The area’s top news at 7:06-a.m., w/KJAN News Director Ric Hanson
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Today: P/Cldy. High 62. NW @ 10-20.
Tonight: Mostly clear. Low 34. Winds light & variable.
Tomorrow: Areas of fog in the morning; Otherwise P/Cldy. High 70. SW @ 10-15
Sunday: P/Cldy. High 72.
Monday (Columbus Day): P/Cldy to Cldy w/scattered showers. High 72.
Thursday’s High in Atlantic was 66. Our 24-hour Low (ending at 7-a.m. today) was 38. We received .2” rain (two-tenths of an inch) Thursday at the KJAN Studios. Last year on this date, our High in Atlantic was 77 and the low was 54. The Record High in Atlantic on this date was 88 in 1938. The Record Low was 16 in 1952 & 2012.
The American Red Cross is preparing to respond as Hurricane Matthew slams into the southeast coast of the country. Iowa Region Red Cross spokesperson, Kara Kelly, says national officials are checking with the states that are not in the path of the storm to line up help. “There is a major call for volunteers nationwide to go anywhere from South Carolina to Florida to help, so we are making those opportunities available to folks. But at the same time….we still have a flooding operation happening in north and eastern Iowa and we still want to make sure we take care of folks at home too,” Kelly says.
Two Iowa volunteers from Ankeny may be heading out to help with the Hurricane recovery sometime today (Friday). She says they were actually scheduled to head out Thursday, but the airport in Orlando closed and they are not waiting. Kelly says if you are interested in volunteering for the Red Cross the first step is to register. “I would say now is the time to get signed up, because if it becomes a very significant operation — which we anticipate it could be — we could start sending people pretty quickly. And sometimes that training could happen pretty quickly,” Kelly says. “The best thing to do at this point is to go to Red-Cross-dot-org and sign up to get into the system. At the very minimum you can take some of those on-line trainings and then we will see what happens.”
She says it has been a significant amount of time since we’ve seen a hurricane of this magnitude. “We’re just asking people to be prepared if you’ve got friends or families in those areas. Make sure you contact them, you know where they are going to be, and hopefully they are heeding those warnings to evacuate,” Kelly says.
In Florida alone where some areas could get as much as 10 inches of rain, the Red Cross is prepared to open or support as many as 100 evacuation shelters and has more than 30 emergency response vehicles standing by. In South Carolina, the Red Cross plans to open or support 19 evacuation shelters and dozens of additional shelters are ready to open in Georgia and North Carolina.
(Radio Iowa)
Drake fans are a patient bunch when it comes to the men’s basketball program. But even a fanbase that has enjoyed only four winning seasons since 1987 is going to expect progress this season. Ray Giacoletti enters his fourth year at the helm and the Bulldogs return eight players that saw significant minutes a year ago during a 7-24 campaign that included only two Missouri Valley Conference wins. (click on the left side of the audio player to listen to each cut)
Also returning is redshirt sophomore Kory Kuenstling. The 6-11 native of Dunkerton played in 30 games as a freshman before redshirting last season.
Giacoletti says the door is open for the Bulldogs to climb the ladder in the Valley.
Drake opens November 11 at home against South Dakota.
Hillary Clinton’s daughter told a crowd in Sioux City late yesterday (Wednesday) afternoon that the country’s values “are at stake” in this year’s election. “I never thought I would see in my lifetime the almost normalization of hate speech that we are witnessing from the Republican nominee and his campaign,” she said. That was part of Chelsea Clinton’s answer to a woman in the crowd who said — while asking a question — that Hillary Clinton has been subjected to a “smear campaign” since the 1990s.
Chelsea Clinton, who is 36, told the crowd she doesn’t remember a time in her life when her mother wasn’t being attacked. And she asked Iowans to examine her mother’s record. “Mom’s been fighting for maternity and paternity leave for, literally, longer than I’ve been alive,” Chelsea Clinton said, getting laughter from the crowd, “and for early childhood education and for investments in our public education system and so much more that I know go really to the heart of our values as a country.”
More than 100 people attended the event in Sioux City. Chelsea Clinton also made a campaign stop in Dubuque yesterday (Wednesday). A spokeswoman for the Republican National Committee issued a written statement in response to the trip, saying Hillary Clinton’s “dishonesty and lies have demonstrated she is the wrong person to lead our country.”
(Radio Iowa)
(3-1) A-D-M, Adel 25-25-11-25, Dallas Center-Grimes 22-13-25-22
(3-1) Audubon 25-26-15-25, Underwood 14-24-25-16
(3-0) CAM, Anita 25-25-25, Woodbine 19-9-6
(3-1) East Mills 25-23-25-25, Stanton 15-25-20-22
(3-0) Glenwood 25-25-28, Creston 18-20-26
(3-1) Harlan 25-25-20-25, Clarinda 16-23-25-17
(3-0) IKM-Manning 25-25-25, Logan-Magnolia 14-23-22
(3-0) Lewis Central 25-25-25, Denison-Schleswig 14-13-17
(3-1) Red Oak 25-15-25-25, St. Albert, Council Bluffs 18-25-23-21
(3-0) Sidney 25-25-25, Essex 21-19-15
(3-1) Treynor 25-19-25-25, Missouri Valley 14-25-23-18
(3-0) Tri-Center, Neola 25-25-25, Griswold 11-7-15
345 AM CDT FRI OCT 7 2016
EARLY THIS MORNING…CLOUDY…COLDER. NORTHWEST WIND 10 TO 15 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 25 MPH.
TODAY…SUNNY. HIGH IN THE LOWER 60S. NORTHWEST WIND 5 TO 10 MPH.
TONIGHT…CLEAR. LOW IN THE LOWER 40S. SOUTHWEST WIND NEAR 5 MPH.
SATURDAY…SUNNY. HIGH IN THE UPPER 60S. SOUTHWEST WIND 5 TO 15 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 25 MPH.
SATURDAY NIGHT…CLEAR. LOW IN THE LOWER 40S. SOUTHWEST WIND NEAR 10 MPH.
SUNDAY…SUNNY. HIGH AROUND 70. SOUTH WIND NEAR 10 MPH.
COLUMBUS DAY…PARTLY SUNNY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF SHOWERS. HIGH AROUND 70.
Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 3:40 a.m. CDT
AMES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa State University President Steven Leath says he’ll be more cautious after facing criticism over his use of university airplanes and a private $1.1 million land deal with his boss. Leath told the student government that he misjudged how both issues would be perceived. He said, “I’ve learned my lesson.”
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Four Iowa men and a woman from Nebraska will serve shorter prison sentences after President Barack Obama granted them clemency. Most of the 102 offenders in Thursday’s announcement committed drug crimes considered nonviolent. Among them, Rodger Lee Moran, of Des Moines, was serving life for selling methamphetamine. His sentence was shortened to 20 years and Kenny Siepker of Carroll had six years knocked off his 31 years.
ST. LUCAS, Iowa (AP) — The remains of a Navy chaplain have been returned to his hometown in Iowa nearly 75 years after he died during the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Chaplain Aloysius Schmitt was aboard the battleship USS Oklahoma when the Dec. 7, 1941, attack happened. The Telegraph Herald reports Schmitt helped other sailors escape the sinking ship before he died. The Navy announced in September that Schmitt’s remains had been identified.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The long-time secretary of a women’s sorority group that focuses on personal integrity and service to others has been sentenced to more than two years in prison for taking more than $1.6 million over 14 years from the organization. Andrea G. Baker of Elkhart was sentenced Thursday to 27 months in prison and ordered to pay $1.66 million in restitution to the Ames chapter of the Chi Omega Alumnae Association.
2016 High School Football Schedule
Week 7 – October 7th
Class 3A, District 7
Atlantic @ ADM
Creston @ Glenwood
Denison-Schleswig @ Carroll
Winterset @ Harlan
Class 2A, District 7
Clarinda @ East Sac County
Southeast Valley @ Shenandoah
Kuemper Catholic @ Red Oak
Underwood @ South Central Calhoun
Class 1A, District 7
Treynor @ Tri-Center
IKM-Manning @ AC-GC
Logan-Magnolia @ Missouri Valley
OA-BCIG @ AHSTW
Class A, District 7
Griswold @ Earlham- Cancelled
Nodaway Valley @ Southeast Warren
Riverside @ Martensdale St. Marys
St. Albert @ Southwest Valley
Class 8-man, District 6
East Union @ Bedford
Lenox @ Stanton
Mormon Trail @ Wayne
Murray @ Lamoni
Class 8-man, District 7
Clarinda Academy @ CAM
Essex @ East Mills
Exira-EHK @ Fremont-Mills
Woodbine @ Sidney
Class 8-man, District 8
Boyer Valley @ Ar-We-Va
Charter Oak-Ute @ West Harrison
Glidden-Ralston @ Audubon
River Valley @ Coon Rapids-Bayard
AMES, Iowa – Iowa State senior guard Monté Morris has been named the Big 12 Preseason Player of the Year, becoming the second Cyclone to earn the recognition. Morris joins Jamaal Tinsley, also a point guard, prior to the 2000-01 season as the only ISU players to be named the league’s top player in the preseason. Tinsley went on to win the award at the end of the season as well.
Morris was also the only unanimous selection to the 2016-17 Preseason All-Big 12 Team.
Morris, a Flint, Michigan, native, was second on the Cyclone roster as a junior averaging 13.8 points. An All-Big 12 Second Team choice, he is the top returning scorer in the league this season. He led the Big 12 in assists (6.9) and minutes played (38.0) in 2015-16, while finishing second in steals with 62. He also had the nation’s third-best assist-to-turnover ratio (4.23).
Morris starts his final season at ISU ranked No. 25 all-time at the school with 1,133 career points. He is sixth in assists (551) and eighth in steals (172), with both records well within striking distance.
Preseason Player of the Year
Monté Morris, Iowa State, G, Sr., 6-3, 175, Flint, Mich./Beecher
Preseason Newcomer of the Year
Manu Lecomte, Baylor, G, Jr., 5-11, 175, Brussels, Belgium/Athene des Pagodes/Miami (Fla.)
Preseason Freshman of the Year
Josh Jackson, Kansas, G, Fr., 6-8, 270, Detroit, Mich./Prolific Prep [Calif.]
2016-17 Preseason All-Big 12 Team
| Name, School | Pos. | Ht. | Wt. | Class | Hometown/Previous School(s) |
| Johnathan Motley, Baylor | F | 6-10 | 230 | Jr. | Houston, Texas/North Shore |
| Monté Morris, Iowa State* | G | 6-3 | 175 | Sr. | Flint, Mich./Beecher |
| Devonte’ Graham, Kansas | G | 6-2 | 185 | Jr. | Raleigh, N.C./Brewster Academy [N.H.] |
| Frank Mason III, Kansas | G | 5-11 | 190 | Sr. | Petersburg, Va./Massanutten Military Academy |
| Jawun Evans, Oklahoma State | G | 6-1 | 185 | So. | Dallas, Texas/Kimball |
Honorable Mention (listed alphabetically by school):
Josh Jackson, Kansas; Jordan Woodard, Oklahoma; Jarrett Allen, Texas; Jevon Carter and Daxter Miles Jr., West Virginia
* – Unanimous Selection
(From cyclones.com)
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