Temperatures have arrived and the snow is sticking. Over the weekend. Snow fell near the great lakes. And widespread flurries across the northeast. Abcs Stephanie Ramos has the latest. Its beginning to look alot like. Winter. Snow falling and plopping the weather is changing on us fast. Just last week near syracuse, new york this is what it looked like. A week later. This. Kennedy lamb mexico new york i woke up this morning and thought it was christmas. It may be the season has already swept from thest into parts of the east. Across upstate new york a blaststf winter bringngg dangerous conditions . More than 50 accidents in syracuse blamed in part on icy roads. Snow. Collecting on this backyard deck. Nine inches so far. And another backyard buried under the snow. Lynnette west resident i have not seen this snow this early in a long time . The snow also falling early in parts of upper michigan. Nats more snow nats . But in grand rapipi. Just plain cold. Natsrace temps in the mid30s didn
Racer is the champ of the and hes from city. Abc9 News Reporter Deborah Souverain has his story inside the dirt track. You can hear the the fans cheering. Air. This is where Chris Abelson feels the most at home. Confident, the trying to anticipate where the other drivers are going to go and where you have the possibility of making a pass, said abelson. Chris abelson went from a dirt track racing fan. To getting behind the wheel himself. Natpop abelson getting into car in his 13 years behind the wheel. Hes racked up. Dozens of awards. And after one failed attempt. He now holds the top title. As the 2015 national modified division champion. Of the International Motor contest association. Which is the largest dirt Race Track Organization in the country. Went for it a little bit last year and ended up fourth in the points and just got lucky this year and got some lucky breaks, said abelson. This video from a 2011 race. Gives a taste of what abelson can deliver on the track. Race car Engine
Iowa. Natpop lenters shooting at target. He just wishes he could go alone. I always have someone go with me in case i get stuck, said lenters. Natpop did you get stuck . Wife pulling lenters wheelchair. The issues begin once he leaves his vehicle. Right now its just paved with these round rocks and my chair does not have much ground clearance. These peebles. Natpop al driving wheelchair over pebbles. Make it hard to get around. And getting comfortable at a nearly impossible. Changing the bench set up here, to something that i can get under with my chair. Its kind of hard to reach, said al lenters. Hes hoping to change all of that by teaming up with the tristate range association. The non profit. Which already works to clean up the range. Plans to make the facility accessible. A double wide parking spot, we are going to make a new entrance off of said parking spot and we are going to pave some access sidewalks and a concrete shooting pad the renovations are being done through volunteer
Venesky 1889 votes to 554. In other races of interest. Charles holz of le mars wins a special election to replace retiring rep. Chuck soderberg in the iowa house. He was running unopposed. Voters in sioux center rejecting a bond issue to spend 4 Million Dollars to expand highway 75 through town. The measure fell 4 short of the 60 needed to pass, though the yes side did receive the most votes. Voters in Buena Vista County approving extending a 1 local option sales tax. Voters in Crawford County overwhelmingly rejecting a 2. 65 Million Dollar bond issue to build a Dialysis Center in denison. Voters in onawa approving a proposed 7 Hotel Motel Tax. And voters in sheldon approving a proposed increase of their exisisting Hotel Motel Tax to 7 . Finally. The omaha tribe of nebraska approves a proposal to legalize growth, sale and tribes lands. 3 two people are dead after a stolen car crashed into another vehicle on sioux citys northside. That accident happened about one this afternoon at 25th
Champion, cbs news. 3 3 policecerecovered hundreds of weapons like guns. Knives. And brass knuckles from that restaurant. 3 two major roads in siouxland were slowed down by accidents s last night. Two people the hospital in one of those accidents. We start in merrill iowa. A semi carrying hogs was part of a rollover accident. All we know right now is the semi was driving through merrill on highway 75 when the accident happened. The truck hit and damaged a transformer. The driver of the truck wasnt hurt in the crash. No word on what happened with any of the hogs in the truck. 3 and a mornrng crasason sioux citys west side sent two people to the hospital. One of them was seriously hurt. The accident happend in the 36 hundred block of war eagle drive around 9 15 yesterday morning. Not far from the fareway store. A pickup crashed head on with a car. The driver of the car. An elderly woman. Was taken to Mercy Medical center by ambulance after being extracted from her vehicle. The driviv of