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KTIV News 4 At Six February 14, 2016

Winter weather advisories are in effect for lincoln, lyon, osceola, dickinson, emmet, sioux, obrien, clay, palo alto, cherokee, buena vista, pocahontas, sac, calhoun counties this evening through sunday afternoon after quite the frigid morning temperatures did not climb very much for our saturday afternoon. Temperatures will be staying quite steady and really not dropping off this evening due to the cloud cover building in. The clouds are associated with our next weather maker that will come in the form of an upper level low pressure center. This will give us light snow this evening into the overnight hours. The snow will move in from nw to se and will be heavier off to the ne parts of siouxland. That is why the winter weathe advisory is in effect. Snow totals look to range from less than an inch for western parts of the viewing area, to one to two inches for central towns including sioux city, and 25 for the northern and eastern towns. Winds will also pick up which will cause some patchy whiteout conditions along with blowing and drifting snow. Your 7day forecast is coming up in 10 minutes theres just four weeks left until the Woodbury County democratic convention. And Convention Committees form to plan the final details. Committees met earlier today, to put the final pieces together. The Platform Committee decided today what planks they want to push through to the district convention. The Woodbury County democrats chair says even though its an election year, this Convention Wont be any different. Its just a parliamentary procedure that we need to go through in order to push the delegates on to the district and then on to state and then on to nationals, said penny rosfjord, Woodbury County democrats chair. The convention will be held on march 12 at sioux city west high school. A bill up for debate at the state legislature, in pierre, is targeting people who are transgender. The bill proposes separate bathrooms and locker rooms for transgender students at south dakota schools. Ktivs tiffany lane has reaction from lawmakers, and students. Passed. A bill that says students will be required to use bathrooms and locker rooms that match their biological sex will be debated by the full senate. Ive had teenage kids, i think sharing bathrooms, locker rooms, shower rooms with kids who are anatomically different, i think is going to be a horrible affect on kids as far as bullying. Under the bill, schools must provide reasonable accommodations for transgender students needs. Accommodations include a singleoccupancy bathroom or the controlled use of a staffdesignated restroom, locker room or shower room. Su usd junior Logan Anderson is against the bill, which he says discriminates and is unwelcoming. I saw like a testimony where this kid was saying he doesnt feel human, like he has to go to a different bathroom and its just not including everyone, and yeah, its upsetting. Advocates say the bill is meant to protect the prpracy of students. One university of south dakota student says he agrees with the bill as long as it provides the additional accommodatio ns for transgender students. If you start conflicting with other peoples rights, like for example, if someone doesnt feel comfortable i guess, being in the same same locker room, or lets say shower as that person, i believe they have the right to have privacy be separated. Some legislators are once again attempting to void a High School Activities Association Policy allowing transgender student the team thaa matches theii gender indentity. In vermillion, south dakota, tiffany lane, ktiv news 4. On thursday, the Senate Education committee voted 4 t2 to send the bill to the floor for debate. Democrats have criticized the measure as discriminatory. The Sioux City Art Center celebrates youth art month with their 27th annual youth art exhibition. The art center received more than 400 art entries from 21 siouxland high schools. A selection committechose just 61 pieces to be displayed in the annual exhibit. The winners will be honored on sunday from 1 30 to 3 at the art center. The youth art exhibit will remain until april 10. Ininarch of 2015 the sioux city the question, how will they make an impact on sioux city . The list of possibilities ranged from a quidditch tournament, to movie night. But, a project promoting literacy won over all. Its called little Free Libraries. The concept is simple. Take a book, return a book. Each library l lation has a theme and the books inside go along with the theme. The libraries help encourage literacy for all ages across sioux city. The libraries are going to be a good way for kids access all kinds of books from all over. Also be more attracted to reading because when you see these little Free Libraries theyre painted in all kinds of fun colors and stories, said hannah rens, 2015 mayor of Mayor Youth Commission the libraries can be found all around sioux city. For a full list of the locations go to our website ktivdotcom. The sioux city mayors Youth Commission is now accepting applications for its Young Ambassadors program. The program is open to allll students grades 4th through 7th. The student must be enrolled in a sioux city public or parochial school, or home schooled in sioux city. Include a letter of recommendati on. Along with the nominations, the students name, address, phone number, and school should be included. All applications should be submitted by april 1st. You can find information on where to send the applications on our website ktivdotcom. Do you plan or installing or using a car or booster seat . The cdc estimates 59 percent of car seats nationally are misued. Doing your homework could keep your kid further from harms way. Ktivs sam curtiss has more for us tonight. We always want to look a the Owners Manual and Owners Manual of the seat to see that were doing it correctly, said gerry bennett, with sioux city fire rescue. But what if you bought that car seat secondhand . We really the history of the seat, said bennett. Because car seats do expire. And if theyve been in a wreck. Authorities say theyre most likely no longer safe. Its been proven that in an auto crash children can very easily get thrown around, injured or possibly even killed if not seated into a car seat correctly, said bennett. For no fee, sioux city fire rescue checked them saturday. Going over proper installation and looking for seats that could have been recalled. Off ering peace of mind. Its involving my childs life and i just feel much safer driving around just knowing that my car seat iigood to go, said lindsey roder, a concerned mother. The cdc estimates 46 percent of car and booster seats tionally are misued. Reducig effectiveness. I was not aware of the, up above the head, where you can adjust it to if theyre getting taller to adjust the head for them to have more room, said roder. Tools like safer car dot gov can check recalls and complaints. And the cdc has recommendations of how it should be placed in a car. We always ask them do they feel comfortable to take the car seat in and out themselvee and thats the goal, said bennett. In sioux city, sam curtiss, ktiv news four. Crew that will check seats year r und. All you have to do is call and make an appointment. Coming up on news 4 at 6 pro football in sioux city is just around the corner. Well show you how the bandits players siouxland. That is why the Winter Weather advisory is in effect. Snow totals look to range from less than an inch for western parts of the viewing area, to one to two inches for central towns including sioux city, and 25 for the northern and eastern towns. Winds will also pick up which will cause some patchy whiteout conditions along with blowing and drifting snow. This system will move out sunday morning leaving behind mostly cloudy skies. Another system is expected to skirt through monday night giving the region a Second Chance for a mix snow, with light accumulations possible. We will begin a warming trend as we move towards the end of next week with temperatures almost cracking the fifty degree mark come friday. Still to come for us on a saturday night. Well head to a local hospital as the sioux city bandits prepapre to defend their well head to a local hospital still to come for us on a saturday night. Well head to a local hospital as the sioux city bandits prepapre to defend their the sioux city bandits know that all too well. Today they took the time to get their yearly physical checkup before their season kicks off. Ktivs Michelle Schoening has more. Every year the sioux city bandits get up, bright and early on a saturday and get their yearly physical. This year physicans from the tristate specialists and mercy Singing Hills steppedin to make sure players are ready to step out on the field. The head coach says with a limited roster. Its important to have everyone ready to go. We need these guys as healthy as can be. So its very important for us to know going into camp these guys are healthy and available for us, said erv strohbeen, sioux city bandits head coach. From Blood Pressure to making sure their joints are in the right motion. Doctors at the physicians clinic are preping the players to be game ready, siouxlands news channel. Doctors say the physicals are all about avoiding injuries during the season. We try to identify findings that could give us a clue in either bracing or preventative measures that we can do like taping around the ankle that may aid in preventing these injuries, said dr. Aaron althaus, tristate specialists physician. As for the players, they understand how crucial it is to get these yearly physicals. This process is pretty valuable to make sure everybody in the best condition possible in terms of their prexcisting conditions or old injuries that need to be taken care of, said rahn franklin, bandits free safety. And after receiving the green light from the doctors, the bandits turn their focus to the season schedule. In sioux city, Michelle Schoening ktiv news four. The bandits kick off their season on february 27 at marks in now with sports and a big day for high schoool wrestlers. mark district day state berths up for grabs in all classes. Weve got highlights and reaction from two siouxland sites, coming up after the break. Plus, the briar cliff men look tournament is already set in all classes. But there was still work to be done. District tournaments taking place all over iowa to fill out the field for the individual state tournament, which starts on thursday. We start in sibley, iowa for class 1a district action these are all finals. Drew woodall, from mmcru, picks up a district title at 113 pounds with a 12nothing major decision. Westwoods kody berg comes from behind to beat hintons Skylar Richter for the 120 pound district title. Up to 138 west siouxs kory van tournament. And sibleyocheyedans dylan schuck picks up two more pinfalls schuck is now 46and1 on the season and a district champion. Its a great feeling again, being here with your home crowd, said having the atmosphere in here. Its great, and hope we can get some more. And the generals would get more, pin at title. At 170, another champ trent kruger beats okobojis noah bouse sibleyocheyedan sends 7 guys to state, 4 of them district champs. But the generals run of champions ends at 182 in a battle of ranked guys, hintons daniel bishop, number 1 in the state, beats sibleyocheyedans hunter dejong, 11 nothing. Dejongs a good wrestler, said bishop. If im able to wrestle him like i did right there, it shows me and everyone else, everyone im going to wrestle, lets go to sheldon for class 2a district action. Sergeant bluffluton sends 5 guys to state among them, brayden curry, a district champ at 126. Boydenhull rock valleys Austin Rozeboom turns his man over for a fall he was your champion at 132 heads to state with just one loss. Up to 138 Connor Ascherl from moc floyd valley finished 2nd, but is going to des moines. Spirit lake park gets 4 state berths john tuttle finished 2nd at 145 pounds. And cherokees tyler zeimen picks up the district title at 160. For a list of the guys going to state, head to our website, ktiv. Com. The briar cliff men have already clinched at least a share of the gpac title, with a 15and2 record in conference play. The chargers could take the title outright with a road win over Hastings Briar Cliff comes in, winners of 20 of its last 21 games. Lead on a basket by carson blum the broncos shot over 48 percent. Briar cliff gets on the board later the chargers have a basket by shane graves graves scored 17. The cliff keeps it going Austin Lefler on the steal takes it all the way the other way for 2 of his 13 points. Later its bryan forbes for three forbes, 5 of 8 from three, 19 points b cu clinches the gpac title, 8977. Northern iowa, on the road at Wichita State. First half ron baker rebounds the Fred Van Vleet miss and puts it back Wichita State down 1. There was something brewing for the panthers Klint Carlson for 3 uni takes an 11 point lead into the half. Things tighten up but norhtern iowa holds strong Matt Bohannon on the three. Uni avenges a loss to the shockers from earlier in the season, nebraska leads penn state. Sdsu over usd with about 5 minutes to play. Highlights of both at 10. Back to tonights top story, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has died after nearly 30 years on the nations highest court. According to the san antonio newsexpress the 79year old justice apparently died of Natural Causes while visiting a Luxury Resort in west texas. President Ronald Reagan in 1986 and has been the Senior Member of the court for several years. Hes also been one of the most conservative justices in recent years. Justice scalia was born in trenton, new jersey. He leaves behind his wife of 55 years, nine children and more than 30 grandchildre n. Well have more tonight on news 4 at 10 we all are big coffee people. But how much would you pay for a cup check this out san franciscos bay area is a buzz over a 15 a cup of coffee. While it smells, grinds and drips like youre typical cup of joe, its anything but. 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