Part of interstate 35 closed because of numerous crashed and reduced visibility. Roger riley was in the thick of it. And has more from Hamilton County. Super Hamilton County super sgt. Nathan ludwig iowa state patrol sup paul barbara burow oklahoma sot ludwig not seen it this bad in years. This was the situation around highway twenty and i35 monday, this was a collision of five 18 wheelers and two cars. Which kept traffic to a crawl. Westbound traffic was backed up sot ludwig some truckers had no where to go after the boon docks truck stop closed. It was full of trucks. Sot trucker the blizzard was bad out on the roads. But also in ames. Wind made getting out very difficult. Sound. For those of us driving. Monday was at times a total white out. Waiting to try to see the road. And the vehicle in front of you. In Hamilton County rr channel 13 news well hear more more from Sergeant Ludwig in the second well hear more more from Sergeant Ludwig in the second half hour of the channel 13 news
Utilties board began today and run through thursday. Reviewing the dakota accesss permit request to build the pipeline cutting through iowa. Now these meetings are for board deliberations only not public input. Although they are open to the public and about 2025 people were there listening this afternoon. The board deliberated over major issues like climate change, pipeline verse rail transportation and of course the Economic Issues like job creation the pipeline could bring. Rather than consider of each factor separately, does it positively public conviencene and neccessity or is it against it take them into isolate, i really think the better approach is to take them all together at the end and decide how much weight each one is entitled to in each of your deliberations claire bam in a news release, the board said they may not make a decision during this weeks meetings. However, theyll continue for the next three days in des moines. They all begin at 1 in the afternoon and are open to