Off its foundation. Ten years later. Today marked one decade since a destructive tornado tore through the town of stratford. How the community observed the anniversary and the progress its made in the years since. Pros and cons. The intensely controversial Bakken Oil Pipeline was the subject of a public hearing today in iowa. The arguments for and against it. And where it goes from here. From who hd iowas High Definition leader. This is the channel 13 news at nine on fox 17 pause for nats of tree chopping this was a common sound across iowa today. Clean up is underway following yesterdays storms. And this team. Is a group of volunteers. The workers from Valley Church tackled debris on des moines south side today. Good evening. Im lynn melling. Thank you for joining us cleaning up from the storms. The National Weather service was out surveying damage. So far, they determined that five tornadoes touched down in iowa yesterday. The strongest, an ef2 in the lake rathbun area. Estimated pea
Al roker could have used some tips from ed, last night. The today show host made iowa the 21st state in his one week, 50 state forecasting tour. Hell wrap up rokerthon on friday back in new york. Good afternoon. Im sonya heitshusen. And im dan winters. Thanks mild conditions for the evening with temperatures in the 50s tonight. Skies will stay cloudy through the night with some drizzle by morning. A strong storm system will bring thunderstorms to iowa wednesday afternoon which may become severe, especially across southern iowa. Fast food workers across the country walked out on the job protest for higher wages. The group, fight for 15, staged strikes here in iowa. 13 16 00 hey hey ho ho, poverty wages have got to go 05 more than a dozen people stood outside the mcdonalds in waukee over the noon hour. See. The group wants to raise the minimum wage from 725 an hour supporters argue the current rate doesnt add up to a livable wag for millions of americans. 13 40 54 for somebody that doesn
Air guard. Crews used a tow truck to pull the trailer back onto its wheels. As you can see. The fence around the guard was also damaged. People are cleaning up damage just east of the metro in prairie city. 3 businesses sustained some structural damage because of high winds. Part of the awning at this caseys was ripped off and thrown several feet away. The overhang of a bank was also damaged. There were no reports of injuries there. Knoxville saw some of the worst wind damage though. One gust shot this twobyfour through a truck windshield. The Southeast Side of town also saw extensive tree damage. Police say strong winds ripped two air conditioners off the roof of the nearby walmart. Some minor injuries were reported there. Officials say no one was seriously hurt. Governor branstad plans to look at the damage in knoxville this afternoon. Its time now to get a first look at the forecast. Lets head down to Brett Mcintyre at the science center. Across the midwest. At least nine tornadoes
The city of knoxville saw the worst of last nights storms. 42 02 i was just inside the back door it started raining hard and the winds picked up quite a bit and in a matter of 10 seconds something hit the back of the house then the lgiths were out and it was all over so it happened a matter of half a minute or so. 42 17 wind gusts picked up chris normans garage and dropped it in his neighbors front yard. He says there wasnt much warning before the storms hit. Norman says he is just thankful no one was seriously injured. But his home was just one of several that were damage in the storm. On the other side of town police say strong winds ripped two air conditioners off the roof of the walmart. Some minor injuries were reported there. But Officials Say no one was seriously hurt. Meteorologists of the National Weather service says the damage to the store shows just how strong this storm was. 19 56 it looks like the roof was up lifted for a little bit. Glass everywhere there is water that h
Today we were following along with the National Weather Service Crews as they surveyed the damage. Meteorologist Jennifer Mcdermed caught up with them in knoxville as they measured the strength of the storm there. In knoxville at the walmart on the south side of town where we joined one of two of the National Weather Service Survey damage teams. The nws has confirmed that an ef1 tornado did damage to the building. Which included roof damage, a trailer being tipped over, and debris scattered in a field behind the walmart. A brief tornado was noticed and Weather Observers working in the control tower at the des moines airport, and those observers say thats exactly why its a bad idea to 56 other observation teams across the country. The faa is trying to trim weather observation teams at airports in the us where the duties can be shifted to the air Traffic Control team. You can imagine how the observers feel about this. Especially during bad weather busy, air Traffic Control is also busy.