Elizabeth if you do business with the city of des moines, get ready for some big changes. A 5 million renovation will close city hall this spring and now the city revealed where you can find the new temporary city hall. Todd magel reports. Todd after more than a century, the citys crown jewel on the Des Moines River is ready for an update. And that means for the First Time Since the floods of 1993, its shutting down until sometime in 2018. I think this is a very big deal. Todd . Deputy city manager carl metzger says the thousands of people who pay parking tickets and conduct other government business here will have to head to the citys away at 400 east court. City leaders just approved a nearly Million Dollar budget to move. Workers wont be able to stay in renovations. The logistics of that, as you monumental. Todd among the many changes heat boiler deep in the buildings basement. Crews will also install a new heating and air conditioning system and a new sprinkler updates. Even though
Thank you for joining us. This mornings accident happened in the 600 block of 35th street between interstate 235 and ingersoll, just north of price chopper. Kccis Cynthia Fodor joins us live from the scene with the very latest. Cynthia we are right here at the accident scene where one person was killed this morning around 8 45. As you can see right now, they are trying to move the car onto the tow truck to clean up the mangled mess. The car is so badly damaged, authorities could not tell the make or model of it this morning. Police say the vehicle was cut in half after striking a high voltage power pole. It was sheared off by the impact of this. Police say the passenger, 22yearold Scalicity Boyd was ejected and died at the scene. I am told by family she has for young children, three children and a new baby. The driver survived, which looking at the car, people just cannot believe that anyone could survive this. He was troy mure junior and he was taken to mercy hospital. We believe it w
The wind chill at 9 00 a. M. , 15 degrees, air temperature 20. A mostly sunny day, 3 00 temperature 39. Ryan thank you, frank. If youre among the 90 of people with Holiday Shopping left to do, youll be battling big crowds at the stores today. Experts tell us today is the biggest shopping day of the year. Shoppers we talked to say they havent even started buying gifts. But, there are some perks to procrastinating. Jordan Creek Town Center officials tell kcci stores often slash prices as it gets closer to christmas. Traffic is going to be busy no matter where you go, so be patient with each other, be patient with the retailers because theyre busy. Theyre just trying to keep up as well and be positive and joyful this holiday season. Ryan despite Online Shopping increasing in popularity, jordan creek Officials Say its stores year compared to last. A Big Development friday in the Brandon Ellingson case. The Missouri State trooper who arrested the clive man is now facing and voluntary mansla
There are two businesses which are without natural gas that there are no residential units that have been affected by it. Vanessa as the cap and just mentioned, there was a strong smell of gas earlier today. Now, it appears that has dissipated. Have bridges of Madison County happening. The show is going on but they the rerouting traffic. Will have more updates as they become available. For now, live in des moines, vanessa peng, kcci 8 news, iowas news leader. Steve stay with kcci and kcci. Com for the very latest. This is near the same place where another leak tied up traffic just a few weeks ago. Traffic on december 17 until the gas could be shot off. Gun sales at one des moines got shopping shot up in just the last few weeks. Stacey do we know if this has anything to do with the recent Mass Shootings . Kim it actually does. Officials at range masters in clive tell me the last 24 hours have been especially busy following the shooting in san bernardino. Kim over the past three weeks, g
I knew the students were coming, and i was trying to beat it. It just didnt work. Vanessa students we spoke to were divided on the issue. Ben i feel like it was a kind of spur of the moment thing, like they didnt really plan it or anything. And like, and i guess when you have that many people, its going to be kind of hard to stop them anyway. Caitlin i dont think we should allow court storming, because theres going to be people that get hurt like that. Vanessa head coach steve prohm told reporters his thoughts during a Postgame Press conference. Steve them guys been camping out here for three days. Theres probably only like 10 schools that do that in the country, so give them their 20 or 15 minutes to do that. Vanessa ames Police Officials say isu usually hires five games. Two deal with traffic, two provide referee security, which leaves only one officer for end of game crowd management. Cmdr. Tuttle the great thing about Hilton Coliseum is just the experience people have at an event.