Live in the drake neighborhood, kim st. Onge, kcci 8 news, iowas news leader. Steve powdery snow falling across the metro this morning and afternoon. A little under two inches at the Des Moines International airport. We could see some more tonight. Kurtis, it sure got slick out there. Kurtis it really did. No doubt about that, especially on the sidewalks and secondary roadways. Here in the metro, 1. 9 inches. It was a little more in jefferson and polk city. If you are out in it, you noticed how big the flex work. Very fluffy. Air space in between. Right now, the band of snow is very light from southern story county through jasper county. Not expecting any additional accumulations out there. Going to be a cold one tonight. Clouds of slowly decrease at the not a tremendous amount of wind, but enough for the windchill of three below early on. Highs tomorrow 23 degrees. 8 day forecast has two snow chances and a warmup. Details, coming up. Stacey des moines authorities are identifying a man
Kccis Mark Tauscheck joins us live to explain the bizarre situation, mark a 29yearold was shot and killed5. 009 echo. Pasinunderscorenalec1 alphac 5nkilom. Dnamen pointm2amikeac . Ps usierras44r,. F. Errais,nechox , 9 two violent stories colliding after getting into an altercation with a suspect at a party nearby. Police found the suspect not far away at southeast 13th. Daniel cruz is in the jail and charged with an assault with a dangerous weapon. Also happening today, the murder fazzino in decorah. Fazzino is charged with death of his wife, emily fazzino. To decorah. The case has received emily fazzinos grandfather founded the Fareway Stores grocery chain. Ice jams have led to flash flood warnings to be issued for parts of central iowa. Vanessa peng joins us live now boone county with the very latest. Vanessa here because of ice jams. Moines river. The ice chunks over there could be because of an ice jam. It is essentially a dam that has built up out of ice because it is built up on
Administration, the democrats were going to make sure he did not appoint anybody to the suprcourt. Cynthia today grassley said , after giving it more thought, he implied he wouldnt rule out Holding Hearings on an obama nominee, but would only say senator grassley i will take it a step at a time. He hasnt nominated anyone yet. Cynthia the constitution states the president can nominate with the advice and consent of the senate. Matt sinovac, who questioned grassley about the process, was not pleased with his answers. The kept repeating that we will take it one step at a time, but he tried to be very vague and continued to play political games with this nomination process. Cynthia president obama today challenged republicans to offer any plausible rationale for refusing to consider a Supreme Court candidate, and he vowed to nominate an outstanding legal mind. Stacey the man looking to unseat senator grassley comes to the Selection Process for the next Supreme Court justice. State senator
From the iowa utilities board on the controversial bakken oil pipeline. The board met today to review the pros and cons of the project. The pipeline would cut through 18 iowa counties. The board did move into closed session, but did not announce a decision, before adjourning late this afternoon. Stacey theres a high wind advisory in effect today. Semi trucks traveling on the interstate are at especially high risk of rollover. This semi truck is on its side off i35, near ellsworth. Driver david warren says he dropped a load in des moines and was heading to albert lea, minnesota to reload. His empty trailer didnt have much weight and got caught in the wind. David i come into this clearing, and the gust of wind just picked me up, brought me over, and set me over on my side. And i mean, there was no stopping it, once it started. It just picked me up and threw my right over, like i was a piece of trash on the side of the road. Stacey scary. Warren says he made it out ok, and says hes thankf
Line. Thats low. Vanessa caleb brown is a truck driver from north dakota. His goal is to get to paton. Slow down and i guess just hope. Vanessa as you mentioned, i35 in both directions is closed between clear lake and ames. There are several tow bans in place. Live in ames, vanessa peng, kcci 8 news, iowas news leader. Stacey commitment 2016 news tonight. New poll numbers from cnn show donald trump and Bernie Sanders holding substantial leads in New Hampshire. Sanderss 54 to 40 advantage over Hillary Clinton is down slightly from a 55 to 37 lead in the previous poll. No public poll has found clinton in the lead in New Hampshire since november. Donald trump tops the gop field with 31 , well ahead of marco rubios 15 . Ted cruz follows with 13 . Most polls open at 6 00 iowa a. M. Time. Chief political reporter Cynthia Fodor is live in manchester, New Hampshire right now. Cynthia, its been a full day on the campaign trail. Cynthia our weather here sounds like it is just like yours. In the