Wanted. Des Moines Police have identified a person of interest in a shooting investigation. Who they are looking for. And how you can help. Campaign sto than a month away from the iowa caucuses. The candidates you can expect to see across iowa in the next week. Voter registration. Registering to vote just got a lot easier. The new way you can get registered by the click of a mouse. From who hd iowas High Definition leader. This is the channel 13 news at nine on fox 17 democratic president ial frontrunner Hillary Clinton today. Holding organizing events in davenport, cedar rapids, and right here in des moines. Good evening. Im lynn melling. Thank you for joining us state addressed a room full of of the des moines historical museum. Mike dasilva with more. Hillary clinton addressed the news of the day. She said she will standup to the gun lobby and fight to get common sense gun safety measures. She said shes so proud of what president obama announced today, that hes going to use executiv
Foot of snow to dig out from this morning. Meterologist sam schreier joins us right the snowfall sam sam adlibs sam sam weather adlib sam tags on cam tonight it should be very chilly as temps fall into the upper iowa with a very calm are going to see some more snow showers move through in the morning with a quick one to two inches possible, so the morning commute could be a bit slower. We are going to fall extra cold by the end of the week with highs in the upper teens on thursday and a high near 20 on friday. We should warm back into the 30s by the end of the weekend and into early next week with another snow possible around next tuesday. Elias lets get into the top five stories this morning. Elias and the weather is our top story. Bad roads, slipping and sliding and digging out. Road conditions were not great after a halffoot of snow fell. Well check back in with sam in a bit for more details. Elias number two is. Bit for more details. Elias number two is. What public works crews are
Conditions are looking like. Our road warrior tonight, out driving around, testing the roads for us. Claire . Location road conditions, any to clear roads; with travel speed, go slow get home safely will toss back with jack back to you claire, thanks. Jack the dot Traffic Cameras now. This is i235 at 42nd street in des moines the dot website reporting that interstate conditions there are partially covered. For a firsthand perspective, we have iowa state patrol Sergeant Nathan ludwig on the phone. Jack what are you seeing right now . Any major blockages to report . What kind of accidents are you seeing . How does this compare to events youve been part of the response to . Recommendation is always to stay you advise to tonight . Jack lam here in des moines, public works has been out with crews all day clearing roads. The city has 700 miles of residential streets to clear. Which they will work on once all snow routes are finished. Des moines crews are on 12 hour shifts. They began with pr
Traveling speed, slow down and extra time make sure everyone gets home safely toss back with jack, back to you jack 1shot and as weve down today plows were out busy clearing roads, while many kids on vacation enjoyed maybe their first sledding opportunities of the season. Jack ots and an important reminder. Due to the winter storm warning an emergency snow parking ban for snow removal has been issued. West des moines, waukee, johnston, norwalk, ankeny and marshalltown all have bans. The parking ban applies to all streets and will lift at 5 pm tomorrow or finished. The fine is 50 and or the cost of towing. Check your government for snow parking area. Jack works crews work. Working 12hour starting at 7 this morning to pretreat the streets. Throughout the 12 routes which are major streets and then as the snow tampers off well districts, which are the residential areas. Before the snow came in today, the street crews put down a layer of salt brine to help prevent the snow from sticking to
For city snow plow drivers, its been an endless job of removing 564622 it takes a lot of people to get it done and not a lot of time des moines public works crews are targeting the major roads first. Then moving to the residential side streets. For the second time this season crews are putting a new snow plow tactic to the test. Its called the wing formation. Up to five plows clear the street at the same time in one pass. Last night the city laid down a salt brine solution to help improve road conditions. And the public works director says despite the colder temperatures, the salt is working exactly like it should. 540123 weve got a layer of salt brine down on all of the snow routes on dry pavement now there is layer of salt under the snow. So when the last snow plow goes over the snow routes they will drop another layer of rock salt on top of that last little bit that can get scrapped off by tomorrow morning Jonathan Gano says most of the roads should be clear. Until then you can chec