Wayne Byers Show – Evening – Feb 10

CSi Weather…

Jamestown Area…

…WIND ADVISORY

 TO MIDNIGHT CST TUESDAY NIGHT…

WELLS-FOSTER-KIDDER-STUTSMAN-LOGAN-LA MOURE-MCINTOSH-DICKEY-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF…HARVEY…CARRINGTON…STEELE…

JAMESTOWN…NAPOLEON…EDGELEY…ASHLEY…OAKES
WINDS…NORTHWEST GUSTS TO 45 MPH.

DIFFICULT DRIVING CONDITIONS FOR HIGH PROFILE
VEHICLES. WORKING ON ELEVATED STRUCTURES WILL BE HAZARDOUS.
PATCHY BLOWING SNOW POSSIBLE.

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.

Valley City Area…

…WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IS  IN EFFECT FROM 6-P.M., TUESDAY  UNTIL 4 AM CST WEDNESDAY… FOR BLOWING SNOW

BARNES-RANSOM-SARGENT-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF…VALLEY CITY…LISBON…GWINNER

 

Forecast

 REST OF TODAY…CLOUDY WITH CHANCE OF SNOW AND SLIGHT CHANCE OF LIGHT FREEZING DRIZZLE. PATCHY  BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW IN THE AFTERNOON. HIGHS IN THE LOWER30S. SOUTHEAST WINDS AROUND 10 MPH SHIFTING TO THE WEST 10 TO20 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 35 MPH IN THE AFTERNOON. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION 30 PERCENT IN THE JAMESTOWN AREA, A 50 PERCENT CHANCE IN THE VALLEY CITY AREA.
 .TONIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF LIGHT FREEZING
 DRIZZLE AND SNOW IN THE EVENING. PATCHY BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW
 THROUGH THE NIGHT. WINDY. LOWS ZERO TO 5 ABOVE. NORTHWEST WINDS
 20 TO 30 MPH.
 .WEDNESDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. BREEZY…COLDER. HIGHS 5 TO 10 ABOVE.
 NORTHWEST WINDS 20 TO 25 MPH. WIND CHILLS AROUND 20 BELOW.
 .WEDNESDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. COLDER. LOWS AROUND 20 BELOW.
 NORTHWEST WINDS 15 TO 20 MPH DECREASING TO 5 TO 10 MPH AFTER
 MIDNIGHT.
 .THURSDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. HIGHS 5 TO 10 ABOVE. WEST WINDS 5 TO
 10 MPH SHIFTING TO THE SOUTH 10 TO 15 MPH IN THE AFTERNOON.
 .THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. LOWS 5 TO 10 ABOVE.
 HIGHS IN THE LOWER 20S.
 .FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS AROUND 15 BELOW.
 HIGHS ZERO TO 5 ABOVE.
 .SATURDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF SNOW.
 LOWS NEAR ZERO.
 .SUNDAY…PARTLY SUNNY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF SNOW. HIGHS IN
 THE MID 20S.
 .SUNDAY NIGHT AND WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. LOWS
 AROUND 15. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 20S.

 As of mid afternoon Tuesday the Jamestown weather station recorded .09 inches of precipitation in the form of freezing rain/sleet.  .03 inch was snow since midnight.

 TEMPERATURES SHOULD PLUMMET THURSDAY MORNING INTO THE TEENS AND POSSIBLY 20S BELOW ZERO EAST OF THE MISSOURI RIVER. SCATTERED LIGHT SNOW MAY FOLLOW .

 THE NEXT COLD BLAST ARRIVES SATURDAY…WHERE ONCE AGAIN TEMPERATURES  SHOULD  FALL INTO THE TEENS BELOW ZERO. AND ONCE AGAIN SNOW WILL BE POSSIBLE.

SUNDAY  THERE IS THE POTENTIAL FOR A  MORE SIGNIFICANT ACCUMULATION  OF SNOW.

 

Jefferson Bus Lines Cancelled All Jefferson Lines buses running in and out of Fargo are cancelled for Tuesday, February 10 2015  due to weather.

 

 Jamestown (CSi) Two teams from Jamestown will be among seven teams of students from four North Dakota High Schools will compete in the LifeSmarts state finals February 11, 2015.

The LifeSmarts competition tests students in grades 9-12 about personal finance, health and safety, the environment, technology, and consumer rights and responsibilities.

The Attorney General’s Office hosts the annual event.

The competition will be held Wednesday February 11, 2015 inside the Heritage Center on the capitol grounds in Bismarck, beginning at 9:00am and continuing for much of the day. The teams will compete in a series of elimination rounds to reach the final round, which should begin at approximately 2:00 PM.

The winning state team will advance to compete in the national finals in Seattle, Washington later this year. The high schools competing in the state competition are:

Central Cass, Flasher (2 teams), Jamestown (2 teams) and Kindred (2 teams).

The Consumer Protection Division organizes the annual state competition, which is supported by many North Dakota entities, including Gate City Bank, N.D. Securities Department, Capital Electric Cooperative, Inc., N.D. Association of Rural Electric Cooperatives, Dickinson State University, and Capital Trophy. The public is invited to watch the competition.

 

Valley City (CSi) Spring enrollment numbers for Valley City State University has been announced.

VCSU has attained its third highest headcount enrollment after last year’s record enrollment.

VCSU enrollment had a total headcount of 1,297 students. The figures include 1,159 undergraduate students, the second highest undergraduate headcount after last year’s record enrollment.

VCSU President Tisa A. Mason, says, “Students, faculty and staff come together at Valley City State to produce an outstanding teaching and learning environment. Our strong enrollment numbers over the years indicate that students, and their families, are attracted to the type of education we provide rigorous and personable, and yet accessible and affordable.”

 

Gwinner (CSi) Cenex Harvest State’s Inc (CHS) is reviewing plans to break ground on a 196-acre campus in Gwinner.

The proposed facility’s plans include a grain shuttle loading facility with 2.2-million bushel storage and a 27,000-ton dry fertilizer hub plant.

The fertilizer facility, with 1,200 ton-per-hour receiving system, will be part of CHS Dakota Plains, based in Valley City.

The fertilizer plant is expected to open in the spring 2016 and the grain facility in the fall of 2016.

The grain handling services would be jointly managed by CHS Dakota Plains and CHS Dakota Ag, based in Kindred.

A 120-car loop track with an internal 3,800-foot spur track is planned which would allow the facility to load 25-car sets from the Red River Valley and western transfer cars directly into BNSF shuttle trains.

Region director of CHS Country Operations Gary Goodroad said this investment on behalf of owners will bring much needed speed and space to area farmers.

 

 BISMARCK, N.D. Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem warns North Dakota residents that scam artists are taking advantage of the recent data breach at Anthem, Inc., which services the Blue Cross Blue Shield insurance networks nationwide.

Scam artists are now sending out emails claiming to be from Anthem, offering free credit monitoring for its customers. The phony email includes a link to a supposed credit monitoring service and requires a social security number to be entered. In fact, the credit monitoring service in the email is a fake, and any information entered on the phony website goes straight to the scam artists.

Anthem issued a statement that it is using regular mail only, not email, to notify those affected individuals.

As hackers get more sophisticated, data breaches are becoming more frequent. To protect from scammers taking advantage of these breaches, Stenehjem offers the following tips:

•          Companies send data breach notifications via regular mail to the mailing address they have on file for you, not by email or telephone.

•          If you receive a telephone message about a data breach, ignore it – even if it includes an offer of free credit monitoring or credit protection services for “victims.”

•          Don’t respond to an email claiming to be notifying you of a security breach and don’t click on any links or open attachments that come with the email.

•          Consider placing a credit security freeze on your record. A credit security freeze prevents a scam artist from using a stolen social security number to open new credit cards and loan accounts. More information about credit security freezes is available at http://www.ag.nd.gov/CPAT/SecurityFreeze.htm.

 

 FARGO, N.D. (AP) – Timothy Purdon is stepping down as U.S. attorney for North Dakota.
 
     The 46-year-old says he’s returning to private practice and will be establishing an office in Bismarck for a national law firm. He would not name the company.
 
     Purdon tells The Associated Press that his office has made “tremendous progress” in the past 4 1/2 years on key priorities, including improving safety on American Indian reservations and tackling crime in the state’s oil patch.
 
     President Barack Obama nominated Purdon to the post of U.S. attorney on Feb. 4, 2010. Purdon was confirmed by the Senate on Aug. 5, 2010. He is North Dakota’s 18th U.S. attorney.
 
     Purdon’s last day is March 12. Assistant federal prosecutor Chris Myers will take over as acting U.S. attorney for North Dakota.

 

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A federal judge has declared a mistrial in the case of a former U.S. Marine Corps recruiter charged with setting several small fires at his workplace in Bismarck.
 
     U.S. District Judge Daniel Hovland declared the mistrial Monday after jurors were unable to reach a unanimous decision on whether to convict Anthony DeGroot of arson.
 
     DeGroot was charged in January 2014 with setting the fires in December 2013, causing about $30,000 in damage. Authorities say DeGroot told police he had been knocked unconscious by a visitor and awoke to find himself duct-taped inside the smoke-filled building.
 
     DeGroot pleaded not guilty last October.
 
     Assistant U.S. Attorney Clare Hochhalter says authorities plan to put DeGroot back on trial on the same charge at some point in the future.
 

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota’s Tax Department is seeing more fraudulent returns this year than it did in 2014.
 
     Tax Commissioner Ryan Rauschenberger (RAW’-shuhn-bur-gur) says his office suspended work on income tax refunds last Thursday to catch up on dealing with fraudulent returns and put additional safeguards in place to catch bogus filings before they’re processed.
 
     The Tax Department resumed work on tax refunds Monday night. Rauschenberger says he appreciates the patience of taxpayers.
 
     Taxpayers can check the status of their refunds at www.nd.gov/tax with the “Where’s My Refund?” tool.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota’s Senate is considering a bill that would allow dental hygienists with advanced training to conduct certain procedures now done by dentists.
 
     Supporters of the measure told the Senate Human Services Committee on Tuesday that the aim is to improve access to dental care in rural North Dakota and on American Indian reservations in the state.
 
     Backers say 40 percent of North Dakota counties have one or fewer dentists.
 
     The bill would create new positions called advanced practice dental hygienists. They would be supervised and employed by dentists but could work outside the office to reach underserved populations.
 
     The North Dakota Dental Association and the state Board of Dental Examiners oppose the idea.
 
     Several dentists told lawmakers that they’re concerned about patient safety.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota’s speaker of the House has returned to the Capitol after a more than two-week absence for surgery to remove an intestinal blockage.
 
     Fargo Republican Rep. Wes Belter returned to the Legislature on Monday but won’t be taking over his duties as House speaker until next week.
 
     The 69-year-old retired farmer says the intestinal blockage was caused by scarring from an appendectomy he had as a child.
 
     Finley Rep. Bill Devlin has been substituting as House speaker in Belter’s absence. Belter says he will take over the gavel next week, after getting another checkup from his doctor.

 

MINOT, N.D. (AP) – Water officials in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan say snowpack in the Souris River watershed is below normal, with much of it melting in late January.
 
     The Saskatchewan Water Security Agency says that with normal precipitation the rest of the winter, near-normal runoff spring is expected. That means little chance for major flooding on the river that loops down into north central North Dakota before returning to Canada in the province of Manitoba.
 
     The National Weather Service in North Dakota late last month also said the potential for flooding in the Souris basin is normal to well below normal.
 
     In June 2011, heavy spring snowmelt and rains flooded the river.  That damaged or destroyed more than 4,000 homes, business and other structures in Minot, and caused damage throughout the basin.

 

By MATTHEW BROWN
 Associated Press
     State and company officials say contamination levels have dropped along waterways affected by a massive saltwater spill in western North Dakota’s oil patch.
 
     A pipeline leak detected last month spilled nearly 3 million gallons of saltwater brine near Williston. The wastewater is a byproduct of intensive oil drilling taking place in the Bakken region of North Dakota and Montana.
 
     North Dakota Department of Health official Dave Glatt said Tuesday that elevated chloride levels initially detected along the Missouri River and the Big Muddy River are returning to normal levels.
 
     Pipeline owner Summit Midstream Partners LLC said Tuesday that it was making “significant progress” in the cleanup. But the Texas-based company offered no timeline for when the work may be done.
 
     Some previous saltwater spills have taken years to clean up.

 

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – The senior enlisted sailor on a Navy attack submarine named for North Dakota says the sub could be deployed within two months.
 
     Construction of the $2.6 billion USS North Dakota began in March 2009. It was commissioned in late October at a Navy base in Connecticut.
 
     Master Chief Petty Officer Tim Preabt told North Dakota lawmakers Monday that the sub has been out to sea for about six months of testing, and has performed well.
 
     The 377-foot-long submarine with a crew of nearly 150 can launch cruise missiles, deliver special forces and carry out surveillance. It is the first Navy vessel in a century to carry the name North Dakota. Preabt says the sub “will reap any threats from the deep.”

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – It’s still winter, but people can begin making reservations at North Dakota’s state parks.
 
     Full services at state parks begin on Friday, May 15. The Parks and Recreation Department says the 95-day reservation window enables visitors to ensure they have a campsite when they arrive.
 
     Reservations may be made for May 15 through Sept. 7, except at Fort Ransom State Park, which will have reserved sites available through Sept. 27. Stays are limited to 14 consecutive days unless otherwise noted
 
     All campsites at Grahams Island, Fort Abraham Lincoln and Lake Metigoshe state parks can be reserved. The rest of the state parks will continue to offer about half of their sites for reservation and half on a first-come, first-served basis.
 
     More information can be found at www.parkrec.nd.gov .

 

In world and national news…

 WASHINGTON (AP) – The White House is trying to address concerns in Congress about President Barack Obama’s request for a go-ahead to use military force against the Islamic State group. White House chief of staff Denis McDonough and counsel Neil Eggleston have been meeting with Senate Democrats Tuesday, as Obama prepares to formally unveil the proposal. A spokesman says the proposal should be finished this week. It sets up the first war vote in Congress in 13 years.
 
     WASHINGTON (AP) – Kayla Jean Mueller (MYOO’-lur) is the fourth American to die while bein held by Islamic State militants. Her family and the Obama administration announced Tuesday that her death has been confirmed. U.S. intelligence hasn’t been able to determine when or how it happened. Three other Americans — two journalists and an aid worker — were beheaded by the group.
 
     WASHINGTON (AP) – One of President Barack Obama’s longtime advisers says Obama misled the public for years by claiming he opposed same sex marriage when he actually supported it. Former Obama strategist David Axelrod writes in a new book that Obama modified his public position to say he supported civil unions but not gay marriage. Axelrod says that’s because his political advisers told him supporting gay marriages could hurt him politically. Obama announced he supported gay marriage in during the run-up to his re-election.
 
     BOSTON (AP) – About 500 members of the Massachusetts National Guard are being activated to help deal with the aftermath of record-setting snowfall over the past two weeks. About half of them will use heavy equipment to help remove and dispose of snow, while the other half will help shovel out fire hydrants and other tasks. Gov. Charlie Baker yesterday declared a state of emergency after the latest storm dropped more than two feet of snow on some areas of the state.
 
     DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – The jackpot for Wednesday night’s Powerball drawing is already the fifth largest prize in U.S. history — $485 million. It’s been more than two months since someone captured the Powerball jackpot, so the prize has been gradually growing from its $40 million starting point.