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Thank you for joining us tonight im tim seaman jenna and d Jenna Rehnstrom america represents roughly 5 percent of the worlds population and 25 percent of its prisoners. Tim covercrowded state and federal prisons are costing taxpayers around 6. 4 billion dollars. Tim many of those prisoners serve drug related sentences and are on what are called mandatory minimums. Its a conceptdeveloped in the70s. During the so called war o o drugs. With crack and cocain sweeping across the nation. Putting away offenders. Even on small drug charges. Was a priority. Jenna these minimums are still used today. B...

The best way to term it. There were both armed with assault rifles, they wewee both armed with handguns. sot all of a sudden, it was like boom, boom, boom, boom hours earliergunfire had erupted inside the Inland Regional Center 60 miles east of los angeles. Police say the suspects walked into the social Services Building wednesday morning where a holiday luncheon was underway. They came prepared to do what they did, as if they were on a mission. Workers locked themselves in offices and sent texts. Others called loved ones. I told them to hunker down and make sure their phones were off. Dont ma...

Conditions will really start to deteriorate late tonight early tomorrow morning as some light rain begins to switch over to freezing rain and could accumulate up to a quarter of an inch in some locations by late tomorrow morning. See graphics. Wx timer 40 today is the 30th anniversary of the plane crash involving the Cross Country team at iowa state university. Three team members were killed. Along with the pilot, two coaches and a student trainer. The trainer was Stephanie Streit from hawarden. She graduated from West Sioux High School in 1982. Also, on board, sheryl maahs from spirit lake. S...

Gave a lot of herself, maahs said. Sheryl and her teammates placed a surprising second in the Ncaa National Cross Country meet in milwaukee. That mornrng everybody was sky y high, and that afternoon everybody was in mourning, said tim lane. Tim lane helped organize a memorial ceremory planned for thanksgiving eve in the very spot where the plane fell from the sky. I want this to be a celebration. I want the Running Community to turn out, lane said. A celebration honoring the lives of seven from iowa state. They plan to unveil a new park and everlasting memorial in des moines. Hopefully can go ...

And im Jenna Rehnstrom tonight we are learning more about sioux city woman who disappeared on sunday and was found alive in rural moville yesterday. Tim with freezing temperatures. Police and family are calling it a miracle that shahkneekwa Shaniqwa Hayes is still alive. Heres lukas voss with more. Thanks tim and jenna. What we know so far is not much. Hayes had left work on sunday feeling dizzy with flu like syptoms according to a co worker. Thats when we are losing her track. The next thing we know is officials finding her unconsiouss on a moville property. Why she drove there. Or what made ...