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The president went so far as to call the change a christmas miracle. Critics have said no child left behind gave too much power to washington in controlling state education policy. Earlier today, we talked to dr. Paul gausman, superintendent of sioux city schools gausman says he feels there was more good than bad in no child left behind, but there isis lot of anticipation and excitement leading up to these changes. Mostly in regards to standdized testing but the challenges with no child left behind have to do with assessments, every state takes a different approach to assessments, students per...

About a dozen members of local union 347 were racing to take down boxes and retrieve miles of chords as the raccoons raced around them. You get up close to it, and all of a sudden it buckles. Reporter it took dozens of Union Members and other volunteers three weekends to set up the electrical grid. Theyre trying to take down as much as they can. In one day. Were not going to get it all out, a few more hours and we would have been in pretty good shape but we didnt quite make it. Reporter now the question how high will the waters go . And what will be left of the elaborate light displays after i...

Stay dryryntil late this arrive overnight as a cold front begins to move through. This front will only drop our temperatures into the upper 30s, keeping us above normal for monday. Our temperatures will continue above normal for the rest of ur work week nd into christmas day. Thanks britley. Today, family and friends will gather to remember the life of a waterloo teenage a trapper found 18 yearold moe seds body on december 6th in the cedar river near gilbertville. Investigators used dental records to identify him. The waterloo west junior went for a bike ride on october 22nd without a cell pho...

Some have taken to social media to criticize local leaders for the way they have spent tax dollars. So, why spend money on studies . Yesterday, ktivs tiffany lane asked local leaders that question. Not one of the major markets in the country, doesnt mean we cant use ideas from some of those bigger arenas here. The Tyson Events Center was awarded 68thousand dollars for a study to look at physical improvements, as well as, a review of concessions and programming. The cone park project had the most expensive study for fiscal thousand dollars. Parks and recreation director Matt Salvatore says that...

Rules of the road today, friday, december 11th, 2015. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a friday morning. Nice warm friday morning here in new york. Got to roll that footage again of a guy on a bicycle. When those gates are down, youre supposed to stop and he hits that train or that train hits him, one way or the other. Its amazing. The other Vantage Point even more disturbing. Whats amazing is that he walked away from that hopefulul a lot wiser. Well tell you whe...