Live in the drake neighborhood, kim st. Onge, kcci 8 news, iowas news leader. Steve powdery snow falling across the metro this morning and afternoon. A little under two inches at the Des Moines International airport. We could see some more tonight. Kurtis, it sure got slick out there. Kurtis it really did. No doubt about that, especially on the sidewalks and secondary roadways. Here in the metro, 1. 9 inches. It was a little more in jefferson and polk city. If you are out in it, you noticed how big the flex work. Very fluffy. Air space in between. Right now, the band of snow is very light from southern story county through jasper county. Not expecting any additional accumulations out there. Going to be a cold one tonight. Clouds of slowly decrease at the not a tremendous amount of wind, but enough for the windchill of three below early on. Highs tomorrow 23 degrees. 8 day forecast has two snow chances and a warmup. Details, coming up. Stacey des moines authorities are identifying a man
Stacey right now, the political battle is brewing over the successor to Supreme Court justice antonin scalia. Scalia died this weekend. Senate republicans want to wait until after the president ial election to fill the Supreme Court vacancy. But the president today challenged republicans to explain why they would refuse to consider a Supreme Court candidate. Pres. Obama one court where we would expect elected officials to rise above day to day politics. And this will be the opportunity for senators to do their jobs. Stacey iowa senator Charles Grassley heads the Senate Judiciary committee. He wouldnt say today whether or not he would schedule hearings in the senate if president obama appoints a nominee. The senator would only say he will take it one step at a time. Said senator senator grassley i think that it should wait until the next election, and i believe that thats the right important position and would be kind of in line with what Democratic Leaders said in the tail end of the b
Stacey six weeks ago, an entire kids Triathlon Company disappeared. Thieves stole a trailer parked in south des moines, taking all the equipment owned by a oneman kid Sports Organization called rip roar of events. Tonight, kccis Mark Tauscheck has an update. Mark to the surprise of the companys owner and law enforcement, the trailer with most of its contents, has been found almost 6 weeks after it disppeared. But returning the trailer is proving to be a bigger challenge than anyone expected. Michael zimmerman hadnt seen his trailer since december, on Surveillance Video as he watched the thieves drive off into the night. Inside was everything he purchased to start a kids triathlon series in the midwest last summer. Bike racks, barricades, fencing, cones, audio equipment. All gone. Its safe to say zimmerman did not expect to see his trailer again. Wow. Savings on still inside. I dont know, there is a lot of relief. Mark the thieves took what they could sell. Generators are gone, it looks
Strong but it will get Even Stronger and shifting in our direction. Wind close to 50 Miles Per Hour. The strong wind is moving toward sioux city. They just had a wind gust of 44. We are expecting the strong wind to arrive in central iowa by about 3 00 p. M. We will have wind gusting was to 50 Miles Per Hour from the west and a winter a wind advisory until 6 00 p. M. Eric new information this morning in sundays shooting in eagle grove. Police have charged one man with attempted murder. Officials say 21yearold Marcos Castaneda pulled up alongside 26yearold hugo salinas in the 100 block of north lucas avenue sunday. Castaneda then got out of his vehicle, shot salinas and then shot himself. Both men were taken to the hospital. No word on their conditions right now. Castaneda is now facing attemptedmurder charges. District is looking for a new superintendent this morning. District Officials Say Jason Ellingson resigned thursday, effective immediately. Earlier this week, the district receive
Yesterday police were able to finally talk to the suspect. Thats because 47yearold Barney Fraaken has been in the hospital since the shootings from selfinflicted gun ones. He now faces two counts of firstdegree murder in the deaths of his wife amy and her 16yearold daughter amber. They were found shot and killed inside their home on whole avenue after a reported to mastic domestic dispute. His stepson says any plan to leave her husband shortly before her death. Barney fraaken is being held in the polk county jail. We want you to stay with kcci as we follow more about whats going on on air and online. We know he could make his First Court Appearance today and well have more on that later. Eric testimony continues in the murder trial of alex fazzino. He was accused of killing his on wednesday, prosecutors called police and paramedics to testify. One officer who responded the night of emilys death told jurors alex would start sobbing when someone new arrived are called but would return to