Flurries and the clouds, too, as the low takes its time leaving north america. Breezy with flurries today. Highs in the upper 30s to low 40s today will not change much breaking news this morning a man hawk and part of buchanan county. Were taking a live look at i380 at raymond road a few miles north of here is where the chase started. The Black Hawk CountySheriffs Office tells us man blew through a stop then took off when a deputy tried to pull him over. The chase eventually ended peacefully in a field. Deputies took Troy Postel Vargason into custody. People in the southeast are waking up to Severe Damage today. At least five people are dead yasmin amer has more. Devastating scenes across the southeast. After a round of deadly storms. At least three tornados ripped through northern alabama, weather service. Jackson county saw some of the worst damage. Strong winds knocked down trees and powerlines and no one was injured. But everywhere. Itas w. Bad really Officials Say a tornado touched down in polk county. That state is already reeling from Deadly Wildfires that have wednesdays rain provided some relief. But its not nearly im yasmin amer reporting. After the storms turned deadly in alabama and tennessee the system moved east. In charlotte you can see wind blew ac units off their bases. A semi tossed on its side like a truck the driver taken to the hospital with a head injury. Trees down including one which fell on a house. The weather system brought much needed rain to the area which i said, god, please, let us go through this. Bring us out of this. Thousands of people lost power. Storms also causing heavy damage in South Carolina downed trees and power lines. Homes damaged. In one town the fire chief asked while crews looked at conditions. Continuing Coverage Today the third and final candidate in the running to become unis next president visits campus. Mark nook isthe current chancellor at Montana State university in billings. He has ties to iowa he received his masters in astrophysics at iowa state unis interim president james wohkpart outlining his vision for the university should he get the job. He previously served as provost and says he has an understanding of the strengths within the campus. But he calls on a n narrative in higher education. To take a student, and help out in the world. And offer themselves out into the world. What kind of a respsonsibility is that . The board of regents is expected to select the new president next week. New details this morning as prosecutors decide not to charge a Police Officer in the death of police spend the night dealing with protestors. More than 1 hundred protestors took to the streets near Police Headquarters chanting anti police slogans. And demanding justice for scott. Police are urging protesters to stay on the sidewalks, but many have spilled onto the streets, leading to arrests. A Police Officer shoots and kills a man wanted in a string of robberies. Kansas city officers pulled the suspect over, and initially he followed the orders. But then, according to police, he grabbed gun. Officers immediately shot the man, who died later at the hospital. No officers were hurt. Its now up to a jury to decide whether a South Carolina officer is guilty of murder. Jurors in the Michael Slager trial deliberated for about an hour last night before heading home. Theyre expected to continue deliberations today. Fixing a phone and finding child porn. Cedar Rapids Police say 33year old Jeremy Rodriguez faces charges of sexual exploitation. When he went to pick up his phone after having it fixed. Hes since posted bail. A kwwl followup. Out of fuel and a total electric failure. Were learning more about a deadly plane crash carrying a Brazilian Soccer Team. Mondays crash killed all but six of 77 people on board. A cedar rapids coach used to play for the team. The coach for the cedar rapids rampage began his professional career playing for the team. Im still in shock. I cant believe i lost 35 good friends that i played together, i worked together for like six years and this. Several players on the cedar rapids rampage are also from brazil. Stole more than a Million Dollars in gold in the middle of the day. The man is hanging around an armored truck. He walks off with a bucket of gold flakes worth nearly onepointsix Million Dollars. Police now believe the man and the bucket of gold are in florida in either orlando or miami. Nats of explosion the us army comes in after someone finds an explosive device dating back to the civil war. Its the second been found at a construction site in savannah georgia. Onto the white house transition today, donald trump is expected to deliver on a Campaign Promise to save jobs. He and mike pence will travel to indiana and ohio. Trump is set to make an announcement today in indianapolis at the carrier plant. He reached a deal for the corporation to keep nearly a thousand jobs in the state. Indiana senator dan coates praising donald trump. On the carrier issue i think the who is not even yet president of the United States is able to negotiate something that was a major issue in the campaign. Senator coates did not say whether hes being considered for a post in the trump administration. We do know the coowner of the chicago cubs Todd Ricketts has been named trumps pick for deputy commerce secretary. The Ricketts Family has had a rocky past with trump. Todd was an early supporter of Governor Scott walker. After walker dropped out from the race, todds mother poured millions into an antitrump super pac. Trumps choice for commerce secretary billionaire wilbur ross. Ross is a new jersey native. He amassed a fortune that forbes estimates to be worth nearly three billion dollars. The ashes of former cuban leader fidel castro are on their way from havana to castros final resting place the morethan 500mile route castro and his rebels took after overthrowing the government in 1959. New this morning too many cats. One eastern Iowa Humane Society is starting a new program becuase theyre overflowing with cats. Kwwls Amanda Gilbert joins us live in waterloo. You can explain the cedar bend Humane Society says normally around this time of year. They start to take in less cats. But thats not the case right now. They tell me in the past 4 months theyve gotten more than 1,000 cats. Which is very unusual. And they dont turn any away. So theyve had to find ways to putting cages in hallways. We have seen theres been a lot of sorrounding communities your cat is also an issue, weve the cedar bend Humane Society is starting a new program this year to help fix this problem. Theyre calling it home for the holidays. Asking people to its a great way to see what its like to have a pet. Or make sure you get along with the one you picked out before you ado i prgoram starts december 20th. Gilbert. News 7 kwwl. The cendar bend Humane Society says if you dont want to adopt or foster. Theyre also looking for donations its coming up on today in iowa crews come to the rescue of a stuck manatee. Plus Holiday Gifts for the family pet more people youre watching kwwl, weve got you covered with jerry gallagher, ally crutcher and meteorologist eileen loan. Now your storm track 7 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 are showing the low this morning and may catch some flurries off and on today. It will be breezy, too, but the winds will die down tonight and stay there for tomorrow. Temps this morning are hovering in the mid 30s with some low 30s to the west. West winds are running mainly 10 15 mph, although at times they are stronger. That will be the case through day, with winds weakening this evening and turning more to the northwest. Our clouds are still from the same system that brought us the thunderstorms on monday but today will be mainly the back side. That keeps us under clouds and with flurries today and clouds tomorrow and even saturday. Temperatures tomorrow with 20s to the 50s stretched across the midwest. We will be through. Temps only drop about the northwest. We stall in the tracks through sunday with some middle of next week. We could who sees how much snow vs rain. Continues to get closer. Crews rescue a manatee trapepd in storm system heads our way for the middle of next week. We could have some thursday. It is too early to updated as it continues to get crews rescue a manatee trapepd in a storm drain the animal became stuck in a 36inch pipe. Found it. Crews had to dig around the storm drain before they could lift the manatee out. It was stuck for approximately three hours. The animal is being taken to seaworld to be checked out. Its still on the way this morning high tech gifts trackers and cameras on the top of christmas lists. But not for no problem. You can still stream movies on bigger stories from across the country. Police have shot and killed the person they believe shot and killed a Police Officer. Accoridng to the nbc station in seattle following a Standoff Police killed the suspect then rescued two children from the home. Today donald trump heads to indiana to visit carrier corporation. Trump delivered on a Campaign Promise convincing the company to stay in indiana instead of outsourcing jobs. Naught or nice it seems all pets are on the good list. As brian mooar tells us new data shows were being especially generous to our pets this year. Pets are on santas nice list this year. And consumers are shelling out big bucks for our Furry Friends this holiday season. The pet category is seeing a huge surge in sales about 1. 5 more sales than we saw last year so what do pets have on their wish list . Toys of course beyond the pet store. Online holiday your pet celebrates. Or even topical toys like the dognald. Get it dognald . . . For the gift that keeps on giving. Subscription boxes deliver new items each month. And what better way to treat your pet. Than with treats consistent with the healthconcious trends of humans. Were buying more organic amp; handcrafted foods for our pets and hightech gifts like pet trackers and cameras are gaining popularity. But buy soon to save right best time is this week or as soon as possible all in all, our fourlegged companions will see an average of 62 bucks worth in gifts under the tree. Higher spending. As more start seeing themselves as pet parents. Instead of merely owners. I have a 7 month lab puppy and i dont mind spoiling her. Theyre our fur babies fur babies. Worth spending a furtune on. Get it furtune . Whatever. Heres a cute dog in a shopping cart. Millennials are expected to spend the most on their pets this holiday. Netflix users can now download several shows and movies to watch offline. The company says the feature is available on phones and tablets by updating the netflix app. Theres no extra cost. The top artists and songs of 2016 according to spotify. Drake was the most streamed artist on spotify for the second year in a row. Hes also the most streamed artist of all time on spotify. Rounding out the top three were Justin Bieber and rihanna. The most streamed song was drakes one dance. Golfer tiger woods makes his longawaited comeback later today in the bahamas. Woods spent the last two days getting his game in shape for the hero world challenge, a select tournament that opens later today. Last year. Hes had two operations on his back since then. Iowa native zach johnson also scheduled to participate. You can now have the taste of Dunkin Donuts coffee in your poptart. For the first time, poptarts and Dunkin Donuts have teamed up to create two limited edition, coffeeinspired poptart flavors frosted vanilla latte and frosted chocolate mocha. Both will be available at Stores Nationwide beginning this month e died. It was the brainchild of a mcdonalds franchisee who decided customers wanted a bigger sandwich. He came up with the big mac in 1967. When it became a big seller at his 47 locations in pennsylvania it was added to the chains National Menu a decades. Like Christmas Trees popping up across the country. Toms kept coming back on my longterm control medicine. I talked to my doctor and found a missing piece in my asthma treatment with breo. Oncedaily breo prevents asthma symptoms. Breo is for adults with asthma not well controlled on a longterm asthma control medicine, like an inhaled corticosteroid. Breo wont replace a rescue inhaler for sudden breathing problems. Breo opens up airways to help improve breathing for a full 24 hours. Breo contains a type of medicine that increases the risk of death from asthma problems and may increase the risk of hospitalization in breo is not for people whose asthma is well controlled on a longterm asthma control medicine, like an inhaled corticosteroid. Once your asthma is well controlled, your doctor will decide if you can stop breo and prescribe a different asthma control medicine, like an inhaled corticosteroid. Do not take breo more than prescribed. See your doctor if your asthma does not improve or gets worse. Ask your doctor if 24hour breo could be a missing piece for you. See if youre eligible for eileen loan is back with another check of your storm track seven forecast. Saturday. Some rain snow showers gets into the holiday spirit. The first family will light up the National Christmas tree. This will be the obamas final time to flip the switch on the colorado blue spruce. The holiday tradition started in 1923 under president calvin coolidge. A star studded lineup of performers will join the first family to ring in the season, including james taylor, kelly clarkson, and garth brooks. 5,4,3,2,1 go wooo is lit up for the holidays. This years tree will be lit and on display until january seventh. The first tree at Rockefeller Center was put up by construction workers in 1931. And the sleeping a Police Officer died in the line of duty. Were following the developments. Plus in iowa a holiday decoration remembering fallen officers. And not even Winter Weather is stopping pipeline protestors. Good morning, im ally crutcher. Jerry is off. Eastern iowa yesterday small flakes of snow coming down in waterloo. Not enough to stick to the ground but lets see if thats changing anytime soon. Storm track seven meteorologist eileen loan is here now with your storm track seven forecast. Eileen on camera we still have some flurries and sprinkles tracking through the kwwl viewing area this morning. That will likely continue all day. Temps are holding in the mid 30s this could gust a bit higher at times. We keep the flurries and america. Breezy with flurries today. Highs in the upper 30s to low 40s today will not change the person suspected of killing a Police Officer is now dead. This all hapepning in washington state. Police say they responded to a Domestic Violence situation with a suspect barricaded inside a home with a gun. The suspect shot the officer several times. After the shooting police were able to get adults and children out of the home. According to the nbc station in seattle officers killed the the home thoughts and the prayers that are going out to us. This is the first officer to die in the line of duty in tacoma since 1997 an officer is recovering after be s reported Home Invasion when shots rang out. An officer and shooting suspect were both rushed to the the suspect was listed in critical condition. Hundreds of officers from around the country are expected to attend the funeral of a a wayne State UniversityPolice Officer today. He was shot and killed last week as he approached a suspect on a bicycle. Iowa Police Departments are remembering officers who died this year. Them. The tree skirt displays the names and badge numbers of the five fallen officers. This week its on display at the Urbandale Police department. Less than a month after those officers deaths the Us Senate Passes a bill to help the families of officers killed in the line of duty. Iowa senator Chuck Grassley wrote the Public Safety officers benefits improvement act. Its supposed to help families waiting for approval of survivor benefits. The bill now heads to the house time now is xxx. New this morning case dismissed. A lawsuit filed by the family of a woman killed in an eastern iowa mall will not be moving forward. Alexander kozak a mall Security Guard shot and killed Andrea Farrington inside the Coral Ridge Mall last year. Farringtons family filed a lawsuit against the mall and the security company. The case had been scheduled to go to trial next year but has calls for transparancy. The newest member of the linn county board of supervisors is calling officerinvolved shooting case. Earlier this month an officer shot jerime mitchelle following a traffic stop. A grand jury will determine whether the officer should face charges. Supervior Stacey Walker wants a special prosecutor to present evidence to the rgand jury. One of the things i hope everyone in the community understands is that we can admire and respect what Police Officers do, while holding them to very high standards. The officer who shot mitchelle a deadly shooting last year. The fbi says its too soon to draw any conclusions about what led to the attack at ohio State University. But they say they believe the suspect may have been inspired by isis and a former al qaeda leader. An fbi special agent says the investigation is ongoing and itll take time to verify a connection to isis. As ive said, we only believe that he may have been inspired by isil. In the past they have claimed responsibility when the so far theres no evidence that anyone else helped the suspect in the attack. Kidnapped, held for a week, then dropped off in a spot 150 miles from where she was taken. Investigators are still looking for the suspects. The woman was missing for three weeks until investifators found her along an interstate in california thanksgiving morning. We still do not have a motive a abduction. She is speaking with authorities who are calling her cooperative and courageous. At least seven people are dead as wilfires burn popular resort towns in tennessee. More than 4 hundred buildings ive been in Sevier County 63 close to this in this county, never, and i dont expect to see trees and power lines are down still blocking firefighters from some areas. Once his team forever in his heart. Earlier this week a plane carrying a Brazilian Soccer Team crashed in colombia. The pilot told air Traffic Control the plane ran out of fuel and was in electric failure. Only six of the 77 people on survived. Kwwls Kristin Rogers spoke to people in eastern iowa with connections to the team but it hit very close to they gave me the opportunity rapids rampagealongside head coach Hewerton Moreira who is also from brazil we have a game in the east families back homebut feels prayercan help from thousands of miles away. The guys they left but they help them. Several players on the cedar continuing coverage cold temperatures havent stopped thousands of protesters. Theyre still looking to stop the construction of the Dakota Access pipeline. North dakotas governor ordered them to leave immediately for the governor issued his with genocide. And our lawyers said theyre backing off. Protesters have been asked to leave by sunday or they could be arrested. Here in iowa pipeline protesters went to the iowa utilities board where some have been demanding a meeting. Two of those people got arrested for blocking a door to a conference room. Those two have also been fasting for ten days as part of their not good for any of us, and that we have a responsibility to right thing. Despite arrests the two say their fast will continue. They plan to go back to the iowa utilities board until they get a meeting. Opening pushed back to january or february. The university of iowa stead family Childrens Hospital will no longer open december 10th. The multimillion dollar hospital be u a National Organization warns of a harmful precedent if a book is banned in dubuque schools. A new committee in the dubuque district is discussing if the book the perks of being a wallflower is appropriate for students. According to our coverage partners at the telegraph herald the Organization Says it may force teachers to secondguess their reading material. The committee will meet again in december to talk about it. Kentucky are now designated safe areas for people in Lgbtq Community the Safe Harbor Program is modeled after one started by Seattle Police in 2014. Police say theyre for victims of any crime, but are especially a refuge to victims of assault or harassment. The store employees will be trained to immediately call the police and to allow the victim of that crime to stay in the store until police arrive. Louisville is the first city outside of seattle to adopt the program. On to the white house transition. Today president elect donald trump takes a break from interviewing potential cabinet members. As tracie potts tells us 00 hes headed to the midwest on a thank you tourincludes a stop fulfill a Campaign Promise. They started talking and being happy that they would be able to maintain their jobs, their homes and be able to take care of their families once again. President yet and hes figured out how to save 1,000 jobs. Im hoping every ceo in confirmations. Were gonna be nominees continues. Critics call it a cabinet full of insiders. But so far, no word on which of four candidates will be offered secretary of state. A transition spokesman wisconsin is about to start recounting millions of ballots from the president ial election. Planning has been underway for days but all of the pieces for the recount really began to fall into place in the final hours. 440thousand ballots will go through scanning machines. They all get hand reveiwed before they get sent into the machine make sure if they get 130 people will be on hand each day paid for by the jill stein campaign. Its coming up on today in yet but when it hits iowa crews are ready plus a home for the holidays. Seven meteorologist eileen loan forecast on kwwl. Lets go to storm track seven meteorologist eileen loan now for 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 are showing the low clouds out there this morning and may catch some flurries off and on today. It will be breezy, too, but the winds will die down tonight and stay there for tomorrow. Temps this morning are hovering in the mid 30s with some low 30s to the west. West winds are running mainly 10 15 mph, although at times they are stronger. That will be the case through the rest of the day, with winds weakening this evening and turning more to th that brought us the thunderstorms on monday but today will be mainly the back side. That keeps us under clouds and with flurries today and clouds tomorrow and even saturday. Temperatures wont change too much between today and tomorrow with 20s to the 50s stretched across the midwest. We will be in the upper 30s to low 40s today with west winds at 1020 mph with flurries tracking through. Temps only drop about 10 degrees tonight with cloudy skies and winds at 510 mph from the northwest. We stall in the mid 30s to low 40s tomorrow with some breaks in the clouds for sunday with some rain and or snow showers expected, but a large storm system heads our way for the middle of next week. We could have some rain snow showers tuesday with the main system wednesday and thursday. It is too early to tell the exact track of the system and that will make a be a concern, too. We will watch that very carefully and keep you updated as it continues to get cloudy skies and winds at 510 mph from the northwest. We stall in the mid 30s to low 40s tomorrow with some breaks in the clouds for the afternoon. Asy sunday with some rain and or for the middle of next week. We could have some rain snow showers tuesday with the main system wednesday and thursday. It is too early to tell the much snow vs rain. Wind will be a concern, too. We will watch that very carefully and keep you updated as it continues to get tanks are full blades are sharp and workers have enough salt for iowa roads. Weve had a few farmers with drainage issues, weve been able to go out and do, because things arent frozen, and weve been able to go out and get those drainage issues taken care of. Where, in the past years, we havent been able to do that this late in the year. The dot plows are equipped with gps devices so you can track where theyve plowed. Catches fire and explodes. An employee tried to use a fire extinguisher but as you can see, the flames were too intense. A volunteer fire crew arrived soon after and put out the fire. Luckily no one was hurt. Its coming up toys and toys and toys for iowa tots. Plus too many kittens, not enough homes. A live look at the cedar bend Humane Society right now they need your help. Eastern Iowa Humane Society is asking for help taking care of a growing population. Kwwls Amanda Gilbert joins us live in waterloo. Youre at the cedar bend Humane Society. Ally. Taking a look around. You might notice some cages along the side of this room here in the cedar most of the cages. Filled with cats. The cages are one way the cendar bend Humane Society is making room for the large number of cats theyve taken in. In the past 4 months. Theyre getting around 250 cats per month right now. Which is very unusual. The Humane Societys starting a new program this month. Calling it home for the holidays. Asking if somebody can take animals that are already on our adoption floor, and take them into their home as a temporary because right now this is all we have room for. If you cant foster or donate. The Humane Society is also asking for donations. They make sure all their cats ready for adoption have their necessary shots and are spayed or so financially. Its getting harder and harder to take care of all the cats coming to them. Live in waterloo. Amanda gilbert. News 7 kwwl. The Humane Society also reminds people to spay and neuture their pets. They believe people may not be one reason theyre seeing so many kittens. Dave prescott flying in to the cedar valley from new york. The iowa native brought st. Patrick Catholic School students with him to buy 10thousand dollars worth of toys for toys for tots. I grew up in this area when deere was having a lot of rough times my dad was laid off several times, so i definitely to have acess to toys, you know cause its all about the kids. He says every child deserves to morning. An act of kindness from one group of students to another. Students in solon knitting scarves which will go to lowincome second graders. Theyre doing it to honor the second graders killed at sandy hook elementary. Students have knitted more than 700 scarves since september its crazy because last year i thought that was the most we going to be a lot and then this whole room now is filled with scarves. We had to use another room because we ran out of room in this one. Scarves will be donated to city, waterloo, and des moines. Were wrapping up today in iowa with the forecast from storm track seven [ tower pinging ] [ whistling ] weve got a problem, friend. Half off any smartphone for anyone who switches . Blem . 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. Marv, go make us a plate. 30. 1. Well literally die of hunger freaky fast 1 bingo the butterburger is made of just sirloin, the chuck and the plate. No fillers; thats it. All prized cuts, all wellmarbled for richness and flavor. This is where those three wonderful cuts of beef come together. You can just tell that blend is working in there. And we sear them, and that seals in the juices of the burger. It doesnt get any better than that. And thats the culvers butterburger. Welcome to delicious forecast. Breezy with flurries today, mostly cloudy tomorrow and saturday. Some rain snow showers sunday with a bigger system tracking in for the middle of next week. Thanks for joining us, the today show is next and well be back good morning. Natures fury. The death toll rises to seven in the devastating tennessee wildfires, as new tornadoes rip through the south overnight. Now, more than 30 days. Breaking overnight. A Police Officer shot called to a home in washington state. The suspect barricade insid ae home for hours. Victory lap. President elect trump, kicking off his thank you tour, in indiana and ohio. As his top cabinet picks get called out for bailouts and wall street. And lit. Three, two, one