Near hoover elementary this morning. Thats at the corner at wiley and johnson. Authorities say an earlier pursuit ended in this area. Police say they dont believe there is any danger to the public. State senatoto are expected to debate a bill about the states Medicaid Program today. The bill would end contracts with three private companies that are slated to take over ownership on march 1st. Majority in the senate, so the bill will most likely pass there. Republican controlled house. Speaker linda upmey said she likely wont let the bill on the house floor, because governor branstad will veto. Senator liz mathis is a sponsor of the legislation. She is hoping upmeyer will reconsider if republicans have a good show of support today and in the house. Hopefully shell see that there maybe a lot of republicans and democrats who will support this bill when it gets over there and it wont be dead on arrival. Wellknown senate republican, is supporting the bill. Governor branstad is pushing privat
Following the birth, the family was taken to a local hospital, where we arent sure of her but wish them all the best weve got you covered. Kwwl news. You think. Firefighters say its not uncommon to assist in delivving babies day storm track seven chief meteorologist Mark Schnackenberg has a track on whats headed our way from the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team. See the screen information from the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team light snow will track southeast across central iowa this evening. The northern side of the snow is in parts of eastern iowa. The best chance to have a few snow showers, this evening, will be southwest of interstate 380. Little to no snow accumulations are expected. Friday and saturday remain cold with a mostly sunny sky. Morning bottom out near 10 below zero with wind chills of 20 to 30 below. We are still tracking snow for sunday. The snow begins before sunrise sunday and continues through the day before tapering off sunday before midnight. Snow accumulations at
Clear low 4248 winds nw 510 alo 43 dbq 43 iow 49 thanks kai. Firefighters in eastern iowa say theres a high risk for fire today. This after dry conditions and strong winds helped fuel several fie fires yesteray. The fire in waaington countyy was the result of a weekend burn, which high winds rekindled yesterday morning. The fire burned a barn and a whole lot of field, near 180th street and spruce avenue. Fire Officials Say someone was burning trash on saturday nighthtand even ys later this type of situation could happen again. Its obvious, dont be burning, especially on a wdy day, but until we get some rain, i wouldnt recommend any burning at all. Fire officials are urginn you to keep a close eye on the area where the burn was conducted. No one was hurt during this fire. And a field fire in Fayette County burned 120 acres. No one hurt in this one either. It happened on 30th streee near the oelwein municipal airpprt yesterday afternoon. The fairbank fire chief believes sparks or hot met
First, meteorologis t kaj omara has your first alert forecast, kaj. Overall, plan on another mild day. While the wind has backed off substantially, hold off on burning due to extremely dry conditions. A few showers may potentially flare up later today, however, amounts would be extremely light and probably under a tenth of an inch. Theres a better chance of getting missed by showers than hit by them. Plan on mainly dry conditions from wednesday into thursday with our next system set to bring us another rain chance later on friday. This system aso appears prtty moisturestarveddt this point. Looking ahead to the weekend, it shoulul be another spectacular one with highs into the 60s and lows dropping back to the 30s. Today isolated pm showers high 7177 winds sw 1020 alo 74 dbq 73 iow 74tonight isolated showers low 5258 winds s 510 alo 54 dbq 55 iow 56tomorrow partly cloudy high 7177 winds sw 515 alo 72 dbq 74iow76tomorrow night mostly e low 4248winds nw 5100alo 43 dbq 43 iow 49 4 people a
58 days until the new star wars movie hits theaters. Millions already watching that new trailer over and over and over on youtube and facebook. The founder of facebook, mark zuckerberg, was one of them. This is what he said, thth looks amazinin i love star wars. And so the response from the star wars facebook count . We know. Those movie ticket sites overwhelmed by preders. All kinds of anticipation. Meanwhile, the political rld waiting for joe e den. Ere he is right therer will he or wont he run for president . The Washington Post jumped the gun a little bit last night. Look at that accidental headline. Oops. Biden to launch president ial campaign. Not so fast. It came down but our new abc news Washington Post poll is out right now and might give biden supporters pause. It shows a strong move from Hillary Clinton after that debate. Some slippage for biden. And Abcs Jonathan Karl has all the latest. Jon. Reporter Hillary Clinton got a big boost coming out of that debate but it hasnt st