Wayne Byers Show – Evening – Jul 17

CSi Weather…

.TONIGHT…Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers in the evening in the Valley City area, and after midnight in the Jamestown area. Lows in the mid 60s. Southwest winds around 5 mph.

.THURSDAY…Sunny. Slight chance of showers in the morning, then slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon.
Highs in the mid 80s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of
precipitation 30 percent in the Jamestown area, 40 percent in the Valley City area.

.THURSDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy with chance of showers and slight
chance of thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 60s. West winds around
5 mph. Chance of precipitation 30 percent in the Jamestown area, 40 percent in the Valley City area.

.FRIDAY…Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.

.FRIDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of rain
showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Lows around 60.

.SATURDAY…Partly sunny with a 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 70s.

.SATURDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy with chance of rain showers and
slight chance of thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of
precipitation 30 percent.

.SUNDAY…Mostly sunny. A 20 percent chance of rain showers and
thunderstorms in the morning. Highs in the upper 70s.

.SUNDAY NIGHT…Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.

.MONDAY…Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.

.MONDAY NIGHT…Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.

.TUESDAY…Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.

Rain early Wednesday morning caused an overland flood warning to be issued in northern Stutsman County and Foster County that expired at 5:45 a.m. Unofficial rainfall amounts ranged between 3 and 5 inches.

On our CSi Weather computer in Downtown Jamestown .07 was recorded. Officially the Weather Service Jamestown weather station picked up .12 of an inch.

 

Scattered rain showers and thunderstorms are forecast  Wednesday night. Some storms may be strong to severe, especially across southwest and south central North Dakota between 3 pm and 1 am CDT.

A few storms may form across the James River Valley Wednesday
afternoon, with additional storms entering from Montana Wednesday
evening. Large hail to ping pong ball size, damaging winds to near
60 mph, frequent lightning, and heavy rain are possible with the
strongest storms.

There are chances for thunderstorms Thursday south central. A few
storms could be severe. However, uncertainty in details remains.

 

 

(AARP)  Jamestown, Forman, and West Fargo were awarded a 2019 AARP Community Challenge grant. A total of nearly $1.6 million will be distributed to fund 159 “quick action” projects across the country, helping communities make immediate improvements and jumpstart long-term progress to support residents of all ages.

A total of 1,661 applications, including 27 from North Dakota, were received from non-profits and government entities for the program, now in its third year. North Dakota grants were awarded as follows:

• Jamestown Parks and Recreation Department ($3,000) to fund a pop-up demonstration bike path as part of Walk/Bike 2019! and to gauge public support for a permanent multi-use path.
• City of Forman ($1,700) to help create a public green space on a vacant lot on the city’s Main Street.
• City of West Fargo ($10,900) to install an assortment of games in the new city-owned, downtown plaza along Sheyenne Street to foster social connections among people of all ages.

Each of the projects is designed to achieve one or more of the following outcomes:

• Create vibrant public places that improve open spaces, parks and access to other amenities.
• Demonstrate the tangible value of “Smart Cities” by engaging residents and policymakers in accessing, understanding and using data to increase quality of life for all.
• Deliver a range of transportation and mobility options that increase connectivity, walkability, bikeability, wayfinding, access to transportation options and roadway improvements.
• Support the availability of a range of housing that increases accessible and affordable housing options.

The full list of grantees can be found at www.aarp.org/communitychallenge.

 

Jamestown  (JRVLS)  The Alfred Dickey branch and Stutsman County branch of the James River Valley Library System will open at 1 p.m. Monday, July 22, due to library development.

 

Valley City  (CSi)   The First Annual River Fest will take place Aug 3 from 9am to 3pm at three locations, Chautauqua Park in Valley City, City Park in Valley City, and Fort Ramson State Park.

Activities in Valley City:

World Record Canoe/Kayak on the Sheyenne River at 9-a.m.

Canoe & Kayaking starts at 9-a.m. at the National Fish Hatchery on the Byway.

Fish Hatchery Tours & Kids Fishing Pond 9-a.m. – 12 Noon

Pontoon Rides 11-a.m., to 2-p.m., at Chautauqua Park

River Walk 10-a.m., to 3-p.m., at Both Parks

River Golf 10-a.m., to 2-p.m., at City Park

Booths open from 10-a.m., to 2 -p.m. at Chautauqua Park

Army Corps of Engineers. ND Game & Fish, Not in My House, On The Move, Dutton’s Parlour “Bursting Bobas”

 

At Fort Ransom State Park:

World Record Non- Motorized Boat Launch at 9-a.m.

River Walk with Ranger

Sheyenne National Grasslands-Information Booth

Booths open 10-a.m. to 2-p.m.

Kid’s Day at the Park-Bouncy House & Activities

 

Sign up for the raffle to win: A kayak, a Handcrafted Paddle, Fishing Equipment, Sheyenne River Print

$5 Raffle Tickets, 5 for $20

 

 

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A Republican lawmaker who backed a new law that requires the state auditor to get the North Dakota Legislature’s approval for conducting performance audits said Wednesday he will introduce legislation next session to overturn it.

Approval of the measure to clip the auditor’s wings, which was inserted into a budget bill during the legislative session’s final days in April, has drawn widespread criticism and spurred a referral campaign to ask voters to strip it from the books. Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem issued an opinion last month saying it is likely unconstitutional.

“The word ‘approval’ was a mistake,” Rep. Keith Kempenich told The Associated Press. “We just want to know what he is doing.”

State Auditor Joshua Gallion, an elected Republican, has carried out performance audits at about twice the rate of his predecessor — a move that hasn’t endeared him to many lawmakers, state agencies or the governor. The law had drawn strong support from Republicans and Democrats.

The state auditor’s office inspects the books of government agencies and North Dakota’s university system. It routinely finds problems with agencies that it reviews, including an audit last year of the governor’s office last year that concluded Gov. Doug Burgum, the lieutenant governor, office staff and first lady used state airplanes for in-state trips with questionable purposes and for out-of-state trips where cheaper commercial flights were available. The governor’s office has defended its use of state planes, saying it was state business.

Backers initially said the legislation had nothing to do with the new aggressiveness Gallion brought to the job. But Kempenich later said that was a big part of why the legislation was crafted.

Gallion said the new law hurts his ability to perform independent reviews. He reemphasized Wednesday that he would not follow the new law, based on the attorney general’s opinion.

 

In sports…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Dominic Smith put the New York Mets in front with his pinch-hit, three-run homer in the seventh inning, and Home Run Derby champion Pete Alonso added a 474-foot shot halfway up the third deck in a 14-4 victory over Minnesota on Wednesday that gave the Twins their first three-game losing streak this season.

Amed Rosario went 4 for 4 with a home run and three RBIs for the Mets, who overcame three one-run deficits, set a 2019 high for runs and matched a season best with their fourth consecutive victory. All of the wins have been on the road for New York, which at 21-32 still has the worst record away from home in the NL.

Though the Mets already had blown open the game against the Twins bullpen by that point, the eighth-inning drive to left by Alonso was the most remarkable of the humid afternoon, longer than any of the 57 he hit in the derby at Cleveland last week. It also was the first post-derby long ball by the rookie slugger.

Alonso emerged from the break in a 1-for-17 slide until his 31st homer, off Matt Magill. That was also his 54th extra-base hit of the season, setting a Mets rookie record.

The Twins took a five-game lead on Cleveland into the afternoon, their smallest advantage in the AL Central standings since May 19, and they turned in another sloppy performance. Left fielder Eddie Rosario dropped a routine fly ball at the warning track for a two-base, two-out, two-run error in the six-run eighth, giving the Twins six errors and 11 unearned runs in five games since the All-Star break. Seven of New York’s runs were unearned.

Reliever Trevor May (3-3) surrendered the homer on a 0-2 pitch to Smith, who was 0 for 16 with 11 strikeouts this season with an 0-2 count until that swing. May also gave up the go-ahead home run on Sunday in a 4-3 loss to the Indians.

Nelson Cruz and Mitch Garver, who gave the Twins a 3-2 lead with his 15th homer in the fifth, went deep for the Twins. The game got so out of hand that utility infielder Ehire Adrianza pitched the ninth, as the Mets improved to 5-0 at Target Field, where they won three games in 2013.

 

In world and national news…

GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization says the deadly Ebola outbreak in Congo is now an international health emergency after the virus spread this week to a city of 2 million people.

A WHO expert committee declined on three previous occasions to advise the United Nations health agency to make the declaration, but other experts say the outbreak has long met the conditions.

More than 1,600 people have died since August in the second deadliest Ebola outbreak in history, which is unfolding in a region described as a war zone.

This week the first Ebola case was confirmed in Goma, a major regional crossroads on the Rwandan border with an international airport. Experts have feared this for months.

A declaration of a global health emergency often brings greater international attention and aid.

 

 

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats have issued a remarkable rebuke against President Donald Trump, passing a resolution condemning what they called Trump’s “racist comments” aimed at four liberal congresswomen of color.

Four moderate Republicans joined Democrats in Tuesday night’s 240-187 vote in spite of lobbying by Trump and Republican leaders trying to keep the vote along party lines. GOP leaders insist Trump’s comments were not racist and accused Democrats of political game-playing.

Trump himself continued to claim that his exhortations against the congresswomen were not racist and repeated his challenge that they leave the U.S. if they aren’t happy. He originally urged the women to return to their home countries, though three of them are native-born Americans and all are citizens.

 

 

WASHINGTON (AP) — The maker of OxyContin has been cast as the chief villain in the nation’s opioid crisis. But newly released government figures suggest Purdue Pharma had plenty of help in flooding the U.S. with billions of pills even as overdose deaths were accelerating.

Records kept by the federal Drug Enforcement Administration show that 76 billion oxycodone and hydrocodone pills — the vast majority of them generics, not brand names — were shipped to U.S. pharmacies from 2006 to 2012.

Critics of the pharmaceutical industry say the figures confirm it created the public health disaster. But the data also illustrates how complicated it could be for the courts to figure out who should be held accountable.

 

 

NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico (AP) — Asylum-seekers gathered in Nuevo Laredo, across the border from Texas, grappled to understand what a new U.S. policy that all but eliminates refuge claims by Central Americans and many others meant for their bids to find a better life in America amid a chaos of rumors, confusion and fear.

The policy went into effect Tuesday and represents the most forceful attempt to date by President Donald Trump to slash the number of people seeking asylum in the United States. It denies asylum to anyone who shows up on the Mexican border after traveling through another country.

In some parts of Nuevo Laredo, migrants trickled into shelters. But about 70 mostly Central American migrants were returned to Mexico with an appointment with a judge tucked in plastic bags.

 

 

NEW YORK (AP) — Will the notorious Mexican drug lord known as “El Chapo” go quietly?

For Joaquin Guzman, that’s the biggest question at his sentencing in New York City on Wednesday.

The highly-anticipated hearing could be his last chance to speak publicly before spending the rest of his life behind bars at a maximum security U.S. prison.

The 62-year-old Guzman was convicted in February on multiple conspiracy counts in an epic drug-trafficking case. The government says the guilty verdict at an 11-week trial triggered a mandatory sentence of life without parole.

Prosecutors say evidence showed that under Guzman’s orders, the Sinaloa cartel was responsible for multiple murders and for smuggling mountains of cocaine and other drugs into the United States during his 25-year reign. The defense said he was framed.

 

 

CAIRO (AP) — Sudan’s ruling military and the pro-democracy movement have signed a political document that’s part of a power-sharing deal meant to end the country’s deadlock after weeks of stalled talks.

The two sides — representatives from the military council and the Forces for Declaration of Freedom and Change, which represents the protesters — signed a so-called political declaration, one of two documents that are part of the deal.

The other document, a constitutional declaration, is likely to be signed within days.

The ceremony took place on Wednesday in the country’s capital, Khartoum, and representatives of both sides shook hands.

The signing is a key step in the country’s transition after months of street protests that prompted the military to oust autocratic ruler Omar al-Bashir and take over the country in April.

 

 

LONDON (AP) — Prime Minister Theresa May says she worries about the increasing “absolutism” of world politics, in a message many will see as aimed at her successor as Britain’s leader and President Donald Trump.

May, who leaves office in a week, criticized the “politics of division” and said “some are losing the ability to disagree without demeaning the views of others.”

May announced her resignation last month after Parliament rejected her Brexit divorce deal. It was defeated in part by pro-Brexit members of May’s Conservative Party who condemned its compromises with the EU.

She used her last major speech Thursday to defend political compromise and condemn populists who give “easy answers” to complex problems.

She backed the Paris climate accord and the international nuclear agreement with Iran, which Trump has rejected.