Prison policies. Union officials are examining a prisons policies after a fight broke out inside its walls. Find out what changes theyre calling for. From who hd iowas High Definition leader. This is the channel 13 news at nine on fox 17 good evening. Im lynn melling. Thank you for joining us tonight. Years of planning will be put to the test in three weeks when des moines hosts the ncaa mens basketball tournament. Justin surrency explains why the Basketball Court isnt the only place you can find a gameplan during march madness. The game plans for the ncaa tournament in des moines wont only be on the court. between logistics of transportation hotels, team functions, in arena aspects, its kind of been a collaborative efforts. the Police Department will be providing a large downtown assist. one of the Biggest Challenges we have with this being at wells fargo is we are bringing thousands and dense area downtown. scouting has been key. we did have a team that went down to omaha last year.
The strongest in the eastern counties. We will stay windy through most of thursday and temps cool even more. We have a nice in a few minutes. Developing overnight. Olice are investigating a shooting at the cedar valley townhouses. It happened on j street southwest in cedar rapids around 9 30 last night. Police tell us there are two victims, but would not tell us their conditions. We expect to learn more later this morning. In des moines one person is in the hospital after being shot in the leg. It happened shortly after eight oclock last night near an elementary school. At this point, we dont know how the victim is doing, but Police Decision 2016 coverage. Donald trump wins the nevada caucuses. Its another win for trump and it this morning the republicans are looking ahead to the biggest day yet super tuesday which is now less than a week away. Of course, if you listen to the winning, winning, winning. The countryry and soon the country is going to start winning, winning, winning. Trum
We begin with a developing story overnight. Cedar Rapids Police are investigating a shooting at an apartment complex on the citys southwest side and at this point, theres still many unanswered questions. Police are releasing very few details. Kwwls Amanda Gilbert joins us live from the scene. Amanda, theres still a pretty heavy Police Presence this morning. Police are still on scene hours after the shooting happened. Right now im seeing a spotlight. And crime scene tape sorrounding a lot of the apartment complex where the shooting took place. This all happening at the cedar valley townhouses on j street southwest. Not far from i380. I did checkin with police this morning. They confirmed that the shooting police tell me they are still investigating what happened. And i spoke with someone who lives in this complex that tells me a lot weve got you covered live in cedar rapids, Amanda Gilbert, kwwl news. Well continue to follow this morning throughout today in iowa. Well also update our we
Questions here in kalamazoo. Hoping to get some of them answered with this court aaearance. In kalamazoo, im blake mccoy, nbc news. Uber issued a statement offering condolences to the victims and their families as well as offering to help with the investigation. Lets go to storm track seven meteorologist eileen`loan now for your first forecast. We have made it into the mid to upper 30s from the north that will turn to the southwest this afternoon. Most of us still have mainly cloudy skies, although there is some drying out trying to take place from dubuque through cedar rapids. We may clear out for a tonight and tomorrow morning. Today, we will keep mainly cloudy to partly sunny skies and highs in the upper 30s to mid 40s this afternoon. We have a few rain and snow showers that may track through tomorrow. Ill have more on that coming up in a few minntes. An iowa woman is accused of setting her boyfriend on fire. It happened last night in des moines just after 7 oclock. Police say they
Good afternoon. A strong low pressure system tracking to our south and east will just miss us with precipitation, but we will have some rather breezy to windy conditions over the next couple of days. North winds have taken over, so we will see cooler air tracking into the kwwl viewing area. Despite the cooler airflow, we will stay above normal today with highs in the across the south last night, killing at least three people. Of sugar hill mobile home park, more than 150 homes now just piles of ruble. Here, more than 30 were hospitalized, seven of those critical. The ruble. Toys. A neighborhood wiped off the map. Dozens were injured. Many of them pulled from the rubble. Barely alive. S colonel Michael Edmonson Louisiana State police were asking for calm for this area. Were asking for prayers. We need that. This Community Needs that. Some 19 Million People were at risk during round one of the massive winter storm. All the way to nat we just held on to each overturned semi trucks, a gutt