Across eastern iowa. Blowing will be slick so use caution and thursday as we end the year on a the coldest day with highs in the mid teens and morning lows theyve been working around the clock even bringing out extra plow trucks. The men and women on the team are working 12 hour shifts around the clock. During my ridea long. We went through downtown dubuque today theyre widening the streets. So its easier to drive. By now main street have been plowed also residential. Still, the crew is using a lot of resources to get the job pounds of salt. I think last night i went through 27thousand pounds. They also brought out extra plow trucks typically they use 15. For this storm they increased to 21. In linn county. You can see side of the road and in ditches after sliding off the road during yesterdays storm. Some programs in the area like horizon meals on wheels had to cancel its elivery services for the day. So volunteers could avoid the same fate. A lot of our volunteers are super willing t
Sun today, we will have quite a few clouds, too. As low level moisture increases, we will have drizzle tracking in this afternoon. Highs will be in the mid 40s to mid 50s this a two year old boy had the flu. But he ended up loosing his fingers and toes. Its a medical mystery that has doctors at the university of iowa hospital stumped. Liam young has another surgery this morning. This is a picture of him after today. Kwwls Amanda Gilbert joins us live. Liams family invited you to meet them and share liams story. Liams surgery is just one of many hes had. The twoyearold is from dubuque. Late in october. His dad took him to dubuquefinley hospital. The boys illness quickly became much worse and he was flown to the university of iowa childrens hospital. Doctors dont know exactly whats wrong with him. They told liams parents that he ended up getting the flu. And his immune system didnt know how to respond to it. So it started attacking his body. But this little two year old has stayed positi
Downtown waterloo that photo was taken. Moments before those pictures were taken in the early mrning hours of new years day it was chaos in Downtown Waterloo nats of 911 call although the caption of these pictures that went viral reads busted trelka tells me these officers were caught doing their job. 14 30 45 14 30 51 and that is prococdure . They were doing their job . Yes. They did their job very well that night. This controversy started to bubble on what should be a celebratory night for the city of waterloo with the swearing in of new mayor quentin hart. We caught up with mayor hart moments after he was sworn in ana he said this page and what it stands for goes against everything he stands for. mayor hart 19 19 21 i am not in agreement with any kind of page like that. I denounce it completely. I believe in working togther to move this community forward. I reached out to the woman who posted those photos of the officers with their guns drawn i assed her if she knew these pictures w
After nonstop sleet and snow hit dubuque. Theyve been working around the clock even bringing out extra plow trucks. Kwwls Shirley Descorbeth took a ridealong with dubuques public works department. Shirley. Tell us how are they dealing with the clean up . Well. They say it was a challenging storm to clean up after. Because of all the sleet. And right now the crew is putting in extra hours to make sure the snow is removed. Its a long day for steve lot. Its one of those days up. Steves going through downtown and clearing the roads of snow. Drop my side blade down. The trick is to push back as far as side walk. With about six inches of snow fall in dubuque it takes lots of resources to get the job pounds. Still drivers. Are getting stuck. In the mess. The frustration has clouded any sense of time ive had doing this. But the street team says they amped up the number of plow trucks out on the road to help with snow removal from 15 to 21. And this big pile of snow here is one of the locations
Go to storm track seven chief meteorologist Mark Schnackenberg now for your first forecast. From the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team. See the screen information from the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team the weather remains dry through wednesday morning. Temperatures will be near normal to slightly above normal through this time. We are tracking the potential of a light rain snow mix wednesday afternoon into thursday. There is a little better chance of rain snow friday. Friday night turns colder and any precipitation would be in the for of snow at this point and continue into saturday as the storm tracks away from iowa. The big story for the weekend and early next week is the cold. Near 10 and lows below zero for shooting that has left a two year old boy with serious injuries. It happened sunday night. Just before midnight on the 900 block kwwls Shirley Descorbeth has been working this story all day long. Shirley. Whats the latest . Well, right now police are trying to piece together how a