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CSi Weather…
.TONIGHT…Increasing clouds. Lows in the mid 40s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY…Rain showers. Highs in the mid 50s. Northeast winds 15 to 20 mph. Chance of precipitation 90 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT…Cloudy. Rain showers likely in the evening,
then chance of rain after midnight. Lows around 40. North winds
around 15 mph with gusts to around 30 mph. Chance of
precipitation 60 percent in the Jamestown area, 70 percent in the Valley City area.
.FRIDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s. West winds 5 to
15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
.SATURDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.SUNDAY…Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain
showers. Lows in the upper 40s.
.MONDAY…Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain showers.
Highs in the lower 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of rain
showers in the evening. Lows in the lower 40s.
.TUESDAY…Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
This weekend temperatures remain mild, in the 50s and 60s with
some areas of the south reaching the low 70s.
Chances of showers to most of North Dakota Sunday through Monday
night.
Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown City Fire Department was called to the Jonny B’s Brickhouse restaurant location on First Avenue South on Wednesday at 10:44 a.m., to a carbon dioxide leak stemming from a malfunctioning tank in the basement.
Jamestown Fire Chief Jim Reuther says, the nine firefighters at the scene set up a command post in the alley behind the building, which was blocked to traffic, and four entered the basement to monitor the carbon dioxide level, compared to the oxygen level.
He says carbon dioxide depletes the air of oxygen, and the fire department treated the call as a HazMat incident.
He says an employee in the basement was overcome by the fumes, but was assisted upstairs by the owner, and taken out of the building. The fire department was then called. He refused medical treatment.
The firefighters shut off the valve of the tank, from which a line had come off, causing the toxic fumes to escape.
The tank had been refilled earlier in the morning, and the technician came back to fix the tank, after firefighters vented the toxic fumes.
Chief Reuther says the adjacent businesses at the Maple Mall, and an accounting firm were evacuated for about an hour and a half, and then allowed to return, with the occupants giving their full cooperation to the fire department.
CO2 is injected to give the “fizz” to carbonated drinks.
The restaurant opened for business as usual on Wednesday.
Chief Reuther says, there are no lingering ill effects to the building, once the toxic fumes are vented and the oxygen levels return to normal.
With the nine city fire fighters on scene, their were 11 at the northside and southside fire halls, on standby, however they were not needed on scene.
Update…
Jamestown (CSi) Otter Tail Power Company says, about 1100 customers in Southeast Jamestown were affected by Tuesday evening’s power outage in Southeast Jamestown.
Otter Tail Public relations spokesperson Rebecca Michael in Fergus Falls says, the cause was a underground line problems which led to a weak overhead line, that cause the outages.
She says sections of Southeast Jamestown experienced the outages at various times and lengths, as the Otter Tail crews re-routed the power in segments until the full power was restored.
She says basically, the entire Southeast section of Jamestown was affected, at various times between about 6-p.m., and 9-p.m.
One area between the river and 10th Street Southeast was down between 7:25-p.m., and 7:40-p.m.
Residents report the power was out in the Oxbow and Elmwood areas between 6:20-p.m., and 10:15 p.m.
Brooke Crews, who then lived with Hoehn, pleaded guilty last year in the killing and is serving life in prison without parole . Hoehn has said all along that he didn’t know Crews had planned to kill Greywind.
Hoehn initially told police he arrived home Aug. 19 to find Crews cleaning up blood in their bathroom. Hoehn said Crews presented him with an infant girl and said: “This is our baby. This is our family.”
Hoehn said he took garbage bags containing bloody shoes and his bloody towels and disposed of them away from the apartment complex.
Defense attorney Daniel Borgen said in his 10-minute opening statement Wednesday that Greywind was already dead when Hoehn entered the bathroom. Hoehn then helped cover up the crime, Borgen said, noting that his client has confessed to that.
“He helped her. He shouldn’t have,” Borgen said. “He should have immediately called police.”
But prosecutor Ryan Younggren said Crews couldn’t have subdued Greywind without Hoehn’s help. When Hoehn entered the bathroom, Crews told him that she wasn’t sure if Greywind was dead.
“He goes and gets a rope, puts it around her neck, pulls it tight and says, ‘If she’s not dead, she is now,'” Younggren said in a 50-minute presentation Wednesday.
Kayakers found Greywind’s body in late August, wrapped in plastic and dumped in a river. It is still unclear how she ended up there. A medical examiner determined Greywind had bled to death.
Crews and Greywind had been friends, and Greywind had texted her mother shortly before she disappeared to say she was going to Crews’ apartment. After Greywind was reported missing, police searched Hoehn and Crews’ apartment three times in six days but found no trace of blood.
Crews originally told police that Greywind had given her the child. Crews later admitted they had argued, saying she pushed Greywind down and knocked her out before cutting her open.
Greywind’s death prompted North Dakota Sen. Heidi Heitkamp to introduce Savanna’s Act, which aims to improve tribal access to federal crime information databases and create standardized protocols for responding to cases of missing and murdered Native American women . A similar bill has been introduced in the U.S. House.
A judge said Hoehn’s trial could last up to two weeks.
The Oxford House was built in 1903 and was home to UND’s fourth president, Webster Merrifield. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
The Gershmans’ gift qualifies for a state matching grant, so $4.5 million is available for the renovation project that will begin this fall.
The Williston man was pronounced dead at the scene. His name has not been released.
MINOT, N.D. (AP) — A Minot man accused of handcuffing a 9-year-old boy as punishment has been found not guilty of child abuse.
The Minot Daily News reports that a jury acquitted 24-year-old Christian Ratliff on Tuesday.
He stood trial beginning Monday after a judge rejected a proposed plea deal under which Ratliff would have pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of child neglect in the 2016 case. Judge Gary Lee said he couldn’t sign off on the deal “in the interest of justice.”
Ratliff would have faced up to five years in prison had he been convicted of the felony child abuse charge.
MANNING, N.D. (AP) — Sheriff’s officials say remains found in western North Dakota earlier this month are those of a missing Montana woman.
The Dunn County Sheriff’s Office says the family of Darlene Billie has been notified of the identification. The 55-year-old woman from St. Ignatius went missing last October after she left to visit family near the Montana-North Dakota border.
KXMB-TV reports the remains were found Sept. 3 in the northwest part of the county.
The San Antonio-based company and the state of North Dakota announced completion of the cleanup on Wednesday.
The company has blamed a lightning strike for the pipeline break.
A state regulator says about 1.4 million tons (1.3 million metric tons) of dirt was excavated from the site and treated. Crews had been working round-the-clock to clean up the site after the spill was discovered.
The company has estimated the cost of the cleanup at $93 million. The state fined the company $454,000 for the spill.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota regulators are considering relaxing rules that require shippers to remove the most volatile gases from oil before it’s loaded onto train cars.
The rules, which were fought by the energy industry, took effect in 2015 and are aimed at making the state’s crude oil safer for transportation following several explosive train derailments, including one five years ago in Lac-Megantic, Quebec, that killed 47 people.
State Mineral Resources Director Lynn Helms told members of the North Dakota Industrial Commission last week that the industry has conducted 60,000 vapor pressure tests since the regulations took effect and that the vast majority of tests have been within the state’s limits.
But he said companies sometimes struggle to meet the requirements in early and late winter, or when the temperature is between 20 degrees and 40 degrees, the Bismarck Tribune reported.
In those cases, companies are required to adjust their equipment or take other steps to condition the oil.
Current rules require North Dakota crude to have vapor pressure below 13.7 pounds per square inch, which is less than the 14.7 psi threshold that is recognized national standards as being stable.
The Industrial Commission led by Republican Gov. Doug Burgum voted to proceed with amending the rules, proposing to requre vapor tests “pursuant to commission approved oil conditioning policy/guidance.”
The commission has not yet determined how often the vapor pressure tests would be required under the amended rules.
NEW TOWN, N.D. (AP) — Unofficial results of the primary election on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation indicate Three Affiliated Tribes Chairman Mark Fox will face former chairman Tex Hall in November’s general election.
KFYR-TV reports that Fox and Hall were the top two vote-getters among five candidates Tuesday.
The general election is Nov. 6.
In world and national news…
WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) — Authorities say the mental health patients who drowned in a South Carolina sheriff’s department van were on a court-ordered transport when they were swept off the road by rushing flood waters.
Horry (OR-ee) County Sheriff Phillip Thompson told reporters on Wednesday that 45-year-old Windy Newton and 43-year-old Nicolette Green were in the back of a containment van when rising waters carried it off the road Tuesday night in Marion County.
Officials have said two deputies in the van were able to get out and tried to free the women. Thompson says Deputies Joshua Bishop and Stephen Flood have been placed on leave during an internal and state police investigation.
Authorities have said the women were being transported from one facility to another. The van was near the Little Pee Dee River, one of the bodies of water state officials are watching following the heavy rains of Florence.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee is offering in a letter to lawyers for Brett Kavanaugh’s accuser to have his panel’s investigators interview her wherever she wants.
That includes having aides interview Christine Blasey Ford in California, where she lives, according to a person speaking anonymously because they weren’t authorized to discuss the plans publicly.
Chairman Chuck Grassley is also setting deadlines. His letter to Ford’s lawyers says his committee’s hearing on her allegations of sexual abuse will begin Monday morning. He says if she intends to testify, she must submit written testimony by Friday morning.
Ford has said she wants the FBI to investigate her accusation before she would testify.
Grassley writes that his panel “cannot commandeer an Executive Branch agency” and ask them to do more work.
DRAPER, Utah (AP) — The lawyer for a woman who helped kidnap Elizabeth Smart in Utah says it’s unfair to call her a threat now that she’s been released from prison.
Attorney Scott Williams made the comment Wednesday after Smart’s father said he is concerned that 72-year-old Wanda Barzee remains capable of abusing another child.
Barzee was released from a Utah prison after serving 15 years in the 2002 kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart, then 14.
Williams told reporters there’s no reliable evidence that Barzee will be dangerous.
He says she wants to be left alone and will comply with the conditions of her supervised release. He said he’s concerned about her safety but did not elaborate.
Under the terms of her release, Barzee must undergo mental health treatment and not contact Smart and her family.
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump says “we’re making tremendous progress” with North Korea, after an inter-Korean summit offered some apparent concessions from the North on its weapons program.
Trump told reporters Wednesday that “we had very good news” out of the summit, where leader Kim Jong Un promised to dismantle a rocket launch site and also agreed to dismantle its main nuclear site if the U.S. takes unspecified corresponding measures.
Trump didn’t indicate in his brief remarks whether the U.S. would be willing to take further steps to encourage North Korean action on denuclearization. However, he claimed credit for quelling the tensions that had escalated sharply during the first year of his presidency before his own summit with Kim in June.
North Korea has conducted no nuclear and missile tests since late last year.
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