Leighton pullins family in means so much more. I said if you know this is grandma give me a thumbs up, and he went like this and i said if you love me, give me thumbs work and i did and got here as soon as i could. Its a sign his family has been praying for. Leighton has been unresponsive for weeks, suffering a fractured skull and brain damage after being hit by truck. Miracle this is a miracle, we never thought we would see this would ever come out of the way he was. Now look at him. Hit it back to me. Oh wow, thats a spike. His doctors and nurses at covenants rehab center, are helping him move, and communicate with his hands. Grab the orange one. Theres a long road aheadleighton strong. Thats hard each and every day. It is a miracle we put it in gods hands, i cant tell you what it feels like, its wonderful. One thumb at a time. Says he loves super heroes. I asked him about it today and got kwwl. As you can imagine, his medical expenses have been a lot on the family a family friend is asking for Christmas Gifts to send to leighton. With superheros at the top of his list. Start out the week heres the week. Information. Here is additional forecast flurries with temperatures dropping into the low 30s. Scattered light rain snow showers are expected wednesday with the higher chances the closer you are to thursday and friday are mostly cloudy while saturday and sunday will be partly cloudy. High temperatures are in the upper 30s and low 40s. We are tracking the chance for showing a large storm impacting eastern iowa wednesday and thursday next week. Obviously this far out for any details. We will continue to track the potential for a midwest. Again this is for wednesday and thursday. At this point. There will most likely be timing adjustments and storm track adjustments in the days to come. Stay tuned for later dropping into the low 30s. Scattered light rain snow showers are expected wednesday with the higher chances the closer you are to the ia mn state line. We go back to flurries wednesday night. Thursday and friday are mostly temperatures are in the upper 30s and low 40s. We are tracking the chance for uv sufferes some injuries after her brakes go out and she crashes right into an area business. Kwwls Shirley Descorbeth live in dubuque with more. The driver crashed into the front door of mulgrews tavern. Shattering the glass, and some of the bricks around it. People there tell me theyre just grateful. Because it couldve been much worse. A startling morning for dubuque. It kinda shook the building, i thought something had fallen off montgomery avenue when her brakes o of traffic. Crashing into mulgrews. Jim petsche who lives cannon going off. Woke me up out of seven people inside at the time. Some having breakfast. Glass went all the way to the as for the driver. She was limping, she was letting this crash stop business. Theyre cleaning up the mess, getting things back to normal. Especially for this weekend. Mulgrews a part of the neighborhoood for many years. Theyre having a celebration for their 95th anniversay this saturday. Many here just thankful this crash wasnt worse. Tonight. People will now just have to use the back door in order to enter the business. In Dubuque Shirley descirbeth news 7 kwwl. A busy morning for First Responders in the tristates area. The Julien Dubuque bridge shuts down after a fivecar crash. Multiple ambulances on the hospital. Police say the injuries were not lifethreatening. The bridge is now back open, tonight. Two people are seriously hurt, after a crash that involved a semi. This happening this morning south of hudson on highway 63. Those with the Black Hawk CountySheriffs Office say a car tried to pass a semi, when the driver lost control and hit a truck going the other way. Both the driver in the car and the driver in the truck were takento a missouri man is in custody facing drunk driving charges, accused of hitting a Waterloo Police squad car with his car. It happened on highway 20 at ansborough avenue. Waterloo officer mark nissens car was hit head on this morning. Investigators say he had his lights and sirens on at the time, but was hit by he was taken to the Black Hawk County jail while officer nissen was taken tot he hospital with minor injuries. Tonight we are hearing from loved ones of a mankilled in a car accident in cedar rapids. It happened over the weekendkilling two people when the car they were in crashed into a police suv 22yearold kaitlyn hall and 21year old Martrell Watson were pronounced dead at the scene. Watson was driving the car when they lost control and hit fiveyear old daughter. Kwwls Kristin Rogers speaking with loved ones of martrell today. Kristin martrell loved his family and friends and he loved his 5yearold daughter. Who still doesnt know he has died. Take a look at a photo of watsons this was taken at fiveyearold marianahs preschool graduation. Watson moved in with the Taylor Family when he was just 13 years old. In fact, martrell shares a now five yearold daughter with mariya taylor. The family now trying to she loves him a lot you know theyre young but he was a good dad to her he went to you know a love that was easy to see around im told he had promised marianah a princess car for christmas the family plans to get her that car live in cedar rapidsKristin Rogersnews 7 kwwl. There is a candlelight vigil planned for martrells families and friends on thursday those details are on our website kwwl dot com. Coming up on kwwl remembering the legacy of one of iowas most storied High School Football the university of Northern Iowa campus in cedar falls tonight the school is nearing the selection of its next president after naming a handful of finalists. More from campus is coming up next. Also on the way your full forecast with storm track seven chief meteorologist Mark Schnackenberg. Heres the radar across the area right now. This is kwwl news at six. With ron steele, amanda goodman, storm track seven chief meteorologist mark now your storm track 7 forecast on kwwl. Lets go to storm track seven chief meteorologist Mark Schnackenberg now for your forecast tonight. From the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team. See the screen for your complete weather information. Here is additional forecast information from the kwwl flurries with temperatures dropping into the low 30s. Scattered light rain snow showers are expected wednesday with the higher chances the closer you are to the ia mn state line. We go back to flurries wednesday night. Thursday and friday are mostly cloudy while saturday and sunday will be partly cloudy. High temperatures are in the model guidance has been showing a large storm impacting eastern iowa wednesday and thursday next large winter storm to have travel impacts on the midwest. Again this is for wednesday and thursday. At this point. There will most likely be timing adjustments and storm track adjustments t clouds tonight produce a few scattered light rain snow showers are expected wednesday with the higher chances the closer you are to the ia mn state line. We go back cloudy while saturday and sunday will be partly cloudy. High temperatures are in the upper 30s and low 40s. We are tracking the chance for rain monday then dry tuesday. Model guidance has been thursday next week. Obviously this far out for travel impacts on the midwest. Again this is for wednesday and thursday. At this point. There will most likely be timing adjustments and storm track adjustments in the days to come. Dropping into the low 30s. With the higher chances the closer you are to the ia mn state line. We go back cloudy while saturday and sunday will be partly cloudy. High temperatures are in the upper 30s and low 40s. We are tracking the chance for rain monday then dry tuesday. Model guidance has been thursday next week. Obviously this far out for any details. We will continue to track the potential for a midwest. Again this is for wednesday and thursday. At this point. There will most likely be timing adjustments and storm track adjustments in the days to come. Stay tuned for later updates. Come. Stay tuned for later dropping into the low 30s. Scattered light rain snow showers are expected wednesday with the higher chances the closer you are to thursday and friday are mostly 30s and low 40s. We are tracking showing a large storm impacting eastern iowa wednesday and thursday next week. Obviously this far out for wednesday and thursday. At this point. There will most likely be timing adjustments and storm track adjustments in the days to come. Will be partly cloudy. High rain monday then dry tuesday. Model guidance has been showing a large storm impacting eastern iowa wednesday and thursday next week. Obviously this far out for any details. We will continue impacts on the midwest. Again this is for wednesday and thursday. At this point. There will most likely be timing adjustments and storm track adjustments in the days to come. Stay tuned for later updates. String of Severe Weather getting some official results tonight with four confirmed tornados touching the ground throughout iowa. We received viewer videos of several of the funnel clouds as they approached the ground this is also creating funnel clouds and an eventual touch downs in grundy center, radcliffe and montezuma. As you heard mark say all were ef zero tornados. Continuing coverage now. The search for unis next president continues. With just three finalists lefteach making a stop at the university. First of three finalistsneil theobald made a visit to campus faculty. Kwwls Elizabeth Amanieh is live at uni as the board narrows in on these finalists. Elizabeth. Ron the board of regents promised transparency in its search for the next president. And this is just one of the ways they say theyre following suit making sure students, faculty and who could be their next neil theobaldthe first of three uni president ial finalists speaking to faculty and stuff. Outlining his vision for the university. You look at race, you look at educational attainment, there is wide disparity in terms of higher education. Calling on a need for recruiting a diverse student body, restructuring admission practices and revisiting how standardized test sc Cameron Fagen agrees with. Its just that Everybody Needs an equal opportunity to succeed and education is the way that they can do that. Among his core principlestheobald emphasizing shared governance as essential to a univeristys success. Which he used to explain summer. This summer i was directed to hire an individual to an open dean search without faculty input. I consulted with the provost who was strongly opposed to the appointment. I which as i mentioned earlier, i have found to be essential in operating a university. Kwwl obtained a copy of the letter that was sent out to the Temple Community by the board of trustees which gave a different explanation. The discovery of a 22 million deficit in the universitys financial budget ultimately were the responsibility of president theobald and that he must be held accountable. The second finalistwho was named today is unis interim president James Wohlpart hell speak with students and faculty tomorrow. The board has just one more amanieh, news 7 kwwl. The board of regents say they expect to select a final candidate in december. Coming up. Its a big awards day on the gridiron as several hawkeyes and panthers pick up plus a local football legend passes away mark woodley has more on the death of former waterloo east standout jerry jerry moses senior was larger than life in the cedar valley the longtime waterloo resident and east high football legend has died at the age of 65 moses was a part of east highs streak in the late 60s and early 70s he ran for 56 touchdowns and was twice named a first Team Allstate running back before moving on to iowa state under head coach Johnny Majors his cyclone career was cut short by injuries but moses later returned to iowa state and earned his degree in 1984 two of his sons jj and milan both also starred for the trojans and cyclones services for jerry moses are pending a pair of current iowa hawkeyes honors today Jaleel Johnson earned the nod at defensive tackle after leading the hawks with 10 tackles for loss including a very key safety in the win over michigan desmond king is the honoree at defensive back after picking up 53 tackles a pair of interceptions and a pick six this season offensive awards will be announced tomorrow the future looks bright for the uni Football Team as the panthers put five players on the missouri valleys allnewcomer team offensively jalen rima and for 11hundred all purpose yards rima finished with 4 touchdowns including one each on a punt and kickoff return allen was second on uni in receiving yards with 341 while averaging better than 15 yards per catch defensively Hezekiah Applegate malcolm washington and Elijah Campbell rounded out the panther picks tiger woods is back on the Practice Range and appears to be ready to go for his first competitive round set to play in this weekends hero world challenge in the bahamas and says hes feeling good he appears to be practicing with a familiar face that of couse screen in the recent absence tiger has fallen to 898 in the world an alltime career low stick around well be right the holiday spirit. Thats right the Green Bay Packers have selected their Christmas Tree for lambeau field. Check out this thirtyfive foot tall spruce tree which is being taken from a green bay yard across town to the home of the packers as they push for a playoff spot for one of the owners the 30 yearold tree has been in his life since he was in first grade but hes now happy to see it go. My grandma heard about it and she just submitted it. And then the guys from miron stopped by a few times to check it out and they told us that we were selected. The tree will serve as the centerpiece for the 11th annual festival of lights at lambeau on saturday. 10thousand lights and decorations will be going onto the tree. Thank you for joining us for the kwwl news at six. Well see you back here at ten our favorite holiday tradition is back. Both we could be your secret santa atwhe wwin. Youin w our secret santas have given away over 1 million in cash and prizes to lucky wheel watchers. And you could be next. 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