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KMEG Siouxland News At Sunrise February 23, 2016

3 today the clouds will hang on through the first half of the day, but by late in the afternoon we may see some sunshine and afternoon highs will work their way back into the lower 40s. Not too bad for late february. Yet another chance for rain snow mix will move in starting Late Wednesday evening as rain showers and switching to snow as we get close to the freezing mark. Highs on thursday will top out in the upper 30s with breezy winds and mostly cloudy skies. We will dry out after that for a few days with temperatures slowly warming into the upper 40s by friday and then the upper 50s for saturday. Another cold front comes in on sunday to close out the weekend with another chance of snow. 3 3 3 republicans caucus in nevada today to select their partys president ial nominee. G o p front runner donald win in a row while his rival ted cruz is fighting back against claims hes running a dirty campaign. C b s news correspondent don champion has the latest on the campaign from new york. 3 pkg trt 1 24insert trt 1 22 chyrons 0812 donald trump r president ial candidate52101 sen. Ted cruz rtx president ial candidate108113 sen. Marco rubio rfl president ial candidate pkg after winning primaries in South Carolina and new hampshire. Donald trump is eyeing a big win in nevada tonight. sot trump you better get out tomorrow. You gotta vote tomorrow. You gotta vote vote vote on the eve of the states gop caucuses. The republican frontrunner did not hold back. Slamming a protester. sot trump id like to punch him in the face, ill tell you that. And bashing rival ted cruz for what he called Dishonest Campaign ads sot trump this guy is sick theres something wrong with this guy sot cruz god bless the great state of nevada after finishing in third place behind marco rubio in South Carolina, cruz is going into todays contest without his communications director. Rick tyler was asked to resign monday for sharing a false news story on social media that suggested rubio dismissed the bible. sot cruz i have made clear in this campaign that we will conduct this campaign with the very highest standards of integrity speaking on a flight to vegas. Rubio called tyler the fall guy for cruzs deceptive campaign. sot rubio you feel bad for the guy he was basically a guy whos executing a culture that exists in that campaign. Rubio is leading cruz in the silver state. Both are vying to be the main alternative to trump. With super tuesday just a week away. Don champion 3 on the democratic side. Bernie sanders and Hillary Clinton will be part of a town hall event tonight in South Carolina. Ahead of the states democratic primary this weekend. 3 folks living in a West Side Neighborhood say theyre fed up with a dangerous situation and theyre worried it could cost one of their neighbors his and west 14th streets are dirt roads that lead to some homes. The people who live around there say those roads havent been passible since the blizzard a couple weeks ago. With ruts more than a foot deep in some places. They say you cant even get through that with a four wheel drive. People say theyve called the city. But theyve been passed around. Now. An elderly neighbor who uses oxygen cant even get to the doctor. 3 i have an appointment, for tomorrow morning and there no way i can get there. Because i could never walk up and down this hill, its impossible. 3 john heyward has lived in the neighborhood for 13 years. Hes angry the city sold a nearby section of road they used to use during bad weather. The new owner blocked it off. 3 we cant get home. Were parking three blocks away, walking , all the neighbors are walking to get home, through the woods, through the mud, and its pretty dark up anything. Heyward and his neighbors hope something can be done to get Edwin Gilbert to his doctors appointment at 11 this morning. Now. City councilman dan moore saw this story when it first aired last night on our sister station kpth fox 44. Councilman moore says hes told other city officials about whats going on. He hopes to find a quick solution for the neighborhood. 3 more news from the city council this morning. Looks like saturday in the park wont be the only big event at Grandview Park this summer. Yesterday the Mayors Youth Commission announced its raised enough money to build a beginners disc golf course. The course would cover most of the southeast portion of Grandview Park. People say its great for folks who want to learn how to play the game. The project will cost 45 hundred dollars. And all that money came from private donations. 3 an old sioux city schools getting a new life. Yesterday the school board approved the sale of the on the citys west side to the radiant Life Community church. The church will pay the district 25 thousand dollars for the building. The church is at west 4th and george streets right now. Thats where the Westside Coalition meets. Buying the former school gives the church room to expand and serve a larger congregation on the west side. 3 and a sioux city high schools getting a big gift to help build a new building. The estate of don gill. A longtime iron worker. Is donating 1 point 4 Million Dollars to Bishop Heelan high school. 3 about one Million Dollars of that will help pay for the new building. The rest will go to a science scholarship for students looking to enter the health field. Heelans fundraising chief says gill. A 1951 graduate. Wanted to name a library for his mother mary. So the new library and media center at heelan be named after mary gill. The new classrooms construction plans. And will add on to the new Fine Arts Building that opened in 20 14. 3 its an award handed out to fewer than 2 thousand people since 1989. The boy scouts of america certificate of merit. And now a young boy from siouxland is one of those recipients. Our own siouxland News Reporter kayla novak has his story. 3 um i jumped in the pool without a life jacket then 3 kaden went in the water and then he saved me. At just 12 years old, kaden nieto neeeh to became a hero, when he saved liam murphy from drowning in the South Sioux City ymca swimming pool. Thats when liams mom, kayla boy scouts of America National certificate of merit. The award is given to a youth member or adult leader who has performed a significant act of service that is deserving of special national recognition. But he is just such a role and for my other son. My other son is a scout as well and they both look up to kaden. So hopefully they can grow and learn and be the scouts that he has grown to be. Last week, kaden was shocked when the mid American Council presented him the award in omaha. I would hope it would show other cub scouts and boy scouts to do great things some day and that they can do anything as long as they set their mind to it. Nieto is currently a life scout. And just has a little more paperwork. Before he becomes an eagle scout. Kayla novak siouxland news 3 a texas grooming company is trying to give pets at amarillos Animal Shelter a better chance of finding a forever home. Shear luxury mobile pet spa is now grooming pets at the shelter for free. Some shelter are in desperate need of grooming. Which can reduce their chances of being adopted. The volunteer groomers plan on bringing their services to the shelter at least once a month. 3 3 3 3 we had an above average day yesterday and we will end up a little warmer today as well. Your forecast is next. 3 3 coming up on siouxland news at skeptical as we get closer to this weekends planned ceasefire. Well show you why the citizens dont trust the promise of peace. 3 youre watching siouxland news at sunrise, with jacob taylor3 3 today the clouds will hang on through the first half of the day, but by late in the afternoon we may see some sunshine and afternoon highs will work their way back into the lower 40s. Not too bad for late february. Y. Yet another chance for rain snow mix will move in starting Late Wednesday evening as rain showers and switching to snow as we get close to the freezing mark. Highs on thursday will top out in the upper 30s with breezy winds and mostly cloudy skies. We will dry out after that for a few days with temperatures slowly warming into the upper 40s by friday and then the another cold froro comes in on sunday to close out the weekend with another chance of snow. 3 3 3 heres what were talking about on facebook this morning. We have a story about some very detailed scale models. Whats your hobby . 3 3 amazons Free Shipping will cost you more if you dont have prime. hen nuh hena daniels is in new york with our c b s moneywatch. 3 a good start to the week on wall street monday. Oil prices jumped lifting energy stocks. The dow closed up 228 points the us economy continues to grow and consumers are more confident about it. Thats according to the president s council of economic advisers. The groups annual report shows the best two year job growth in the us since the 1990s. But it also predicts future problems because of slow growth in other countries. amazons Free Shipping may cost some customers more. Customers now have to pay 49 dollars to qualify for Free Shipping. Thats a ten dollar increase. Amazon prime members, who pay an annuall fee, still get Free Shipping. a new survey finds only 52 percent of americans have morereemergency savings than Credit Card Debt. Bankrate dot com says that number has held steady in the past five years even though the economy approved. The study also found one out of five americans have no Credit Card Debt but they also dont have any savings. thats your cbs moneywatch report. For more log onto cbs 3 3 the u s and russia agreed to at least a partial ceasefire in syria thatll start saturday. But terrorists with isis and al nusra. Part of al qaeda. Arent part of the agreement. Actually. As reporter Elizabeth Palmer shows us. Isis just claimed responsibility for bombs that killed at least 100 people over the eekend. 3 standing just a couple of yards from the biggest bomb. It was car a bomb. About 4 oclock in the afternoon just as the kids were getting home from school. The scale of the destruction is epic the fronts of the buildings have been blown clean off, and all the people who lived in those apartmentsand the merchants who ran the shops on the ground floor theyre all dead. rescue video, bloody kid etc this video shows the frantic moments right after one of the explosionssurvivors rushing to help the wounded weeping women, more funeral you might think people whove witnessed such carnage and who today are burying more than 100 family members and friends would welcome a pause in the violencenot so. 3550 liz are you optimistic that there will be some kind of truce . No way, abu mahran tells me. And everyone in the crowd agrees. We dont want a ceasefire until all the terrorists are out of our country. guy to camera. its not a good sign for this proposed tre when even the citizens arent onside. 3 3 after the 3 break. At least one lawsuit has been filed against megabus. The company had 29 maintenance violations in the last 24 months. Well take a look at the latest. A weekend fire. 3 this morning looks almost identical to yesterday morning, we just dont have the fog. Another chance for next. 3 3 first alert weather with meteorologist cat taylor 3 today the clouds will hang on through the first half of the day, but by late in the afternoon we may see some sunshine and afternoon highs will work their way back into late february. Yet another chance for rain snow mix will wednesday evening as rain showers and switching to snow as we get close to the thursday will top out in the upper 30s with breezy winds and mostly cloudy skies. We will dry out after that for a few days with temperatures slowly warming into the upper upper 50s for saturday. Another cold front comes in on snow. 3 3 a blown tire started a fire that completely engulfed a megabus outside of chicago sunday. All of the passengers got out all right. This isnt the companys first tire related disaster. C b s news correspondent don dahler shows us why safety officials dont think these accidents are a coincidence. 3 pkg video of bus on fire narr sundays megabus fire began with a blown tire that caught fire, flames engulfing the bus. unnamed passenger 00 41 mon0131 00 41 it was horrifying. Everybody running down the highway, it was terrible graphic or vid narr this wasnt the new jerseybased companys first brush with tirerelated disasters. In 2012, a 25year old graduate student in illinois was killed in this crash allegedly caused by a blown tire. 47 passengers were hospitalized. There have been at least five other incidents involving blown tires on megabuses, including this one to slam into a guard rail on i 95. narr at least one lawsuit has been filed claiming theres a problem with the buses carrying too much weight. Clarence ditlow is with the center for auto safety. ditlow 14 30 15 one or two fires in a bus may be a coincidence, but when you hit three theres something going on and the government should investigate. ditlow 14 31 06 d how does weight affect tires and tire safety . C well, if a bus is overweight, in a worstcase scenario the tires can rub against the wheelwell which generates friction, heat, and ultimately a fire. megabus graphic narr in the last 24 months, safety inspectors found 29 maintenance violations considered an imminent hazard to megabus drivers or passengers. Megabus says it carries 10 Million People a year in its fleet of 275 buses. And released a statement saying safety is our top priority and megabus. Com is fully cooperating with the authorities. megabus on fire narr the federal agency that oversees bus travel issued an advisory about overloaded buses in 2012. But ditlow says thats not enough. ditlow 14 31 27 if one of these buses had been in heavy traffic before it could pull off to the side of the road, it might have been a catastrophic fire before the people could get out of the bus to safety. Tag 3 still to come. The uber driver accused of deadly shootings over the weekend was in court in kalamazoo michigan. Well show you how the community is starting to heal. Youre watching 3 this is siouxland 3 good morning everyone,thanks for starting your morning with us. Im jacob heller. And im meteorologist cat taylor. 3 today the clouds will hang on through the first half of the day, but by late in the afternoon we may see some sunshine and afternoon highs will work thehe way ba into thlower 40s. Not too bad for late february. Yet another chance for rain snow mix will move in starting Late Wednesday evening as rain showers and switching to snow as we get close to the upper 30s with breezy winds and mostly cloudy skies. We will dry out after that for a few days with temperatures slowly warming into the upper 40s by friday and then the upper 50s for saturday. Another cold front comes in on sunday to close out the weekend with another chance of snow. 3 this morning a michigan mom is talking about her daughters fight to live. 14 year old abigail kopf is on a ventilator and in Critical Condition after she was shot during a ooting rampage that killed six people in kalamazoo over the weekend. And as reporte don champion shows us. The man accused in the shootings has supposedly alreayd confessed to the whole thing. 3 chyrons Vicki Kopf Abigail kopfs mother pkg sot mon0473 26 breathtaking 27 vicki kopf described feeling her 14yearold daughter abigail squeeze her hand. sot tue0041 Vicki Kopf Abigail kopfs mother 03 she is alive, and she is fighting for her life 05 authorities initially thought abigail died after she was shot in the head in kalamazoo, michigan over the weekend. Abigails heart stopped at one point, but her mom calls her, a fighter. sot tue0041 vicki kopf 08 abigail is strong and was a vibrant, beautiful young lady who did not deserve this 13 abigail was with her adoptive grandmother, barbara hawthorne, when police say 45yearold jason dalton opened fire on them and three other women in this Cracker Barrel parking lot. Abigail was the lone survivor of that attack. mon0254 55 two men, a father and son, were killed within the same hour while car shopping. sot tue0054 21 nat im gonna let it shine 22 monday night, Community Members fought tears at a candlelight vigil for the victims at a kalamazoo church. dalton arraignment monday jason dalton now faces 16 chchges, including six counts of murder. Monday, he sat expressionless on closed circuit tv from his jail cell during a brief court appearance. sot mon0295 12 do you understand the charges being made against you and the maximum sentences i just stated yes sir 19 prosecutors say he admits to carrying out the attacks. A 3 a second survivor. A woman who was shot at an apartment complex is still in too. 3 police in holt county nebraska are investigating a stabbing over the weekend that killed one woman and leftft man in the e hospitalthe Oneill Police Department Says it went to a home because of a knife injury just before nine oclock saturday night. Two people were taken by ambulance to the hospital in oneill. Where a 37 year old hispanic woman was pronounced dead. A 37 year old hispanic man was taken to the hospital. Too. No word on his condition. Though. Policecerent releasasg the names of either victim. The Nebraska State Patrol is helping local investigators in the case. 3 3 the Sheriffs Office in Madison County nebraska is trying to identify human miles east of tilden nebraska sunday afternoon. Hunters found them. The Sheriffs Office says th

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