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"this is siouxland news at nine on fox 44." 3 3 after weeks of outcry and lobbying by l-g-b-t rights groups... south dakota's governor is after weeks of outcry and lobbying south dakota is vetoing the bathroom bill that would have been the first in the nation. >> the governor signed the veto just before the deadline before it was allowed to come long. tonight that veto his first. the measure would have required schools to mandate all students rooms at the gender they were assigned at birth. lawmakers are quoting this bill does not provide the appropriate accommodations for individual students. situations arrive i believe
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instead of encouraging a local solution. this bill a broadly regulated a manner that invites conflict and litigation. the governor is getting a measure he is a short assignment. it's a breakthrough for the states notoriously low teacher pay. at the the house and senate both approved a half% increase to the states sales tax to better find a teacher pay and better provide property tax relief. >> all the operations at the woodberry county clerk of courts office could is to be back in one building. >> currently the clerk's office a split between the courthouse of and the law enforcement center also known as the lec. supervisors want to change that. more on that. what to the timeline we are looking for for this move. >> the woodberry county clerk of courts offices are looking to be
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possible. this potential move would bring the employees from the county's law enforcement center across the street to the historic courthouse. earlier today members of the county board of supervisors met with other county staff to discuss some of the logistics that would go with the move. at that meeting third district court administrator lisa mcneil told the supervisors of this move would be best for the county. >> the word today is collaboration for effectiveness. and we are all responsible for trying to collaborate the best possible outcome. we could have all of our clerk operations in the courthouse. >> clerk office employees with then moved with the current treasurer's office is a from the first floor of the courthouse. that department staff would then move to moved to their other office located at the department of motor vehicles. it's estimated that the move will cost roughly $100,000 but county board of supervisors chairman jeremy taylor says barely any of that will come from the taxpayers. >> it will come from the state of the judicial system and i
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it's really minimal taxpayer cost but a great taxpayer benefit. >> the potential facing -- vacant space back of the law enforcement center would be used by the woodberry county sheriff's department. sheriff david drew says there is many potential ideas for the space. >> we are short on attorney visitation. we don't have enough rooms for the attorneys for the inmates. so we could use that space upstairs in our administration and build some more rooms available for attorneys. there's a lot of positives that could come from this and i think very little cost. >> those positives have made a taylor very confident that this move will happen. >> i think it will go forward and it will take approval by the board but i'm confident because we have kept the communication lines open and if they could end of the day it would be great for woodberry county taxpayers. >> the board of supervisors is expected to vote on whether to
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approved the clerk of court office court office could head across the street around the end of june. 15 more graduates of the community emergency response team. the captain and emergency management director presented the certificates to the graduates. it helps trains first responders. >> cpr training has changed over the years and the different things that you do have to do now versus what you didn't have to do before. >> this is the 13th year sioux city and woodberry county have offered in this training two police volunteers and gratitudes -- graduates of the academy. just after 9:00 a.m. the everly high school building was evacuated after a bomb was found
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the building was cleared the search was completed with not any explosives being found. to people in custody after a high-speed police chase this afternoon just north of sioux city around 1230. a sheriff's deputy attempted to pull over the driver near sloan. the chase reached speeds of over 90 miles per hour. the deputy rammed his vehicle at the junction of highway 75 and county road 80. both of the driver and passenger were arrested. 51-year-old donald king is facing a long list of charges including possession of a math with intent to deliver. alluding and being a felon in possession of a firearm . he's being held in the woodberry county jail in $118,000 bond. stop his passenger a 31-year- old woman is also charged with possession of meth with intent to deliver. she's being held in jail on $502,000 bond. the sheriff is explaining the circumstances that led to
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in a wheelchair. new neighbor has been receiving treatment for injuries received in two separate false. that first fall onto whatever 27th that resulted in an unspecified minor injury the second on october 2nd happened when new neighbor lost his balance and -- in his cell and fell and hit his head on the bed. that required hospitalization. skies a been pretty clear this evening which allowed temperatures to drop off across parts of the area. looking through you can see temperatures following -- falling throughout the next few hours. take a look at the camera you can see the view here in the dakota dunes. clear skies now. temperatures could dip down to the single digits across parts of the area.
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skies may be seeing a bit of last 24 hours or so. here's a quick look at your extended forecast. temperatures are going to stay in the 40s for the next couple days. look at what we head toward on the weekend. and eventually to 60 before the weekend comes to close. will talk more about your minutes. voters in orange city have decided the fate of a proposed expansion to the city's fire is asking the community to approve a $2.7 million bond issue to help pay for the expansion . the total cost will be just over three and half million. the fire department and city making a up the difference . the department says the current station is too small. that measure has easily passed. unofficial result set -- showed 976 of the 1,167 people taking part in the election of voted yes . well over 60% threshold needed
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hillary clinton and donald trump landed their first major super tuesday when. mayor maloney has the latest. >> thank you all so much. >> tears erupting at the florida headquarters for hillary clinton. after georgia and virginia were called for her. to states she lost the last time she ran for president. >> what a super tuesday. >> bernie sanders easily winning his home state of vermont. >> it is great to come home. >> supporters happy with the outcome chanting his popular slogan feel the burn. it's a delicate bonanza for front runners at a test of survival for others. >> when i am president of the united states we will not just say the american dream we will expand it to reach more people than ever. >> sanders and clinton are vying for more than a third of the delegates needed to win at the
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>> this is not just about electing a president it's about transforming america. >> the stakes are higher for republicans. stop nearly half the republican delegates needed to clenched the gop nomination are up for grabs. stop many of the states will divide as delegates fortunately. stop but donald trump has the upper hand coming into the day with the most delegates and winning the first to be contest. most of the attention of the campaign has focused on the race for the white house but the state of congress also hangs in the balance. >> we look into if there will be a shift in power and capitol hill. >> no secret donald trump is the gop super tuesday candidate to watch . one political expert says if the new york billionaire tops tops the republican presidential ticket this november republican-controlled senate could lose its razor thin majority. >> there is an offer a lot of
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hampshire pennsylvania ohio. i think of someone like donald trump was the top of the ticket it would make life even more difficult for these incumbents. >> political expert say many of the 24 gop senators who rode the wave of a midterm gop win in 2010 won't find it easy this time around. >> this year they're not going to have the same underlying numbers that help them get into office and they will be facing tremendously higher democratic turnout. >> as unpredictable as the trump campaign can be some strategist can't deny that a trump ticket in november could actually help senate incumbents win over the blue-collar swing vote better-known as the reagan democrats especially in the states of pennsylvania illinois and ohio . most political experts agree the gop should easily retain it's majority in the u.s. house . and no matter which party controls the u.s. senate had a says it will be a slim majority
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both sides of the aisle if anything needs to get done on capitol hill. >> it's not clear that trump is that person it's not clear that clinton is that person so it's going to make moving forward that much more difficult. still to come how college students from nebraska and wisconsin are learning more about the building blocks of the human body. the plymouth county board is looking to end of the dream of the owner of a popular
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after the break the "dream" may be over for the owners of a popular plymouth county recreational facility.county officials say numerous . the dream it may be over for
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county recreation facility. >> official site numerous complaints led to them to unanimously deny a permit for pipedream camping and tubing. >> sitting just outside the city limits of hinton pipedream camping and tubing has been serving up summer fun for seven years for this arrested campground is facing closure after the plymouth county board of adjustment unanimously denied a permit on monday. >> they said it was a public safety issue and that was pretty much the grounds for closing. >> the adjustment board said they made this decision after a series of safety and zoning violations. >> in the last year maybe year and a half with had complaints of noise and the sheriff had said there been complaints about underage drinking and intoxication.
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the proper precautions of any small business owner. >> i offer free camping to anyone so i encourage them to stay there is no reason anyone needs to leave . i don't sell alcohol down here so there's no reason why i should be held accountable for people drinking and driving . i can take their keys and that's not even legal. >> many citizens have written letters in opposition to the closure. also petition has been started at is being shared to social media. stop the adjustment board says they would only revisit their decision if bradshaw designed a safety plan for the facility. >> nancy anderson chairman of the adjustment board also noticed that the bratcher could have appealed this decision in district court meanwhile pipedream facebook pages as are looking for a good pro bono lawyer or in other words one that would donate their time. safety measures being added to cubbies for card skimming issues.
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concerned when they found the device . the company is using a safety case of the main source of protection. a piece of the tape is a serial number lock on it and it also has a mystery shopper that comes to the store to check on safety precautions as well. students from south sioux city and native it -- native american schools from northeast nebraska took part in the a youth science event. it's was called modern fuel and youth -- martin -- molecule and youth. the 150 students who attended also built a dna model and learned how our body responds to a flu shot. a live look out of the widest main street in america.
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stop will it help more "first alert weather with siouxland's chief meteorologist chad sandwell." 3 3 3 larry, diana and chad talk . a quite to the surprise this afternoon when i walk outside walked outside and saw the sun and nope it >> the blue skies were definitely misleading . only in and the temperature dropping quickly now. the wind has died down. pretty quiet night and not a whole lot of traffic as we work our way into the late tuesday evening hours. are extended forecast says look for late mix tomorrow into thursday and plenty of cloud cover birthday -- both days. is a look toward the end of the week and weekend 21 on friday 51
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60s for the weekend with a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the forecast early next week. cloud cover moving up to the afternoon into the evening hours leaving a big hole of clear skies from sioux falls all went down to omaha. sioux falls already dropping down to 5 degrees at this hour. cloud cover is slowly coming back so it will look at mostly cloudy skies and work our way through the afternoon and will see moisture hanging around this area to the south just enough moisture hanging around to bring us a slight chance of rain and it temperatures cool tomorrow evening some of the rain may change over to snow as a work our way into early thursday. thursday afternoon we will continue to see mostly cloudy skies especially this boundary will pass us by to the east which will open up the door for warming as we head to the end of the week. in sioux city we're looking at a 19-degree temperature with mostly clear skies . relative humidity sitting is sitting right now at 59%.
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sheldon 14 and yankton and 21 the warm spot in no fork. -- new fork. we expect the winds to stay fairly light through the rest of the night. the wind chill is in the single digits six at lincoln sheldon zero. bundle up if you have to make a few late evening runs. tonight partly cloudy skies a cold night with 60 degrees are overnight low then for tomorrow we will top out at 47 degrees calling for mostly cloudy skies with a little bit of a late mix the extended forecast says the temperatures will warm up in a hurry highs to the 60s before the weekend comes to a close. still to come one of the jewels of downtown is shining a bit brighter night. the four reasons why coming up but first.
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not florididid car sales soar in february... as does the market for the first day of march...david asman has those stories in tonight's "fox means business" report. tonight fox means a business report. >> a fabulous in february for u.s. auto sales they hit a 15 year high with ford leading the way and sales jump in 20%. stop fiat chrysler leaving 12% both companies getting a boost from their suvs. but gm going in reverse its numbers are falling due to fewer deliveries to rental car companies. a super tuesday for stocks all three major indexes soaring on the first trading day of march. more upbeat news on the economy and searching oil place it -- prices helping spur the rally. bill gates topping forms billionaire list for third year in a row. a cool 75 billion bucks. forms saying there are more than
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than last year. forget florida and arizona wyoming just getting named as the best place for retirement . the report giving at the title based on the low cost of living low taxes and low crime rate. new york was dead last on the list. the hard rock hotel and casino is officially a aaa for the diamond facility. it wasn't until this afternoon that representatives from aaa visited the hard rock to formally present the award. the 40 diamond means the hard rock boasts upscale physical attributes extensive amenities and high degree of service . the hard rock is the only hotel in the tri-state region with this
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>> i haven't been up that early - hey, i'm gonna go to the bathroom real quick. i want to look in the mirror and make sure i'm still dead in the eyes. you think you can handle my section? - uh, yeah, i think i can handle it. hey, earl, i don't know if you noticed, but i'm running the whole diner right now. what, what? - the customer at table ten appears to be choking, and i would help, but the last time i gave a white woman the heimlich, i did six months in the birmingham city jail. - oh, my god, are you choking? oh, my god, i feel like you're choking! is anyone here a doctor? what am i saying? i forgot where i am. has anyone here ever seen scrubs? what do you do when a girl is choking? - i just back up a few inches. - what do we do? what do we do? this woman is choking! - [choking]

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