Finding it more difficult to navigate between wells fargo and downtown businesses. Kccis ryan smith is live to explain the big change. Ryan fans, parents, and wrestlers here at the turn it all know that you can run into some downtime. The skywalk has always been an easy accessible way to connect , them to downtown shops and dining. But this year, you can see, construction is causing some inconvenience. Wrestling fans from iowas four corners and everywhere in between are in town. Just gets super exciting, everybody just comes and watches. Johnston senior Austin Garcia needed to kill a couple hours before his match. But during his walk downtown for food, he noticed a big detour. We would eat at fongs or royal mile then walk up through the skywalk. Dealing with a disconnect between the arena and downtown. We wanted to get some starbucks and we couldnt get any because the skywalk was closed. Mark ryan construction on the new 300room Convention Center hotel is now underway shutting down a m
Is just over two weeks away. Heres nancy cordes. Hillary clinton has been there. Reporter nearly 20 members of the Congressional Black Caucus vowed today to campaign for clinton. Hakeem jeffries of new york was one of them. Hillary clinton has been there from the very beginning to deal with the gun violence epidemic and its impact on African American communities across the country. Reporter she has prayed with black pastors, met with black lives matter protestors and is airing this new ad in the south. You have to face up to the hard truth of injustice and systematic racism. Reporter her Campaign Says sanders is a johnnycomelately on race issues. He says he got his start in activism during the civil rights movement. Georgia congressman john lewis scoffed at that today. But i never saw him. I never met him. I chaired the student nonviolent coordinating committee, but i met hillary clinton. I met president clinton. Speak frequently about incarceration rates and poverty. 51 of young Afric
Mark prosecutors dont know why yahia picked mcneeleys home. They cant find any evidence they knew each other and likely now will likely never know. Stacey Urbandale Police say a material witness in that officerinvolved shooting has turned herself in to authorities. Officers issued a warrant for 17yearold kiara olson last week. They believe she can provide information about the case. Steve the Des Moines Police department is on a mission to outfit all uniformed officers with body cameras. Kccis Marcus Mcintosh is in studio. Marcus, whats the timeline here . Marcus steve, the chief wants this to happen by june. That means the department will have to purchase some 270 body cameras. Cameras that will record the interaction between police and the public. The Departments School resource officers have been equipped with body cameras for more than five years. The Department Tells kcci it is well on it way to the more than all uniformed officers. It is a combination of private donations and bud
[kcci captioning is brought to you by the iowa clinic] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] mollie it happened in the 100 block of north lucas. Our vanessa peng just arrived there in the past hour. She joins us now live on the phone. Vanessa, what can you tell us . Vanessa it happened yesterday around 8 00, on valentines day. Its in the 100 block of north lucas avenue. Its kind of an industrial area, there are some older buildings and some that arent occupied. The one we are seeing that we do believe may be it happened here, but we have not had it confirmed from authorities that happen, theres an apartment complex over here. What happened was, authorities found both the victim and the suspect had gunshot wounds. Both the victim and suspect were transported to area hospitals, and then Center Des Moines hospitals. What were learning from authorities right now is that the Iowa Division of
About all morning. Thanks for talking with us. What are you seeing right now . Trooper cutts what were seeing is light snow coming down. It is really fine. It is glazing the roadway. It is very slick. It might look just wet until you tap the brakes or make a lane change in the next thing you know you have gone into a spin. Its deceiving for the drivers out there. Alyx you were on social media all morning long talking about how slick the roads were getting. Have improved . Trooper cutts they are holding their own at the moment. We are still getting crashes, especially on the on and off ramps on the interstates. When you get to some of the county roads and state highways that are not well traveled, they are completely glazed over and completely snowcovered right now. They are very dangerous. Alyx how many crashes of and reported so far today . Trooper cutts we have been running from crash the crash. Count of how many we have had. They are going right to another one or another one happens