At this point you wouldnt know what a dramatic night it has been here. People trapped in the hospital with an active shooting going on outside. A construction worker at the new Saint Lukes Hospital said he saw a suspicious man and possibly a gun and called 911. Sirens and the police vehicles. The screeching tires. The police chief describes what officers saw. Looked up and on top of the elevator it was white cover alls holding a rifle. The rifle was directed at the hospital. He appeared to be firing shots as the officers responded. Three officers feared on the man. Then as you can see flashbangs were deployed to ensure he was no longer a threat. The man was dead. Sonya and her 11yearold son were inside the hospital. Everybody moved in and they said they are not letting anybody leave or come back to the hospital. You just all of this it sounded like a bomb. I was listening to music with my headphones on and i heard a loud bang. Then i stopped the music and heard it again. It was loud. I
Details vanessa the snow stopped falling a few hours ago, but the roads are still a little wet. Southbound traffic was closed after dozens of car crashes. The fast falling snow created slick roads. Cars were creeping along as they drove through it. Local Tow Truck Companies were busy. The number of cars is going up. Every time you turn around, there is another one going in. Semiversus cars, cars smashed in. Vanessa we asked for advice of what to do we asked an iowa state trooper his advice when he says to slow down, increase your following distance and if you dont have to travel stay at home. Live in ames, vanessa peng, kcci 8 news, iowas news leader. Kim good advice. Here is a look at the latest Road Conditions from the iowa dot. The areas in green on this map have normal driving conditions. Most of the des moines metro area is in blue, which is partially covered. Or pink which is completely covered. So, drivers should use still use caution tonight if theyre out on the roads. Kccis Ma
36 degrees. Christmas day, generally dry and 39. Christmas night, another system comes in with a wintry mix. Cynthia the question is, what are the roads like tonight . The areas you see in green are still normal. The pink is completely covered. Kim st. Onge his live near van meter. Kim the snow actually stopped within the last half hour just east of van meter. If anything, it is drizzling if that. The wind is definitely still a factor. Traffic is moving right along. We saw at 5 00 tonight. Take a look at this video we shot earlier in de soto. The snow has really been sticking to the roads that we have seen, but the roads are definitely whacked. One driver i talked to said his commute from nebraska to minnesota hasnt been too bad and he is happy the weather finally matches the season. Wind and snow, it is pretty crazy right now. We did see a whole bunch of cars overturned in the ditch and a semi overturned as well. On some other drivers i talked to said they have seen several cars and a
Morning and midday hours. This will be a weak system that will die out as it moves into eastern iowa tomorrow afternoon. Christmas day is looking dry. Highs will be in the lower 40s. Christmas night we will see a mix of rain and snow. The rain and mix will continue on saturday. Sunday will be mostly cloudy. Much cooler air moves in next week. Monday will be a messy day with rain changing to snow. Heavy snow is possible by monday evening. That snow will last through tuesday morning. Wednesday will be colder with mostly cloudy skies. We always have the Road Conditions available to you at whotvdotcom. As a matter of fact, the iowa state patrol says 2015 has been one of the safest in recent memory. Way, as a record 100million americans plan to travel this holiday. 23 51 58 its kind of heavy. Im from leon, iowa and theres not a whole lot of traffic down there. We got one stop light. 03 23 53 03 we have beautiful weather yesterday and today its making up for it 07 the biggest factor convinci
Good morning, welcome to Al Jazeera America. Im Morgan Radford. We begin with breaking news out of russia where a suicide bomb attack killed at least 15 people. 27 others are injured. The blast saw through a train vasion in a Southern City of volgergrad. These are the latest pictures. A female suicide bomber detonated the explosives as she walked through the metal detectors. Theres no claim of responsibility for the attack. Russia has bund a height end state of alert ahead of winter games in february. Well have a live report in a few moments. Israel has fired a barrage of artillery shells across the border into lebanon after rockets from fired from lebanon were fired into israel. No one was injured. Tensions on the border are high after an israeli soldier killed a lebanon soldier earlier. The new report by the New York Times is that the benghazi bombing was not at the handof al qaeda. Since the attack some republicans argued not only that al qaeda was behind it but Obama Administration