they wrote 113 tickets for texting and driving last year. they say that number will likely skyrocket if offense here in iowa. in iowa city, mark carlson, kcrg tv nine news. right now, iowa has some of the most lenient texting and driving laws in the country. government data show iowa is one of just five states where officers can't pull over drivers for texting. the other states are florida, nebraska, south dakota, and ohio. texting and driving is just one issue iowa lawmakers could consider in this year's session. some others include... k through 12 education funding.... funding for planned parenthood... loosening the restrictions on medical mijuana... legalizing online fantasy sports gambling... and raising the minimum wage. yesterday, governor branstad said he would consider signing a bill to raise the minimum wage if one made it to his desk. last legislative session, the iowa senate voted 27-22 to boost the state's minimum wage to 8 dollars and 75 cents an hour. the house did not take up the measure. right now, the let's turn n w to meteo

i never text and drive. it's horrible. >> this father agrees, sending a message to young dressers. >> put it down, put the phone in the back. you can arrive at the next spot tweeting to your buddies and friends. that text message, whatever you're doing, can wait. >>> we'll begin looking at young drivers and training and distracted driving with amanda clair. as a young driver she rear ended a tractor driver that was in front of here and was injured. welcome to the programme, why don't you begin telling us what happened that day. >> well, i was active duty air force at the time, and driving in the right-hand lane beyond a van. i was doing what i was supposed to do. had the seatbelt on, drive on the right, a tractor trailer came it a stop in the left leap, and didn't realise there was a turning lane 100 feet up, because there's a grassie median in the middle. an 18 wheeler with a forklift stopped in the left-hand lane. because of a number of distractions, cell phone, gp s, car windows, radio, make-up - i wasn't

by texting 911. "our 911 dispatcher was able to text back with her." george gordon of the alpharetta department of public safety says it was the first time anyone had texted to 911 since the city started the service in late 2014. collis and i spoke via text and she told me "i pulled in next to the car. saw the children but there were no adults in sight. i waited ten minutes in my truck before i texted 911." here's what she texted alpharetta's 911 dispatcher "someone left two young kids in five, i think." collis gives police the location "and we were able to dispatch a police officer to the scene." collis tells me, "i have two of my own and i didn't think it was right to do that.. i was thrilled when the 911 operator answered my text." city policy does not permit 911 dispatchers to appear on camera. but the city is proud that it is one of the first agencies in georgia, one of only four, now. that provides 911 texting. collis says, "i would like to see more agencies making it available in all areas." georgia, one of only four, now. that provides 911 text

there were no text messages. a message delivered across city hall -- it' s a different story on beacon hill, where the legislatures is exempt from the public records law and the governor says he is, too. he will not release his text messages, although he supports reforming the public records law, considered one of the worst in the country. >> i will comply with what the law says. it' s an important issue and i look forward to working with the legislature on it. >> why not text messages? >> we release what we believe where required and obligated to release. >> it is also worth pointing out that mayor walsh is a personal when i asked him which phone he on, he his office is trying to figure out the easiest way to save and distribute information. mike beaudet, five investigates. jc: live now to and ever, talking about the dow chemical incident. >> we are aware of another incident that occurred at this facility october 2013. that incidents -- that incidents resulted in a fatality of a worker. we are in the review of t

messaging i was disgusted when i saw the text messaging to refresh our recognize those text messages were outs with a federal investigation the practice has always been and the criminal case takes precedent and needs criminal action, however, has to be taken after the criminal case was finished i was not aware of the text messages i was walled off as the chief when i become aware of such as the text messages i will take action as soon as i become aware of it and sent the 8 officers with a single recommendation they be terms those officers were termed without pay the court odor they be paid and the court order what i explained about the criminal going first was not the case and the administrative would have been a breach of our agreement with the u.s. district attorney's office and the this morning the city attorney's office filed an appeal we'll prevail and then i believe those officers will come to this commission what gunning again they'll face termination i believe no place in the police department for those officers the residents said they fall below the minimum standards to be a

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while texting and driving is illegal in some states like new jersey you are allowed to text when stopped but that could change. christine sloan with the battle in the garden state. >> reporter: at red lights we found heads down drivers taking a moment to send a text or to look at their phone while they are stopped. that's because it's legal to text at red lights or stop signs in new jersey. but is it wise? this although i think i should definitely be more, um, -- try not to text at red lights. >> i would agree as a mother that she doesn't text while driving or even have her phone out although i'm probably guilty of it too but i do think it is distracting. >> reporter: it is also legal to text at a red light in new york state but not for commercial vehicles. but it is illegal to do that in the state of connecticut. why do you think it's that? >> i think it's bad because when you do that you're not with the flow of the traffic. your eyes are not looking forward. >> reporter: new jersey state senator richard codey sponsoring one of two bills in the statehouse banning texting at red lights a

reid: the mayor has stopped a leading tax relates -- text messages. >> doy you think your texts should be public? mayor walsh: it is a public phone paid by taxpayers. reporter: marty walsh appears to be that picture of transparency that only a few months ago he was to leading his text messages so public record requests were shot down. mayor w alsh: it was a habit that always had. reporter: were you trying to hide anything? we first learned the mayor was deleting text messages on a city cell phone last year after northeastern university journalism student' s requested his text messages about the olympic bid and were told there were none. then they asked for all his text over one-month and th e answer was the same. then the cities law department clarified that that text messages are considered public record. a message delivered across city hall. it is a different story on beacon hill where the legislature is exempt from the public records law. the governor says he is, too. he will not release his text messages, even though he supports reforming the line. -- the law. >> we will comply wit

now will you be able to text 911 if you ever are in need. >>> restaurant week in oakland is wrappingas another one begins across the bay. rosemary orozco with the latest edition of our weekend watch. >> reporter: in the east bay feed your inner foodie with a new restaurant week. nearly 130 of the bay's top restaurants. this week it will feature two- course lunch and three-course or more dinners. from great food to great brew, the bay area is the place to be for beer lovers. for the next several days you will have the opportunity toe celebrate california craft beer at the 8th annual sf beer week. the celebration includes hundreds of events at hundreds of venues. for more information log on to sfbrewerguild.org. >>> the great iron glory pro football hall of fame exhibition features the best of the pro football hall of fame's vast collection. it's open from 11:00 to 5:00. in sports, warriors host the pacers, the sharks host the wild on saturday and the kings on sunday. i'm rosemary orozco, and that is your weekend watch. >>> apple's ceo tim cook had a very special meeting today with pop

almost an identical text, but the subtext of the text not -- instead of the exclamation point, exclamation point means i thought we were going out just the two of us or i don't care if dave comes or maybe it means i don't like dave. [ laughter ] you don't know. well, let's look at another example here. simple message. you ask, can you pick up some milk on the way home? and your textmate replies, of course. if you got this, you can assume there will be a container of but what if you ask this same question, can you pick up some milk on the way home? and the response is the letter k. [ laughter ] if you got this, i think you can assume the person will get the milk but isn't happy about it. the letter k is like the text equivalent of rolling your eyes at someone. it's like what a teenager does when you ask how her day was. a k is no good. but this might be worse. now, try again. can you pick up some milk on the way home? and the answer is, yup. yup translates to i'll get the milk but why the hell can't you get the milk? i'm working all day. you had nine hours to get milk and now i'm being aske

is really difficult to be certain of age he was here is that catches the pot shops sending the text is medicinal in the law doesn't apply to them the. >> if they're picking numbers at random and could be a kid to a loophole for medical marijuana shops needs to be changed if they picked my number in my office and work had found out it's taboo at the office i could've got fired. >> the department of revenue says the law the same for both recreational and medicinal and we learned about this story to a tip to the fox 31 problem solvers if you need us to investigate something e-mail problem solvers at kdvr.com can call (303)566-7575 or click on contact us on our website. >> wave one of snow now entering colorado actually all the way out west as we look farther west you can see a ton of moistre heading in our direction this first way that splashes in the mountains on saturday will see a little in denver it's the bigger storm that arrives it monday and tuesday with the snow could stack of deep ties today 30s and 40s in the mountains and look at the 150s and 60s another warm day tomorrow be

why wouldn't you send those texts? >> obviously my credibility was determined to clear his name and catch the real culprits, he walks into the state police headquarters in lansing, demanding the cops launch a criminal investigation. >> i was hoping they would take it seriously and look through it. they didn't. the officer there said, "we know you did it. you just need to confess and you shouldn't make false police reports." >> reporter: eventually the police do launch an investigation and are able to track gps locations from the burner phone to the town of port huron, michigan. specifically to here, the domtar paper plant. >> reporter: investigators make a shocking discovery. there's a traveling chemical salesman working at that plant. a person very close to gamrat's family. believe it or not, her own husband, joe. >> i was devastated to see the police report. i remember reading the report and, and just shaking and not wanting to believe what i was reading. >> reporter: according to the report, an accomplice at the pla

so brave new edition bring your addition of hiding amidst the restaurant pot shops cannot send you text ads but there is a loophole in one man is getting stuck with the consequences. >> springfield is serving tax and scott carlson's wife received this text message cap 2 grams of pure fireworks and $45 and was surprised to learn it came from a denver-based marijuana shop he says that they've never been to we don't know how they got the number's car and his wife replied stop as instructed as to be taken off the mask text database. >> the texts keep coming i was livid because it could've been my could have been my kids found angry and confused called a problem solvers we call the department of revenue's marijuana enforcement division one of our regulatory goals is to ensure that we do everything we possibly can to keep marijuana out of the hands of anyone who is under 21 years of age can to prevent pot as it reaching kids a law was put on the books and betting recreational embedding recreational marijuana shops from using text to advertise broadcast way to send messages to large numbers of

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so just to recap, when texting has. and most importantly, never, call. [ laughter ] nobody likes that anymore. it's annoying. this is something that also involves our thumbs. twitter is -- they're exploring the possibility of expanding their limit of 140 characters per tweet to 10,000 characters per tweet. you know the thing that makes twitter twitter? they might get rid of that. in fact, in other words, twitter is very close to inventing facebook. [ laughter ] i don't like this. this is basically like if apple decided to change the iphone to a washing machine. right? this is interesting. especially for those of you who there's a new device that lets you play music for your fetus, for your unborn child. it's called baby pod. and it is -- it plays music when inserted into a music. like john mayer. [ laughter ] it's a similar -- like an electronic -- [ cheers and applause ] and the way it works is -- well, you kind of need to see for yourself. >> this carol is included at a special concert by soraya to welcome christmas.

and the person to whom you're texting replies, sure, with an if you got this text you could reasonably assume the person on the other end is happy about dave coming to dinner, maybe even excited about it. but what about this? you ask, can i bring dave to dinner tonight? and your husband or wife or girlfriend says, sure, with a period. almost an identical text, but the subtext of the text not -- instead of the exclamation point, exclamation point means i thought we were going out just the two of us or i don't care if dave comes or maybe it means i don't like dave. [ laughter ] you don't know. well, let's look at another example here. simple message. you ask, can you pick up some milk on the way home? and your textmate replies, of course. if you got this, you can assume there will be a container of milk in your refrigerator when this person gets home. but what if you ask this same question, can you pick up some milk on the way home? and the response is the letter k. [ laughter ] assume the person will get the assume the person will get the milk but isn't happy about it. the letter k is l

of any text. we saw that looking at different sources. any source you are going to pick as a historical source is blinkered, is limited in some way. -- a particularly articulate commentator. the only way to make sense of melville's to put him in the dialogue with other thinkers from his day. one of those is emerson. right now, i want emerson to do a little work for us. issues thatthe melville is wrestling with an moby dick. dick.moby i'm going to read this. i think that is the intensity of this quote. he writes, nature as we know her is no saint. he likes of the church. statics, the graham writes, -- she does not this and wish by any favor. she comes eating. not come out of a sunday commitmentsep their -- amendments. -- commandments. it, emersonr put worked with lightning strikes that even at the level of singular, he is telling us something. nature as we know her is no saint. church, thef the aesthetics, the gin choose, the graham-ites. she does not the fingers by any favor. --distinguished by an