Cardboard kurtis you can sees areas in darker blue, this extends all the way to northwestern iowa. Snow picking up in dallas county, up towards perry. West of bagley. This will move into the metro. It looks like the heavier snow will be off to the west and southwest. Already snowing in medicine and parts of a dare county. Generally light snowfall. Looking for around one inch in the metro. A bit lighter off to the north. There could be a band of an inch to two inches intersecting carol , ottoman, and maybe down into madison county. Temperatures in the 20s. Not a lot of win tonight. Wind tonight. Snow will and before midnight. It will have sunshine tomorrow wind chills in a single digits. Stacey a man convicted of two murders in southern iowa is found dead in prison. The Iowa Department of corrections says staffers at the iowa medical and Classification Center in coralville found 37yearold Jerry Ray Dillinger hanged himself late last night using a bed sheet. Dillinger pleaded guilty last
This is the sunrise from the International Space station. Eric you never see a sunrise like that. Today will be another beautiful one out there on this wednesday morning. It will be another great day. Metinka pictureperfect weather, much like tuesday. A bit of fog, not nearly as widespread right now or dense as it was. That will expand the morning. Easter dealing with more dense fog. It is warm out there this morning, maybe a light jacket. If you need one, ames is at 50 degrees. Temperatures are starting at or above the average highs so it will be warm so another day for shorts. Breezy today and wind will change, blowing tomorrow with thundershowers in the forecast. Last week between a bus driver and the special needs student. 15yearold Christian Suarez and his family held a News Conference tuesday at their attorneys office. He says bus driver Robert Scarborough asked him to move from his seat and the two began to fight. Police charged scarborough with assault. Suarez says hes afraid t
With the man on the run. Kcci 8 news. Eric also this half hour, a new gym program in urbandale is teaching students all about including others and building new friendships. Well tell you how it works and what students think about it so far, coming up. A pretty cool program. Thanks for waking up with kcci 8 news this morning. Im eric hanson. Elizabeth and im elizabeth klinge. A little preview of winter this morning. It will not stick around too long. Metinka you might have to warm the car up for a few minutes, 35 in des moines. The frosty is temperatures so far this season and the wind has settled down, not a factor today. A great afternoon, headed for 56 degrees with a slight chance for a few showers overnight and into early saturday. Dealing with patchy fog this morning. In ottumwa, visited just give yourself extra time. Rain gives out saturday morning giving way to a beautiful weekend, highs in the 50s and 60s. Next week, 70s with the next chance of rain by the end of the week. Eric
Good morning, and thank you for joining us on kcci 8 news this morning. I am eric hanson. Elizabeth i am elizabeth klinge. We will check things out starting with metinka. Metinka 57 already in des moines, a huge improvement over the frosty weekend we had. Wind at 17 Miles Per Hour and will continue to increase throughout the morning. The wind could gust over 35 Miles Per Hour by noontime right through the afternoon. Headed for a high today of 80 degrees, but the wind combined with the dry conditions is leading to an extreme fire danger today, so we have a red flag warning in effect. Elizabeth this morning, several businesses in newton are cleaning up after a fire that started last night in the panda garden restaurant kitchen. Customers and employees made it outside a free. Smoke and water damage was caused to the apartment above. No word yet on the extent of the damage. Eric a registered sex offender is charged in a child sex abuse case. Berlou barnard is accused of sexually assaulting
Flagged down an officer. The student involved complained of head pain, and was treated in an ambulance. Johnston schools say scarbrough was out of line. I was very disappointed in the way that this driver handled himself in this incident. I can certainly understand why students may be unsettled by what they saw. Kim scarbrough was just hired this school year. Johnston schools say theyve never had a prior problem with scarbrough. He is now facing assault and child endangerment charges. Live in studio, kim st. Onge, kcci 8 news, iowas news leader. Steve new developments this afternoon in one of the most notorious missing children cases in u. S. History. The abduction and disappearance of Jacob Wetterling back in 1989. Kevin cooney has the new details right now. Kevin steve, jacob was 11 years old when he was abducted in saint joseph, minnesota near st. Cloud while of him in the 26 years since. Today, authorities identified a person in interest in the case. He has been identified as heinr