Amazing. Second and third place winners will receive gift cards. 500 people injured and thousands participated. There is good news for the corridor commute. The roundabout at seventh street in marion is now open. Kevin barry is live at the busy intersection. Kevin. Reporter we were here when they cut the ribbon. Behind me really the big part of it is the safety of the people driving through and also pedestrians. The mayor of marion says that these cars have to slow to 15 Miles Per Hour. While they used to be a stoplight here that cars would stop at and it was stop and go and if somebody ran the red light, you would tboned other cars. Here, with everybody going 15 Miles Per Hour and constantly moving, not overly does only traffic accidents are not that severe. In uptown marion, where this leads to, it goes to an area that is incredibly narrow with small streets. The idea is to let cars come down this way and get off at that incredibly dizzy part of the city road and go up this way onto
New this morning new this new this morning authorities confirm a fire broke out early this mornng in waterloo. Crews were first called out to the scene at 919 commerical street a little after 3 this morning. Right now not many details have been released. Will continue to monitor this developing story and bring you any updates. Developing overnight protests over now president elect donald trump have turned violent in some parts of the co. Country. Cbs 2 News Reporter Stephanie Johnson joins us now at the breaking news desk. Stephanie what can you tell u. Us. Jenee a second day of protests have spilled into the cities all over the country. Especially in portlandtake a look at this video video police declaring this protest a riot demonstrators destroying an electrical box in Downtown Portland shattered glassnext video police used pepper spray and smoke grenades to disperse the crowd police are making several arrest arresttweet from Portland Police cbs 20161111 fri0037 cbs media id 2016111
Many more times in the future. First Lady Michelle obama met with Melania Trump today, as well. December 3 2014. That date may not mean anything to you. But for one family. Their lives were shattered in the Early Morning hours. To me to share a story they guard closely they wanted to make it very clear they dont want pity they dont want to place blame. Theyre hoping their story will open all of our eyes and take the blinders off to realize the it was 3 30 in the morning and i opened the door and i could see all of the lights were on downstairs. And i got to the top of the basement stairs. Sorry starts to cry . Thats when you found him . she nods let this it was there in her basement that wendy came face to face with the unimaginable. Her 15yearold son around his family. Was gone. It was there in her basement that wendys son took literally feel my heart hitting the floor. Alan mast wendys brother evans uncle. Drove an hour to get to his sisters house in the middle of that night. They ha
Trump. In the meantime there are a number of Government Programs that support veterans as they age. But one has been dubbed the ghost benefit because so few know about it. Our reporter has been looking into the program she joins us live, dora. Thats right about 70 of veterans qualify for this benefit but dont even know it exists it is called ana pension. Around for veterans that most have never even heard of. No, never. Even in all my retirement briefings i never, never once mentioned. It is not as widely known as medicate or medicare this is basically free money on the table. It is called the aide and attendance for veterans or ana. Gives 2,100 for help with senior care costs. Just an assistance living home. Gary signed up his motherin law for the program. It helps with the total cost of her upkeep at the care center where she is at until she can stay there a longer period of time and not run out of money. Right now applicants have to have 80,000 or less in assets but the government i
Gathered in dubuque friday morning to commemorate veterans day, there were some younger than usual faces in the crowd. More than 300 middle School Students getting the chance to learn about veterans in a much more personal way. katie hannan, 7th grade teacher an event like this really helps to bring to life the experience of the veterans in a for them. Events like this a reunion of sorts for the many veterans who gather to honor each Others Service and havent seen in a year. And its kinda neat to see ones from the other rs hat did serve and come back and talk about it. Feeney was the youngest of six brothers to join the military in the 1940s. I guess it was something that everybody thought they should serve. At that time it was different, because we all left now, but events like this help him remember. Yes you do, and what couldve been. They shouldve been here. This year marks 75 years since the attack on pearl harborfeeney actually had two brothers who survived everyone else for your