Degrees. But hopefully later in the day, a few breaks for a bit of sunshine. But certainly no weather issues. Dry across the board. Some disturbing breaking news this afternoon. A Marion High School student is now facing felon charges for allegedly inappropriately touching an elementary student at starry elementary. Marion Police Arrested the 15 yearold male and took him to the juvenile detention center. He now faces three counts of Second Degree sexual abuse. And bullying is on in schools across the nation. Right now cbs2 News Reporter is live in iowa city. To explain what a group of corridor students is doing to kelly when i was a kid i spent my thanksgiving break relaxing with friends. For some iowa city students theyre spending it speaking out against bullying. Roughly 25 students attended tuesday nights bi Weekly School Board Meeting taking turns proposing changes to district policies to improve acceptance and safety in schools. The group has squashing their rivalry to give a voic
Season for tornadoes as cold air returns to the midwest and we had eight touch down in iowa today and from what weve been able to tell so far that is the largest outbreak for the state of iowa. Weve got some video of the actual storms tonight and here you can see one in Grundy County. This was taken by a friend of mine, storm chaser Kevin Walters and you can see the storm system as it moved county, now youre looking at parkersburg. Theres two funnels there. The one on the left produced a tornado. Most of the activity regarding tornadoes was in butler and grundy counties where there were at least six reports of tornado touch downs there. The rain has moved out of eastern iowa. No more thunderstorms to be concerned about. A front has passed on through here and thatll Start Building colder and colder air as we go through the next several days. Theres a little bit of snow in the slight tip of the state. Tomorrow we dont expect much in the way of weather. Temperatures in the middle 30s, but
After a warm night of around 70, well be pushing 90 tomorrow afternoon. Then the forecast has a chance for some thunderstorms. You can see while were at 90, its o only 77 in minneapolis. As that push sots toast southeast, theres a chance tomorrow night that a strong storm or two could gop develop in our northern counties. By saturday, that moves to the re of eastern now new into the newsroom tonight, conservative icon Phyllis Schlafly died today, schlafly helped defeat the equal rights amendment and founded the profamily eagle forum in the early 70s she was still the president. She spent 70years focusing on protecting views on the traditional family and wrote several books fighting to roles. Schlafly died in her saint louis home surrounded by family. Schlafly was 92. A minnesota family has . Some closure tonight a minnesota family has some closure tonight after their sons body was found 27 years after he went missing. 11yearold jacob weterling was riding his bike a brother and a friend
State. Planners and the public are mounting the fug of mount cher nonroad. Its needed when you consider 20,000 cars travel this stroach road every day. Matt hammel join us live from mount vernon road. Matt . Reporter once upon a time, this was the grand gateway into cedar rapids, the sign of a thriving community. Many people could like to see it be that way again. Reporter the lincoln highway was the first coast to coast pavedthrough way in the paved thruway in the country. Today, it is 5 lanes of speeding traffic, fast food, houses, and empty lots. Patricia, on a walk with mikey, says she wont drive it and the area needs more retail. Some type of grocery store. Hopefully, it will slow traffic down. Its a shotgun approach. Reporter feedback from hundreds of neighbors who have called it ugly and neglected suggest better traffic flow and just a cleaner look as goals. At the end of the day, its the private Property Owners that will be the ones that develop new retail or whatever that is.
Little fog as well take a look at whats happening down south along i80. 49 degrees around that williamsburg area. Tempings on the board looking at 49 in waterloo, cedar rapids, and dubuque. Those winds are calm. 4 l to 8 miles an hour this morning. Satellite and a redar, we do see a few little clouds down around southeast and very southern parts of iowa, but thats about it. But the rest of us are clear. Some of the fog we are running into is around dubuque this morning. Now, the planner, upper 50s at 9 00 with plenty of sunshine. Mainly sunny at noon 68 and partly sunny this afternoon. Thats kind after a brief ka pechlation of what we can plan on today. The big story of the week is more rain and cooler weather. Well examine both of those items and let you know when to 7day forecast about ten minutes from now. Thanks, justin. New this morning, a pedestrian was killed last night in johnson county. This is a live look at traffic there this morning. Right now, vehicles are moving with no p