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
Just a good oldfashioned december morning. Your planner says upper 30s today, not much further away from where we are right now. It is 6 01 am, lets check the highways and highways. And that morning drive this morning. And yes, the usual hustle and bustle. Bear in mind that some of these little sick this morning because of the moisture we had overnight. Especially bridges and overpasses. Coldstream avenue all the way back to 15th along interstate 380, looking fine this morning. Lets go to 380, things are looking good there. In coralville, 380 and 80 at the interchange, no big problems as we put the board. No alerts other than, it could be mindful of that if you are heading towards interstate 80 e. Just pass i was city. Other than that, pretty clear this morning. Another check of traffic and weather together coming up in about 10 minutes time. Happened overnight. Stephanie . Doraofficers are paying their respects to a fallen officer who was shot multiple times while on duty overnight in
Say the officer was responding to a domestic dispute yesterday afternoon when he was shot. The officer later died in the hospital. This is a procession that was held for the officer around 11 pm their time last night. As you can see dozens of Police Officers lined up outside the hospital to pay their their time. Dozens of officers lined up to pay their respects. The suspect is accused of shooting the officer and he was shot and killed this morning after standoff. A deputy says worse. The suspect is deceased, the kids are safe. The name of the officer has not yet been released. But Officials Say the officer was 45yearsold and had been with the department for 17 years. A new poll found that only one in four americans want the new president elect donald trump to completely repeal obamacare. Today the Kaiser Family foundation released a postelection survey that want the law repealed. The survey shows that 52 percent of republicans want the law gone thats down from 69 percent before the ele
On, the first accumulating snow for the weekend. Well tell you what that amounts to coming up. Three people are now dead and two others hurt after a truck slammed through the front of a walmart in central iowa. One of the injured people is the driver. Investigators said they dont have any reason to believe it was intentional but looking into every scenario. The store is closed. They havent released the names of the people involved. E and killed in Coral Ridge Mall resolved their lawsuit. She was killed by mall Security Guard in june of 2015. He was tried and convicted of her murder. Her family filed the lawsuit claiming the mall and their security should have done more to protect her. The suit was dropped and the lawyer said the matters are the resolution was. A veteran Police Officer shot and killed in tacoma, washington after respond to go a Domestic Violence call. Authorities shot and killed the suspected man after a standoff this morning. The suspect was using two children inside t
Eileen loan. Good morning. Eileen on camera from the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team. See the screen for your complete weather information. Here is additional forecast information from the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team we still have some flurries and sprinkles tracking through the kwwl viewing area this morning. That will likely continue all day. Temps are holding in the mid 30s this morning with westerly winds at 1015 mph. They will stay in a kwwl followup this morning. A lawsuit filed by the family of a woman killed in an eastern iowa mall will not be moving forward. Alexander kozak a mall Security Guard shot and killed Andrea Farrington inside the coral ridge according to our coverage partners at the iowa city presscitizen the lawsuit alleged that the mall failed to provide reasonable care and security for farrington. It also claimed the security provider was negligent in hiring kozak. The case was scheduled to go to trial next year but the an officer is dead after being shot severa