CSi Weather…

.FRIDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms in the Jamestown area, 50 percent in the Valley City area. Lows in the upper 50s. East winds 5 to 10 mph shifting to the southeast after midnight.

.SATURDAY…Mostly sunny with a 20 percent chance of showers and

thunderstorms in the Jamestown area, 40 percent in the Valley City area. Highs in the mid 70s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.

SATURDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain

showers and thunderstorms in the evening, then mostly clear after

midnight. Lows in the mid 50s. West winds 5 to 15 mph.

 

 

.SUNDAY…Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Northwest winds 10 to

15 mph.

.SUNDAY NIGHT…Mostly clear. Slight chance of rain showers after

midnight. Lows in the lower 50s.

.MONDAY…Mostly sunny with a 30 percent chance of rain showers.

Highs in the upper 70s.

.MONDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain

showers. Lows in the mid 50s.

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

.TUESDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of

showers. Lows in the upper 50s.

.WEDNESDAY…Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of showers.

Highs in the mid 70s.

.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain showers and

slight chance of thunderstorms in the evening, then chance of

rain showers after midnight. Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of

precipitation 40 percent.

.THURSDAY…Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of rain

showers. Highs in the lower 70s.

 

More storms may develop Friday evening and night. A few of these
storms may become strong to severe with hail up to the size of
golf balls, wind gusts to 60 mph, and locally heavy rainfall.

Isolated to scattered severe thunderstorms are possible Saturday
afternoon across southeastern North Dakota and portions of
northwest and west central Minnesota. Hail up to quarter sized and
wind gusts to 60 mph will be the primary threats, but a tornado is
not out of the question.

 

 

Update

Jamestown  (CSi)  The Jamestown City Fire Department was called to a reports of a kitchen fire at 11:15-a.m. Friday to 1221 5th Street Northeast, apartment 309.

Initial reports indicated an ambulance was sent to the scene on standby, but was not needed.

Lt. Sheldon Mohr said the fire was out on arrival of the city fire units.

Smoke damage was reported to the apartment, and considerable fire damage to the kitchen appliances.

No injuries reported, with five city fire units, and 19 fire fighters on the scene about 10, minutes, extracting smoke.

 

 

Jamestown  (City)  Starting Monday, August 30, 2021, there will be chip sealing done as part of the City Street Maintenance Program. This is expected to last two days or until completed.

Major traffic areas that will be impacted include:

7th Ave SW to 2nd Ave SW

15th St SW to 20th St SW

Where signs are posted, remove vehicles and trailers from roadway during this operation.

Motorists and other traffic should use extreme caution when entering these construction areas and consider alternate routes, if possible.

The above schedule is contingent upon weather conditions.

 

 

The North Dakota Department of Health dashboard is updated daily by 11 am and includes cases reported through the previous day. The investigations are ongoing and information on the website is likely to change as cases are investigated. The information contained in this dashboard is the most up to date and will be different than previous news releases. This dashboard supersedes information from previous news releases or social media postings.

Check out our other dashboards: The COVID-19 Vaccine Dashboard, NDUS Dashboard.COVID- 19 stats:

 

COVID- 19 Stats

Thurs. Aug. 26, 2021

10:30- a.m.

Barnes

New Positives: 1

Total Positives: 1459

Active: 11

Recovered: 1415

 

Stutsman

New Positives:  3

Total Positives:  3662

Active:  43

Recovered: 3535

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Coronavirus-related deaths are mounting in North Dakota as COVID-19 cases spike due to the highly contagious delta variant. The state Health Department’s virus dashboard on Friday showed four more deaths, and the ninth this week. The deaths are the most in one week since late January. The new deaths brought North Dakota’s pandemic toll to 1,560. Sixty-two COVID-19 patients remained in a hospital Friday, unchanged from the previous day. Health officials say unvaccinated people make up the bulk of hospitalized virus patients.

 

 

 

Drive-up vaccination clinics will be held on Sundays and Mondays.  The event will take place from 1 pm to 6 pm in the Buffalo Mall parking lot located at 2400 8th Ave SW in Jamestown.  The clinics are open to anyone 12 years of age and older no appointment is needed you can preregister at https://www.ndvax.org. Dates of the clinics continue on August 29 and 30, September 5 and 6, September 12 and 13 and September 19 and 20.    The clinic will be open on Labor Day September 6 from 1 to 6.

For more information, please call CVHD at 252-8130.

Central Valley Health District Regularly Scheduled Vaccination Clinics And Locations

Thursday, September 2, 2021

Vaccine Type: PFIZER, MODERNA (1st and 2nd Dose)

Event Time: 9:00am – 11:30pm

Event Location: Central Valley Health District

 CLICK HERE TO REGISTER 

Vaccinations are also available Wednesdays from 12 PM to 6 PM at S&R Truck Plaza in Jamestown.

 

 

Valley City  (CCHD)  City/County Health reports, that testing continues to be important. If you have any symptoms, it is important to be tested. If you have symptoms and need to be tested at other times contact your clinic.

Administrator Theresa Will says testing has moved to the Leevers North Parking Lot, on Mondays and Fridays, with an expanded time 12:30-p.m. to 2:30-p.m. located in a trailer.

Depending if you are asymptomatic, or symptomatic, you will either be tested in your vehicle, or inside the trailer.

She says a dozen people have recently tested positive for the COVID Delta variant

Booster immunizations are also b (CCHD)  City/County Health reports, that testing continues to be important. If you have any symptoms, it is important to be tested. If you have symptoms and need to be tested at other times contact your clinic.

Administrator Theresa Will says testing has moved to the Leevers North Parking Lot, on Mondays and Fridays, with an expanded time 12:30-p.m. to 2:30-p.m. located in a trailer.

Depending if you are asymptomatic, or symptomatic, you will either be tested in your vehicle, or inside the trailer.

 

Reminder

Walk in Vaccination Clinics available, 9-a.m. to 4:30-p.m., Monday through Friday.

Vaccines available,  Pfizer, Moderna, available most days.

Vaccination available for those 12 years of age and older.

Call 845-8518 to make an appointment.

Pre-register for all clinics.

Booster immunizations are being given for those with a compromised  immune system.

 

 

 

Jamestown  (CSi)  The James River Senior and Community Center in Jamestown announced the First Annual Community Carnival on Sunday September 12, from 12-4-p.m., at Klaus Park in Jamestown.

On Friday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, Rhonda Sahr said the Boy Scouts will be on hand to assist.

Also scheduled to be at the Carnival are race cars and their drivers.

Tickets to the event are $1 each, or 12 for $10, with proceeds going to the Home Delivered Meals program.

Raffle drawings will be for two bicycles, and other prizes.

On another topic, Rhoda added that starting this past May the Senior Center has again allowed meals being served on site, along with more activities including a bingo day.

She said in 2019 and early 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic meals were available with  no contact deliveries, or pick up at the center.

She continues to be hopeful with increases in the COVID positive cases on the rise again that the recently expanded services will be able to continue.

Their protocol is set by the North Dakota Aging Service Department in Bismarck.

 

 

 

Bismarck (CSi) – A new identity-theft scam is circulating to North Dakotans.

Job Service North Dakota has received multiple reports of residents receiving text messages telling them they have successfully changed their password on their North Dakota UI ICE profile – regardless of whether they have an Unemployment Insurance claim or UI ICE account or not.

The message could read things like:

  • “Someone has tried to login to your UI ICE profile. If this was not you, Please reply stop.”
  • “Congratulations! You have successfully changed your UI ICE password! If this was not you, Please reply stop.”
  • “You have successfully changed your PASSWORD on your North Dakota UI ICE profile from a NEW DEVICE in (other location). If this was not you, Please reply stop.”

Users, who reply ‘stop’ thinking they are removing themselves from danger are actually exposing themselves to identity theft.

Replying ‘stop’ prompts users to login to a realistic-looking faked site which asks for personally identifying information including address, social security number, email, phone number, and driver’s license number.

“It is highly unlikely scammers could use this information to access any UI ICE accounts because we have a number of strong fraud prevention measures in place,” said Bryan Klipfel, executive director of Job Service North Dakota. “But this is a clear attempt to steal identities by posing as a state agency and that information can be used in millions of other places to defraud people.”

The public is urged not to open or reply to these messages, and to delete or report them to law enforcement. When Job Service North Dakota sends a text message, it will not contain any links.

It is a good time to remind the public to be highly suspicious of emails or text messages from numbers they cannot identify. Always use a web browser to manually navigate to jobsnd.com and log in from there.

 

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt says a 12-state law enforcement operation rescued 47 victims of human trafficking and led to the arrest of more than 100 people. Schmitt said most of the arrests were made Thursday night into Friday morning. The effort, called Operation United Front, used undercover officers who arranged to meet potential human trafficking victims or who posed as victims to identify a buyer or trafficker. In Missouri, two arrests were made and four victims were rescued at a Kansas City business. The operation was conducted in Missouri, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin.

 

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — State health officials say human cases of the mosquito-borne West Nile virus are on the rise in North Dakota, with the severity of symptoms resulting in some hospitalizations. So far, five people have confirmed cases, with four in the hospital, as well as two of six people with pending cases. The confirmed cases are in Cass, Mercer, Sargent and Stutsman counties. Three of the five confirmed cases in people this year have affected the nervous system. The number of West Nile cases in North Dakota varies year by year with seven confirmed human cases last year and nine in 2019. But in 2018 there were 204.

In world and national news…

(AP)  President Joe Biden’s national security team has told the president that another terror attack is “likely” in Kabul, and that “maximum force protection” measures are being taken at the airport in the Afghan capital. White House press secretary Jen Psaki did not go into detail on the assessment Biden received from his team one day after an Islamic State suicide bomber killed 13 U.S. servicemembers and scores of Afghans outside the airport. Psaki says the next few days of the mission to evacuate Americans and vulnerable Afghans fleeing Taliban rule “will be the most dangerous period to date.” Biden has said he intends to complete the evacuation by Tuesday’s deadline.

 

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The United States is pressing on with evacuation flights from Afghanistan amid tighter security and warnings of more possible attacks, a day after a devastating suicide bombing at the Kabul airport killed well over 100 Afghans and 13 U.S. service members. Crowds outside the airport appeared as thick as ever Friday, despite the bloodshed on Thursday. President Joe Biden’s deadline for withdrawing U.S. forces is Tuesday.

(AP)  COVID-19 cases this year as health officials struggle to keep pace with testing and contact tracing. Hospitals also are juggling a surge in hospitalizations with staff shortages and admissions for other conditions. The Anchorage Daily News reports that Gov. Mike Dunleavy and members of his administration on Thursday announced plans aimed at increasing hospital staffing to help with COVID-19 cases. The measures include speeding the licensing process for health care workers and seeking federal contracts for more workers. Alaska reported 701 resident COVID-19 cases on Thursday. That’s one the highest daily infection rates since the pandemic started.

 

HONOLULU (AP) — A public service announcement campaign reminds Hawaiians that when Hawaii was a kingdom, its rulers pushed people to get vaccinated against smallpox in the 1850s. The messaging comes as Hawaii grapples with a surge in COVID-19 cases, record high hospitalizations and stagnant vaccination rates. It’s aimed at Hawaiians, the Indigenous people of Hawaii, who are being hit hard by the virus after faring well earlier in the pandemic. Some Hawaiians say distrust of government stemming from the U.S.-backed 1893 overthrow of the monarchy is a big reason why vaccination rates are lagging.

 

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans Mayor Latoya Cantrell has ordered people outside the city’s levee protection system to evacuate. Forecasters say Ida made landfall in Cuba as a hurricane and could grow to a devastating Category 3 storm with top winds of 120 mph when it nears the U.S. coast. The National Hurricane Center says Ida already has top winds of 75 mph and should rapidly intensify as it speeds across warm Gulf waters and slam into Louisiana on Sunday. Climate scientist Jim Kossin says it’s headed straight towards New Orleans. Gov. John Bel Edwards has declared an emergency for all of Louisiana.

 

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. (AP) — Firefighters battling a stubborn California wildfire near the Lake Tahoe resort region are facing gusty winds and dry conditions that make vegetation ready to burn. The Caldor Fire has proved so difficult to fight that fire managers this week pushed back the projected date for full containment from Aug. 31 to Sept. 8, but even that estimate is tenuous. Fire spokesman Keith Wade says the date is assessed on a day-by-day basis and depends on fire behavior, the ability to construct fire lines and good weather. The Caldor Fire has scorched nearly 225 square miles of Sierra Nevada forest since Aug. 14.

 

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has told Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett that diplomacy was his first option, but that he would consider other options if his effort to revive the Iran nuclear deal fails. Biden made the comments Friday as the two sat down for the first face-to-face meeting between the two leaders since Bennett was sworn-in as prime minister in June. Biden told Bennett he was “putting diplomacy first” in his attempt to nudge Iran back to a nuclear pact. But Biden promised that “if diplomacy fails, we’re ready to turn to other options.” Bennett said that talks about Iran were the top priority for his first White House visit as prime minister.