Kind of funny. But i also think, if i wouldve done it, i wouldve been arrested for it. And probably charged as a sex offender because of the knew him as a jokester back in high school are defending him. Chris baker i dont know, everyone has a right to an opinion. Just expressing his opinion on how he feels about somebody. Vickie wendel he is a public official. He shouldnt be doing stuff like that. And actually a normal person shouldnt be doing stuff like that either. His name and picture still listed on the oelwein departments website. Now i did reach out to the Oelwein Police department they can neither confirm or deny that this is one of our officers. We reached out to the mayor and the police chiefboth on multiple ocassions but have not heard back. A chance of rain for tomorrow lets go to storm track seven weekend outlook. From the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team. See the screen here is additional forecast information from the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team despite the cloud cover this afternoon, temperatures have reached the 60s, which is typical as we head into mid temperatures in the 50s with linger into at least the Morning Hours saturday. Other than patchy areas of drizzle saturday, we will spend the day under a mostly cloudy will be in the upper 60s low 70s. This is all ahead of a weak mainly from dubuque to cedar cover, but it will still be warm as the cold front lifts north as a breezy and warm start to the overnight, and that could linger into at least the Morning Hours saturday. Other than patchy areas of drizzle saturday, we will spend this is all ahead of a weak cold afternoon into the evening, sunday looks dry with cloud cover, but it will still be warm a breezy and warm start to the hits a tree and bursts into street in waterloo early this morning after a car veers off the road into a familys front yard and bursts into flames. Kwwls Taylor Bailey talking with a woman who saw the accident. Taylor . The driver to go off the road. Todaythe ground is full of glass and the tree is charred the accident happening a few feet away from a family home police say there was one person heard that crash. And immediatelty woke up her mother. I woke up to hearing her yell mom and i looked to my right and i just see a big fire and i was kind of confused, i didnt flames friends of the victim stopping the spot where his friend died. Police say an autopsy was performed on the driver this afternoon. As of right now police havent released the victims name. Weve got you covered. Live in the newsroom. Taylor bailey. Kwwl news. Though the tree was a few feet from a homeangela and her two children are okay. Police say the accident is still under investigation. A Black Hawk County sheriffs deputy is on administrative leave for a weapons violation. 34yearold erik er a loaded gun on him while drunk. Kwwls Macleod Hageman joins us live in waterloo with more. Mac . Its all right for sheriffs deputies to carry a gun outside work in fact many do. But regardless of the persons position if theyre under the influence their conceal carry permit is void. This is erik mcfarren six years ago serving in deputy in trouble after caught intoxicated with a loaded glock nats. Gun Stephen Foote carries. It can be a gamechanger for him if hes convicted of this unfortunately. Its just a lapse of judgement. If youre carrying a firearm, you have to be more responsible than everybody else. Police say mcfarren blew a point one six nine blood alcohol conentration three hours after the incident. The general rule of thumb, if youre intoxicated and carrying a gun, you are subject to being charged for it. According to court documents, Waterloo Police were called here around 3 30 friday morning for an assault. Moments was taken into custody for carrying a loaded gun while intoxicated. It carries a direct parallel with drunk driving. When someone goes drunk driving, they usually dont start out in the course of the evening and say, im going to go drunk driving. when someone bootstraps a gun on and has a beer, they usually dont think thats going to be an lose his job, his gun, and even his conceal carry permit if found guilty. Weve got you covered live in waterloo Macleod Hageman kwwl news. Court documents indicate mcfarren assaulted one of the victims. The gas station manager says it was caught on camera but theyre not releasing video to the public. An iwo she would quote blow up the department of human services. Sarrina bancroft, of iowa city, charged with making a threat of terrorism. Investigators say she made the threat because she was upset about a her. Shes also accused of threatening the other families involved in the case. An Iowa University president is under fire for using the schools airplane for personal use. His wife from ames to des moines to catch a commerical flight. The university claims it didnt cost anything extra because the plane was already going that way for maintenance. However, the work was never performed, because the equipment needed wasnt available. They say the trip should not have been billed as a passenger flight even he was on board, since he was visiting a donor. A lawsuit for a local lottery fixing case will continue. Larry dawson, of webstr ninemilliondollars in 2011. He argues it should have been worth more than 25million because the prior jackpot was fixed by former lottery worker eddie tipton. Tipton was convicted of fraud and sentenced to ten years in prison. However, he is appealing that ruling. One local candidate running for the iowa house dealing with vandalism to not only political signs, but some personal Shannon Lundgren spray paintedmany still left in yards tonight. Kwwls brad hanson has this story. This is a familiar sight along many Dubuque County roads. Vandals spray painting dozens of republican shannon there. brad hanson, bhansonkwwl had it just been the signs, lundgren says they wouldve dealt with it on their own, but these vandals made it personal. Spray painting one of their trucks, and prompting lundgren to file her Second Police report in one week. Shannon Lundgren, state rep. Republican candidate but when it becomes personal, and youre damaging our means of worried, because thats just not right. Lundgren and her family run the trackside bar and grill in peosta, and she doesnt believe theyve made any enemies. Weve been in business here ten years, and weve never had anything like this happen. And so our assumption is it has to do with our campaign, and things are looking good for us, and someone maybe doesnt want us to win. Democrats also reacting to this incident, saying in part i wish to express my disbelief about the vandalism to the property of candidate Shannon Lundgren. Actions like this are reprehensible and not indicative to dubuque. Lundgren says shes not blaming any party or anyone in particularshe just wants whoever did this brought to justice. Thats why shes offering a 500 dollar reward to anyone who has info that leads to an arrest. Weve got you covered in Dubuque County, brad hanson, kwwl news. Damaged, you can pick up a new one at the Dubuque County g op office in dubuque. Coming up on kwwl, a former hawkeye football star moving on to bigger and better a live look at the friday night a live report from mark woodley coming up. And. Heres a live look at the storm track 7 live doppler radar. Meteorologist kyle kiel will have your full forecast, coming up. And when you see news or if you have pictures or video to share. You can do that by going to our page on facebook. 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Clouds hang tight, and that will keep temperatures in the sky, with breezy southwest winds be in the upper 60s low 70s. Well keep an eye on these. A warm front. A few showers are possible sunday night, ahead of a breezy and warm start to the work week. From the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team. See the screen information from the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team typical as we head into mid october. Tonight the clouds south winds 1015 mph. Well hours saturday. Other than patchy areas of drizzle saturday, we will spend slightly humid, and highs will showers and storms Late Afternoon into the evening, mainly frodu as the cold front lifts north as work week. Despite the cloud cover this afternoon, temperatures have reached the 60s, which is typical as we head 50s with south winds 1015 mph. Morning hours saturday. Other than patchy areas of drizzle saturday, we will spend feel slightly humid, and highs showers and storms Late Afternoon into the evening, mainly from dubuque to cedar rapids and points southeast. As the cold front lifts north as work week. Despite the cloud cover this afternoon, temperatures have reached the keep temperatures in the 50s with south winds 1015 mph. Morning hours saturday. Other than patchy areas of 1020 mph. It will also feel slightly humid, and highs will sunday looks dry with cloud cover, but it will still be warm possible sunday night, ahead of a breezy and warm start to the information from the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team despite the cloud cover this typical as we head into mid south winds 1015 mph. Well into at least the Morning Hours saturday. Other than patchy areas of sky, with breezy southwest winds 1020 mph. It will also feel front that could spark off rapids and points southeast. Well keep an eye on these. A breezy and warm start to the work week. Despite the cloud cover this afternoon, temperatures have reached the clouds hang tight, and that will and fve the day under a mostly cloudy will be in the upper 60s low afternoon into the evening, mainly from dubuque to cedar rapids and points southeast. As the cold front lifts north as work week. Despite the cloud cover this afternoon, temperatures have reached the 60s, which is typical as we head and fog overnight, and that could linger into at least the Morning Hours saturday. Sky, with breezy southwest winds this is all ahead of a weak cold front that could spark off rapids and points southeast. As the cold front lifts north as a warm front. A few showers are the day under a mostly cloudy sky, with breezy southwest winds 1020 mph. It will also feel afternoon into the evening, mainly from dubuque to cedar sunday looks dry with cloud cover, but it will still be warm possible sunday night, ahead of a breezy and warm start to afternoon into the evening, mainly from dubuque to cedar rapids and points southeast. Well keep an eye on these. A warm front. A few showers are possible y work week. Mcnutt is once again calling iowa home. The former hawkeye wide reciever played three seasons in the nfl and now takes off as the head coach for cedar rapids Arena Football Team the titans kwwls Jalyn Souchek reports thats how you may describe Marvin Mcnutt putting himself into the iowa football record books here on an 80 yard touchdown pass mcnutt became all career in the nfl but after three seasons hed hang it up waking up every single day knowing your putting your pads on and your helmet and going out there and working and doing something you love to do. Stay in his Rearview Mirror for long. Compounds of Kinnick Stadium where mcnutt called hom for and its iowa where mcnutt will once again call home. Mcnutt now the head the most exciting job ive ever had in my life so far besides goal is to get to that next level to get back into the rankings to play in the next the level where they want to be. Weve got you covered in cedar rapids Jalyn Souchek hawkeye alums to his coaching st begins in february. Coming up. We preview game one of the American League championship series. Between toronto and cleveland we will also reveal our friday night heroes game of the week. Week matches the two best teams in class twoa. Top ranked North Fayette valley plays host to number two union. Both schools have been impressive in racing to perfect 7 and oh records. And tonights winner will probably will be in the drivers we go live to west union where mark woodley gives us a preview of our game of the week. Interestingly enough the to scout union last week after receiving a forfeit from waterloo columbus last week union played waukon at upper iowa and the North Fayette valley Football Team was right there to watch of course one thing they were looking for is a way to slow down 1thousand yard rusher Isaiah Vaughn vaughns already been in the endzone 21 times this season and is one of running for 660 yards and averaging better than 8 yards per carry i spoke to tigerhawk head coach bob lape just a short while ago and he said his teams big Game Experience will help but some of these guys did play in just another game. Its a game that we need to win the district title and its just another weve got you covered, live in west union mark woodley. Kwwl news. Series begins tonightthe Cleveland Indians hosting the Toronto Blue Jays in game one. The pitching lineups are set tonight with corey kluber taking the mound for cleveoland and marco estada taking the ball for the blue jays. But the indians game two starter is a little iffywith starter trevor bauer having an unfortunate routine maintenance and again i have no idea what that is. And he cut his pinky finger on top. Vernon imo Smear Campaign misleading and false. The truth Monica Vernon donated every pay raise to charity and helped build a homeless shelter for women and children, but multimillionaire blum promised hed take only half his salary. Then in congress, blum broke his word and kept all the pay. Now he wants to cut Social Security and raise the retirement age. Despite the cloud cover this afternoon, temperatures have reached the 60s, which is typical as we head into mid temperatures in the 50s with south winds 1015 mph. Well look for areas of drizzle and fog overnight, and that could linger into at least the Morning Hours saturday. Thank you for joining us for the kwwl news at six. Well see you back here at ten how tall are you . How do we measure greatness in america . 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