T kaj omara has your first alert forecast, kaj. Well start off the day with lingering snow showers and flurries, though most of the day wwl stay cloudy. Tempmpatures will not go anywhere,e,hanks to fresh snow in the area, and should remain in the 20s the entire day. Another area of low pressure looks to spread snow across the area early tomorrow with amounts of tr2 common. Again, that could lead to slick driving, especial in the rning hours. Well stay quiet as 2015 comes to a close, with 2016 starting off cold. Thanks kaj. The city of f dar rapids is all now working to remove snow before people head out this morning. The city told tv9, the g gl is to keep theheain streets as clear as possible. And the temperatures yesterday made that easier. But now that its getting colder, it could cause problems. A lot of streets need owing. And the citys streets supervisor says crews are working hard to clear streets for morning drivers. We will have everybody in at 1 including our mechanics. We will have everybody in again working the main drags, and when we can get the main drags done, we will work on getting into the residentials and the hills. The city is under a snow emergency until noon today. That means no one should park on the snow emergency routes, which are marked with signs. E city could ticket or even tow vehicles parked on those routes. Some businesses in eastern iowa are seeing a sudden boom with the recent snowfall. Thats money in our pocket. Weve been waiting all winter, and its been disappointing for us. Hopefully it continunu. Dubuque lawn and snow was one of the many snow removal businesses that were clearing parking lots and driveways. The business said yesterdays storm is one of about 12 large snow events that happen in a normal winter. And the sled shed in cedar raps had a number of people who wante servicing on their snowblowers, or even to buy of the problems people have with their snowblowers are caused by old fuel in the machine. The entire state of iowa is going to be cleaning u after the snow storm. At one point yesterday y aftereron, the iowa departmtmt of transportatio n reported all roads were at least partially covered in snow. People in des moines saw about 5 inches of snow yesterday. The second wave of the torm hit as most people were gettiti out of work, causing a headache for evening commuters. The wet, really wet heavy snow that just bogs everything down, slows you down, its hard on the equipment so the light, fluffy stuff is what we always look f fr. The e ty of des moiness dispatched about 20 of its trucks last night. Employees with public works operated on 12 hour shifts until the storm passed. If you think you had it bad, driving in the snow and sleet yesterday. Imagine if it was your job. Kcrgtv9s brea love tells us how hectic yesterday was for day food delivery. On a snowy afternoon when not a lot t drivers are out, plenty of orders are milios sandwiches. Snow days are some of the busiest days for delivery drivers. Ive probably donever 26 delivers today, weve been really busy. Those 2 2orders were all delivered in less than 5 hours. Despite the conditions, milios works to fulfill each order within an hour. If the weather gets o bad then ll pull the drivers off the road, but until that happens were going to keep trying through. You just have to be more cautious with what youre doing. Naomi lenoard has delivered for milios for three years,s,nd says driving in these conditions is always the same. Really slow going like turtle. Avoiding side streets right now is a really big deal if you can, main arterires things like that, trying to keep everybody going in the same direction instead of all over the place. Leonard says she e used to the roads, and doesnt have much trouble getting around. I trust my driving, i try and trust other peoples, you just got to be more cautious than usual, people got to eat. She says she loves her job and will gladly brace the winter storm for customers. They donnwant to go out either, and they shouldnt have to, were already out, we might as well. We now have confirmation that a bus crash in chicago was a university of iowa student. Police say the bus driver lost control on interstate 55 about 640 yesterday morning. The bus hit a construction sign. Police say the driver told them m he swerveveto avoid a pickup that moved into the bus lane. Authorities say 21year old Nicole Underwood from des moines died in the crash. Four people also had non lifethreatening injuries. Travelers are crossing their fingers for a better day today, after weather forced airlines to cancel thousands of flights across the u s. And those using the Eastern Iowa Airport are no exception. Airlines cancelled 144undred delayed an additional 26 hundred, according to the flighttracking service flightaware. Some of those people affected by the cancellations were heading out to pasendena, california for the rose bowl. We caught up with some travelers who had a busy day of trying to figure out how to get to their final destinations. Were just hoping things would work out, and that we end up in la totoght by about eight or nine oclock la time. Butt together 12 45 39 its all worth it for the hawkeyes. 12 45 40 we planned a trip to sydney, australia and our flight was cancellfd this afternoon ande cant get out of cedar rapids until january 1. So now we have to drive down to dallasfort worth ananget to sydney that way. Half of the cancellations were at chicagos two main airports. Many of the other cancellations came from the dallasfort worth internaonal airport. That area saw several tornoes touch down on saturday. Even more hawkeye fans going to the rose bowl will be flying out of cedar rapids today. Depprt. The first flight supposed to take off at 5 oclock this morning. And the last one should leave at 8 8 0 tonight. There is one more charter flight leaving tomorrow. T Eastern Iowa Airport expects to see at least 3 thousand people travel through the airport for the rose bowl. President ial candidates are back on schedule to campaign in iowa today, after the winter storm canceled some of their events. Republican president ial candidate Chris Christie will be in eastern iowa today. He will been muscatine at 8 30 this morning. Then the new jersey governor will meet with voters in iowa city at 11 30. Finally, christie will stop in cedar rapids for a town hall event at 5 30 m. Floriri senator marco rubioio will be criss crossing the state today. This is the start of his out with the old, in with the new bus tour across rubio plans to talk to voters in clinton at noon. Then, he will be in waterloo at 3 oclock. And rubio will end his day in sioux city. Frontrunner is also going to be in iowa today. In council blblffs. In the most recect polls, he is Still Holding onto first place with voters. Just 5 weeks away from the iowa caucuses, trump says he will be focusing more of his efforts in the hawkeye state. But we are gonna spend a lot of money over the e xt four w wks, we dont wanna take any chances, we are too close. A recent gallup poll showed americans put donald trumumon the list of most admired public figures. He had 5 percent of the support. The other two ranking higher on the list, were president obama and the democratic president ial andidate hillary clinton. While many eastern iowans struggled with the snow, some are happy to finally have some. Skiers and snowboarder s were at Sundown Mountain resort in dubuque yesterday. The resort says it has about a ird of its 21 runs open right now. It hopes to open more later this week. And all those skiers are thankful for this round of snow. When we first arrived here in son was kind of disappointed, but now that it kind of came, hes really really happy. Because it gives me more air and i love air, that makes me go even faster. I just love going fast Sundown Mountain resort opened for the season justast week because it finally got cold enouou. Dozens of people have died because of Severe Weather this week. While iowa is now in the clear, people in the northeastern part of the nation are bracing for the worst. Mexican authorities s ave found a teen whoho violated his probation. That after he used a rich upbringing as defense for vehicular homicides. Opening farm markets. Go morning its. Well start off the day with lingering snow showers and flurries, though well start off the day with lingering snow showers and flurries, though most of the day will stay cloudy. Temperatures will not go anywhere, thanks to fresh snow in the area, and should remain in the 20s the entire day. Another area of low pressure looks to spread snow of tr2common. Again, that could lead to slick driving, especially in the morning hours. Well stay quiet as 2015 comes to a close, with 2016 starting off cold. Legos can be a toy for all ages. But those little pieces that can hurt if you step on them are more valuable than you may think. Well, thehetocks for them are. More on that coming up in todays americas the deadly storm system spawning tornadoes, floods, and snow across the United States is marching east this morning. The Severe Weather o or the past week has led to the deaths of at least 46 people. Today those in the northeast are bracing for their first major snowstorm of the seauon. Abcs megan hughes has details. After an unusually warm december, the first snow falls in massachusetts this rningwhere ice melt and shovelu fly ff the shelves. . Black fridayish in n n york stateplow trurus are ready. First storm, theres a lot of accidents. Hopefully, they will be very minor weather around the country has given them a preview from high winds and icy roads creating treacherous conditions in wisconsin . To flflds in missouri where the states death toll climbed into double digits. A snowdrift in new mexico trapped betty and Jimmy Anderson in their car for twenty hours until rescuers broke the wwdshield to free thth. Sot Jimmy Anderson my wife she was just shivering and shaking, so i got into the passenger seat because the of snow from us trying to dig out. So we cuddled up gether. Air travevers also had nothing to do but wait. Ive been stranded at the airport now for more than 50 hours. Almost 3 thousand Flights Canceled across the us acacrding to flight tracking service flightaware. The weather system spawned more tornadoes bringing terror to florida and arkansas. Drive get on the gas and go . Nats tornado on the ground right now whihi cleanup p gan near dallas where a 40 mile scar of splintered homes and debris shows the aftermath of tornadoes that took 11 lives there. Tag white house Officials Say president obama called the Texas Governor to get an update on the Severe Weather there and offer assistance and condolences for the lives lost. A texas teenager who avoided jail time for murder because of an affluenza defense has been found in mexico. Authorities determined he violated the terms of his probation. Couch was sixteen and driving under the influence when he struck and killed three people on a texas road in 2013. Tests showed his blood alcocol level to be three e mes the legal limit. At trial, couchs lawyers argued that the teen suffered from affluenza meaninhe was a rich kid whose parents didnt set limits for him. He was placed on probation and ordered into longterm Mental Health treatment. But in november, social media posts showed couch playing a drinking game, in clear violation of the conditions s at kept him out of jail. When a warrant was issued for his arrest, he fled. Now, mexican Authorities Say theyve found couch and his mother near a popular resort town. He will be turned over to us marshalls. Now for a quick check on your weather with meteorologist kaj omara. Showers and flurries, though most of the day will stay cloudy. Temperatures will not go anywhere, thanks to fresh snow in the area, and should remain in the 20s the entire day. Another area of low pressure looks to spread snow across the area early torrow with amounts of tr2 ccmon. Again, that could lead ttslick driving, especially in the morning hours. Well stay quiet as 2015 comes to a close, with 2016 starting off cold. Abcs reena ninan and kendis mornings americas moy. Good mornrng. Topping americas money wall street going out for the wimper, the dow and s p 500 are in negative territory for 2015. It would be the first time either ends the year in the red since the recession. The dow yesterday lost 24 points. S p 5004 1 2 and nasdaq, 7. 5. Whole foods is paying a fine. The grocery chain is paying 500,000 its also expanding policies to prevent mislabeling and incorrect pricing. And m mbe you should put popular Building Blocks have increased in value 12 each year since 2000. Amazing. Gold on thehe other hand just missed 10 . Only for lego sets that have never been opened. Right when you feel a cold sore, abreva can heal it in as few as two and a half days when used at the f rst sign. Without it the virus spreads from cell to cell. Only abreva penetrates deep and starts to work immediately to block the virus and protect healthy cells. You could heal your cold sore, fast, as fast as two and a half days when used at the first sign. Learn how abreva starts to work immediately at abreva. Com dont tough it out, knock it out, fast. Sououe, this is kcrgtv9 9 ws Early Morning news. Snow plows will be going through cities and town across eastern iowa to clear the roads for the morning commute. One good thg, its ening during a holiday week. Its been 5 weeks since a snow storm. That left some trying to clear their driveways in the cold longer than they wanted. A prison guard in iowa will now see what its like on the other side of the bars. A judge sentenced him to many months in jail. Good Tuesday Morning its 5 oclock, on december crewswsre working this mornrng
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