Wayne Byers Show – Morning – Aug 2

CSi Weather….

.REST OF TODAY..Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 80s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.

.TONIGHT…Partly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers and

thunderstorms in the evening.

Lows in the mid 60s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.

.SATURDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. South winds

5 to 10 mph.

.SATURDAY NIGHT…Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s. South winds

5 to 10 mph.

.SUNDAY…Sunny. A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms

in the afternoon in the Jamestown area, 30 percent in the Valley City area. Highs in the upper 80s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.

.SUNDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers

and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 60s.

.MONDAY…Mostly sunny. A 20 percent chance of showers and

thunderstorms in the morning. Highs in the lower 80s.

.MONDAY NIGHT…Mostly clear. Lows around 60.

.TUESDAY…Sunny. Highs around 80.

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

.WEDNESDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.

.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.

.THURSDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.

 

Overnight Thursday, Friday….

The heaviest rain was centered over the James

River Valley.

Radar estimates indicate that 2 to 3 inches of rain

have fallen over parts of eastern Dickey County.

 

 

There is a chance of thunderstorms through Friday afternoon, mainly

over central and southeast North Dakota. Severe weather is not

expected.

 

There is a slight chance of thunderstorms across western North

Dakota on Saturday. A few storms may be strong to severe.

 

There is a chance of thunderstorms across central and southern

North Dakota Sunday afternoon through Sunday night. Some storms

may be strong to severe with locally heavy rainfall.

 

 

Jamestown  (CSi)  The City of Jamestown announces that due to the 2019 Water Main replacement construction work upstream, the Ice House Dam gates will be opened on Friday, August 2, 2019. It is anticipated they will remain open until the construction work is completed.

Bismarck  (NDDOT)  Beginning the week of August 5, 2019, work will begin on US 281 in Ellendale, ND subcutting the roadway within the city limits. Asphalt paving work will begin shortly after all subcutting work is completed. The paving portion of the project begins north of Ellendale, ND at 96^th St. S.E. to the South Dakota State Line.

During construction:

• There will be daytime lane closures controlled by a flagger and pilot car operation
• Speeds will be reduced
• Please watch for workers and equipment in this area

Work is expected to be completed in October.

The NDDOT would like to remind motorists to slow down and use caution throughout the work zone. For more information about construction projects and road conditions throughout North Dakota, call 511 from any type of phone or visit the Travel Information Map on the NDDOT website at  http://www.dot.nd.gov/travel-info-v2/

 

Jamestown (CSi) Jamestown Public Works informs residents that mosquito fogging operations will take place on Monday, August 5, 2019 and Thursday, August 8, 2019 between approximately 9:30 PM (dusk) until approximately 6:00 AM.
Parents are advised to keep children out of the streets and away from the fogging machines.
Motorists are urged to use caution when traveling in the vicinity of the fogging units.
All fogging operations are contingent upon weather conditions.
For more information visit jamestownnd.org, click on Departments/Vector Control or call 701.320-5503.

 

FARGO, N.D. (AP) — Police have arrested a Fargo man they suspect killed a woman and set fire to the apartment where her body was found.

Investigators say the suspect and victim knew each other. The 44-year-old man is being held on possible murder and arson charges. The woman’s body was found Thursday after firefighters put out the fire in a third-floor apartment. Police Lt. Chris Helmick says the woman died of traumatic injuries that happened before the fire started.

KFGO reports Helmick says Davis lives in the apartment. He was arrested Thursday night at a north Fargo home.

 

 

 

FARGO, N.D. (AP) — Two new abortion laws in North Dakota aren’t being enforced because of legal challenges.

The state’s sole abortion clinic in Fargo sued in June over a measure requiring physicians to tell women that they may reverse a so-called medication abortion if they have second thoughts.

That law was to go into effect on Thursday but the state has agreed to not enforce it until a federal judge rules.

The other makes it a crime for a doctor performing a second-trimester abortion to use instruments such as clamps, scissors and forceps to remove the fetus from the womb.

The law becomes effective if a federal court allows its enforcement.

Tammi Kromenaker, director of the Red River Valley Women’s Clinic, says “basically, nothing has changed” at the Fargo facility.

 

 

 

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota is considering whether to study lightning strikes at saltwater disposal sites after lightning hit state facilities at least four times since June.

The lightning strikes at saltwater facilities in the state’s oil patch have triggered fires and spills of oil and brine, a byproduct of oil production.

The Bismarck Tribune reports that people familiar with the facilities say tanks made of fiberglass can be particularly vulnerable to fires when lightning strikes.

North Dakota’s Oil and Gas Research Council decided last week to seek requests for a proposal in an effort to commission a study.

The state’s Industrial Commission, chaired by Gov. Doug Burgum, will need to grant approval before the council can proceed.

Industrial Commission executive director Karlene Fine says the authorization could happen at a meeting Aug. 28.

 

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A major producer in North Dakota’s oil patch has announced it is cutting more than 250 jobs companywide.

Denver-based Whiting Petroleum announced the cuts Wednesday as part of restructuring effort that will save the company about $50 million annually.

The Bismarck Tribune reports it’s unclear how many of those lost positions are in North Dakota. Whiting operates primarily in North Dakota and northeast Colorado.

The job losses represent one-third of Whiting’s workforce. The company says 94 of the jobs were executive or corporate positions.

State data show the company has more than 1,500 active oil and gas wells in North Dakota.

 

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A group seeking to overturn a new law to stop new restrictions on the state has missed the deadline to get the proposal on the ballot.

Secretary of State Al Jaeger says the group headed by Dickinson electrician Riley Kuntz missed the midnight Wednesday deadline to turn in nearly 13,500 qualified signatures needed to get the proposal to a statewide vote next year.

The law that requires the state auditor to get the Legislature’s approval for conducting performance audits. State Auditor Joshua Gallion says he will ignore the new law based on an opinion by the state attorney general’s office.

One of the lead backers of the legislation has called the new law a mistake. Rep. Keith Kempenich says he will introduce legislation next session to overturn it.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A culvert that washed out from under a highway on the Standing Rock Reservation in July, killing two people when they drove into the chasm, had been identified for replacement seven years ago.

Ron His Horse Is Thunder, the tribe’s director of transportation and planning, tells the Bismarck Tribune that the culvert was bowing but not considered dangerous.

The culvert and road above it eroded after a 7-inch rain fell. His Horse Is Thunder says that scouring caused the culvert to collapse, rather than the structure failing.

But His Horse Is Thunder said the culvert is a symptom of a lack of funding for many road projects on reservation land.

A 60-year-old woman and a 65-year-old man, both from Mobridge, S.D., died after the roadway failed.

 

In sports…

Jamestown  (CSi) Jack Brown Stadium in Jamestown will host the North Dakota Amateur Baseball Association’s Class A and AA state tournaments, on Sunday, August 4.

North Dakota Amateur Baseball Association

Class A and AA State Tournaments

At Jack Brown Stadium

Aug. 4

Tolna A vs. Park River A- 1 p.m.

Park River A vs. Tarno- 3 p.m.

Aug. 7

Tarno vs. Tolna A- 6 p.m.

Hounds vs. Valley City- 8 p.m.

Aug. 9

Merchants A vs. Beulah/Hazen- 6 p.m.

Enderlin vs. Tolna AA- 8 p.m.

Aug. 10

Beulah/Hazen vs. Fairview- 9 a.m.

Merchant A vs. Fairview- 11 a.m.

Park River AA vs. Enderlin- 1 p.m.

Tolna AA vs. Park River- 3 p.m.

Cass County vs. Hounds- 5 p.m.

Cass County vs. Valley City- 7 p.m.

Aug. 11

Class A championship-12 noon.

Class AA championship- 2 p.m.

 

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION…

Fargo-Moorhead 7, Chicago 4

 

In World and national news…

 

BEIJING (AP) — China’s government has threatened unspecified “necessary countermeasures” if Trump’s planned tariff hike goes ahead.

The Commerce Ministry said Trump’s announcement is a violation of his agreement with President Xi Jinping in June to revive negotiations aimed at ending their fight over Beijing’s trade surplus and technology ambitions.

The ministry said if the U.S. measures took effect, “China will have to take necessary countermeasures to resolutely defend its core interests.”

The statement issued Friday continued, “All the consequences will be borne by the United States.”

Trump said Thursday he will impose 10% tariffs Sept. 1 on the remaining $300 billion in Chinese imports he hasn’t already taxed.

The president earlier imposed 25% tariffs on $250 billion in Chinese products. Beijing retaliated by raising import duties on $110 billion of U.S. goods.

 

TOKYO (AP) — South Korea’s foreign minister says the United States has “many concerns” over the trade row between Seoul and Tokyo and is offering to help its allies find an end to their dispute.

Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha spoke to South Korean reporters after a three-way meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono on the sidelines of an Asian security forum in Bangkok on Friday.

Kang says she used the meeting to express “strong regret” over Japan’s decision to downgrade South Korea’s trade status and call for its immediate withdrawal.

She says the United States offered to do what it can to help resolve the dispute.

She says Japan has so far ignored efforts by Seoul and Washington to diplomatically resolve the issue and that Tokyo should respond to calls for dialogue.

 

 

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s military says North Korea fired unidentified projectiles twice into the Sea of Japan in its third weapons tests in just over a week.

The Seoul’s Joint Chiefs of Staff on Friday said the launches were conducted from an eastern coastal area but did not immediately confirm how many projectiles were fired or how far they flew.

The North also conducted fired short-range ballistic missiles last Thursday and conducted what it described as a test firing of a new multiple rocket launcher system on Wednesday.

Experts say the North is demonstrating its frustration over planned U.S.-South Korea military exercises and stalled nuclear negotiations with the United States and that its weapons tests could intensify if negotiations do not proceed rapidly over the next few months.

 

CINCINNATI (AP) — President Donald Trump used a revved-up rally in Cincinnati to tear into the Democrats he has been elevating as his new political foils, attacking four liberal congresswomen of color and their party’s urban leaders, while also training fire on those he could be facing in 2020.

But the president mostly avoided the racial controversy that has dominated recent weeks as he basked in front of the raucous crowd Thursday for nearly 90 minutes, unleashing broadside after broadside on his political foes.

Trump, who had faced widespread criticism for not doing more to stop the chants of “Send her back” about Somali-born Rep. Ilhan Omar at a rally last month, seemed to want to avoid further furor, saying ahead of the rally that he would prefer his supporters avoid the chant.

 

WASHINGTON (AP) — A landmark arms control treaty that President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev signed three decades ago is dead.

The United States and Russia both walked away from the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces treaty on Friday.

And if they choose not to extend or replace the larger New START treaty when it expires in early 2021, there will be no legally binding limits on the world’s two largest nuclear arsenals for the first time in nearly a half-century.

The U.S. says Russia has been violating the treaty for years by developing and fielding weapons that threaten the U.S. and its allies, particularly in Europe.

President Donald Trump says he wants a new arms control treaty signed by China as well as the U.S. and Russia.

 

 

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia has issued new laws that grant women greater freedoms by allowing any citizen to apply for a passport and travel freely, ending a long-standing and controversial guardianship policy that had required male consent for a woman to travel or carry a passport.

The changes approved by King Salman and his Cabinet allow any person 21 and older to travel abroad without prior consent and any citizen to apply for a Saudi passport on their own.

The decrees were published early Friday in the kingdom’s official weekly gazette.

Other changes issued in the decrees allow women to register a marriage, divorce or child’s birth and to be issued official family documents.

The changes were widely celebrated by Saudis on Twitter, but also drew criticism from some conservatives.