Nikki also coming up on local five news at 10. A bus full of iowans gets stranded in the eastcoast snowstorm. See how they are making it home. Nikki the iowa caucus is just more than a week away and local businesses are cashing in on the main event nikki and the stops for next summers ragbrai are announced. Hear where each stop is for the cyclists local 5 news at 10 in hd starts now. We are iowa nikki lam good evening. Welcome to local 5 news im nikki davidson. Glad youre with us tonight. Nikki lam a group of central iowa students stranded for nearly 24 hours in charter buses stuck on the pennsylvania turnpike are finally making their way home tonight. They got swept into the massive snowstorm as they made their way home from antiabortion rally in washington d. C. The way they kept busy on the side of the interstate this its tonights big story. Hour 13 of being stranded. Still 0 mph per hour its not your typical busstop. The pennsylania turnpike was the long way home for 100 iowa stude
We spoke to a dowling Science Teacher who is with the students now. She says the buses had actually refueled right before they got accident on the students have warm with no problems. And earlier something you seen before. Outside of the stranded buses of snow, six priests it was incrediable. Went to mass today in the snow, in a foot of snow. Nikki ots they are not the only ones being affected by this massive storm. Theres already thousands of car crashes due to the snow with several deaths. Abcs Kenneth Morton has the latest from the target of the storm. Blizzard blast. Blinding, white out conditions, heavy snow and bone chilling winds. There are blizzard watches and warnings from dc to new york. Gov cuomonew york we keeping an eye on what i considered are natures wrath which are flooding conditions. Concern on the jersey shore. This is new video of the storm surge and coastal flooding in ocean city. In philadelphia, the streets are covered. A snow emergency is in effect. In dc, its p