Our lows falling into the mid 40s and a stronger westerly wind. Friday were going to see mostly sunny skies and were headed for an incredible day with highs climbing into the mid 60s accompanied by a strong wind. We look pretty sunny and still very nice on saturday so we should be able to hit 60 again in the afternoon with a lighter wind. Sunday a delayed front will put us back in the 50s, and were going to slip back into the 40s through most of next week. We are looking dry through the weekend and even through most of next week. Sabrina lets get into the top five this morning. Sabrina a big day for iowa wrestling, as today starts traditional matches in the state tournament going on in the Wells Fargo Arena. This is the 96th draws hundreds of athletes, coaches, parents, and fans to downtown des moines. Expect lots more traffic both on the roads and sidewalks. Visit ors should also be aware that sections of the skywalk are closed due to construction of the Convention Center hotel. Elias
Quickly. If krg is under threat, would go ahead. This is a great question. What you are hearing in the press my answer to you is no. This is not surprising. This is interesting. Some of the kurdish leaders, they just made these statements in the press, we are very disappointed that you didnt defend us against isil. But nonetheless, you know, this is a bit surprising. Theres many people who kind of knew this all along. So i think this is more part of the iraqi kurds have miscalculated, misinterpreted and overstepped how far turkey will go. Quite frankly, turkey doesnt need to. At this point, the iraqi kurds have become so indebted and so dependent upon occur urkey that if they are disappointed or upset or angry, i dont see how thats going to affect the alliance because the leverage is not in the iraqi kurds hands at this point. Does that mean occur urkey will be involved in terms of reconnaissance . Certainly. Launching a missile against isil is the same type of pressures that turkey wo
Goes for democratic governors and republican governors. Cnns nick watt has more. This is simply the fastest increase california has seen since the beginning of this pandemic. Reporter so this morning, 9 4 of californians woke up under the golden states strictest covid19 restrictions, and the curfew is under consideration. 2020 was like, in a football game, the first half. The holidays and where we are right now is half time. Weve got a whole half ahead of us. Reporter nationwide, average daily case counts are now double the peak of the summer surge. More than 1,000 people are now dying every day, also higher than that summer surge. Yes, two vaccines are close, but there will be plenty more dying before they get here. We dont want the extraordinary success of these two vaccines to get people to become complacent. Ive often said help is on the way, but help is not here yet. Reporter and the president is engineering maybe the messiest transition in history in the midst of a pandemic. Tran
Hand trump the first and only veto override of his presidency . Also this morning, we are one week away from the pivotal Georgia Senate Runoff Elections. More than 2 million votes have already been cast, and the two Democratic Candidates are now sounding the alarm about running low on funds. The question is, will big spending pay off in next weeks races . Its way too early for this. Good morning and welcome to way too early, the show that tried to veto the alarm clock this morning but was overridden. I am kasie hunt on this tuesday, december 29th. Well start with the news. It is now up to the senate, after the house passed a bill yesterday that would increase Coronavirus Relief checks to 2,000 for many americans. 44 republicans, along with the vast majority of democrats, approved the legislation. 275134, narrowly reaching the twothirds majority that the bill needed to pass. The legislation would increase the 600 direct payments to 2,000 for americans who earned less than 75,000 last ye
Death. Every single one of those capitol Law Enforcement officers death is the remedy. They have defied their oath. Lets come back this time not with the bible. Lets come back, this time not with the bible. You see plenty of people standing around them. Nobody is shouting them down. Many echoing that message that death is the only remedy and those are people that trump told he loved last week. And that guy, the ugly guy with the beard, wasnt alone. Dozens of people on the fbis terror watch list suspected White Supremacists according to the washington post, were reportedly in d. C. On trump insurrection day for protrump events. Now you add that fact to the warnings that went out from our intel agencies and others telling the government to be ready for extremist activity, and the answer to why all of that was ignored, why Capitol Police were overwhelmed like officer hodges, the answer becomes even more important. Five people died but this could have been a massacre. The feds say the man