– Wayne Byers Show – Evening -Jan. 13, 2021

CSi Weather…

.WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 6-PM THURSDAY EVENING THROUGH FRIDAY 6-PM STUTSMAN..

6-PM THURSDAY THROUGH 9-PM FRIDAY BARNES…

Bottineau-Rolette-McHenry-Pierce-Wells-Foster-Stutsman-La Moure-
Dickey Barnes, Portions of north central North Dakota through the James River Valley. .Langdon to Devils Lake to Valley City.

* WHAT…Heavy snow possible. Total snow accumulations between 6 and
10 inches possible.

* IMPACTS…Travel will be very difficult. Areas of falling and
blowing snow will significantly reduce the visibility. The
hazardous conditions will impact the Friday morning and
evening commutes.

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 North Dakota can be found at
dot.nd.gov/travel and for Minnesota at 511mn.org, or by calling
5 1 1 in either state.

Forecast

THURSDAY NIGHT…Snow likely in the evening, then snow after midnight.

Patchy blowing and drifting snow after midnight. Snow may be

heavy at times after midnight. Snow accumulation around 4 inches.

Lows around 15. East winds 10 to 15 mph.

.FRIDAY…Snow. Areas of blowing and drifting snow. Snow may be heavy at times in the morning. Snow accumulation around 4 to 6 inches . . Total snow accumulation 7 to 10 inches. Highs 15 to 20. Northeast winds 15 to 25 mph.

.FRIDAY NIGHT….Partly cloudy. Lows 10 to 15 below. Northwest winds 5 to 15 mph. Gusts up to 30 mph in the evening.

.SATURDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs 15 to 20. Southwest winds 5 to

15 mph shifting to the south 15 to 20 mph in the afternoon.

.SATURDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. Lows 10 to 15.

.SUNDAY…Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 30s.

.SUNDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. Lows around 15.

.MARTIN LUTHER KING JR DAY…Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 20’s.

Valley City (VCPS) Valley City Public Schools Superintendent Josh Johnson says the school district has made an early decision that due to the winter storm in the forecast for Friday, January 14, 2022.

The News Release States:

“We have made the early decision to cancel school tomorrow (Friday, January 14th) due to the strong likelihood of the winter weather storm hitting our region tonight and Friday. According to the National Weather Service, we will receive moderate to heavy snow and experience challenging travel conditions in and out of town.

The timing of this decision has considered the unusual challenges brought about with the last day of the semester Friday, in our school district. With an opportunity to plan ahead, our students and staff will leave the school Thursday, fully prepared to complete the first semester on Tuesday, January 18th. Please know the first day of the second semester will begin on Wednesday, January 19th.

We hope that the advance notification will allow parents with young children and families to plan ahead for Friday, January 14th. While this early decision is unprecedented in our school district, the circumstances referenced above have led us to make this decision knowing very well things could change in the next 12 hours (it is the weather after all).

Please know that all activities for this afternoon and evening are on as scheduled, including the Art Show in the HAC Lobby from 5pm-7pm. Additional information regarding activities scheduled on Friday, January 14th and Saturday, January 15th will be shared via email from our Activities Director Mike Schultz.”

Josh Johnson

Superintendent

Valley City Public Schools

(701) 845-0483

The following Hi-Liner Activities have been Postponed or Cancelled.

Friday January 14

Wrestling at Rugby Tournament (Cancelled)

JH Boys Basketball @ Jamestown (Cancelled)

Gymnastics VS Wahpeton (Cancelled)

Boys basketball vs West Fargo Sheyenne (PPD-TBA)

Girls basketball @ West Fargo Sheyenne (PPD-TBA)

Boys hockey vs Minot (PPD to 1/15)

Boys Swimming vs Minot / West Fargo (PPD-TBA)

Saturday January 15

Wrestling at Rugby Tournament (Cancelled)

Dance at West Fargo Sheyenne (Cancelled)

From Hi-Liners Activities Director Mike Schultz

Valley City (VCPD) Valley City police report that on January 12, 2022 police initiated an investigation into a case of suspected child abuse and neglect.

The child is a student at Valley City Public Schools, so the resource officer began the investigation with the assistance of members of Buffalo Bridges Human Services. It was determined that the child had been assaulted by the father at a residence in Valley City.

Upon completion of the investigation and consultation with the Barnes County State’s Attorney’s Office, a determination was made to arrest the father, for Child Abuse, a Class C felony.

31 year old, Raul E.Canales Fuentes was arrested without any further incident.

Valley-City-Police-Dept.-News-Release

Sanborn (Barnes Co SO)– The Barnes County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a recent burglary. The News Release States: On December 25, 2021 the Barnes County Sheriff’s Deputies responded to the J&L’s Bar in Sanborn ND. Deputies learned that an unknown person entered the bar during the early morning hours and took a large sum of cash. If you have any information regarding this burglary, please contact the Barnes County Sheriffs at 701-845-8530.

The burglary case remains under investigation. Anyone with information about this burglary should call the Barnes County Sheriff’s office in Valley City at 845-8530.

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

Thurs Jan 13, 2022

10:30-a.m.

Barnes

New Positives: 28

Total Positives: 2373

Active: 59

Recovered: 2255

Breakthrough Incidents Per 10K Fully Vaccinated Individuals: 568

Stutsman

New Positives: 60

Total Positives: 5481

Active: 132

Recovered: 5239

Breakthrough Incidents Per 10K Fully Vaccinated Individuals: 591

Weather Permitting

Valley City (CCHD) City County Health in Valley City announces their COVID-19 testing days and site location in Valley City.

Testing is at the REC Center at 140 4th Street Southwest.

Testing will be 12:30 – 2:30pm Mon, Weds, and Fridays.

There are opportunities for vaccinations, both for annual influenza and for the COVID vaccine. Call 845-8518 to make an appointment.

Weather Permitting

CVHD Vaccination Schedule

Friday, January 14 @ 11:00AM – 1:00PM

Thursday, January 20 @ 1:00 – 3:00PM

Thursday, January 20 @ 3:00 – 4:00PM – *PEDIATRIC ONLY must be ages 5 – 11

Friday, January 21 @ 11:00AM – 1:00PM

Monday, January 24 @ 9:00 – 11:30AM

Thursday, January 27 @ 1:00 – 3:00PM

Thursday, January 27 @ 3:00 – 4:00PM – *PEDIATRIC ONLY must be ages 5 – 11

Friday, January 28 @ 11:00AM – 1:00PM

Monday, January 31 @ 9:00 – 11:30AM

Pop-Up COVID-19 Community Vaccination Clinics

Events hosted by the North Dakota Department of Health (NDDoH). Vaccine availability may vary see registration link below for more information.

Various Upcoming Dates:

Event Location: Buffalo Mall and S&R Truck Plaza

The burglary case remains under investigation. Anyone with information about this burglary should call the Barnes County Sheriff’s office in Valley City at 845-8530.

FARGO, N.D. (AP) — A man accused of killing two co-workers at a North Dakota plastics factory in November will undergo a mental health exam to determine whether he is competent to stand trial. Cass County Judge Wade Webb signed a commitment order Wednesday so that Anthony Reese Jr. can be evaluated at the North Dakota State Hospital as requested by his attorneys. Radio station KFGO reports that the 35-year-old Moorhead, Minnesota, man is charged with three counts of murder for the Nov. 17 shooting deaths of 43-year-old Richard Pittman and Pittman’s pregnant girlfriend, 32-year-old April Carbone, at Melet Plastics, a Fargo manufacturer that is also known as Composite America. Reese remains in custody on a $2 million bond.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — An Illinois appellate court has set aside a decision by state regulators that would allow the Dakota Access oil pipeline to double capacity to 1.1 million barrels daily. The appellate court ordered the Illinois Commerce Commission to review the public need for the project that moves North Dakota oil to a shipping point in Illinois. The court says regulators must also consider regulatory violations in Pennsylvania by one of the pipeline’s owners. The court ordered Illinois regulators to issue a new decision within 11 months, while restricting the pipeline’s capacity to 570,000 barrels per day.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A pipeline operator that plans to transport carbon dioxide to North Dakota for disposal will partner with an ammonia plant developer to pick up its emissions from a Grand Forks facility. Pipeline developer Summit Carbon Solutions and ammonia plant developer Northern Plains Nitrogen announced the partnership this week. Northern Plains Nitrogen’s plant will supply low-carbon, nitrogen-based fertilizer products to farmers in the northern United States and Canada. The company expects to annually capture 500,000 tons of carbon dioxide. Summit plans to inject the ammonia plant’s emissions into rocks deep underground in Oliver and Mercer counties where its pipeline system will end.

In world and national news…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has stopped the Biden administration from enforcing a requirement that employees at large businesses be vaccinated against COVID-19 or undergo weekly testing and wear a mask on the job. At the same time, the court is allowing the administration to proceed with a vaccine mandate for most health care workers in the U.S. The court’s orders Thursday during a spike in coronavirus cases was a mixed bag for the administration’s efforts to boost the vaccination rate. The court’s conservative majority concluded the administration overstepped its authority by seeking to impose the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s vaccine-or-test rule on U.S. businesses with at least 100 employees. More than 80 million people would have been affected.

(AP) Teachers around the U.S. are confronting classrooms where as many as half of students are absent. That’s because they have been exposed to COVID-19 or their families kept them at home out of concern about the surging coronavirus. The widespread absences have only added to the difficulty of keeping students on track in yet another pandemic-disrupted school year. Tabatha Rosproy is a teacher in Olathe, Kansas, and the 2020 national Teacher of the Year. She says teachers often have to reteach material when absent kids return. Some of the country’s biggest school systems report absentee rates around 20% or slightly more. Some individual schools are seeing far higher percentages.

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams is considering allowing the nation’s largest school district to return to some form of virtual instruction as the city weathers a wave of coronavirus cases. That would be a reversal from his pledge a week ago to keep children in schools. Adams said at a news conference Thursday that he still believes the safest place for children to be is in school but that there are a substantial number of children missing classes. The mayor says the city will not see a dispute like in Chicago, where the nation’s third-largest school district canceled five days of classes because of disagreements with the teachers’ union over COVID-19 safety protocols.

WASHINGTON (AP) — All but acknowledging defeat, President Joe Biden now says he’s “not sure” his elections and voting rights legislation can pass Congress this year. He spoke at the Capitol Thursday after a key fellow Democrat, Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, dramatically announced her refusal to go along with changing Senate rules to muscle past a Republican filibuster blockade. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is still hoping to use Senate procedural rules to bypass a filibuster and force the legislation to the floor for a debate. But the Democrats still lack the support within their own party to overhaul the rules and pass the bill with a simple majority.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Stewart Rhodes, the founder and leader of the far-right Oath Keepers militia group, has been arrested and charged with seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. The Justice Department announced the charges against Rhodes on Thursday. He is the highest-ranking member of an extremist group to be arrested in the deadly siege. It is the first time the Justice Department has brought a seditious conspiracy charge in connection with the attack on the Capitol. Ten other people also were charged with seditious conspiracy in connection with the attack on Jan. 6, 2021, when authorities said members of the extremist group came to Washington intent on stopping the certification of President Joe Biden’s victory.

(AP) Federal authorities say a South Dakota man charged this week with storming the U.S. Capitol last year performed rap songs about the riot in videos posted on his YouTube channel. A relative told the FBI that Billy Knutson was a rapper who sold his music online and had posted on social media that he was at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. The FBI says a surveillance video showed Knutson enter the Capitol by climbing through a broken window. Court records show a federal magistrate judge in South Dakota ordered Knutson released after his initial court appearance on Wednesday.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican National Committee says it is planning a rules change that would force presidential candidates seeking the party’s nomination to sign a pledge saying they will not participate in any debates sponsored by the Commission on Presidential Debates. If ultimately enacted and enforced, it would fundamentally change the way that presidential elections have been conducted in the country for decades. Former President Donald Trump spent years accusing the nonprofit of unfair treatment. In a letter to the commission, RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel voiced frustration with its response to a list of complaints, including about its selection of moderators. The Commission on Presidential Debates says it deals directly with candidates who qualify for participation in its debates.