Wayne Byers Show – Evening – Nov 5

CSi Weather…

.TONIGHT…Mostly cloudy. A 50 percent chance of snow after midnight. Lows 15 to 20. Southeast winds around 5 mph shifting to the north 5 to 15 mph after midnight.

.WEDNESDAY… 40 percent chance of snow in the morning. Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 20s. North winds 10 to 15 mph.

.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…Mostly clear. Lows 5 to 10 above. Northwest

winds 5 to 10 mph.

.THURSDAY…Sunny. Highs in the mid 20s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.

.THURSDAY NIGHT…Increasing clouds. Lows 15 to 20.

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

.FRIDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy

with a 20 percent chance of snow after midnight. Lows in the mid

20s.

.SATURDAY…Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of snow. Highs

in the lower 30s.

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

Lows 10 to 15.

.SUNDAY…Partly sunny. Highs 15 to 20.

.SUNDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. Lows 5 to 10 above.

.VETERANS DAY…Mostly sunny. Highs 15 to 20.

 

Snow showers moving into the region Tuesday night may bring a dusting of

snowfall. Pockets of snow accumulation up to one inch are possible. However, the probability of widespread hazardous weather is low.

Light snowfall is possible for the region Saturday.

 

Flood updates and water level updates  for the …

Sheyenne River Level Through Valley City

Lake Ashtabula Level

James River level through Jamestown.

Jamestown Dam

National Weather Service 

Water amounts in the snow pack

The Latest Flood Warnings from The National Weather Service

https://ndresponse.gov/flood-region

Fire Danger Map for North Dakota

Valley City  (CSi) Barnes County Road 22 (Old Highway 10) is closed at Hobart Lake because of  high water washing over the roadway.

Motorists should not remove or drive around the barricades.

Authorities have set up a barricade on both sides of the roadway near the entrances of the low grade area of the lake.

Motorists driving around the barricade will be cited, and fined $250.

 

Jamestown (CSi)  Jamestown Tourism Director, Searle Swedlund on Tuesday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, gave a time line of over the past two weeks, of events, meetings, and decisions concerning the turn of events that led to the Frontier Village Association to vote to turn over the Village to the City of Jamestown.

Replays of the show on CSi Cable 2 on Tuesday Nov 5 at 12-noon, 5-p.m. 6:25-p.m., and 10-p.m.

He pointed out that city officials will be dealing with the legalities of assuming ownership, including addressing the legal action brought against the city by the FVA attorney, Matt Sorensen, a complaint filed, requesting Southeast District Court issuing a temporary restraining order, prohibiting the City of Jamestown from interfering with the transfer of items from the Village to Perham, Minnesota’s Pioneer Village.  Sorensen has said the FVA intended to resolve the issue out of court.

The request for a restraining order can be withdrawn or dismissed if the FVA reaches an agreement with the city, out of court.

At the November 1, 2019 Special Meeting of the Frontier Village Association, the board voted to turn over the assets, and debts of the association to the city.

Previous Related CSiNewsNow.com stories.

Jamestown City Council Special Public Input Meeting

City removes City Fire Truck Artifacts removed from Frontier Village-Swedlund’s “Fact Sheet.”

Future of Frontier Village discussed at Jamestown City Council Committee meeting.

Frontier Village in Violation of Open Meeting Laws.

 

Valley City (CSi)  The Valley City Commission met in Regular Session Tuesday evening at City Hall.  All members were present.

Mayor Carlsrud read a proclamation, “ No Shave November,”  In conjunction with Valley City Public Schools, to support awareness of funding for the Access For All Program.

The counseling is in partnership with Village Family Services in Fargo.

Voting results on the contest will be announced on November 27.

Sherry Larson has more information, including buttons available.

APPROVAL OF CONSENT AGENDA:

Monthly Reports from the Fire Chief, Building Inspector, Auditor, Municipal Judge and Public Works Accountant.

Monthly Bills for the City and Public Works in the Amount of $1,820,000.03

A Raffle Permit for Art Club Valley City High School, CHI Health at Home, ND Hereford Association, SHINE

PUBLIC COMMENTS

No One Spoke

Attorney General’s “A Citizen’s Guide to North Dakota Open Records & Open Meetings Laws” *A member of the public does not have the right to speak to the governing body at an open meeting. The public is only entitled to see and hear what happens at a meeting, and to record or broadcast those observations.

 

RESOLUTION

Approved was a  Resolution Placing City Sales, Use and Gross Receipts Tax Advisory Vote on Ballot of Municipal Election to be held June 9, 2020.  City Administrator, David Schelkoph said, the extension of the current sales tax from 30 years to 45 years, to be applied to permanent flood control project.

NEW BUSINESS

Approved was the 2020 Board Calendar.  City Auditor, Avis Richter said the calendar plans city meetings for the year.

Approved the Annual Maintenance Certification for NDDOT urban federal aid projects.  KLJ, said maintenance and cost participation is included.

Also approved was Amendment to Prepare the SRF Facility Plan for Paving Improvement District No. 119 & 119B (7th Avenue NW & 2nd Avenue NE), in an amount not to exceed $8,500.  KLJ said the amendment outlines tow project corridors, along with an engineering agreement, and prepares the required facility plan.

Approved was a Special Alcohol Event Permit for Fraternal Order of Eagles Aerie 2192 at North Dakota Winter Show for Cattleman’s Auction on December 6, 2019.  The police and fire departments have signed off on the permit.

Council Members approved the end to the Flood Emergency, recommended by  City Adminisrator Schelkoph, based on criteria.  the Flood emergency was based on predictions by the National Weather Service rainfall predictions.  He said the city was protected to a river level of 16 feet, and ultimately to 18 feet, if needed.  He added that during the flood emergency the storm water outlets were closed, and the street flooding was pumped by over 20 pumps.

CITY ADMINISTRATOR’S REPORT

David Schelkoph said city residents will receive two free LED light bulbs to encourage residents to save energy and money.

CITY UPDATES & COMMISSION REPORTS

City Auditor Richter said Barnes County Emergency, Sue Lloyd is requesting a flood damage report, to apply for funding.

She added that the 2020 Census Committee  will continue promote participation in the upcoming census, to be counted.

Mayor Carlsrud gave a “shout out,” to the behavioral health program and the Access for All program, and the No Shave November Contest to raise money to support the program.

The meeting was shown live on CSi Cable 68 followed by replays.

 

Jamestown  (CSi)  The Jamestown Mayor’s Committee on Disabilities will be holding their monthly meeting on November 8  from 11:30-1PM at the James River Senior Citizen Center.

Lunch will be available for $5 and will include Chicken Alfredo, Lettuce Salad, cookies and beverages. The meeting is open to the public.

Update…

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A woman who died with four of her children in an attack in Mexico is being remembered in North Dakota for her kindness and faith.

Jordan Kannianen, a state senator from Stanley, said he and his wife, Elizabeth, knew Rhonita María Miller and her children.

Jordan Kannianen says she often attended the Mormon Sunday school class he taught in Stanley, in northwestern North Dakota.

Kannianen says she was kind and “very earnest about her faith.”

The Kannianens say the family left North Dakota several months ago and before their twins were born.

The Kannianens say Maria’s children attended Sunday school with their children.

Elizabeth Kannianen says she can’t tell her own children about the murders.

She says she fears “it’s too much.”

Earlier….

MEXICO CITY (Valley News Live) – A North Dakota family was part of the nine U.S. citizens killed in a Mexican highway ambush.

According to family member Heather Miller, five of those slain lived in the western North Dakota town of Williston.

Rhonita Miller, 30, Howard Miller, 12, Krystal Miller, 10, and 8-month-old twins, Titus and Tiana Miller were from Williston.

Local media described the killings as a highway ambush that happened in the Mexican border state of Sonora late Monday.

Two family members Valley News Live spoke with, Heather Miller and Lafe Langford, said the murders were done by Mexican drug cartels.

Miller said a motorcade of three vehicles came under attack while traveling to the airport.

The family lives in North Dakota part time and has a vacation home in a Mormon community in northern Mexico.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem has asked South Dakota authorities to help investigate an agency that allegedly violated state law on contract bidding.

Auditor Joshua Gallion released a report last month that said the Department of Commerce violated the law on bidding uncompetitive contracts totaling more than $87,000 for the state’s new “Be Legendary” logo.

The logo sparked criticism earlier this year when the contract for it was awarded to a Minnesota firm headed by a woman who once worked for Gov. Doug Burgum’s old Fargo software business.

Stenehjem says he wants an investigator who has no knowledge of the audit or the agency to conduct a probe.

The Commerce Department says it did nothing wrong but has identified where some improvements can be made.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Prosecutors won’t pursue criminal charges against North Dakota State College of Science officials accused by the state auditor of withholding records from investigators.

Cass County State’s Attorney Birch Burdick says in a letter that there was no proof college President John Richman or vice presidents Tony Gridberg and Dennis Gladen committed crimes of obstructing or misleading state auditors.

Auditor Josh Gallion issued the report earlier this year that focused on management of the school’s career workforce program. It alleged that Tony Grindberg, the school’s vice president of workforce affairs and a former state lawmaker, failed to disclose his wife’s company that was paid $39,500 to formulate a marketing plan for the program.

Burdick says the school administrators did not benefit “directly or indirectly” from the “marketing services.”

In sports…

Jamestown   (CSi)  The Jamestown Chapter of Ducks Unlimited will hold its annual Banquet and Auction to support wetlands and wildlife in North Dakota on Thursday November 7 at the Quality Inn, in Jamestown, from 5-p.m., to 9-p.m.

Tickets…

Single Ticket $35
Couple $50
Kids17 and under $15

Raffles and auction will feature unique Ducks Unlimited guns, artwork, decoys and more.

In world and national news…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Gordon Sondland, the Trump administration’s ambassador to the European Union, has revised his testimony to House impeachment investigators. He is acknowledging that he understood by September that American aid to Ukraine was linked to a public statement promising to investigate corruption in the country.

Sondland’s lawyers gave House impeachment investigators a new sworn statement in which he makes key updates to his earlier testimony from last month.

In the statement, Sondland says his memory was refreshed by the opening statements of two other key witnesses who have testified in the impeachment inquiry.

Specifically, Sondland says he now recalls a conversation in Warsaw with a top aide to the Ukraine president in which he said that resumption of military aid likely would not happen until Ukraine had provided a public anti-corruption statement.

 

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s foreign secretary says President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has phoned U.S. President Donald Trump to express condolences at the slaying of nine members of a religious community in northern Mexico, saying they were citizens of both nations.

Marcelo Ebrard says the Mexican leader expressed “thanks for the offer of help, if Mexico needs some sort of help.” And he said Trump “reiterated confidence” in Mexican authorities “to apply justice.”

The comments were carried in a video on the Reporte Indigo news website.

Earlier Tuesday, Trump tweeted an offer to help Mexico “wage WAR” against drug cartels suspect of committing the killing in a mountainous part of northern Mexico.

López Obrador expressed thanks to Trump during a later news conference, but demurred at Trump’s offer, saying “The worst thing you can have is war.”

 

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Republican officials are seeking an injunction to delay the counting of absentee ballots in one eastern Virginia County.

The request came in a court filing after a lawyer for the state Republican Party asked the Accomack County commonwealth’s attorney last month to investigate whether a local Democratic committee official illegally requested and filled out absentee ballots for others.

Debra Wharton, a member of the Accomack County Democratic Committee, referred questions Tuesday to state party officials. A spokesman for the Virginia Democratic Party did not immediately respond to email and telephone messages.

County registrar Patricia White said that absent a court order, her office plans to process absentee ballots as it normally does when polls close Tuesday night.

 

BEIRUT (AP) — Associates say in his last months on the run, Islamic State group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was agitated, fearful of traitors, sometimes disguised as a shepherd, sometimes hiding underground, always dependent on a shrinking circle of confidants.

For months, al-Baghdadi also kept a Yazidi teen as a slave, and she told the Associated Press how he brought her along as he moved.

The reports paint a picture of a man trying to find safety as the extremists’ domains crumbled. In the end, the brutal leader once hailed as “caliph” left former IS areas completely, slipping into hostile territory in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province run by the radical group’s al-Qaida-linked rivals. There, he blew himself up during an Oct. 26 raid by U.S. special forces on his heavily fortified safe house.

 

NEW YORK (AP) — ABC News is defending itself against charges that it was afraid to air an interview with a Jeffrey Epstein accuser after video emerged Tuesday showing its reporter, Amy Robach, venting about her story.

Questions about whether the news organization was reluctant to air a sensitive story about alleged sexual impropriety were raised after a conservative web site, Project Veritas, released “hot mic” video of Robach complaining her bosses quashed the story. Robach was in a Times Square studio but wasn’t on air at the time.

The accuser, Virginia Roberts, claims Epstein forced her as a teenager into sex with prominent men, including Prince Andrew. Andrew and Epstein, before he died in August, denied the charges. Roberts has gone public with her claims.

ABC says that Robach’s 2015 interview with Roberts didn’t have enough corroborating evidence.

Project Veritas says it received the video from an “ABC insider” it didn’t identify.

 

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s president says Tehran will begin injecting uranium gas into 1,044 centrifuges, the latest step away from its nuclear deal since President Donald Trump withdrew from the accord over a year ago.

President Hassan Rouhani made the statement in an address carried live by Iranian state TV on Tuesday.

Under Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal, these machines are supposed to spin without gas injection.

Rouhani says the machines, at its nuclear facility in Fordo, will be injected with the uranium gas as of Wednesday.

There was no immediate comment from the International Atomic Energy Agency, the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog.

Iran on Monday doubled the number of advanced IR-6 centrifuges now in operation in another violation of the nuclear deal.