So keep that in mind because this is a tough lunchtime travel period for many of you. Clean up efforts underway from what we can see. Plenty of crews out there working to get the oil cleaned up. They usually need a substance to get it up out of the way. Not a lot of information is coming in and were trying to monitor the situation and talk with crews out there. Once we get more information hopefully the lanes will open up soon. Well pass any along to you. So tough drive here but tough weather going on in the northeast. Thanksgiving is three days away and theyre getting slammed with their first taste of winter. Keep us in mind if youre traveling that way. They could see another 20 inches by tomorrow. Windshield temperatures in the minnesota. Powerful wind gusts up to nearly 80 Miles Per Hour toppling trees and leaving some people without power. A heck of a wind storm coming through and tearing stuff out. Thats really tough over there. Snow and Holiday Travel do not always mesh well so b
Unanimous. He also does not think theres many benefits to using a grand jury. Bruce and beth at 6, riley explains who he would like to see handling these types of cases. Thank you, phil. Meteorologist joe winters joins us now. Joe, its a little rainy today, but nothing to really hold up early thanksgiving travelers . A man has pleaded guilty in a Jeffrey Bulechek is charged with homicide by vehicle reckless driving and kalona. Bulechek admitted to being intoxicated on december 1st of 2013 when he ran a stop sign and collided with another vehicle. That crash killed brittany hochstetler, a passenger in that vehicle. She was 15 and from indiana. Online records dont show a sentencing day for bulechek. Have you seen news . Call newsline nine. That number is 3193659999. Shoot some horizontal video. And send it to newsroom at kcrg dot com. Police say the man driving the school bus that crashed and killed five students yesterday in chattanooga, tennessee, was speeding when it happened. Johntho
December first and require employers to pay overtime to salaried employees who make less than 47 thousand 476 dollars a year. That more than double the current salary threshold. But, tuesday, a federal court blocked it from happening pending legal challenges. 21 states are suing the Labor Department to block the regulation. Kcrgtv9s Forrest Saunders looked into this and joins us now. Forrest, whats the local impact . Fourmillion workers would be impacted by the change. Some of them are at the united way of east central iowa. There, about a dozen from the around 30person work force would qualify for the new overtime rule. Even though a judge has put things on hold, united way has gone ahead and made the change for employees. Officials said given the amount of prep time needed, they decided to be proactive. Theyve put in place an electronic timekeeping system to better keep track of hours. Even if the rule never takes effect, united way thinks change. Weve already made changes on the Tec
Are quite a bit. Bringing him back to good health is costly. A gofundme was created after the incident at the beginning of the month. Its since raised nearly 8thousand dollars. Again, supervisor stacy walker is going to be speaking later tonight. Well have his comments tonight at 10 live in cedar rapids, forrest saunders, kcrg tv nine news. For protesting the Bakken Oil Pipeline at the iowa utilities board offices in des moines. Jessica reznicek faces a trespassing charge after the protest. Police say she refused their orders to leave the building this morning. Reznicek and others who call themselves water protectors want the iowa utilities board to rescind construction permits for the Dakota Access pipeline. They are drinking water. But the board says it isnt addressing protestors. The board issued its final decision in march. Thats being litigated so we cant comment on litigation. The pipeline is already in the ground in much of iowa. Lets turn now to the weather and meteorologis t j
Year, after sears moved out. A gym located inside the mall is a Business Model that mall owners say has been extremely successful, nationwide. Jump park owners say the same is true for their mall locations. Traffic. More people in the area is much better for us. Parents say they love the convenience of being able to drop off the kids while they shop the stores. I still want stores here. It is the mall. But its something to do. While i shop, he could play. A Little Something fr the mall. In dubuque Katie Wiedemann kcrg tv9 news. Owners say parents do not need to accompany their children at the jump park, no matter what the childs age is. They say children are welcome, as long as they follow the rules. The holiday spirit is alive in manchester tonight as the city celebrates its annual window walk and static christmas parade. Meteorologist Justin Gehrts is there live over the next couple days. Skies remain cloudy tonight but the wind will die down as lows drop to near 30. Were back in the