While the team is now in california, expect the Eastern Iowa Airport to pick up in passenger volume on charter flights one llves monday as the interest will soon pick up. Plus, our sports team will soon be filing reports from pasadena starting on saturday. Bruce . Thanks, chris. The 12and 1 hawkeyes will face the 11and 2 Stanford Cardinal in the rose bowl a week from tomorrow. Kickoff es scheduled for just after four pm, iowa time. You can watch the game on espn. Several counties in the northern part of our viewing area are looking very christmasy after receiving a couple of inches of snow today. This is a live look from our meteorologist britley ritz joins us now with your Christmas Eve forecast. Britley, what are the road condititns like across eastern iowa. Its Christmas Eve and our low temperatures are expected to be well above normal, dropping into the upper 20s. A few snowflakes will be likely throuou the evening hours w wh partly cloudy skies. Christmas morning we keep partly cl
Knocked down trees and power lines north of cedar rapids and damaged some property in hiawatha. Communities of neighbors, friends, and strangers road clean up her yard. That included a 14yearold from florida. The homeowner was very grateful. I dont know how many loads weve taken away already, its amazing how it looks, im so appreciative. Storms also did heavy damage to twisters gymnastics. Strong winds threw air conditioning units into the papaking lot, and also left a hole in the buildings roof. Weather surveyors say at least one confirmed tornado touched in the quad cities area yesterday. Brandon finch says he saw the tornado on the ground for about ten minutes in rock island county, illinois. It did take out some hog buildings just north of sciota, and just west of sciota it took out a building at a power plant, but it was just a storage building. Estimate, but they say no one was hurt. Across the nation, some are happy to be alive this Christmas Day following unusual, late december
Waco mother partners with non-profit after losing daughter to domestic violence
Sakyra Young was 21 years old when she was shot by her boyfriend in Waco. Now, mother Latoya Wells is working with a new non-profit to fight domestic violence. Author: Andrew Moore Updated: 10:16 PM CST December 12, 2020
WACO, Texas Latoya Wells lost her daughter, 21-year-old Sakyra Young, on August 14, 2020. Police said Michael Howard Jr. shot young during a domestic violence incident.
Now Wells is working with new nonprofit InFinitye UNited to provide other women in that situation a safe person to talk to and a safe place to go.
Wells said women who find themselves being abused often do not want to tell family, and it was the same way with her daughter when Wells tried to intervene.