CSi Weather…

.TONIGHT… Snow. Snow accumulation around 2 inches in the Jamestown area, 1-4 inches in the Valley City area. Lows 5 to10 above. East winds around 5 mph  shifting to the north after midnight.

.FRIDAY…Slight chance of snow in the morning then clearing. Highs 15 to

20. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.

.FRIDAY NIGHT…Increasing clouds. Lows zero to 5 above.

Southwest winds around 5 mph.

.SATURDAY…Cloudy. A 50 percent chance of snow in the afternoon.

Highs in the mid 20s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.

.SATURDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy, a 30 percent chance of light

snow in the evening in the Jamestown area, 50 percent in the Valley City area. Lows around 10.

.SUNDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 20s.

.SUNDAY NIGHT…Mostly clear. Lows 5 to 10 above.

.MONDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 30s.

.MONDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. Lows 10 to 15.

.TUESDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 20s.

.TUESDAY NIGHT…Increasing clouds. Lows around 10.

.WEDNESDAY…Sunny. Highs in the mid 20s.

 

 

Thursday night…snow accumulations between one and three inches are likely. The heaviest amounts…up to around 3 inches…will be over eastern Dickey county, with around an inch from Fort Yates through Jamestown.

Little or no snow is expected from Selfridge to Bismarck and Carrington.

Also accumulations expected to range from trace amounts in the far north and Devils Lake basin to 2 to 3 inches for the central valley and into NW MN.

Winds will be light with this system so blowing and drifting snow will be negligible.

Reduced visibilities and slick roads can be expected  Thursday night. Snow will taper off towards daybreak Friday morning.

Then another round of light snow is possible again on Saturday with another system lifting into the northern plains.

 

UPDATE…

Jamestown  (CSi) Stutsman County Sheriff Chad Kaiser released the name of a Jamestown man, who died following a high speed pursuit on Wednesday this week, in a gun confrontation with law enforcement north of Medina.   He reports that 27 year old Michael Andrew Schieffer,  last known to be from Jamestown, died following the incident.

The incident continues under investigation investigated by the Stutsman County Sheriff’s Office along with the North Dakota Bureau of Criminal Investigation assisted by the Jamestown Police Department.

 

 

Playa del Carmen, Mexico (WDAY)  A Valley City family on vacation was waiting to board a ferry boat, in Mexico, and were  taken to a hospital after a ferry exploded.

It happened Wednesday in Playa del Carmen. Among the 25 people reported injured in the explosion were Rebecca Lahlum’s 14-year-old son John. The family from Valley City was waiting to board a ferry to Cozumel when another ferry next to it exploded. The family was taken to the hospital for treatment of injuries including a few scratches and bruises and stitches. and released.

 

Ottertail, Minn. (AP) — Fire has destroyed a business and damaged a second property in a small community in Otter Tail County.

KFGO reports the fire broke out about 8:30 p.m. Wednesday at Periwinkle Marketplace on Highway 78 in Ottertail. Periwinkle is a clothing, furniture, and home decor store. Ottertail Liquors next door sustained minor damage.

Fire departments from Ottertail, Battle Lake, Henning, and Perham battled the fire, bringing it under control several hours later. The cause of the fire is under investigation.

 

 

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Superintendents in the Bismarck area won’t dismiss classes for any walkouts or demonstrations in support of Florida school shooting victims and gun control.

But Bismarck Public Schools Superintendent Tamara Uselman and Mandan Public Schools Superintendent Mike Bitz say they won’t prohibit students from participating in them.

Students nationwide are planning walkouts over next two months to advocate for tougher gun control and to protest gun violence in response to the Florida school shooting that killed 17 last week.

Uselman tells the Bismarck Tribune that students will face repercussions if they don’t obtain parent permission to leave school. She says faculty members are required to use their own leave time to participate in protests.

Uselman and Bitz say they’re unaware of any planned walkouts, but will continue to monitor their communities.

 

In sports…

Jamestown  (CSi)  The Class B  District 5 Boy’s Basketball Tournament is February 23, 24, & 26, at the Jamestown Civic Center.

Friday February 23

4:30 p.m. No.4 LaMoure-Litchville/Marion (13-6, 3-3) vs No.5 Oakes (9-10, 2-4).

6:00 p.m.  No.2 Edgeley-Kulm-Montpelier (15-4, 5-1) vs No.7 Midkota (3-15, 0-6).

7:30 p.m.,  No.3 Ellendale (14-5, 4-2) vs No.6 Barnes County North (8-11, 1-5)

 

No.1 Carrington (17-2, 6-0) draws a first round bye.

 

In world and national news…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says drills that teach students how to respond if an active shooter ever enters the premises “are a very negative thing.”

Trump says he wouldn’t want to tell his son that he has to go through an active-shooter drill. The youngest of Trump’s five children, 11-year-old Barron, attends a private school in Potomac, Maryland.

The president says he’d prefer what he called a “hardened school” over active-shooter drills. Trump has said making schools safer will be a top priority for the administration. He has floated the idea of arming teachers as a possible deterrent.

Trump spoke as he opened a school-safety discussion with state and local officials at the White House in response to the fatal shooting of 17 people at a Florida high school last week.

 

 

In the aftermath of the latest mass school shooting, President Donald Trump has raised the idea of arming teachers.

Trump says that had one of the victims, an assistant football coach at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, been armed, “he would have shot and that would have been the end of it.”

The comments come as lawmakers in several states are wrestling with the idea of letting teachers carry guns, including in Florida, where 17 victims are being mourned.

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has called arming teachers an option for states. American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten calls it a horrible idea.

The Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence says at least eight states allow, or don’t specifically prohibit, concealed weapons in K-12 schools.

 

 

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Hundreds have gathered to remember a 37-year-old assistant football coach and security guard gunned down while helping students to safety during a mass shooting at a Florida high school on Valentine’s Day.

Aaron Feis was remembered Thursday as a loyal friend and a hero during an emotional funeral service that began with football players carrying the casket into the Church by the Glades in Coral Springs, not far from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.

Joe LaGuardia, who attended high school with Feis at Stoneman Douglas, described him as “one of the greatest people I have ever known.” He recalled hearing about the Feb. 14 shooting while preparing to go to an Ash Wednesday service.

He said, “I knew that Aaron would be running to save lives, I just knew it.”

Former student Brandon Corona called Feis a “counselor to those who had no father figure.”

 

The daughter of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King says she stands in solidarity with the survivors of the Florida school shooting as they seek solutions to school violence.

Speaking Thursday at The King Center in Atlanta, the Rev. Bernice King said the Feb. 14 massacre of 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School “gives us an opportunity to lay aside for a moment our differences and really look at how we can come together as humanity and move forward with these injustices and these evils that continue to beset us.”

King commended the surviving students and said she plans to join and support them during the March for Our Lives in Washington next month and in other planned efforts.

King said that as the 50th anniversary of her father’s assassination approaches, she hopes we can “look toward solutions as these young people are forcing us to have the conversations, bipartisan conversations.”

 

MONTREAT, N.C. (AP) — U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan says the Rev. Billy Graham’s body will lie in honor in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda for two days next week.

Ryan says he’s inviting members of Congress and the public to pay their respects to the man called “America’s Pastor” on Feb. 28 and March 1.

It’s a rare honor for a private citizen to lie in honor at the Capitol. According to the U.S. House, civil rights hero Rosa Parks was the last to do so in 2005.

Graham died Wednesday in his sleep at his North Carolina home. He was 99.

Graham will lie in repose at his library in Charlotte on Monday and Tuesday. His funeral is March 2 on the grounds of his library.