Stacey six weeks ago, an entire kids Triathlon Company disappeared. Thieves stole a trailer parked in south des moines, taking all the equipment owned by a oneman kid Sports Organization called rip roar of events. Tonight, kccis Mark Tauscheck has an update. Mark to the surprise of the companys owner and law enforcement, the trailer with most of its contents, has been found almost 6 weeks after it disppeared. But returning the trailer is proving to be a bigger challenge than anyone expected. Michael zimmerman hadnt seen his trailer since december, on Surveillance Video as he watched the thieves drive off into the night. Inside was everything he purchased to start a kids triathlon series in the midwest last summer. Bike racks, barricades, fencing, cones, audio equipment. All gone. Its safe to say zimmerman did not expect to see his trailer again. Wow. Savings on still inside. I dont know, there is a lot of relief. Mark the thieves took what they could sell. Generators are gone, it looks
Act. Todd storm lake legislator gary worthan is sponsoring the bill. He says the dot tells him the the average speed on iowas interstates is 72. All the more reason to boost it to 75. If youre not going to in 470 to slow that traffic down, lets make it legal. Todd one driver we talked with lung interstate north of des moines agrees. Most of the people are going that speed anyway, so if someone is going 70 they are actually slowing the traffic down. Todd in fact, in a very unscientific test, we set our Cruise Control at 70 along i35 and traffic constantly passed us. But not everybody is convinced faster is better. The thing is, they go fast enough as it is. In the winter time, people need to slow down. You know, its a trade off. If you want to look at safety and thats all you want to look at, it should be 25 to 30 miles an hour. Is dead set against raising the speed limit. The next step for this bill is the full Transportation Committee and the iowa house. That could happen this week. S
Kurtis 12 degrees below zero in mason city. Currently, wind chill above zero at 2. Wind chill advisory write through 8 a. M. Saturday morning, along and north of highways dirty, wind chill is 30below zero. Outside, the wind chills still get 20 degrees below zero. So youre better than i come a cold air filtering on in. Overnight low in des moines at four below zero. Our 7 00 a. M. Wind is 16 below. Tomorrow, we start with some sunshine greeted by the clouds moved in, and a High Temperature at 15. In looks like snow will arrive after 8 00 on saturday. Then continue on and off for sunday, i think ending by around 2 p. M. Temperatures on sunday, 32. I will have the latest on futurecast and some of those snowfall totals, coming up. Stacey a woman is dead after a it happened around noon today in the 6900 block of northeast 29th street. The Polk County Sheriffs Office says a child was flown to a metro hospital. And that crash remains under investigation. And there are new details about that d
Picture provided by urbandale police, fired a gun at police officers. Three officers are on paid administrative leave tonight Sergeant Jeff casey and officers Anthony Brooks and justice weaver. Police have not released any more information about the incident. Steve a weather system bringing rain and possibly snow now headed toward central iowa. Kurtis is going to be a beautiful evening. Computer. In the dakotas, generally rain. In colder air will move in. Still some cars in the ditches. Turkey towing up there around boone. Below the freezing mark. Weve still we will see some fog forming later tonight. This system should move out, and by noon tomorrow, around 34 degrees. The big story after this system is spring fever. If a warmup moving in . Is a warmup moving in . 30s into the 50s for three days. Stacey flags around iowa are flying half staff today to honor u. S. Supreme Court Justice antonin scalia. The 79yearold was found dead in his room at a texas ranch saturday morning. Governor
A spokesperson did tell kcci, the department of corrections is committed to operating safe and secure facilities, and will continue to work to improve our operations for the safety of all. Danny if those officers would have had mace on their body, they would have been able to deescalate that situation a lot quicker. And without staff being punching bags for inmates. Ryan the doc not commenting tonight, when i directly asked about Staff Members not being armed with pepper spray. We also learned staff and supporters will march next wednesday, in a correctional officer safety campaign. Steve . Steve thank you, ryan. We do have a warm weekend ahead for us. Kurtis, what can we expect when we wake up tomorrow . Kurtis it will be cool. If you are an early riser, do not expect a big warm up early. 9 00 a. M. Is 47. Southwest wind will pick up, bathing in sunshine. 60s about from ames to lamoni, council bluffs. Some colder 50s, still nice in mason city. Back up to dubuque, south wind. 1525, see