insert ends two second pause audio outcue im steve handelsman, nbc news, washington. Thanks steve. Trump is planning on visiting iowa again. Hell be in sioux city this sunday clintons supporter senator Bernie Sanders is in cedar falls and iowa city, today rallying for her. Clinton does not have an iowa visit planned as of yet its warm and sunny hows the weekend looking lets go to storm track seven chief meteorologist Mark Schnackenberg now for the first look at your from the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team. See the screen for your complete weather information. Here is additional forecast another great day is in store for the kwwl viewing area today. And through the weekend High Pressure will keep clear skies over us for a morning hours. But we also stay mild. Highs will be in the mid to upper 60s today and a good 10 degrees above normal. A weak disturbance will track into the state on monday, giving us a partly to mostly cloudy monday into monday night, but we from the kwwl stormtrack 7
Thereshe joins us live from the Cedar Rapids Police departmentkristin . Thats rightit was an exciting day for the officers as they officially got sworn in they were commended by directorjudy bradshaw who happens to be the former police cheif in des moines for starting their careersespecially at this for austin mensenbeing a Police Officer has been a dream for a and his classmates by his side its official family and friendsknowing the risk involved and supporting their officers every step of the way like mensens mother. Very nervous but you know as this graduating classstarted their training with the academy the day after five Police Officers were shot and killed in dallas and they graduatedays after two officers are murderedin the des moines area. Serve. The cheif and captain isnt what you signed up for the door was there and nobody left urbandale here, nobody has left then either. And while families worryespecially in the wake of what happened just days ago close to home it just break
He has a plan to turn the pd around within five years. Kcrg tv9s phil reed investigates. Kid being pulled by the hair video of a handcuffed black man having his hair pulled and yelled at by a white police officer. Its the most recent issue between Waterloo Police and the black community. The city also paid out two Million Dollars to settle a wrongful death lawsuit with the family of a black man shot and killed by a white officer. If you put on that uniform and youre scared of the black man, uniform Anthony White says those cases highlight the disconnect he feels and sees between police and the black community. All they do is ride in their car and they dont know the community. And they sort of snobbish to the young folks, well the young folks get snobbish back police chief dan trelka says part of the problem is a lack diversity in his department. With only two black officers, and one white there are times where are newer officers will roll up on two seventeen year old black men standing
40 for the weekend. Mild november weather tends to end very abruptly, and we should see a textbook example of this by this weekend. Have a great day today mostly sunny. Wind nw 515. High 60 tonight partly cloudy. Wind nw 515 low 38 tomorrow mostly sunny. Wind sw 515. High 61 tom. Night mostly clear. Wind nw 515. Low 39 anks kaj. Fix a racial divide between officers and people in the city. The police chief says building a bridge between minority communities and police wont be easy and it will take time. A department of justice review released earlier this year noted a clear lack of trust between the Minority Community and some community relationships. Hiring more minority officers and. Increasing transparency on complaints and discipline. There were initial calls for police chief dan trelka to step down. Instead, in september, the city reduced his duel role overseeing the police and Fire Departments to just law enforcement. Trelka now says he has a plan to turn the pd around within 5 ye
Has your first alert forecast, kaj. Plan on another mild week today should be a nice one with highs well into the 50s north to lower 60s from dubuque to cedar rapids and points south. A weak front comes across the area today and tonight, but with no moisture to work with, only a few scattered clouds are anticipated. The bigger story will be a large low pressure system that arrives here on friday, but will lead to windy and mild conditions for thursday into friday morning. By friday morning, the entire story changes drastically with Colder Weather blowing in on gusty west wind. Highs will barely crack 40 for the weekend. Mild november weather tends to end ver see a textbook example of this by this weekend. Have a great day today mostly sunny. Wind nw 515. High 60 tonight partly cloudy. Wind nw 515 low 38 tomorrow mostly sunny. Wind sw 515. High 61 tom. Night mostly clear. Wind nw 515. Low 39 moment his administration , president elect donald trump named rnc chair Reince Priebus as his c