University of iowa president Bruce Harreld continues to be questioned by some. The president hosting a town hall this evening along with a few other university leaders. Community members were encouraged to attend and ask questions as well as share their ideas for but the meeting was interupted multiple times by protestors, kwwls Kristin Rogers was there for all of the action. As you are about to see president Bruce Harreld was twenty minutes or so in to his presentation regarding a vareity of topics such as Student Housing and facutly salaries, when the first protestor interupted. After the ice was broken the interuptions continued to Pour University of iowa meant to focus on improving the school, harreld went through his presentation interupted when talking about having world class people at the school. Harreld i said you, i didnt harreld im not suprised. crowd cheers it was that response that quickly fueled the protesting fire as the woman was quickly defended. The president continue
Wondering how his son was able to get out . Meanwhile neighbors are asking the same thing hoping it wont happen again. I dont want to see that again again i asked the hospital if the keys were nearby or stored in the garage but they are not revealing that information tonight. Meanwhile charges are pending. As rohner is back here at covenant. Weve got you covered Lauren Moss Kwwl news. Waterloo columbus which is near covenant went into lockdown once the school learned what was going on. That lockdown was lifted after rohner was caught. For the latest developments be sure to check out our website, youll definitely need to hold on to your hats tomorrow as winds begin to pick up. Lets go to storm track seven chief meteorologist Mark Schnackenberg whos tracking it all. From the kwwl stormtrack sky remains mostly cloudy tonight with a stray light rain strengthens, the wind increases here wednesday morning and remains windy through thursday. As the storm pulls away the clouds clear thursday.
Family anything from clothes to toys. To furniture. And they say you can just drop off your donations at the station in cedar falls. Whenever. Anything helps. Weve got you covered, Lauren Moss Kwwl news. Firefighters say they believe the childrens motherrill be released from the university of iowa hospitals and clinics very soon. Snow expected overnight and into tomorrow. Storm track seven chief meteorologist Mark Schnackenberg is tracking snow. From the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team. See the screen for your complete weather information. Stormtrack 7 weather team the looking forward to some warm weather and it looks like this week might be that chance. High temperatures reach the 40s thursday and remain there each day through everyone involved in a 30car three people were hurt in the pileup in cedar county yesterday. Investigators say traffic was backed up on interstate 80 for hours. Iowa state patrol deputies tell us those who were injured are expected to be okay. An iowa state campu
But no pause before the clash of politics. There is no way the senate should confirm anyone barack obama tries to appoint in his last year in office to a lifetime appointment. An instant power struggle over a successor to justice scalia. Let me just say, barack obama is president of the United States until january 20, 2017. From california, president obama made clear he will nominate a new justice and expects the senate to consider his choice fairly. These are responsibilities that i take seriously, as should everyone. Theyre bigger than any one party. They are about our democracy. If the president gets to seat his third justice that change would make the court more liberal. Compounding the shock of scalias sudden passing is the timing. A campaign year. We ought to make the 2016 election a referendum on the republican candidate ted cruz. Had been a law clerk for chief justice rehnquist. Now as a senator, he intends to block any obama nominee. Were advising that a lameduck president in
Dupontpioneer is one of the biggest and most Profitable Companies in the dupontpioneer is one of the biggest and most profitable state of iowa. And they are about to get some free money from the state iowa. Tomorrow the Iowa Economic Development authority and the city of johnston will each vote to approve unspecified financial packages for the company. Details of how much money is being awarded to dupontpioneer arent being released but heres what we know now. Tomorrow morning the ieda board will vote on a Financial Assistance award to the company. The Johnston City council will do the same tomorrow afternoon. Last year the company had 25 billion dollars in sales worldwide. At the same time, though, it missed its budget growth targets and has delayed bonuses this year to account for that. The company is currently merging with delaware based dow chemical. Each company is thousands of workers before the merger is finalized. We hope to have further details vote on our evening newscasts. Wh