Western hemisphere, and it is plowing into the west coast of mexico. Hurricane patricia has winds clocked as high as 200 Miles Per Hour. Good evening to you i m shelley , walcott. All that destructive power on a path to a popular tourist destination. Abc s Michelle Franzen begins our coverage. Michelle franzen so gigantic, it blots out the sky. With winds so ferocious, they are frightening everyone out of its path. Hurricane patricia, with winds gusts as strong as to her Miles Per Hour 200 Miles Per Hour, driving up to 20 inches of rain, howled into mexico friday as a category five storm. This angry surf a taste of , what s to come in the vacation area of puerto vallarta, where they are boarding up filling , sandbags, streets deserted, as thousands of tourists tried to outrun patricia. We were of actuate it from our hotel this morning for the hurricane. They said, it is not safe, we will go to the Technical Center michelle vacationer stacy zapar is stranded with her family. Way out. We
The mid 20s to low 30s to start the day. Winds are light to tracking through and they will stick around for the day. By this evening, we could have a few showers tracking through, but most will hold off until after midnight. And even then will be light through sunday. We should be able to climb back into the upper 30s to low 40s this afternoon as the winds turn back to the south. It will become breezy tomorrow and we will stay mild, but we have a few showers tracking through and a larger system heading our way for tuesday. Ill have more on that system in a few minutes. New this morning. A new waterloo restaurant is damaged after a kitchen fire this waterloo firefighters responding to tokyo bay just after 3 this morning. They believe the fire started in the kitchen area. When they arrived they saw heavy smoke coming from the damagughout the entire building. Tokyo bay which just opened up a couple months ago is expected to be closed for quite some time. While repairs are made. Also new t
At or above freezing and will linger into the afternoon, but some clearing later today will as much of a problem as the large winter storm that will track our way for tuesday and wedneday bringing blizzard conditions to many parts of iowa. Ill have more on that in a few minutes. Conditions to many parts of io. Ill have more on that in a few minutes. Well we are almost there, iowa. This is the final day beforr caucus day. President ial hopefuls are feeling the pressure theyre out in full force today in hopes of sealing some last minute support. This weekends final Des Moines Register poll released before the caucuses give leads to donald trump and Hillary Clinton. The democratic race is close with secretary clinton leading senator and experts say thats within the polls margin of error similar to a handful of recent polls between the two leade. Anwhile on the republicicn side donald trump is five points ahead of senator ted cruz. Marco rubio is third at 15 points behind trump. And speaki
Our top story this morning. Plans for a new career and will have a few flurries in the our top story this morning. Plans for a new career and Technical Center will have to go on the shelf for now. Waterloo voters reject a school bond vote. About 56percent of the voters said no. 44percent were behind it so it fell far short of the 60percent super majority needed to pass. The goal of the 35million dollar Career Center was to give students more specialized training in a specific field. The hope was that would help improve the districts Graduation Rate which is we will always do what is right was to do what was right for move forward and we will do everything we can to help the the 47million dollar plan also included renovations to east and west high schools. In other school votes denver voters approved more than sevenMillion Dollars for new athletic facilties. About 65percent of the voters said yes. They had said no to the same project last june. In the College Community district, voters
Viewing area, but will improve in a few hours as the snow tracks away from us. This graphic shows the warmest temps you will see the rest of the day. The stay strong today with falling the snow stops. But then picks up again overn many of the roads still need to be cleared for the morning drive. Storm track sevens Amanda Gilbert joins us live in waterloo. She can show what its like outside right now. Ally right now its snowing a lot than it was yesterdrdy morning. Visibility is pretty low. But it doesnt feel that t old out. And the thing about this snow is its a very dense making snowmen. Take a look at some video of many main roads. Bt ive been road right now. Ththbig thing ive noticed this morning driving to work. Is definately the roads though. Weve got you covered live in waterloo. Amanda gilbert. Kwwl news. Cities across eastern iowa told kwwl they arent sure exactly when they will be plowing side and neighborhood roads. They say they are going g o start with main roads. Once thos