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
Administration, the democrats were going to make sure he did not appoint anybody to the suprcourt. Cynthia today grassley said , after giving it more thought, he implied he wouldnt rule out Holding Hearings on an obama nominee, but would only say senator grassley i will take it a step at a time. He hasnt nominated anyone yet. Cynthia the constitution states the president can nominate with the advice and consent of the senate. Matt sinovac, who questioned grassley about the process, was not pleased with his answers. The kept repeating that we will take it one step at a time, but he tried to be very vague and continued to play political games with this nomination process. Cynthia president obama today challenged republicans to offer any plausible rationale for refusing to consider a Supreme Court candidate, and he vowed to nominate an outstanding legal mind. Stacey the man looking to unseat senator grassley comes to the Selection Process for the next Supreme Court justice. State senator
From the iowa utilities board on the controversial bakken oil pipeline. The board met today to review the pros and cons of the project. The pipeline would cut through 18 iowa counties. The board did move into closed session, but did not announce a decision, before adjourning late this afternoon. Stacey theres a high wind advisory in effect today. Semi trucks traveling on the interstate are at especially high risk of rollover. This semi truck is on its side off i35, near ellsworth. Driver david warren says he dropped a load in des moines and was heading to albert lea, minnesota to reload. His empty trailer didnt have much weight and got caught in the wind. David i come into this clearing, and the gust of wind just picked me up, brought me over, and set me over on my side. And i mean, there was no stopping it, once it started. It just picked me up and threw my right over, like i was a piece of trash on the side of the road. Stacey scary. Warren says he made it out ok, and says hes thankf
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
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