Wayne Byers Show – Evening – Jan 14

CSi Weather…

…DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM CST TUESDAY

Including the cities of Bismarck, Steele, Tappen, Jamestown,
Linton, Strasburg, Napoleon, Gackle, Lamoure, Edgeley, Kulm,
Wishek, Ashley, Oakes, and Ellendale

* WHAT…Dense fog with visibilities below a quarter mile.

* WHERE…Far south central North Dakota into the James River
Valley.

* WHEN…Until 6 AM CST Tuesday.

* IMPACTS…Driving may be difficult. Roads and sidewalks may
become slick. Use caution at uncontrolled intersections,
railroad crossings, and truck entry points as other vehicles
will be difficult to see. Do not use cruise control on slick
roads.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…

A Dense Fog Advisory means visibilities will frequently be
reduced to less than one quarter mile. If driving…slow down…
use your headlights…and leave plenty of distance ahead of you.

 

Forecast

.TONIGHT…Mostly cloudy. Lows 10 to 15. South winds 5 to 10 mph.

.TUESDAY…Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 20s. West winds 10 to

15 mph shifting to the northwest 15 to 20 mph in the afternoon.

.TUESDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. Colder. Lows around 5 below.

North winds 5 to 15 mph.

.WEDNESDAY…Mostly sunny. Colder. Highs 5 to 10 above. East

winds around 5 mph.

.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. Lows near zero.

.THURSDAY…Mostly cloudy. Highs 5 to 10 above.

.THURSDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. Lows around 5 below.

.FRIDAY…Mostly cloudy. Highs near zero.

.FRIDAY NIGHT…Decreasing clouds. Lows around 15 below.

.SATURDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs near zero.

.SATURDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. Lows around 15 below.

.SUNDAY…Partly sunny. Highs around 10.

 

Dry, with cold air Tuesday, continuing through Wednesday. Increasing chances for light snow into portions of south central ND Thursday

through Friday,the leading edge of the Arctic high pressure.

Snowfall totals are around one inch through Friday.

 

Dangerous wind chills Thursday night/Friday morning, again Friday night/Saturday morning, and Saturday night/Sunday morning.

 

Wind chill advisory criteria likely then  along and east of the Missouri River during the above mentioned periods, as low as 35 below zero.

Frigid conditions Thursday night into Sunday. Looks dry Sat/Sun.

Very cold continues next week with the potential for a more active precipitation pattern.

 

 

Jamestown  (CSi) RSVP in Jamestown, North Dakota along with area residents will serve as volunteers on the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday. RVSP will be hosting a food drive in honor of Dr. King’s dream of opportunity for all by way of the idea of beloved community.

For Dr. King, The Beloved Community was a realistic, achievable goal that was attained by a critical mass of people committed to and trained in the philosophy and methods of the working in harmony with each other.

The annual event honors Dr. King’s legacy and is an opportunity for Americans to renew their vows of civic responsibility through service to others and engage in conversations to advance community goals. RSVP Program Eastern North Dakota, Coordinator,  Deb Lee in Jamestown says, items for the  MLK Food Drive, Non-Perishable Food Drive  can be dropped off in Jamestown at Papa Murphy’s, 723 1st Avenue South, Unison Bank 4011 1st Avenue South,  and the All Vet’s Club 116 1st Street East, lower level.

Drop off items  through Monday, January 21, 2019.

 

Jamestown  (CSi)  The Citizens Police Academy is starting the next 10 week series, meeting Thursday evenings, March 7, 6-p.m., to 9-p.m.,

The Jamestown Police Department offers the Academy to give the public a close up look at the role of the Jamestown Police officer.

Topic will include:  DUI laws, use of force, criminal investigations, and traffic stops.

Police Chief, Chief Edinger says the Academy  introduces the field of Law Enforcement to those interested in pursuing careers.

The academy is free and applications are due January 31st.

 

Jamestown  (UJ)  University of Jamestown is sponsoring a free Community Ice Skate Event on Sun., Jan. 27, 2019 from 2-4 p.m. The event will take place on the outdoor rink that was built for Hockey Day North Dakota. It is located on Allen Field in the middle of the University of Jamestown campus.

UJ’s Senior Vice President for Public Relations and Marketing, Tena Lawrence says, “University of Jamestown employees and students are looking forward to welcoming the community to campus to enjoy a few hours of outdoor skating together.”

The University will provide free hot chocolate for all attendees. Participants will need to bring their own skates.

Established in 1883, the University of Jamestown is a private, liberal arts university granting Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science and Science in Nursing degrees, as well as Master’s Degrees in Education and Leadership, and a Fargo-based Doctor of Physical Therapy degree. The University of Jamestown offers more than 40 areas of study, integrating the liberal arts with sound professional programs. With the Jamestown Journey to Success, emphasis is placed not only on preparing students academically in their chosen areas of study, but also on preparing them through a student-centered experience.

 

STANLEY, N.D. (AP) — Sheriff’s officials say two suspects are in custody in connection with a homicide in Mountrail County.Authorities say deputies went to a residence in Stanley after getting a 911 about a shooting Saturday about 8 p.m. They say 49-year-old Douglas Martin was found dead at his home. The two suspects were arrested at the scene.The Mountrail County Sheriff’s Office is working with the North Dakota Bureau of Criminal Investigation on the case. No other details were released.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A Bismarck man is accused of leading state troopers on a high-speed chase in a stolen car.The North Dakota Highway Patrol says a trooper responded to a report of a reckless driver on Interstate 94 Saturday and attempted to pull him over. That’s when the driver took off at a high rate of speed.The patrol says the vehicle went through the median and drove eastbound in the westbound lanes of the interstate through McKenzie. The vehicle eventually got stuck after the driver drove into a field. The 39-year-old man tried to flee on foot before he was arrested and taken to the Burleigh County Detention Center. 

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota officials have asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed over the five-month closure of a section of highway during the large protests against the Dakota Access oil pipeline, saying they had both the authority and an obligation to do it.The federal lawsuit brought by two members of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and a reservation priest alleges that the closure of state Highway 1806 near the pipeline route north of the reservation unduly restricted travel and commerce and violated the free speech and religious rights of them and others. It seeks unspecified monetary damages from state officials, Morton County and TigerSwan, a North Carolina-based company that oversaw private security for the Texas-based pipeline developer, Energy Transfer Partners.Attorneys for the county and the state officials, including Republican Gov. Doug Burgum, contend in a court filing dated Friday that the highway shutdown was warranted because of “mayhem” caused by some of the thousands of demonstrators who gathered in the area in 2016 and early 2017 to protest the $3.8 billion pipeline, which now moves North Dakota oil to Illinois. 

GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) — The University of North Dakota Aerobatic Team has won its 10th national flying championship.Other finalists for the International Aerobatic Club Collegiate National Championship included teams from Metropolitan State University-Denver, the Air Force Academy and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.The IAC contests are open to any aerobatic pilot, and UND students routinely compete against professional airline, corporate, airshow and military pilots.UND Aerospace also fields the UND Flying Team and the Air Race Classic UND Team. The UND Flying Team has won 16 national championships.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota’s House is considering legislation that would bar drivers from smoking in the car if they have a passenger younger than 9.

Fargo Democratic Rep. Pamela Anderson’s measure would allow police to pull over anyone seen smoking with young children in the car and fine them $25.

A hearing on the measure was scheduled Monday. The full House will consider it later.

Anderson says child safety outweighs adults’ personal freedoms. She says secondhand smoke in confined spaces such as a car a health threat to children.

The American Lung Association says at least eight states have similar laws.

 

CARTWRIGHT, N.D. (AP) — Nearly 28,000 gallons of saltwater spilled but was recovered at a well in McKenzie County.The state’s Oil and Gas Division says Zavanna LLC reported the spill of 660 barrels of byproduct brine Saturday at a well about 4 miles northeast of Cartwright. Officials say a connection leak was to blame.All of the saltwater was contained on-site, and a state inspector is monitoring cleanup.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump pointed to farmers Monday as winners from the administration’s proposed rollback of federal protections for wetlands and waterways across the country, describing farmers crying in gratitude when he ordered the change.

But under longstanding federal law and rules, farmers and farmland already are exempt from most of the regulatory hurdles on behalf of wetlands that the Trump administration is targeting. Because of that, environmental groups long have argued that builders, oil and gas drillers and other industry owners would be the big winners if the government adopts the pending rollback, making it easier to fill in bogs, creeks and streams for plowing, drilling, mining or building.

Government numbers released last month support that argument.

Real estate developers and those in other business sectors take out substantially more permits than farmers for projects impinging on wetlands, creeks, and streams, and who stand to reap the biggest regulatory and financial relief from the Trump administration’s rollback of wetlands protections.

Speaking to the American Farm Bureau Federation in New Orleans, Trump told farmers the federal protections for waterways and wetlands were “one of the most ridiculous” regulations.

“It was a total kill on you and other businesses,” Trump said. He claimed farmers and builders alike wept in gratitude when he signed an executive order in 2017, as one of first official acts of his presidency, directing a rewrite of the wetlands protections.

“We’re going to keep federal regulators out of your stock tanks, your drainage ditches, your puddles and your ponds,” Trump told the cheering farmers Monday.

 

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LOGAN TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) — Authorities say an armed man entered a UPS processing facility, took two women hostage as other employees ran for safety, and was shot, wounded and captured. The man was taken into custody. Neither woman suffered injuries. All other employees safely got out of the building Monday morning in Logan Township, about 20 miles south of Philadelphia. Fiore says there was apparently a prior relationship between the gunman and one of the women he took hostage.WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s nominee for attorney general will tell senators that Trump didn’t seek any assurances or promises before nominating him. That’s according to William Barr’s prepared remarks, obtained by The Associated Press ahead of his confirmation hearing Tuesday. Trump had complained that his first attorney general, Jeff Sessions, did not protect him from the Russia investigation. Lawmakers want assurances that Barr will allow special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe to continue.WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is denying he ever worked for Russia against U.S. interests, addressing an extraordinary question that has haunted his presidency and shows no sign of going away. Speaking from the South Lawn, Trump issued a flat denial: “I never worked for Russia.” The denial followed a New York Times report that law enforcement officials began investigating, in 2017, whether Trump had been working on behalf of Russia against U.S. interests.PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Witnesses have told The Associated Press that men in police uniforms slaughtered at least 21 unarmed men in the Haitian capital in November. The act reveals a startling erosion of security since U.N. peacekeepers ended their 13-year mandate in October 2017 because conditions had supposedly improved.BEIJING (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he is extremely concerned that China has chosen to “arbitrarily” apply the death penalty against a Canadian. The comments are Trudeau’s strongest yet against China. A Chinese court announced Monday that it had given Canadian Robert Lloyd Schellenberg a death sentence on drug charges. The Chinese press began publicizing his case in December after Canada detained a top Chinese technology executive at the request of the United States.