Wayne Byers Show – Evening – Dec 9

CSi Weather…

REST OF TODAY…PARTLY SUNNY WITH A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF SNOW.
HIGHS ZERO TO 5 ABOVE. SOUTHWEST WINDS 10 TO 15 MPH. WIND CHILLS
AROUND 20 BELOW.
.TONIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 40 PERCENT CHANCE OF SNOW. PATCHY
BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW THROUGH THE NIGHT. BREEZY. LOWS AROUND
5 BELOW. WEST WINDS 15 TO 25 MPH. WIND CHILLS AROUND 25 BELOW.
.TUESDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. HIGHS 5 TO 10 ABOVE. NORTHWEST WINDS
15 TO 20 MPH. LOWEST WIND CHILLS AROUND 25 BELOW IN THE MORNING.
.TUESDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS AROUND 15 BELOW. NORTHWEST
WINDS 10 TO 15 MPH.
.WEDNESDAY…SUNNY. HIGHS ZERO TO 5 ABOVE. WEST WINDS AROUND
10 MPH.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. LOWS AROUND
5 BELOW. HIGHS AROUND 15.
.THURSDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. LOWS ZERO TO 5 ABOVE.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT…CLOUDY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF
SNOW. HIGHS 5 TO 10 ABOVE. LOWS AROUND 5 BELOW.
.SATURDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF SNOW. HIGHS
5 TO 10 ABOVE.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. LOWS ZERO TO 5 ABOVE.
HIGHS IN THE LOWER 20S.

TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY
 
 EXPECT TIMES OF VERY LOW WIND CHILLS THROUGH LATE WEEK WITH VALUES
 DOWN TO AS LOW AS 40 BELOW ZERO AT TIMES DURING THE LATE NIGHT AND
 EARLY MORNING HOURS.
 
 WIND CHILL TEMPERATURES BETWEEN 25 AND 35 BELOW ZERO ARE FORECAST
FOR NORTHERN AND EAST CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA…WHICH WOULD INCLUDE THE
JAMES RIVER VALLEY FOR TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT.

USE CAUTION IF YOU MUST
BE OUTSIDE…COVER ALL EXPOSED SKIN AND CARRY A WINTER SURVIVAL
KIT IN YOUR CAR.

 
 THERE IS A CHANCE OF SNOW TUESDAY…THEN AGAIN THURSDAY NIGHT
 THROUGH SUNDAY.

Oakes (CSi) A prosecutor will  not  file charges against former Oakes high school principal Don Warren. He resigned last month after he admitted to entering the home of a student twice after he’d been called to a classroom to deal with the student’s misbehavior.

KFGO Radio reports that Dickey County State’s Attorney Gary Neuharth says he considered at least a-half dozen possible charges, but decided against taking any criminal action against Warren.

Warren resigned after he was confronted with the claims by the Oakes Public Schools superintendent. Warren had been with the district since 1990.

 WEST FARGO, N.D. (AP) – A caregiver and seven children escaped a small fire in a West Fargo mobile home daycare.
 
     The  kids were huddled in a sport utility vehicle as firefighters arrived about 10:15 a.m. Monday. A nearby sanitation worker who’s also a volunteer firefighter heard the call and responded.
 
     West Fargo Fire Chief Roy Schatschneider says the firefighter went inside, grabbed the burning material and hauled it outside. The firefighter then took shovels of snow inside to extinguish the burning carpet.
 
     Schatschneider says the fire started in a bedroom in an electrical outlet shared by a heater and radio. The wires shorted out, igniting a pair of blue jeans on the floor.
 
     He says there were no injuries, but the blaze left a smoky smell.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A mule deer shot by a hunter in western Grant County in southwestern North Dakota has tested positive for chronic wasting disease.
 
     The testing done at Michigan State University is being verified by a national lab in Ames, Iowa.
 
     It is the fourth deer killed in the 3F2 hunting unit to test positive for the disease in the past five years. Infected mule deer were killed in 2009, 2010 and 2011, all in the same general area.
 
     CWD affects the nervous system of members of the deer family and is always fatal. The state Game and Fish Department has been monitoring for it since 2002 through samples taken from hunter-harvested deer.
 
     Scientists have found no evidence that the disease can be transmitted naturally to people or livestock.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem (STEHN’-juhm) has asked the state Department of Labor and Human Rights to dismiss a complaint filed by a white supremacist.
 
     Stenehjem said during a radio news interview last month that Craig Cobb and his supporters “are not the kind of people wanted in North Dakota.” Cobb alleges that’s discrimination.
 
     Stenehjem says that he has the right under the First Amendment to express his views just like any other citizen.
 
     Cobb has bought land in the small town of Leith (leeth) and is trying to turn it into an Aryan enclave. He’s currently in custody on terrorizing charges and does not have an attorney. No one has been answering his cellphone.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A coalition of public health organizations says North Dakota is tops in the nation in funding programs to prevent children from smoking and to help smokers quit. South Dakota isn’t far from the top.
 
     The report says North Dakota spends $9.5 million each year on tobacco prevention and cessation programs, meeting the funding level recommended by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. North Dakota and Alaska are the only states that fund tobacco programs at CDC-recommended levels.
 
     The report was released by groups including the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, the American Heart Association, the American Lung Association and the American Cancer Society.
 
     South Dakota ranked 13th in funding tobacco programs. The report says the state spends $4 million each year, about one-third of what the CDC recommends.

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A high-ranking U.S. Department of Justice official says Monday’s tribal nations meeting in North Dakota is an early and important step in Native American and Alaska Native children. 
 
     U.S. Associate Attorney General Tony West, the department’s third-highest official, is in Bismarck for the first public hearing of a 12-member task force that will examine the impact of exposure to violence on Native children.
 
     The task force is the latest effort by the Justice Department to address violence on reservations, particularly against women and children. It is co-chaired by former North Dakota Sen. Byron Dorgan, a longtime advocate for Native American issues.
 
     West says no one expects the work to be easy, but it is an investment in children and the future of sovereign tribal nations.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A tax agreement that standardized the rules and spurred oil drilling on the Fort Berthold Reservation is bringing in more than $40 million monthly for the state and tribal members.
 
     The tax agreement in place since 2008 has netted North Dakota $445.4 million, with the Three Affiliated Tribes getting $315.3 million.
 
     Tribal members successfully pressed lawmakers this year for an equal cut of oil production taxes, saying the extra money was needed to fund drilling impacts unforeseen when the tribes first signed the pact with the state.  The new tax agreement went into effect in September and has netted the tribe nearly $62 million in three months.
 
     Tribal vice chairman Fred Fox says oil drilling on the reservation has brought hope, jobs and business opportunities for tribal members.

In sports…

Football Championship Subdivision playoffs, Quarterfinals
NDSU vs Coastal Carolina

Saturday, December 14th

11 a.m. on ESPN – CSi 14

Playoff tickets will go on sale Sunday, December 8th at noon and will be available at GoBison.com, in person at the Bison Sports Arena or by calling 701-231-NDSU. Season ticket holders have until 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, December 10th to purchase their same seats for the game. Any season tickets not purchased by 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, December 10th will go on sale to the general public beginning at 8:00 a.m. Wednesday, December 11th

NEW YORK (AP) – Sarah Palin will be host of a weekly outdoors-oriented program starting next year on The Sportsman Channel, CSi Cable 60.

The network said Monday that Palin’s program, “Amazing America,” will debut in April and will celebrate the “red, wild and blue” lifestyle.

The hire is a bid by The Sportsman Channel to raise its profile. The network is in some 32 million homes, or less than one-third of American households with television, showcasing programs geared to fans of hunting, fishing and shooting.

Palin will be a teammate of rocker Ted Nugent, who has a hunting-oriented show on Sportsman.

In world and national news…

JOHANNESBURG (AP) – Nearly 100 heads of state, including President Barack Obama, are expected to gather tomorrow in a soccer stadium in South Africa for a massive memorial honoring Nelson Mandela. A program released by the South African government shows that Obama will speak, as will U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Cuban President Raul Castro and others. The stadium holds 95,000 people — and authorities expect overflow crowds to watch the event from nearby stadiums as well. 
 
     WASHINGTON (AP) – Americans were richer than ever this summer. The Federal Reserve says U.S. net worth — a measure of household wealth — reached an all-time high, boosted by record-setting stock prices and by a healthy recovery in home values. But the gains weren’t equally distributed. The wealthiest 10 percent of households own about 80 percent of stocks. And home ownership, particularly among lower-income Americans, has declined since the recession.
 
     LOS ANGELES (AP) – At least seven current and former Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies have been arrested by the FBI as part of an ongoing investigation of inmate abuse in the nation’s largest jail system. A law enforcement official confirms the arrests were made Monday by federal agents. The FBI has been investigating allegations of excessive force and other misconduct at the county’s jails since at least 2011.
 
     MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) – Jury selection is underway in Montana in the murder trial of a newlywed bride accused of pushing her husband from a cliff in Glacier National Park just days after their wedding. Jordan Graham has pleaded not guilty to charges including first-degree murder. Prosecutors will try to convince jurors that she deliberately pushed Cody Johnson to his death. Graham’s lawyers will ask jurors to believe that she was only trying to remove his hand from her arm when he fell.
 
     HOUSTON (AP) – A regional airline says it’s trying to find out how a passenger was accidentally left on board one of its planes. Tom Wagner of Louisiana says he nodded off during a flight to Houston, where he was supposed to get a connecting flight to California. When he woke up, the plane was parked, the lights were off, and he was the only one on board. He called his girlfriend on his cellphone, and she started making calls to try to get him off the plane — but in the meantime, maintenance workers opened the door and were shocked to find Wagner there to greet them.