Upper teens to low 20s this morning. A bit below normal. Winds are light to around 10 mph from the east and will turn a around 10 mph this afternoon. We should stay mainly clear today with a few more clouds this afternoon. Most of the clouds track in tonight as the next system tracks in. But today. Mostly sunny with highs in the upper 30s to have a couple of days of rain, but could also have some snow and sleet mixing in at times. Ill explain coming up. Southeast. And be mainly around 10 mph this afternoon. We afternoon. Most of the clouds track in tonight as the next system tracks in. But today. A developing story protestors go toe to toe with police over a tear gas and rubber bullets at them. This all happening in north dakota where some fourhundred people are prtoesting the Dakota Access pipeline. Officers appear to be using Water Cannons in cold weather causing the weather to freeze. However, a spokesperson for the Fire Department says firefighters are using hoses to put out fires set by protesters. Would also run through iowa is already built. Continuing coverage a dangerous weekend for Police Officers. Officers ambushed across the country. In Texas San Antonio Police released a picture of a person of interest in the deadly shooting of an officer. Investigators say detective Benjamin Marconi stopped a driver and was writing a ticket in his patrol window, fired twice, celebrating the holidays, sapd will be burying its own because of an ultimate act of cowardice by a suspect who will be caught and brought to justice. Detective marconi died at a hospital. A Saint Louis Police sergeant is fighting for his life after being shot twice in the face. He was sitting in traffic in his patrol car when another car pulled up next to him. The 46yearold officer has be later the same suspect allegedly fired at more officers, they were not hurt but fired back shooting and killing the suspect. Also in missouri an officer in the hospital after a shootout during traffic stop late sunday night. Police say the officer and two suspects were shot. One of the suspects has died. Police says the officer shot is expected to survive. An officer in florida treated and released from the hospital following a shooting. A suspect is in custody. During a routine traffic stop. Weve seen so many of these attacks on Police Across the country and even here in iowa. In linn county hundreds of people coming together to pray for officers. As kwwls Taylor Bailey reports, theyre concerned about the relationship between police and the community. Nats our father prayer more nats for Police Officers. God lays down his life for all people and thats exactly what our officers do thata ing together to pray at four Different Police departments in eastern iowaone being cedar rapids. More than one hundred people bowing their heads in prayer. Lord hear our prayer we pray for them, it is a dangerous job and its one that i wouldnt want to do i mean they are in danger a lot, we ask a lot of them when we are running one direction they are it necesasry that we pray for them standup many people stopping to thank the pastor for the Services Today saying their family members or in the Police Department and it means a lot to them there were several parents of officers, there were you know officers that werent in uniform here today and it was very meaningful to have them hopefulthe prayer was meaningful to officers as well i would hope that they would see this as support and encouragment to them as they carying out their work, many times we dont show our appreciation for work that needs to be done an imagine what the city would be like without Law Enforcement people also prayed outside the Linn County Sheriffs Office, and near the marion and hiawatha Police Departments. Standing against inequality mroe than 100 people taking part in a black lives matter march in dubuque sunday. Theres not an official black lives matter chapter in the area a racist and you know, its something thats been holding me back for a long time, that hate that i felt inside. The people there say its about making their Community Inclusive for all. Police are looking for more victims after five teens are charged with damaging homes and cars with bb guns. Iowa city police found the teens in a car and brought them in for homes and cars with bb guns. Officers found bbs inside the car. Theyve had around 35 damage reports already and are asking others with damage to step forward, as they continue to investigate the case. Firefighters rescue two dogs from a house fire. Cedar rapids firefighters responding to a home on first avenue saturday evening. The man who lives there was already out the cause of the fire remains under investigation. Road. California Highway Patrol says it all happened when the truck hydroplaned. Crossed the center divide. Hit a guardrail. Then overturned. Troopers say 29 thousand pounds of toilet paper and paper towels spilled onto the highway. This trailer is destroyed. We unload to get the weight out of it because the roofs compromised too bad. Troopers say three cars were involved in the crash and injuries were minor. Now to the white house transition. As we wait for more announcements, were getting a good idea of whos been considered for top positions in washington this morning. President elect trump interviewed more than a dozen candidates at his new Jersey Golf Club over the weekend, mitt romney governor romney is under active and serious consideration to serve as secretary of state. So is former new york mayor and campaign confidant rudy guliani. Chris christie who was had a 30 minute sitdown with the president elect. Hes a very talented guy. Kansas secretary of state kris kobach was called in. Hes been tough on immigration. Retired marine corps general james mattis seems to be a favorite for secretary of defense. Mr. Trump tweeted that mattis was impressive. I know that president elect trump loves leaders like general mattis. Billionaire investor wilber ross was in, reportedly being considered as commerce secretary. Will have to deal with democrats in congress poised to put up a fight, but signaling cooperation in some areas. We could get a major infrastructure bill done, maybe even in the first 100 days of cabinet. That continues today. Former Texas Governor rick perry who also ran for today. Hes reportedly being considered for three different cabinet positions defense, as trump builds his team his wife melania and son barron will not be living at the white house come january. The trumps decided the two would stay in new york so their son can finish the school year there. Former president jimmy carter delivered his Weekly Sunday School address in georgia and asked the people there to pray we kind of challenges in the past, i think fairly successfully, and i think we need to give mr. Trump an opportunity to do the best he can. President carter teaches sunday school several weeks a year. New this morning finding more than one way to protect and serve. The cedar falls Fire Department kwwls Amanda Gilbert joins us live in cedar falls to show us the cedar falls Fire Department partnered with the cedar valley hy vees. Together they bought thanksgiving meals for four families in need. I joined the Fire Department when they went on their shopping trip. They made sure to get everything from desserts and side dishes. To turkey and ham. The Fire Department said they started doing this a few years firefighters are here to help the firefighters paid for two of the meals they bought. And the cedar valley hyvees paid for the other two. The families then came to the fire station and picked up the the cedar falls fire station also in a few weeks. Time now is xxx. Coming up a 55 yearold running back isnt something weve ever seen on the field. Until now. Plus a tech guy learning the hard way dont mess with the pregame ritual. Youre watching kwwl, weve got you covered with jerry gallagher, ally crutcher and meteorologist eileen loan. Now your storm track 7 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 here is additional forecast information from the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team our stormtrack7 Live Weather Network cameras are dry now, and will be mainly sunny today. We could have a light mix in some Northern Counties late tonight into early tomorrow morning, but it will be mainly rainy and breezy tomorrow with gusts and rain continuing into wednesday. This mornings temperatures are in the upper teens to low 20s in our viewing area with more mid to upper 20s to our west. Easterly winds are light to 10 mph and will southeasterly today. That is ahead of the system to our west. Producing lots of clouds and some light rain and snow in the rockies. We will have that system track our way tomorrow. We could have a light mix late tonight and early tomorrow morning before all takes over for the day. And it will continue into wednesday morning. We arent expecting much of any frozen precipitation, but we could get up to half an inch of rain through tomorrow evening. With more rain through wednesday. Today will be mainly sunny with highs in around 10 mph. A few areas of our Northern Counties may get a light mix late tonight, otherwise mostly cloudy and becoming gusty. Lows in the mid 20s to around 30. Cloudy and breezy tomorrow with rain likely, although we may have an hour or so of a light mix early in the morning. Highs will be in the upper 30s to mid 40s for tuesday afternoon. Rain continues into wednesday with breezy conditions, too. We dry out for thanksgiving day with a few rain snow showers possible thursday night. Mainly dry friday and saturday with another chance of breezy for sunday. Highs this week will be mainly in the low to mid 40s with lows mainly in hes almost three times the age of his teammates but it doesnt stop him from living out his dream. Plus black friday is almost confrontation on the site of the dakota. Some 4hundred protestors on a bridge trying to move north police forming a line to stop them. At least one person has been arrested. Today the man who confessed to abducting, assaulting, and killing 11yearold Jacob Wetterling in minnesota in 1989 is due in court,. Hes set to be sentenced on a child pornography charge. Over the summer Danny Heinrich led authorities to wetterlings body in exchange for not being charged with murder. Play or not. A fox sound engineer getting into some trouble during minnesotas pregame rush on sunday. Linebacker Brian Robison unintentionally collided with him, then he got bounced into defensive tackle linval joseph. It looked worse than it was, and he was fine to work the game. Appearing in his first ever College Football game at 55 years old. South carolina stateoe hes believed to be the oldest College Football player to ever see playing time in a game. In the closing minutes against savannah state, he took a handoff. He only gained three yards but it was a dream come true. God it happened today. Hes spent the last four years on the bulldogs scout team. Nfl cheerleaders in mexico for tonights monday night football put on a yoga displey. Cheerleaders for both the Oakland Raiders and Houston Texans practiced their yoga poses. The cheerleaders and the texans it feels amazing. Were so nfl after so long. Eleven years of not having nfl an nfl game here in mexico, so its great. The people are amazing, theyre so welcoming. I come from mexican parents, so it feels right at home. Played in mexico was in 2005. This fridays supposed to be the kickoff of the busiest shopping period of the year. But as Chris Clackum tells us some retail experts are saying black friday is losing its color. crowd going into store on black friday a possible upside to lesshectic black friday crowds than years past. But, black fridays definitely a few shades different than it use to be. So, gray friday is actually a term that makes some sense. Villanova marketing professor charles taylor. Retailers to worry. Its still going to be the biggest Retail Shopping day of the year, by a wide luster. And. Other retail extended. Extended well before. And after. The monday following habits. Studies are showing that millenials actually like a halloween and again this year, men are Chris Clackum, nbc news. Its coming up preparations underway for a mostly sunny today with highs in the upper 30s to mid 40s and southeast winds around 10 mph. Breezy tomorrow through tuesday. Mainly dry thaksgiving and the annual macys thanksgiving day parade. Today the city of new york and New York Historical society will unveil a plaque that marks the parades official starting line. A few special guest performers from this years parade will be macys thanksgiving day parade thursday morning right here now on today in iowa a heartbreaking weekend for Police Officers across the country, attacked. Plus backing students in the country illegally. An iowa college is looking at its options. And from putting out fires to putting food on peoples tables. An iowa Fire Department reaching out to others this thanksgiving. And im jerry gallagher. Storm track seven meteorologist eileen loan is here now with your storm track seven forecast. Eileen on camera we still have temperatures in the upper teens to low 20s this morning. A bit o will turn a bit more to the southeast. And be mainly around 10 mph this afternoon. We this afternoon. Most of the clouds track in tonight as the next system tracks in. But today. Mostly sunny with highs in the upper 30s to but could also have some snow and sleet mixing in at times. Ambush attacks against Law Enforcement in several states. One officer shot and killed in texas. Two more officers shot in missouri. Another officer targeted in florida. Reid binion has the latest on each investigation. Most families will be celebrating the holidays, sapd will be burying one of its own. San Antonio Police chief william mcmanus. Briefing the press after what authorities describe as the targeted, deadly shooting of an nightmare. We never want to see anything like this happen. Police say 50year old detective Benjamin Marconi was killed in his patrol car outside police headquarters. He had just returned to his vehicle to write a ticket for a driver he pulled over. When another driver pulled up behind him, got out, and approached the detectives window. The assailant then shot marconi in the head, reached through the window and shot a second time. Then fled the scene in wh sedan. In saint louis another officer shot sunday in what authorities are calling a targeted attack. The 46yearold sergeant ambushed when police say a vehicle pulled up next to his marked car and opened fire. This officer was not involved the officer was shot twice in the head but is expected to officers. Also in missouri an officer for that officer. And in florida yet another shooting. The officer hospitalized after being shot during a traffic stop. The suspect taken into custody after an exchange of gunfire with police. Im reid months after a shooter killed five officers in dallas. Earlier this month, two officers were killed in ambush attacks in central iowa. A big turnout for a Prayer Service for Police Officers in eastern iowa. Many say theyre worried about officers. Theyre also concerned about the relationship they have with one of a handful in eastern iowa. God lays down his life for all and we respect that greatly. This isnt about her and the department it is about the entire community. People also came together in marion and hiawatha to pray as well. Developing overnight chaos in north dakota. 400 people protesting the Dakota Access pipeline face off with Law Enforcement. Theyve been trying to cross a bridge. Officers formed a line to stop them and it appears police them back. Firefigthers say theyre using hoses to put out fires set by protesters. The pipeline is almost done about 85percent of it has been built. The Standing Rock sioux tribe has been protesting the construction for months saying it will pollute the water and destroy some of their sacred sites. The pipeline would stretch through four states, including iowa. An iowa inmate is missing after walking out of a hospital. The Linn County Sheriffs Office to Mercy Hospital in cedar rapids to be treated for a medical condtion. They say she walked out last night without staff knowing. Shes supposed to be in jail for contempt of court if you see an assault case turns to a Homicide Investigation 15 years later. Waterloo police reclassifying the shooting of Shawn Michael north. He was paralyzed after a shooting in 2001. In august, he died of complications related to the shooting. Now police are working continuing coverage today, the man who kidnapped and killed an 11year old boy in minnesota will be sentenced. Danny heinrich is expected get 20 years in prison as part of a plea deal. He pleaded guilty to child pornography. That was part of an agreement involving his confession to kidnapping and murdering Jacob Wetterling in 1989. He led investigators to the boys body in september. Wed like to remind you again the search continues for the killer or killers of lyric cook and elizabeth collins. They were taken in evansdale in 2012 their bodies were found several months later a reward is available for anyone with information that leads to an arrest now to the white house transition. President elect donald trump says he made a couple of deals as he works out his cabinet but hes not saying much more than that. He met with mitt romney over the being considered for secretary of state. Trump said that along with and other things. Trump said christie is smart and tough and called him a great guy. In new york hundreds protested the selection of steve bannon as trumps chief strategist. Friends call steve bannon a focused leader. They disagree. We hope that he knows that theres movement out here including jewish people, muslim people, black people, women, lgbt people, every other minority gu him gone and we hope donald trump hears that. Trumps pick for chief of staff Reince Priebus has said bannon was a force for good on the campaign. President obama says he does not plan to be a constant critic of economic summit in peru. I want to be respectful of platform and his arguments without somebody popping off to take a wait and see approach to examine how his plans in office match what he said on the campaign trail. Drake university is considering whether to take an official stand in supporting students who are in the country illegally. The Faculty Senate passed a resolution urging the administration to protect thoe foder tells us about efforts to i myself am an undocumented student from mexico. Jose garcia hopes to become a lawyer. He has been in this country since he was 3 years old. My mom brought me to us at a regardless of who has been in office. Ive always had that fear. We could be gone at any minute the faculty here wants to protect garcia and others who are working hard to get an education and become productive citizens. Darcie Vandegrift, drake faculty they are studying calculus, critical legal theory, writing papers, we want them to focus on what they came here to do Darcie Vandegrift cosponsored the sanctuary campus. How do we publicly declare support, have their backs, find Mental Health care, recog stress and fear causing them and their fams the Administration Says it stands in support of all students and is looking into what it can do in compliance with the law. Us, and if we dont, we are at tonight, shopping and the environment will be a focus at the Dubuque City Council meeting. Some students want to cut down on the use of plastic bags. Students with the Loras College honors project say most plastic bags end up in landfills and waterways like the mississippi river. They plan to give several options to the council, including a ban. Also today a meeting in the Dubuque School district after complaints about a book. Parents are upset about material in the book the perks of being a wallflower. The superintendent says a committee will talk about it and could consider changes to a broader policy about books used new this morning from fighting fires to fighting hunger. An eastern Iowa Grocery Store and fire station team up to give back. Kwwls Amanda Gilbert joins us live in cedar falls. To the cedar valley hyvees worked together this Holiday Season to help families put thanksgiving dinner on the table nats of food shopping the cedar falls Fire Department has a big grocery list. Lets go back and get the ham and turkey. Lets get some rolls. Fresh sweat potato. Cranberry sauce allt his food the fire station is getting. Isnt for them. Different cedar falls families. Its what we do. Firefighters are here to help protect and serve their communities and this is all part of that. The firefighters are buying two of the meals. Thank you and the cedar valley hyvees are buying the other two. Thanks for waht you guys do. Families, and see their appreciation, thats the part that makes you feel good. On the holidays. That looks good. The cedar falls fire station asked area schools who they should buy the meals for. Families then picked up their food from the station later in the day. Live in cedar falls. Amanda gilbert. News 7 kwwl. The fire station says theyre going to buy Christmas Gifts for kids in a time now is xxx. Coming up welcome to winter like weather at least in part plus feels like the first time the very first time these iowa students get to join the pros. The forecast from storm track seven no more games, jerry. You saw the deal and hustled to u. S. Cellular to get yourself the Samsung Galaxy s7 and 500 bucks. Maybe. Maybe, jerbear . Hmm . Got your phone and your 500 it was a oneday deal. Sorry, santa. Its no crime to gift yourself. Get a Samsung Galaxy s7 this friday lets go to storm track seven meteorologist eileen loan now for your forecast forecast. From the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team. See the screen here is additional forecast information from the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team our stormtrack7 Live Weather Network cameras are dry now, and will be mainly sunny today. We could have a light mix in some Northern Counties late tonight into early tomorrow morning, but it will be mainly rainy and breezy tomorrow with gusts and rain continuing into wednesday. This mornings temperatures are in the upper teens to low 20s in our viewing area with more mid to upper 20s to our west. Easterly winds are light to 10 mph and will become more southeasterly today. That is ahead of the system to our west. Producing lots of clouds system track our way tomorrow. We could have a light mix late tonight and early tomorrow morning before all takes over for the day. And it will continue into wednesday morning. We arent expecting much of any frozen precipitation, but we could get up to half an inch of rain through tomorrow evening. With more rain through wednesday. Today will be mainly sunny with highs in the upper 30s to mid 40s and southeast winds around 10 mph. A few areas of our Northern Counties may get a light mix late tonight, otherwise mostly cloudy and becoming gusty. Lows in the mid 20s to around 30. U rain likely, although we may have an hour or so of a light mix early in the morning. Highs will be in the upper 30s to mid 40s for tuesday afternoon. Rain continues into wednesday with breezy conditions, too. We dry out for thanksgiving day with a few rain snow showers possible thursday night. Mainly dry friday and saturday with another chance of rain snow showers saturday night. Dry and breezy for sunday. Highs this week will be mainly in the low to mid 40s in the upper 30s to mid 40s for afternoon. Rain continues into wednesday with breezy conditions, too. We dry out for thanksgiving day with a few rain snow showers possible chance of rain snow showers saturday night. Dry and breezy is falling in other parts of the country. This video is out of rochester, two inches an hour. Wind gusts topped thirty miles an hour. Tough to see on the road. Because of that, the Sheriffs Office asked people to stay off the road. Flights were also delayed or cancelled. Drivers can be overconfident with season. Thats exactly what happened in minnesota where the conditions were awful in parts of the state on friday and saturday. They had 450 crashes including two that were deadly on friday. A trooper was also hurt on saturday when a car hit his someone else. Icy roads lead to a 40car pileup. Many roadways in ohio closing due to conditions. Police say a car was rear ended, causing several cars to slid into roads if possible. Its coming up history made in space by an iowa native plus this week brings some of the busiest days of the year out on the roads a live look at 380 in linn county now. Were looking at gas prices when today in iowa returns. Stories developing overnight. Dakota access pipeline in north dakota. Some 4hundred protestors on a bridge trying to move north police forming a line to stop them. At least one person has been arrested. Today the man who confessed to abducting, assaulting, and killing 11yearold Jacob Wetterling in minnesota in 1989 is due in court,. Hes set to be sentenced on a child pornography charge. Over the summer Danny Heinrich led authorities to wetterlings body in exchange for no murder. Decades after he died defending our country an iowa heros will be buried today. Marine corps private first class wilbur mattern will be buried with full military honors today at Arlington National cemetery. The oelwein native died in battle in 1943 but his remains were not recovered until just recently. Pope francis pulls the holy door of saint peters basilica shut marking the official end of the holy year of mercy. Dubuques Wahlert High School choir vatican city. Here in eastern iowa another High School Choir helped a rock band with their performance. I want to know what love is. I want you to show me. These cedar falls High Schoolers got the opportunity to sing with the group foreigner. They performed at the Gallagher Bluedorn saturday night. People there say they put on a great performance. Times in their community a thanksgiving tradition continues for its 35th year tonight. Back in 1982 mike and leona adams worked to put on a thanksgiving dinner in waterloo. Thanks to the partnerships they built the dinner continues now, even though the creators have passed away. This video is from last year when they served more than a thousand meals. The big thanksgiving shopping weekend is just days away. A new survey says more than 137 million americans are planning to shop or considering shopping over last year. The survey says black friday will remain the busiest shopping day of the holiday weekend. Allstate wants to help keep drivers moving on one of the busiest travel days of the year. This wednesday, allstate will offer roadside rescues for just two dollars through its app and mobile website. You can use it for emergencies, like tows, flat tires, jump starts, if you lock your keys in the car, or run out of gas. The savings are adding up for drivers just as the Holiday Travel season begins to pick up. Dropped six cents over the past two weeks. The National Average is now at 220 a gallon. Its cheaper in iowa and in some parts of iowa its almost 50 cents cheaper. Gasbuddydot com says people in West Des Moines are filling up for 171 this morning. The International Space station now has company. Three people arrived over the weekend including an iowa native. Weve been telling you a lot about Peggy Whitson in the last week. Shes the oldest and most also she already holds the most time in space for a woman. Or woman. Shes from the tiny town of beaconsfield in southern iowa. I380 in Black Hawk County were wrapping up today in iowa with the forecast from storm track seven meteorologist eileen loan next. But first. Heres whats ahead on the today s good morning. Coming up on a monday morning on today. The first winter storm of the season blankets the northeast, just in time for thanksgiving. Als tracking it. And what it means for your travel plans. Also ahead. Weve got the latest on Donald Trumps cabinet choices. As the president elect stirs up speculation ahead of todays meeting with rick perry. Then. Could a trip to the movies actually damage your hearing . Jeff rossen has a warning about a hidden price, of all those and. Carrie fisher opens up about romance and regrets on the set of star wars. As her longago affair with Harrison Ford puts them both back in the spotlight. When we get started. On a forecast. Mostly sunny today with highs in the upper 30s to mid 40s and 10 mph. Breezy tomorrow and wednesday with rain likely. Could see a few areas with a rain snow sleet mix tonight and again tuesday night. Rainfall amounts around half an inch through tuesday. Mainly dry thursday night and again saturday night. Thanks for joining us, the today. Good morning. The first major storm of the season blankets the northeast. Frigid temperatures, icy roads. Power outages. People under a winter storm advisory. Donald trump meets with mitt romney and today rick perry. Could those rivals end up in the cabinet as the Vice President elect speaks out from his dressing down at the hamilton stage. Trump himself not so forgiving. Very inappropriate. 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