Here we are august 1st already, summer flying by, hottest time of the year. We will see temperatures in the lower 90s. We are waking up, somewhat on the comfortable side. It is warm. Mid 70s in philadelphia at the airport. 76 degrees. Nice 60s showing up north and west allentown at 64. Sixtyseven in reading. South jersey we will go also in the lower 07s in wildwood right now. There are the suburbs quakertown a cooler spots and pottstown coming in at 64 degrees at this hour. The wind are shifting out of the southwest. That keeps heat around. Humidity levels slightly higher then yesterday but still not too bad for early august, and we will look at those dew point temperatures in yesterday and they were in the lower 60s and 50s and little bit high tore day. More moisture in the air with you overall not that bad. It could be worse. Storm scan three is quiet. A few clouds this morning. We should see plenty of sunshine throughout the day maybe fair weather cloud developing will in the aftern
Voters hit the ballot yesterday. The results from siouxlands elections coming up. An increase in car thefts has sioux city on high alert and a preview of tonights Country Music awards all this morning. Jessica rae northwest iowa voters hit the polls yesterday to elect mayors and City Council Members to represent siouxland sioux city has about 47thousand registered voters. But less than 3 thousand people cast a ballot in this election. Woodbury county auditor pat gill says, those numbers werent suprising because he wasnt expecting a large turnout. But after a day of voting, it was mayor bob scott. Who was elected to another four year term after running un opposed. He collected. Two thousand. And 87 votes. Scott. Says he will not run for reelection. So during his last term. He wants to focus on creating more opportunities for unger generatitis. I think thatst the way were going to attract and keep young people in this community and weve done a bad job of that for about 10 to 12 years aro
Occurence within the community. Often times, owners of stolen vehicles dont get their cars back in same condition they once were. A stolen red Nissan Altima was traveling at a high rate of speed on tuesday when it rammed the front of an suv that was backing out of a driveway. Shane stapleton, owner of shanes towing, has towed many stolen cars found in bizarre places, i actually had to take a payloader to get it out of there. It was in like a twenty foot hole. So we had to push about 3 trees out of the way and then hook up chains to it and just start pulling it out, said shane stapleton, owner of shanes towing. This truck was found by the police with stolen plates. Stapleton mentioned that he gets calls almost every day to have stolen vehicles towed. Rachel if your vehicle has been stolen has been burglarized, please notify local Law Enforcement to have a report filed immediately. Live in the studio, rachel ramos, abc9. Tim another election day is winding down, and locally Woodbury Coun
Advising people to take steps to prevent these thefts from continuing. Jenna though this is the time of year when temperatures go down and then so usually does crime. That doesnt seem to be happening this year. Reporter rachel ramos tells us about the rise in car thefts in sioux city. Rachel jenna, tim, there has been a dramatic increase in the recorded amount of stolen vehicles over the past several weeks. I spoke with detective jeff harstad of the Sioux City Police deptment who filled us in on why there has been a sudden spike. These recent Motor Vehicle thefts have been primarily occuring within the morningside area. The local law enforement has opened a few doors to a couple theories on why people have been chosing to steal cars more recently. We have people who have been stealing vehicles for financial gain and then were also having people stealing vehicles for joyriding purposes, said detective jeff harstad of Sioux City Police department. The Sioux City Police department reminds
Im tim seaman jenna and im Jenna Rehnstrom the man and woman involved in a bad car crash with a stolen car this afternoon. Have died from their injuries. Tim witnesses say the car went airborne on 25th street as it flew over a steep hill. We have more details tonight in our top story. Jenna heres what the car looked like when it finally stopped after hitting a tree. The red nissan altima. That was reported stollen last thursday. Flipped on its top after striking two other cars. The accident happened near the corner of 25th and morgan streets on the northside. The 34yearold driver and his 28 yearold female passager had to be cut out of the car and were rushed to the hospital. Police say witnesses report seeing the car driving very fast down 25th street when it rammed the front of an suv that was backing out of a driveway. Sgt. Scott hattig, scpd says, there was no pursuit we did have witnesses who saw the vehicle come up over the hill they went as far to say that it caught air, was airb