, some clouds tonight and some clouds tomorrow. Historic flooding continues to ravage parts of missouri and illinois, leaving more than 20 dead and hundreds of families with out their homes. David begnaud has the latest. Latest. Narr 1 just southwest of st. Louis towns are under water. Roadways look like rivers. And homes have been swallowed by water. sot jon belmar, st. Louis Police Department were still at a flood stage of 42. 31 feet, so its going to go down, but thats a lot of water the levees holding right now. narr 2 in arnold, missouri hundreds of people find themselves this new years day without a home and temperatures are now dropping below freezing. sot kelli hoofman, flood victim until come and check our homes and live in them, so were going to be out of a place to stay for a couple of weeks at least. sot linda
Your refusal. After that the officer has charges to write and youll be delivered to the imagine. Legal fees and fines, what that could do to insurance rates and current and future employment opportrunities. Cost a lot. 23 52 43 we are talking, in totality, thousands of dollars. Bailey says if youre cheering on the hawks, do so safely and responsibly. Covering the corridor in iowa city, mellaney moore, cbs 2 news. One person is recovering after an overnight shooting in waterloo. Just before two, officers were called to a bar on Fourth Street on reports no one would leave the bar. When they got there, they noticed a group of people in an alley nearby and heard several shots fired. Thats when people in the crowd began running from the alley. One waterloo officer fired at a suspect but missed. Within the group, one person was hit and taken to a hospital but is expected to be okay. Several armed suspects were arrested. Were hurt after a hit and run. It happened in an alley next to a bar on
Officer will have charges to write and will transport them to the Johnson County jail. Bailey says legal fees and fines, what that could do to insurance rates and current and future employment opportrunities. Cost in the thousands of dollars. So if youre cheering on the hawks, do so safely and responsibly. Covering the corridor in iowa city, mellaney moore, cbs 2 news live at five. In waterloo a man is recovering after an overnight shooting. Just before two, officers were called to a bar on Fourth Street on reports no one would leave the bar. When they got there, they noticed a group of people in an alley nearby and heard several shots fired. Thats when people in the crowd began running from the alley. 31yearold ramarez gary was shot in the leg and taken to the hospital. He is expected to be okay. When the group broke up, a waterloo officer fired at one of the shooting suspects, but missed. Three people were taken into custody and face weapons charges. Were hurt after a hit and run. It
Spoken, electing quentin hart as mayor. Hart beating former mayor tim hurley last night. Making history in the process, becoming the first African American mayor. Kwwls Nikki Newbrough joins us live. Nikki you spoke with the new mayor today. Quentin hart brought up the Voting Rights act, celebrating 50 years in august. He says there are many people. Black and white who have sacrificed for hart to have these opportunities. A special moment tuesday night for the man born and raised in waterloo. There are no papers in wanted to become mayor. But hart says hes happy, blessed. Even making history, becoming the first African American mayor in waterloo but he doesnt want to focus on that. And you know im African American. Im proud of who i am but my goal is to become the best mayor of this entire city. Even quentins opponent, tim hurley gracious and proud of hart. He had a superb organization and a great campaign. Hes articulate. He stayed with his message and he won. Few hours for hart have