Overnight a pair of Police Officers shot across the Country First in the last couple hours the man who shot a saint louis officer was killed. A 20year Police Sargent was shot in the face during an ambush yesterday. Yesterday. That officer is in the hospital in Critical Condition but is expected to survive. The shooting happened last night at 7thirty. Police say the officer was just sitting in traffic when another vehicle pulled up next to his squad car and fired at least two shots. Hours later the suspect was shot and killed after attempting to shoot at officers again. mayor francis slay, st. Louis this tells you how dangerous of a job it is and officers. We have to understand the difficulties they go through, the sacrifices they undertake to protect us and protect our neighborhoods sthe good news this morning the officer was able talk and move his extremities despite being shot in the face. But still Law Enforcement Community Across the nation is mourning the loss of one our their own
7 weather team. See the screen for your complete weather information. Here is additional forecast information from the kwwl the upper teens to low 20s this morning. A bit below normal. Winds are light to around 10 mph from the east and will turn a should stay mainly clear today have some snow and sleet mixing developing overnight chaos in north dakota. 400 people protesting the Dakota Access pipeline face off with law enforcement. Them and it appears police have been using Water Cannons to keep them back. Firefigthers say theyre using hoses to put out fires set by protesters. The pipeline is almost done about 85percent of it has been built. The Standing Rock sioux tribe has been protesting the construction for months saying it will pollute the water and destroy some of their sacred sites. The pipeline would stretch through four states, including iowa. Now to another big story this morning enforcement in several states. One officer shot and killed in texas. Two more officers shot in mis
Eileen on camera from the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team. See the screen for your complete weather information. Here is additional forecast information from the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team we still have temperatures in the morning. A bit below normal. Winds are light to around 10 mph from the east and will turn a bit more to the southeast. And be mainly around 10 mph this afternoon. We should stay mainly clear today tonight as the next system tracks in. But today. Mostly winds mainly around 10 mph. We times. Ill explain coming up. Its a very dangerous job. But ambushed in other parts of the country. This comes just weeks after two iowa officers were shot and killed. In Texas San Antonio Police released a picture of a person of interest in the deadly shooting of an officer. Investigators say detective Benjamin Marconi stopped a driver and was writing a ticket in his patrol car. Thats when the suspect pulled up, got out, walked up to off. Most families will be by a suspect who will be
Everyone. Even adults in back seats. Iowa has a High Compliance rate for seat belt use but 41 percent of all the traffic deaths this year involved someone not wearing a belt. Were going to do everything we can. A law is just another tool we can use to try to drive down those numbers. The iowa state patrol cant get involved in pushing for changes in law. But the director of the Governors Traffic Safety Bureau says tougher texting and set Impaired Driving enforcement are priorities his office will take up with lawmakers this session. Law enforcement statewide will take part in extra traffic patrols for the holiday beginning wednesday. Theyll concentrate on speed, seat belt use and distracted or impaired drivers. And while officers didnt meet the safety goal for traffic deaths this year, theyll want to get a good franzman kcrg tv9 news. Meteorologist joe winters joins us now. Joe, people are hoping for good traveling weather this week. After a day of sunshine, low pressure makes its way e
As the low moves east on wednesday to near chicago the rainfall comes to an end bringing quiet travel conditions through thanksgiving day. Have a great night. Tonight mostly cloudy. Wind se 515. Low 32 tomorrow breezy with showers likely. Wind se 1525. High 41 back to you. Tonight, investigators are still at the scene of a School Bus Crash in tennessee that killed at least six children. The bus left the road in chattanooga and crashed, wrapping itself around a tree late this afternoon. The bus was carrying 35 children, ranging from went to the hospital. Theres no word yet on what caused the crash. Police are questioning the driver. Here in iowa, police have identified the driver who died in a one car crash in cedar falls this afternoon. He was Richard Coleman junior. He was 30, and from cedar falls. Police say he was driving on highway 57 when his car crashed into a concrete pillar for the highway 218 overpass. A dubuque man convicted of killing his daughter will judge formally sentenc