Right now, students are studying best prevention practices for the disease. Gray spent five years at the cdc the agency now tasked with leading the u. S. Response to the virus. Jeffrey theyre doing both a lot of work within our borders, to look at the cases and potential transmission of the virus. Ryan the actual testing, we want to know, is not done here at the Iowa Department of public health. Blood samples are drawn, then shipped to the cdc in georgia. For the actual analyzing of the samples. But i did learn tonight that state Health Officials are considering in the future offering the test right here in iowa. Live in des moines, ryan smith, kcci 8 news, iowas news leader. Steve thank you, ryan. Right here in iowa, an ames company is working to develop a zika virus vaccine. For its work on an ebola with zika. The Biopharmaceutical Company says it is still trying to figure out what type of vaccine they are going to work on. Brian were just starting, right . Everybody is just starting
Local election tonight. The news starts in 30 seconds. Youre watching local are iowas most accurate weatheryour forecast first. Brad wx wall weather adlib it was nice to see the sunshine today, but we still had to deal with those cold nw winds. Thankfully they will be coming down this evening, but this will also mean a very cold night for all of iowa. Skies will be clear early tonight with a few clouds coming in later. Winds will drop to 510 mph later tonight as temps drop into the 0s and 0s. Clouds will likely be back to greet us for wednesday along with a chance for some light snow. Central and western iowa are most likely to see about 1 of snow after home in the evening. At least the winds will not be blowing this little snow around like monday. More cold air will be with us right into the weekend with the sun returning for saturday, but highs will only be in the teens for central iowa. There will be another system coming through sunday that could bring us several inches of snow, so
Art with your forecast first. James wx wall weather adlib for your much anticipated friday night we are going to be mostly cloudy with fairly mild temperatures for this time of year as lows fall into the low 40s. Saturday is going to be mostly cloudy with highs in the 50s. We are going to start to see rain moving in from the south saturday afternoon but especially through the evening. Sunday is going to be a very wet day with near constant rain falling all day with those showers lasting into monday morning. Rain totals will be fairly high across central iowa with many places capable of reaching 2 inches by monday when the rain has passed. Next week will start warm with highs in the 40s for the first couple days, but after that we return to average as temps fall back into the 30s. Have a great evening trump weve had a pretty interesting couple of days, weve had people talking, i will tell you that. And we have them talking very positively because people are saying trump is right. Stepha
Team and we start with your forecast first. Brad wx wall weather adlib todays overcast skies turned into some light snow into central iowa this afternoon. Accumulations are light, but it might cause some slippery spots for drivers. The snow will be moving out of here tonight , but the clouds will stick around through saturday morning. It will stay fairly mild though with temps leveling off in the mid 20s with light sw winds. Saturday is going to be warmer and feel fairly nice with highs climbing into the mid and upper 30s. Sunday will be mild, but also very windy. Winds will be picking snow for especially where they have so our temps will climb the high, but clouds and more snow showers will swing back through in the late afternoon. Accumulations again look fairly minimal but watch the roads if youre driving around to any super bowl watch parties. Light snow showers will likely stick around into monday morning with heavy winds and falling temperatures. Next week is looking very much li