Right now, the cbs 2 news road warrior is tracking realtime conditions on eastern iowas night. The dot has been working over time to prepare for this winter blast. Blast. Cbs 2 News Reporter Marissa Scott joins us live now with more, marissa . Scott and karen right now, something new youll be seeing out on the roads tonight a dot snowplow with flashing blue and white lights. Lights. This is scott and karen right now, something new youll be seeing dot snowplow with flashing blue and white lights. Most of the plows on the is something new theyre trying out. The dot says, every year in iowa, they have 43 accidents, involving cars running into snowplows. Usually, blue and white lights are reserved for emergency vehicles, so they asked the legislature to change the rules, to make these plows easier to see. Theyre testing the idea out this year, using one plow with these new lights here in cedar rapids, and one in iowa city. I think its a 3yearpilot program, and there are many more plows in central iowa that have the blue and white alternating, so were going to give it a try, get our data together and present that back to the legislature. 11. 47. 50. 17 you can find out what areas are being cleaned up near you by checking out the iowa dot snow plow tracker. The plows have cameras that show live pictures of the road. Weve got a link to the site on ours, cbs 2 iowa dot com. And if you get stuck on the roads tonight, look out for the new dot highway helper trucks. They can help jump cars, fix flat tires or simply get you somewhere warm and safe. Theyll be patrolling i 380, highway 218 and highway 30. Covering the corridor in cedar rapids, Marissa Scott, fox 28 news. As the snow keeps falling, the closings keep coming in. You can find them scrolling on the bottom of the screen and on our website, cbs 2iowa dot com. Com. Also you can stay on top of this winter storm, anytime anywhere. Just download the cbs 2 weather app. Its free for in waterloo tonight, authorities are trying to figure out what sparked a massive blaze at a welding shop. According to the waterloo cedar falls courier, Fire Fighters were called to the shop on grandview street at about 5 30 tonight. Its not clear if anyone was inside the building at the time. No injuries have been reported. Cbs 2 news ten at ten continues now with more of the corridors top stories. Stories. 14yearold robert humbles appeared in adult court today. The teen is expected to take a plea deal in an effort to stay out of prison. Humbles is charged with first degree murder in the shooting death of 15yearold Aaron Richardson in cedar rapids in september. The plea deal would label humbles a youthful offender. That means he would stay in the juvenile system but could be sentenced as an adult when he turns 18. A dubuque man, charged with a federal hate crime will remain in jail until his trial begins. A hearing was held this morning for randy metcalf. Metcalf. According to a repeatedly stomped on a black man while using racial slurs during a bar fight in january. A trial date is not set. The u. S. Attorneys office has thirty days to indict metcalf. Now to our continuing coverage on the war on terror. Terror. An american is among those killed in the Radison Blu Hotel attack in mali, west africa. Africa. An militant group linked to al qaeda is claiming responsibility for the attack. Militants stormed the hotel with grenades and guns, Holding People hostage. At least 21 people were killed in the attack. Meanwhile in paris, Frances Senate voted to extend a state of emergency for three months. This follows the isis attacks that killed 129 people one week ago today. In our nations capitol an antiisis rally lead by american muslims. The group marched in front of the white house to show that they stand with america and do not support any form of radical islam. Today governor branstad critized statements by the president who claims the us is winning against isis. The governor said president obama is quote delusional and claims his actions and statements are counter productive to national security. Now ten at ten continues with a look at tonights other stories across the corridor. Authorities need your help as they investigate a string of breakins in two linn county communities. The Sheriffs Office says burglars have hit several places in fairfax and walford. People with information regarding any of the cases are asked to call the linn county Sheriffs Office. In marion, kids struggling with Mental Health and behavioral needs have a new resource to take advantage of. Four oaks opened a new residential site with updated bedrooms, a kitchen, a gym and class rooms. The agency will be partnering with Linnmar High School and other agencies to fill the new site. In marion, representatives from Mercy Medical center travelled to area schools today to donate equipment. Aeds are portable devices used to restore a regular heartbeat in case of an episode of sudden cardiac arrest. Mercy will be donating more aeds to local schools and nonprofits over the next two weeks. That is cbs 2 news ten at ten the corridors top stories and tomorrows weather first forecast in the first ten minutes. Minutes. But we are just getting started. Coming up. Up. How the university of iowa is planning to dig out Kinnick Stadium ahead of tomorrows game against purdue. Purdue. Terry thanks. Heres a live look at realtime conditions from the cbs 2 conditions time look at realtime conditions from the cbs 2 news road warrior. Right now its traveling on i380. More on our first winter storm of the season, when cbs 2 news ten at on cbs 2 this morning,if youre the type that loves to travel the wine trail, we have the perfect spot. Were road trippin just south of the corridor, monday on cbs2 this next on cbs two news. News. The plans the university of iowa is making to get Kinnick Stadium ready for the big game against purdue. Purdue. But first heres a live look at the cbs 2 road warrior. Warrior. Cbs 2 news ten at 10 will continue in a moment. Americas never been a country of quitters. Its not who we are. We dont ignore threats like climate change. We face our problems headon. With americanmade clean energy, we can end our dependence on foreign oil. Spark new innovation. And create millions of new jobs. Solving our Climate Crisis starts with 50 clean energy by 2030. Snow started flying in some parts of eastern iowa at 11 this morning. Morning. Right now, the cbs 2 news road warrior is out showing you realtime this is a live picture right now of i380 at the cedar river in black hawk county. Authorities there tell cbs 2 news a tow ban is in place for all of black hawk county. County. As you can see here, roads in most of our Northern Counties are completely snow covered. Tens of thousands of hawkeye fans are expected to brave the cold tomorrow morning for the last home game of the year. Year. Theres a lot of excitement around the undefeated team, but theres a lot of work that will go into getting the stadium ready before the hawks take the field. Field. A viewer sent us this photo of what the stadium looked like as the sun set see, the snow had already started collecting on just about everything. Everything. Cbs 2 News Reporter Mellaney Moore continues our Team Coverage from iowa city. And coming up in sports we head to the mat where 4 duals in 1 day could slow down tom brands and his hawks 2. Cbs 2 news connects with the grapple on the gridiron was fun for all parties involved but the mat is no longer in kinnick its back inside carver along with the iowa grapplers for the iowa city duals duals4 duals in 1 day for tom brands and his hawks up first maryland for their big 10 openerand this was all iowa at 149 pounds. Brandon sorensen. Controled the match from the start the take down there gives him two sorenson would win with a 12 to 2 major decsion then it was the sammy brooks show the 184 pounder puts his terp on his back never good for a turtle but good for a hawk brooks wins with the pin. As iowa dominates maryland 36 to 9 and those were the only points the hawks allowed iowa beat grand canyon 44 to nothing, cornell 58 to nothing, and iowa central 54 to nothing tomorrow at kinnick should be fun i mean who doesnt like playing in the snow . Plus the big 10 west title is on the line its senior day but theres one thing nobody has been talking about purdue in his press conference on tuseday kirk ferentz was asked 31 questions 2 of them were about purudue but just because the media isnt talking about the boilermakers doesnt mean the hawks arent. Were going to have to line up and go to work, and were not taking anything for granted, i can assure you of that. I know the conversation today hasnt been on purdue. Our conversations have been strictly on purdue, and weve got a lot of respect for them. Them. We have to have that focus in practice that. It doesnt matter what the record is or anything. Its big ten play. They always play tough and theyre gonna play tough against us and we know its gonna be a tough fought game. Stay with cbs two terry has one last look at your forecast thanks for
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