Several residents in the metro thousand are still without power tonight. Kccis ryan smith is live near south west 26th and watrous with a look at some of the serious damage. Ryan neighbors say it is a truly grueling cleanup process, some of which has already begun. About two dozen massive oak trees came crashing down. The homeowners tell me in a matter of seconds. Now, you have six heavy branches just like this one here scattered throughout the entire yard. You have to truly watch your step. We want to point our direction over here to the edge of the street. That is where a power pole snapped in half. This is also due to the very high gusty winds that came across our area at about 3 45 right now, every home in the street is completely pitch black. As long as multiple crews with Midamerican Energy have been on and off seen, there have still been some midamerican pound midamerican power crews trying to assess the damage. A lot of work for the city of des moines, midamerican, and the home
Metinka stay whether aware especially this afternoon. Early we will watch showers and thundershowers lift through the for Severe Weather about noon 7 00 this evening. Possible including tornadoes. We do have a few showers developing across southwest iowa from corning toward creston and a drizzle near osceola. 52 degrees with clouds, notice showers drifting to the area followed by Severe Weather this afternoon. Highs will be warm, it is side of 60 degrees as the storms move out. Expect extreme wind to build in. Elizabeth and right now the Severe Weather is already hitting parts of colorado. This is a look at a dot cam near denver, you can see the ground already covered in snow as a Winter Weather advisory is in effect there. Further east, parts of eastern colorado and western kansas and nebraska are expected to get 6 inches of snow and blizzard conditions. Eric here in iowa, were expecting high winds, hail, and possible tornadoes. Polk county Emergency Management sent out an alert overn
I can picture it but its not a good picture. Mark at his weekly news conference, governor branstad did not say whether he would support an iowa utilities board ruling that would allow Dakota Access to use Eminent Domain to take private land along the 348 mile route through iowa. Theyre not taking the land, theyre only using the land to put a pipeline through and weve had thousands of miles of pipeline put through the state. Mark Dakota Access claims it has signed easements with well over half the landowners on the Pipeline Route but plenty of holdouts remain. It kind of makes me angry that they can push us around like that, an out of state forprofitcompany can come in and take our land, its just not right. Mark the iowa utilities board will rule whether Dakota Access can use Eminent Domain. Their final decision is expected within the next 3 months. But first, they will hold a series of public hearings the invited to comment, is November Boone county fairgrounds. Stacey new information
Areas. Well theyve cleared a lot of land back there, for these housings, and so im guessing theyre out of a place so you see quite a few down at parker , you know. Shaina a neighborhood like this is not a Natural Environment for coyotes so Polk City Police want residents to do their part, to keep those wandering coyotes from sticking around. We do ask you to haze them, which is to yell at them make noise, throw things at them, try to scare them away, try to change their behavior. Once they find a good food source, it becomes habit to come back to that place. Shaina so make sure that any food for these animals is kept inside. Adaptive, opportunistic. You know coyotes are extremely smart, and very adaptive, opportunistic. Shaina which means pet owners should be extra careful, to keep dogs like toby here safe, by keeping an eye on them outside, and immediately bringing them back in. In polk city, shaina humphries, kcci 8 news, iowas news leader. Stacey to give you an idea of the coyote po
To relapse and things get sour, including a breakup with his girlfriend just days before the shooting. His exgirlfriend says she left him because he wouldnt stop doing drugs. Narcotics agents also sees about 20 pounds of marijuana from pols ons home. Trial resumes tomorrow morning and the jury will then have to decide whether polson was too intoxicated to form the intent to kill. Kevin meanwhile the iowa , Supreme Court says it will to hear an appeal in the Richard Daughenbaugh murder case. Daughenbaugh died after being beaten by a group of people in august of 2013. A jury convicted kent tyler of Second Degree murder in the case, but this spring, the Iowa Appeals Court threw out that conviction, saying the jury had no factual basis to find tyler guilty on any of the prosecutions theories. The Iowa Attorney Generals Office asked the Supreme Court to review the Appeals Court decision. Stacey Narcotics Task force officers on surveillance helped pella Police Arrest two men in the middle of