Totals 39 isolated higher amounts. The wind starts to increase late tonight into a old weekend is ahead with highssn the 20s. After the snow ends, our next chance of precipitation will be rain. The storm forecast to bring that will be here wednesday and thursday. Weve got team seven storm storm track seven reporters are covering the storm in waterloo, cedar falls, dubuque, cedar rapids and iowa city. Right now, Jessica Hartman is in our ewsroom making calls to Law Enforcement and emergency responders. Out in the elements Nikki Newbrough is in waterloo, Macleod Hageman in cedar rapids and brad hanson in dubuque. We kick off our covege with nikki in Downtown Waterloo. The snow is coming down at a snow were dealing with. Its a wet snow thats now starting to stick to the roads. Lets take a look at some video my photographer took when we were driving. This was less than an hour ago driving eaat out of waterloo. Snow and driving is a little slick in areas. Be careful, take your time when approaching an intersection. We also noticed a number of vehicles without their hehelights on. Isiablity is low due to the blowing snow, so make sure those lights are on. Weve got you covered, live in though the roadssarent idealal some people are braving them to head home for the holidays. In cedar falls. Students at the university of Northern Iowa headed out of toww for thanksgiving break. A little earlier than planned today to try and beat the storm. But since i have an on campus job, they are really dad sent me a picture of my grgrndma in the ssow, but they are wanting me to get on the road to be safe. The parking lots at uni started to empty out pretty quick as snow began falling around noon on campus today. Youll remember the snow actually led the Iowa High SchoolAthletics Association to postpone High School Football championships. Six teams are going to have to wait until monday before they play their championship games because the games that were originally scheduled for today were postponed. High School Football isnt the only thing canceled today y our cancelation system is full of closings across the kwwl viewing area. Check up on whats closed and whats open on our website kwwl dot com. Also o we want to see your snow pictures. You can send them to us on twitter or on facebook, while youre there be sure to like our people are stocking up on essentials for the snow storm. Some heading to the Grocery Store to buy food and other items. Making sure theyre prepared. At the hyvee on locust in dubbque. Shoppers making rounds a spot. Once inside, people grabbing things like bread and milk for the days ahead. You might want to have some meat on hand, butter. Bread, all the things you need at the especially older people might not be able to get out of the house becuase were really gonna gee dumped on etty rd. So on that manns list of essentials is gas for his snow blower. Managers at hyvee say its been nonstop busy all day. Meanwhile, snow has been coming down for about three hours in dubuque. Thats where we find storm track sevens brad hanson live with yeah, the snow first started flying just a little before two here in dubuque. Now three hours later, were finally seeing some decent accumluation on the ground, and the roads are startitig to get a little slick, too. This is video from dubuque this afternoon shortly after the flurries started flying. Dubuque police say theyve seen a couple of minor accidents, but they think those are related to friday afternoon traffic rather than the snow. But theyre expecting a very busy night, as the snow will start to stick to the roads soon. Ive also been told the jule busses will end their routes early tonight cause of the snow, annthe Mystique Community Ice center is also closing its doors tonight. Weve got you covered, live in dubuquqe. Brad hanson, kwwl news. Thanks brad. You may remember last year dubuque was in the middle of a sledding controversy. The city banned sledding in some public parks because of liability fears; however, in may the city lifted the ban on sledding in part because a bill signed into law by governor branstad back in april rids a city of liability if someones injured d while ssedding on public property. The Decorah Eagles arent immune to the snow. Heres a live look at the nnt it doesnt seem like there are any signs any birds have been in the nest since the snow has started falling. Cedar rapids seems to be one of the last areas to gege snow but its coming down. Kwwls Macleod Hageman joins us live in linn county tonight. Mac how are people reactiti to the snow . Cedar rapids a little over an hour ago and it seee like people are embracing the winter weather. I stopped by a local Grocery Store where several customers could be seen scurrying and from their vehicles mostly with bread and milk. I asked several people whether theyre ready for winter or wishing the falllike weather was stickkg around for a a hile longer and most people say they are actually kind of excited about the change. Although a lot of for tomorrows Football Game at kinnick stadium. But coming up at six ill shshre what a few m mre folks are until then n weve got you covered, live in cedar rapids Macleod Hageman kwwl news. Thanks macleod. Remember you can find ouuwhere the plows are on the road, with the dot plow tracker. The orange and blue circles indite plows while the little camera icons give you access the plow cam for a look like this at conditions in the area. So you can get the perspective of a plow driver. And get a better look at the road before you hit the streets. Heres a live look at the storm track 7 live doppler radar. Chief meteorologist mark schnackenberhas your full forecast nextt youre wwtching kwwl. Eve got you covered. With ron to east after midnight. Snow totals 39 isolated higher amounts. The wind starts to increase late tonight into saturday reducing the visibility. Wind gusts will be near 25 mph from the northwest. A cold weekend is ahead with highs in the 200 after the snow ends, our next chance of precipitation will be rain. The storm forecast to bring that t ill be here wednesday and thursday. Snow continues to move east across iowa thrugh tonight. Moderate to heavy snow at times can be expected before difficult at times. The snow gradually tapers off from west to east after midnight. Snow totals 39 isolated higher amounts. The wind starts to increase late tonight into saturday reducing the visibility. Wind gusts will be near 25 mph from the northest. A cold weekekd is ahead with highs in the 20s. After the snow ends, our next chance of precipitation will be rain. The storm forecast to bring that will be here wednesday and thursday. Snow continues to move east across iowa through tonight. Times can be expected before midnight. This will make travel difficult at times. The snow gradually tapers off from west to east aftee midnight. Snow totals 9 isolated higher amounts. The wind starts to increase late tonight into saturday reducing the visibility. Wind gusts will be near 25 mph from the northwest. A cold weekend is ahead with highs in the 20s. After the snow ends, our next chance of precipitation will be rain. The storm forecast to bring that will be here snow continues to move east across iowa through tonight. Moderate to heavy snow at times can be xpected befooe midnighgh. This will make travel difficult at times. The snow gradually tapers off from west to east after midnight. Snow totals 39 isolated higher amounts. The wind starts to increase late tonight into saturday reducing the visibility. Wind gusts will be near 25 mph from the northwest. A cold weekend is ahead with highs in the 20ss after the snnw ends, our next chance of precipitation will be rain. The storm forecast to bring that will be here wednesday and thursday. Snow continues to move east chance of precipitation will be checking in in cedar falls. Storm track sevenns olivia mancinin is live near the intersection of viking road and highway 58 normally a very busy and occassionaly dangerous intersection. Olivia . Out re on vikings plaza in cedar falls parking lots very slippery heres some video on the roads at the intersection of viking and 58. Roads are slick out there. This intersection here at viking and 58 is already known to be very dangerous are taking it easy on the roads we havent heard of any accidents yet make sure to take it easy out there, theres no signs of this snow stopping any time soon so stay off the roads as much as possible weve got you covered, live in cedar falls olivia mancino, heres a live look at Downtown Waterloo the snow is falling down. A lovely christmasy scene. Live updates about driving conditions across easttrn iowa coming up after the breakk youre watching kwwl. Weve got snow coming down. That snow can lead to dangerous driving conditions for people out on the roads. Kwwls Jessica Hartman is live in our newsroom. Shes been calling sherrfs departmeets through out our viewing area to see how people are handling the conditions on the roads. Jessica . They tell me roads are getting slick throuuh out the coverage area. In Downtown Waterloo streets are quickly becoming snow packed. Several other counties including tama and buchanan are reporting multiply minor accidents. Cars sliding off the road and into ditches. Here in waterloo there is an suvv several other counties told me they were too busy handling calls to answer my questions. Likely witit weather related emergencies. Weve got you covered live in the newsroom. Jessica hartman kwwl news. We will be checking in with the various departments through out the night to keep you updated. Well be right back. Heres a live look at iowa city. No snow is falling down. An update from iowa city on whats going on there coming up. People are sick and tired of establishment politics, and they want real change [ cheers and applause ] Bernie Sanders 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. Into our area. The snows been falling across eastern iowa throughout the afternoon. However not in iowa city. Continuing our team seven coverage of the first snow in the season, we head south. Snow flurries are just starting to fall here in iowa city. But people in the area are preparing for whats to come. Iowa city is gearing up for the first snow storm of the season tonight. Temperatures are dropping and wind is starting to pick up. Even though the storm has barely started. People in the city are bundling up in their scarves and winter coats. Getting groceries for the weekend. D even buying shovels to combat the snow thats on its way. Some people i talked to are more worried about tomorrow than tonight. Im working on that for 6 weve got you covered, live in iowa city hillary maglin, kwwl news. Thanks hillary. Well be right back with a final storm track seven chief thanks for watching the kwwl breaking news tonight. At the Hotel Hostage siege. A new terror attack