Leighton pullins family in means so much more. I said if you know this is grandma give me a thumbs up, and he went like this and i said if you love me, give me thumbs work and i did and got here as soon as i could. Its a sign his family has been praying for. Leighton has been unresponsive for weeks, suffering a fractured skull and brain damage after being hit by truck. Miracle this is a miracle, we never thought we would see this would ever come out of the way he was. Now look at him. Hit it back to me. Oh wow, thats a spike. His doctors and nurses at covenants rehab center, are helping him move, and communicate with his hands. Grab the orange one. Theres a long road aheadleighton strong. Thats hard each and every day. It is a miracle we put it in gods hands, i cant tell you what it feels like, its wonderful. One thumb at a time. Says he loves super heroes. I asked him about it today and got kwwl. As you can imagine, his medical expenses have been a lot on the family a family friend is
Drought and treacherous terrain. This fires so challenging because the fuel is so extremely dry and because the terrain is very very steep and those two combined were not able to put tractors or people been destroyed some areas have been evacuated and residents are worried. Scary. Yeah, we gotta house down there. A nasa photo shows how are. Smoke billowing up to 10thousand feet in the air. Right now there is little rain in the forecast and its not clear when the fires will finally be controlled. Dan scheneman nbc news. At least 14 fires totaling almost 15thousand acres are burning in the 14 more people have been taken to hospitals because of the fires. Calmer weather here but for how long . Storm track seven chief meteorologist Mark Schnackenberg from the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team. See the screen information from the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team clouds tonight produce a few showers are expected wednesday with the higher chances the closer you are to thursday and friday are mostl
Minnesota line through the day wednesday. Driving our weather here in eastern iowa. As it tracks off to the east, we have the potential to see some flurries. A rain snow mix is possible. Southern counties may not see anything except clouds. However, even the Northern Counties wont see much accumulation by the time all is said and done. Highs today will be in the low 40s. Overnight, a few lingering flurries are possible. As temperatures fall to near freezing 32f , fog is possible. December begins with near normal highs in the upper 30s low 40s. More sunshine is likely on friday into saturday as High Pressure tracks in. Weekend outlook we will have computer models are not in agreement about sunday. Some keep it dry, others bring in some precipitation. We will watch it carefully. With highs in the 40s, any precip looks it would be like rain. We are watching a system for the middle of next week that could bring snow to eastern iowa. Change is very likely at at least three people are dead f
Im kevin barry and delaware is out on a sient. First lets take a look at the forecast with Justin Roberts where all the action has been up in the decorah ya. Once again these same folks are getting hit with rain they dont need. They are under a Flash Flood Watch well tell you about. Very muggy last day of summer. Take a look at the temperatures. Weve been in the 70s since the offering up some of the scattered showers and storms this morning in northeast iowa. A slight risk of severe storms later this afternoon on into the evening time. Again the timing looks to be later tonight and most of it north of highway 20. Flash Flash Flood Watch but muggy in cedar rapids. 70 right now on mostly clear sky. 64 decorah. 68 in iowa city. Very warm and muggy scattered shower and storms this afternoon. Upper 80s the high. Full forecast coming in about 10 manipulate nits time. Kevin thank you justin. Parts of northeast iowa are getting rained on again this morning and state leaders are trying to get m
Warnings the rains continued in greene making the Small Community one of the first to see the flood waters but also one of the first to see it leave. It is a sight that has become all too familiar in the recent weeks. High waters and sandbags protecting as much as they can. A different story a week later the main street nearly back to normal. I think everybody got back into going again. We learned a lot from 08 i think. Only minor water reaching these businesses. Said for some of the homes in greene. A letterman jacket amongst the dumped debris and a graveyard of ruined applicances. For one retired couple there isnt much difference between now and 8 years ago. These photos showing the water after it had receded for several days. Water every place things floating. Every thing looked like a mess. The basements in this it was just below this drywall this deep freeze floated off these cinder blocks and tipped over and many of the tools and projects that were stacked on this work bench had