First. 5849 its an education piece. Its a binine substance no body can get high off of it its like oh. This isnt the scary evil thing we thought it was. Sally has met with nearly every president ial candidate in des moines and says shes gotten good feedback from most of them. But right now the real question is who in washington will vote to support her. Reporting in washington, im alex miller. Right now, iowa is one of 17 states that have laws allowing limited use of a marijuana product for medical purposes. Iowas law says people can possess cannabis oil and use it for treatment of severe epilepsy. But those people cannot produce or transport the oil in our state. Some democratic president ial candidates are chiming in on the medical marijuana debate. Bernie sanders says he would take a similar approach to the bill that iowan sally gaer is remove the drug from the controlled substances act. Would like the government to reclassify the drug to allow more federally sponsored research on i
Set to bring a ccnce of light snow or flurries to the area on friday night. Due to the warm ground, limited moisture, and Fast Movement of the system, accumulations appear minimal at this time. Well keep an eye on it for you this week. Try to stay dry out there the Variety Compassion Fund children their families by providing comfort, care and fulfilling immediate needs such h as; a gas card for frequent travel to appointntents coming up in the next half hour, i will introduce you to a family who needed the Compassion Fund. Guys back to you. Fund telethon. Thanks a lot. A man is hurt this morning after he crashed into the jehovah witness kingdom hall in cedar rapids. The Linn County Sheriffs Officeeays 64 year old Randall Maher of mount vernn lost control of his vehicle. He was driving on Mount Vernon Road a bit before 10 yesterday morning. The truck entered the ditch before spinning and crashing into the buulding. Maher is at the hospital and is expected to survive. Some members of the
Miles away from the medical center. Two of the suspects a man and a woman were killed in a shoot out with police. An officer was hurt, but is expected to be ok. Authorities have identified one of the suspects as ssd farook. They have not yet identified the third suspect but they say that person is being detained right now. Swat teams are still seching the witnesses here i ia live look at the inland regional center. The building is not secure tonight. Police s that is because authorities found one explosive today marks the seventh time in five months that president obama has felt compelled to the u. S. And called for common sense gun control. In an interview with cbs this mornings norah odonnell, the president said all levels of government need to act in a bipartisan way. Way. We should never think that this is something that just happens in the ordinary course of events, because it doesnt happen with the same frequency in other countries. Cbs 2 news will stay on top of this developing
Emergency in france for another three months. Governors from nearly half of the fifty states are now saying they dont want Syrian Refugees to be resettled in their states. States. That includes Iowa Governor terry branstad. Their announcements come after it wawadeterminin at least one of the attackers in paris entered europe with other refugees. This morning, speaker of the house paul ryan commented on the issue. Our nation has always been welcoming, but we cannot let t terrorists take advantage of our compassion. This is a moment where its better to be safe than to be sorry, sorry,president obama previously announced the us would accept up to 10thousand people fleeing fromomyria. Immigration experts say under the regfugee act of 1980, governors cannot legally block them from settling in their communities. Moscow now says it has proof that terrorisis took down a passenger jet in egypt last month. Intelligience officials were able to find traces of a homemade bomb among the putin is vow
Wve got you covered live in dar rapids, kristin rogers. Kwwl news. As kristin mentioned the incident remains under investigation, we will contnue to keeo you updated as we learn more. Itits been a soggy day today and from the looks of it, its going to continue to be soggy the next couple days lets go to storm track seven chief meteorologist Mark Schnackenberg whos tracking these rains. From the kwwl stormtrack here is additional forecast information from the kwwl stormtrack 7 Weather Team Scattered showers tonight become widespread tuesday with isolated storms mixed in. The rrn becomes scattered and light tuesday night through wednesday. Some locations could see up to two inches of rain through wednesday evening. Thursday turns mostly sunny before more clouds roll back in thursday night. There is a chance of rain friday to mix and possibly change over to light snow friday evening night. Situation. Scattered showers tonight become widespread tuesday with isolated storms mixed in. The ra