The area’s top news at 7:06-a.m., w/KJAN News Director Ric Hanson.
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Today: Clear to partly cloudy. High around 62. S @ 10-15 mph.
Tonight: Clear to P/Cldy. Low around 35. South wind 5 to 10 mph.
Tuesday: P/Cldy. High near 62. S @ 10-20.
Tue. Night: Mostly cloudy w/a 40% chance of showers & thunderstorms after midnight. Low around 49. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Veterans Day: Showers and thunderstorms. High near 59. S/SE @ 10-20mph w/gusts to 25. New rainfall amounts between three quarters and one inch possible.
Wed. Night: Cloudy w/a 70% chance of shwrs. Low 35. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.
Thursday: P/Cldy, windy & cooler. High near 48.
Sunday’s High in Atlantic was 59. Our 24-hour Low ending today at 7-a.m., was 32. Last year on this date, the High in Atlantic was 56, and the Low 29. The All-Time Record High in Atlantic on Nov. 9th, was 73 in 1999. The Record Low was 8 in 1973.
A man being chased by security officers with the Ameristar Casino in Council Bluffs was listed in serious condition after jumping into the Missouri River early this (Monday) morning. According to WOWT-TV in Omaha, the unidentified man climbed over a fence as he was being chased and jumped into the river at around 2-a.m.
Rescuers found the subject after about 20 minutes. Water temperature at the time of the incident was in the mid-50s. The man was taken to an area hospital. No other details are available at this time.
SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) – The City Council in Sioux City is scheduled to vote on applying for a $4.6 million grant to help pay for street work needed for the new Seaboard-Triumph Foods pork plant. The Sioux City Journal reports the Revitalize Iowa’s Sound Economy program grant would go toward signage and other street work recommended in a traffic study of the Bridgeport West industrial area.
The council vote is set for today’s (Monday’s) meeting. The $264 million plant is expected to employ more than 1,000 people when it opens in 2017.
Thursday (11/12/2015)
CLASS 3A:
Norwalk vs Sergeant Bluff-Luton at UNI-Dome @ 5:36 PM
Pella vs West Delaware, Manchester at UNI-Dome @ 8:21 PM
CLASS 8:
Don Bosco, Gilbertville vs Newell-Fonda at UNI-Dome @ 9:06 AM
Glidden-Ralston vs Marcus-Meriden-Cleghorn at UNI-Dome @ 12:06 PM
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Friday (11/13/2015)
CLASS 4A:
Bettendorf vs Cedar Rapids, Kennedy at UNI-Dome @ 4:06 PM
Dowling Catholic, WDM vs Valley, West Des Moines at UNI-Dome @ 7:06 PM
CLASS A:
Akron-Westfield vs Mount Ayr at UNI-Dome @ 1:06 PM
Denver vs Gladbrook-Reinbeck at UNI-Dome @ 10:06 AM
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Saturday (11/14/2015)
CLASS 2A:
Albia vs Mount Vernon at UNI-Dome @ 7:06 PM
North Fayette Valley vs Spirit Lake at UNI-Dome @ 4:06 PM
CLASS 1A:
Dike-New Hartford vs Regina, Iowa City at UNI-Dome @ 10:06 AM
Van Meter vs Western Christian, Hull at UNI-Dome @ 1:06 PM
The Iowa Hawkeyes are eighth in the latest Associated Press top 25. The Hawkeyes improved to 9-0 for just the second time in program history with a 35-27 win at Indiana. The Iowa defense held the high scoring Hoosier offense below its season average for points and yards.
The Hawkeyes need to win two of their last three games to clinch the Big Ten West Division title. It begins on Saturday under the lights against Minnesota. Kick-off from Kinnick Stadium is set for 7-p.m., Saturday. You can hear the game on KJAN beginning with pre-game coverage at 5-p.m.
A first-of-its-kind study by the University of Iowa on hundreds of children with mild-to-severe hearing loss finds those kids don’t learn to speak or communicate as well as others who have good hearing. Beth Walker, a U-I professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, says children who were fitted with hearing aids at a very young age develop language skills much more quickly. “We did find that these hearing aids really do have an impact on language outcome,” Walker says. “They need to be fit as early as possible, worn consistently during all waking hours and fit appropriately.”
The study involved children from 17 states, ranging in age from six months to seven years. It’s the first time such a study has been undertaken since universal newborn hearing screening wasn’t available to most children at birth until about a decade ago. Those screenings, Walker says, are vital. “Ninety-eight percent of all infants are screened for hearing loss at birth, so we want to get all of those babies screened as soon as possible,” Walker says. “We can do this when they are as young as two or three days old. That will allow us to identify the hearing loss very early on and then we can provide the intervention that they need.”
While there is a wealth of study on deaf children, before this study, Walker says little was known about hard-of-hearing kids. It’s important for a child with hearing loss to get the hearing aid as early as possible, but she says it’s equally important for that device to fit properly. “Children’s ears grow very quickly,” Walker says. “With kids, we’ll have them wear behind-the-ear hearing aids. They’ll have an ear mold and then the hearing aid will go behind the ear and with their ears growing so fast, we have to have those ear molds replaced pretty frequently.”
In an infant, that could mean visits to the audiologist every three to six months for fittings, and less often as the child ages. Walker says about one-third of the study’s hearing-impaired children were not well-fitted with hearing aids. The study is being published in the journal, Ear and Hearing, the major journal published by the American Auditory Society.
(Radio Iowa)
Early This Morning: Clear. South wind 5 to 10 mph.
Today: Sunny. High around 60. South wind 5 to 15 mph.
Tonight: Mostly clear. Low in the upper 30s. South wind 5 to 10 mph.
Tuesday: Partly sunny. High in the upper 50s. South wind 10 to 15 mph.
Tuesday Night: Mostly cloudy. A 40 percent chance of thunderstorms after midnight. Not as cool. Low in the upper 40s. Southeast wind 5 to 10 mph.
Veterans Day: Thunderstorms. High in the upper 50s. Southeast wind 10 to 15 mph shifting to the southwest with gusts to around 30 mph in the afternoon. Chance of thunderstorms 90 percent.
Wednesday Night: Cloudy. Rain showers likely and isolated thunderstorms through midnight…then a chance of rain after midnight. Windy…colder. Low in the mid 30s. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
Thursday: Mostly sunny. Breezy. High in the lower 50s.
The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office reports a man was arrested Sunday evening on a felony weapons charges. 46-year old Mark D. Berggren, of Red Oak, was taken into custody at around 5:20-p.m., in Elliott.
Berggren had been arrested Sunday morning, following an investigation of an earlier incident. Sunday evening, he was charged with Possession of a firearm and ammunition while subject to a protective order. Berggren was transported to the Montgomery County Law Enforcement Center with the assistance of Red Oak Police.
His bond was set at $5,000.
The leaders of the turkey and poultry industries in Iowa say you shouldn’t be concerned about finding the ingredients for some of your holiday favorites despite the devastating impact of the avian flu on the state’s producers. Iowa Poultry Association executive director, Randy Olson, says he has heard concerns about an egg shortage after 22 commercial egg producing facilities in Iowa were wiped out.
“We really believe that there will be an ample supply of eggs for the holidays,” Olson says. He says egg producers will get up and running just as soon as they can. “Iowa’s egg farmers are committed to maintaining an aggressive timeline toward full recovery,” according to Olson. The U-S-D-A’s National Agricultural Statistics Service shows Iowa dropped from the top spot for egg production nationally in September for the first time since September of 2000.
The latest report shows Ohio was the leader with 739 million eggs produced in September, just ahead of the 732 million produced in Iowa. Iowa’s egg production was down 47 percent in September compared to the same month last year. The U-S-D-A report says total U-S egg production was nearly seven-and-a-half billion during September of this year, which was down eight percent from last year.
When it comes to turkey production, Iowa Turkey Federation executive director, Gretta Irwin, says the loss of production in Iowa won’t impact the big turkey eating holiday at the end of this month. “Iowa is a tom-producing state, meaning the meat that we’re raising in Iowa goes into further processed products like deli meats, further processed sausages, ground turkey, those types of products,” Irwin explains. She says the bird you purchase for your Thanksgiving dinner was grown out of state.
“The whole birds that Iowans enjoy, as well as other consumers across the United States come from other states — some here in the Midwest like Minnesota and Missouri — but from other states as well,” Irwin says. She says she’s seeing good prices for whole birds right now in the grocery store. “The frozen birds are still 79 to 99 cents-a-pound, and fresh turkeys are going to be a little higher in price just because of the shortness of the transportation and the need to keep it not frozen. Usually around two dollars or so a pound for that product,” Irwin says.
Iowa’s turkey producers had a shorter process to recover from the bird flu outbreak and the first turkey producer started putting in new birds in their facility in July. Irwin says she expects all the facilities to be back up to production by mid-December.
(Radio Iowa)