Wayne Byers Show – Evening – Oct 1

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CSi Weather….

WIND ADVISORY UNTIL TO 7 PM CDT
THIS EVENING…

A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH…AND
 OR GUSTS UNDER 58 MPH…ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE
 DRIVING DIFFICULT…ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE
 EXTRA CAUTION.
 
 
 .TONIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE LOWER 40S. WEST WINDS 10 TO
 15 MPH BECOMING SOUTHWEST UP TO 5 MPH AFTER MIDNIGHT.
 .WEDNESDAY…PARTLY SUNNY WITH A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN
 SHOWERS. HIGHS IN THE MID 60S. EAST WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH.
 .WEDNESDAY NIGHT…INCREASING CLOUDS. LOWS IN THE LOWER 40S.
 NORTH WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH.
 .THURSDAY…PARTLY SUNNY WITH A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN. HIGHS
 IN THE LOWER 60S. NORTH WINDS 10 TO 20 MPH.
 .THURSDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN.
 LOWS AROUND 40. NORTH WINDS AROUND 15 MPH.
 .FRIDAY…RAIN LIKELY. HIGHS IN THE MID 40S. CHANCE OF RAIN
 70 PERCENT.
 .FRIDAY NIGHT…CLOUDY. CHANCE OF RAIN IN THE EVENING…THEN
 CHANCE OF RAIN AND SNOW AFTER MIDNIGHT. LOWS IN THE MID 30S.
 CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION 50 PERCENT.
 .SATURDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. CHANCE OF RAIN POSSIBLY MIXED WITH SNOW
 IN THE MORNING…THEN CHANCE OF RAIN IN THE AFTERNOON. HIGHS IN
 THE UPPER 40S. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION 30 PERCENT.
 .SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE LOWER
 30S. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 50S.
 .SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE UPPER
 30S. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 50S.

A POTENTIAL FOR FROST/FREEZE, THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT.

A RAIN/SNOW MIX OR EVEN ALL SNOW IN THE COLDER LOCATIONS

LATE FRIDAY NIGHT INTO SATURDAY MORNING.

A TRANSITION TO SNOW FROM LINTON TO OAKES AND NORTH INTO
 JAMESTOWN FRIDAY NIGHT.

THE JAMES RIVER VALLEY APPEARS MOST PRONE TO

SNOWFALL POTENTIAL FRIDAY EVENING/FRIDAY NIGHT.

UP TO A HALF INCH OF SNOWFALL SOUTH OF I-94 THROUGH SATURDAY.

LAKEWOOD, KCSi– T.V. News (Oct 1, 2013) — The Federal Government is mostly closed as current funding expired on September 30, 2013. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) is very much aware that any lapse in appropriations imposes hardships on those we serve.

Due to this event, the national wildlife refuges, waterfowl production areas, Ecological Services field offices, fish hatcheries, fish technology center, fish health center, fish and wildlife conservation offices, and Joint Venture offices in Colorado, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming will be closed to the public.

For programs experiencing a lapse in appropriated funding, only limited functions would continue, such as those necessary to respond to emergencies and to protect human life or property. While a lapse in appropriations remains in effect, public access to Service properties will be prohibited and fish and wildlife management activities and public programs will be cancelled. This includes all public recreation, including hunting activities on national wildlife refuges and waterfowl production areas, scheduled for Tuesday, October 1.

Additional information is available at DOI.gov/shutdown and oneINTERIOR.gov, as well as at OPM.gov, which will contain information about the government’s operating status on Tuesday, October 1, and the days following.

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Some North Dakotans attempting to log-on to an online marketplace created under the federal health care overhaul are being greeted with a site down message.
 
     North Dakota is one of 36 states letting the feds run the health exchanges under President Barack Obama’s health insurance overhaul. Residents are directed to the federal healthcare.gov website.
 
     The site on Tuesday morning warned that it had a lot of visitors. It was sometimes sending users to an online application and sometimes asking them to try again later.
 
     Neil Scharpe of Minot is heading a group of so-called navigators, whose job is to find uninsured residents and inform them of their options under the new law.
 
     Scharpe says it’s frustrating trying to direct people to a site that isn’t working.

VALLEY CITY, N.D. (AP) – A company planning a $1.7 billion fertilizer production plant in Grand Forks is expanding its shareholder drive to include farmers and other investors.
 
     Darin Anderson is a Valley City farmer and chairman of the managing partners for Northern Plains Nitrogen LLP. He tells Agweek  that the company has been able to offer shares to a limited group of investors.
 
     The company is offering up to 1,800 shares to accredited investors. The price is $5,000 per share, with a minimum investment of $15,000.
 
     Northern Plains Nitrogen is seeking at least $3 million and up to $9 million in the shareholder drive.
 
     The plant, expected to open in 2017, plans to use natural gas through an existing pipeline near the site or directly from the oil patch through a proposed pipeline.

JAMESTOWN, N.D. (AP) – Two Jamestown pilots have landed in every North Dakota airport.
 
     Dale Seckerson and Jay Dugan recently completed the top tier of the North Dakota Aeronautics Commission’s passport program by flying into all 89 airports.
 
     The 61-year-old Seckerson and 35-year-old Dugan say the program started out as a friendly competition between the two lifelong aviators. They flew to about half the airports in Dugan’s plane and half separately.
 
     The high-water mark for the pilots in one day was 18 airports.
 
     Dugan says  the Arthur airport was one of his favorites because planes are required to approach the grass runway between two trees.
 
     State Aeronautics Commission officials say only about 10 people have made all 89 airports through the passport program.

 WILLISTON, N.D. (AP) – Officials in a northwestern North Dakota county say an inmate escaped custody while being treated in the emergency room of a Williston hospital.
 
     Williams County officials say Preston Sonstegaard was last seen wearing black and white striped jail pants with no shoes and no shirt.
 
     Sonstegaard was being held for violating probation.

  MINOT, N.D. (AP) – Authorities say a Minot man was killed when his vehicle crashed into the Souris River.
 
     The Minot Police Department says the 25-year-old driver failed to negotiate a turn Monday evening, and his vehicle then ran over a dike and into the river. A passenger in the vehicle, 29-year-old Dustin Smith, was able to get out of the vehicle.
 
     The Minot Fire Department dive team removed the driver from the vehicle. He was pronounced dead at a hospital. The driver’s name has not been released, pending notification of relatives.

 FARGO, N.D. (AP) – A Fargo woman is accused of allowing two toddlers to wander naked alone through four blocks of a north side neighborhood.
 
     Twenty-three-year-old Amber Kanowske is charged in Cass County court with one count of felony abuse or neglect of a child.
 
     A  newspaper delivery person noticed Kanowske’s 3-year-old and 2-year-old children walking down the middle of the street one morning last month.
 
     The delivery person brought the children to nearby playground and called police.
 
     Kanowske told police she left the children with a baby-sitter when she went outside for a cigarette, and thought her father had picked them up in the meantime.

 FARGO, N.D. (AP) – Officials say a North Dakota State University campus police officer who accidentally shot himself in the arm has resigned.
 
     Campus spokesman Ray Boyer says officer Patrick Thomas resigned at the start of a meeting that was meant to discuss the shooting.
 
     Thomas was off-duty when a handgun went off in his south Fargo apartment on September 13th.
 
     Thomas had been on medical leave since the accident.

  BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A judge has sentenced an Idaho man accused of driving a kidnapped woman’s car to North Dakota and pulling a gun on a trucker to 10 years in prison.
 
     Mitchell Walck pleaded guilty in July to terrorizing, unlawful entry to a motor vehicle, possession of stolen property and felon in possession of a firearm.
 
  Walck did not comment during Tuesday’s sentencing in Bismarck.
 
     Authorities say the 57-year-old Walck kidnapped a woman from her home in Rathdrum, Idaho, in December, released her unharmed the next day in Glendive, Mont., then drove to Bismarck and threatened a trucker whose semitrailer sleeper cab he had entered.
 
     Police say the abduction came after Walck shot at an Idaho state trooper following a failed traffic stop and chase.

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A group that represents North Dakota’s Roman Catholic bishops is urging the state’s highest court to reverse a district court ruling on abortion.
 
     East Central Judge Wickham Corwin ruled in July that a 2011 North Dakota law that seeks to limit the use of drugs to terminate pregnancies violates the state’s constitution.
 
     The North Dakota Catholic Conference, on behalf of Bishop David Kagan of Bismarck and Bishop John Folda of Fargo, filed a “friend-of-the-court” brief on Tuesday in an appeal the Supreme Court justices are expected to hear later this year.
 
     The group says North Dakota’s constitution does not contain a right to abortion and the court is not required to interpret the constitution to provide such a right.

 FARGO, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota’s largest city is looking to hand out more liquor licenses.
 
     Fargo officials are looking into adding three more so-called “Z” licenses, which are owned by the city and are returned to the city if the license is vacated.
 
     The city began with five of the licenses in 2005 and agreed to add additional licenses based on increases in population. But some city leaders and business owners says the license should not be based on the city’s size.
 
City commissioners directed the liquor control board to look into the new requests.
 
     The “Z” license costs $105,000.

 DICKINSON, N.D. (AP) – The U.S. Agriculture Department is providing a $15 million loan to help build a new hospital and clinic in the southwestern North Dakota city of Bowman.
 
     The Dickinson Press reports that the low-interest loan represents more than half the cost of a project that is expected to have a price tag of $25 million and will include a new Southwest Healthcare Services facility for the growing community.
 
     Jasper Schneider, state director for USDA Rural Development, says growth in southwestern North Dakota was a leading factor in the decision to approve money for the project. He says Southwest Healthcare has seen a growing demand for medical services in Bowman due to the oil boom and an aging population.
 
     The project will replace existing Southwest Healthcare facilities.

FARGO, N.D. (AP) – The Wahpeton school district has dropped a plan to offer free hot dogs to voters during a bond issue vote.
 
     School officials say a consultant working with district administrators on Tuesday’s vote decided the giveaway would not be a good idea.
 
     Secretary of State Al Jaeger says state law prohibits any enticement that could be viewed as a method to influence an election.
 
     Voters are deciding on a $30 million project to build a new grade school and remodel the middle and high schools.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota’s tax commissioner is resigning to join a Bismarck advertising agency.
 
     Cory Fong says he plans to step down from the job on Dec. 31. He has held the position since 2005, when he was appointed by Gov. John Hoeven.
 
     Fong won elections in 2006 and 2010.
 
     Fong says he was fortunate to serve the state during good times and will miss working alongside the staff in the tax commissioner’s office.

VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) – About 100 people attended a presentation Monday night in Vancouver on plans to build an oil-by-rail terminal at the Port of Vancouver.
 
     The Tesoro Corp. and Savage Companies want to build a $110 million terminal that would handle as much as 380,000 barrels of crude oil a day. The oil would arrive by train from North Dakota and be shipped to U.S. refineries.
 
     The Columbian reports the Washington Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council will review the proposal for a year or more and make a recommendation to Gov. Jay Inslee, who has the final say.
 
     Supporters say it will create jobs and tax revenue and support energy independence. There were about 20 protesters outside the hearing with environmental and safety concerns.

In world and national news…

 WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama is calling it a “Republican shutdown.” He says the spending impasse that forced a partial shutdown of the government Tuesday results from what he says is an “ideological crusade” by Republican lawmakers who are determined to gut his health care law. On Capitol Hill, meanwhile, House Republicans are now putting forward a proposal to re-start a few favored slices of government, including national parks, but they’re still demanding concessions on health care.
 
     WASHINGTON (AP) – The partial government shutdown could affect this weekend’s college football schedule. The Air Force Academy was supposed to play Navy, and Army is scheduled to play at Boston College. But the Pentagon says it has temporarily suspended all sports competitions at the service academies. Defense Department lawyers are checking to see whether the money used for the activities was appropriated by Congress.
 
     UNITED NATIONS (AP) – Israel’s prime minister is vowing to keep Iran from getting nuclear weapons — even if it has to act alone. Benjamin Netanyahu, addressing the United Nations Tuesday, dismissed what he called a “charm offensive” from Iran’s new president, Hassan Rouhani (hah-SAHN’ roh-HAH’-nee). The Israeli leader said Rouhani is just looking for a way to get relief from international sanctions.
 
     BEIRUT (AP) – An advance team of international inspectors and U.N. staff members has arrived in Syria to start overseeing the destruction of that country’s chemical weapons arsenal. The inspectors, from a chemical weapons watchdog agency based in the Netherlands, have about nine months to complete their mission. They’re supposed to find, dismantle and eliminate the arsenal, which is estimated at 1,000 tons.
 
     BUENA VISTA, Colo. (AP) – Authorities have identified the victims of a Colorado rock slide as members of an extended family, including a 10-year-old boy. The lone survivor, a 13-year-old girl, was dug out by rescuers and flown to a hospital with a broken leg. The five who were killed included her parents, her 18-year-old sister and two cousins.