Too warm, meteorologist chris sowers joins us with a first look of the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast this final day of 2016. Reporter she is invited to the party, it looks good, new years eve it could be cold, snowing and we could be talking about windchills, none of that. Outside we go, looking at the commodor barry bridge. A nice quiet morning. Its chilly, temperatures in the 20s, things will moderate nicely later this afternoon. High temperatures should top out in the mid to upper 40s, looks pretty good. 26 in allentown. 32 in philadelphia. 29 in trenton. 32 in beach haven. Millville, 25 degrees. 22 for the poconos, dover, 28. Wilmington, checking in at 29. Salt sat just a couple of clouds off to the northwest, otherwise the mid atlantic is clear this morning with a few more clouds starting to approach from the great lake states that will provide us with partly sunny skies this afternoon. Heres the forecast for today, we go hour by hour for you, starting out with sunshine,
Its own fans we begin with the president ial election and a major endorsement for donald trump. New jersey Chris Christie is backing him. They appear to have a common enemy if anything. Marco rubio. Al jazeeras correspondent is live in dallas. Reporter good evening. So christies endorsement of trump came as a surprise. It wasnt long ago that he had been one of the hashest critics, the only republican candidate that could match Donald Trumps hard talking rhetoric. After he dropped out we hadnt heard from Chris Christie until today when he had a lot to say about his new friend i am proud to be here to endoctors donald trump for the president of the United States reporter for the first time, a president ial rival is throwing his support behind donald trump. I have gotten to know everyone and there is noone able to represent america than donald trump. Reporter this is a very different Chris Christie, than the candidate this is not a negotiation of a real estate deal. This is international
Charged with a sex crime, he had been charged twice for sexualassualt t wisconsin back n the 90s. He has also been convicted twice of failing to register as a sex offender in Woodbury County, back in 2006 and 2007. Hes currently being held in the Woodbury County jail on a 50,000 bond and is due back in court on march 7th. Tim on cam theres news concerning two upcoming races right here in siouxland. Iowa senator Rick Bertrand from sioux city says hes considering his future options and that includes a look at iowas 4th district congressional seat currently held by fellow republican steve king. And make sure to tune into this week in siouxland sunday at 9 where well talk more, and thats all right here on abc9 tim two orange city republicans say they hope to win election to iowa house dist 4 covering most of sioux city. Both 54 year old Jeff Vanderweerf and 22 year old skyler wheeler are from orange city. Venderweergf a professor of political sciene at nmorthwestern college and eeler who i
A spokesperson did tell kcci, the department of corrections is committed to operating safe and secure facilities, and will continue to work to improve our operations for the safety of all. Danny if those officers would have had mace on their body, they would have been able to deescalate that situation a lot quicker. And without staff being punching bags for inmates. Ryan the doc not commenting tonight, when i directly asked about Staff Members not being armed with pepper spray. We also learned staff and supporters will march next wednesday, in a correctional officer safety campaign. Steve . Steve thank you, ryan. We do have a warm weekend ahead for us. Kurtis, what can we expect when we wake up tomorrow . Kurtis it will be cool. If you are an early riser, do not expect a big warm up early. 9 00 a. M. Is 47. Southwest wind will pick up, bathing in sunshine. 60s about from ames to lamoni, council bluffs. Some colder 50s, still nice in mason city. Back up to dubuque, south wind. 1525, see
Guns drawn flooded the area around a lawn mower plant. Killed killed three and wounded more than a dozen people. He was killed by police. The frightening incident playing out in the small town, hesston, kansas. Abcs Clayton Sandell is there. Reporter police say 38yearold cedric ford started his rampage shooting at random drivers wounding two before heading to excel industries in hesston, kansas, where he worked. To have Something Like this is tragic. Reporter fords heads inside armed with a rifle and handgun and opens fire on his coworkers. And then i seen a mob of people just start running out saying, run, run, and pop, pop, pop, pop, pop is all i heard and then everybody started scattering out of the building, and i didnt realizezehat had happened until we got outside anan i started seeeeg wounded people coming out. Reporter police and witnesses say he kept shooting until a single officer, the first to arrive, fires back. There was a particular Law Enforcement here in hesston that re