Purpose in life. Something he and his family is extremely thankful for. Kelllie hughes arvo was just a great dog. We loved him. Thank you for taking care of my brother for the six years you dog. But fast growing brain tumors left arvo struggling to there was nothing vetinarians could do to save arvo and todd made a tough decision to put him down. Street is difficult and more dangerous with out the aid of a service dog. Before i ever got a service dog, i didnt know it was possible, but it is great. It is horrible not having a service dog after you get use to one. It todd and the North Liberty community are now trying to raise enough funds to get todd a new service dog. Todd has also developed diabities and the service dog would also be able to help him manage his blood sugar levels. Weve got you covered live in the newsroom. Jessica hartman kwwl news. It will cost close to 25 thousand dollars to purchase a new service dog. If you would like to help we will have a link to the donation pa
Watch out for areas of patchy fog, and freezing drizzle tomorrow morning. By totoorrow early afternoon, a mix of rain and snow will begin to fall across the area. Areas along highway 20 and north will see more snow, while south to highway 30 will have more rain and possibly sleet mixing in. South of interstate 80, the precipitation should stay mostly rain. A transition t t all snow will occucuacross the tv9 viewing area in the evening with some accumulations possible, mainly north of highway 30. A trace to 2 are possible in this area, with a few isolated spots receiving more. South to near i80, a dusting is also possible, but the dominant precipitation type looks to be rain for the majority of this system in that area. Snow will wrap up in the overnight. Tonight mostly cloudy low 2329 winds sse 510 alo 24 dbq 24 iow 26tomorrow wintry mix likely high 3238 winds se 510 alo 33 dbq 34 back to you. A group of eastern iowans stranded in that massive winter storm in the eastern us are glad to
Plan on a windy, cloudy and chilly day with scattered flurries as well. By wednesday, another weak system will arrive from the northwest with the potential for a quick dusting of snow in the evening. Overall, this is not a very cold pattern, but not a warm one either with out to caucus, president ial candidates are meeting with as many as they can. The most recent polls show democrats Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders in a statistical tie. Kcrgtv9s Forrest Saunders joins us from the newsroom this morning. Forrest, clinton sat down with tv9 to talk specifically to iowans. Thats right chris and nicole. She spoke to us after an event in north liberty. More than 500 showed up at buford garner elementary school, where clinton took the podium with activist cecile richards. After, in her interview with tv9, clinton touched on Governor Terry branstads plan to privatize medicaid. Shes wary of the plan, which would allow three private companies to manage 500thousand iowan medicaid plans. The go
There are clouds and areas of freezing drizzle are possible overnight. Details on your full forecast coming up in a few after being stranded for a`day on the pennsylvania turnp ke eastern iowas are back home. More than 200 dubuque people travelled to washington dc for the march for life rally. But on the way back they got stuck in the snow because of the massive blizzard on the eastt coast. Earlier today the five buses arrived to their final destination. We had god with us. And we friendship. We had each other, and we got to play in the snow outside, we had a snowball fight. As for the pennsylvania turnpike things are moving along. Officials ay they started reopening stranded. At last check authorities are investigating how the inciden started. Des Moines Police are investigating a suspicious death. Around 430 this Morning Police arrived to a des moines home and found 71yearold Norma Mcneely dead inside. At this hour no arrests have been made in connection to theecrime. People in the s
20s. Winter weather advisory in effect 6am monday until 12am tuesday for portions of west and north iowa. The advisory does not include polk county. The overcast skies will finally give way to precipitation tomorrow as highs top out in the lowtomid 30s. Nikki also coming up on local five news at 10. Snowzilla is leaving the country, but not before it dropped record setting snow. Up and down the east coast. Nikki then. Video of a special needs student pressed up against the windows of a Des Moines Public School bus. A bus driver and an assistant fired after the incident. Nikki but first, a metro woman found dead in her home early this morning. Now police are ruling it a homicide. Local 5 news at 10 in hd starts now. We are iowa nikki dead in her des moines home early this morning. Tonight, police are investigating it as a homicide. Good evening. Im nikki davidson. This is the metros the first homicide of the year. And while there arent many details on what happened right now, police are