Started yesterday morning south winds, while light, are helping. And they will pick up today. It will be pretty breezy this afternoon with gusts higher than 20 mph. Clear skies this for the afternoon as clouds track in ahead of the next cold front. Highs today the forecast. Ill have that for you in a few minutes. Overnight. Someone dies in a crash in a yard. A car went off the road along the 500 block of newell street in waterloo. It happened around midnight. The car hit a tree and then caught fire. The person who died was the only one in the car. Their name has not been released. Well keep following this story and bring you the latest on air and online as we learn more about it. After years of planning and a of work today a new interchange is set to open. The c57 interchange over 218 will open this morning. We first started hearing about the need to make changes at cedar wapsi several years ago after many serious crashes. Opening the overpass means three gravel roads including gresham
Still seeing 30s out there this morning. But a good 5 to 10 degrees above where we started yesterday morning south winds, while light, are helping. And they will pick up today. It will be pretty breezy this afternoon with gusts higher than 20 mph. Clear skies this morning will end up partly sunny for the afternoon as clouds track in ahead of the next cold front. Highs today will be in the 60s. And we will warm up even more for the weekend. But there is rain in the forecast. Ill have that for you in a few minutes. Breaking overnight. One person is dead after a car hits a tree. Waterloo police say a car caught fire after going off the road and into someones yard. Kwwls Amanda Gilbert joins us live in waterloo. You can tell us the latest on what happened. Ive been checking in with police this morning. They say shortly after midnight. A driver drove off the road and into the yard behind me. This is on the 500th block of newell street. The car ended up hitting a tree in the yard. And then c
Lets go right to storm track lets go right to storm track seven meteorologist Rachael Peart for a check of our tonight will be mostly clear 60s which is still warm for through early tuesday morning. Election day looks dry with temperatures in the lower 60s. Weather into next weee least 5 above average. Another High Pressure system will settle near our area, bringing more dry and clear weather into next weekend. Temperatures will also stay at least 5 above average. And brings the chance for a few showers monday night through early tuesday morning. Election day looks dry with temperatures in the lower 60s. Another High Pressure system will settle near our area, least 5 above average. One person is dead after an overnight car crash in cedar falls. This happened just after midnight. Two cars were going west on highway 57 when they crashed on the bridge just east of main street. One person was pronounced dead at the scene and several others were injured. Their names are not being released a
Resources to this effort. Big focus has been the citys effort tobtain more cameras and light upupthe streets s ith led lights. Cameras were instrumental in the arrest of helmon betwell, the man who murdered a 62yearold woman because he said he d Nothing Better to do. And now plans are in mark dalsing, dubuque chief of police through the approved funding most recently, well be center, much like the one you see that is in the disatch center, and we are overwhelming them with requests to see the security cameras, streetlights d policing have been a big focus, theres also a big effort underway here in dubuque to improve the content of these trouble neighborhoods, and stop crime before it starts. Because, while crime is partially a policing problem, it goes much deeper than that. jerelyn connor, Neighborhood Development specialist safety is a Community Wide conccn, and involvement. A lot of the efforts ann emphasis of these programs has been concentrated ononthe downtown areaan area that ma
For the rest of your work week and into christmas day. Thanks britley. Today, family and friends will gather to remember the life of a waterloo teenager. A trapper found 18 yearold moe seds body on december 6th in the cedar river near gilbertville. Investigators used dental records to identify him. The waterl west junior went for a bike ride on october 22nd without a cell phone or his wallet. Friends and family hadnt seen him since. Teachers and students held multiple community searches near trails and lakes in hopes of finding sed alive. Authorities are still trying to figure out how sed died. They say there were no signs of trauma. Today would have been seds 19th birthday. His family is holding a visitation this afternoon church. His funeral will be held tomorrow morning at 10 30, at the First Baptist church of waterloo. If youd like to help the family cover funeral costs, head to your nearest Veridian Credit Union and donate to the moe sed benefit. A waterloo man is still at large t