Wayne Byers Show – Evening – Nov 27

CSi Weather…

TONIGHT…Snow likely in the evening, then snow possibly mixed

with sleet after midnight. Snow and sleet accumulation around

1 inch.

Lows 15 to 20. Temperature rising overnight. Southeast winds 10 to20 mph. Chance of snow 90 percent. Southeast winds around 15 mph.

 

WEDNESDAY…Sleet with freezing rain in the morning, then sleet

likely possibly mixed with freezing rain in the afternoon. Little

or no sleet accumulation in the Jamestown area, snow and

sleet accumulation up to 1 inch in the Valley City area. Total snow accumulation 1 to 2 inches.

.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. Chance of light freezing rain

possibly mixed with sleet in the evening. Lows in the mid 20s.

West winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation 30 percent in the Jamestown area, 20 percent in the Valley City area.

.THURSDAY…Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 30s. West winds 5 to

10 mph.

.THURSDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. Lows around 20.

.FRIDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 30s.

.FRIDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. A 30 percent chance of snow after

midnight. Lows around 20.

.SATURDAY…Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of snow. Highs

in the upper 20s.

.SATURDAY NIGHT…Cloudy with a 30 percent chance of snow. Lows

15 to 20.

.SUNDAY…Cloudy with a 30 percent chance of snow. Highs in the

mid 20s.

.SUNDAY NIGHT…Cloudy. Slight chance of snow after midnight.

Lows around 15.

.MONDAY…Cloudy. Highs in the lower 20s.

 

A wintry mix of freezing, rain, will  increase in coverage Tuesday night.

A Winter Weather Advisory Tuesday will continue through most of the day

Wednesday.

As the warm temperatures advance eastward light snow will move into eastern North Dakota Tuesday evening and spread eastward by Wednesday morning`s commute.

 

A band of 1 to 3 inches of snow, with highest amounts in the northern

half of the area.

 

 

Jamestown  (CSi)  The Jamestown Police Department warns residents about a High Risk Sex Offender who has moved to Jamestown.

The report says 28 year old Chancellor Joshua Miller resides at 517 4^th Street Northwest, Jamestown, ND.

He presently has no vehicle.

Miller is a white male, six feet tall, weighing 180 pounds with blue eyes and brown hair.

He’s been assigned a high risk assessment by the North Dakota Risk Level Committee, of the North Dakota Attorney General’s Office.

Offense:  Promoting obscenity to a minor sending numerous explicit photos of a body part via Snapchat to several minor females, and solicited sex from them.

Conviction Date:  September 2015, in Burleigh County, ND District Court.

Disposition:  Five years with three years, six months suspended, 177 days credit, five years supervised probation, concurrent with the first offense.

Offense:  Luring a minor by computer, following the same scenario as the first offense.

Conviction Date: September 2015, in Burleigh County, ND District Court.

Disposition: Five years, three years six months suspended, 75 days credit, five years supervised probation.

Miller is currently on probation with North Dakota Parole and Probation.

Miller is not wanted by police at this time and is currently serving the sentence imposed by the court.

This notification is meant for public safety and not to increase fear in the community, nor should this information be used to threaten, assault, or intimidate the offender.

Any attempts to harass, intimidate or threaten these offenders, their families, landlords, or employers will be turned over for prosecution.

Printed handouts of the demographics of Miller are available at the Jamestown Police Department.

More information on registered sex offenders is available at the North Dakota Attorney General’s web site: www.sexoffender.nd.gov

His photo posted on line in this story at CSiNewsNow.com

 

Jamestown  (CSi)  The Angel Christmas trees are up at the Buffalo Mall and Stutsman Harley Davidson in Jamestown.

The trees are decorated with the names of area children with the gifts to be given to less fortunate children for Christmas.

When purchasing the gift,  bring them to the Salvation Army with the tag, then parents or guardians wrap the gifts for the children.

For more information on the  Angel Tree Program call the Jamestown Salvation Army at 701-252-0290.

 

Jamestown  (CSi)  The Historic 1883 Stutsman County Courthouse invites the community to visit with open houses planned December 9 and 16.

Courthouse Site Supervisor Steve Reidburn is the scheduled Guest on Wednesday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, and he says several organizations are participating in the events, to decorate a Christmas tree in each room of the historic courthouse.

Those participating include:  Williams Funeral Home, Jamestown Tourism, National Buffalo Museum, Country Gardens Floral, along with others, with signs on each tree designating which organization has decorated that tree.

Those visiting can then vote for their favorites.

The 1883 Courthouse will be open each day 1-p.m.to 5-p.m. both December 9 and December 16.

Call Steve Reidburn for more information at 701-320-6447.

 

St. Paul MN  (USACE) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, is hosting public scoping meetings on two of its reservoirs in North Dakota.

The meetings will help Corps officials gather information to guide the district’s operations for Lake Ashtabula, near Valley City, North Dakota, and Homme Reservoir, near Grafton, North Dakota. The master plan, while conceptual in nature, will serve as the vision for both environmental stewardship and recreation as the Corps continues to serve the public in the 21st Century.

The meetings are scheduled for:

Lake Ashtabula Public Scoping Meeting               Homme Reservoir Public Scoping Meeting
Dec. 5, 7 – 9 p.m.                                                        Dec. 6, 7 – 9 p.m.

Valley City Fire Department                                       Walsh County Courthouse

241 3rd Ave NE                                                          600 Cooper Ave

Valley City                                                                   Grafton

Corps staff will be available during both meetings to discuss the reservoirs and future plans. The meetings are informal, but there will be a short slide show presentation at 7 p.m. to explain the projects and next steps in the planning process.

The current master plans are available on the St. Paul District website at: https://www.mvp.usace.army.mil/Missions/Recreation/Lake-Ashtabula-Baldhill-Dam/

The nearly 650 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, employees working at more than 40 sites in five upper-Midwest states serve the American public in the areas of environmental enhancement, navigation, flood damage reduction, water and wetlands regulation, recreation sites and disaster response. Through the St. Paul District Fiscal Year 2018 $106 million budget, nearly 1,700 non-Corps jobs were added to the regional economy as well as $163 million to the national economy. For more information, see www.mvp.usace.army.mil.

 

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A federal agency that investigates workplace disputes has dismissed a labor complaint against North Dakota University System Chancellor Mark Hagerott, though he could still be sued.Former vice chancellor Lisa Feldner filed the complaint against Hagerott in 2017 after he fired her. Feldner accused him of gender discrimination and said she was fired without cause. Hagerott has disputed her assertions.The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said in its report that it was unable to determine whether Hagerott violated federal law but that the ruling does not necessarily mean he complied with statutes.The agency said Feldner has 90 days to sue Hagerott in court.University system spokeswoman Billie Jo Lorius said Hagerott was not immediately available for comment. A telephone listing for Feldner could not be found. 

MINOT, N.D. (AP) — Minot Air Force Base says the commander of the 69th Bomb Squadron was removed from command.The air base says Lt. Col. Paul Goossen was removed from the squadron’s command Tuesday “due to a loss of trust and confidence from his failure to maintain a professional workplace environment.” No details were given.

KFGO reports the decision was made by Gen. Timothy Ray, commander of Air Force Global Strike Command.

The U.S. Air Force has not released specifics of a recently concluded investigation. But Minot Air Base spokeswoman Maj. Natassia Cherne says it was not a criminal investigation.

Goossen took over command of the 69th last year. It is one of two B-52 bomber squadrons at Minot.

Lt. Col. Dennis Zabka assumed command of the squadron Tuesday.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A New York City woman who suffered a severe arm injury while protesting the Dakota Access oil pipeline in North Dakota two years ago is suing law enforcement even though she does not yet have evidence that might help her prove law officers were to blame.

Sophia Wilansky was injured during a violent November 2016 clash between protesters and police during the unsuccessful months-long protest in North Dakota against the $3.8 billion pipeline that began carrying oil to Illinois in June 2017.

Wilansky, who was 21 at the time, suffered a left arm injury in an explosion and has since had five surgeries. Protesters allege the blast was caused by a concussion grenade thrown by officers, but police maintain it was caused by a propane canister that protesters rigged to explode. The cause is still unknown, and no one has been charged in the blast despite a criminal investigation .

Wilansky sued the federal government in February, seeking access to shrapnel and clothing taken from her while she was hospitalized. Her attorney at the time and her father, Wayne Wilansky, both told The Associated Press that she wanted the evidence to bolster an excessive force lawsuit she planned to eventually file against police.

A federal judge in August rejected the request , saying in part that Wilansky didn’t have a good argument for why she couldn’t file a civil lawsuit without the seized property.

Wilansky on Nov. 19 sued law enforcement officials and Morton County for alleged excessive force, assault, negligence, emotional distress and defamation. The lawsuit seeks “millions of dollars” in damages.

One of Wilansky’s attorneys, Benjamin Stoll, declined comment on whether they will seek the shrapnel and clothing through the discovery process, in which attorneys exchange evidence. Calls to Wayne Wilansky were not answered.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A tanker truck rollover in Billings County spilled nearly 7,800 gallons of produced water onto rangeland and possibly Ash Coulee Creek.

The Health Department says the crash happened Saturday about 4 miles west of Fairfield. Liquid Connections Inc. reported it the same day.

Produced water is a mixture of saltwater and oil that can contain drilling chemicals. It’s unknown how much got into the creek, which flows into the Little Missouri River.

State environmental scientist Bill Suess (sees) tells The Bismarck Tribune most of the brine soaked into the ground in a drainage area along the roadway.

He says officials collected samples at the creek Sunday and found no signs of contamination. Cleanup crews have installed a sump system to capture runoff and prevent any further contamination of the creek.

 

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota regulators have approved the $150 million expansion of the Roosevelt Gas Plant in McKenzie County, though they ordered Houston-based Kinder Morgan to minimize noise and light pollution for neighboring landowners.

The three-member Public Service Commission voted unanimously Monday to approve the expansion of the plant about 7½ miles south of Watford City, The Bismarck Tribune reported.

The plant processes 50 million cubic feet of natural gas per day. Kinder Morgan subsidiary Hiland Partners Holdings plans to build another plant at the same location to process another 150 million cubic feet per day. It’s to begin operating in a year. State Health Department officials are reviewing the company’s application for an air quality permit.

Natural gas not captured at oil wells is burned off, a practice known as flaring that wastes the resource and can degrade air quality. North Dakota has struggled to build enough infrastructure to capture the gas. The Kinder Morgan project would be the sixth natural gas plant expansion or new plant under development in North Dakota.

“It’s another important project to reduce flaring in the Bakken (oil patch), to help accommodate the massive amount of gas that’s being produced along with the crude oil in the Bakken,” Commissioner Julie Fedorchak said.

During a public hearing in September in Watford City, landowners who live within a mile of the plant said they had not been contacted by the company about the proposed expansion. Neighbor Denton Zubke said noise from the plant on certain days already is barely tolerable.

 

 

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — American farmers still working to get out their remaining soybeans after a weather-plagued harvest season are struggling to figure out what to do with a record crop now their traditionally dominant export market is largely closed.

Usually by this point in the year, 100-car trains filled with North Dakota soybeans would be moving to ports on the West Coast destined for China. But this year is different, after China all but stopped buying U.S. soybeans in response to President Donald Trump’s trade tariffs . Fearful of economic failure, farmers are frantically trying to determine how to store a potentially 1 billion-bushel surplus until it can be sold at a decent price.

Farmers have been mostly patient with Trump and his plans to realign trade deals to improve U.S. interests, but the loss of markets is hitting their bank accounts hard.

“As I’ve heard many people say, you can’t pay the bills with patriotism,” said Grant Kimberley, an Iowa farmer and the market development director for the Iowa Soybean Association. “You’ve got to have money and right now we as an industry are a little short on that because we’ve had a major hit in our number one market and it’s been reflected in a major drop in prices.”

North Dakota farmers who sell at the current cash price of around $7.20 a bushel do so at a loss given that the cost of production is about $8.50.

Trump has created a one-time $12 billion program to compensate for the loss in trade, and soybean farmers are to get the largest share of the money. But even with payments from that fund , which amount to about 82 cents a bushel this year, they still fall short of breaking even. Another 82 cents may be approved next year if a trade agreement isn’t reached, the USDA has said.

 

THIEF RIVER FALLS, Minn. (AP) — Authorities say a man hurt while working on a construction project in Thief River Falls has died of his injuries.KVRR reports McShane Construction Company says the man was working for the steel erector on an expansion at Digi-Key when he was injured in an accident Nov. 6. The company says the worker died 9 days later. No other details were provided.The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is investigating.

 

In world and national news…

 

WASHINGTON (AP) — White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders says she’s unaware of any conversations about a potential pardon for former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort.

Prosecutors with special counsel Robert Mueller’s office accused Manafort on Monday of lying to them and said he had violated a plea agreement struck in September.

Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani (joo-lee-AH’-nee) had previously suggested Manafort and others could be eligible for pardons at the end of Mueller’s Russia investigation. The allegation Manafort had lied to prosecutors in the last two months has fueled speculation he might be angling for a pardon.

Manafort cut a deal with prosecutors in September, agreeing to plead guilty to two felonies and cooperate with Mueller’s team “fully, truthfully, completely, and forthrightly.”

Manafort’s lawyers have denied that he misled investigators.

Sanders spoke at the White House on Tuesday.

 

TORNILLO, Texas (AP) — A new government watchdog memo says the Trump administration waived rigorous background checks for all staff working at the nation’s largest detention camp for migrant children .

The memo, obtained exclusively by The Associated Press, says the former director of the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement personally signed off on sidestepping requirements for child abuse and neglect checks at the tent city in Tornillo, Texas.

None of the 2,100 staff has gone through FBI fingerprint checks either, but the Tornillo contractor says staff are vetted in other ways.

Tornillo now holds 2,324 migrant teens, and has expanded recently.

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General memo confirms AP’s reporting that teens held at Tornillo are receiving inadequate mental health care.

A department spokesman did not immediately provide comment Tuesday.

 

 

 

TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) — Many among the more than 5,000 Central American migrants in Tijuana were urgently exploring their options amid a growing feeling that they had little hope of making successful asylum bids in the United States or of crossing the border illegally.

Most were dispirited on Monday, a day after U.S. agents fired tear gas into Mexico to turn back some migrants who had breached the border. They saw the clash and official response as hurting their chances of reaching the U.S.

There was a steady line outside a shelter at a tent housing the International Organization for Migration, where officials were offering assistance for those who wanted to return to their home countries.

Officials also reported more interest from migrants wanting to start the process staying in Mexico.

 

 

 

SHENZHEN, China (AP) — The Chinese scientist who says he helped make the world’s first gene-edited babies followed an unorthodox career path.

He Jiankui (HEH JEE’-an-qway) kept secret much of his research in pursuit of a larger goal — making history.

Ahead of a medical conference in Hong Kong this week, He claimed he used the powerful gene-editing tool CRISPR on twin girls born earlier this month in China to try to help them resist possible future infection with the AIDS virus.

There is no independent confirmation of He’s claim, and it has not been published in a journal, where it would be vetted by other experts.

Mainstream scientists in China and globally say the experiment should never have been tried.

 

 

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Leah Rupp Smith, spokeswoman for the Mississippi secretary of state’s office, says voter turnout is “steady but slow” for a U.S. Senate runoff — the last of the midterm elections.

Voters are choosing between a white Republican backed by President Donald Trump and a black Democrat who’s a former congressman and former U.S. agriculture secretary.

Appointed Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith and Democrat Mike Espy are competing for the final two years of a term started by retired Republican Sen. Thad Cochran.

Zakiya (zah-KEE-ah) Summers is an election commissioner in the state’s largest county, Hinds. She says she hasn’t seen long lines.

Hinds County is largely African-American, and high turnout there is important to Espy as he seeks to become Mississippi’s first black U.S. senator since Reconstruction.