Across eastern iowa. Blowing will be slick so use caution and thursday as we end the year on a the coldest day with highs in the mid teens and morning lows theyve been working around the clock even bringing out extra plow trucks. The men and women on the team are working 12 hour shifts around the clock. During my ridea long. We went through downtown dubuque today theyre widening the streets. So its easier to drive. By now main street have been plowed also residential. Still, the crew is using a lot of resources to get the job pounds of salt. I think last night i went through 27thousand pounds. They also brought out extra plow trucks typically they use 15. For this storm they increased to 21. In linn county. You can see side of the road and in ditches after sliding off the road during yesterdays storm. Some programs in the area like horizon meals on wheels had to cancel its elivery services for the day. So volunteers could avoid the same fate. A lot of our volunteers are super willing t
Doctors says the babies are not showing physical signs of abuse. Federal officer fires a weepon during a traffic stop in waterloo. Yesterday at ten in the morning. Members of the Us Marshals Service werf trying to arrest someone in waterloo during a traffic stop. During the stop, a marshal fired his weapon, but their perp ran away and is still missing. A Police Chase Ends with a car in the lake. It happened last night in evansdale. Evansdale police say they saw a car at the nature trail bridge a little before three this morning. It seemed out of place, so they tried to pull the driver over and a chase started. The driver ended up in meyers lake, and was taken to the hospital. Charges are pending. An area library is putting new procedures in place to avoid bedbugs. After the library is infested. Dubuque had totoget rid of two couches and hundreds of newspapers after bedbugs were found in a reading area. The areas okay now after professionals came in with chemicals and steam cleaners. Th
For people trying to travel. Ad lib with brett mostly cloudy skies will continue across the state overnight. A few more snow showers may pass through on wednesday morning. This may bring an additional trace to one inch of snow. All will be done by noon. The new years holiday will be very cold. Temperatures will reach the teens on thursday afternoon and drop to the Single Digits by early new years day morning. The weekend will be dry and sunny with highs in the low and the weather around the country is having an impact on those who want to head to the rose bowl this week. Channel 13s josh nguyen is live at the Des Moines International airport with the latest. Sonya this has been a busy place over the past couple days. A hawkeye fans have ask the same question. Is my flight going to be on time to california . the charter flights have gone in and gone out so far today on time and without any problems. We have 7 charter flights going to the rosebowl. We had 4 today and 3 more tomorrow. I a
Drivers should have a smoother thats because Road Conditions have improved over the past few hours. As you can see, much of the state is partially covered with snow and ice. But now some places across iowa are returning to their normal conditions. Here in the metro. Snow plows have been at work around the clock clearing snow. And theyre making noticeable progress. Des moines public works director Jonathan Gano has been overseeing operations. He joins us now by phone. Things are looking up for those as of right now, there are Just International airport. It was a much different story at many of the countrys major airports yesterday. This was the scene at chicago ohare. More than 13 hundred flights were canceled due to a storm moving across the us. Some passengers were forced to spend the night at the airport. Others wont be able to leave the city until at least wednesday. The storm left thousands of eastern iowans in the dark overnight. Dozens of trees snapped, bringing down power lines,
John this is cell phone video from sunday night showing Douglas Reyes on his way to 7eleven with his uncle, excited to get his daily mocha. It seemed like he was excited to get in the van. That is his passion. He will go anywhere to get his mocha. John douglas was here at the basketball court. This is where police found the man stabbed to death, to be four hours after that video. He was a good and friendly boy. John it there are clear signs that he was attacked and then killed here. Family and friends are having hard time understanding why this would happen to such a gentle man. He would say hello and goodbye. He was really sweet. All of this is i cant believe it. John around 5 00 last night they found the body right here next to the basketball hoop. This is where they will hold a candlelight vigil for douglas tonight. He was the sweetest guy. He roamed. He stopped cars. He talked to people in cars. John he had severe physical and mental disabilities. He did not deserve anything like t