Does crash data tell you on those roads,the roadway geometrics will they allow for an increase in speed limits. Hoye says it is not for him to advocate on what is better a five mile an hour increase,a 10 mile an hour increase or the two lane rural road speed limit staying at 55 miles and hour. He says when all is said and done Public Safety is tasked to enforce the law and that is what they will do. Whatever the legislature after they have done their investigation whatever they deem appropriate obviously Law Enforcement will enforcement any law they pass through. Reporter the dot tells us it has concerns because Research Shows fatalities and the severity of crashes go up with an increase in speed. Next week is the first funnel week so if this bill does not get out of committee by friday the 19th it will not move forward this session. Steve iowa lawmakers are also looking changes to keep those we told you 2years ago about a little known state law that made it a offense to have a frame t
Digits. Clouds will slowly thin. We will break free to some sunshine later in the day with a degrees. Stacey lets take a live look at Road Conditions from across that state from the iowa dot. This is from 511ia. Org. The areas you see in blue are partially snow covered roads. Pinknkre completely covered. Recommended. Interstate 35 from ames to clear lake is closed because of the Winter Weather and the number of accidents along that stretch of road. Semitrucks jackknifed in the southbound lanes and numerous vehicles lined the ditches kccis Laura Terrell has checked out the driving conditions north of des moines. Laura we were just up north, where there were major blizzard conditions at this time, at this time. Problems were off 35 toward highway 20 heading toward fort dodge. Our news truck actually got stuck at mile marker 151. State troopers told us that probably 40 or 50 cars were backed up and stuck for probably close to two hours. If you are thinking about going in that area, you ca
Elizabeth it is 6 00 on thursday, february 11th. We have another cold start. Metinka eight degrees in des moines, starting off with wind chills anywhere from zero to 10 below zero. But at least it is not snowing yet. The snow will arise mid to Late Afternoon and probably will be affecting the evening commute. 23 degrees will be the high temperature. At least we will not have wind to make it worse. Cold conditions as we head toward the weekend, less more snow is on the way saturday night into sunday. Next week we will get a chance to melt some of it as highs back in the 40s. Morning new developments , overnight in the rancher standoff in oregon. Shaina humphries is following this right now, and shaina, the shaina the fbi has been negotiating with the four remaining occupiers, who say they will turn themselves in but it is unclear as to when this. This video shows fbi vehicles surrounding the refuge overnight. The standoff has been going on for the last 40 days. We also learned cliven bu
It shows them that their identity is legitimate. Emmy the idea sparked from student zoey wagner who says that students there come from all walks of life. There is a transgenger population here, and there is a population here that dont adhere to the gender binary in one way or another. Emmy the single unit rest rooms are privately located in the library for staff to monitor the students that use it. This isnt like if you are transgender, you have to use just a second option. Emmy but not everyone who uses the space is on board with this just yet, saying it will take time to get used to. With transgender, so to say so i just different. That if the change can make an impact on even one person, then it is worth it. We have a responsibility to make sure that as the adults in this building to make sure that our students feel included, feel safe. And i actually felt ashamed that we hadnt thought about this emmy students here magician for this change back in november. They have already ordered
Highway 20 on the way to fort dodge. We had a few cars that were slowing down because of the ice and wind and the blowing wind conditions and were stopped. A semi actually came up and struck a vehicle and the semi then got stuck. Laura the jackknifed semi caused 40 to 50 drivers to be stuck at a standstill for up to two hours. Drivers like tristan obe. The 40 mile and hour wind was so loud we could barely hear him as we talked. The howling wind and slick spots were so bad even our news car got stuck. I couldnt see two feet in front of my car. Laura the dot eventually shut down i35 from ames to clear lake forcing drivers to take dangerous back road detours. And on the back roads there were huge drifts about three feet high and if you werent going 40 miles and hour you werent going to get through them. Laura state patrol says the best thing to do it just stay home if you can. If you go out you are going to risk your life. You are going to risk your familys life and you can actually risk