Coming in earlier today here at the armed force Readiness Center here in cedar rapids. They deployed early on new years day morning, and have worked non stop providing nearly 500 thousand gallons clean water to more than 6 thousand residents in two counties in missouri. All of that water was used as a few soldiers ive spoken to during this process say this is the first time theyve ever responded to a Natural Disaster like this. And one soldiers account of what he saw in missouri is breathtaking. You can hear from him in the story im working on for ten. News. Thanks, olivia. Firefighters spending the day training for ice and cold water rescues. Training was at Manhattan Lake in ellis park. The Cedar Rapids Department was involved in 8 water and ice related rescues in 2015. Kwwls Kristin Rogers spent the day at the lake obersiving this special type of training, kristin its calm here now, but earlier this area was full of firemen in dry suits working hard to learn the necessary tequniques
And there could be freezjng drizzle late tonight, so that wiil make thursday morning travel a little slick. Heres the forecast for today. Temperatures will be in the lower to middle 30s with a south wind 10 to 20 miles per hour. Colder temperatures on the way. Details in just a few minututs. Our top story this hour the search continues for a rare bike that was stolen from one eastern iowa front porch. The bike elongs to a m m whose been dealing with cancer and and it was the only way he could get around kwwlsamanda gilbert joins us live in the hewsroom. She caught up with this man and his dar falls police are asking people to be on the look out. Someone stole a motorizedbike from brett garbus. A man who doesnt have the money rit now for a car and who this empty porch was home to a one of a kind garbes says this was more than just a fun ride there is no other bike like this. After battling stomach cancer. And dealing with a clogged artery. Bret says it has been hard to get around. If i
Finding that driver is what police are most focused on. But its not the only thing. Of course, they want to prevent Something Like this from happening again. And tonight channel 13s Justin Surrency shows us how. Recent improvements last construction season were put in place to prevent such losses like the death of emmalee jacobs. we tried to make improvements to that intersection at lincoln way and ash and make that as safe as possible but we will have to analyze the situation. almost a month later, ames police and city officials are left with little information. it makes it difficult when we dont have an eyewitness, we dont have a vehicle descriptionpolice say numerous leads have lead nowhere. i would say well over 5060 tips have come in but most have been insignificant. but they arent without a plan for future safety its more about awareness and education and in the end we ant everyone involved so thatll be our goal. We will hand out fliers and just talk about safety, our main concer
Shot of the suspect. 35 shot of the suspect. 35yearold guiteirez. They say he was behind the east bay crime spree that ended in the hostage situation at the gas station. We hear from one man held hostage for 2 hrs. Laura has the story. Reporter with more than 20 years at the location gas station owner man has made a lot of friends. Many who stop by today to see if hes okay. 24 hours after being held captive for more than 2 hours by an med man he told us hes not only oy, he has a message for his conspirator. Wish you all the best in the life and thankou for not hurting us. Reporter ait turned out his station was suspt last stop. On spree that began with car theft. Police chase. Crash. Then series of attempte carjack. Gun pointed a at me. Either you hit him or he will shoot you. Reporter once inse the tiny office he said he and his captor used Security Camera to monitor the Police Activity outside. Including their use of robot in armored vehicle. Vehicle was used to actuly be a shield fo
Reporting live in san jose for ktvu channel 2 news. Todays industrial accident follows a string of tesla car fires. Two model s sedans caught fire after hitting a metal object in the road. A third after a highspeed chase. The ceo says there are no plans for a recall. He insists the model s is one of the safest cars on the road. They tumble 3 and bounced back to 138. 70, a gain of. 7 for the day. New at 5, a train full of people and without a driver. The train took off from a platform without the driver on board. It was up to passengers to bring that train to a stop. We obtained video of what happened this morning along with a possible explanation. Reporter the operator of that train will undergo drug and alcohol testing, suspended with pay pending an investigation after what happened at this station behind me. It began at about 10 20 00 a. M. This video weve obtained shows an outbound train line pulling into castro station. If you look closely, you can see the train operator wearing a