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CSi Weather…

.TONIGHT…Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 20s. Northwest winds 5 to 15 mph.

.TUESDAY…Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 30s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.

.TUESDAY NIGHT…Cloudy with a 20 percent chance of light snow.
Lows 20 to 25.

.WEDNESDAY…Decreasing clouds. Highs in the upper 20s. North

winds around 15 mph.

.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. Lows 15 to 20.

.THANKSGIVING DAY…Cloudy. Slight chance of snow in the morning,

then snow likely in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 20s. Chance

of snow 50 percent.

.THURSDAY NIGHT…Snow. Lows in the lower 20s.

.FRIDAY….Snow. Highs in the upper 20s.

.FRIDAY NIGHT… Snow. Areas of blowing and drifting snow after

midnight. Lows in the lower 20s.

.SATURDAY… Snow. Areas of blowing and drifting snow in the

morning. Blowing and drifting snow in the afternoon. Snow may be

heavy at times. Windy. Highs in the upper 20s.

.SATURDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. Snow likely in the evening, then

chance of snow after midnight. Windy. Lows 10 to 15. Chance of

snow 60 percent.

.SUNDAY…Partly sunny with a 30 percent chance of snow. Highs

around 20

A strong, impactful winter storm will move across the
Great Plains into the Upper Midwest this upcoming weekend. This
storm may impact the local area, but it remains far from certain at
this point. Southern North Dakota has higher chances of seeing
significant impacts.

If this storm takes a more northerly track like the current ECMWF,

most of western and central North Dakota would see heavy snow and

strong winds, causing significant travel impacts. A more southerly

track closer to that of the GFS/GEFS could still bring heavy snow

and strong winds to southern parts of the state, but this portion of

the storm system could almost miss us completely.

Update….

OMAHA, Neb. — (11-25-19)  The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will be stepping down releases from Jamestown and Pipestem Dams to expected winter levels by Dec. 4, 2019.

Updated river ice forecasts indicate ice formation is likely in the LaMoure area in early December.  To mitigate the risk of freeze-up ice jams or other ice-related flooding, combined releases from the dams will be reduced by 200 cubic feet per second each day to expected winter levels.  The target combined release rate is 650 cfs.

Jamestown Dam Releases (cfs)

Pipestem Dam Releases (cfs)

Total Combined Release (cfs)
Tuesday, Nov. 26

1,000

1,000

2,000
Wednesday, Nov. 27

900

900

1,800
Thursday, Nov. 28

900

900

1,800
Friday, Nov. 29

800

800

1,600
Saturday, Nov. 30

700

700

1,400
Sunday, Dec. 1

600

600

1,200
Monday, Dec. 2

500

500

1,000
Tuesday, Dec. 3

400

400

800
Wednesday, Dec. 4

400

250

650

 

The Corps of Engineers will operate to minimize the risk of ice-related flooding, and adjustments to the releases will be made as needed.

Jamestown Dam is currently at a pool elevation of 1441.3 feet, 28% into the flood pool, and is dropping.  The pool elevation peaked on Nov. 12 at 1442.0 feet, which was 31% into the flood pool.  Inflows are near 350 cfs, and releases are 1,100 cfs.

Pipestem Dam is currently at a pool elevation of 1464.2 feet, 24% into the flood pool, and is dropping.  The pool elevation peaked on Oct. 29 at 1475.0 feet, which was 43% into the flood pool.  Inflows are near 400 cfs, and releases are 1,100 cfs.

The Corps of Engineers is coordinating with relevant agencies in North and South Dakota.

 

Jamestown  (CSi)  The Community is invited to the annual Thanksgiving Day meal at Concordia Lutheran Church at 502 First Avenue North in Jamestown.

On Monday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2 Pastor Tom Eckstein said the meal will be served from 11-a.m., to 1-p.m., with home delivery available.  There is no charge.

The entire Jamestown community is invited, to the dinner and to the 10-a.m., church service, as well.  Anyone who will be alone on Thanksgiving or unable to cook a meal is invited.

Those wishing a home delivered meal is asked to call the church by no later than Wednesday November 27 at 701-252-2819, and indicate your name, how many meals, and the address.

Volunteer drivers are also asked to call 252-2819 to indicate there willingness to drive.

Pastor Eckstein said the Thanksgiving Day meal was first served  in 1971 at The Pantry Café in Jamestown when church member the late, Fritz Buegle saw a need to provide the community a Thanksgiving meal.  About 40 meals were served that first year, and as the dinner participants grew the meal was move to larger accommodations at Concordia Lutheran Church.

Last year 300 meals were served at the church and another 300 were home delivered, and more is expected this year.

He pointed out that over 25 turkeys will be baked at the University of Jamestown kitchen and delivered to the church, where more volunteers will prepare the turkeys on Wednesday.

Also served will be mashed potatoes, stuffing, corn, pies and beverages.

Some of the food was donated, while others were purchased from charitable monetary donations.

 

Update…Park River, N.D. Park River  (CSi)  The Park iver Sheriff’s Office reports that the body of 55-year old Michael Eidenschink was located about 4-p.m. Monday near Cando, ND.

(Valley News Live) UPDATE: The body of a Walsh County man, who was reported missing Sunday night has been found. 55 year old Michael Eidenschink left his Park River house and was believed to be hunting or fishing in the Fordville area. Sheriff Ron Jurgens told Valley News Live that his body was found outside his pickup at Lake Irvine near Cando, ND.
Jurgens says the death is not suspicious, but his body is being sent for an autopsy.

Park River, N.D. (Valley News Live) The Walsh County Sheriff’s Department wants your help finding a missing man.

(VNL Photo)

Michael Eidenschink left his house in Park River around noon on Sunday, Nov. 24.

Authorities believe he left to go hunting or fishing in the Fordville area and never came back.

He left his house driving a grey Chevy Avalanche with plates 066-ABP.

Please call the Sheriff’s Department at 701-352-2041 if you see Michael or his vehicle.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — An 18-week-old turkey got an official Thanksgiving pardon from North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum at the state Capitol.

“Lilly” was brought to the Capitol on Monday by North Dakota Turkey Federation President David Rude. He says the 18-pound turkey was raised on organic feed at his farm near Tolna.

As part of the annual tradition, the governor pardoned the bird from being Thanksgiving dinner.

The annual event also benefits charity. The Turkey Federation is donating a dozen frozen turkeys each to the Heaven’s Helpers Soup Café and the Abused Adult Resource Center, both in Bismarck.

North Dakota isn’t a big turkey producer. Nine farms in the state produce about a million birds each year.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — South Central District Judge Gail Hagerty says she is resigning in March after more than three decades behind the bench.

Hagerty sent a letter to Gov. Doug Burgum and state Supreme Court Chief Justice Gerald VandeWalle Monday to inform them she plans to step down March 16. Hagerty says she’s not retiring and plans to pursue a call to ordained ministry.

The Bismarck Tribune says Hagerty has been a judge in the state’s busiest district since January 1995 and presiding judge in the district since 2004.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — There will be a runoff election for a new North Dakota Supreme Court chief justice.

None of the three justices running to lead the state’s high court received the majority votes necessary on Monday to clinch the position.

Justices Lisa Fair McEvers and Jon Jensen were the top vote-getters, followed by Daniel Crothers.

McEvers and Jensen are still in the running.

The ballots were cast by the state’s 52 district court judges and each of the five justices on the high court. They will now recast their votes, which will be tallied in early December.

The chief justice position was left open after 86-year-old Chief Justice Gerald VandeWalle announced in September he would not seek reappointment to the top post when his term expires at the end of the year.

In sports…

(VCSU)  The brackets have been set for the inaugural Battle at the Beach NAIA Basketball Tournament on Thanksgiving weekend.

The Valley City State University men’s basketball team is one of eight programs converging on Panama City, Fla., for the tournament organized by Faulkner University. All 12 games of the three-day tournament will be played at the Billy Harrison Field House on the campus of Gulf Coast State College – about five miles from the white-sand beaches of Panama City Beach, Fla.

The Vikings play the first game of the tournament, facing off against LSU Alexandria at 12:30 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 29. VCSU will also play Nov. 30 and Dec. 1. The tournament is set up as a straight eight-team bracket, with a team needing to win three games to claim the championship.

Tournament Links
Tournament Bracket
Tournament Live Stats
Tournament Home Page

Inspired by tournaments such as The Maui Invitational, the inaugural Battle at the Beach includes a field of teams that features seven NAIA programs from six different states and six different conferences. Four of the teams are NAIA Division I.

The bracket includes Thomas University (Ga. – The Sun Conference), Voorhees (S.C. – Independent), Faulkner University (Ala.– Southern State Athletic Conference), Talladega (Ala. – Gulf Coast Athletic Conference), Lindsey Wilson (Ky. – Mid-South Conference), LSU-Alexandria (La. – Red River Athletic Conference) and Carver Bible College – the only non-NAIA school in the tournament.

Valley City State’s first opponent, LSU Alexandria, is a historically strong NAIA Division I program and one of the favorites to win the tournament. The Generals are currently 5-1 overall and ranked No. 6 in the NAIA Division I Top 25 Coaches’ Poll.

In world and national news…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Mark Esper says President Donald Trump gave him a direct order that a Navy SEAL accused of war crimes in Iraq be allowed to retire without losing his SEAL status.

Esper told reporters at the Pentagon Monday that was the reason he announced Sunday evening that Chief Petty Officer Edward Gallagher would be allowed to retire with his Trident Pin, retaining his status as a SEAL.

Esper also accused Navy Secretary Richard Spencer of secretly offering to the White House to rig the Navy disciplinary process to ensure the Gallagher not lose his Trident. Esper fired Spencer on Sunday.

 

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong police are planning to send a team of negotiators into a university campus to coax a small group of protesters entrapped inside for over a week to surrender.

The move came after pro-democracy politicians, who won a landslide victory in Sunday’s district council elections, called for an end to the police siege at the Polytechnic University to let the protesters leave.

Some 1,100 protesters have surrendered after occupying the campus following intense clashes with police, but around 30 others are believed to still be hiding in the vast campus to avoid arrest.

District police officer Ho Yun-sing said Monday that a team of police negotiators, medical workers and independent mediators will enter the campus to find the holdouts amid concerns over their health and mental condition.

He said the aim is to persuade the protesters to leave, and not to arrest them.

 

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s attorney general says Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not required to leave office following his indictment on corruption charges.

Avichai Mandelblit said in a statement Monday that Netanyahu can remain interim prime minister, just days after serving him with charges of fraud, breach of trust and bribery.

The attorney general did not weigh in on whether Netanyahu could keep his other ministerial positions while under indictment.

Netanyahu, Israel’s longest serving prime minister, has dismissed the charges as an “attempted coup” and refused to resign. He says he will fight the charges from the prime minister’s office.

 

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is rejecting an appeal from a Maryland man who wants a new trial based on information uncovered by the hit podcast “Serial.”

The justices on Monday left in place a Maryland court ruling that denied a new trial to Adnan Syed, who was convicted of strangling a high school classmate he had once dated.

Syed is serving a life sentence after he was convicted in 2000 of killing 17-year-old Hae Min Lee and burying her body in a Baltimore park.

Syed’s lawyers had argued that his trial lawyer’s failure to investigate an alibi witness violated his right to competent legal representation.

In its debut 2014 season, the “Serial” podcast shined a spotlight on the case that led to renewed court proceedings.

 

NEW YORK (AP) — Go ahead and rinse your cranberries, potatoes and green beans. But food safety experts say don’t — repeat don’t — wash the turkey before popping it in the oven on Thanksgiving Day.

Germs that sicken people can come from all sorts of foods, but a lot of the advice around the country’s biggest eating holiday focuses on how turkeys should be handled.

Food safety experts say raw turkeys shouldn’t be washed since that can spread harmful bacteria. Cooking should kill any germs. But bacteria can still spread in other ways, so washing and sanitizing hands and surfaces are still important.

To ensure turkeys are properly cooked, experts also say people should use a thermometer to check that the deepest and thickest parts of the bird are 165 degrees.

And leftovers should be refrigerated within two hours.

 

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is honoring the U.S. military dog that participated in the operation that ended with the death of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

Trump says: “So this is Conan. Right now, probably the world’s most famous dog,” as he introduced Conan to the news media at the White House Rose Garden on Monday. Trump says he gave Conan a medal and a plaque.

Trump has wanted to honor the Belgian Malinois since the late October raid on al-Baghdadi’s compound in northwest Syria.

Conan was slightly injured in the operation but has since recovered and returned to active duty.

After the operation, Trump posted an altered image on Twitter of him presenting Conan with a Medal of Honor. The image was captioned “AMERICAN HERO.”