A likelihood of strong to severe storms. The storms arnd 6 00 this evening. We will keep you posted here and download our app. By 6 00 tonight, there is that likelihood of strong to severe storms. Be weather ready today, you guys. Lets get to our Traffic Alert now. Fiery crash has shut down the outer loop of 66. Megan mcgrath is live on the scene with the latest. Is what oing on now . Reporter we have seen a stttle bit of an improvement here within la few minutes. They have been able to reopen the express lanes. You can see the traffic going by here. They are traveling in the express lane. That is all that has reopened at this particular time. The l outerop is completely shut down at westbound 66. They have maneuvered cones and moved all of the response crews off to the righthand side of the road. So they are o trying ton those two left lanes and we are expecting that to happen any time now. But it just hasnt happened yet. For the time being, all of the lanes on the outer loop still sh
That is brought up at many athletic games. But when the fans are being disrespectful. Whats supposed to happen . And whos in charge . What the Iowa High School Athletic Association is saying tonight. Tolerance. Thats the message from a man who used to preach hate. What turned his life around. And how hes trying to make amends. Back to school. A new School Start Date rule means some students wont take their semester finals until after winter break. How the statehouse is impacting schools here in central iowa. From who hd iowas High Definition leader. This is the channel 13 news at nine on fox 17 controversy surrounding taunting chants at a Boys Basketball game on monday night continues to. Tonight we hear what should be done in situations like that. Good evening. Im lynn melling. Thank you for joining us tonight last night. We told you about how fans of Dallas Center grimes were trump. Playing off of the president ial candidates hard line stance against undocumented immigrants. It was s
Court or to anyone at the event. What is supposed to happen . And whos in charge . Well according to the executive director of the Iowa High School athletic association, there are guidelines and policies in place that govern such a scenario. Alan beste says its up to the School Administrators of both teams to take action. Theyre the ones who are probably visiting amongst themselves to determine whats going to happen and the policy, which is called conduct counts that addresses chanting and cheering directed at opponents. 02 05 there are several different ways that they can handle it. They can simply give an informal warning to the students or the spectators and say this is inappropriate, stop. Or, they can give a formal warning and say if it continues were going to eject you and then if it gets to tha point where the fans are being belligerent, then there is a possibility of those fans being ejected from the contest. Dallas Center Grimes activities director steve watson was at the top
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
Debated on the floor anytime soon. Still a study bill, it will be followed closely, at the statehouse, amanda krenz, local 5 news, we are iowa. Stephanie we want to know what you think about this proposed medical cannabis bill . Let us know for a chance to see your comments onair. You can post you thoughts on facebook and twitter. Or send us an email or give us a call. Wed love to hear what you think the Contact Information is on your screen. Jack also at the statehouse today Education Funding is on the minds of lawmakers. Jack inside Senate Chambers Democratic Leaders say theyre following the law when it comes to Education Funding. And fighting to get money in place for the next two school years. They proposed a 4 percent hearing from School Districts that theyve had to delay buying classroom materials, textbooks, and technology. The funding for the 2018 school year passed along party lines. The senate voted in favor of 4 percent 26 to 24. The bill now moves on to the republican contr