Switch over to sleep in a little bit of snow this afternoon. All the precipitation today will be on the light side. Temperatures will be borderline in the low to mid 30s. It will be a slushy afternoon. A cold rain moves in all of by snow, followed by cold. Shaina the big story developing this morning, north korea says it has tested a powerful nuclear bomb. Nikole killions in washington with the Swift International reaction. Nikole the white house says it cant confirm north Koreas Nuclear test, but it notes the u. S. Is aware of seismic activity on the Korean Peninsula in the same area where other tests have been conducted. The reported quake registered as a magnitude 5. 1. Pyongyang made the announcement on state television that it successfully conducted a Hydrogen Bomb test underground after its president signed an order. What north korea really wants is a conversation, recognition, and respect from south korea, but even more from south korea, from the united states. Test a grave prov
Metinka. We have a mix of wintry weather and today is not the only day. Metinka the next several days are looking interesting with light snow trying to work its way into southwest iowa. This is lifting to the north. Even farther out, even toward the nebraska border, we have possible sleet mixing in as well. Snow from the kansas city area will be arriving late toward noon with freezing drizzle transitioning to sleet and light snow. Temperatures should be at or above freezing. Feels like a slushy afternoon. Temperatures than warm tomorrow and we will see rain that they will be cooling down so we will see snow. Shaina the big story developing this morning. North korea says it has tested a powerful nuclear bomb. Nikole killions in washington with the Swift International reaction. Nikole the white house says it cant confirm north Koreas Nuclear test. But it notes the u. S. Is aware of seismic activity on the area where other tests have been conducted. The reported quake registered as a magn
9 00 a. M. , 31. We will warm up into the mid 30s but it could be a slight wintry mix at times. Not expecting a lot of accumulation. The reason for that is that the main part of this system is to the west. Southwestern colorado will see some light snow. Probably an inch or less. More precipitation on the way at the week goes along, along with some cold. Temperatures pretty moderate the next few days, but look how we drop off. Sunday, that is a High Temperature of only 10 degrees. We will break things down hourbyhour with futurecast in just a bit. Laura count on kcci to help you stay weather aware. Download our kcci weather app to youll get live radar, traffic alerts, and Road Conditions straight to your smartphone. Its available for free for both android and iphone. Steve executive action. President obama today outlined his plan to tighten the nations gun laws and beef up enforcement. He is focusing on boosting background checks for gun buyers. The plan will tighten, but not eliminate,
Iowas first in the nation caucuses prompted the reverend graham to chose iowa to launch what hes calling his decision america tour. Hes planning on taking that to all 50 states to reawaken christians in becoming a greater part of the political process. Speaking of the candidates, marco rubio made three stops in iowa today. He says he is devoting more time to campaigning in iowa, after he received criticism that he wasnt spending enough time here. Today he talked agriculture. once you lose agricultural capacity, its gone and it never comes back weve seen that happen in florida. We need to continue to support the American Farmer. Im open to doing things that dont skew the market and arent unfair and arent gamed and the American Farmer to compete in the Global Market place. Rubio did not lay out any specific plans on how he would change the Global Market place. Democrat Hillary Clinton on her second day of campaigning in iowa this week. Today, she talked about her autism initiative. Her p
Chamber alliance. The abi. Those groups wont be enough to make this change. Itll take lawmakers to pass the plan this legislative session. Heres how it works. The governor would extend the one cent statewide sales tax another twenty years. Instead of letting it expire in 2029. Schools use that for building projects. The governor instead would give schools their current share of the nearly 400 million a year. Plus hed give them 10 million more. They could have received more than that. If lawmakers simply extended the sales tax. But the risk is. What if lawmakers didnt extend it . Schools could lose that entire funding stream. If schools did go for this new plan. Then some of the growth in the sales tax money will go to Water Quality programs. That could be an for environmental efforts until this new sales tax extension expires in 2049. Reynolds. 1730 the powerful message is School Superintendents are standing with farmers and farm gruops with that. Let swork together. Branstad. 3531 nob