Welcome to cbs two this morning. Im jenee ryan. Ryan. Lets get a check of our cbs 2 happening in just a few hours from now Urbandale Police officer justin marti to rest this morning in his hometown of Rockwell City. City. The time symbolizes his badge number 1140 which the Urbandale Police departments retired in his memory. Yesterday a visitation was held for officer martin at calhoun middle school. Scott greenes accused of ambushing and and murdering martin last week while he sat in his squad car. Just minutes later police say greene assassinated sargeant Anthony Beminio also sitting in his squad car Sergeant Beminio served in the Des Moines Police department for many years. Yesterday Family Friends and iowas finest gathered to pay their last respects to the iowa city west high grad. Grad. Cbs 2 news statehouse reporter steffi lee, was there. There. Steffi a somber yet touching tribute as hundreds gathered to pay their final respects to sgt. Tony beminio. A stream of Law Enforcement c
New this morning new this new this morning authorities confirm a fire broke out early this mornng in waterloo. Crews were first called out to the scene at 919 commerical street a little after 3 this morning. Right now not many details have been released. Will continue to monitor this developing story and bring you any updates. Developing overnight protests over now president elect donald trump have turned violent in some parts of the co. Country. Cbs 2 News Reporter Stephanie Johnson joins us now at the breaking news desk. Stephanie what can you tell u. Us. Jenee a second day of protests have spilled into the cities all over the country. Especially in portlandtake a look at this video video police declaring this protest a riot demonstrators destroying an electrical box in Downtown Portland shattered glassnext video police used pepper spray and smoke grenades to disperse the crowd police are making several arrest arresttweet from Portland Police cbs 20161111 fri0037 cbs media id 2016111
An update to breaking news a fire has now been put out in an abandoned building in waterloo. It broke out right after three this morning at 919commercial street. Abandoned building in waterloo. The fire broke out after 3 00 this morning at 919 commercial street. Authorities confirmed that there were no injuries but police have arrested one person in connection to that fire. Developing overnight, protests over now president violent in several parts of of the country. Cbs News Reporter Stephanie Johnson is at our breaking news desk and she has been following this all morning long. Stephanie, what have you found out about these protests so far. Reporter the protests are going on in portland, oregon at this time. Police are now calling this a riot. More than a thousand people have hit the streets of portland. You can see demonstrators damaging public property as well as lighting trees on fire. You can see that police are using different methods to disperse the crowd and clear them away. Po
New this Morning Police around the country are now grieiving the death of one Stephanie Johnson is at the breaking news desk with what happened overnight. Stephanie . Doraofficers are paying their respects to a fallen officer who was shot multiple times while on duty overnight in Tacoma Washington the suspect who killed the officer is still on the loose take a look at videoscene is active suspect has barricaded himself inside of his homeauthorities believe the suspect is armed and dangerous the neighborhood is on lockdown the officer on the police dept. For seventeen years. The officer died around 9 pm at a tacoma hospitalthats the latest from the breaking news deskill continue to monitor this story as it developsdora back to you. With deaths among Law Enforcement on the rise lawmakers in the us senate have approved a new bill co authored by Chuck Grassley. The Public Safety officers benefits improvement act hopes to reduce the backlog of familes awaiting survivor benefits. The Program
Made along the way were always wrapped around the people that helped make the business successful in making sure that. That will stay here in the waterloo area. Van miller leves behind 3 sons, 5 grandchildren and a wife of 24 years. As i mentioned, his youngest son got 4 married his weekend and co workers told me it was a beautifuu and fun wedding. Something that van was very excited about. Phillips also told me, miller was battling heart problems since 2000. He had minor heart attacks and even a bypass surgey and sadly, it appears t tat he died on sunday. From a heart attack. A visitation is set for this friday. And services will be saturday morning. We will post that information on our website, kwwl. Com weve got you covered, lauren moss. Kwwl news. Thanks lauren, it was announced that jim walsh is the new Business Partner of vans. Someone that continuing coverage a meth lab busted over the weekend. The bust happened at 210 ridge drive in marion. Police discovered the lab while respo