Who is cleaning up her city. One cigarette butt at a time. Deborah good morning and thanks for joining us. Im deborah souverain. Americans across the country are dealing with historic weather on this Christmas Day. From record breaking highs in the northeast. To flash flood watches down south. To snow out west abcs Kenneth Moton is keeping tabs on the weather. And has more. Holiday weather for the record books. This christmas morning, the Weather Threat continues for parts of the south with heavy rain causing flood watches. Sot no super we woke up to Civil Defense pounding on our door telling us we had about 20 minutes to leave our homes. In georgia and alabama, people evacuated their homes to escape flood waters. Nat tornado from the south to the midwest, severe more than a dozen were killed when two dozen tornadoes terrorized s sen states including mississippi. Itsselieved one stretched 150 miles destroying homes and lives. Sot governor phil bryantmississippi as you look at the damag
Responsible is behind bars. Local 5 news at 10 starts in 30 seconds. Youre watching local 5 newsare iowas most Accurate Weather Team and we start with your forecast first. Brad wx wall weather adlib the clouds pretty much won the battle today in central iowa as they will tonight. The good news is that it will stay relatively mild for december with temps staying in the upper 30s to lower 40s tonight. This means that we wont have to worry about any icing when the rain showers some heavier rains will be likely wednesday which will just add to the already record rainfall for this month. About a half inch is expected by the end of wednesday. Local 5 news at 10 in hd starts now. We are iowa jack good evening, im jack miller. Stephanie has the night off. The iowa lottery is back in the spotlight tonight after another problem with a winning ticket. After former Lottery Association employee eddie tipton was convicted of fraud over manipulating ticket numbers, a des moines man is facing criminal