Opportunities, and decrease the drop out rate. Wwwill always do what is rrht for kids. That is what we are kids. We will go back and look move forward and we will do everything we can to help the kids of waterloo. I was at several different polls today talking to voters. I spoke to residents on th sides of the vote here is our taxes s re high enough. The taxes cut back. We all have to learn to do more with less. Yes vote i just decided to school and mostly all of them had to leave here to get good now to be clear the bond would have been funded through a surtax on income tax not through property taxes. The county auditor telling me this was an average showing at the polls for a School Election with more than 6thousand votes cast. Weve got you covered live in the newsroom, jessicaahartman, kwwl news. People in denver also voting tonight for a 10point threemillion dollar project towards new athletic facililies for the school district. That vote passing with 64pointseven percent one thousand and fifty votes for it. 35pointthree percent saying no 574 votes. Voters said no to this same project some strong winds and heavy snow earler today. This take just northeast of hazleton by one of our viewewrs danny murphy. As you can see not a lot of most of the snow done but still a little bit moving in. Lets go to storm tracc sevenenchief meteorologist Mark Schnackenberg now whos tracking it all. From the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team. See the screen for your complete weather information. Here is additional forecast informationnfrom the kwwl stormtrack 7 ather team dry air has worked its way into across most of the area. The system, so far, has dropped a trace to 5 inches across the wraps around. The wind will be relatively light through the evening as low pressure tracks through eastern iowa. The light snow will begin 2 inches is possible. After midnight, the wind will tur to the north from 10 to 20 mph, blowing and drifting wont bebea will still bb gusty throughout the during the day. There will likely still be slick ret of the week will be partly to mostly cloudy with temperatures in the 20s. Tt nexttchn monday. In the dubuque area. One accident happening on southerr ave and souuh grandview. A car hitting a pole, knocking down power lines. Traffic was turned away in the area while emergency crews responded to the scene. Was towed away but luckily no erious injuries in eitherf families in cedar rappds enjoyinn their snow day. Jamie sebring teaches in the city so she was able to spend some extra time with her boys in the d of. She says its important to her to teach her kids to embrace ththweather. cg Jamie Sebring teacher we do, i mean living in iowa four seasons i mean you have to and my husband and i really focus n trying to teach our kids to enjoy each seeson. Her boys seemed to be loving it, playing hockey and even baseball outside. All is quiet out there tonight though. Heres a look at dowtown cedar rapids along interstate 380. Nothing falling at the moment. Heres what it looked like earlier. Heading westbound on highway 20 also be sure to check out School Closings and other cancellations. You can find those on our website kwwl dot com. Just scroll over the weather tab and click on cancelations. Decision 2016 coverage the madness of the iowa cacuses coming to an end last night but the official numbers not coming out until today in a very tight race on the democratic side. Hillary clinton just narrowly, beating out Senatorbernie Sanders by point two percent. You can see the final numbers here. Clinton with 49 pointeight percent. And sanders just behind with 49 pointsix percen. Martin omalley dropping out of the race ast night after failing to get more t tan one percent. On the republican side it was a threeheaded race for most of night. Senator ted cruz winning the Iowa Caucuses with 27 pointsix percent. Donald trump finishing in second with 24pointthree percent. And Senat Marco Rubio with a somewhat surprising showing falling just short of trump with 23 pointone percent. The next closest was dr. Ben carson with ninepercent. And with those results came some record setting turnouts across the state including a lot of first time caucus goers. Kwwls brad hanson speaking with local officials tonight about those massive nunubers. And brad, it ssnds like some of these numbers might have caught they sure didin Dubuque County only, nearly four thousand showed up to caucus on the republican sidedeabout double what they expecteded a lot of those voters on the younger sidesomething bh sides are very excited about. Fill up. More than 17 ndred people showed up to the Republican Caucus in peostapart of four thousand uque county gop i nk have not had a very strong showing in quite a whe, so the Iowa Republicans shattering previous caucus recordsmore than 180 thousand showing up caucus night. And many caucus sites seeing something similar to thispackeded we have e ur young people involved in our political process. I think theyre starting to have a big impact on them for the rest of their lives. Like logan ben, who cast just wanted to have a say in whats goog to go on in N Y Community and the government as a whole. Turnout impressive for the democrats as well. brad hanson, bhansonkwwl more than 500 people showed up to Washington Middle School here in dubuque for the democratic caucus. Organizers tell me theyre not only pleased with that number, but also with the amount of voters who came out for the first time. No records foo the left, but Officials Say the influx of young voters this year has been incredibly refreshing. Many caucus sites around the state, including there in peosta, reporting many having to wait in long lines just to get in. A minor inconvenience, but a great sign for the future of politics weve got you coverd live from the th media newsroom in dubuque, brad hanson, kwwl news. And all three g op sites ended up more crowded than excted. Smith says they may look at adding a fourth site during the ne caucus. New at ten a man accused of attacking a woman with a hammer is arrested. 43yearold Christopher Gruver is charged with felony going armed with intent, domestic assault, and other Assault Charges Authorities Say he drove to the home in the 20 thousand block of v avenue in hawkeye and hit the woman, before being stopped by several byanders. Gruver also had multiple warrants through Fayette County on theft the Fayette County jail. A local man guilty in a deadly crash that killed a 20yearold is joshua dunt pleading guilty to vehicular homicide and driving uner e influence of perscrition 2014. Dunt hit a car headon driven by warren van wie inashburn. Vanwie later died at an area hospptal. Today, dunt was given the maxiumum sentence of 25 years in prison. He also apologized to vaa wiessfamily but his mother says time heals everything. Lori franklin i cant forgive yet. Ill work on that because i believe thats the only way i will truly be free is if i forgive m but i just cant yet. His mother hopes to raise awareness about the dangers of driving under the influence of perscripton drugs folloong the tragii loss of hee son. Clerk says no way to a man trying to rob him plus. ,. A man fighting in court over a zombie nativity dispspy outside his home. Heres a live look at the storm track 7 live doppler radar. Storm track sevens chief meteorologist Mark Schnackenberg has your full forecast, coming up. Now your storm track 7 forecast on kwwl. 7 weather team. St on kwwl. From the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team. See the screen for your complete weather information. Information from the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team dry air has worked its way into eastern iowa this afternoon, across most of the area. The systee, so far, has d dpped a trace to 5 inches across the area from north to south. However, more light snow is on the way overnight as this system wraps around. The wind will be relatively light through the evening as low pressure tracks through eastern iowa. The light snow will begin moving through the area after 10 pm tonightht an additional l to 2 inches is possible. After midnight, the wind will turn to the north from 10 to 20 mph, which could cause me snow to blow around. Fortrtnately, this is a fairly compact snow so blowing and drifting wont be a huge deal. The snow will track out of the area by mning, but the wid will still be gusty throughout the day wednesday with temperatures slowly falling through the 20s during the day. There will likely still be slick spots throughout the overnight hours and for wednesday. Partly to mostly cloudy with temperatures in the 20s. The next chance for light snow is monday. Dry air has worked its way into eastern iowa this afternoon, shutting off tte precipitation across most of the area. The system, so far, has dropped a trace to 5 inches across the area from north to south. However, more light snow is on the way overnight as this system wraps around. The wind will be relatively light through the evening as low pressure tracks througk eastern iowa. The light snow will begin movvng through thth area after 10 pm tonight. An additional 1 to 2 inches is possible. After midnight, the wind will turn to the north from 10 xo 20 mph, which could cause some snow to blow around. Fortunately, this is a fairly compact snow so blowing and drifting wont be a huge deal. The snow will track out of the area by morning, but t te wind will l till be gusty throughout the day wednesday with temperatures slowly falling through the 20s during the day. Spots throughout the overright hours and for wednesday. The rest of the week will be partly to mostly cloudy with temperatures in the 20s. The next chance for light snow is monday. Dry air has worked its way into eaatern iowa this afternoon, shutting off the precipitation across most of the area. The system, so far, has dropped a trace to 5 inches across the area from north to sosoh. However, more light snow is on the way overnight as this system wraps around. The wind will be relatively light through the evening as low pressure tracks through eastern iowa. The light snow will begin moving through the area after 10 pm tonight. An additional 1 to 2 inches is possible. After midnight, the wind will turn to the north from 10 to 20 mph, which could cause some snow to huge deal. There will likely still be slick monday. Next chance for light snow is coming up on kwwl. Two so, let me get this straight u. S. Cellular has the phone youre looking for, a network thats built to give you coverage and 6 gigs for only 40 a month. Thats a lot less than verizon and at t. So, why on earth would you ever go with one of those other guys . Switch to u. S. Cellular now and get 6 gigs of data for 40 a month plus get 300 back. [ echoing ] just sayin. A former Police Officer seen on video brutally beaang a man is sentenced to prison. Viewers may find the video to be a little graphic. The dashcam video here shows former Police Officer william melendd punching floyd dent after a traffic stop near detroit last year. Det was driving wjth a suspended license at the time. A judge today sentencing melendez to at least 13 months in prison. And he apologized for his actions during the sentencing. William melendez former Police Officer to mr. Dent and his family i am trrly sorry. If f his has caused undue hardships in your personal life. Melendezs sentence could reach as many as ten years when its a gas station clerk takes down an armed man trying to rob him. You can see the masked suspect walk into the florida store. He goes around ththcounter demanding money from the register. Veteran attacks him back eventually disarming him and chasing him out of the store. The weapon was laer found to be a fake gun. However the suspect remains on the loose tonight after getting away. Two brothers are arrested after a deadly shooting outde a High School Basketball game. Police say`the brothers ages 21 and 18 were at the school in nashville, tennesee for a game. They say the victim a 23year old got into a fight with the brothers leading to the deadly shooting outside the school. The two are now being held on 250 thousanddollar bond. A man fighting fines against his zombiethemed nativity display appearing in court today. Jasen dixon puts the display outside his home in cincinnatti every year for christmas but this past year he was fined more than 13thousand dollars for zoning violations. His attorney arguing dixon was not givennproper noticeeof the meanwhile zombie protestors were outside the courthouse during todays hearing. A judge is expected to rule on the case next month. Coming up next. Well hear from waterloo native kyven gadson as hes set to chase a spot in the 2016 Olympic Games plus the 13th ranked iowa state Basketball Team gos after a 5th straight big 12 conference win mark woodley joins us next on tonight would go after a cyclones hosting 14th ranked west virgina 3 and oh all time at home against the mountaineers iowa state came out hot Deonte Burton punishing the me rims cyclones up 13 early minutes later burton from 15 feet hits the jj iowa state uu 25 to 10 in the first half but foul trouble and turnovers get west viriginia back in it daxter miles with the 2 off the steal makes it a one point game cyclones get some momentum before half jameel mckay off the oop from monte morris iowa state up four at the break second halflf west virggnia comes out on fire Tarik Phillips with the 3 cyclones all of a sudden down 6 but throwing the counterpunch it a one point game then georges niaia not a great game tonight but gets the and one it came down to the final minute and it wasnt food for the cyclones Jaysean Paige 23 points huge 3 late rare loss in hilton tonight cyclones fall 81 to 76 how about this 20th ranked kentntky at tennessee the wildcats built up a 21 point team would get all of it back armani moore helps cut it to a 6 point halftime lead seconn half takiki the lead on a Derrick Mostella triple and the volunteers get it done erasing a 21 point lead to upset kentucky 84 to 77 uni speedster brandon carnn continues to brinn in the accolades carnes was named the Missouri Valley male track athlete of the week for the second time in a row the junior won both the 60 ann 2 hundred meters at the messersmith indoor meet on friday hes currently ranked the 2 in just over two months former waterloo east star kyven gadson will take his shot at making the 2016 Olympic Games in rio last year after winning an ncaa title gadson briefly said he was retired from wrestling unsure of whether or not he would be making a bid for the olympics what changed for me is i just put myself in the best position world and coming away with an olympic gold medal. Gadson continues to train and will be heading to belarus for a
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