Dunkerton coop they tell me they are also being instructed not to weve got you covered, live in black hawk county, elizabeth amanieh. Kwwl news. Secretary of agriculture bill northey says as of today19 percent of corn and 43 percent of beans have been harvestedbut is behind the fiveyear average and to show you just how big of a deal wet crops are take a look at everything corn is in pop, gum, toothpaste, shampoo, makeup and even diapers eastern iowa continues to recover from last months flooding and help is coming from the state. The Iowa Department of Natural Resources says iowa has seen nearly 10 more inches of rain than normal for the 2016 water year. Just in september alone the statewide average was more than six inches. That makes it the wettest september in 30 years. All that rain caused the cedar. Shell rock and wapsie the groundbreaking for a permanent Flood Control levee is today the sinclair levee in cedar rapids will provide protection for the newbo district up to a 40 year
In the area are casting their 4 seconds tractor nats were starting off tonight with have a crew at the event and for joining us. Is going to get very chilly High Pressure tracks through the temperatures will be closer to normal as we head into friday lead to scattered showers and thunderstorms saturday afternoon and evening. Sunday will be and while the general election is still 27 days away some iowans already have their minds made up. Were hearing from some early voters heading to the booth in the midst of the final election push. Kwwls Macleod Hageman joins us live with more. Mac . The 2016 president ial race has been one of the most contentious campaigns americans have ever seen. Scandals aside several cast their ballots early. I just dont like the way its share who they want to lead the country. But according to county officials the number of people voting absentee is down more than four thousand people. We asked Black Hawk County auditor grant veeder why . That is the 64,000 ques
Of rock makes history. Nightly news begins right now. From nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening, facing a host of women accusing him of unwanted physical contact, donald trump launched into an angry tirade today, lashing out at his accusers, the media, the clintons and decrying what he calls a conspiracy to undermine the will of sundays debate hes not done the lewd things to women that he described in that infamous audio recording, several women have stepped forward to say he, in fact, had, to them. Adding further turmoil to his troubled campaign. Nbcs katy tur joins us from philadelphia with the latest. Katy, good evening. Reporter good evening, lester. Donald trump is blaming everybody but himself for the type of behavior that he bragged about both in vast clinton machine thats working behind the scenes to keep him from office. Donald trump is going nuclear. These claims are all fabricated. Theyre pure fiction and theyre out
Kind of funny. But i also think, if i wouldve done it, i wouldve been arrested for it. And probably charged as a sex offender because of the knew him as a jokester back in high school are defending him. Chris baker i dont know, everyone has a right to an opinion. Just expressing his opinion on how he feels about somebody. Vickie wendel he is a public official. He shouldnt be doing stuff like that. And actually a normal person shouldnt be doing stuff like that either. His name and picture still listed on the oelwein departments website. Now i did reach out to the Oelwein Police department they can neither confirm or deny that this is one of our officers. We reached out to the mayor and the police chiefboth on multiple ocassions but have not heard back. A chance of rain for tomorrow lets go to storm track seven weekend outlook. From the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team. See the screen here is additional forecast information from the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team despite the cloud cover th
Moves close enough to our area tonight that we could see some at most. The rest of friday quite rise into the upper 40s. Sunday features similar temperatures, but with breezy winds and the chance of showers. Showers last on monday, cooling us back down to normal to close out the stormtrack 7 weather team happy thanksgiving, eastern pressure tracks to the east later today, making way for a moves close enough to our area tonight that we could see some at most. The rest of friday quite mild and as a warm front will temperatures, but with breezy winds and the chance of showers. A cold front will track throug stormtrack 7 weather team happy thanksgiving, eastern pressure tracks to the east a thanksgiving day fire but not started in the kitchen. Large flames and thick black smoke coming from a distributing plant in linn county sending one firefighter to the hospital with possible life threatening injuries. The fire chief telling people who live in town to shut their windows and shut of their