Gazette Daily News Podcast, July 12

It will be a sunny, pleasant day on Tuesday. According to the National Weather Service it will be sunny, with a high near 85 degrees. A northwest wind of 5 to 10 mph will gust as high as 20 mph. On Tuesday night it will be mostly clear, with a low of around 64 degrees.

School resource officers will no longer patrol Cedar Rapids middle schools after the school board voted Monday to decrease the number of police in schools from seven to five and reduce the cost of the contract proportionally.

The amended contract with the Cedar Rapids Police Department removing the two officers was approved 5-2, with members Jennifer Neumann and Marcy Roundtree in opposition.

The revised contract is in effect until June 30, 2023. School resource officers will be based at Jefferson, Kennedy, Washington and Metro high schools and Polk Alternative Education Center.

Ten speakers spoke during public comment ahead of the vote Monday, with the majority advocating to remove or reduce the number of police officers in schools.

The state agreed Monday to a $7.5 million medical malpractice settlement after a 41-year-old Davenport man suffered severe life-limiting impairments following care at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics for a bleeding brain tumor.

According to the new settlement, Christopher Dolan — now 47 — is in a wheelchair and requires 24-hour care. “His speech, motor, bowel and bladder functions are compromised, and his right leg and arm are spastic and paralyzed,” the settlement reported.

Dolan was referred to UIHC in late December of 2016. After a pituitary tumor was discovered on three different occasions he was discharged from the hospital instead of being treated. By the time Dolan was treated and the tumor removed a few days later, it was determined that his brain had been damaged while the tumor had remained in his head, leading to a variety of complications.

NASA is scheduled to release the first images taken by the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope on Tuesday after giving an impressive preview image Monday night.

It’ll mark the beginning of the next era in astronomy as the largest space telescope ever built begins collecting scientific data, helping to answer questions about some of the universe’s earliest moments.

On Tuesday, NASA is set to reveal the rest of the JWST's first images at 9:30 a.m. Central Standard Time. You can watch the announcement live on NASA TV starting at 8:45 a.m.