This is your WCFW Daily News Roundup for 105-7 CFW in Chippewa Falls and 93-5 The Tap in Eau Claire.
For 105-7 CFW News, I'm James Kelly.
Chippewa Valley residents were joined by former member of the band Shanana John Bowser Bowman at a rally in support of Medicaid and Social Security over the weekend.
Bowman, now president of the Social Security Works PAC, broke out his keyboard to sing with protesters outside the Fall Festival in downtown Eau Claire on Saturday.
He also drew attention to votes by Congressman Tom Tiffany and Derek Van Orden that will see further cuts to Medicaid go into effect next year.
It
was the ACA and now we're fighting to keep...
to keep rural hospitals open and urban hospitals open.
And by the way, the worst is yet to come because 2027 is really the year that Derek Van Orden and Tom Tiffany has targeted for the worst cuts to Medicaid.
The Medicaid cuts that are going to shut down hospitals and shut down nursing homes all over the country, including Wisconsin.
Bowman also highlighted the projected budget issues with Social Security, calling on lawmakers to lift the $184,500 annual income cap on Social Security contributions to ensure the program remains viable and can pay out its full benefits.
We always mark the day when if you're making a million bucks that year, when do you stop paying into Social Security?
And the answer for this year was March 9th.
and then you don't pay a cent for the rest of the year.
And I ask everybody listening to this, is that fair?
And I can hear the resounding, no, of course it's not fair.
And this has got to change.
So that's why the Scrap the Cap movement really has a lot of legs because everybody realizes how unfair this is.
The
event, dubbed the Rockin Healthcare Accountability Rally, was organized by Chippewa Valley Indivisible.
For 1057 CFW News, I'm James Kelly.
For Civic Media News, I'm Connie Feldman.
A flight home from a Republican dinner in La Crosse ended with Tom Tiffany and his pilot in Lake Wausau after their plane lost power near the Wausau downtown airport.
Authorities say the 911 call came in around 8.49 Saturday night and Tiffany says the two got out of the plane as it started to sink.
It's not like they made plans to move to the nearest shore after it went under, and I lost contact with them.
I believe his phone is under water.
They may be swimming south, I believe.
We have two victims in the water.
We're just pulling them out now.
Most of them went back to the landing with two victims.
Both are alert and cautious.
Tiffany took to a microphone later in the day to explain what happened and talked about the injuries to himself and his hero pilot.
Democratic candidate David Crowley issued a statement saying he is thankful no one was seriously hurt.
Federal investigators are looking into the emergency landing.
It wasn't the season opener Packer fans had hoped for against Division Rivals Minnesota Vikings.
The pack had a double-digit lead going into halftime with an impressive performance controlling the game from the start.
The second half was a different story though, a scenario all too familiar to Packer fans.
The Vikings scored 29 points in a row, Jordan Love faced back-to-back sacks fumbling on one of them, and a string of penalties led to a 39-22 blowout by the Vikings.
The Packers head to New York next week to take on the jets.
Four police officers are injured, and one of our state's largest farmers markets was canceled Saturday after a car drove into a crowd of people over the weekend in Green Bay.
Green Bay police say a fight broke out near a food truck just after two in the morning Saturday.
As officers were investigating, they say a car drove into a crowd of bystanders and police.
One officer fired their gun.
No one was hurt from the gunfire.
Police say four officers needed medical treatment for their injuries.
The officer who fired the gun is now on administrative leave for the department's policy.
Due to the active investigation in downtown Green Bay, city leaders canceled Saturday's farmers market.
The market typically hosts around 150 vendors for Saturday's market.
An athlete is dead after suffering a medical emergency during the Iron Man 70.3 Wisconsin competition in Madison.
Officials said the incident happened during the swimming portion of the event Saturday morning.
UW Lake Rescue personnel brought the athlete to shore and began life-saving measures before emergency crews took over.
The athlete was transported to a hospital where they later died.
And that's your state news update.
I'm Connie Feldman for Civic Media News.
The Packers lose to the Vikings.
Hi, I'm Mike Clemens from US Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, where the Packers lost 39 to 22.
Green Bay had the lead, then gave up four consecutive touchdowns to the Vikings.
I asked the Packers new linebacker, Zaire Franklin, if he'd ever seen a game flip like that in the fourth quarter.
I mean, I've been through a lot of s*** in this league.
I don't know.
Maybe.
It's just tough.
We just gotta look back at it and see, you know, what our role was in it, how we could be better on that technique and our fundamentals and not put ourselves in a situation, you know, in these type of games you can't.
the game in the hands of the rest, right, wrong, or indifferent.
We just got to execute and do our job.
Baseball, the Brewers have the night off after losing to the Reds yesterday, 4-3.
Reliever, Abner, Uribe, charged with the loss after giving up the go-ahead run.
As Brewers manager Pat Murphy was sports, I'm Mike Clemens.
is going to be partly to mostly cloudy, little breezy today with scattered showers and thunderstorms possible this afternoon.
Tonight we'll drop into the 50s with more scattered showers, thunderstorms tomorrow.
Partly cloudy to mostly cloudy at times with a high in the upper 60s to low 70s.
I'm meteorologist Sean Cable.
Outside now it's 53.
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