People are just driving too fast : Iowa drivers continue to see accidents across interstate Cars in the ditch. Semis in the ditch. A lot of blowing snow. A lot of wind. Share Updated: 10:27 PM CST Jan 15, 2021 Cars in the ditch. Semis in the ditch. A lot of blowing snow. A lot of wind. Share Updated: 10:27 PM CST Jan 15, 2021
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Show Transcript JOINS US LIVE. WHAT ARE YOU SEEING RIGHT NOW? EMILY: ALEXANDRA, THE SNOW STOPPED HOURS AGO BUT THE WIND WILL NOT DIE DOWN AND DRIVERS TELL ME THAT S CAUSING ISSUES ON THE INTERSTATE. GUSTS OF WIND WHIPPED THE FLAG IN MISSOURI VALLEY, BLOWING BUSHES DIAGONALLY AND SENDING SNOW INTO THE STREET. COME ON, SPRING. I M TIRED OF THIS WINTER ALREADY. EMILY: TOM SACHS CLEARS THE SIDEWALK IN FRONT OF HIS HOME. HE DROVE IN THE MIDST OF THE SNOWSTORM EARLY FRIDAY MORNING. HE SAID YOU COULD SEE CRASHES SPREAD ACROSS I-29 ON HIS WAY BACK FROM OMAHA. CARS IN THE DITCH, SEMIS IN THE DITCH. A LOT OF B
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A few days before Christmas, the US Congress passed a major $900 billion COVID-19 stimulus bill, pared with a $1.4 trillion federal spending package. The main items that made the headlines were $600 checks to Americans, federal unemployment benefits, and funding for small businesses, school systems, public transit, and vaccine distribution.
Flying beneath the radar in the year-end legislation were a variety of energy- and climate-related provisions that together arguably made up one of the most significant actions on climate in years, at least from Congress.
The bill included an extension of the federal solar investment tax credit for two years at the 26 percent level, instead of dropping down to 22 percent in 2021 and 10 percent in 2022, as had been planned. Federal tax credits for wind were extended for one year, and offshore wind was made eligible for the first time, within a window lasting un
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Show Transcript MARGARET: BUT FIRST, YOU NEED TO BUY A TICKET. THIS SHOULD MAKE YOU FEEL LUCKY. LOOK AT THAT SUNSET, SETTING AT 5:24. THE NATION FLAG, LOOKING OH BEAUTIFUL, BECAUSE WE’VE GOT WINDS GUSTING 29 MPH. HERE’S A LOOK AT THE HIGH TODAY, UP TO 61. THE AVERAGE, 62. A GORGEOUS DAY. RIGHT NOW WE ARE IN THE MID TO UPPER 50’S. A BIT COOLER THAN YESTERDAY AT THIS TIME. LOOK AT THAT WIND GUSTING 29 MPH. THIS EVENING, CLEAR SKIES, TEMPERATURES ARE FALLING, AND THE WIND DOES MAKE IT FEEL COOLER, ANYWHERE FROM 40-50 DEGREES THIS EVENING. INTO THE MORNING, LOW TEMPERATURES DIP NEAR THE LOW 30’S NORTH SHORE. PROTECT PLANTS, PETS, AND PEOPLE. SOUTH MISSISSIPPI, YOU WILL BE CLOSE TO FREEZING, TOO. MID-30’S TO THE LOW 40’S. MORE OF THE WIND, ANYWHERE FROM 26-31 MPH. HERE’S A LOOK AT THE MORNING LOWS. IT’S GOING TO BE A COLD MORNING. ON THE SO