Advice for drying out. Eric and a new plan to take on terrorism. What 34 muslim nations are doing to fight back against isis. Youre watching kcci eight news. Elizabeth also today, its toys for tots tuesday. We really want to make sure every child has a happy holiday, so were sweetening the deal today with free food and fun all day long in exchange for your donations. Well tell you how to help out ahead. Good morning everyone and welcome back on this tuesday, december 15th. Im elizabeth klinge. Eric im eric hanson. The big news this morning is its not raining. Metinka thats right, the weather has settled down the so and you wont have to worry about toys getting wet. We have cold temperatures so grab a warmer coat. We expect the breeze to increase maybe your travels are taking you toward council bluffs, watch for changing visibilitys with fog developing. There really shouldnt be any big headaches. A chance for drizzle by the evening commute and overnight. It might change over to flurries
Elizabeth if you do business with the city of des moines, get ready for some big changes. A 5 million renovation will close city hall this spring and now the city revealed where you can find the new temporary city hall. Todd magel reports. Todd after more than a century, the citys crown jewel on the Des Moines River is ready for an update. And that means for the First Time Since the floods of 1993, its shutting down until sometime in 2018. I think this is a very big deal. Todd . Deputy city manager carl metzger says the thousands of people who pay parking tickets and conduct other government business here will have to head to the citys away at 400 east court. City leaders just approved a nearly Million Dollar budget to move. Workers wont be able to stay in renovations. The logistics of that, as you monumental. Todd among the many changes heat boiler deep in the buildings basement. Crews will also install a new heating and air conditioning system and a new sprinkler updates. Even though
Clouds rolling in but no fog to worry about. Yesterday and it was slow but we are tracking sprinkles from south dakota and nebraska. If they hold together, they will be affecting the northern half of the state today. Mainly sprinkles is all we are expecting. Temperatures from the most part starting out above freezing. 35 in des moines. That is where we should be for the afternoon highs today. Things are looking really nice. Clouds will continue to run in this morning. Temperatures in the low 50s with the few sprinkles during the afternoon. Eric the big stories this morning. Union county officials are trying to figure out how a woman ended up in a farmers pond. Lastly, they pulled 37yearold Loretto Dillinger from the water. A criminal investigation is now into the case. A hunter found the body partially submerged in a remote pond northwest that is invisible we are treating it as a suspicious death. There are no homes around the area. Eric an autopsy is underway. The body had been in the
Good morning and welcome back. Eric we are starting another day with nice temperatures. Today will be better than yesterday and it keeps getting better. Metinka thats a nice trend when temperatures head up with. Starting on the right foot with readings above freezing. 36 degrees and knoxville and these are close to the seasonal high. There are cycles coming sprinkles coming from sioux falls. This should be later toward the noon hour. It is looking like a great day for outdoor recess except for light rain later today. 40 degreessish five the first bell. Unseasonably warm in the 50s with record highs possible by thursday. Eric first to big stories this morning. Union county officials are trying to figure how a woman ended up in a farmers pond. 37yearold Loretta Dillinger of thayer from the water. The Iowa Division of criminal investigation is looking into the case. A hunter found the body rtially submerged in a remote pond northwest of lorimor that isnt visible from the roadway. Spec. Ag
In the break banded, shaded areas is where we probably have a few snow showers mixing in. Further to the west, they have been dealing with the snow so we may be got the better end of things, although it was a recordbreaking weekend. Over three inches fell across much of central iowa. The rainfall will begin to move out of the area so it should be a dryer evening commute, but once the rain moves out, watch out for the wind. It will be very gusty from the northwest as the whole system leaves. Eric right now, its still raining. Central iowa still pretty soggy this morning. Live super doppler hd still lit up with even more rain on the way. Not good news, with all the flooding already happening. Elizabeth kccis alyx sacks is live now at george flat parkway george flagg parkway and alyx, how bad is the flooding alyx it is forecasted to go a little bit about 16 feet by wednesday morning. All this rain is causing some closures. George flag is closed right by southwest 30th street. That is expe