Overnight a pair of Police Officers shot across the Country First in the last couple hours the man who shot a saint louis officer was killed. A 20year Police Sargent was shot in the face during an ambush yesterday. Yesterday. That officer is in the hospital in Critical Condition but is expected to survive. The shooting happened last night at 7thirty. Police say the officer was just sitting in traffic when another vehicle pulled up next to his squad car and fired at least two shots. Hours later the suspect was shot and killed after attempting to shoot at officers again. mayor francis slay, st. Louis this tells you how dangerous of a job it is and officers. We have to understand the difficulties they go through, the sacrifices they undertake to protect us and protect our neighborhoods sthe good news this morning the officer was able talk and move his extremities despite being shot in the face. But still Law Enforcement Community Across the nation is mourning the loss of one our their own
7 weather team. See the screen for your complete weather information. Here is additional forecast information from the kwwl the upper teens to low 20s this morning. A bit below normal. Winds are light to around 10 mph from the east and will turn a should stay mainly clear today have some snow and sleet mixing developing overnight chaos in north dakota. 400 people protesting the Dakota Access pipeline face off with law enforcement. Them and it appears police have been using Water Cannons to keep them back. Firefigthers say theyre using hoses to put out fires set by protesters. The pipeline is almost done about 85percent of it has been built. The Standing Rock sioux tribe has been protesting the construction for months saying it will pollute the water and destroy some of their sacred sites. The pipeline would stretch through four states, including iowa. Now to another big story this morning enforcement in several states. One officer shot and killed in texas. Two more officers shot in mis
Eileen on camera from the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team. See the screen for your complete weather information. Here is additional forecast information from the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team we still have temperatures in the morning. A bit below normal. Winds are light to around 10 mph from the east and will turn a bit more to the southeast. And be mainly around 10 mph this afternoon. We should stay mainly clear today tonight as the next system tracks in. But today. Mostly winds mainly around 10 mph. We times. Ill explain coming up. Its a very dangerous job. But ambushed in other parts of the country. This comes just weeks after two iowa officers were shot and killed. In Texas San Antonio Police released a picture of a person of interest in the deadly shooting of an officer. Investigators say detective Benjamin Marconi stopped a driver and was writing a ticket in his patrol car. Thats when the suspect pulled up, got out, walked up to off. Most families will be by a suspect who will be
And brock staley as they received honors for risking their lives. Today, an investigator with the state Fire Marshals Office checked out the damage at iowa gold distributing. The recycling plant in central city caught fire after multiple explosions yesterday morning. People nearby couldnt leave their homes, or use their furnace for possible contaminates in the air. Central city firefighters went back to the plant that rekindled. The fire chief, james oleary, says its hard to prepare for the dangers explosions and that type of fire can present. A prairieburg firefighter went to the hospital for overexertion while battling the fire. Youre carrying probably an extra 5060 pounds of weight on you. And hes in shape, hes not an older guy at all. Even someone in shape, it wears you out. A good few hours of oleary says the firefighter is back home and recovering. A state fire marshall says they will have to get somebody to move things out of the area before they can determine a cause for the fi
New this morning, were working to get more crash in cedar rapids. The iowa dot says the crash blocked all around 3 00 this morning. According our Traffic Cameras traffic is moving through at this time. Witnesses say it involved a semi and at least one other car. We spoke with Cedar Rapids Police only a half an hour ago about this crash, but they declined to comment on any injuries. We received several calls about this crash overnight, and we thank you for that. Whenever you see news, give us a call on newsline nine. That number is 3193659999. You can also email pictures and video to newsroom at kcrg dot com. Former leader of communist revolution in cuba. Fidel castro has died at the age of 90. Castro ruled cuba for almost a half century before his brother raul took over in 2008. This is video of current president raul castro. Last night he announced his older brother died at 10 29 p. M. He ended the announcement by shouting the revolutionary slogan towards victory, always fidel castro