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CSi Weather…

TONIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS IN THE UPPER 20S. NORTHEAST WINDS
5 TO 10 MPH.
.SATURDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS AROUND 60. NORTHEAST WINDS 5 TO 15 MPH.
.SATURDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE MID 30S. NORTH WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH.
.SUNDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 60S. NORTHEAST WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH.
.SUNDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE UPPER 30S. SOUTHEAST WINDS AROUND 5 MPH SHIFTING TO THE SOUTHWEST AFTER MIDNIGHT.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY…MOSTLY CLEAR. HIGHS AROUND 70. LOWS IN THE LOWER 40S.
.TUESDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE MID 40S.
.WEDNESDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. HIGHS AROUND 70.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS IN THE EVENING…THEN CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS AFTER MIDNIGHT. LOWS IN THE LOWER 40S. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION
30 PERCENT.
.THURSDAY…PARTLY SUNNY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN
SHOWERS. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 60S.
.THURSDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE LOWER 40S.
.FRIDAY…PARTLY SUNNY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 60S.

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
 2:15 PM CDT FRI MAY 3 2013
 
 …THE FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR THE FOLLOWING RIVERS IN NORTH  DAKOTA…
 
   PIPESTEM CREEK NEAR PINGREE AFFECTING STUTSMAN COUNTY
 
 FOR THE JAMES RIVER BASIN INCLUDING PINGREE…MODERATE FLOODING  IS OCCURRING…WITH MINOR FLOODING FORECAST. THE CREEK IS  FORECAST TO BEGIN DECREASING TOMORROW AND FALL BELOW FLOOD 
   THE FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR THE PIPESTEM CREEK NEAR PINGREE.
 * UNTIL LATE SUNDAY NIGHT.
 * AT 9:15 AM FRIDAY THE STAGE WAS 11.7 FEET.
 * FLOOD STAGE IS 9.0 FEET.
 * MODERATE FLOODING IS OCCURRING AND MINOR FLOODING IS FORECAST.
 * FORECAST…THE RIVER WILL REMAIN NEAR 11.0 FEET THROUGH SATURDAY
   THEN BEGIN TO FALL BELOW FLOOD STAGE BY SUNDAY.
 * IMPACT…AT 10.0 FEET…FLOODING AT THIS LEVEL AFFECTS FARMLAND, BUT
   NO MAJOR CITIES OR ROADS. 
 
 
 
              FLD  OBSERVED       FORECASTS (7AM)
 LOCATION     STG  STG DAY/TIME   SAT    SUN    MON    TUE    WED
 
 JAMES RIVER BASIN
  PINGREE       9 10.7 FRI 9 AM   11.0    9.6    8.3    7.3    6.2
 

1014 AM CDT FRI MAY 3 2013
 
 …THE FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES FOR THE FOLLOWING RIVERS IN NORTH  DAKOTA…
 
   JAMES RIVER NEAR GRACE CITY AFFECTING FOSTER COUNTY
 
 FOR THE JAMES RIVER BASIN INCLUDING GRACE CITY…A BRIEF PERIOD
 OF MINOR FLOODING IS FORECAST TO OCCUR  FRIDAY   

 * UNTIL SUNDAY AFTERNOON.
 * AT 9:15 AM FRIDAY THE STAGE WAS 12.0 FEET.
 * MINOR FLOODING IS POSSIBLE.
 * FLOOD STAGE IS 12.0 FEET.
 * FORECAST…THE RIVER IS EXPECTED TO CREST THROUGH FRIDAY AND BEGIN  A STEADY DOWNWARD TREND.
 * FLOOD HISTORY…THIS CREST COMPARES TO A PREVIOUS CREST OF 11.8 FEET
   ON APR 3 2010. 
 
 
              FLD  OBSERVED       FORECASTS (7AM)
 LOCATION     STG  STG DAY/TIME   SAT    SUN    MON    TUE    WED
 
 JAMES RIVER BASIN
  GRACE CITY   12 12.0 FRI 9 AM   11.7   10.9   10.1    9.4    8.9

 

From U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

OMAHA, Neb. (KCSi-T.V. News May 3, 2013 — Snowmelt inflow is occurring at Jamestown and Pipestem Reservoirs, and pool elevations have been increasing as expected. Large river flows continue upstream of the reservoirs and high inflows are expected to continue for the next few weeks. Combined releases from the reservoirs are currently expected to stay below 1200 cubic feet per second; significant additional rainfall or snow may necessitate higher release levels.

Pipestem Reservoir is currently at pool elevation 1460.1 feet which results in 16.6 percent of the flood pool occupied. Inflows are 2200 cfs and have begun to drop in the last couple of days. Jamestown Reservoir is currently at pool elevation 1431.8 feet which results in 1percent of the flood pool occupied. Inflows are currently 360 cfs and rising with flows at the James River at Grace City gage near 3000 cfs.

Currently releases are at 100 cfs at Pipestem Reservoir and 450 cfs at Jamestown Reservoir resulting in a combined release of 550 cfs. Releases will be held steady over the weekend. In the following week, releases will be increased to a combined 750 to 1200 cfs depending on the inflow volume into the reservoirs. Releases will be stepped up by approximately 100 to 200 cfs per day as necessary. During the rest of May, emphasis will be placed on evacuating Jamestown Reservoir flood storage near the June 1 target date. Pipestem Reservoir flood storage will be primarily evacuated in June, July and August.

Residents along the James River downstream from Jamestown should monitor flood forecasts by the National Weather Service and make preparations as necessary to minimize damages from high river levels.  Flood forecasts on the James River in North Dakota and South Dakota are available on the Missouri Basin River Forecasting Center website at http://www.crh.noaa.gov/mbrfc/.

A rapid deployable gage was installed on the James River near Adrian to provide river stage readings between Jamestown and Lamoure. Data from this gage and permanent gages on the James River in North Dakota and South Dakota is available on the U.S. Geological Survey website at http://nd.water.usgs.gov/floodinfo/james.html.

 

Jamestown, ND  (KCSiT.V. News —  The Jamestown Rural Fire Department was called to a grass Friday afternoon (may 3, 2013) about 2:54 p.m.,  5 miles northwest of Spiritwood.

Five trucks were sent to the scene.

The fire burned approximately 100 acres of grass, corn stubble, bean stubble and pasture.

 The fire started on a farm and spread south to a neighbor’s land corn stubble, bean stubble and pasture land.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota’s Transportation Department says floodwaters have receded from state Highway 66 east of Egeland and traffic speeds have returned to normal.
 
     Speeds still are reduced on N.D. Highway 14 south of the U.S. 2 junction near Towner due to floodwaters, and state Highway 17 remains closed at the bridge crossing the Red River in Walsh County.

 

DICKINSON, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota lawmakers have approved $6 million for construction of a Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library on the campus of Dickinson State University.
 
     The existing Theodore Roosevelt Center at DSU needs to raise at least $3 million to access the state grant money included in the Commerce Department budget bill that the Legislature has sent to the governor.
 
     Roosevelt hunted and ranched in the North Dakota Badlands in the late 1800s before becoming the 26th U.S. president.
 
     The Theodore Roosevelt Center in the university’s library already has items from Roosevelt’s time in the Badlands, as well as a digital archive of materials related to Roosevelt. The university also hosts an annual Roosevelt Symposium.
 
     University spokeswoman Marie Moesays  planning for the library is in the early stages.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota’s Legislature has marked its longest session in modern state history.
 
     Friday is Day 80. That eclipses the 2009 session when lawmakers met for 79 days.  
 
     Lawmakers are mulling last-minute measures before the state constitution’s 80-day limit is imposed. Under state law, a Legislative day runs from 7 a.m. to 7 a.m., which means the session could run through Saturday morning.
 
     The state Office of Management and Budget bill serves as the Legislature’s last-minute catchall, into which all manner of proposals are dumped. The bill had some 26 proposed amendments at noon Friday.
 
     Lawmakers call the OMB bill the “Christmas Tree,” and it’s typically the last bill of the session approved.
 
     The session’s last day is commonly called Sine Die (SYN’-ee DY’-ee), which means adjourning without setting another meeting.

 

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem (STEHN’-juhm) says a North Dakota Board of Higher Education dinner social at a Bismarck restaurant violated the state’s open meetings law.
 
     In a written opinion Friday, Stenehjem says it’s “clear that violations of the open meetings laws by the board are pervasive.”
 
     Stenehjem had issued an opinion last month saying that he could not find wrongdoing at the dinner social attended by a quorum of board members at the Bismarck restaurant. Stenehjem says the board denied that public business was discussed at that meeting.
 
     But he says a board member provided information after the opinion was issued that contradicted the board’s official response.

 

FARGO, N.D. (AP) – A 50-year-old man driving to the Cass County Jail to take a breathalyzer test under a court-ordered sobriety program crashed through the jail’s front doors.
 
     Authorities are trying to determine the cause of the crash just before 7 a.m. Friday. Sheriff’s Sgt. Tara Morris tells The Forum newspaper that there was no indication the man had been drinking.
 
     The driver was taken to a hospital to be checked out, though police officer Troy Nielson says the man was able to walk to talk.
 
     Morris says a local bomb squad was called to the scene as a precaution because of the strange nature of the crash. But it isn’t the first time it’s happened. Sheriff’s Capt. Judy Tollefson says a similar incident happened about five years ago.

 

 FARGO, N.D. (AP) – The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld the sentence of a Canadian man convicted in what witnesses called one of the largest credit card schemes in U.S. history.
 
     But the three-judge panel vacated the restitution orders given to Adekunle Adetiloye (aw-duh-KUHN-lee aw-duh-tuh-LOH’-ee), telling the district court it must allow parties to present additional evidence before deciding on the amounts owed.
 
     Adetiloye pleaded guilty to mail fraud and was sentenced to 18 years in prison. Authorities say he stole the identities of about 38,000 people and bilked companies out of about $1.5 million.
 
     Adetiloye claimed in an appeal to the district court that his sentence was unfair because he was labeled the leader of the conspiracy. He says he was a mid-level player in the operation.

 

 FORT TOTTEN, N.D. (AP) – People on the Spirit Lake Reservation who oppose Chairman Roger Yankton say they’ve gathered enough petition signatures to force a recall vote.
 
     A tribal judge determined earlier that 540 signatures would be needed. Recall organizer Erich Longie says 550 have been gathered and petition circulators will continue until they have 600 in case some are ruled invalid.
 
     Yankton’s detractors question his leadership. Yankton has said his administration is looking into problems that tribal members have identified, such as ineffective child protection services on the reservation.
 
     In another development, local Bureau of Indian Affairs Superintendent Rod Cavanaugh has taken early retirement. The Grand Forks Herald reports that Cavanaugh has been a key figure in the child protection debate. He cited personal reasons for retiring.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota first lady Betsy Dalrymple is promoting a summer reading program.
 
     The Scholastic Summer Challenge is a four-month global literacy campaign to encourage students to read four or more books this summer.
 
     The program is donating 500 books to elementary school students in Fort Totten, Minnewaukan, Oberon and Riverside Elementary in Bismarck. The publications will serve as take-home reading materials over the summer.
 
     Students will log their minutes spent perusing the books, with a goal of setting a world record for summer reading.
 
     The first lady is kicking off the program with planned visits to Fort Totten and Oberon on Friday.

 

In sports…

Valley City, ND  (KCSi-T.V. Sports May 3, 2013)  —  The Special Olympics, Dist 3 Spring games will be in Valley on Sunday May 5, 2013, for the one day of games.

Over  250 Special Olympics athletes will be competing  vying for District Champion.

On Sunday, May 5, 2013, at 8-a.m., the  Bocceball  and Volleyball competition is at the W.E. Osmon Fieldhouse.

At 9-a.m., the swimming competition is at  the Student Union pool. 

Power Lifting is at 9:30am at the W.E. Osmon fieldhouse.

The Opening Ceremonies will be held at Shelly Ellig Field and Lokken Stadium starting at 1pm.

All events are free and open to the public.

 

 WILLISTON, N.D. (AP) – Two Montana oilmen who do a lot of work in North Dakota have a horse in the race in Kentucky, as well – literally.
 
     Billings residents Carter Stewart and Ken Schlenker own a horse that is running in the Kentucky Derby on Saturday. It’s named Frac Daddy, a take on the oil drilling technique known as fracking.
 
     Stewart says the horse is a tribute to all of the oil field workers in America and especially the Williston Basin in the Dakotas and Montana.
 
     Frac Daddy’s odds of winning are posted at 50-1, but Stewart says he’s optimistic. He says he thinks the horse has a shot.

 

In world and national news…

 WASHINGTON (AP) – Not only is the job report for April better than many economists expected — it turns out February and March are looking better as well. The Labor Department is reporting that the economy added 165,000 jobs in April — but also that the numbers for the previous two months were far higher than initially reported. Overall, the economy has now created an average of 208,000 jobs a month from November through April — above the 138,000 added in the previous six months. Stocks have surged on the news, with the Dow and the S&P 500 crossing new barriers.

 
     BOSTON (AP) – The administrator of a fund created for people injured in the Boston Marathon bombings and the families of those who were killed plans to hold meetings with victims next week and begin cutting checks by the end of June. Kenneth Feinberg is overseeing The One Fund, which has taken in more than $28 million. Feinberg says he plans to release a tentative compensation proposal on Monday in advance of two public meetings. The Boston Globe reported that families of the three people who were killed by the bombs could each receive more than $1 million.
 
     DARTMOUTH, Mass. (AP) – Authorities have been searching the woods near the campus of the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth. It’s part of their investigation of the Boston Marathon bombing. A spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney isn’t saying what they’re looking for, but she says residents should know there is no threat to public safety. The surviving suspect in the bombing was a student at the school. And three of his classmates are accused of removing a laptop and backpack from his dorm room before the FBI searched it.
 
     CHALDOVAR, Kyrgyzstan (AP) – The search for three crew members of an American military refueling plane has been suspended for the night. The plane crashed Friday in the rugged mountains of the Central Asian nation of Kyrgyzstan — a country where the U.S. operates an air base to help its war effort in Afghanistan. There’s no word on the fate of the crew. Pieces of the plane were left scattered across a grassy field bordered by mountains.
 
     NEW YORK (AP) – New York City is planning to expand hurricane evacuation areas to include 640,000 more people. And they’ll be split into twice as many zones so the city can tailor evacuation orders better to the dynamics of a particular storm. The plans stem from an analysis of the city’s handling of Superstorm Sandy. New York currently has three evacuation zones. About 375,000 people live in the most vulnerable one — but despite orders to evacuate during Sandy, about two-thirds stayed where they were.