For city snow plow drivers, its been an endless job of removing 564622 it takes a lot of people to get it done and not a lot of time des moines public works crews are targeting the major roads first. Then moving to the residential side streets. For the second time this season crews are putting a new snow plow tactic to the test. Its called the wing formation. Up to five plows clear the street at the same time in one pass. Last night the city laid down a salt brine solution to help improve road conditions. And the public works director says despite the colder temperatures, the salt is working exactly like it should. 540123 weve got a layer of salt brine down on all of the snow routes on dry pavement now there is layer of salt under the snow. So when the last snow plow goes over the snow routes they will drop another layer of rock salt on top of that last little bit that can get scrapped off by tomorrow morning Jonathan Gano says most of the roads should be clear. Until then you can chec
Right now, with using on Duty Officers, were kind of in a position where we have to do it as the calls for service would allow. sgt. Paul parizek says the money to pay for any additional officers simply isnt there. 16 40 1622 that money was exhausted earlier this year. money to pay for off duty cops downtown. Is budgeted and set aside by operation downtown, a non profit dedicated to keeping downtown clean and safe. Parizek says extra officers are always called in to work on holidays like st. Patricks day and halloween. But this year, the weather impacted staffing. 16 41 15 the warm weather this year. It extended their warm weather period a little bit longer than they thought in the past. So what happens there is that money went away. Last month. One person was killed an another injured in a shooting along court avenue. But despite that violence. The general manager of tonic says he expects a safe night. 15 08 51 weve had no problems here ever, not even, not even issues. I mean, its tha
Raise my kids. Lupe gomez got emotional when i asked her about her son. 30 yearold orlando rodriguez. 5 32 58 he hit me. Rodriguez was arrested and charged with assault with intent to inflict serious injury. Released from prison a year ago, rodriguez showed up at his mothers home yesterday, which violated a protective order from 2008. Rodriguez had reportedly been snorting his meds, and he allegedly got violent. 15 29 4952 its not the first time. He gets these outbursts quite a bit. 15 29 2128 hes bipolar, trying to seek help for him for his mental to help me. rodriguez served five years in prison for vehicular homicide. In september of 2009, rodriguez and his brother stole gas from a away, their van hit and killed 48 yearold bruce mundy. Mundy had a nearly 30 year military career, including time with the air force and the iowa air he also was deployed to iraq. Bruces loved ones are not surprised by this latest development involving rodriguez. 15 43 4615 44 05 all he does is make poor
the charter flights have gone in and gone out so far today on time and without any problems. We have 7 charter flights going to the rosebowl. We had 4 today and 3 more tomorrow. I anticipate that will operate without and problems as long as the weather goes like it is today. the airport also told us that many fans didnt want risk it and wait for the flights to be rescheduled. So they opted to rent cars and drive to different airports. But they assured me that the crews did everything they needed to on their end to clean the run way. We caught up with some fans getting ready. Dave shrogen is a pastor from johnston and even his faith was tested on getting to california in time. 215519 well we were nervous knew we were going to go one way or another. We know that we arent going to be we were gonna get there. the airport expects no further delays and the chartered flights taking fans tonight and tomorrow should be good to go. The winter storm was also tricky for drivers in central iowa. Th
That are being made right now. the game must go on. And tonight the roosevelt Girls Varsity Basketball Team had a game at hoover high school, as the riders and the huskies faced off, even in the midst of all of the controversy surrounding their coach. I asked phil roeder, the director of communications for the School District about what impact the news might have on the team, school, and community. 18 19 5118 20 12 our high schools, all of them in des moines are pretty tight communities, and theyre going to support each other. The assistant coaches of course have stepped up to take over for the game tonight and of course at this point these are accusations being made, what comes next of course remains to be seen. the district says a teacher is assigned to assume johnsons classroom duties and assistant coaches will be leading the basketball team, as Police Report will be available tomorrow. A Pleasant Hill babysitter is headed to prison for abusing kids in her care. 00 47 4000 47 48 im