The strongest in the eastern counties. We will stay windy through most of thursday and temps cool even more. We have a nice in a few minutes. Developing overnight. Olice are investigating a shooting at the cedar valley townhouses. It happened on j street southwest in cedar rapids around 9 30 last night. Police tell us there are two victims, but would not tell us their conditions. We expect to learn more later this morning. In des moines one person is in the hospital after being shot in the leg. It happened shortly after eight oclock last night near an elementary school. At this point, we dont know how the victim is doing, but Police Decision 2016 coverage. Donald trump wins the nevada caucuses. Its another win for trump and it this morning the republicans are looking ahead to the biggest day yet super tuesday which is now less than a week away. Of course, if you listen to the winning, winning, winning. The countryry and soon the country is going to start winning, winning, winning. Trump plans to continue that momentum today. Hell scheduled to speak at a college in virginia beach. Ahead of that states primary on super tuesday. Looking at the democrats now. Hillary clinton and Bernie Sanders takkg their cases to voters in south carolina. Both appearing at cnns democratic president ial town hall in columbia. The democratic primary in that state is this weekend. A fire causes a crane to collapse at a constuction site. Take a look at it in australia, firefighters believe an electrical fire started in the motor. Crews were able to get the fire under control. Nobody was injured. A semi truck was hit by a train after getting stuck on the nearby dispatch, but was still on the phone when the train hit. The truck broke into several stranded sixty five floors up thats what happened to two window washers in new york. They couldnt get their scaffold moving again. Eventually firefighters had to remove a window to get the washers inside. They were not hurt. A mistake leads to five cars being damaged. Police say an elderly man mistakenly put his car in drive in the crossrrads hyvee parking lot. He wasnt able to stop before hitting five other cars parked in the handicap section. A waterloo neighborhood is hoping for a quieter morning today. A Mental Health patient is accused of stealing an ambulance and causing a school to go into lockdown. Police say Joshua Rohner took the ambulance from Covenant Medical Center yesterday morning. He allegedlylycrashed it through a garage. Causing Columbus High school to go on lockdown. The search lasted about an hour. Police found him just blocks away from the hospital. Witnesses saw him try to get squad cars out here and they had screaming bloody murder that they were going to kill him or something. Many of course wonddring how he was able to steal the ambulance. We reached out to the hospital but they are not commenting at this time. A fouryearold boy was sentenced by a military court to life in prison. By mistake. In this video, you can see the boys father pleading with authorities to resolve the issue. Documents show his son was only a year old when a murder happened. The military says in a statement, the boys name was mixed up with a man who murdered a 16 yearold boy. In the iowa legislature. Guns take center stage. Stephanie moore tells us five bills were discussed on the house floor addressing everything from suppressors and age limits to privacy regulations. Accessory thats used with a fire arm to limit the floor. Some lawmakers hoping to make iowa number 42. I think they are a tremendous device, they are for hearing firearm just to cut down the noise as a Hearing Protection device. Representative terry baxter introduced the bill. He says suppressors reduce the sound of gun shot by downrange away from the shooter and help protect the shooters hearing. But those in opposition see it as a weapon. The fact that the federal government with the Second Amendment in place categorizes a suppressor as a class three weapon tells me that there is some added danger to its use. Also debatedhow old a child should be to shoot a guncurrently in iowa, children must be 14 years or older to shoot a revolver or pistol or handle ammunition. The proposed bill drops but requires parent supervision. Opponents say some parents re not responsible enough to regulate their childrens actions. And the age requirement protect them. While most parents would not allow their two year old to weld a revolver, we pass laws for 44 1631 however, representative jake highfill, who is sponsoring the bill, says the decision should be the parents and says its one of the best bill to advance the 2nd it returns the power back to where it full belongs back in the hands of the parents to make the decisions they are entitled to do instead of the government. both the suppressor bill and the house. The bills will now go over to the senate for debate. Protestors gather in cities across the country. Theye against the fbis requests for apple to break through iphone security. While the fbi says they want a onetime hack, many are worried it could create a precedent that could compromise iphone security. Apple has said its willing to help law enforcement, but not if it means breaking its promise. Theres a push in the Michigan State house to make cpr a required course for high school graduation. Supporters say the idea behind the bill is to save lives. Statistics show nearly 357 thousand people have cardiac arrest outside of hospital every 12 percent urvive. Were not saying that Everybody Needs to be certified or school or in the real word, whether its within the school as weve heard that information sticks with you and its a good if graduating High School Students learn cpr, michigan will add an additional 100 thousand cpr trained lifesavers each year. The city of dubuque is working on next years budget but one item is going to cost taxpayers. All because of street lights. The Public Works Department is asking for an extra 285thousand dollars because of them. An audit shows Alliant Energy failed to bill dubuque for all the citys street lights. City leaders say the system is they own some lights, we own some lights, they own some poles their information. Of course. The bills still have to get paid but the mixup means the city will have to pay 13 thousand dollars more per month starting it could be a tough year ahead for iowa farmers. The price of grain and the cost of production is expected to be much different. Also, the supply of corn and soybeans is much higher than their demand. As sales overseas are slowing because of the global economy, farmers say theyre trying to farming goes in cycles, you gotta take the good with the bad prepare yourself for when times arent as good. He says the slow Farming Market shouldnt impact buyers much. But not as many people will be the university of iowa receives a citation from the Us Department of agriculture. Because of a runaway research goat. William the goat escaped from research handlers last month. He was eventually found and taken back to the school. The usda is citing the school because of how it reported the animals escape. This is the only citation the school has received since william escaped. Today, the university of Northern Iowa will announce their new harris and peter fields both with 10 years or more of experience in their current positions. Harris comes from iowa state, and fields worked at Montana State university. Kwwls sports director rick coleman believes tte biggest challenge for the new irector Northern Iowa to capture the a very good program, very successful in the midmajor realm, but obviously struggling on the National Level to keep pace with iowa and iowa state in the state of iowa. Stay with kwwl and kwwldotcom this afternoon to find out who uni has selected. A Popular Online video is creating smiles for people who are normally ffstrated by exercise. A woman created the wine workout. And posted it on her fitness facebook page. Evan as a mother to a toddler, 24yearold april struggle. Home with her daughter brielle and her husband levi on now been seen by roughly 25million people worldwide. The 15second video posted in january nats now dubbed the wine workout. I was getting ready to do a workout, and i saw the wine there and im like, you know, storey tells me this is her life. Simple. Everyday home exercises. Not necessarily always the wine that was jjt one of the dozens of nonalcohol included workout things that were doing every day. That sharing spread worldwide. One post from former star trek Actor George Takei with a slightly different music most of the comments have wine. But most of the people have been doing like what im doing, and sending back their own videos and pictures. They were making their own videos. They were doing Different Things with it. No both positive and negative with my videos is that fitness is something you can do every day, you can do it anywhere, and you can use anything. In this case. Just dont forget the corkscrew. Its coming up on today in iowa. Well introduce you to a bird chasing dog who helps keep an plus. A mother. Who serves our country. Surprises her son at school. Mostly cloudy as a strong system tracks to our east. This will provide us with some breezy conditions today. Ill have more coming up. Youre watching kwwl, weve got you covered with jerry gallagher, ally crutcher and meteorologist eileen loan. This is today in iowa. Now your storm track 7 from the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team. See the screen for your complete weather information. Here is additional forecast information from the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team breezy today and windy tomorrow as a strong storm system tracks just to our east. We will have cooler temperatures the rest of the week, but it doesnt look too cold. We have some light fog this morning with visibilities down to 3 miles at times. Weather network will mainly have cloudy skies today. Temperatures are running in the mid to upper 30s this morning with colder temps to the west, where theyve had clear skies overnight. Winds are from the north at 5 to 15 mph and will be breezy today, gusty tonight and strong again tomorrow. A strong system will track to our east. It is causing all sorts of problems to our south and east as it creates severe thunderstorms and tornadoes along with areas of heavy snow on the north side of the low. We are mainly seeing clouds and wind out offhis. And we are only on the fringe of the strongest winds. They will die down tomorrow afternoon as the low tracks away from us. Highs will be in the 30s to 50s today with more 20s and 30s in the region tomorrow. Our viewing area will have mainly some getting stronger gusts under mostly cloudy skies. Highs in the upper 30s to mid 40s. Tonights lows drop to the mid to upper 20s with northwestwinds still fairly gusty. Partly sunny and windy on thursday with highs in the low 30s in the north to the upper 30s south. Winds will be nw 1525 mph gusting higher through mid afternoon and then will weaken as High Pressure tracks into the region. Saturday is looking very nice now, as the cold front will hold off until falling temperatures on sunday along with a chance of rain and snow tracking through. Its coming up on today in iowa. If you cant carry a tune, theres a new choir just for you. Volvo wants to replace caaccording to the automaker, smartphones with bluetooth can actually become digital keys. Eliminating the need for a physical key or key fob. The smartphone would be able to not only start the car, but also unlock the doors and trunk. And the war is on. For where people should buy their hotdogs. After weeks of promotions. Burger king launched its two grilled hot dogs menu. Now the fast food chain, known for its burgers, has a new competitor. 711. They launched an ad campaign promoting their own chili cheese dog. American chocolate maker mars announces a recall in 55 countries. The recall includes millions of mars, snickers and milky way chocolate bars produced in the netherlands. The company says. Mars, best before dates between june and october 2016 should not be eaten. Shes been told for years she cant sing, so she created her own choir. The woman in england setting up the tuneless choir its open to anyone no auditions, most of the people here know theyre not great singers, but i set up the tuneless choir because i cant sing, but i spoiling it for everyone else, its up to a lot of enjoyment. It really gets the endorphins flowing, which are the happy hormones, it is supposed to be really good for you physically because it improves you breathing and its good socially. She says the choir is a great way to gain confidence and have fun in a judgmentfree zone. The choir members seem to agree with a dog is taking the internet by storm. Again. Piper is a k9 who works in Wildlife Control at a michigan airport. His popularity exploded in april when the news of his very unique job went viral on social media. Now hes going viral all over again because of this video. Piper was number one on reddit he made it. We were on top for about 4 maybe 5 hours on but i hear its absolutely huge, like weve kind of made the internet if you make the top of reddit so it was pretty cool and totally unexpected as for pipers next move, hell be getting his cast off. The k9 fractured a toe while jumping out of his handlers vehicle. The k9 fractured a toe while jumping out of his handlers vehicle. A heartwarming reunion between mother and son. Shes an Army Specialist home after spending almost a year in afghanistan. Shes a single mom and decided to surprise her threeyearold son at daycare. I was nervous to see his reaction of what he was going to do but was really exciting windy for thursday with temperatures cooling. We warm conditions, falling temps and a in iowa. This morning donald trump is celebrating another victory as republicans get ready for the biggest night of the Campaign Season yet. It happens next week. Plus, Police Investigate a shooting in eastern iowa. Two people were hurt. And a deadly storm system moves through several states and this morning were getting a look at the damage. Good morning, im ally crutcher. And storm track seven meteorologist eileen loan is here now with your storm track seven forecast. We have some light fog out there this morning, especially in the northeastern counties. Temperatures are holding in the mid to upper 30s this morning, although the winds have turned to the north. They are 5 to 15 mph and will pick up more this morning and stay breezy all day. We had a few few today, but we will be mainly cloudy and breezy as a strong system tracks to our east. We will be cooler than yesterday, but still above normal with highs in the upper 30s to mid 40s today. North winds will be the strongest in the eastern counties. We will stay windy through most of thursday and temps cool even more. We have a nice warm up on saturday before a cold front tracks through. Ill have more in a few minutes. Developing overnight. Two shooting in cedar rapids oveenight. Police are not telling us much at this point, but we do know that shooting happened on j street southwest. Kwwls Amanda Gilbert joins us live from the area in cedar rapids. She can tell us whats going on right now. Police are still on scene. Im seeing a spotlight and much of this neighborhood complex is still blocked off. The shooting around 9 30 last night. We have confirmed that two people were injured in the shooting. I just spoke with police and asked what their conditions are at this time. Officers were not able to give me any updates. Weve got you covered live in cedar rapids. Amanda gilbert. Kwwl news. We expect to hear more from police this morning. Well stay on top of it and bring you the latest as it comes in. Decision 2016 another big trump. He won the nevada caucuses last night, but theyre still counting votes this morning. Second. Tracie potts tells us the republiccns are already focused its gonna be an amazing two months. Donald trump already looking ahead to super tuesday entrance polls show trump dominating every key need change and tossup this morning. And so is super tuesday 12 states, including texas. Home of ted cruz lemme tell you something you look at those super tuesday states they like their guns too. The midwest gets its first chance to vote on super tuesday. Marco rubios already in michigan we are even going to of ohio state, everyone. Is that place, with trump still a clear leader. More than 600 delegates will be decided on super tuesday. Thats half whats needed to win the nomination. Im tracie potts in washington, now back to you. Trump vows to keep Guantanamo Bay open if hes elected president. He said that as the president announced his plan to shut down gitmo. Right now, there are about 90 people being held there. Under the president s plan some would be shipped to other countries. The president talked about why he wants to close it. Fight against terrorists because they use it as propaganda in their efforts to recruit. Holding here in the us so anyone concerned about adding more under this that is something many lawmakers are worried about. Iowa detainees are some of the worlds most dangerous terrorists and the facility houses many responsible for planning the attacks onn 911. Regardless, the Obama Administration wants to bring these terrorists to a facility close to home. Hes been a lightning rod so far in his new job and that does not change as he hosts a town hall. University of iowa president Bruce Harreld was interrupted by protesters during the forum last night. Some Community Members in the crowd were upset and tried to quiet them. The forum was set up to focus on several topics like student the friction on campus he remains grounded. Your question is do i know who i am and do i have a set of values . And yeah i know who i am and a lot of the people trying to say who i am many of them ive never met. At one point, a protester claims harreld insulted someone in the crowd. Harreld defended himself saying he was insulted by signs he saw at the event. Powerful storms roll through the south last night and more could be on the way today. Three people were killed in louisiana and mississippi. This tornado was caught on tape in louisiana. Right now, a glass of water is a challenge in one city in louisiana. Storms knocked the towns Water Service offline in assumption parish. Thats west of new orleans. High winds also took down trees and power lines leaving a trail of debris. Emergency crews are also needed in wheeler overturned. This also happened in louisiana. So much damage in that state this morning because of severe weather. The moment storms cut the power in an alabama town was caught on camera. You can see in this video as the rain comes down. The lights flicker. And then go out for good. And in florida more severe weather. Utility poles were brought down and cars were flipped. Crews will be out taking a look at the damage all over the south later today but as we said they could be dealing with more bad continuing coverage this morning testimony continues today in the murder trial of an iowa man. Alexander fazzino is charged with murder in the death of his wife, emily. Her body was found in their home in boone in 2012. Her grandfather founded the Fareway Grocery chain. The case was moved to Winneshiek County because of pretrial publicity. Both sides agree that Emily Fazzino did have a previous addiction to prescription drugs. But prosecutors say theyll try to show she was on the path to theyll also try to show she was planning to leave her husband mainly after police were called youre going to hear that after time, standing up to alex, wanted to get away. On the other hand the defense plans to show emily as an addict. They claim she had a historyof fainting from withdrawl symptoms which they believe led to her accidental drowning. A landmark ruling against a huge company. Johnson and johnson is being ordered to pay 72 Million Dollars to the family of a woman who died from ovarian cancer. A jury linked the cancer to her her whole fight was not just for her, but for so many other women. And thats why i continue thats why i continue this fight. The verdict came down in missouri. Several hundred lawsuits claiming that in an effort to boost sales it failed to warn customers that its talcbased products could cause cancer. A Company Spokeswoman says they firmly believe the safety of its products is supported by decades of scientific evidence. Later today, several leaders from a polygamous sect will be in court facing charges of food stamp fraud. Several leaders of warren jeffs group in utah were arrested. Theyre accused of telling members how to use food stamp benefits illegally. Among those arrested two of warren jeffs brothers. Hes serving life in prison for sexually assault. In the iowa legislature. Some gun laws another step closer to changing. The house voted in favor of five bills. One would allow children younger than 14 to use handguns as long as theyre supervised by a parent. What this bill does, the bill before uss again, allows for 1 yearolds, 2yearolds, 3year olds, 4yearolds to operate handguns. We do not need a however, supporters say the legislation strengthens the constitutional right to bear arms in iowa. It now moves on to the senate, where its not expected to pass. This morning, another group of eastern iowans will head to des moines to share their concerns about medicaid. This week, the federal government gave the green light to iowa to move ahead with privatizing medicaid. But it wont happen as quickly as we thought. The plan was for iowa to make the transition on march first. The federal government says april first would give everyone more time. A 9yearold phenom who packs quite a punch already has her eyes on the Golden Gloves. Hazel sanchez shares her story. She may only be 9 years and ambition than boxers twice and even three times her age. I just like the sport. When my put on a pair of gloves. And once she i noticed when she started picking things up quicker than me. So i was like. I was surprised. How does that feel when people tell you that youre and that im not just doing this i can become Something Big when i get older. This 74 pound phenom works out for nearly two hours, 4 days a week. But with very few female boxers her age she usually sparrs with older boys like the 10 year old in this video. Shes only had one sanctioned fight. Her championship belt hangs in the Bergen PoliceAthletic League boxing gym where she trains. When i won my first match felt so good when they put up my hand fight. I cant wait for my next flight. Jesselyn is now training for the Golden Gloves in march. Her coach, Don Somerville a former pro boxer with nearly 30 Years Experience says hes never seen a talent with jesselyns discipline at i dont ask her to do anything twice. Shes done shes right on me coach what do i do next . so she has that desire to be different and thats the uniqueness of nine years old to want to be different now she im inspiring a lot of girls. We have much more to get to this morning including health and happiness. Which city in america is known for it more than any other . Plus construction crews find something an iowa man has been missing for more than 70 years. A small piece of identity re discovered. Mostly cloudy as a strong system tracks to our east. This will provide us with some breezy conditions today. Ill have more head to your neighborhood enterprise car sales and let the people who buy more vehicles than anyone. Up. Youre watching kwwl, weve got you covered with jerry gallagher, ally crutcher and meteorologist eileen loan. This is today in iowa. Now your storm track 7 forecast on kwwl. From the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team. See the screen for your complete weather information. Here is additional forecast information from the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team breezy today and windy tomorrow as a strong storm system tracks just to our east. We will have cooler temperatures the rest of the week, but it doesnt look too cold. We have some light fog this morning with visibilities down to 3 miles at times. Stormtrack7 Live Weather Network will mainly have cloudy skies today. Temperatures are running in the mid to upper 30s this morning with colder temps to the west, where theyve had clear skies overnight. Winds are from the north at 5 to 15 mph and will be breezy today, tomorrow. A strong system will track to our east. It is causing all sorts of problems to our south and east as it creates severe thunderstorms and tornadoes along with areas of heavy snow on the north side of the low. We are mainly seeing clouds and wind out of this. And we are only on the fringe of the strongest winds. They will die down tomorrow afternoon as the low tracks away from us. Highs will be in the 30s to 50s today with more 20s and 30s in the region tomorrow. Our viewing area will have mainly 1020 mph with some getting stronger gusts under mostly cloudy skies. Highs in the upper 30s to mid 40s. Tonights lows drop to the mid to upper 20s with northwest winds still fairly gusty. Partly sunny and windy on thursday with highs in the low 30s in the north to the upper 30s south. Winds will be nw 1525 mph gusting higher through mid afternoon and then will weaken as High Pressure tracks into the region. Saturday is looking very nice now, as the cold front will hold off until sunday. This will create falling temperatures on sunday along with a chance of rain and snow tracking with northwest winds still fairly gusty. Partly sunny and windy on thursday with highs in the low 30s in the north to the upper 30s south. Winds will be nw 1525 mph gusting higher through mid afternoon and then will weaken as High Pressure tracks into the region. Saturday is looking very nice now, as the cold front will hold off until sunday. This will create falling temperatures on sunday along with a chance of rain and snow tracking through. The time now is trained to deal with surprises. Just not the kind one astronaut received. Its a prank seen around the world. Plus an iowa man reunited with something he lost at a Movie Theater. In 1944. Youre watching kwwl. Weve got you covered in calmar, holy cross, palo and all of low stress, high energy, pyour community. All things we want right . So which city in america has the a new gallup study shows its naples, florida. Hundreds of thousands of americans were interviewed all over the country about where they live. They were asked about everything from safety to the social scene. Naples was number one. There were some iowa cities on the list. Des moines and West Des Moines is ranked 48th. Cedar rapids is 145th. Now to a project thats out of this world. Tonight, spacex will try to put another satellite into orbit. This is a telecommunication s satellite. Once that happens itll then try to land on a droneship but engineers dont have high hopes that will work. Many kids dream of becoming astronauts, but apparently, even the final frontier gets boring from time to time or so it would seem judging from this video posted on twitter by astronaut mark kelly. We see someone in a gorilla suit bursting out of a bag on the International Space station and terrorizing a crew member. No explanation is given just a tweet from kelly saying i back here on earth another ticket is punched to the state tournament. The cedar Falls Girls Basketball Team taking on pleasant valley. The game was tight at half but cedar falls started to take the tigers head to state with a 46 31 win. They play waukee a week from tonight in des moines. Linnmar also won and plays at state next week. Another eastern iowa team waverlyshell rock lost a a fantastic finish to a girls post season game in south carolina. Watch what happens. The team with the ball is down two. A halfcourt shot at the buzzer. Its good. Fans storm the court to celebrate. Heres another great shot this on in College Basketball to end the half. Kaas at baylor. The bears bury aashot at the buzzer. But what more people are talking the shot. As theyre going to t t lockerrrom the player who made the bucket body slams a baylor fan. Everyones ok but baylor fans were not celebrating after the game. Kansas went on to win. More people are trying to find time to et to the car wash this week. One woman is just trying to find her diamond ring. She lost it at a car wash in florida. The manager found it cleaning out a vacuum. I was looking for change in there, but i come across out of the dirt theres a big ring just diamonds shining in every direction. The woman called but unfortunately, spoke to someone who works there who didnt know it had been found. Now, the owner hopes she calls back. Its a reunion more than 70 years in the making in iowa. A man and his construction crew were renovating an old Movie Theater in nevada when they found a wallet. Based on a pocket calendar been buried in the floorboards since 1944. The builder is a former investigator who played detective once again tracking down the owner who lives near des moines. Thought it couldnt be. The wallet also had a boy scout card, world war twoera ration stamps and an id. So how did it get in the floorboards . They believe someone found it many years ago took the cash inside and then got rid of it by burying it there. Its youre watching today in iowa on k wwl. Checforecast. Mostly cloudy and breezy today, windy for thursday with temperatures cooling. We warm back up for saturday before a cold front tracks through on sunday bringing breezy conditions, falling temps and a chance of rain and snow. Heres a live look outside at , theres another hour of today in iowa coming up right here on now on today in iowa. We continue to dig for answers following an overnight shooting in iowa. Weve been following the story all night long. Plus. Deadly storms. At least three people are dead following a number of tornadoes. This morning were looking at the damage. And its easy to see who won the republican caucuses in nevada. But there was a back and forth all night between two men hoping to take second place. Heres a live look at our is. Good morning, im ally crutcher. And im jerry gallagher. Storm track seven meteorologist eileen loan is here now with your storm track seven forecast. We have some light fog ut there this morning, especially in the although the winds have turned to the north. They are 5 to 15 we had a few sprinkles or today, but we will be mainly cloudy and breezy as a strong system tracks to our east. We highs in the upper 30s to mid 40s today. North winds will be temps cool even more. We have a ill have more in a few minutes. In the upper 30s to mid 40s today. North winds will be the strongest in the eastern counties. We will stay windy through most of thursday and temps cool even more. We have a nice warm up on saturday before a cold front tracks through. Ill have more in a few