And rain. A thudnerstorm warning was issued for parts of washington county, but so far no reports of serious damage. The storms might have been responsible for this semi crash on i380. The semi was knocked over north of boyson road, backing up traffic in both directions while crews cleared the scene. So far theres no word on any injuries in this crash. Fortuantely, the threat for Severe Weather for the corridor is over. Over. For more on what to expect tonight, we turn to Marissa Scott in for chief meteorologist terry swails with your weather first forecast, marissa . Heres a look outside. Doppler radar shows some light rain east of cedar rapids and some light snow showers mainly in our evening. Well see cloudy skies through the remainder of the night with some gradual clearing. Some gradual clearing. Reduced visibilities in northeast iowa but for the most part we are seeing improvements on the roads. However some roads are still wet and slick, in fact some icy roads are in central iow
Theres a backup on i380 near Tower Terrace road. Ad lib thank you justin. For the first time ever, triplea is predicting 100million americans will travel more than 50miles from home this Holiday Season. And while most are driving, the six million who chose to fly may find more security to deal with. The tsa says passengers are more likely to be screened traveling this week, especially for overseas deststations. And now newer body scanning machines are extremely sensitive, and are able to pick up something as simple as handkerchief. Hopefully, it t doesnt back k up the travels to much but security is really at its tops right now. Now. In addition to long lines, Minneapolis Saint Paul International airport had to find their way around a group of protestors s from the group black lives matter. We are now in the final hours away from Christmas Eve and christmas day. All month long weve shown you how different communities are celebrating theolidays were told its the most wonderful time of t
Many more veering food shortage. Also coming up tonight in iraq, the cleric will taught al solder, telling his followers to end their projects. After 30 people die in flashes in baghdad, well take a look at what sparked this unrest. And he w news visits a ukrainian summer camp. The children were traumatized by war, but Still Dreaming of peace. Ah, im bring. Gotcha. Our viewers watching on p b. S. In the united states, into all of you around the world. Welcome to night. The un chief antonio gutierrez, is calling on the world to take action to help pakistan cope with consequences of devastating floods. One 3rd of the country is now under water prompting pakistan and the un to appeal for a 160000000. 00 in emergency. 8 of the un says that Climate Change was to blame for the catastrophe. Pakistan is the washing suffering. The pakistani people are facing them on soon on steroids, the relentless impact of ethical levels of rain and flooding. Let stop sleep walking towards the struction of ou
Of them children, as seen in these disturbing images on your screen, images that apparently moved the president and led to change his years long stance against intervention in syria. In fact, here is part of what the president said in a brief statement overnight from his maralago resort. Tonight i ordered a targeted military strike on the air field in syria from where the chemical attack was launched. Using a deadly nerve agent, assad choked out the lives of helpless men, women and children. It was a slow and brutal death for so many, even beautiful babies were cruelly murdered in this very barbaric attack. No child of god should ever suffer such horror. The Syrian Government, however, says accusations that they were responsible for that chemical attack are fabricated. Official confirms that russians were warned ahead of time in advance to that missile launch. More than two dozen members of congress, including the gang of eight, including both democratic and Republican Leaders of both