Means those roads are completely covered in those areas. Mostly blue in the des moines area, and beyond, roads partially covered. Normal. Stacey state troopers are out interstates. Steve trooper doug cutts joins us now to tell us what hes seeing. First of all, where are you and what you see . Doug i am in Jasper County right now. Over east here, we are merely wet still. But as you move to the west and north, theyre becoming slush and snowcovered. Story county right now, boone county. There is no towing in those counties. And as the night progresses. We assume more counties added to that ban. Stacey what is the traffic light right now . Doug we still have heavy traffic because it is rush hour, people trying to get home. If you do slow down and take your time, allow the extra space, watch out for the other driver. You will be good and make it home for the heavy stuff. Just take the time, allow that space. Steve thank you very much, doug from the iowa state patrol who always helps us trade snow has been falling a lot to the north. We check in with vanessa peng near webster city. Vanessa stacy and steve, conditions are getting worse. We are just off highway 20 in webster city. Compact snow, and it is wet. Gusting at nearly 25 miles per hour, it really kind of things. Let me show you what, how easily at 28 degrees, when you have wet snow, it is really concerning about the roads how slick they are. We have noticed they have been slick read a lot of cars in the ditch, even some accidents. Were taking a look at highway 20, it is quiet. I do not see or hear a single car out here. Hopefully, people are taking the advice of Law Enforcement and taking it slow. Live in webster city vanessa , peng, kcci 8 news, iowas news leader. Stacey now we check in with frank. He has been driving across the metro. Steve the is on the east side near i80 near altoona. What do you notice . Frank i tell you what i see. Folks driving around without fast. And just not being careful enough out your. Getting slushy right now. Just to the west of mitchellville, i just got off of that exit a little bit ago. And i will tell you what, the overpasses are very, very slippery. Road crews doing a great job treating the roads. The main roads and the interstates across the last few hours. Bridges and overpasses are very slick as road crews try to keep up tonight. I tell you what, a lot of traffic starting to build here on interstate 80. And again, just cannot stress it enough. Folks, please slow down. The roads are very slippery. I am seeing people out here doing this the limit. That is too fast. I am going 45, and that is as fast as i feel going. Back to you guys. Steve we are doing our very best especially on a friday afternoon to get everybody home safely. Stacey now we check in with mark who is west on i80 near van meter. Mark we are right here along the van meter exit along interstate 80. Cemetery. Moving at the speed limit. We were talking, we still think people are traveling 6570 miles per hour. I want to echo what trooper cutt said. Still around 34 degrees, expecting four inches of snow in this area before the event is over. Most important right now, more important in the temperature, is the pavement temperature. I spoke with the dot about an hour and a half ago. He told me the pavement temperature is still between 3440 degrees. Those numbers will be dropping when we hit freezing. That is what we see the road right now, folks traveling at the speed limit. But the bridges and overpasses are definitely places where you want to be especially careful right now. This is an all hands on deck of them. 900 snowplows working on some 9000 miles of state roadways. They told me they actually did not do a lot of brining. because it is such a narrow margin of temperature between rain and snow. The rain just washes that brine away. The only major state roads are brined sporadically. We have seen clouds over the last couple of hours trade they have been mostly working on the shoulders. But the major part of the highway still just went right now. We are seeing a lot of rain a lot of water and up by the vehicle. Staceyl mark, thank you. Count on kcci to keep you in the know as the winter storm continues. Watch live radar and get weather and closing alerts on your smartphone with our kcci mobile app. Steve the winter storm is impacting tonights State High School football championship games. The Iowa High SchoolAthletic Association has postponed the 1a, 2a, and 4a games that were scheduled to be played today and tonight. They have moved them to monday. There were concerns about the teams and fans traveling to and from the unidome in cedar falls. Dowling catholic and cedar rapids kennedy now play monday night in the 4qa game at 7 06. Stacey Jordan Creek Town Center in West Des Moines is canceling its annual holiday Tree Lighting and fireworks tonight. But santa claus still arrives. He got into the metro at 5 00. The christmas Tree Lighting at the statehouse scheduled for tonight has also been canceled. But the east village holiday promenade is still on. Its going on right now until 9 p. M. Santa is expected to make an but the horsedrawn trolley rides wont be available because of the weather. Sally terrorist attack at a hotel in mali. Im sally kidd in washington with the fate of the hostages, and whos claiming responsibility. Stacey plus, the search for a key suspect widens, while parisians pause to pay tribute to those who were brutally killed one week ago. Steve and a live look. At the east mix master, people go home on a friday afternoon. Take it slow, folks. The roads and conditions are deteriorating. I owe about 68,000. I owe 44,000 in student loans. My plan, the new college compact, says you should not have to borrow money to pay tuition if you go to a Public College or university. And you ought to be able to refinance student debt. And i dont believe the federal government should be making a profit off of lending to young people who are borrowing to be able to get their education. We have got to make college affordable. Announcer this is iowas news leader. This is kcci 8 news at 5 00 with steve karlin, stacey horst, and chief meteorologist john mclaughlin. Steve the snow continues to fall in the metro. We go way out west to i80 and jordan creek parkway. We see travelers along interstate 80. But things are not going to deteriorate, stay with us. We will have the latest on the Road Conditions and the snowfall amounts. Islamic extremists stormed a hotel in the african nation of mali today, taking dozens of hostages. At least 21 people have been killed in the daylong siege. Stacey kccis sally kidd is sally, we understand some of the hotel guests were americans . We have a breaking update for you. Senior state Department Officials are telling cbs news that one u. S. Citizen was killed in the attack. There are no other reports of americans being killed or injured, just this one person. No other details than that. But i can tell you that u. S. Military officials are saying at least six americans were evacuated from the hotel. Islamic militants armed with guns and grenades stormed into the Radisson Blu Hotel this morning and took about 170 guests and staff hostage. Some were able to escape, others hid. At least one hostage says the attackers instructed him to recite verses from the quran before the militants allowed him to leave. Mali troops rushed into the hotel, searching room by room to free the hostages. U. S. And French Special ops the u. N. Says at least two attackers have also been killed. Kcci 8 news, iowas news leader. Steve one week after the deadly terror attacks that rocked paris, residents paused today to pay tribute to the victims. That, while the search for a key suspect continues. Kevin cooney is here now with that right now. Kevin steve, the manhunt for Salah Abdeslam is now widening as far as the netherlands. The belgian terror suspect slipped away after the attacks in paris. And french officials admit they really do not have any precise investigators used a cell phone found near the attacked theater to track down suspected ringleader abdelhamid abaaoud. Now he and his cousin were killed in an apartment raid. French prosecutors now say a third suspect also died during that shootout. Many parisians stopped in the rain today to be treated to the victims, one week after the blasts. Another person wounded in the attacks has died, bringing the death toll to 130 people. Many others are still hospitalized with serious injuries. Steve . Steve thank you, kevin. Jonathan pollard is now out of federal prison. You may remember him. He served 30 years for selling u. S. Intelligence secrets to israel. Pollard checked in at a federal Probation Office this morning in new york city. Terms of his parole require him to remain in the u. S. For at least five years. But supporters say he should be able to move to israel right away. Stacey no warnings, just tickets. Thats what Des Moines Police officers are handing out, if they see cars parked on the street while the snow ordinance is in effect. Steve we dont want that to happen. Officers are reminding residents to move their cars as the storm rolls in. Kccis rose heaphy is live in sherman hill with more. Rose i am here at 16th and park in sherman hill. It has picked up in the last 15 minutes. You see about a half of an inch of accumulation, no signs of stopping. That means in residential areas, no cars can be parked on the sides of the road. The only exception to that are in neighborhoods like sherman hill, where there is even and odd numbered day parking. And there is signage on that srtreet. Officers say theyre skipping the warnings this year. Because residents should be familiar with the drill. Sgt. Parizek were going to exercise a fair amount of discretion. We always do. But if its something that needs to be addressed, were going to go ahead and address it, so it keeps the streets clear. Rose in des moines, the fine is 35. And cars can even be towed. Live in des moines, rose heaphy, kcci 8 news, iowas news leader. Steve blue is my favorite color. But i dont like it much today. Kurtis i know that about you. Week. It is 38 degrees, the warm down the acumen later. We are starting to overcome that in the matter. Already in Northern Iowa, it has really thickened. The dew point is 30 degrees. As the evening goes along, we have a band of heavier snowfall moving in. We have rates of maybe 12 inches in a few isolated locations. Temperatures hover around the freezing mark, snow starts to shift across the eastern state. By 11 00, temperatures will slowly drop. All we need is for it to freeze. By 8 a. M. It is 29 degrees. And. Emmitsburg is 13. 5 inches. Sutherland has 10. Polk citys 10. 5. Here at the studio we are already over a net. The tail end of the system will really start to squeeze out the hours or so. You can see this on the satellite and radar, how that omaha and council bluffs. Heaviest snow. Still some showers in between, but the snow coming to an end in most of south dakota. We are getting reports out of south dakota of 15 inches. Our winter storm warning continues right through saturday morning. It does include polk county. Notice that Northern Iowa in a Winter Weather advisory. The heaviest snow will be just north of highway 20. Here is the futurecast, doing a good job. Watch as how the snow moves on through, moderate snow falling 10 00 p. M. Still snowing around midnight. Till around 2 a. M. In the morning. Then the system polls on out, should be drive a morning hour if youre headed off to the east. But there will be plenty of snow on the ground there. And the snow moves on outcome and we see sunshine on saturday. But i think we have some snow problems with a blowing. I want to show you the computer model that tries to refine things near seven inches in grinnell, 7. 9 in adele. This system, is anywhere from 58 inches in central iowa. I think that will dip down to the southeast. The lightest amounts will be in southwestern iowa, 25. And then to the north, 712 inches highway 30 to just north of highway 20. The forecast tonight is 24. A bit heavy at times, the winds pick up. That will lead to some blowing snow. Tomorrow is 26, look at those wind chills in the teens for the afternoon hours. Sunday is down to nine. Wind chill sunday morning, it is going to feel winterlike. We will have chills below zero. But as we head to monday, 50s on wednesday. A looks like rain on thanksgiving day. Maybe some snow mixing in on black friday. Steve thank you, the careful out there. We have an accident there. Ashworth road. On the north side, another one drive. And then another one at merle hay road. You do not what to get caught up in an accident. Let us take a look at the map right now and see what is going area. Things are slowing down just about everywhere. That means you should slow down, too. Let us take a look at drive they are slow. 11 minutes to boast the east and west mix master right now. Stacey kevin cooney joins us now with a look at what s coming up tonight at 6 00. Kevin stacey, we of course will are going to continue to monitor the latest on the storm. The now totals from up north, as you just saw, Pretty Amazing totals. 13 inches in emmitsburg. Sanborn up near storm lake and spencer, we will have reporters out in the field. And updates from meteorologists steve we need to get out on the western gateway and see what is going down downtown. Kim is live. Kim you know, quite a bit has changed within the last 15 minutes since when you checked in. I would say the snow has picked up on the wind has also picked up. If you look at the lights, you can see the snow blowing around. What we are talking about is the stick, wet, heavy snow that is accumulating quickly here on western gateway park. Obviously in this area here, ive noticed something very different, Road Conditions. They are quickly deteriorating as traffic is picking up with gateway right now. When we checked in last time, i would say the snow was just artistic to the roads. Right now, it is almost completely covered. Stay safe out there and go slow. Live in des moines, kcci. Stacey now we want to check in with frank. What is your location now . Frank i am at interstate 80 in the east miss master now. Road conditions really deteriorating, we see traffic starting to pick up quite a bit out here. Of course, rushhour folks starting to slow down. It seems like the average speed westbound on the east side, right around 35 miles per hour. I also want to quickly mentioned visibility. We have been talking about road less than half a mile. That means you just cannot see that far in front of you because it is dark right now. Tonight. Be sure you take an extra couple of minutes to get to where you need to be. If you can, stay home. A combination of the visibility, tonight. Reporting from the east mix steve lets go up to the north now, that is where you find vanessa peng. Vanessa we are heading east on highway 20, and it is getting dicey. Look how shiny the road is, that is how icy it is. Makes me very nervous to be on the road. We are going forward, and that is something that i want everyone to know about. We brought this to you less 10 00 news. The dot has s they have installed on the plows because they want to lower the number of crashes. Since 2009, they have had more than 2000 crashes involving plows. That is something you need to watch out. Live near players byrd, vanessa peng,. Steve accidents during the pile up in the metro. Here is a quick look at one of them, valley west drive. Excuse me, eastbound things we have you coverele are sick and tired of establishment politics, and they want real change [ cheers and applause ] Bernie Sanders husband, father, grandfather. Hes taking on wall street and a corrupt political system that keeps in place a rigged economy. Bernies campaign is funded byover a million contributions people like you, who see the middle class disappearing and want a future to believe in. Americas never been a country of quitters. Its not who we are. We dont ignore threats like climate change. We face our problems headon. 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