– Wayne Byers Show – Evening – Dec 27

CSi Weather…

…WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 6 AM CST /5 AM MST/
SATURDAY TO 6 AM CST /6 AM MST/ MONDAY…

.Portions of south central and southeast North Dakota,
namely Sioux, Emmons, Kidder, Logan, McIntosh, Stutsman,
LaMoure and Dickey counties.

Heavy snow expected. Total snow accumulations of 7 to 16
inches. Freezing rain also possible, especially for LaMoure and
Dickey counties with ice accumulations of a light glaze. Winds
gusting as high as 45 mph Sunday and Sunday night creating
blowing and drifting snow with blizzard conditions
possible…especially in the James Valley.

Valley City, and Fargo: Portions of central, northwest and west central
Minnesota and southeast North Dakota. Total snow accumulations of 9 to 14 inches and ice accumulations of up to two tenths of an inch. Winds gusting as high as 45 mph.

* IMPACTS…Travel will be very difficult to impossible.
Widespread blowing snow will significantly reduce visibility.

* ADDITIONAL DETAILS…Snow accumulations Saturday of 3 to 5
inches, then increasing wind and snow Saturday night through
Sunday night. Blizzard conditions possible in the James River
Valley Sunday and Sunday night.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…

If you must travel, keep an extra flashlight, food, and water in
your vehicle in case of an emergency.

The latest road conditions for the state you are calling from can
be obtained by calling 5 1 1.

Forecast…

.FRIDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy in the evening, then cloudy with a 30 percent chance of snow after midnight in the Jamestown area, 50 percent in the Valley City area. Lows 10 to 15. South winds around 5 mph.

.SATURDAY…Snow likely. Snow accumulation around 3 inches. Highs

in the mid 20s. North winds around 10 mph.

.SATURDAY NIGHT…Snow likely possibly mixed with freezing rain

in the evening, then snow after midnight. Areas of blowing and

drifting snow after midnight. Moderate snow accumulations. Lows

15 to 20. North winds 10 to 20 mph. Gusts up to 35 mph after

midnight. Chance of snow near 100 percent.

.SUNDAY…Snow. Blowing and drifting snow. Windy, with visibility one

quarter mile or less at times. Moderate snow accumulations. Highs in the lower 20s. North winds around 30 mph with gusts to around 45 mph.

.SUNDAY NIGHT…Snow likely. Blowing and drifting snow in the

evening. Areas of blowing and drifting snow after midnight.

Windy. Lows around 15. Chance of snow 70 percent in the Jamestown area, 80 percent in the Valley City area.

.MONDAY…Cloudy with a 40 percent chance of snow. Blowing and

drifting snow in the morning. Areas of blowing and drifting snow

in the afternoon. Windy. Highs 15 to 20.

.MONDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of snow in the

evening in the Jamestown area. Areas of blowing and drifting snow in the evening. Lows around 10.

.TUESDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 20s.

.TUESDAY NIGHT…Increasing clouds. Lows 10 to 15.

.NEW YEARS DAY…Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 20s.

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

.THURSDAY…Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 20s.

(INFORUM) Names have been released in a construction accident that killed one and injured another on Dec. 7 at Eldridge, North Dakota.

Stutsman County sheriff, Chad Kaiser says 25 year old Darin Dejno, of Grand Forks, was killed in the accident. 54 year old David Kutcka, from the Grand Forks area, was injured and airlifted to a Fargo hospital for treatment.

The accident occurred during construction work at Country Grain Cooperative when a segment of the crane arm detached from the rest of the arm and fell to the ground striking the two men.

Kaiser adds the Stutsman County investigation to the incident has been completed although other agencies also investigated.

Previously…

.ELDRIDGE (Valley News Live)– A construction accident west of Jamestown, at Eldridge, on Friday has left one person dead.

Stutsman County Sheriff Chad Kaiser reports that the accident at Country Grain Cooperative, involved a construction crane working on a grain elevator, about 1:20-p.m.

Kaiser says, a section of the crane’s boom slid off and fell, striking two people on the ground. One individual was pronounced dead at Jamestown Regional Medical Center and the other was airlifted to a Fargo hospital for treatment.

More information as the story develops.

Jamestown (CSi) With the Jamestown Salvation Army reaching the their 2019 Red Kettle Campaign goal, of $139,00, it means no cuts in services, and the reopening of the Youth Center in 2020.

The Red Kettle Campaign ran, November 29 and through Christmas Eve.

Major, Judy Lowder adds that she’s grateful for all those who volunteered as bell ringers, and those who donated at the Jamestown kettle sites.

The final official total will be tabulated in January.

MINOT, N.D. (AP) — A Minot man who was hunting pheasants in the Custer Mine area near Garrison shot and killed a mountain lion that had emerged from tall grass and charged at him. Gary Gorney tells the Minot Daily News he expected to see a rooster pheasant Thursday after his hunting dog pointed to the area. Instead he was greeted by a female lion that weighed more than 100 pounds. Gorney says he doesn’t remember dropping his dad’s 100-year double-barrel shotgun and reaching for his 9 millimeter handgun underneath his jacket. He says his instincts as a military law enforcement officers took over.

FARGO (Ryan Stotts, INFORUM) — Jocelyn Burdick, 97, died Thursday, Dec. 26, in Bethany on University. She was the first woman from North Dakota to serve in the U.S. Senate, although she never ran for office.

Her husband, Sen. Quentin Burdick, died in 1992 while in the office, and his wife filled his seat for a three-month term until a special election could be held for a replacement. While initially hopeful more women would fill the Senate chambers from North Dakota, only Democrat Heidi Heitkamp has been elected since 1992.

Birch Burdick, Cass County State’s Attorney and Burdick’s son, said his mother was a woman of deep faith with a good sense of her relationship with God. That faith guided her in life, he said, and gave her a sense of principle and comfort.

“She had the opportunity to do a great many great things in life,” he said. “And she did.”

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Debate over whether to ban new refugees in Burleigh County and a rare quadruple homicide in Mandan were among North Dakota’s top news stories for 2019.

Other notable events included a crude oil spill from the Keystone pipeline in eastern North Dakota; the opening of medical marijuana dispensaries across the state; and the repeal of the nation’s toughest Sunday business restrictions.

And the North Dakota Legislature passed its first anti-abortion laws in six years, though they aren’t being enforced because of legal challenges.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — The Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe’s plan to grow hemp became one of the first in the nation to get federal approval. The Department of Agriculture announced the Santee Sioux were among three tribes and three states to get approval under the 2018 Farm Bill. Two other tribes in South Dakota — the Oglala Sioux and Yankton Sioux tribes — are still awaiting decisions on their plans. South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem has opposed hemp cultivation in the state, but that hasn’t stopped tribes from pursuing their own hemp plans.

In world and national news…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Interstate 5 has reopened in Southern California’s Tejon Pass after a 36-hour closure caused by a massive snowstorm. Caltrans says the highway reopened Friday, allowing traffic escorted by California Highway Patrol units to flow between the Los Angeles area and the San Joaquin Valley. It’s the last of the major highway closures to be cleared since the storm hit the region Wednesday. Snow and ice continue to cause problems on smaller routes as a cold air mass remains in place. The National Weather Service says the storm has moved east into Arizona and there will be a few dry days before more precipitation.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military says a U.S. Special Forces soldier who died in Afghanistan this week was seizing a Taliban weapons cache when he was killed. A spokesman says Sgt. 1st Class Michael Goble was clearing out the weapons discovered in Kunduz Province when an explosion happened. The U.S. is disputing Taliban claims that the service members were in a convoy targeted by a roadside bomb.

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal appeals court says a man who sought to aid the Islamic State group by trying to kill an FBI agent must be resentenced because his 17-year prison term is shockingly low. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the new sentencing for Fareed Mumuni on Friday. Mumuni was sentenced in April 2018 after pleading guilty to charges that he planned to aid the extremist organization and tried to kill the agent who was searching his Staten Island home. Prosecutors say Mumuni attacked the agent with a knife, but the agent’s body armor protected him. One appeals judge in a partial dissent said Mumuni’s 17-year sentence would be fine if the sentencing judge better explained it.

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City is increasing its police presence in some Brooklyn neighborhoods with large Jewish populations after possibly anti-Semitic attacks during Hanukkah, most recently Friday morning. Mayor Bill de Blasio says that officers will be more visible in Borough Park, Crown Heights and Williamsburg, and that police will boost visits to houses of worship and some other places. Around the city, police have gotten at least six reports this week of attacks possibly propelled by anti-Jewish bias. The latest happened around 12:40 a.m. Friday. Police say a woman slapped three other women in the face and head after encountering them on a Crown Heights corner.

FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — One of the largest school districts in the United States will allow students one excused absence per school year to participate in civic activities such as protests. News outlets report Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia plans to start the process Jan. 27, 2020. School officials say students in seventh through 12th grades can use the day for civic engagement activities such as attending marches or meeting with lawmakers. Some experts say skipping school to attend protests tends to favor liberal causes. Students must give two days notice before they take the day off and need permission from a parent or guardian.

HEMET, Calif. (AP) — Two girls and their father have died and their brother was badly injured in a Southern California apartment fire. Police say the dead include 4- and 12-year-old girls and their 41-year-old father, who returned to the apartment to attempt a rescue. The fire erupted early Friday morning in a unit occupied by seven people in the city of Hemet, southeast of Los Angeles. The 8-year-old brother was rescued and was in grave condition. The cause of the fire is under investigation. One neighbor says he got his family out but it was too late to help others.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say more than a dozen people were injured when a nitrogen line ruptured at a Beechcraft aircraft manufacturing facility in Wichita, Kansas, and caused part of the building to collapse. Sedgwick County Deputy Fire Chief Daniel Wegner says the explosion happened at around 8 a.m. Friday. The county’s emergency medical services director, John Gallagher, says 11 patients were taken to a hospitals and four were treated at the scene. As of Friday afternoon, four had been released, three were in serious condition and one person was in critical condition. The cause of the blast is under investigation.