Wayne Byers Show – Evening – May 11

CSi Weather

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A FROST
ADVISORY…WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT CDT /11 PM MDT/
TONIGHT TO 9 AM CDT /8 AM MDT/ TUESDAY.

Forecast…
 MONDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY IN THE EVENING THEN CLEARING. AREAS OF
 FOG AND FROST AFTER MIDNIGHT. LOWS IN THE MID 30S. NORTHWEST
 WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH. GUSTS UP TO 25 MPH IN THE EVENING.
 .TUESDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. AREAS OF FOG AND FROST IN THE MORNING.
 HIGHS IN THE MID 50S. NORTHEAST WINDS AROUND 5 MPH SHIFTING TO
 THE SOUTHEAST IN THE AFTERNOON.
 .TUESDAY NIGHT…CLOUDY WITH A 50 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS .
 LOWS AROUND 40. EAST WINDS 10 TO 15 MPH.
 .WEDNESDAY…CLOUDY WITH A 50 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS.
…AFTERNOON THUNDERSHOWERS IN THE VALLEY CITY AREA.  BREEZY. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 50S. EAST WINDS 15 TO 25 MPH.
 .WEDNESDAY NIGHT…RAIN SHOWERS LIKELY AND CHANCE OF
 THUNDERSTORMS. LOWS IN THE MID 40S. EAST WINDS 10 TO 15 MPH.
 CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION 60 PERCENT.
 .THURSDAY…CLOUDY WITH A 50 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS.
 HIGHS IN THE LOWER 60S.
 .THURSDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN
 SHOWERS. LOWS IN THE UPPER 40S.
 .FRIDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE MID 60S.
 .FRIDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN
 SHOWERS. LOWS IN THE UPPER 40S.
 .SATURDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS IN THE
 MORNING…THEN CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN THE
 AFTERNOON. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 60S. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION
 40 PERCENT.
 .SATURDAY NIGHT…RAIN SHOWERS LIKELY AND CHANCE OF
 THUNDERSTORMS. LOWS IN THE LOWER 50S. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION
 60 PERCENT.
 .SUNDAY…RAIN SHOWERS LIKELY. BREEZY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 60S.
 CHANCE OF SHOWERS 70 PERCENT.
 .SUNDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 50 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN
 SHOWERS. BREEZY. LOWS IN THE LOWER 40S.
 .MONDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS.
 HIGHS IN THE UPPER 50S.

 THUNDERSTORMS ESPECIALLY WEDNESDAY EVENING  IN  SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA   INCLUDING THE JAMES RIVER VALLEY.

……PRELIMINARY SNOW TOTALS…
 
 LOCATION                      SNOWFALL    COMMENTS                  
                                INCHES
 
 SELFRIDGE ND                    9.5        830 PM   5/10            
 FORT YATES ND                   8.0        956 PM   5/10            
 WISHEK ND                       5.0       1258 PM   5/10            
 ASHLEY ND 7 NE                  5.0        713 AM   5/11            
 FORBES ND                       4.0        858 AM   5/11            
 HAZELTON ND                     4.0        112 PM   5/10            
 STRASBURG ND                    4.0        121 PM   5/10            
 HETTINGER ND 3 NW               4.0        256 PM   5/10            
 FORBES ND 10 N                  4.0        741 AM   5/11            
 HETTINGER ND                    3.0        250 PM   5/10            
 NAPOLEON ND                     3.0       1247 PM   5/10            
 
 
 …PRELIMINARY RAINFALL TOTALS…
 
 LOCATION                      TOTAL RAIN  COMMENTS                  
                                INCHES
 
 ASHLEY ND 7 NE                 4.00        715 AM   5/11            
 FORBES ND                      3.50        857 AM   5/11            
 FORBES ND 10 N                 3.10        740 AM   5/11            
 ELLENDALE ND                   3.02        750 AM   5/11            
 STRASBURG ND                   2.85        734 AM   5/11            
 FULLERTON ND                   2.70        859 AM   5/11            
 KULM ND                        2.10        900 AM   5/11   

     
 VALLEY CITY              2.62  Sunday evening

JAMESTOWN                 1.34    Monday morning total.

Jamestown (CSi) Power outages were reported in Jamestown and the region on Monday morning.

In Jamestown the Southwest part of town was without electricity during the 7-a.m. hour, with power off a few minutes and restored about 7:30-a.m.

Otter Tail Power’s Charles Krebbs says a squirrel got into the Southwest Substation near Neighborhood Grocery and caused a phased ground fault, which damaged a bushing on the re-closer.

About 165 Cass County Electric customers were without power Monday morning for less than a half-an-hour.

The affected area included Maple Valley School District and surrounding communities of Tower City, Buffalo and Wheatland.

Cass County Electric spokesperson Trudy Wanner said an Otter Tail Power Company feeder line that was knockout for a few minutes caused the power outage for Cass County Electric and Otter Tail Power Company customers for a few minutes on Monday before power was restored.

About 236 Cass County Electric customers in Colfax Abercrombie and Christine were affected by a power outage that area of southeastern North Dakota on Monday.

Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown City Fire Department was called out three times this past weekend, all were garage fires.

The cause of a two stall unattached garage fire Saturday afternoon, about 2:30 in Southeast Jamestown has been listed.

City Fire Chief Jim Reuther says a dog knocking over a can of gasoline in the garage spilled the gas and caused an electric “trouble light” to start the fire.

The owner call 9-1-1. No injuries reported.

The Jamestown City Fire Department was called to the garage fire in the alley behind 1115 6th Avenue Southeast.

The two stall garage was fully in involved in flames, shooting several feet into the air when the units arrived on the scene, causing a large amount of smoke to billow

On-lookers were kept a safe distance away by police, as the garage contained small ammunitions which could be heard popping at the height of the fire.

A boat also sustained damage by the fire.

An adjacent garage in the alley to the south had its siding burned and melted, but there appeared to be no structural damage. No other structures were involved.

A power line was burned by the flames, and Otter Tail Power was called to the scene to attend the down wire and restore power to the area.

Four city fire units and 20 fire fighters were on the scene just under an hour.

No injuries reported.

Two other garage fires were reported over the weekend.

Chief Reuther says, on Saturday morning about 6:21 city fire fighters were called to a fire at an unattached garage at 720 Third Avenue Northwest.

Clothing and furniture were burned, with smoke damage to the interior of the garage. No other structures were involved.

Four city fire units and 25 fire fighters were on the scene. No injuries reported.

The cause of the fire is “undetermined,” unless additional information is obtained.

On Sunday morning about 10:30 the city fire department was called to fire at an unattached garage at 723 Third Avenue Northwest, where a heater ignited paper in the garage. Minor damage was reported. The units were on the scene about 20 as the owner had extinguished the fire before the units arrived.

No other structures were involved.

Three units were called and 24 fire fighters. No injuries reported.

VALLEY CITY, N.D. (AP) – A North Dakota man faces several charges after he drove through a fence and later used a 6-year-old girl as a shield during his arrest.
 
     Valley City Police Department Chief Fred Thompson says 28-year-old Carson Messmer has been arrested on charges including reckless endangerment and possession of a controlled substance.
 
     Thompson says the Fessenden man on Sunday drove through a farm’s fence and into a pile of dirt, which sent his pickup into the air. Messmer and the girl traveling with him then left the area on foot.
 
     Thompson says officers later located Messmer, who held the girl as a shield when an officer pointed a stun gun at him. Officers managed to arrest Messmer, and he was taken to a hospital along with the girl.
 
     Barnes County Social Services took custody of the girl, while Messmer was taken to jail. It’s unclear whether he has an attorney.

 FARGO, N.D. (AP) – An attorney for the state says a North Dakota Bureau of Criminal Investigation agent may have made a mistake when he gave away a confiscated pay loader that was bought in Iowa by a Forbes man, but the agent should not be required to pay for the loss.
 
     The state is appealing a judge’s order that agent Arnie Rummel pay nearly $54,000 for the loader, which was taken from Darrell Schrum’s shop because authorities believed the equipment was stolen.
 
     Assistant Attorney General Jonathan Byers argued before the Supreme Court Monday that Judge Daniel Narum could have sanctioned Rummel, but there are too many questions about ownership to make Rummel financially liable.
 
     Schrum’s attorneys say Rummel did not have the authority to decide what to do with the loader.

 MINOT, N.D. (AP) – Air Force authorities are questioning the owner of a suspicious backpack that caused a scare at Minot Air Force Base.
 
     Officials Monday morning evacuated the 5th Medical Group clinic buildings and closed the base’s main gate as a precaution after the backpack was found.
 
     The threat was deemed over less than two hours later, and 2nd Lt. Kylee Ashton says the main gate was reopened and the clinic returned to normal operations.
 
     The Air Force did not release what was in the backpack, citing the ongoing investigation.

 FARGO, N.D. (AP) – A North Dakota man accused of attacking a woman and then using a shovel to break car windows on Christmas Day has been sentenced to 14 months in custody.
 
 Daniel Habiger, of Fargo, on Monday pleaded guilty to charges of aggravated assault and criminal mischief. 
 
     Officers on Christmas Day responded to a report of a man breaking windows in a Fargo neighborhood. After arriving to the scene, officers found Habiger without shoes and with cuts to his feet that appeared to have been caused by glass.
 
     Officers then discovered that he had been involved in a dispute with a woman, who authorities say suffered injuries to the head after being hit several times and choked.

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Ground has been broken for a new Bismarck-area jail for Burleigh and Morton counties.
 
A  groundbreaking ceremony was held last week for the two-county jail.
 
     Bids totaling $79 million have been awarded with $3.9 million earmarked for renovations to the existing counties’ jails.
 
     Voters in both counties last year approved an additional half-cent sales tax to pay for the 476-inmate jail in southeast Bismarck.
 
     The facility is expected to start holding prisoners in early 2017.
 

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota’s fisheries chief says fish in North Dakota’s lakes have survived the winter better than any time on record.
 
     Greg Power says surveys show no major fish kill at any of the state’s 420 lakes. He says a relatively mild winter and lack of excessive snowfall is the reason.
 
     Winterkill happens when heavy snowfall blocks sunlight from going into lakes. Plants die and stop giving off oxygen, and they also consume oxygen as they decompose. That limits oxygen available for fish.
 
     Power says biologist have been sampling suspected winterkill lakes for at least 50 years.
 
     He says North Dakota typically has winterkill at about 10 lakes annually. Record snowfall across North Dakota during the 2008-09 winter led to a major fish kill on about 50 lakes.

In sports…

Jamestown Blue Jay JV Baseball Monday vs. Bismarck Century has been CANCELLED due to weather.  No makeup date has been announced.
 
     DICKINSON, N.D. (AP) – One of the most decorated wrestlers in Dickinson State University history has been named the North Dakota school’s head coach.
 
     Justin Schlecht won three straight NAIA national championships while wrestling for the Blue Hawks, beginning in 2006. He also holds or shares six school records.
 
     The standout from Whitewood, South Dakota, over the weekend was named to replace 20-year veteran coach Thadd O’Donnell, who resigned. Schlecht had been O’Donnell’s assistant the past four years. Before that he was the wrestling coach at Belle Fourche High School in South Dakota from 2008-11.
 

In world and national news…

LAKE MARY, Fla. (AP) – A lawyer for George Zimmerman says his client wasn’t seriously injured after being involved in a shooting in Florida. Attorney Don West says a bullet missed Zimmerman’s head in Monday’s shooting in the Orlando suburb of Lake Mary. He says Zimmerman was sprayed with glass from his vehicle’s windshield and other debris, but that he’s now been released from a hospital. Zimmerman was acquitted in 2013 of fatally shooting Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teenager, in a case that sparked protests and national debate about race relations.
 
     TECUMSEH, Neb. (AP) – Corrections officials believe other inmates likely killed two prisoners who died during a disturbance at a maximum security prison in southeast Nebraska. The deaths were discovered today as officials regained control of the Tecumseh State Correctional Institution. The state’s corrections director says 100 to 200 of the roughly 1,000 inmates at the prison were involved in the disturbance that began Sunday afternoon.
 
     WASHINGTON (AP) – The White House is dismissing as untrue an article alleging that President Barack Obama misled the public about how the U.S. killed Osama bin Laden. A spokesman says journalist Seymour Hersh’s piece in the London Review of Books is “riddled with inaccuracies and outright falsehoods.” Hersh attributes his information to a retired general of the Pakistani intelligence service and several unidentified sources in the U.S. and Pakistan. He says bin Laden was secretly kept as a prisoner by the Pakistanis and that they helped the U.S. stage the raid on his compound.
 
     ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) – Royal Dutch Shell has cleared a major hurdle in its plans to drill off Alaska’s northwest coast. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has approved Shell’s exploration plan. But the company still needs other permits from state and federal agencies, and government findings that Shell can comply with terms and conditions of the Endangered Species Act.
 
     RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) – A jury in North Carolina says Starbucks is not liable for damages after a Raleigh police officer said he suffered third-degree burns from a cup of coffee spilling in his lap three years ago. Lt. Matt Kohr had sought damages of up to $750,000 from the coffee company, but the jury decided 10-2 today that Starbucks owed him nothing. Local media outlets report that both parties in the lawsuit agreed to accept the decision even though it wasn’t unanimous.