To be harmless, and fake. Police pick up some wild camera video. Good morning, im ally crutcher. And im jerry gallagher. With storm track 7 meteorologist eileen loan. Good morning. Eileen on camera 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 low pressure is moving just wednesday. Driving our weather here in eastern iowa. As it tracks off to the east, we have the potential to see some flurries. We begin with the white house transition. More big announcements are expected today. Tracie pot with the latest on the transition and whats happening on capitol hill today. I think the American People are seeing the leadership and the energy that our president elect today Goldman Sachs alum and Campaign Finance chair Steven Mnuchin as treasury secretary. And billionaire wilbur ross as commerce secretary. It was a good enough meeting. They gave me a proper rain hat. Still up in the air people. Night. The people hes selected as members of his cabinet are solid, effective, capable people. Candidates and advisers are swarming trump tower. We talked about secretary of labor and its something im gonna consider. Vice president elect pence meets with Republican Leaders on capitol hill today who say theyre ready to quickly confirm trumps cabinet. In sync on governing, but not flag burning. In this country, we have a long unpleasant speech. I happen to support the Supreme Court decision on that matter. Mr. Trump suggests punishment jail or loss of citizenship. President elect trump kicks off his thank you tour in ohio tomorrow. Hes also said to visit indiana to announce 1000 factory jobs staying in the u. S. Tracie potts, nbc news, washington. New orleans this weekend. Senators grassley and ernst demand answers from the va after a veteran takes his own life. Curtis gearhart had been receiving treatment for pt sd. But when he went back in to the va for recurring headaches, the family was told it would take five or six weeks to see a doctor. Gearhart took his own life before that happened. The va office of Inspector General got back to senator grassley gathering information and have requested more information from the va. We will assess all the information and determine our next steps based on our analysis. The Inspector General says that process could take 2months. President obama spent part of his day visiting with Wounded Soldiers in maryland. The president visits the countrys Largest Military hospital there several times every year. And those visits are private out of the public view. The white house says he met with been arrested accused of slashing a woman at a Us Military Base in japan. The base is home to the 35th fighter wing for the us air force, stationed in japan. Continuing coverage this morning. Buckeye strong. Members of the Ohio State Community come together after an attack on campus. Authorities say an 18year old student plowed into people with a car and then started slashing them with a knife. Eleven people were injured in the attack. Theyre all expected to be happen that are unfortunate or that are hurtful to us. When those things happen, what really works for us is to come together in the spirit of unity. And i encourage everyone in our Buckeye Community to think clearly about that. The alleged attacker was shot and killed by police. In detroit a Community Held a candlelight vigil for an officer killed in the line of duty last week. Officer collin rose was shot in the time of the shooting. He later died fellow officers called rose a great talent and a great officer for the community. His funeral will take place on thursday. Brakes fail a car crashes into a business. It happened at mulgrews tavern in east dubuque, illinois yesterday. People were inside at the time. It was just like a loud cannon door of the mulgrews bar. Some injuries. She was taken to a hospital, but has since been released. Everyone else is okay. New details this morning. A wrong way crash on highway 20 shows how our officers put their lives at risk to protect and serve us every day. Kwwls Amanda Gilbert joins us live in waterloo. We now have Waterloo Police officer mark crash on highway 20 yesterday around 4 30 in the morning. Nissen noticed another car headed towards his squad car near the ansborough exit. But was unable to get out of the way in time. When the crash happened nissen had his emergency lights and siren on. This officer was actually responding to calls of a wrongway driver on highway 20. He knew he may be headed towards a dangerious situation. Shows that our men and women in blue risks their lives every day just this year. Two Police Officers in des moines were killed after a wrongway driver crashed into them. Live in waterloo. Amanda gilbert. News 7 kwwl. The other driver in the crash. 27 yearold erick james anderson. Was charged with an owi second offense. No insurance. Failure to have control. And driving one person is dead and three others hurt after a car crashes off a los angles freeway, landing on a homeless camp. Police say at least one person was trapped under the car. Its still not clear what caused the crash. The truck driver who crashed into a van carrying comedian tracy morgan two years ago, pleads guilty. He was driving a walmart truck when he crashed into morgans van on the new jersey turnpike. Morgan suffered serious injuries in the crash and comedian james mcnair was killed. A miraculous recovery. A boy who nearly died after getting hit by a car is now communicating with his family. Leighton pullin was hit by a car crossing a Waterloo Street last month. The sevenyear old was rushed to iowa city and has been recovering ever since. The family invited kwwls lauren moss into leightons hospital room to check in on his recovery. Give me a thumbs up. A thumbs up. An act of 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 up and he went like that. That was the best feeling in the world. I just wanted to leave work and i did and got here as leighton has been unresponsive for weeks, suffering a fractured skull and brain damage after being hit by truck. If you ever want to see a miracle this is a miracle, we never thought we would see this just a week ago the last 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 our nickname for him, but leighton is fighting hard each and every day. What it feels like, its wonderful. One thumb at a time. 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 his list. He feared for his life. Thats what a former Police Officer says facing murder charges. Michael slager is charged in the shooting death of walter scott last year. Slager has said he stopped scott for a broken tail light. But then he took off running. And officer slager chased after him. Shortly after the officer shot at him. Slager says he now has nightmares and cant sleep. You any indication of compliance pulled my firearm and i pulled the trigger. If convicted, slager could get 30 years in prison. An oklahoma Police Officer who shot and killed a man in september will stand trial for manslaughter. Officer betty shelby was charged te in september, which was captured on camera. The judge decided to go ahead with the trial after reviewing the video in the courtroom. Shelby said he disobeyed her commands and she thought he was trying to get a weapon from his car. But Police Videos showed crutcher with his arms in the air before the shooting. Investigators never found any weapons in his car. Working towards a solution. People come together in waterloo to talk about vioelence. This year the citys seen three know how they can help. The naacp held a work session to try to come up with solutions. All day and everydaaby out what we can and cant do. We can change this community. Waterloo is small. We were built on community. The groups filled out forms with their ideas and set up work groups to start implementing the suggestions. A Common Thread more mentoring. An evergreen tree chopped down and that tree was a symbol to them. The illinois couple lost their son twelve years ago. The tree was a gift of remembrance. A tree farm offered a replacement but the family wants justice. I dont want anybody to replace believe somebody did that. They plan to replant a new tree. This time, in their front yard officers get more than they police in kansas put cameras along a park trail and ended up capturing were some harmless, costumed wildlife. A wolf in high heel boots is a different sighting for the area as are two people in gorilla suits entertaining the camera. On the departments Facebook Page police thanked the community for noticing the cameras. For their sense of humor. Its coming up on today in iowa. Have too many donations for kiddos plus. Its beginning to look a lot like ski season. Those stories and the forecast from storm track seven meteorologist Rachael Peart coming up. Youre watching kwwl, now your storm track 7 forecast on kwwl. Lets go to storm track seven for your forecast forecast. 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 low pressure is moving just wednesday. Driving our weather here in eastern iowa. As it tracks off to the east, we have the potential to see some flurries. A rain snow mix is possible. Southern counties may not see anything except clouds. However, even the Northern Counties wont see much accumulation by the time all is said and done. Highs today will be in the low 40s. Overnight, a few lingering flurries are possible. December begins with near normal highs in the upper 30s low 40s. More sunshine is likely on friday into saturday as High Pressure tracks in. Weekend outlook we will have partly cloudy skies for saturday but computer models are not in agreement about sunday. Some keep it dry, others bring in some precipitation. We will watch it carefully. With highs in the 40s, any precip looks it we are watching a system for the middle of next week that could bring snow to eastern iowa. Change is very likely at this point. Low pressure is moving just north of the iowa of snow has ski resorts getting ready for the season. Almost a foot and a half of snow has fallen in the last week in breckenridge. Which is keeping public works departments busy theyre working round the clock to keep up. Its coming up on today in iowa. Holiday shoppers can become easy targets for pickpockets. Tips from police on how to avoid it coming up. Receiving messages from around the world even though she didnt win. Stay with kwwl, weve got you we think church is more than a place to go at christmastime. We think church can happen anywhere and anytime. We think church can happen when gifts change lives a world away. When giving your time, gives someone new hope. When opening hearts, inspires joy. And when we remember where it all began. Of the United Methodist church invite you to learn more at rethinkchurch. Org pickpockets. Police in chicago showing how. A man bumps into a woman and lifts her wallet from her purse as she gets into the elevator. In another demo, a man gets his wallet stolen while passing through a police say to be aware of your surroundings while shopping and avoid crowds because they make shoppers more vulnerable to crime. She didnt receive the crown but the pageant contestant is being called a winner. Compete in miss minnesota usa wearing a hijab and a burkini during the swimsuit portion of the competition. Since people found out about her story shes gotten messages from women around the world supporting her. This is a big win for us you and being celebrated som i just challenging you to be outgoing and just do your best in women and made it to the top 15. A worthy cause with too many donations. A Police Department in wisconsin gives stuffed animals to kids when they respond to a call a car crash, a fire whatever the case may be. Theyve received so many donations they have too many. Now theyre starting a program theyre calling stuffed hugs any kid who walks into the department for any reason can leave with a stuffed animal. Public to try and comfort them. Time to clean all the animals before they get handed out. Its coming up on today in iowa. Introducing the newest powerball winners. Its a group of 20 people and they storm track seven meteorologist [music] no, no, no, no, people are both soft and strong. Yey which is why our products are too. 421 milliondollar lottery jackpot. The group purchased the Winning Ticket in tennessee. The group says they play twice a week and spend 60 dollars each time. And now theyre big winners. And i just started screaming but husband had to look. I looked wouldnt answer their phone. And im like, get up saturdays prize is the 12th largest Powerball Jackpot in us history. Eileen loan is back with another got you covered. This is today in iowa. This morning protesters are being told to leave. For their the cold and now face an order. Plus, a big announcement about jobs from donald trump even before he takes the oath of office. And another day, another finalst taking centerstage at uni. This is a huge week on campus as the university searches for a new leader. Good morning, im ally crutcher. And im jerry gallagher. Storm track seven meteorologist forecast. Eileen on camera low pressure is moving just north of the iowa minnesota line through the day wednesday. Driving our weather here in eastern iowa. As it potential to see some flurries. A rain snow mix is possible. Southern counties may not see anything except clouds. However, even the Northern Counties wont see much accumulation by the time will be in the low 40s. Overnight, a few lingering flurries are possible. As temperatures fall to near freezing 32f , fog is possible. December begins with near normal highs in the upper 30s low 40s. More sunshine is likely on friday into saturday as High Pressure tracks in. Weekend outlook we will have partly cloudy skies for saturday but computer standoff in a snowstorm. Protesters in north dakota have been told to leave. People have been showing up to support the Standing Rock sioux tribe which is upset about which would cover four states, including iowa will damage their water governors Evacuation Order with winter on the way. After nearly five months of protest, officials are turning up the pressure. Telling demonstrators to leave now or face the consequences. But neither the official warnings nor the howling Winter Weather seem convincing. The Morton CountySheriffs Department warned protesters tuesday that theyll start blocking supplies a spokeswoman for the Department Later clarified that theyd only stick to punishing trespassers. Members of the Standing Rock sioux tribe. Who originally filed the lawsuit against the pipeline. Say theyre not budging. Water is sacred. But, its also Good Business to protect your water resource. North dakota governor Jack Dalrymple warned protesters about the Winter Weather which will only get worse. He said that First Responders will no longer be responsible for rendering aid to those who stay 17 native americans, whove served under the obama administration, signed a letter asking the president to step in and allow protesters to stay. The ceo of the Company Building the pipeline is also weighing in trying to convince protesters the pipeline will be safe. This pipeline is being built where to existing pipelines exist today, that were built through your state in 1982. Weve not disturbed any historical sites. Im yasmin amer reporting. Two pipeline protesters, who chained themselves to equipment in they ran past security to the construction site in pilot mound. Thats in boone county in central iowa. They chained their wrists together inside a pvc pipe. Firefighters cut the pipe. A state patrol plane was called in to search for others in the every direct action we deeply believe water is life therefore we must do everything in our Human Capacity to protect it. Pipeline construction sites left in iowa. The area along the Des Moines River is the one of the last sections of the pipeline left to finish in central iowa thats why protesters are focusing on it. No one got hurt when a pipeline exploded in missouri. This video shows the huge fire in platte county. Thats on the western side of the state. The pipelines owned by Enterprise Products partners out of louisiana. The company says the pipeline moves an ethanepropane mix from kansas. His life to protect and serve. Hes now out of the hospital with minor injuries. Kwwls Amanda Gilbert joins us live in waterloo. You can tell us more about what happened. Waterloo Police Officer mark nissen responding to calls about a wrongway driver on highway 20. He headed toward the area where the driver was knowing he was headed toward a dangerous situation. When nissen found the driver unable to get out intime. Nissens car was hit head on shortly after 4 30 in the morning. The officer was taken to Allen Hospital with minor injuries. This happens just days after a Cedar Rapids Police car was hit while officers were responding to an accident. Last spring. Two officers in des moines were killed after a crash with a wrongway driver. Officer nissen is now out of the hospital. But will be given a that it is a law in iowa to move over and change lanes to create a safe zone for officers on the side of the road. Heres another example from the last week two cedar rapids Police Officers taken to the hospital over the weekend. A car hit their s uv after they were called to another crash. The in the other car died, matrell watson was 22 years old. His family is now trying to fiveyearold her dad is gone. She loves him a lot you know theyre young but he was a good dad to her he went to you know all of her preschool stuff and picked her up from daycare. Kaitlyn hall also died in the some people were taken to the lifethreatening. Two people have serious injuries after a crash on highway 63 south of hudson. It happened yesterday morning. 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. Driver in the truck were taken to the hospital. Sheer devastation. Three people have died and many buildings have burned in the the fires have burned 15thousand acres so far. The mayor of gatlinburg who lost his own home says his town will pull together and it happened so fast it was basically running for their lives. One Smoky Mountain resort and now to the white house transition today, the democrats fresh off a brusing election in november elect their party leaders. Nancy pelosi has been the House Democratic leader for 12years. Today she faces a challenge by congressman tim ryan of ohio. Ryan says its time for a change in party leadership. Ryan says the party has the right policies, but not the right message. There will be no vote recount done by hand in wisconsin. Green Party President ial candidate jill stein has been calling for the recount of the president ial a judge says the recount will begin today but it will be done by attorney did not prove a hand recount was necessary. Mitt romney is now praising the president elect months after calling donald trump a phony. Romney had dinner with trump considered for secretary of state. The last few weeks, he has ive seen in the transition effort. The people hes selected as members of his cabinet are solid and effective, capable people, and some of them i reince priebus, who will be the white house chief of staff, also met with trump and romney. The president elect made jobs a big focus of his campaign and hes already getting a boost even before he moves into the white house. Carrier says it struck a deal with donald trump to keep almost one thousand jobs in indiana. He and the Vice President elect whos from indiana will announcement. Carrier is an air conditioning company. Earlier this year it said it would close one plant in indiana and move manufacturing to mexico. Today, unis interim president gets to share his vision for the job he wants on a permanent basis. Theres also a public forum this afternoon with jim wohlpart. Hes been serving as interim president since bill ruud left earlier this year. Neil theobald another finalist for the president s job talked about his plans. He says they have to recruit a more diverse student bod and used. He also explained his resignation as president from temple a few months ago. This summer i was directed to hire an individual to an on pe provost who was strongly opposed to the appointment. I chose not to break the covenant of shared governance, which as i mentioned earlier, i have found to be essential in operating a university. Sent to the Temple Community by the board of trustees which gave a different explanation. The board says a 22million dollar deficit was discovered in the Financial Aid budget. The board says the issues from that were the responsibility of president theobald and that he must be held accountable. Today, the third of three finalists for the job at uni will be week. The ice bucket that started the viral challenge a few years ago is now part of history. The Smithsonians National museum of American History opened a new exhibit on the history of philanthropy. Since the als ice bucket challenge became a fundraising phenomenon the first bucket is a showcase item. A few years ago a man named anthony tied the challenge to als and it became a social media success. This isnt something new for him. Its just something thats gonna add to his legacy. The challenge has raised more than 50 Million Dollars for research. The time now is iowa tries to stop a losing streak. But has to beat a team that hasnt lost a game yet this plus, a tall order for the green youre watching kwwl, [ tower pinging ] [ whistling ] weve got a problem, friend. Whats the problem . The naughty list shouldnt get deals yeah, but anyone who switches gets half off of any smartphone. Even these . Yeah, any smartphone. Call the big guy [ bell dings ] santa . No, jingles. [ knuckles crack ] [ spits ] ooo. Ouch. [ neck cracks ] [ darien ] switch and get half off any smartphone. Now your storm track 7 forecast on kwwl. Lets go to storm track seven meteorologist eileen loan now for your forecast forecast. 7 weather team. See the screen for your complete weather information. Here is additional forecast information from the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team low pressure is moving just north of the iowa iowa. As it tracks off to the east, we have the potential to see some flurries. A rain snow mix is possible. Southern counties may not see anything except clouds. However, even the Northern Counties wont see much accumulation by the time all is said and done. Highs today will be in the low 40s. Overnight, a few lingering flurries are near freezing 32f , fog is possible. December begins with near normal highs in the upper 30s low 40s. More sunshine is likely on friday into saturday as High Pressure tracks in. Weekend outlook we will have partly cloudy skies for saturday but computer models are not in agreement bring in some precipitation. We will watch it carefully. With highs in the 40s, any precip looks it would be like rain. We are watching a system for the middle of next week that could bring snow to eastern iowa. Change is very likely at this point. Low pressure is moving just north of the iowa minnesota line through the day wednesday. Driving our weather here in eastern iowa. As it tracks off to the east, we have the potential to see some flurries. A rain snow mix is possible. Southern counties may not see anything except clouds. However, even the Northern Counties wont see much accumulation overnight, a few lingering flurries are possible. As temperatures fall to near freezing 32f , fog is possible. December begins with near normal highs in the upper 30s low 40s. More sunshine is likely on friday into saturday as high a tree thats way too big for the inside of a house is being moved somewhere else for christmas. A place that will make many plus this goat is stealing our hearts this morning and teaching us again about the power of social jerry moses has passed away. He was 65. Moses was a part of east highs incredible seven year unbeaten streak in football in the late 60s and early 70s. He was twice named a first Team Allstate running back before moving on to iowa state. Also as someone who tried to make a positive silence in his memory at the east waverlyshell rock game. Services are now pending. The iowa Mens Basketball Team is already young. Now its shorthanded. Iowa has lost talented freshman tyler cook for three weeks with a fracture in his right index finger. Last night, the hawks on the road facing notre dame. Early on another freshman jordan bohannon with the three. Moments later bohannon again he 23 points. Iowa would lead 5250 with about 15 mintues to go, but then the irish would go on a run and pull away. The hawks lose their third theres so much green to enjoy during the holiday season. An nfl team known for that color picked their Christmas Tree for lambeau field. Its a thirtyfive foot tall spruce. One of the owners says the tree has been in his life since he was in first grade but hes now happy to see it go. The tree will serve as the centerpiece for the 11th annual festival of lights at lambeau on saturday. When youre raising animals, sometimes you look for any trick in the book to solve a problem. Polly the goat had a big problem. Her owner in new jersey says polly has a severe case of anxiety. Nothing seemed to help, until one day the woman put an old duck costume on polly as a joke. The next thing she knew, the anxiety was gone and polly was online that went viral. Every day i get messages from people saying im battling depression or im battling little goats and if they can do twodozen goats all with special needs. She plans to expand the farm to host many more animals. Its youre watching today in iowa on check of your storm track seven now on today in iowa. More announcements from trump tower expected today as donald trump prepares to take the oath of office. Plus. Today more steps being taken in the search for a new uni president. And police set up cameras to find dnagerous animals but get a big surprise when they see heres a live look at our good morning its 6 am today is and im jerry gallagher. Storm track seven meterologist Rachael Peart is here with a look at your forecast. Low pressure is moving just