Thank you for joining us on this friday. Jason will join us in just a minute to let us know how much snow we can expect here in the metro. But our stormteam 8 coverage begins with vanessa peng. Shes live near harcourt and western county where they are just ready to see a little snow. Vanessa as you can see we just get a few flurries going. Write the intersection of 175 and 169. Its very windy and pretty cold. This wind chill is really picking up. Its about 30 degrees but it feels cooler. You can see the traffic is moving pretty standard, what you typically see out here. Pretty safe over here but we do know it will get worse as the flurries start to pick up and we see real snow. We will be following this all day. Keep it right here on kcci and also kcci. Com. Live in harcourt, vanessa peng, kcci 8 news. Mollie now to check in with jason for the latest on the storm moving into the metro. Jason it is knocking on our door at the moment. We are seeing a pretty heavy band set up shop north of jewel. You can see pocahontas, clarion as well. Already picking up and it just opened a lot of locations underneath that line picking up at least in accumulation or a dusting on the ground. It will continue to ramp up as we head into the afternoon. The snowfall rates associated with this line and more developing to the south increase. You can see a letter p and green shading. Not a lot of that hitting the ground. The ground. It actually helps to cool the atmosphere as it does that. We will see this area phil and and it will fill in and it will settle. North and that continues to develop. You can take outlook out at the snow continues to fly. That will eventually be stacking up. Pretty broad in the area with the winter storm warning. Metro included in this goes all caps in northern iowa. You can see some of the counties off to the south. Winter weather advisory and even more up to the southwest. Thats not the same love you seeing any precipitation. You will be seeing the heaviest of the snow. As we work of the afternoon we pick up some pretty heavy snowfall of around one inch or two inches per hour. We top out in the midsevens inches. I will have the timing of this what to expect coming up shortly mollie . Our coverage continues with kim st. Onge. She joins us live just west of the metro where road crews have been preparing for the storms arrival. Kim we are set up a lunch interstate 80 here in waukee. No snow to separate crews are definitely making sure they are prepared for when it does start you can see the streets on the interstate that schumer the crews have pretreated the rose with brian roads wih th brine. A lot of the signs are money drivers at the winter storm is expected to start in about that at about 2 00 this afternoon. We want to show you vdot camera over the west mixmaster. No snow just yet. Really just called and quite windy right now. We were west of where we were in de soto. We did see a snow plow in that area getting ready. We also caught up with a driver who was hauling a camper from indiana to california. He is hoping he can to stay ahead of the storm. It sounds bad but ive driven through a lot of bad weather before in other states. I have been doing this for a while. Kim again, no snow just yet. Just cold and windy but we know the signs are indicating that we a couple of hours. Iowas news leader. Mollie thank you kim. And with the storm arriving the Des Moines Police department has a few winterweather reminders. Monitor weather reports and avoid driving in poor conditions if possible. Slow down and leave extra space between yourself and other vehicles. Make sure you have plenty of gas in case you do get stuck. Follow parking ordinances in your neighborhood. And never leave your car running or unattended. If you are out on the roads tonight, you may notice that some d. O. T. Trucks will be utilizing blue and white lights along with the familiar amber. The d. O. T. Lobbied the legislature for approval of the lighting package. D. O. T. Officials say since 2009 there have been more than 200 crashes with d. O. T. Trucks, causing more than one and a half 1. 5 million in damages. A reminder that the Iowa High School Athletic Association is postponing the 1a, 2a and 4a games until monday. Officials say they were concerned about the teams and their fans traveling to and from the unidome in cedar falls. Dowling catholic and cedar rapids kennedy now will play monday at 7 06. And a lot of schools are dismissing early today. You can see those scrolling at the bottom of the screen. Also, weve learned that tonights holiday Tree Lighting and fireworks at Jordan Creek Town Center has been cancelled. But the snow wont keep santa away. He will be arriving at jordan creek tonight at 5 00 p. M. New information on a car chase that we first brought you overnight. Police have yet to identify the driver that fled from a gray minivan. The car was pulled over for a Traffic Violation around 3 30 this morning. Police chased the vehicle from the 1000 block of southest king. The driver then abandoned the van at second and center streets and fled on foot. During the chase a police car was damaged in a crash with a utility pole at george flagg and fleur drive. The officer was not injured. New information concerning iowas plan to privatize medicaid in the state. Iowa Officials Say of iowas 17,000 service providers, more than 12,000 of those providers have signed necessary paperwork to offer care under the states proposed plan. Democrats critical of the plan say the figure shows low participation and have asked for a delay of the plan. But governor branstad says hes confident iowa will be ready by january 1. Iowas 4. 2 billion Medicaid Program provides care to lowincome residents, including children and disabled individuals. U. S. Forces are involved in a rescue operation in mali after islamic extremists stormed a hotel, killing at least 27 18 people and taking more than 100 hostages. The hotel is popular with foreigners and some americans were reportedly inside. Cbs news correspondent craig department. Reporter free hostages ran for safety in the capital after 10 suspected islamic extremist ambushed the radisson bluyee hotel. They took 170 people hostage. All are now safe. Witnesses say they shouted open great god is great in arabic during the assault. Americans were registered at the hotel, including employees of the state department and the embassy. Mali is a former french colony in the violence comes one week after the terror attacks in paris. President obama was asked about the seats during a meeting in malaysia. We are monitoring the situation. Reporter forces stationed in the nation helped malis military free the hostages. The hotel is popular with foreigners. Two terror groups links to al qaeda are cleaning this possibility for the deadly siege. Craig boswell, cbs news, the state department. Mollie Al Qaedalinked terrorist and hundreds of french soldiers remain in the country. Convicted spy Jonathan Pollard was released after 30 years for an selling intelligence secrets to israel. We are not commenting now. Mollie hours after his release he check in at a federal Probation Office in new york city. According to court papers, he will be working at a Financial Firm in the city. The terms of his parole require him to stay in the United States for at least five years though his supporters are seeking permission for him to move to israel immediately. , frankenfish. While the government calls it a great new source of healthy we will tell you when the first cleared for you to eat will be available for your dinner table. And the number of salmonella infections linked to cucumbers continues to soar. Those stories and a look at your snowy forecast when the news at noon continues. Self. Dad no . Culligan man no. Anncr leave it to the experts. With a culligan wholehouse water softening system, you get better water, and service you can actually count on. Dad hey, culligan man. Culligan man hey dad this is great people are sick and tired of establishment politics,rand they want real change [ cheers and applause ] Bernie Sanders husband, father, grandfather. Hes taking on wall street and a corrupt political system that keeps in place a rigged economy. Bernies campaign is funded byover a million contributions people like you, who see the middle class disappearing and want a future to believe in. E you can actually count on. This is iowas news leader. This is kcci 8 news at noon with jason sydejko. Mollie the first geneticallyaltered animal cleared for you to eat may be on your dinner table within a few years. The fda granted its approval to genetically modified salmon yesterday. Makers say the salmon will grow twice as fast as normal salmon. Julie watts has more details san francisco. Its new at noon. New source of healthy food. Fit for human consumption. I am not too keen on it. Reporter they will come from a advantage. And then shifted to panama to be it is changing or altering that you could not do with traditional breeding. Its taking genetic material from oneill an eel, putting it in one type of salmon and the putting it into another type of salmon to make a grow faster. Genetically modified salmon has been studied for years and there risk. It seems to suggest is no different than conventional counterparts. Reporter he admits the Company Selling the fish should make it clear to consumers something that is not required by fda, that the genetically modified fish dont have to be labeled. As a consumer i certainly want to know what im getting. Sneaky. They should look for wild salmon because that is one way genetically engineered. San francisco. Mollie in other health news, this afternoon people are still getting sick from salmonella linked to cucumbers. The outbreak started on september 4. Now the cdc reports more than 800 cases in 38 states, including iowa. Just last september, cucumbers imported from mexico were lets check back in with jason out of find out what is in store for us the rest of today. Jason i think you know. Snow on the way. It will be heavy at times for a lot of people out there. If you are heading out mainly for your evening commute is what we will seeing a lot of this. Folks to the northwest of artie started to see the snow stack up. Bands through northern portion of the state. This is where some of the heaviest snow will fall that we are continuing to see portions of the south fill in. We are not out of the woods and head into the evening tonight. As it transitions to snow. It will saturate at the service in nicely to the snowflakes to make it all the way to the surface. Winter storm warnings are still out for central and northern portions of the state. Main portions under the gun if yourself in des moines, you a chance at a mix in some lighter accumulations. We are seeing the winds kick up a notch into the upper teens. Multiple levels of discomfort as you head out and about. A look at the metro right now. Its not too bad at their. 39 degrees is what we are sitting at. Our dew point sits at 14 degrees. It will take some snowfall or even some rain to help saturate that enough to get this note actually make it all the way to the surface. Moisture not much of a problem out there. You can see huge bands from north platte always to chicago at this point. This area will continue to fill in as we head into the afternoon and into the evening as well. Temperatures will begin to cool even further and that will help the snow stack up other. The heaviest portion of snowfall will be in the evening hours. You can see starting around 2 00 temperatures back out into the 30s throughout the evening hours for us. This is a low that is a culprit for the snowfall. It drag the heavy batch of snow mainly through iowa and then pushes eastwards towards chicago. If you have travel plans this evening, please be safe out there. We are likely giving the snowcovered roads. Futurecast is a good handle on the situation. It pushes heavy snow through by around 9 00 p. M. We are still dealing with some will eventually be clearing out through the overnight hours. If you have travel plans saturday morning, have enough time to get the plows out into the roads off. We will have sunshine. It will be quite a bit cooler on saturday but we will have the sun to help send off some signs of cold. As far as how much snow falls, still dealing with a solid area for us in des moines. Off to the south there was a 25 inches. Southern portions of the state i would not expect nearly as much as those in the north. I would expect a pretty wet afternoon. 40 degrees is where we will top out today. The rains will ring fairly gusty at 1020 miles per hour. The cooler air drug and by this thing will stick around. What snowfall we do get is likely not going to melt for a while. I dont think you will like the temperatures we have coming. 24 degrees is the overnight low. How about close to the high for tomorrow. To much. 26 saturday with the wind feeling a lot cooler. Though no sunday morning will at nine degrees, single digits. Thats only for one day and you arrived into the holiday in pretty good style. Sunny and we start to warm up. Like the melting off all the snow. Its a quick burst of winter but at least we in fact to fall and is not too bad for thanksgiving. Week it will be ok. The play is set in iowa. The lead actress is an iowa native from cedar rapids and the National Tour launch is in iowa. Bridges of Madison County americas never been a country of quitters. Its not who we are. 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I love the music from the show. Its one of the great reasons to come and see it. Even if you have read the book or seen the movie, this is based on the story of the book. It really is not related to the movie at all. The telling of the story is very different. You see you meet the characters in a different way. Elizabeth stanley and andrew, the two leads. Fantastic. I cannot wait. Mollie and the music, as you say, we will have a very special conductor. Guest Jason Robert Brown who wrote the music and lyrics and orchestrated it. He one tony awards for both of those. He will be in the pit conducting here and conducting in los angeles. Conducting in. And have the composer actually conducting the orchestra is something that i will go out on happened before. They just normally dont have the skill or the interest. He is such a dear guy. He given conducted the des moines symphony and he loves it. Because probably one of the best scores. Mollie what is different guest what you see more in the musical is you learn more about francescas journey. Not only to america. And you also have the interplay of the community. Having grown up in iowa i know how it is. One of the great values we have is people watch out for each other. And you see that in the musical in a very different waiting you see it in the movie or in the book. Mollie what are the dates . Guest tickets are Still Available but they are going fast. They start a november 28 which is a saturday. Normally the open on a tuesday. Low because we are closing on the following saturday, which is december 5. And in the show packed up and goes to the next stop which is los angeles. Its a performance is 8 performances. Store. Mollie son of a polish immigrant who grew up in a brooklyn tenement. He went to public schools, then college, where the work of his life began fighting injustice and inequality, speaking truth to power. He moved to vermont, won election and praise as one of americas best mayors. In congress, he stood up for working families and for principle, opposing the iraq war, supporting veterans. Funded by over a million contributions, tackling Climate Change to create cleanenergy jobs, fighting for living wages, equal pay, and tuitionfree public colleges. People are sick and tired of establishment politics, and they want real change [ cheers and applause ] Bernie Sanders husband, father, grandfather, an honest leader building a movement with you to give us a future to believe in. Sanders im Bernie Sanders, and i approve this message. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. [kcci captioning is brought to you by the iowa clinic] mollie a reminder that the countdown is on. Only six newscasts left. Kevin coonie is retiring next week. Think of how many he has anchored in his 33 years here at kcci and a few other years around and about. Many of you are wondering what his last they will be. He will be tuesday 24 at 6 00 and 10 00. You can help us wish him well. Jason going to miss that smiling guy. Mollie he will be home to do the dishes on thanksgiving. Jason he hopefully wont have any snow to get through. We have a little bit going on right now it we will continue to see that into the afternoon, tonight and into the evening especially. But thanksgivings looking like a mollie jeb bush leadership means youve got to be all in. Its not about yappin. Its not about talking. Its about doing. I know how to do this because i was privileged to serve in florida for eight years. And we turned the systems upside down that werent working. 1. 3 million new jobs were created. Weut taxes every year. Income rose in peoples pockets. People were lifted out of poverty. Children started to learn. 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