Joining us tonight im tim seaman Jenna Rehnstrom has the night off. We are less than two days away from christmas, and siouxland churches are preparing for big crowds on christmas day. But in a time of declining faith, are numbers of church goers dwindling during the holiday celebrating the birth of christ . Tim according to a Pew Research Center poll, 41 percent of baby boomers and generation xers y they dont attend religious servises on either Christmas Eve or christmas day, just under half of millenials polled reported the same. Tim for others, the tradition of going to church on christmas is tradition. Even if folks might not make other services during the rest of the year. Celebrating the birth of the new born king just seems to be more important. But we wondered d why . Our lukas voss met with religous leaders today and has more. Lukas thanks tim. Somehow that walk to our local brisk winter night has something special. The christmaservice. Fomany its a time to bring the whole fam
And rain. A thudnerstorm warning was issued for parts of washington county, but so far no reports of serious damage. The storms might have been responsible for this semi crash on i380. The semi was knocked over north of boyson road, backing up traffic in both directions while crews cleared the scene. So far theres no word on any injuries in this crash. Fortuantely, the threat for Severe Weather for the corridor is over. Over. For more on what to expect tonight, we turn to Marissa Scott in for chief meteorologist terry swails with your weather first forecast, marissa . Heres a look outside. Doppler radar shows some light rain east of cedar rapids and some light snow showers mainly in our evening. Well see cloudy skies through the remainder of the night with some gradual clearing. Some gradual clearing. Reduced visibilities in northeast iowa but for the most part we are seeing improvements on the roads. However some roads are still wet and slick, in fact some icy roads are in central iow