Wayne Byers Show – Morning – July 24

KCSi-T.V. Weather from Staff Meteorologist, Steve Root

TODAY...PARTLY SUNNY. A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF
	THUNDERSTORMS IN THE AFTERNOON. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 80S. SOUTHEAST
	WINDS 10 TO 15 MPH. 
	.TONIGHT...MOSTLY CLOUDY. THUNDERSTORMS LIKELY IN THE EVENING...
	THEN CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS AFTER MIDNIGHT. SOME THUNDERSTORMS
	MAY BE SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL AND HEAVY RAINFALL
	IN THE EVENING. LOWS IN THE UPPER 60S. SOUTHEAST WINDS 5 TO
	10 MPH SHIFTING TO THE SOUTHWEST AFTER MIDNIGHT. CHANCE OF
	THUNDERSTORMS 70 PERCENT. 
	.WEDNESDAY...MOSTLY SUNNY. A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS
	IN THE MORNING. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 80S. NORTHWEST WINDS 5 TO
	10 MPH INCREASING TO AROUND 15 MPH IN THE AFTERNOON. 
	.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...MOSTLY CLEAR WITH A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF
	THUNDERSTORMS. LOWS IN THE LOWER 60S. NORTHWEST WINDS 5 TO
	10 MPH. 
	.THURSDAY...MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 70S. NORTHWEST WINDS
	10 TO 20 MPH. 
	.THURSDAY NIGHT...PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE UPPER 50S. 
	.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...MOSTLY CLEAR. HIGHS AROUND 80. LOWS IN
	THE LOWER 60S. 
	.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...PARTLY CLOUDY. A 20 PERCENT CHANCE
	OF THUNDERSTORMS. HIGHS IN THE MID 80S. LOWS IN THE MID 60S. 
	.SUNDAY THROUGH MONDAY...PARTLY CLOUDY. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 80S.
	LOWS IN THE MID 60S.

Jamestown, ND (KCSi-T.V. News Jul 24, 2012) — The North Dakota Highway Patrol reports, that it has finished reconstructing a head-on crash that killed four people, including a West Fargo family of three, on Interstate 94 west of Jamestown, on July 6, 2012.

Last week, the patrol released the results of a blood sample that showed the wrong-way driver who died in the crash, 28-year-old Wyatt Klein of Jamestown, had a blood-alcohol concentration of 0.25 percent, more than three times the legal limit of 0.08 percent for driving.

The patrol says Klein was driving east in the westbound lane of I-94 when his pickup collided with a westbound Subaru carrying 34-year-old Aaron Deutscher, his pregnant 36-year-old wife, Allison, and their 18-month-old daughter, Brielle. All three died in the accident.

Witnesses told the Highway Patrol that Klein going the wrong way as he left the rest area between Crystal Springs and Medina, and the crash occurred shortly after that at about 7:18 p.m.

Witnesses also said the Subaru had passed a truck prior to the crash, but the patrol has been unable to locate or identify the truck or its driver.

Troopers are planning to interview those witnesses again to see if they can recall additional information to help identify the truck.

VALLEY CITY, N.D. (AP) – U.S. Army Corps Major General John Peabody says that even with the new Tolna Coulee control structure in place, no one can predict how future weather patterns will affect the level of Devils Lake.

Corps officials were visiting Valley City after the Tolna Coulee control structure was dedicated in Nelson County last week.

Peabody says the corps will re-evaluate the decades-old Bald Hill Dam operating plan as it does not take into account Devils Lake and the new structure.

Peabody says the control structure is one more tool of protection for downstream residents nervous about the lake rising to the breakout level of 1,458 feet.

 The lake reach ed a record elevation 1,454 feet last year before backing off to slightly below 1,453 feet as of July 19.

　

Valley City, ND (KCSi-T.V. News) — The Valley City Area Chamber of Comerce reminds, members, that it’s time to submit nominations for the Valley City Chamber board.

Anyone with a nominee should E-Mail it to chamber@hellovalley.com by Friday July 27, 2012.

 

Bismarck, ND (KCSi-T.V. News Jul 24, 2012) — The North Dakota Department of Transportation (NDDOT) will hold public input meetings on Wednesday, August 1, in Ellendale from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. at the Ellendale Senior Center and in Jamestown from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Quality Inn & Suites.

The meetings are being held to obtain public input concerning the development of a long range strategic plan for future surface transportation needs across North Dakota.

Representatives from the NDDOT will be available to gather public input, answer questions and address concerns.

　

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Bismarck police say that a fight over landscaping led a man to strike his wife with his pickup truck.

 49-year-old Kevin Fischer pleaded not guilty Monday to Class A misdemeanor reckless endangerment.

 Police say a 46-year-old woman reports that she and her husband had argued about her use of a pair of landscaping kneepads Saturday evening.

Officials say the couple is divorcing but working together on a landscaping project. The woman says that her husband wanted her to use a different, scuffed pair of kneepads.

 The woman says Fischer was leaving in his pickup with the kneepads when he revved the engine and struck her on the right side.

 A district judge set a $500 bond. A lawyer for Fischer wasn’t immediately available.

　

FARGO, N.D. (AP) – A 19-year-old St. Michael man has been

charged with first-degree murder in the May 2011 killings of two

children on the Spirit Lake Reservation.

 

U.S. Attorney Timothy Purdon says Valentino James Bagola faces a

total of four counts in the killings of Destiny Jane Shaw and

Travis Lee DuBois Jr.

 

The charges are two each for the unlawful killing and two each

of the unlawful killing while perpetrating or attempting to

perpetrate the crimes of aggravated sexual abuse, sexual abuse and

child abuse.

 

The Indictment unsealed on Monday alleges that Bagola killed the

two children by “striking and stabbing” them “numerous times.”

The federal public defender’s office in North Dakota referred

calls to an attorney in the South Dakota office, who did not

immediately return a telephone message.

　

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Gov. Jack Dalrymple says that spending

$2.5 billion on state roads and highways will help with the

hammering of traffic brought on by oil and gas production in

western North Dakota.

 

Dalrymple on Monday proposed to spend the money during the

2013-15 biennium. The governor calls it an “unprecedented

investment.”

 

The proposal would mean the state spends $1 billion more on roads and

infrastructure next biennium compared with the current one.

 

The money would come from a mix of state and federal funds, and tax

revenue from the oil and gas industry.

 

Dalrymple says the state needs to invest in infrastructure more

than ever in the coming two years.

 

Dalrymple’s challenger in the upcoming race for governor, Senate

Minority Leader Ryan Taylor, says this investment was needed a year

ago.

　

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) – Farmers and ranchers in the Dakotas

affected by drought will be able to use Conservation Reserve

Program acres for emergency haying or grazing.

 

USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack says lands not yet classified as “under severe drought”

that are “abnormally dry” can now be used for haying and grazing,

which will increase available forage for livestock.

　

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A group of conservative organizations says

the North Dakota Legislature should continue its resistance to the

federal health care law.

 

They say North Dakota should not take a role in organizing the

health benefit exchanges included in the law.

The exchanges are meant to offer subsidized health insurance to people who don’t have coverage.

North Dakota Policy Council director Brett Narloch (NAR’-lock)

says it doesn’t make sense to have North Dakota taxpayers pay for

operating the health exchange, because the state won’t control how

it is run.

 

The federal law says states may set up their own health

exchanges. If they don’t the federal government will do the job.

Last November the North Dakota House overwhelmingly rejected a

bill to allow the state to establish its own exchange.

　

MINOT, N.D. (AP) – Officials say the North Dakota State Fair is

on pace to break the attendance record set in 2010.

Marketing director Jennifer Ashley says attendance through the first three

days stands at almost 120,000.

 

That’s more than the 2010 pace, a year when a record 308,641 people went through the gates.

 

Souris River flooding forced the cancellation of last year’s

event in Minot.

 

Ashley says she’s expecting a lot of pent-up demand from people

who missed the fair last year. The fair runs through Saturday.

 

ISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota oil producers are increasingly using trains to hunt for the best price for their crude.

North Dakota Department of Mineral Resources director Lynn Helms says as much as 40 percent of the state’s oil exports are being shipped by train instead of pipeline.

Helms says there isn’t enough pipeline space yet to handle all of North Dakota’s production. It is now almost 640,000 barrels a day.

Helms says rail transport is more expensive, but it also has advantages. There are sometimes large regional price differences for crude, and Helms says a trainload of oil can go to the refinery that’s offering the best deal.

A Canadian Pacific spokesman says oil shipments are rising in North Dakota, and he’s expecting the trend to continue.

　

In sports…

BISMARCK, ND (KCSi-T.V. News, Jul 23, 2012) — An ongoing effort to monitor state waters for aquatic nuisance species has not produced any significant discoveries this year.

Fred Ryckman, ANS coordinator for the North Dakota Game and Fish Department, says

after documenting silver carp in the James River in 2011, this year’s monitoring efforts, and the recent fish kill in the James River downstream of LaMoure, did not yield any silver carp.

He says, only time will tell, but hopefully this summer’s extremely low flows in the James River are harsh enough to eliminate whatever population remnants of silver carp that are present.

On another topic, only one limited infestation of curly leaf pondweed was found at Lake Elsie in Richland County.

There were only a few individual plants in Lake Elsie, and he says, they likely are already dying back for the year.

Ryckman says, anglers and other water recreationists should take extra time to inspect, clean and drain equipment before leaving the lake.

Ryckman says it is vital that anglers and other water recreationists follow ANS regulations. North Dakota’s monitoring efforts will continue, and ask those on the water to do their part as well.

Current law states all water must be drained from watercraft prior to leaving a water body, including livewells.

This means fish, including bait, cannot be transported across land in a livewell containing water. However, bait buckets and/or any container of five gallons or less in volume can be used to transport legal live baitfish or other aquatic bait in water.

All other fish species may not be held in water and/or transported in bait buckets/containers when away from a water body. Transportation of fish in or on ice is allowed.

　

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – The state Game and Fish Department says

hunters harvested almost 24 percent more pheasants in North Dakota

last year than in 2010.

 

Biologist Aaron Robinson says last fall’s pheasant harvest was

683,000, up from 552,000 in 2010.

 

Robinson says despite the harvest success, the number of hunters

declined 10 percent to 82,700.

 

The number of resident hunters was down 5 percent to 58,200,

while nonresident pheasant hunter numbers decreased 20 percent to

24,500.

 

Annual pheasant season statistics are determined by a mail

survey.

　

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Mike Lynn, the longtime Minnesota Vikings executive who made the ill-fated trade with Dallas for Herschel Walker, has died. He was 76.

Lynn served as the team’s general manager from 1975 to 1990.

He is best remembered for one of the most lopsided trades in NFL history.

The Vikings sent five players and seven draft picks to the Cowboys in 1989 for Walker, the running back Lynn considered the missing link to a Super Bowl run.

Walker never panned out in Minnesota and Dallas used the riches of players and picks to lay the groundwork for three Super Bowl wins in the 1990s.

　

MLB…

AMERICAN LEAGUE…

CHICAGO (AP) – The Chicago White Sox snapped a five-game losing

streak with a 7-4 win over the Minnesota Twins last night.

Adam unn, Paul Konerko and Alex Rios all homered for the White Sox.

 

Twins starter Francisco Liriano gave up a season-high seven runs in

just two-plus innings of work.

　

SEATTLE (AP)- The New York Yankees added some veteran presence and speed to their lineup by acquiring 38-year-old Ichiro Suzuki (EE’-cheer-oh soo-ZOO’-kee) for two pitchers and cash yesterday.

Batting eighth in the Yankee order last night after getting a standing ovation and bowing to the Seattle crowd, Ichiro singled in his first at-bat while wearing pinstripes and went 1-for-4 with a stolen base in the Yankees’ 4-1 win over the Mariners.

Final Cleveland 3 Baltimore 1

Final Texas 9 Boston 1

Final L.A. Angels 6 Kansas City 3

 

NATIONAL LEAGUE

Final Chi Cubs 2 Pittsburgh 0

Final Philadelphia 7 Milwaukee 6

Final Miami 2 Atlanta 1

Final Washington 8 N-Y Mets 2, 10 Innings

Final Cincinnati 8 Houston 3

Final L.A. Dodgers 5 St. Louis 3

Final Arizona 6 Colorado 3

Final San Francisco 7 San Diego 1

　

UNDATED (AP)   —  Texas Rangers pitcher Colby Lewis will miss the

rest of the season because of a torn flexor tendon in his right

elbow.

 

Texas recalled rookie left-hander Martin (mar-TEEN’) Perez.

In 16 starts, Lewis is 6-6 with a 3.43 ERA.

 

The Rangers had another pitching injury Monday: Roy Oswalt

(OHZ’-wahlt) was scratched from his scheduled start because of back

stiffness.

– The Detroit Tigers have acquired second baseman Omar Infante

(in-fahn-TAY’) and right-hander Anibal Sanchez from Miami, sending

21-year-old righty Jacob Turner and two minor leaguers to the

Marlins.

　

GOPHERS…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Minnesota basketball coach Tubby Smith has

agreed to a contract extension with the university through the

2016-17 season.

 

The deal was finalized yesterday after more than a

year of talks between school officials and Smith’s agent.

The Gophers reached the NIT championship game last season.

 

PENN STATE…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) – All the big prizes Penn State usually plays for – the conference championships, the marquee bowl games – are off the table for the next four seasons.

The Nittany Lions got walloped by NCAA sanctions yesterday that included a $60 million fine, five years of probation and a four-year bowl ban as a result of the school looking the other way while former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky brought boys onto campus and molested them.

The NCAA also erased 14 years of victories, wiping out 111 of Joe Paterno’s wins and stripping him of his standing as the most successful coach in the history of big-time college football.

That moved former Florida State coach Bobby Bowden atop the all-time college football victory list, although Bowden says there are no winners in this case.

 

NHL…

MILTON, Ontario (AP) – The NHL and the NHL Players’ Association are set for another round of negotiations starting with three days of talks today in Toronto.

Both sides are working on establishing a new collective bargaining agreement before the current one expires on Sept. 15.

 

OLYMPICS…

LONDON (AP) – Britain’s government has opted to deploy 1,200

more troops to protect Olympic venues, after the security

contractor’s failure to supply enough guards.

 

The fresh troops come only three days before Friday’s opening

ceremony and mean some 18,200 military personnel are now involved

in some capacity in securing the London games.

Thousands of British soldiers have been sent on short notice to

fill a gap in guards after the security firm G4S acknowledged it

would not be able to provide the promised number of security

personnel.

British meteorologists say there is a chance of

rain during the Olympic opening ceremony on Friday.

The five-day forecast is considered the first that offers a

close chance of accuracy.

　

In world and national news…

　

LONDON (AP) – A senior prosecutor says eight more people are being charged in Britain’s tabloid phone hacking scandal.

Two of them are Rupert Murdoch protégé Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson, who worked as an editor of News of the World before becoming Prime Minister David Cameron’s communications chief.

 

CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) – Prosecutors say they’re not sure if the suspect in the Colorado theater massacre is being medicated.

During James Holmes’ first court appearance yesterday, he appeared dazed and sat virtually motionless. At one point he appeared to have dozed off.

Nationally known psychologist Dr. Jeffrey Gardere (gahr-DEER’) says Holmes appeared to have been wiped out emotionally.

But Gardere says Holmes also may have been trying to make himself look worse than he actually is.

CAIRO (AP) – Egypt’s new president has designated a new prime minister and has asked him to form a new Cabinet.

The state news agency says that President Mohammed Morsi has picked Hesham Kandil, the minister of Water Resources and Irrigation in the outgoing government.

He’ll have to put together a new Cabinet to replace the current military-appointed one. Morsi had promised to pick someone from outside his Muslim Brotherhood group to lead a unity government.

 

LOS ANGELES (AP) – President Barack Obama says former astronaut Sally Ride was a national hero who “inspired generations of young girls to reach for the stars.”

Ride died yesterday of pancreatic cancer at age 61.

Ride was the first American woman in orbit.

Since her flight on the space shuttle Challenger on June 18, 1983, 42 other American women have flown into space.