About all morning. Thanks for talking with us. What are you seeing right now . Trooper cutts what were seeing is light snow coming down. It is really fine. It is glazing the roadway. It is very slick. It might look just wet until you tap the brakes or make a lane change in the next thing you know you have gone into a spin. Its deceiving for the drivers out there. Alyx you were on social media all morning long talking about how slick the roads were getting. Have improved . Trooper cutts they are holding their own at the moment. We are still getting crashes, especially on the on and off ramps on the interstates. When you get to some of the county roads and state highways that are not well traveled, they are completely glazed over and completely snowcovered right now. They are very dangerous. Alyx how many crashes of and reported so far today . Trooper cutts we have been running from crash the crash. Count of how many we have had. They are going right to another one or another one happens
We should have teen in the afternoon hours tomorrow but another cold shot of weather for the weekend and we have snow in the forecast for sunday so theres a lot of winter to talk about in few minutes. Back to you. Thank you. Cedar rapids city leaders are getting together downtown to stay one step ahead of an epidemic they fear is coming towards the corridor. Kevin berry joins us from the Public Library where the Eastern Iowa Heroin Initiative will tell the community what to look out for. Kevin . Reporter yeah, karen, plenty of room for plenty of people to talk about the problem on the east coast, heroin. Thats affecting cities from states like massachusetts all the way down to virginia and plenty of communities inbetween as well. Until recently, its largely been thought of as an hes coast problem, but now heroin chicago, wisconsin, and now even iowa. The numbers in the Hawkeye State arent as bad as elsewhere, but u. S. Attorney kevin tedchaw said its a matter of time. Massachusetts had
Secret life. Fueled by an addiction to heroin. Aly Blackmore former heroin addict i was the type that would do anything if you handed it to me i was going to do it. And 90 percent of the time it was heroin. Patranya Bhoolsuwan and she says finding her fix was easy. Aly Blackmore former heroin addict we could walk out onto the street and find someone. Patranya Bhoolsuwan she says her own mother, a nurse, initially had no idea. Aly Blackmore former heroin addict when everybody found out it was a big shock, nobody knew, nobody expected it. Patranya Bhoolsuwan according to the centers for disease control, heroin use has more than doubled in the 18 to 25 age bracket. Use among women went up 100 percent and whites up 114 percent. Dave marlon, founder of solutions recovery, says the old Socio Economic stereotype when it comes to drugs like heroin no longer holds. dave marlon Founder Solutions recovery this is showing up in green valley, its showing up in summerlin, it;s showing up downtown. T
3 3 we start this morning with a cruise ship. Lawmakers want an investigation into Royal Caribbean after one of its ships sailed right into the path of a dangerous storm over the weekend. The luxury cruise liner. Along with thousands of passengers on board. Came back to its home port in bayonne new jersey wednesday night after the nightmare trip. C b s news correspondent don champion is there. 3 pkg nat man kisses the ground after a nightmare at sea. Passengers of the anthem of the seas cruise ship are back on solid ground. Sharing tales of a dream caribbean vacation gone wrong sot david link passenger the wind was coming through the doors. We thought it would break the glass. We slept on the sofa because we didnt think we were going to make it sot nat of cell phone video of waves the 200 thousand ton liner set sail for the bahamas last weekend but got caught in a major winter storm in the atlantic. The vessel was battered by 30 winds. sot dennis maher passenger i was on deck eight, an
Have at least 10 thousand people track 2 Ohio Governor john kasich placed second with his largely positive message. But he says he will fight back if attacked. sot john kasich r oh president ial candidate im not going to take a pounding. Im not a pin cushion or a marshmallow Nats Ted Cruz track 3 ted cruz came in third followed closely by jeb bush who says hes ready for a long fight. jeb bush 6 45 04 i think the field will winnow eventually, i am a patient person track 4 and marco rubio who stumbled at the last debate. sot rubio i did not do well on saturday night so listen to this, that will never happen again bridge weijia jiang cbs news, manchester, nh on the democratic side, Hillary Clinton is trying to recover from her brutal loss to bernie sanders. He won across the board. Especially with young people. sot bernie bc of a yuge voter turnout and i say yuge we won sot clinton i know i have some work to do particularly with young people gfx the clinton camp quickly released a memo ex