Kevin thanks, krutis. Dangerous conditions for a lot of drivers tonight. Stacey ryan smith is live near altoona. Ryan the roads behind us near the flying j truck stop in altoona. Drivers must remain cautious if they are on the road. Like most places across the metro, if you have had your car sitting out for even a half hour, there are gobs of snow to clear up. I am measuring 45 inches on this car outside the flying j. Snow is building up on both commercial roads and along the interstate. Lets go to some video we shot not long ago. Out on interstate 80 in altoona, drivers are moving cautiously with minimal traffic around the 9 0010 00 hour tonight. Also, a few stalled vehicles on the interstate. We spotted one car that had spun around completely facing , eastbound in the westbound lane, near exit 141. Vehicles that havent been moved now buried under a thick blanket of snow. We caught up with one driver, just before venturing out into the first snow storm in a new car. Rich ive never had a frontwheel drive car before. Ryan this is frontwheel drive . Good luck to you. Rich tell me about it. And ive been hearing from all the drivers coming in. Things are not improving at all, the east or the west, so its pretty bad out there. Roy wet and slippery. Thats about it. So maintain a lot of distance between your vehicles. Some people are not used to it yet. Not too awful bad yet, the temperature is going to drop. Its going to get worse. Ryan the further east you travel, the worse it gets. Out on the roads, the dot reports roads are completely covered east of mitchellville. That is the latest. Live in altoona, ryan smith, kcci 8 news, iowas news leader. Stacey taking a look at Road Conditions from all across the state right now from 511ia. Org. It does not look good. Take a look at the dark purple in the middle of the screen. That means travel not advised in the des moines metro, up interstate 35, and points north and east. The areas you see in pink are roads that are 100 snow and ice covered. Roads in blue are partially covered. And you can see just a couple of them. The roads in green are rated as clear. And heres a live look at the roads here in the metro. It looks like the roads and wet at this point. But dot says travel is not advised. Kevin situations like that all around iowa lots of accidents , around central iowa tonight. Our crews were there right after a car slid off the road into a creek near adel. The car wound up partially submerged. The man inside had to be extricated by fire crews. Were told he was conscious and taken to the hospital with nonlifethreatening injuries. Meanwhile, at the other end of the metro, dramatic new video of a water rescue in berwick, just west of altoona, as a car slid ing into a creek there. Brennan jontz with the Iowa Storm Chasing Network shot this video. He says at least two victims were rescued from the vehicle. They did not appear to have serious injuries. The streets of downtown look like a ghost town tonight. Stacey kccis Cynthia Fodor joins us live from gateway park. Cynthia . Cynthia not many people out on the streets at all tonight, you can see why. But look at this, we are down here at the park did this gentleman brought his dog out. This is his puppys very first snow fall. He seems to be having a lot of fun jumping through the snow and running in it. He does not mind it at all. A lot of people saying they were not going to let a snow storm stop their friday night fun. The plows were about the only vehicles we saw out and about for a time. In fact, standing here for about 10 minutes, i counted nine clouds that went down grand avenue and locust, i could see them up on ingersoll. Many of the city streets are still snowcovered. We had trouble driving down a small hill, on which our brakes did not work at all. Plow drivers out tonight tell us they always enjoy the first snow fall. And theyre not the only ones. How would you describe the roads . Lance they are slick. Lisa were having fun, first snowfall. This is iowa. Cynthia you are not going to stay in all winter . Lisa oh no, we are going to arizona. Cynthia i had to check the calendar. Winter officially begins a month from tomorrow on december 21. Stacey . Stacey nice to see someone enjoying the Winter Weather tonight. We have new pictures tonight, sent in from viewers, help telling the weather story tonight. Steve karlin in with some of the best shots. Steve great viewers, you know that. You know, a big snow like this can really be depressing. So its nice to see that some kcci viewers are approaching it with appreciation, amusement, and a little bit of awe. Take this picture, for example. Whoever shot it is obviously appreciating the way the snow is just piling up on this outdoor table so evenly. It is perfect. And this truck in ashton, iowa might just be stuck. Theyll certainly have to do some digging before they can drive anywhere. Wow, it is piled up there. Heres a cute one. This little boy in calhoun county, look at that, out catching the first snowflakes from the first snow. This is an awesome shot of the Winter Wonderland that Mother Nature is creating right now in havelock. The kids had a blast. Thats what viewer jeci nicole says about the people who a used a whole bunch of this great packing snow to produce a sevenfoot tall snowman. They say they plan to decorate it tomorrow. Not to be outdone, Nicole Comito sent in this picture of fouryearold alecya and her dad. Proudly showing off the snowman they made today. Giving that thing a big hug. Remember, during any weather event or breaking news situation, we would love it if you send in your pictures and videos. You can upload them to the ulocal tab on our website, kcci. Com. Or just email them to us at news kcci. Com. Now you can also check out our livewire on kcci. Com for uptodate pictures and tweets from our reporters in the field. Stacey . Stacey checking back in with kurtis now. Some pretty impressive snow kurtis over a foot in some locations. By the time it is all said and done, someone will squeeze out 14, 15 inches. L dora is 7. 8. Waukee is 6. 8. Kcci studios over five inches. Hampton had a foot. Ackley had 11. Johnson had 6. 2. Coming over five inches. We are starting to get the pinwheel of fact, snow north of the metro is dropping south along i30 ive north did that is where the heaviest snow is now. The trend will add on up as a night goes on. Snow should be ending near 3 a. M. With around seven inches downtown. That 58 inch amount across central iowa. Kevin thank you. As we have been telling you the past few days, the winter storm changed plans for tonights State High School football championship games. The Iowa High SchoolAthletic Association postponed the 1a, 2a, and 4a games moving them to monday. Dowling catholic and cedar rapidskennedy now play monday night in cedar falls at 7 06. There will be no Television Broadcast of the games. You can find a web video and audio feed online at the Iowa High SchoolAthletic Associations website iahsaa. Org. The game will go on in iowa city tomorrow. We are talking about the hawkeyes, of course. Crews will be working all through the night to get the snow out of Kinnick Stadium. It is still falling over there. Road crews are also putting an extra emphasis on the major roads leading to the stadium. More than 60,000 people are expected for the game. It kicks off just a couple hours after the snow is expected to taper off. When fans head inside from the parking lots, officials recommend they wear boots and warm clothes. Because it is likely they will find snow in their seats. Steve roe getting snow out from between one row and all the rows, that will be a little more difficult. You know if we get the snow in the stadium. But our staff will do their best to have the aisles and the concourse as clean as best as possible. Kevin officials in iowa city are urging fans to come early to get settled in. Keep in mind, there will be extra security because of the recent terrorist attacks in france. As you head to the game, and as always, count on kcci to keep you in the know. Watch live radar and get weather and closing alerts on your smartphone with our kcci mobile app. Stacey the winter storm didnt stop the east village holiday promenade tonight in des moines. A group of tap dancers greeted visitors, amidst strong winds and heavy snowfall. The holiday promenade is the kickoff to the Holiday Shopping season. Customers stopped into east village boutiques and businesses for open houses. And volunteers collected donations to the food bank at brenton plaza. Kevin thomas its beautiful out, in a way, right . The Holiday Season just brings it out. Im an iowan, born here, so its great to see the snow and festive environment. Stacey the weather did put a damper on the horsedrawn trolley part of the event. Organizers decided to cancel it for everyones safety. And we continue to keep our eyes on the conditions outside. Another live look outside near altoona. Were also keeping our eyes on the roads. A live look at i235 and jordan creek parkway and west des moines. Dozens of accident reports coming in. D. O. T. Advising travel precaution, no travel in some places on central iowa roads. Youre watching live team 10 00. Kevin well, from our downtown skycam. Taking a look at valley west mall. Still snowing around the area. The traffic situation is not necessarily what you would have expected any night. The Road Conditions along 235 are improving as plows make multiple passes. A little rough earlier this evening. Traffic is light, as people are staying in and off the roads. Stacey checking back in with kccis ryan smith now live near altoona. Ryan we are live just off of exit 142 altoona tonight read i have to say the conditions are improving. The wind is softer, the snow is what as you can see, this is a popular, heavily used parking lot. Even in these conditions, they have two different plows working the parking lot. And they are moving a lot of snow. The snow mound that they are bumping all of the snow into, theyre at least four feet high and the moment. We talked to some truckers and drivers in the area. They tell us that Road Conditions here in altoona not all that bad. I have to say, driving east around 9 00, it was more passable and more free to move then through i235 near the down town area. Ryan smith, kcci news. Kevin i have to ask, where ryan is, looks like it has let up a bit. Kurtis and they will rotate back in the muscle i expect the snow to pick up in the metro and about the next hour. 33 degrees. Winds out of the northeast at 16. Again, this is a fairly heavy, wet snow. Winds at 6020. It up into saturday, we could have issues in a rural areas with blowing snow. 6 00 a. M. Most of the snow well to the east to the metro. We start to see the sun move then, 24 at noon. Look at that wind chill, at 12. Temperatures will not do much on it will hang in the 20s. It will drop off during the late afternoon. Look at super doppler 8. Where ryan is, things are lighter. Over yesterday to get these bands on the radar of heavier snow forming. This is rotating around an area of low pressure. We may start to pick up some heavier snowfall from the metro off to the west. There is a movement on this. Boom, jefferson, you see a band heavier snow. Another one in grimes and waukee headed towards downtown. The low spreading down the area, see how everything is slowly coming to an and . And a kind of picks up here, that is dragging through the metro with additional snowfall of an inch or two. A winter storm warning expired out and iowa, it continues for the metro. That will affect polk county and around black hawk county, down in southern iowa, there is one for munro county. What we will see is the snow fall on through around 3 00 in the morning. Still out of this day, here comes the sunshine as we head into saturday afternoon. When the some blowing snow in areas. Sunday looks to be very cold, another day filled with sunshine generally sunrise to sunset. The snowfall amounts, we go with a 58 inches in the metro. Already reports of 6. 5 inches to the north, 712 inches plus. We have it is of a foot already to the north, 25 down south. Blowing snow, northeast winds and 5025, tomorrow is just 26. Wind chills in the teens. Had to connect stadium, temperatures in the 20. Late game sunshine, northwest winds at 5025. Sunday just nine degrees. And wind chill on sunday will be down below zero. So prepare for that. Monday is 40, tuesday is 40, wednesday is 50. Turkey day has some rain mixing in with the snow on friday. Kevin thank you, you turkey. 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The fourpeppercorn mayo really sets this burger apart. This is the ultimate bacon cheeseburger. Our new pepper grinder pub burger. Welcome to delicious kevin commitment 2016 tonight. The snowstorm didnt stop seven republican president ial candidates from speaking in des moines tonight. Stacey dr. Ben carson, ted cruz, carly fiorina, mike huckabee, rand paul, marco rubio, and Rick Santorum all took part in the president ial family forum. The event is sponsored by the family leader. One of the big topics of the night . Paris. Rand paul i think that if you cannot name your enemy, how can you defeat your enemy. Nobody on the stage will even call it what it is radical islam. And until we can name the enemy, we cannot defeat the enemy. Rick santorum the sea otter theology of the middle east is isis. They may not be violent, as violent as al qaeda or isis is. But the fact is they agree with the theology behind it. Ted cruz these refugees are fleeing the disaster that has been caused by the obamaclinton foreignpolicy. Marco we have to understand that the capability to create that kind of attack only creates when they have a safe haven to operate. Stacey the candidates were also asked who would be the first person they would call if another terrorist attack happened in the u. S. . Call come you get on your knees and you make a call to god. You better have his health or you will never make this decision right. Ben carson the activation system, from the Homeland Security system. You would call Homeland Security . Ben carson yes. Carly fiorina the first thing i would do, honestly, is fall to my knees and pray. Because the president , despite all of the great assistants that is readily available, what is needed is courage and wisdom and guidance. Stacey there was a brief interruption during the event. Protesters disrupted the event and held up a sign protesting deportation. The group was led out of the anb bush leadership means youve got to be all in. Its not about yappin. Its not about talking. Its about doing. I know how to do this because i was privileged to serve in florida for eight years. And we turned the systems upside down that werent working. 1. 3 million new jobs were created. We cut taxes every year. Income rose in peoples pockets. People were lifted out of poverty. Children started to learn. As president of the united states, i pledge to you that i will solve problems. Ananuncer right to rise usa is responsible for the content of this message. Announcer from iowas sports leader, this is kcci 8 sports. Andy going to be some history at Kinnick Stadium tomorrow. The hawkeyes will play a game in the snow on the home turf. You know it will be messy. And the hawkeyes would just have to ride hard on their core of running backs to get success tomorrow when purdue comes the time. That is a nice thing, they have a ton of good running back. Jordan can very has been good, Lashawn Daniels has taken over the starting role. He says it is an embarrassment of riches he is happy to have. Kirk it has been a most impressive, the way they picked each other up. If summary goes down, you know, the next guy grabs the rope and does a great job with it. We are really pleased with all of the group that lashawn, that is as good as he has looked since hes been here. Andy going to be about 63,000 tickets sold for tomorrows game against purdue. Probably far fewer than that in the stand straight kickoff is at if iowa wins tomorrow, they had to indiana. Iowa gets an allotment of 10,000 tickets. More than 13,000 requests. If you are a season Ticket Holder and you have less than 100plus priority points to get on the secondary market. Iowa state glaze kansas state and the little apple. Kansas state always finds a way to make that play that makes a difference, especially in games against the cyclones. Tom i think it is just clutch players making big plays. Plays that we are capable of making. Plays joel lanning or Dimock Tucker can make. We have to get them making the right kind of place. Andy kickoff in manhattan tomorrow morning at 11 00. It is on fox sports 1. Dowling catholic had a shot at history tonight. Winning three straight, no team is ever done that in class 4a, they have to wait until monday. A great call to postpone the championship. Dowling went through some walk throughs during the gym. He says history can way. Theres nothing we can control about. We kind of move on and try to do what is best for our team to get ready for monday. I think it will give us another three days to prepare for cedar rapids. They are a good team. Andy kennedy and dowling, the night cap of a full day on monday in the unidome. Those games will not be on television. They will only be available online. You can watch the stream at the ion the ice tonight, the iowa wild they will play in the snow. Ice is no big deal. The wild got going early on. Lake erie would come back to win the game, final score 32. Good move by the iowa wild, if you buy tickets for tonight game , those tickets are good for any home game in december. You can turn them in four equal or lesser value to check out more hockey. You did not put your hide on the line. You still have a chance to get them. We will kurtis the areas in dark blue are wrapping around him of the the metro. The trend continues from five all the way to seven inches, 58 in central iowa. Weekend is just plain cold. Welcome stephen colbert