The weather causing some issues on the roads across eastern iowa today. In cedar rapids a Police Squad Car was involved in a crash in cedar rapids this morning. Heres video of the scene. Police say the officer was going to the scene of another crash when the accident happened. The squad car collided on the edgewood road bridge with a jeep cherokee. One officer was hurt and went to the Hospital Police say the injuries are not serious. The first crash that police were called to involved five cars in which no one is believed to another accident happened in waterloo. A car rolled over off of greenhill road and the 218 exit ramp in waterloo. Police say this was a weatherrelated accident. The driver hit an icy patch. Officers say only one passenger had minor injuries. The car. A woman is now facing charges nearly seven months after a child died at a waterloo daycare. Yesterday officers arrested Amy Hangartner following the harrelson. The boy died in june after being placed in an infant car s
Ceremonies being held around the country today marking the aniniversary. The countdown continues the Iowa Caucuses are in four days. And tonight dueling events in our states capital. While many of the top polling republicans will be taking part in the debate on fox news. Donald trump wont be there, citing issues with one of the moderators, megyn kelly. Trump will be in des moines, hosting a special event to benefit veterans. Both events are at eight tonight. Senator ted cruz. Whos polling closely to trump in iowa. Continues to challenge trump to a oneonone debate. And im going to propose a venue, western iowa tech, saturday night in sioux city, we in des moines. But, trumps absence from tonights debate has created an the impact will be with actual votes so soon to being cast. Tracie potts has more from washington. Morning our nbc marist poll shows donald trump flipping the script in New Hampshire and South Carolina our poll shows. Yet his fued with fox news and anchor megan kelly has a
So far des moines has received around three inches of snow. With snow having fallen across ththstate, lets take a live look out at the Road Conditions. We bring in storm track seven meterologist kyle kiel and his team who is out driving on highway 20 and kyle what are roads like ouu there . Hi ron and amanda. Yes, we are doing this safelyy right now thth roads arent too bad. Theyve definitely improved from earlier this afternooo. However, later more light snow moves through the area. The latest check of the iowa dot cameras shows slushy conditions for areas north of highway 20, including dubuque. Conditions get a lot worse to the west of the state, we havv had blizzarddlike conditions. So we have really lucked out as far as missing the worse conditions. However light snow tracks through with and as the temppature drops, t tere will likely be slick spots, especially this evening with a light wind. Just take your time. Back to you guys in the studio thanks yle. Road conditions are slowly
Trump administration. It is not, obviously. The hugest outbreak on earth. Even though we have the luxury of weeks, even months of warning that it was coming, with now more americans dead in less than two months, than died in all of the years of the vietnam war. It is not a Great Success story for america. It is certainly not a Great Success story for the administration that has not been leading a response. So you probably noticed the pattern, here, we tried to steer clear of the happy talk, as much as we can avoid it from washington and instead tried to focus almost on a daily basis on the american doctors and nurses and Health Providers who are in the middle of it and risking their lives to keep the rest of us alive. They of course are the ones who will pay most acutely for any decisions that we and our government make in terms of accelerating the spread of the virus again, by stopping a stay at home other, and reopening nonessential businesses. We dont have a vaccine for this. We don
Know, a nobrainer. They ought to be at the center of our understanding of whats really grasping the country right now, what were going through, what it means to have over a million coronavirus cases and climbing. What it means to have had over 60,000 americans die from this in just a matter of weeks, with that number still just climbing relentlessly. The president s soninlaw who is a senior white house adviser, with no fixed responsibilities, Jared Kushner just went on tv today and called the american coronavirus catastrophe a quote Great Success story for the Trump Administration. It is not, obviously. With the hugest outbreak on earth. Even though we had the luxury of weeks, even months of warning that it was coming, with now more americans dead in less than two months than died in all of the years of the vietnam war. It is not a Great Success story for america. It is certainly not a Great Success story for the administration that has not been leading a response. So you probably noti