Safer. But not everyone is happy about the proposed changes. The intersection is where 55th street meets highway 150 west of urbana. There have been some improvements to the intersection and all of the highlighted area you see on this map since a pickup and semi collided in april of last year. Ranging in age from 12 to 20. They were in a pickup turning onto highway 150 when the semi hit them. Now refer to them as the urbana five. Kcrg tv nines phil reed talked to urbanas mayor who says changing the intersection could cause trouble on other roads. Its an intersection that the iowa dot has been studying for about a year. Its also where five teens were killed in april of 2015 when they were struck by a semi. A memorial is still here in their honor. But the urbana if people follow the rules of the road. Take vo he says the dot could use the 2 lion dollars the project would cost elsewhere. The dot is proposing getting rid of the curve, and making it tintesectiosay. Makie of a traditional in
Has your first alert forecast, kaj. Plan on a very warm start to november we do have some fog to deal with for the first few hours of the day, primarily over the northern half of the area. Theres a cold front that has stalled across the region, allowing for a 15 degree temperature spread across eastern iowa. The fog is located on the cold side of this front. Today, plan on highs into the upper 60s north with lower to middle 70s farther south. Our weather continues to look active late tonight into wednesday with some spots able to exceed a half inch of rain by the time everything is all through late on wednesday. From thursday through early next week, dry c generally in the mid60s and lows in the lower to middle 40s. This is around 10 degrees above normal both day and night. Have a good day today partly cloudy and mild. Wind n 510. High 72 tonight isolated showers late in the night. Wind ne 510. Low 55 tomorrow showers and storms likely, especially south of highway 20. Wind ne 515. High
First, meteorologis t kaj omara has your first alert forecast, kaj. Plan on a very warm start to november we do have some fog to deal with for the first few hours of the day, primarily over the northern half of the area. Theres a cold front that has stalled across the region, allowing for a 15 degree temperature spread across eastern iowa. The fog is located on the cold side of this front. Today, plan on highs into the upper 60s north with lower to mid continues to look active late tonight into wednesday with some spots able to exceed a half inch of rain by the time everything is all through late on wednesday. From thursday through early next week, dry conditions are anticipated with highs generally in the mid60s and lows in the lower to middle 40s. This is around 10 degrees above normal both day and night. Have gooday today partly cloudy and mild. Wind n 510. High tonight isoted showers late in the night. Win ne 10. L this morning on the coe college campus. Now a 37yearold man who pol
Hiring more troopers is now. 267 is low, i would like to see a lot more, but every director of a state police would like to see more officers. Van berkum says the patrol is planning an advertisement blitz to attract candidates to a Law Enforcement academy next year. Where he hopes to see a graduating class of up to 25 new troopers something he hopes to start doing annually. Our goal is every year, and hopefully do it in the springtime, graduating, thats when high schools are getting out, that way people will know that Law Enforcement is holding an academy, so they can prepare their resumes knowing that we are going to have an academy. Right now there are also more drivers on iowas roads than ever before. Data from the Iowa Department of transportatio n shows the number of licensed drivers in iowa increased by 466thousand in the past ten years, to more than 2point2 million drivers. Conrad says its obvious commute making the need to hire more troopers, especially here in eastern iowa, mo
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