KMAC 14, your hometown news starts now.
Welcome to your hometown news, I'm Michelle Stewart.
Defense attorneys make their case in the trial of Paul Hill, accused in the death of his four-month-old daughter, Trinity.
Tonight, that story is First at Ten.
Hill pleaded not guilty to child endangerment charges after Trinity's death in February 2009.
KMAC 14's Jeremy Maskell explains why one expert says Trinity's injuries happened days before she died.
A pediatric forensic pathologist told the judge she saw several signs the injuries Trinity suffered had already started to heal.
The expert from Minnesota looked at samples from Trinity's autopsy, like these slides of organ tissue.
The swelling Dr. Janice Opphoven pointed out she said takes at least six hours to show up and in Trinity's case likely took between two and ten days.
There was trauma to the mesenteric tissues of her abdomen that preceded her fatal collapse by days.
Opphoven argued Trinity's death came from an injury long before, resurfacing right before her death.
Prosecutors painted the expert as a professional defense witness out of touch with pediatrics.
They called their own witness Friday afternoon, who argued those same samples showed no evidence of healing.
Hill waived his right to a jury. A judge will decide his verdict.
And now, your no-weight weather from Siouxlands Chief Meteorologist, Chad Sandwell.
Well, the stretch of nice weather that we've seen the last few days continues on into this Friday evening.
Mostly clear skies across the area, just a few clouds off to the east of Spencer, but everybody else looking at plenty of stars as we head into this late evening.
Take a look at our temperatures generally in the middle 70s across the area, Spencer, Orange City, Odebult and Norfolk all at 74 degrees, 75 currently in Yankton.
Our winds generally are out of the south southwest about five to ten miles an hour.
As we head towards the weekend, the big question is, when are we going to see the rain move back into the picture?
We'll have all the details on that coming up in just a few minutes.
Iowa's governor issues a disaster proclamation for three counties fighting flash floods.
Lyon County in northwest Iowa is one of them.
The proclamation allows individuals affected by flood waters in Lyon County to apply for disaster assistance.
The program provides up to $5,000 to families that meet the income guidelines.
Done within a decade.
That's the plan for the Highway 24 Laning Project.
The U.S. 20 Corridor Association met with Iowa DOT officials to discuss a five-year outlook for the construction.
The plan is to have the highway upgraded to four lanes from Dubuque all the way to early Iowa by 2013.
Leaders say they're glad to see construction slated for Woodbury County in the new plan.
Now they finally see that the project is at a tipping point that within many of their lifetimes we're going to actually see this done.
And so it is good news for them and I think, you know, they've been very excited and they've been committed as an association.
They deserve a lot of the credit.
As of right now, the project plans to be completed.
The remaining 40 miles, that is, by 2018.
The candidates in South Dakota's governor's race have agreed to debate.
Democrat Scott Heideprimm and Republican Dennis Dugard will take up budget crisis and wasteful spending during a July 17th debate in Springfield, South Dakota.
Other details are still being finalized.
Iowa's 5th District Congressional race could also be up for debate.
Democrat Matt Campbell has challenged Representative Steve King to a series of debates.
King has never formally debated an opponent since he's been elected.
Sioux City is making space for thousands of new residents for just a few days.
As Rag Brice hosts, Sioux City is required to provide 60 acres of camping space along with a source of drinking water, showers and restrooms.
Parks and rec workers have been busy preparing space everywhere from the riverfront to Healand Memorial Field for campers.
We've got it pretty much all ready to go and we're working with a lot of different companies in town in terms of providing certain services.
And it kind of comes quick and the next day it's all gone.
Rag Brice festivities kick off Saturday, July 24th at a concert with Smash Mouth on Historic 4th Street.
A familiar face will lead the 2010 Rivercade Parade.
Colonel Bud Day will be the parade marshal for the 47th annual event.
Rivercade organizers say Colonel Day was the perfect choice to lead the parade through downtown Sioux City.
The theme on July 21st will be, We Support Our Troops.
In tonight's Look at Your Money, an Iowa company is providing a key tool in the battle to keep oil from the BP leak from winding up on the shores of the Gulf Coast.
In the fight against floating oil, states from Texas to Florida have deployed hundreds of miles of floating barriers called boom.
We're doing this because we have a responsibility to our citizens and to our tourist community.
But within days of the spill, they discovered a problem.
When they went to connect these booms, there were all different kinds of booms, but they weren't connected together.
Leaving beaches unprotected. So, a thousand miles from the Gulf, an Oceola company went to work.
We spent the weekend designing it, and it had to be right the first time because we were going to start going into production the next week.
Miller Products normally make stainless steel pins for farms or businesses, but since mid-May, they've been pumping out these specially made pins that lock together the 50 to 100 foot sections of floating Gulf protectors.
We knew within seven days of making this pin, it was going to be in the ocean, and I had to stand up to the salt water and the waves and everything else.
What they didn't know was how many they'd have to make.
They could use them as fast as we could make them.
Tens, if not hundreds of thousands of them, creating a need for more workers.
You know, it really is. We've hired some people to come into work now.
And everybody's pulling overtime, adding dollars to pockets across town.
While it's a big negative impact down there, it has been a positive impact on the Oceola area.
No one would have chosen this disaster, but since it happened, this Iowa company will help.
You know, whatever we can do, we're doing it, and we won't stop doing it until the last pin is put in place.
Engineers will be busy this weekend trying to put a new containment cap on BP's blowout well.
The new cap, along with the new ship, could finally contain the entire leak.
But the oil is already making an impact along the shore, as we know. BP will work this weekend to hook up that new containment ship
and put a better cap over the gushing well.
Once we start on bolting, until we're in a position to put the new cap on, could be three to four days.
It's the millions of gallons of oil already in the Gulf that have had all eyes fixated on the Gulf since April.
Internet search giant Google will continue operating in China.
The company announced Friday Beijing has agreed to renew its license.
That, despite tensions over censorship and reports of Gmail email account hacking, China had threatened to withdraw its license
over claims that Google was automatically redirecting users in the country to its uncensored Hong Kong site.
Two Russians jailed for spying or supplying information to the West are on U.S. soil.
Two others were dropped off in Britain.
Earlier, this plane landed in Moscow, loaded with 10 Russian spies caught in the U.S.
This was the last act of a high-stakes spy exchange that unfolded in Vienna, Australia.
In an interview for Face the Nation, Attorney General Eric Holder said the U.S. got a good deal.
It essentially orchestrated a swap so that we had access to or got that for people who had been charged in Russia
with conducting intelligence activities on behalf of Western countries.
The White House is reported to have been considering the swap even before the 10 agents were arrested.
Colombian dairy farmers stage a protest, spilling the milk onto city streets.
In all, the angry farmers dumped 4,000 gallons of milk from three large tanks onto the streets.
They're up against sliding milk prices that have diminished their profit.
Some shocked residents tried to salvage the milk afterwards, but protesters intervened.
We all have a remote control for the TV, but what about the entire house?
There's an app for that. We'll check out the iPad for your pad.
KM814, your hometown news. With Michelle Stewart, Steve Long, Saulte L'Ange chief meteorologist Chad Sandwell.
KM814, your hometown news.
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As an avid runner and supporter of the fight against cancer, I'm very happy to announce KM814 is teaming with the American Cancer Society for the 2010 Relay for Life of Siouxland, July 16th at Healan High's Memorial Field.
This year alone, 505 people in Woodbury County will be diagnosed with cancer.
You can help by starting or joining a team or participating as a survivor.
Celebrate, remember, and fight back at the 2010 Relay for Life of Siouxland, July 16th at Memorial Field.
Siouxland's only Emmy-nominated forecast with Siouxland's chief meteorologist Chad Zenwell starts now.
We have made it to Friday and everybody's looking at you for what we can get done this weekend.
Get it done on Saturday because I think Sunday we'll see the chance for some showers, but overall still some very nice weather,
especially when you consider it is July.
Haven't hit the 90 degree mark yet this month, but that is going to change.
Take a look at your bomb guard's MetroCam.
Hi, it's Todd from Mercy Medical Center.
Very quiet in downtown Sioux City.
See a few cars along Interstate 29.
Take a look at that extended forecast though, and as we work our way through the next seven days, of course, things are going to warm up a bit.
We're going to be at 89 tomorrow before the chance of rain moves in late tomorrow night on in through Sunday and Monday.
With a cold front coming through, that's going to knock those temperatures back down to around 80 degrees to start next week.
But then things crank up in a hurry.
We're going to be at 85 on Tuesday and into the lower 90s Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
And we'll see another chance for a few storms developing as we push towards the middle part of next week.
Now today, as far as it was concerned, lots of sunshine, very few clouds.
High pressure was our dominant weather feature.
We'll continue to do so tonight and through the first part of tomorrow.
You see it there, the high pressure sitting out over southeastern Nebraska, keeping things very quiet across really Iowa, Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska.
Cold front that you see dropping out of the southern portions of Canada into North Dakota by early tomorrow morning into tomorrow evening.
That's going to all start settling southward.
And by the time you wake up Sunday morning, we may see a few showers developing out just along this trough of low pressure.
And that with the cold front dropping down, that front will continue moving southward
as we push through the day on Sunday.
By Sunday night, everything kind of slides off to the east a bit.
Maybe some showers develop on the backside of that system towards Monday.
But overall, we're going to see a much cooler day on Monday than what we will see over the next couple of days.
Right now we're at 69 degrees, clear skies, south winds five miles an hour, relative humidity sitting at 84 percent.
You look across the upper Midwest, we're at 75 right now at Fargo, 79 in Minneapolis, 77 for Lincoln and in Wichita,
with Rapid City checking in at 72 degrees.
And we do have a smattering of 60s out there, 69 at Tekema and also Spencer, 70 for Wayne and 70 for Norfolk,
along with 70 at Sheldon and Denison.
Winds, they're fairly light in our neck of the woods this evening, but you can see back to the west, winds are starting to pick up a little bit.
And as we work our way through the day on Saturday, we're going to have to watch for some very strong winds
that could potentially be gusting up over 30 miles an hour.
Relative humidity starting to kind of move its way upward a little bit with those south winds bringing back the moisture.
Eighty six and fifty six are high and low today, not anywhere close to that record back in 1930 of one hundred and three degrees.
So for tonight, down to 62 degrees, a mostly clear sky and a great night.
South winds will be at five to ten miles an hour for tomorrow.
Temperatures climbing up to 89 degrees under mostly sunny skies.
Look for a few showers and maybe a couple of thunderstorms very late in the evening.
We'll see you then over the next seven days. Rain Saturday night, Sunday early Monday, a break on Tuesday, then more rain on Wednesday.
And there those nineties are. See, we just had to wait. We just have to wait. Patience.
Thank you very much, Chad. Old iron and family tradition come together in Yankton, South Dakota.
The fourth annual Tri-State Old Iron Association Antique Tractor Ride kicked off this week.
Nearly two hundred tractors from across the area and as far away as New York line the streets for the event.
Organizers say a love of tractors and storytelling bring people out for the event.
It's fun to see in everybody's hobby, you know, they're playing their old.
Everybody's got a story or he found this thing and it was a piece of junk.
And you don't know if they're telling the truth or not.
But there are tractors that are years back and 50, 60 years.
People grew up with them years back and it's just nice to bring them back to life.
About 30 of the tractors participated in today's South Dakota leg of the ride through Irene and Valen.
Now, tomorrow they'll head through parts of northeast Nebraska.
Thanks to a remote, you can already change the channel from your couch.
But what about the thermostat or your security system?
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Start your morning first at 5 a.m. with K-Meg 14 News at Sunrise.
Monday morning find out what's going on around Sioux land in talk of the town.
You know I'll have a warming trend for your work week in your weather on the
ones. Pleasure morning news and it all starts at 5 a.m. How would you like to
control virtually everything in your home using one screen? Well now there's
an app for that. Maria Chandler tells us how it's making life more convenient
with the touch of a button. There seems to be an application for just about
everything. Now chalk one up for making life at home worry-free or pretty close
to it. I was looking for something to do some home automation within my like the
living room here. It started with the living room now Scott Talon controls
literally every aspect of his home on his iPad. iPad is another option and then
when I purchased one with an iPhone that that changed the whole the whole game
plan. It's something that any almost any consumer can have and that'll
enhance anybody's lifestyle and it's very flexible and it's expandable and
you can use your creativity. Talon took every ounce of his creativity and ran
with it. If he wants to watch a movie he pushes a button on the iPad that button
also turns off the lights and closes the blinds. If he wants to control the
temperature of his bedroom when he isn't even at home no problem the app can do
that too. I can adjust it so it's like 77 78 degrees. How about security around
the house? Whether he's across the world or at work Scott can use the iPad to see
what's going on in any room of his home. In the peace of mind by integrating
security cameras now I have the ability to look at any one of the cameras and
it's all real time. All of the products are connected to a control force system
and work through the application. While the glamour of the iPad app is appealing
it also proves to be practical. Once a camera or a water sensor or a smoke
detector gets a detection within five seconds I get a text message telling me
exactly what occurred. Talon says using his iPad has even helped save him some
money. He can monitor how he's using energy. All of the add-ons can be
contagious but Talon says now he has them he'll never go back. Sherman's
Homeworks says the app has generated a lot of interest from customers especially
as more people get smartphones. Well smoking is on the decline across the
nation but one group is bucking that trend. A dangerous statistics from a
generation getting hooked in tonight's look at your health.
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A new government report shows that one in five high school students is smoking.
Teenage smoking rates have been dropping since the 1990s but experts are
concerned because now the decline is leveling off. Smoking is the leading
preventable cause of death in the US. Most people start smoking in their teens
or earlier. Thousands of pregnant women are diagnosed with gestational diabetes
every year. Now new research shows there can be an increased risk for diabetes
long after baby comes. Randall Pinkston reports from New York. Joanne Gelsdorp
was seven months pregnant when she got a diagnosis she wasn't expecting.
Gestational diabetes. I lost my sweet tooth during pregnancy and so at that
point I didn't think I was at any risk. She took a three-hour glucose challenge
test that showed her blood sugar had spiked. It's a condition that generally
goes away after a woman gives birth but now a new study of a hundred eighty five
thousand expected moms shows those who get gestational diabetes are at higher
risk of developing diabetes later in life. A woman who's being treated with
medication for his gestational diabetes she's at an eight-fold higher risk of
developing diabetes within ten years. Gestational diabetes affects 200,000
pregnant women in the US each year. This research shows the more severe the case
the greater the risk of developing adult diabetes. But there are things pregnant
women can do. A woman has to watch her weight she has to be eating well avoiding
the sweets and she has to be exercising. Joanne has already made big changes.
Anything white I had to cut out of my diet. White potatoes, white bread, white
sugar, anything processed. Children born to mothers with gestational diabetes tend
to be larger and suffer from jaundice so eating right is not just critical for
keeping mom healthy but also her baby. Randall Pinkston, CBS News, New York. HPV
infections can significantly heighten the risk of certain skin cancers
according to new research. HPV is very common and people don't often know that
they have it. People with HPV were more than one and a half times as likely to
develop skin cancers compared to people without them. HPV infection can also
increase the risk of cervical cancer in women. Some Morningside Mustang football
players are focused on more than just a game. We'll tell you why a group of
Mustangs are headed to Haiti. Steve is in Next with Sports.
Chet Culver is criticizing Terry Branstad's accounting practices. Really?
Our state auditor calls Terry Branstad open and honest and Terry is the
governor who actually cleaned up state finances leaving a 900 million dollar
surplus. Chet Culver has spent two and a half billion dollars more than he's
taken in creating nearly a billion dollar deficit enforcing a 500 million
dollar property tax hike. Iowa on Terry Branstad or Iowa on Chet Culver. Any
questions? Rock, ride and go with Smash Mouth.
Smash Mouth kicks off Rag Brice Saturday July 24th at 7 p.m. on historic 4th
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and discounts. Smash Mouth. Saturday July 24th 7 p.m. on historic 4th Street. Sioux City.
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And now your hometown sport. The Morningside Mustangs football team is
hoping to win a national title this year but as they prepare for the season
they're also preparing for something else. Head coach Steve Ryan and several
team members are preparing for a mission strip to earthquake ravaged
Haiti through Sunnybrook Community Church. Today I had a chance to talk to
junior wide receiver Joel Nixon. He tells me they're going to build an orphanage
there. What I really hope to accomplish is you know to be the answer to those
people's prayers down there. I mean I know it's not going to solve everything
but it's definitely a step in the right direction for what they need down there
and also you know for myself just you know an eye-opening experience and you
know spend some quality time with my teammates and some friends so. Eight
members of the football team, a member of the basketball team and a Wayne State
football player are all going on the trip. They're leaving Monday morning from
Sunnybrook Community Church and returning nine days later. By the way I
spoke on the telephone this afternoon to coach Ryan who's going on the Haiti trip.
Right now he's out in Colorado with a group of senior football players. This
week they've spent time climbing Pikes Peak and Whitewater rafting. He's a busy
guy as well as a good coach. Husker Great and Damaking Sioux has won just about
every football honor in the book. Now the Outland Lombardi, Nagurski and Benaric
award winner headlines a distinguished class of eight Huskers joining the
Nebraska Football Hall of Fame in 2010. In addition to Sioux, a 2009 All-American
who became the first offensive player in history to be named the AP National
Player of the Year. The 2010 Hall of Fame class includes former Huskers Dan
Alexander, Steve Lindquist, Todd Milliken, Ed Perriard, Bob Pickens, Carlos Polk and
Chris Spachman. The new class will be inducted Friday September 3rd before
being honored on the field during Nebraska's game with Western Kentucky
Memorial Stadium on Saturday the 4th of September. Hard to believe we're already
into the second half of the X's baseball season but we are the X's playing game
one of a three-game weekend series with the Saints and St. Paul tonight and it
was the Saints doubling up the X's 6 to 3 this evening. New Explorer Antoine Gray
was 1 for 4 tonight. The same two teams play tomorrow night in St. Paul at 7.05.
Stage 6 of the Tour de France today but today there was more than racing going
on. Stay tuned the cyclists going 141 miles, Fabio Cancellara the pride of
Switzerland keeps the yellow jersey with an overall lead of 20 seconds but check
out your screen. Carlos Boreto of Spain and Rui Costa of Portugal in a fist
fight. Behind the stage throwing punches, Costa trying to hit him with a bike wheel.
No reason given for why the riders were mad at each other or why they were
fighting in a bicycle race. Golf action now round two of the John Deere Classic
where yesterday Paul Goidos became only the fourth player in PGA history to fire
59. Iowa native Zach Johnson has been hanging in there the first two days he
shot a 4 under 67 Thursday and shot a 2 under 69 today. Good enough to make the
cut and stay in the hunt. Steve Stricker took the lead at 16 under for the tourney
today. Paul Goidos is 1 back at 15 under. Johnson is 10 strokes back overall going
into tomorrow's round three. Last night basketball superstar LeBron James
announced during a one-hour special he would join Dwayne Wade and Chris Bosch
to play for the Miami Heat. Needless to say Heat fans are happy and LeBron James
merchandise is a hot commodity. James joining of Miami makes the Heat an
instant NBA contender so shirts jerseys and all that stuff is going fast. A lot of
high-profile players all in one place. All in one place at the same time. We'll
see how it all shakes out. We're back with Chad right after this.
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This is gonna be good. Good looking Saturday Sunday to stay inside. Yeah
first half of Saturday looks absolutely fantastic. It is gonna get a little bit
warm out there tomorrow 89 degrees. Probably also gonna see the humidity
climb just a little bit. Chance of rain late Saturday that will continue on to
early Monday. We'll get a break Tuesday then those temperatures really crank up
for the middle part of next week. You really just can't catch a break when it
comes to this rain. It keeps coming in longer stretches and it saturates
everything. The good news is with these last couple systems they've been quick
movers. They've been in and out rather quickly so doesn't exasperate the soggy
conditions across here. It kind of spreads it out over a bigger a bigger
space so it's not such a mess. Okay that does it for us. Letterman is up next. Have
a wonderful weekend. We'll meet you back here on Monday.
Congrats!