While cooler than we have been seeing, this is actually closer to where we should be for veterans day. In the upper 40s to mid 50s. Gusty winds die down and will lead to a rather chilly night tonight. Ill have more coming up. Waterloo firefighters pull a man from a fire. Now the man they saved is in jail. Chad bruce now faces trespassing charges kwwls Amanda Gilbert joins us live in waterloo with more on started a fire accidentally shortly after three this morning. In the abandoned Apartment Building behind me. No one was hurt in the fire but as you can see from this video. Firefighters did have to rescue a man named chad bruce. Who was trapped on the second floor. Bruce was then arrested for owned. Looked like it was ready to be live in waterloo, Amanda Gilbert, news 7 kwwl. We did some digging this morning. According to county tax records, the building was built in 1906. The property is currently listed on the city of waterloo website as for sale. According to the Black Hawk County jail chad bruces bail is set at threehundred dollars. Were getting a better idea who may be chosen to serve in Donald Trumps cabinet. Former new york mayor rudy guiliani, has been a reliable trump defender he may be under consideration for director of Homeland Security or attorney general along with new jersey governor, chris christie. For secretary of state former speaker of the house, Newt Gingrich is a possible choice. Retired army general Michael Flynn for National Security advisor. Alabama senator jeff sessions, for secretary of defense. Rnc chairman Reince Preibus also being named candidate ben carson for possible positions. Trump visited our nations capitol yesterday to start the transition of power. He met with president obama in the oval office at the white house. President obama told the president elect his administration wants to do everything they can to help trump succeed so the country can succeed. The president elect also went to capitol hill where he met with House Speaker paul ryan. They talked about the legislative agenda they hope to his own plane but once hes sworn in hell likely have to switch out his private jet for air forceone. The military owned plane is equipped with special features to protect the commanderinchief. In the chance trump insists on using his private jet, hell have to install all of those features continuing coverage. Accused of murder now charged with assaulting an inmate. According to our coverage partners at the telegrpah herald, eddie hicks punches at a fellow inmate after apparently feeling threatened. He now faces assault charges, along with first degree murder. He was arrested last year after police say he stabbed his girlfriend more than 100 times at her dubuque home. Brewing up support. A Coffee Company giving 100percent of its sales for a day to a family who lost two daughters in a car accident. 16yearold selena and 13year old bella died last week in a rca crashon their way home from school. They were sisters. Remains in critical condition. Funerals for both selena and bella held yesterday. The site of the linn county crash now with flowers and notes. All three scooters coffee shops in cedar rapids raising money for the families yestersay. One store manager says her daughter went to school with bella. I know they brought in a theropy dog, i think for a lot of kids its really hard for them to kind of grasps everything and to kind of realize that anything at one of the locations sales doubled yesterday raising two thousand dollars by five yesterday evening. Teaming up to fight a problem. The governors office, National Guard and us attorneys in iowa want people to know more about a new deadly drug in the state, carfentanil. Typically used to sedate elephants its now being blamed for drug overdoses across the midwest. I think these kids think theyre carfentanil is one of the most deadly opioids. 10 thousand times more potent than morphine. Lives changed forever december 3, 2014. That date may not mean anything to you. But for one iowa family. Their lives were shattered in the Early Morning hours. They recently opened their home to me to kwwls Amanda Goodman to share a story they guard closely in hopes to open peoples eyes to what may be happening in thr forgot to turn off the lights. All of the lights were on downstairs. And i got to the top of the basement stairs. Sorry starts to cry . Thats when you found him . she nods let this part breathe it was there in her basement that wendy came face to face with the unimaginable. Her 15yearold son evan. The kid who loved to be around his family. Was gone. It was there in her basement that wendys son took evan. The kid who loved to be aroundh is family. Was gone. It was there in her basement that wendys son took literally feel my heart hitting the floor. Alan mast wendys brother evans uncle. Drove an hour to get to his sistr middle of that night. They had him where he was. Before they moved him. I wanted to see him. I just needed to. Wendy, alan and the rest of their tight knit family shocked there were no signs they saw leading up to that fateful night. Evan was a freespirit always wanted to do right by people. With him i never knew anything was wrong with him. He would always stay up late its ok mom go to bed i love you. There were no signs before but evan left clues behind like pieces to a puzzle. And i never knew anything about it. Evan was failing his uncle and grandfather found so folders completed but never handed in. He cut ties with nearly every Single Family member on social media. It was a storm of problems when wendy realized she found the lightning bolt that potentially started it all. I found a poem on his phone basically told him to go hang himself because the world would be a better place if he would. What i want to know is how could you be so cruel . Just days before his death, evans grandmother noticed writing on his arms he quickly covered up told her it was nothing told her he was fine. After he was gone, his family found a picture in his phone it showed his arms covered in hateful and that picture and said this is what i hear every day at school. Thats probably the hardest thing for us to accept knowing he was open with us. Kept so much closed were there missed si smile . Were there too many im fine responses . There are times i dont want to go to bed bc when i close my eyes. Its questions like those moments like that that wendy. I hope nobody ever has to go through that its the hardest all of the what ifs. I wish he would have come talk to me. I wish i could have helped him. I wish somebody would have told me what was going on. A family closer and stronger but forever broken. Evans cousin kylie her words forever etched. You have left and i am broken. But for you, heavens gates are there was so much left to say. Even though i miss your smile, the moments we shared it was long enough to last as a mom, what do you miss the most about evan . long pause everything after that day wendy and her daughter never went back to r experts say check your childs phone. Read all incoming and outgoing messages. Know their passwords, look at their social media pages their accounts are your accounts. Well be right back now your storm track 7 meteorologist eileen loan now for your forecasr 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 stormtrack7 Live Weather Network cameras will be mainly clear today with a few clouds tracking through. It will be cooler for veterans day today. And we will have a pretty chilly start tomorrow morning before breezy conditions warm us back to above normal on sunday. This morning we are above normal with really, across the state. North winds are already 5 to 15 mph and will stay fairly gusty today before dying down tonight. We have a few clouds showing up on satellite and a few more tracking in from the north, but it will be mainly sunny today. There isnt much going on as High Pressure will track to the east and allow the next system to approach from the west. Winds will pick up by sunday, but we pretty much stay dry for the next several days. Again. Highs today will be cooler than the last few. But we are around average in the 40s and 50s over most of the tomorrow. Closer to home. We will have a lot of sunshine, but a few clouds. Highs in the upper 40s to mid 50s with northeast winds gusting to 20 or 25 mph. Winds will die down tonight and clear skies will allow temps to drop to the frosty mid 20s to around 30. Sunny on saturday with highs in the low to mid 50s and southwest winds picking up speed. It will be breezy and a bit warmer on sunday with highs in the mid to upper 50s most of next week. Lows will be mainly in the 30s. We stay dry, too, with the next sunshine, but a few clouds. Highs in the upper 40s to mid 50s with northeast winds gusting to 20 or 25 mph. Winds will die down tonight and clear skies will allow temps to drop to the frosty mid 20s to around 30. Sunny on saturday with highs in the low to mid 50s and southwest winds picking up speed. It will be breezy and a bit warmer on sunday with highs in the m most of next week. Lows will be mainly in the 30s. We stay dry, too, with the next its coming up delivering on a promise more than a decade old a veteran pays tribute to his friend. Plus we just love these stories. A sailor surprises his family home heres a look at some of the stories developing overnight. Waterloo firefigthers rescue a man from a burning building. Police tell us its an abandoned Apartment Building but they sometimes find people inside. Firefighters tell us no one got hurt. The man they rescued now faces portland, oregon a riot. People protesting Donald Trumps presidency across the country. In portland some fourthousand people marched, some smashing store windows others lighting fires as police pushed back. Trump tweeting his reaction to the protests calling it unfair he called them quote professional protests trump also tweeting he had a great day in dc yesterday a live look at our Nations Capital now. Brothers in arms. A World War Two veteran promised when his friend died he would play taps at his grave. As Rikki Mitchell shows us 14 years later he delivered. Tom sitter says its been more than 70 years since hes played the bugle but as the years went on following said the promise he made eddie kept eating away at him. In a way i felt a little guilty about not doing it but i knew eddie where ever he here many times and i thought im going to do it. He bought this World War Two era practicing. Eddie right now is laughing at me for hitting a couple frogs. Tom met eddie when they were in the armys 29th calvary unit during world war ii. France i had my bugle with me i never got a chance never was asked to use it never wanted to use it i didnt want to draw any attention to myself under fire. They came back to the u. S. Right before the war ended. They were preparing for the invasion of japan at that time we would have been part of that invasion thank god the war ended though. Tom always remained close with eddies son eddie junior. Hed be happy hed really be today of course is veterans day. Wed like to thank all of you who served our country and wish you a happy veterans day. Today president obama will honor our nations veterans. The president will lay a floral wreath at the tomb of the unknowns an annual observance at Arlington National cemetery. An early veterans day surprise. An annual veterans day ceremony students singing and learning about the military. A senior chief petty officer in the navy usually sends in a video for the ceremony. But this year, he came from an eightmonth deployment and suprised his family at the ceremony. Absolutely insane. Huge butterflies. I havent seen these guys in about eight months. So its been a long time, way too long. I was psyched. I was really years and soon will be home for a few years. A live look at dubuque now another look at the forecast eileen loan is back with another check of your storm track seven forecast. Around 50. Lows tonight in the after several nominations fisher price Little People finally makes it into the National Toy Hall of fame. Also inducted this year adventure board game dungeons and dragons was also inducted. The swing was inducted for its the inductees beat out a list of other nominees which included care bears, pinball, rock em sock em robots, coloring books, and believe it or not [ tower pinging ] [ whistling ] weve got a problem, friend. Half off any smartphone for anyone who switches . Whats the problem . The naughty list shouldnt get deals yeah, but anyone who switches gets half off of any smartphone. 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. In iowa. Now on today in iowa new overnight firefighters rescue a man during a fire. Plus calls for the va to do more following the death of an iowa veteran. And transition to power reaction this morning after our next and current president sit down together. Good morning, im ally crutcher. And im jerry gallagher. Storm track seven meteorologist eileen loan is here now with your storm track seven forecast. Eileen on camera the area this morning, but otherwise we will see mainly sunny skies for veterans day. Temperatures are not too bad right now. In the 30s to the mid 40s. But we may not climb too much more today with north 1015 mph will gust higher for much of the day before dying down this evening. While cooler than we have been seeing, this is actually closer to where we should be for veterans day. In the upper 40s to mid 50s. Gusty have more coming up. And will lead to a rather chilly devleoping overnight an abandoned building catches fire. Waterloo firefighters have to rescue a man inside then Police Arrest him for trespassing. Kwwls Amanda Gilbert is live for us in waterloo this morning. Behind me is an abandoned city owned Apartment Building on the 900 block of commercial street. Waterloo fire and police tell me believe someone accidentally started a fire in this building around 3 10 this morning. No one was injured in the fire. But firefighters did have to rescue someone chad bruce was trapped on the he was then arrested for trespassing. Waterloo police say although this build sometimes find Homeless People inside. Waterloo fire says someone may have accidentally started the fire when they were just trying to stay warm, but they can not live in waterloo, Amanda Gilbert, news 7 kwwl. Bruce told firefighters he thought there may be other people in the building. They searched but did not find anyone. Count threehundred time now is xxx. New this morning unanswered help lines and va wait lists now an iowa family says its costing lives. 32 year old Curtis Gearhart was living in johnston after serving two tours in the military as a combat engineer. Had been receiving treatment for pt sd but when he went back in to the va nearly two months ago for recurring headaches, family members say he was told he had to wait. Gearhart took his own life on they send these come home. His girlfriend, and mother to their unborn child, believes more should have been done by the vato make sure curtis was still alive. In july brandom ketchum took his own life after claiming the va hospital in iowa city turned him away. Yesterday iowa senator joni va Inspector General asking for an update in the investigation of the events surrounding ketchums death. Ernst also plans to look into gearhearts death. Continuing coverage donald trump spent his first day in washington since being elected president and had a very big meeting. Edward lawrence is in washington where trump will first day in washington, d. C. Fantastic my numberone priority in the coming two months is to try to facilitate a transition that successful. In a remarkable mr. President , it was a great honor being with you and i look trump opening the door to seek the president s counsel in the future. The respect echoed by white house spokesman josh earnest. It sounds like the meeting mightve been at least a little less awkward than some might have expected. The president elect went on to tour the spot where he will be inaugurated. With and Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell avoiding protesters at every step. I havent been asleep since he was elected president. Im just devastated right now. They should just get used to it and figure out how were all gonna get along. Those protests continues in cities across the us for a Third Straight night. Now trump responding on twitter saying professional protesters incited by the media, are protesting. Very unfair. Donald trump went back to new york last night. This transition. Including looking over possible cabinet choices. Edward lawrence nbc news washington. Iowa senator joni ernst had been floated as a possible running mate for trump. We asked her whether shed accept a different post in have tried to tap any of that i do. Thats what i emphasized to mr. Trump during the campaign. I hope to be a great advocate for him in the United States senate. Senator ernst adding she hopes the next secretary of agriculture is from iowa. Millions of americans did their part tuesda this historic election. But one woman says her experience at the polls left her shaken. Odeth weber says she hears things about her ethnicity often, but was surprised to hear something about it when she went to cast her vote in dubuque behind the desk proceeded to tell me, a reyou sure youre allowed to vote . And i was a little dumbfounded, and said well, yes, and handed her my id. Then she said, well, you just look so exotic. And i just another poll worker claims she doesnt remember anyone saying that. The Dubuque County auditor says shes shocked and disappointed to hear the story and stressed more training will be done to prevent it from happening again. A protest over donald trump and a racist message found in a high school bathrooms. Students a high school in the chicago suburbs stagia its very unsettling that this our election. Its sad that we lived with a black president for eight years and now this guy gets in office and kdis feel that its ok to do this stuff the districts superintendent says the school is investigating to try to track down who is responsible for the graffiti and this election cycle showed how deeply divided our country is. Now a familiar face will be fighting to lead the divided democratic party. Howard dean wants to head the Democratic National committee once again. The former vermont governor first ran the dn c from 2005 to 2009. Many democrats are turning towards progressive and diverse leaders. One challenger dean could face is congressman keith ellison, a Muslim American from minot he cochairs the congressional progressive caucus and is getting a fair share of support to lead the dnc. Obamacare enrollment surged this week as donald trump won the presidency. Hes promised to end the program. More than 100 thousand people selected health plans on the healthcaredotgov website wednesday, according to the department of health and human services. A kwwl followup. Missing person case turned Homicide Investigation 16 years later. She was 23 years old. Her boyfriend tait purk told police she never returned home after walking to the store to buy cigarettes. The iowa dci has not identified suspects but say new interviews led them to reclassify the case. The last development in the case was in september 2003. Police found a bone and bone fragmentsalong with pieces of Womens Clothing in a rural farm and salvage yard near irving. But the dna results werent a match to onkonskis. Kwwl spoke with her father Jerry Okonski the best thing that can happen is that she so the next best thing, you know, knowing that shes dead, is that we can find her body, find her remains and give her a funeral. You know, bury her and put it to rest and get some closure. Okonskis former boyfriendtate prison on unrelated drug and gun charges. Hes set to be released from prison in april. The state fire marshal is looking into a fire that destroyed a home the day the sale was being finalzied. Bryan butcher and his wife were at a meeting closing on the sale of their home in cedar falls. When they came back it was burning. Bryan says they ran inside to save their pets. Theres just been a lot of good seventeen years it just rips you, the family was planning on moving into their new home later this month but now will move with no belongings. As for the new owners bryan says he doesnt know what will happen, but insurance is involved. Today in court the two girls accused in the slender man stabbing case. Its a motions hearing. The girls were 12 when they allegedly attacked a friend to called slender man. The two girls now both 14years old are charged as adults in the attempted murder case in wisconsin. Reports from several psychologists will be considered in court today. A week after a tragedy in iowa, two more officers have been ambushed. Outside of pittsburgh, one officer was killed and another wounded. They were investigating a domestic case when the suspect started shooting at them. Investigators say the suspect along with a pregnant woman wef Iowa State University giving two Police Departments a gift after theirofficers were killed in ambush attacks last week. The cyclones wore the two departments logos on their helmets during last thursdays game. Each department received one yesterday. Of you as a reminder of important what all of you do. You choose to do what you do for gave the des moins chief an autographed football. It was a three protesters go to extremes to stop the construction of a pipeline in iowa. They crawled into the pipeline and refused to come out. This video is from boone county. Oxygen was pumped into the pipeline to keep them safe. The protesters say they are trying to protect fresh Water Supplies and, they are willing to risk everything. The Des Moines Register says each protester was pulled out after police tied rope to their h musics man of letters is being remembered this morning. Leonard cohen has died. He was already well known as a poet when he moved to new york in the sixties to break into the music comparing him to bob dylan for the power of his songwriting. His most famous song, hallelujah, has been covered hundreds of times since he released it in 1984. Cohen was 82. Hazard unlinke any weve ever seen plus some eastern iowans whove seen flooding in the past may be getting some help. Its a story thats new this morning. The forecast from storm track seven meteorologist eileen loan is up next. Forecast on kwwl. Lets go to storm track seven meteorologist eileen loan now 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 stormtrack7 Live Weather Network cameras will be mainly clear today with a few clouds tracking veterans day today. And we will have a pretty chilly start tomorrow morning before breezy conditions warm us back to above normal on sunday. Temps in the mid 30s to upper 40s over most of the viewing area. And, really, across the state. North winds are already 5 to 15 tonight. We have a few clouds showing up on satellite and a few more tracking in from the north, but it will be mainly sunny today. There isnt much going on as High Pressure will track to the east and allow the next system to approach from the dry for the next several days. Again. But we are around average in the 40s and 50s over most of the region. We gain a few degrees tomorrow. Closer to home. We will have a lot of sunshine, but a few clouds. Highs in the upper 40s to mid 50s with northeast winds gusting to 20 or 25 mph. Winds will die down tonight and clear skies will allow temps to drop 30. Sunny on saturday with highs in the low to mid 50s and southwest winds picking up speed. It will be breezy and a bit warmer on sunday with highs in the mid to upper 50s most of next week. Lows will be mainly in the 30s. We stay dry, too, with the next chance of rain will allow temps to drop to the frosty mid 20s to around 30. Sunny on saturday with highs in the low to mid 50s and southwest winds picking up speed. It will be breezy and a bit warmer on sunday with highs in the mid to upper 50s most of next week. Lows will be mainly in the 30s. We stay dry, too, with the next chance of rain holding off until maybe friday. Highs in the mid to upper 50s most of next week. Lows will be were not sure weve ever seen funny. Youre looking at one mongoose after another sunning themselves on a course in south africa. They woke up then stampeded across the green as the players stepped back and just watched. They may look cute but know to fight and kill snakes especially cobras. Its coming up a broadcasting legend brings gifts to iowa. Plus many of you may be spending time on the road today heading to state football in cedar falls or state volleyball in cedar rapids. A live look at 380 in cedar rapids now. Well learn what waterloo firefigthers rescue a man from a burning building. Police tell us its an abandoned Apartment Building but they sometimes find people inside. The man is not hurt hes now facing trespassing charges, police calling protests in portland, oregon a riot. People protesting Donald Trumps presidency across the country. In portland some fourthousand people marched, some smashing store windows others lighting fires as police pushed back. The protests calling it unfair he called them quote professional protests trump also tweeting he had a great day in dc yesterday a new this morning help available for eastern iowans who often deal with flash flooding. The city of dubuque launching a new program. Eightpointfour Million Dollars is now available to help improve more than threehundred homes in the bee branch area. This is video of the flood mitigation project being built in the area. Now forgivable loans are to homeowners to help them make their homes more resistant to future flooding. The new program is thanks to a money the state is receiving from the federal government. The head man of iowas Transportation Department is resigning. Paul trombino will leave at the end of the month. He was appointed by governor branstad 5 years ago after working 17 years for the wisconsin dot. We havent heard who will run the department after trombino leaves. Governor branstad did have the the Iowa Supreme Court upholds a ruling in support of Terry Branstads decision. The lawsuit claimed state law requires four to be open in iowa. But the court decided that the governors vetoes fell within his constitutional power and dismissed the lawsuit. This morning a dedication for the university of iowa childrens hospital. University leaders will join others in dedicating the new university of iowa stead family childrens hospital. Thats happening at 1030 this morning in the new facility. Ago. Patients are scheduled to begin moving into the new hospital next month. A broadcasting legend comes back to iowa to make a donation to the university of iowa library. Tom brokaw has a soft spot for iowa. He went to the university of iowa for a year. Hes giving some things hes collected over the years as a journalist to the school. That includes a notebook from an interview with a young bill gates and pictures with nancy probably would have to be unidome and that means a boost for businesses in the cedar valley. Many hotels say theyre nearly booked, and several restaurants are getting prepared for a busy weekend. According to the cedar falls tourism and visitors bureau. In the past. Theyve seen around three pointtwo Million Dollars in spending during the championship games. This includes money spent on hotels, gas, food, and tickets. A spike in business in cedar rapids the state volleyball torunament taking place there. To spend around onepointeight Million Dollars in that city. The fourday tournament brings in 40 teams from across the state and nearly 28 thousand fans. Were wrapping up today in iowa [ tower pinging ] [ whistling ] witches . 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. Seven meteorologist eileen loan next. Check of your storm track seven forecast. Sunny, gusty and cooler for veterans day today with highs around 50. Lows tonight in the warm back to the mid to upper 50s for most of next week. It will be breezy sunday and windy thursday, but mainly dry good morning. Breaking news. Antitrump protests break out again in cities coast to coast overnight. One demonstration in portland, oregon turning violent. Police calling it a riot using donald trump back to tweeting. What hes saying about the protesters this morning. Making peace. If you succeed, then the country succeeds. The president and president elect meet for the t rstime in the oval office. I very much look forward to dealing with the president. The first lady and first lady to be sitting down over tea. This morning, what was said behind closed doors. And nbc news exclusive. Who could fill key positions in