Showers and flurrrrs, though st 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 pressureooks to spread snow ootr2 common. Agaga, 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. Some Community Centers and daycares are after being closed due to the winter storm. But yesterday we didnt see as many cancellations because schools are on winter brrk. That meant there were fewer drivers on the road trying to get kids to and from school. Made a noticeable difference when it came to clearing snow and ice off the highways. With less traffic to contend with, plows it also helped that the temperature stayed around 30 degreesice materials worked better. With the temperatures Holding Around that 30 degree mark. As soon as this precipitation lets up itll let that material work that much quicker and itll take us a lot less rounds to get it cleaned up. A number of eastern iowa communities have declared snow emergencies through midday. That means you should stay off the marked snow routes so plows can get through. It s been a slow winter for businesses thahadepend on snow and ice. Thats because of the unusually mild weather weve had. That all changed yesterday. Tv9s brady smith visited one store in cedar rapids where the storm blew in some big business. Its a tale of two winters last year, a polar blast. This year, the polar opposite, except the one november snowfall. It was pretty early last year, with a lot of snowfall right away. That is, ununl mondays ststm rolled in. Coming into the sled shed to get their snowblowers serviced. Thats after several weeks of warm weather. It slowed way d dn for us; the repair line for us is pretty small. Burns says stale fuel has been a common issue. But many other customers were coming in to buy brand new machines, and that had him assembling more of them to fill in gaps on their showroom floor. It seems like we just end up with a lot of people that are not ready. Ron conrad says his store is ready. Lot of shovels, a lot of sand, salt in particular, we have a large supply of salt available for our customers. Their shelves are still fullystocked with shovels and ice melt despite an overnight rush, because people simply hadnt been buying any earlier this month. With the warm weather, business has really been lax. The only thing they are running short on n traction sand, which they plan to restock later this week. Customers usually wait until the last minute, just like christmas. This storm may be an even bigger moneymaker for sudz express, where the wash bays have been emptier than they of year. We normally run 150, 200 cars a dada and a lot of days we were getting 50 or 60 cars when the weather was nice and nobody was washing cars then. But with all this new salt and slush on the streets, thats likely to change soon. Well probably get up into the 300s if it warms up a little bit. Workers at sudz say they expect to be busy today and the rest of this week. They anticipate many are eager to wash salty grime off their cars. This storm means snow Removal Companies are finally back in business after weeks of no snow in most of eastern iowa. One of them is dubuque lawn and snow. That business considers about 12 large snow events to be a normal winter. And sterdays storm means theyre getting a chance to give their equipment a workout. Today wasnt too bad, we started around 8am, the snow didnt start until a little later this morning but with the all through the night and will go well into tomorrow before most things get wrapped up. Other commercial snow removal businesses say theyll keep working until theyve cleared parking lots s d driveways. One western illinois man is counting himself lucky after a storm almost caused him to lose his house. The heavy ice and wind ripped through cambridge, i iinois yesterday. Power, and then heard a loud snap. A tree broke into three sections, hitting the house, the garage and nearly hitting a car in the drive way. When he heard the bang, sullivan ran outside and saw what happened with the tree. It doesnt have the character been a whole lot worse. It couldve punched holes in the side of the house. Susuivan says that he wowot go into the damaged garage until the branch is removed, just to be safe. He says he will not know the full extent of the damage until crews are able to come out later this week. 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Use cacaion when driving or operating machinery. Most common side effect is nausea. I cant believe i did it. I quit smoking. Floods, and snow across the United States is marching east this morning. The Severe Weather over the past week has led to the deaths of at leastst6 people. Today those in the northeast are bracing for their first major snowstorm of the season. Abcs megan hughes has details. After an unusually warm december, the first snow falls in massachusetts this morningwhere ice melt and shovels fly off the shelves. . Black fridayish in new york stateplow trucks are ready. First storm, theres a lot of accidents. Hopefully, they will be very minor weather around the country has given thth a preview from high winds and icy roads creating treacherous conditions in missouri where the states death toll climbed into double digits. A snowdrift in new mexico trapped betty and Jimmy Anderson their car for twenty hours u uil rescuers broke the windshield to free them. Sot Jimmy Anderson my wife she was just shivering and shaking, so i got into the passenger seat because the drivers seat was full of snow from us trying to dig out. So we cuddled up togethth. Air travelers 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 according 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 while cleanup began near llas where a 40 m me scar of splintnted homes and debris shows the aftermath of lives there. Tag white house Officials Say president obama called the Texas Governor to get an upupate on the Severe Weather there and offff 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. Ethan couch fled after 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 alcohol level to be three times the legal limit. Trial, couchs lawyers argued that the teen suffered from affluenza meaning he 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 that kept him out of jail. When a warrant was w, mexican Authorities Say theyve found couch and his mother near a popular resort town. He will be turned over to us marshalls. The iraqi army says it now controls the city of ramadi seven months after isis captured it. The announcement follows days of heavy fighting in the city. Theity is key in the battle agagnst isis because of f s proximity to the countrys capital, baghdad. The snow storm isnt keeping president ial hopefuls out of iowa. Especially this close to caucus time. Gop candidates will be crisscrossing the Hawkeye State today. Heres a live look at our mobile weather lab at. Kaj will be back right after the break with a look at a less snowy tuesday forecast. First alert forecast. Well start off the day with lingering snow showers and flurries, though most of the day will stay cloudy. Temperatures will not go ywhere, thanks to fresh snow in the area, and should remain in the 20s the entire day. Another area of low pressure looks to spread across the area early tomorrow with amounts of tr2 common. Again, that could lead to slick driving, especially in the morning hours. Well stay quiet as 2015 comes to a close, with 2016 starting the fresh layer of snow is nothing but good news for some eastern iowans. Especially those that like speeding down the mountain and catching some air at sundown. Youre looking live on our city cam. It looks a lot different than it did this time yesterday. What you need to know today. Now the focus is on clearing the streetetfor the morning commuu. Well check in with the mobile weather lab for updates on road conditions. Dot workers have been working through the night to clear off the roads. They say less traffic this time of year has made it a a faster process. The big snow storm is giving people the chance to use their snowblowers. And businesses selling shovels, salt and sand are seeing a lot of business. The same storm that brought us the snow is also bringing heavy flooding and delaying flights across the country. And the snow means big business for food delivery and those looking to catch some big air on the slopes o o sundown. N. Youre watching kcrgtv9. Now, from your 24 hour news source, this is kcrgtv9 news morning news. The snow is over and now focus this morning isisn cleaning up the streets around eastern iowa as People Get Ready to head out for the morning commute. Well send it out to meteorologist chris havelyho is live in our mobile weather the plows are out and roads are looking pretty decent out here. The main drags are all plowed and pretty clear for drivers this morning, especially around the interstates. Side and residential streets may still be covered. But, overall, just take it slow this morning, give yourself plenty of room between cars and youll be fine getting to where you need to go. Well start off the day with 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 tomorrow with amounts of tr2 common. Again, that cocod lead to slick driving, especially in the morning hours. Well stay quiet as 2015 comes to a close, with 2016 starting off cold. Now working to remove snow before people head out this morning. The city told tv9, the goal is to keep the main 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 plowing. And the citys streets supervisor says crews will are working hard to clear streets for morning drivers. We will have everybody i at 1 includes about 95 staff including our mechanics. We will have everybododin again rking the main dragag 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. The 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 waing all winter, and its been disappointing for us. Hopefully it continues. Dubuque lawn and snow was one of the many snow removal businesses that were clearing parking lolo and driveways. The e business s sd yesterdays storm m is one of about 12 large snow events that happen in a normal winter. And the sled shed in cedar rapids had a number of people who wanted servicing on their snowblowers, or even to buy problems people have with their snowblowers are caused by old fuel in the machine. If you think you had it bad, driving in the snow and sleet yesterday. Imagine if it was your job. Kcrgg9s brea love tells us how hectic yesterday was for day food delivery. On a snowy afterno when not a lot of drivers are out, plenty of orders are comingngin to milios sandwiches. Snow days are some of the busiest days for delivery drivrs. Ive probably done over 26 really busy. Those 26 orders were hours. Despite the conditions, milios works to fulfill each order within an hour. If the weather gets too bad then well pull ththdrivers 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, and says driving in these conditions is always the same. 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 is 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 dont want to go out either, and they shouldnt have to, were already out, we might as well. That was t t9s brea love with that story. And we hope youll stay with tv nine whenever Severe Weather hits. You can get the latest information by downloading the first alert weatr appppon google play or t te apple app storere you can use the app to view the latest radar and also to get an hour by hour forecast. President ial candidates are campaign in iowa today, aftete the winter storm canceled some of their events. Republican president ial candidate Chris Christie will be in eastern iowa today. He wl be in 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 pm. Florida senator marco rubio will be criss crossing the statat today. This the start of his out with the old, in with the new bus tour across iowa. 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 i i sioux city. The republican president ial frontrunner is also going to be in iowa today. Donald trump is holding a rally in council bluffs. In the most recent 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 next four weeks, we donnwanna take a recent gallup poll showed americans put donald trump on thlist 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 candate 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 third of its 21 runs open right now. It hopes to open more later this week. And all those skiers a a thankful for this round of snow. When we first arrived here in iowa, there was no snow and my 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, at makes me go even faster. I just love going fast ndown Mountain Resort opened for because it finally got cold enough. The hawkeye Football Team is preparininto face stanford on friday in the rose bowl. But, its not all work and no play. Well have an update from our tv9 sports team from pasadena. Up next. This mornings weather wise question. Meteorologist kaj omara is up right after the break. Storm Team Meteorologist kaj omara joins us now. 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 tomorrow of tr2 common. Again, that could lead to slick driving, especially in the morning hours. Well stay quiet as 2015 comes to a close, with 2016 starting thanks kaj. Iowa airport today. Theyre catching some special flights heading to the golden state to smell some roses. That and more still to come on tv9. 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 he swerved to avoid a pickup that moveveinto the bus lane. Authorities say 21year old Nicole Underwood from des moines died in the crash. Four people also had non lifethreatening injuries. The entire state of iowa is going to be cleanang up after the snow storm. At one point yesterday afternoon, the Iowa Department of transportatio n reported all roads were at least partially covered in snow. People in des moines saw about 5 inches oosnow yesterday. The second wave of the storm hit as most people were getting out of work, causing a headache for evening commuters. The city of des moines dispatched about 20 of its trucks last niniht. Employees wiwih public works operated on 12 hour shifts until the storm passed. Travelers are crossing their fingers for a better day airlines to cancel thousands of flights across the u s. And those using the Eastern Iowa Airport are no exception. Airlines cancelled 14 hundred flights and delayed an additional 26 hundred, acacrding 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 t their final destinations. Were just hoping things would work out, and that we end up in la tonight 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 cancelled this afternoon and we cant get out of cedar rapids until january 1. So now we have to drive down to dallasfort worth and get to sydney that way. Half of the cancellations were at chicagos two main airports. Many of the other cancellations came from theheallasfort Worth International airport. That area saw several even more hawkeye fans going to the rose bowl will be flying out of cedar rapids today. 13 public charter flights are scheduled to depart last check they are all on time. There is one more charter flight leaving tomorrow. The Eastern Iowa Airport expects to see at least 3 thousand people travel through the airport for the e se bowl. The iowa hawkeyes are getting closer to game day in pasadena. But, its not all work and no play. Tv9s Scott Saville and Scott Westerberg have more on the festivities other than practice. Good morning from the rose bowl im Scott Saville along with Scott Westerberg a few hawkeye fans are starting to trickle in. Scott you had a chance to talk to a guy from hyvee who is here working the Rose Bowl Parade . Heheas been doininit for the last seven it years his name Laurel Hollopeter and he talked about cool experience of getting work behind the scenes. I enjoyed talking to the players again. I talked to Jaleel Johnson and askekehim why he plays so o gry and he told me his entire family is mean his grandpa his dad. He also said he is having a great Time Favorite thing to do here. I got to eat a funnel cake, a few hit dogs. Big slab of beef, corn and i love applpl pie. We might hit the beach later today and i will feature cj beathard who had really developed as a starting qb. You will have a story on all the people covering this game. Ya the hoards of media from all over. We will have that all at 6 and 10 back you in the studio. The tournament of roses parade will air live from pasadena, time. You can watch it right here on kcrgtv9. Thats right after our onehour special ountdown to kickoff. Lets check in one last time mobile weather lab, hes checking out the streets this morning. Chris, hows it going . The plows are out and roads are out here. The main drags are all plowed and pretty clear for drivers this morning, especially around the interstates. Side and residential streets may still be now, one last look at this mornings weather, kaj. Wee 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 across the area early tomorrow with amounts of tr2 common. Again, that could lead to morning hours. Ell stay quiet as 2015 comes to a close, with 2016 starting off cold. We certainly hope your is off to a good start. Good morning america next. And well be back with a local news update at 7 25. Also make sure to join us at eleven for the kcrg tv9 news at midday. Have a good mning, america. And winter whiplash. H. Deadly flash flolos devastating the midwest. Dramatic rescues as the rivers rise. Including a High School Basketball team swept away on their bus. And now, snow and ice slamming the east as 20 states and an estimated 70 million americans face winter storm warnings. Breaking overnight, the socalled affluenza teen ethan couch captured in mexico after a massive manhunt. E 18yearold on theheun for weeks with his mother, changing his appearance and fleeing the country after allegedly violating probation for a deadly drunk driving accident