Seasonable weather through next week. The pattern stays dry through next friday. Have a good night and a safe weekend. Tonight stly clear low 3440 winds sw 1020tomorrow mostly sunny, mild high 5359 winds w 515 back to you. Todays extremely windy conditions were an issue for a lot of people all across the state. It was especialal hard on semi drivers. Several trucks tipped over in linn county alone. Four semis were on their sides. Road exit on 380. Another was on highway 1 near ellison road. Two others were along highway 13 east of cedar rapids. Kcrgtv9brady smith has more on what was a dedeructive day not just for drivers, but some homeowners. Driving a semi through eastern afternoon proved challenging. Curt vondrak sayaypulling a heavier load helped him stay on the road. It was enough to hold me down, but i was following a couple of guys that were being blown all over the place. He saw one trailer overturned on highwhw 151. Having been through that situation before. I have been blown
Roads. Those planning on traveling should prepare for partially to mostly covered roads. Temperature wise for this valentines day, we are much warmer highs will be in the middle 20s thanks to a warm front that will lift across the area. The beginning of next week brings even warmer temperatures with highs back into the 30s. Thanks britley. Today, family and friends are remembering the life of a man killed during a fire in his waterloo home. Around 1130 friday y ght, firefighters arrived at 16 84 mount carmel drive. Thats the mount village apartments, near allen hospital. There, fire crews pulled 53yearold Ray Anthony Reed from his burning home. Officials say reed died from scalds and burns. Theres no details yet on what sparked the fire, but the building endured significantnt fire and smoke damage. Last night, people spent time leaving flowers to mourn the loss of reed. His death is the first fire fatality this year. A central iowa teenager lost his life, after a singlevehicle crash sa
The beginning of their weekend wanting warmer temps but getting gusts. Honoring antonin scalia. Us leaders gather today in the nations capitol to remember the Late Supreme Court justice. Well have a look at the services happening this morning. Dead or alive . Well tell you which bills made it through the deadline funnel in the iowa legislature. Youre watching kcrgtv9. Now, from your 24 hour news source, this is the kcrgtv9 saturday morning news. Good morning and thanks for joining us. We begin with First Alert Storm Team meteorologis t britley ritz. Winds wont be as strong this morning, but will continue out of the west at 5 to 15 mph. With these winds and mostly clear to partly clouds skies, our temperatures will continue to stay warm. Throughout the Morning Hours our temperatures will sit in the middle to upper 30s, but will quickly rise. Though they wont be as warm as yesterday, our highs will still top out in the upper 50s. Once again with highs in the upper 50s were about 25 degre
Thats right with a cabin full of what several called fog like smoke passengers tell me they quickly began to panic. Sitting on the tarmac there is nothing visibley wrong passengers they will tell you something was wrong even before take off and then we heard an awful noise. So we are all like, i flight smoke filled the plane smelling of burning plastic and the floor became extremely hot. We heard this terrible noise that was ongoing. So we were really, all of us were crying scanner going out to the airport, weve got envoy 3047with smoke in the cockpit and 43 hundred pounds of fuel on for many on bored when the plane landed safely after a nearly 4 hour wait most passengers left on my anxiety is really high right now. I would rather skip it. I could cry. Near death experience, that is ok. The waterloo airport director round and is full trained to handle fires. However they do rely on waterloo fire for extra support. Weve got you covered live in waterloo. Jessica hartman kwwl news. Stop i
Taken to Mercy Hospital and later univeristy of iowa hospitals for serious injuries. One eman is in the hospitl after an atv accident this afternoon. The crash happened near central city around 3 oclock. When crews arrived they found 43yearold chad meyers collided with a tree branch. Meyers was air lifted to university of iowa hospitals. He was not wearing a helmet at the time of the crash. Details remain under investigation. Local legislators are fighting for a bill that would make fireworks legal in iowa. Tt bill pushed by cedar falls legislator Jeff Danielson has been bouncing around in the senate for a while. A Senate Committee voted in favor ten to five but it still needs to go to the floor. Kwwls Olivia Mancino joins us live in the newsroom with the currently in iowa the law allows you to own fire works. You just cant shoot them off senator danielson calls that a head i the sand ppicy and wantss fireworks to be legal so they can danielson says theres far more dangerous regular ho