Might have been still been cracked open. We were just out looking at hail, i mean, its the coolest thing ever, its hail. Its frozen water from the sky. Thankfully no reports of any injuries. Lets check on your weather now with storm track 7 meteorologist rachael peart. Good morning. Eileen on camera from the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team. See the screen for your complete weather information. Information from the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team behind the cold front yesterday, today will be mild in comparison. Partly cloudy skies will continue through daytime hours. Highs today will be above average in the mid 40s to the north and low 50s to the south. Winds could be a little breezy at times but for the most part wont be an issue. Tonight, additional clouds begin to track in ahead of a accumulation by sunrise on wednesday. Wednesday brings the potential for a light rain snow mix across eastern iowa. The best chance we dry out late week as High Pressure tracks in but sunshine were following breaking news this morning. The left lane is blocked on highway 20 right now due to a crash. Youre getting a live look this morning out of waterloo right now. At this point no word if anyone is injured at this point. Continuing coverage into a deadly crash over the weekend. This morning were taking a closer look at the damage. This is the squad car involved in the crash off of i380 in cedar rapids. The officers were on the scene of a different crash when a car hit the back and side of this vehicle. Police say both officers were wearing their seatbelts leaving them with only minor injuries. They both have been treated and released from the police say matrell watson and kaitlyn hall were inside the vehicle that hit the squad car. Both were from cedar rapids. Kaitlyns family says she was three months pregnant at the time of the accident and also leaves behind a twoyearold daughter. Continuing coverage its up to a judge to decide whether a former substitute teacher is guilty. Mary beth haglin is charged with Sexual Exploitation by a school employee. She was a substitute teacher at cedar rapids washington high by jury and instead a judge is reviewing the case. After numerous interviews with iowa and National Media a felony charge was filed. But those interviews are not being included in the case, so the judge will only decide on an aggravated misdemeanor charge which carries a maximum of two years in prison. The cause of a thanksgiving day fire could remain a mystery. It happened at the iowa gold distributing building in central city. It burned for several ur that firefighter is still recovering. An investigator tells us the fire will most likely be officially listed as undetermined because of the destruction the fire caused. Farmers work hard to save their 250 cows when a dairy barn catches fire. The birker family farm in Benton County burned over the weekend. They plan to rebuild. Any cows. Everything is stable, we got the cows moved to different farms, and theyre along, so itll look totally the cause of the fire. They believe it might be electricalrelated. Digging deeper this morning. After growing concern. Some answers. One eastern iowa fire station is working to improve communication kwwls Amanda Gilbert joins us live in cedar falls. You can explain. I spoke with the president of the Cedar Falls Firefighters Association, jim cook. He says some cedar falls firefighters have been decisions are being made that affect schilling left. Firefighters media released information. Try to bring things to the council, or to our mayor or to the department head, we can have them pointing fingers at each other. Somebody has to say i made this decision, and it was on my recommendation. Cook says he and cedar falls mayor brown are working together to make a they met last week. Both meeting. They believe communication will improve between the firefighters and the city. It just may take some time. Live in cedar falls. Amanda gilbert. News 7 kwwl. The city expects to have a new fire chief named in the next few weeks. Country remembering fidel castro. As jay gray tells us chairs. Have replaced cars. Along the passeo that borders the plaza de la revelucion. Cuban president raul castro gather later today for a special tribute to his brother. Fidel. We all feel very sad with the hearts and our minds. Yesterday. Lines stretched in all directions. For hours. And for as far as you could see. Thousands waiting for a chance tle memorial. A few seconds. A final. Emotional. Goodbye. You see soldiers crying, old ladies crying, men crying even the guard those guards were trying to hide their tears but they just cant. Tears. That come with concern here. Even though he was no longer el president e. Castros death. Leaves many in that will most surely be influenced by the countrys controversial past. Jay gray nbc news havana. A public funeral will be held near across the world mixed feelings on castros death. Jason streit owns the lost cuban restaurant with his brother in downtown cedar rapids. His grandfather was part of the counterrevolution and had to followed. Were personally forced to flee from cuba and so for that reason they feel happy to see the man that caused that to pass away but in cuba you do have this next generation that all theyve ever known is communism and castro. He hopes to see basic rights such as freedom of speech given to his family still living in cuba. Castros more interest in American Travel to cuba but visiting the island nation is complicated. U. S. Tourism to cuba is still illegal. Americans need to fit one of twelve authorized travel categories to go from athletic competitions to visiting family. Flooding possible because of a beaver familys new home. A family of beavers moved into a dam near a kentucky mall. Theyre causing water to back up in the creek and ditches around it. Flood or sinkholes in the malls parking lot. Trappers are working to gather up the beavers and release them somewhere else. The whole idea is that these now where it starts to level out and the ditches get shallower starts to back up in the peoples yards, in basements and garages and homes and everything else. Theres no reason to destroy its expected to take about a week to move them accepting housing vouchers it seems the idea of making the concept mandatory may not happen. Last night the Dubuque City Council discussed housing vouchers often called section eight vouchers. One idea floated in the city was making it mandatory for landlords to accept them some landlords filed a petition against the idea. About our Property Rights as criteria not the citys or somebody elses criteria. The council was not scheduled to vote last night according to our coverage pa the council may move forward with providing incentives to encourage people to participate instead of making it mandatory. An nfl star, earning millions on the gridiron. But at the height of his career, he left it all behind. For a life on the farm. Kevin tibbles tells us how hes stirs. C300 iso jason brown is big. Football player big. Old that was the same age that my older brother was when he was killed serving our examination of my life c300 iso 5d wide brown. Walked away from a 37 Million Dollar contract. And hung up his cleats. Jb i wear a size 16 shoe. And he wore a size 14 shoe. And to deeply religious and devoted serve. But instead of the military. Jason brown bought a farm. Kevin tibbles when i tell people that i farm. Volunteer nats to kids we have a list of names and we share because sharing is caring. Volunteer hug and lining up in the dirt. Alongside the volunteers on harvest day. The former football player. Who who used to snap the ball in front of millions from the line of scrimmage first fruit card 1 volunteer this is the most wonderful thing you could possibly do what . Thats just some some kid from the country that could his life right now. If he can do it, i can do it. For this mountain of a man. Helping those less fortt kevin tibbles, nbc news, louisburg, north carolina. Iowa. Getting around some of our countrys largest cities could be much more difficult today. Plus. No permit no hugs. This man gives out free hugs but now hes facing a fine for doing it. Those stories plus the forecast stand back, ya hear he holidays. Now your storm track 7 forecast on kwwl. Lets go to storm track seven meteorologist eileen loan now for your forecast forecast. For your complete weather information. Here is additional forecast information from the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team behind the cold front yesterday, today will be mild in comparison. Partly cloudy skies will continue through daytime hours. Highs today will be above average in the mid 40s to the north and low 50s to the south. Winds could be a little breezy at times but for the most part wont be an issue. Additional clouds begin to track in ahead of a weathermaker that could bring a few flurries overnight. There most likely will not be any accumulation by sunrise on wednesday. Wednesday brings the potential for a light rain snow mix across eastern iowa. The best chance would be in our Northern Counties but wont rule out seeing a mix toward the south. Temperatures tomorrow will be cooler low 40s for all. But sunshine might not return until friday. Behind the cold front yesterday, today will be mild in comparison. Partly cloudy skies will continue through daytime hours. Highs today will be above average in the mid 40s to the north and low 50s to the south. Winds could be a little breezy at times but for the most part wont be an issue. Tonight, additional clouds begin to track in ahead of a weathermaker that could bring a few flurries overnight. There most likely will n any accumulation by sunrise on wednesday. Wednesday brings the potential for a light rain snow mix across eastern iowa. The best chance would be in our Northern Counties but wont rule out seeing a mix toward the south. Temperatures tomorrow will be cooler low 40s for all. We dry out late week as High Pressure tracks in but sunshine might not return until friday. Behind the cold mild in comparison. Partly cloudy skies will continue through daytime hours. Highs today will be above average in the mid 40s to the north and low 50s to the south. Winds could be a little breezy at times but for the most part wont be an issue. Tonight, additional clouds begin to track in ahead of a weathermaker that could bring a few flurries overnight. There most likely will not be any accumulation by sunrise on wednesday. Wednesday brings the potential iowa. The best chance would be in our Northern Counties but wont rule out seeing a mix toward the south. Temperatures tomorrow will be cooler low 40s for all. We dry out late week as High Pressure tracks in but sunshine might not return until friday. Behind the cold front yesterday, today will be mild in comparison. Partly cloudy skies in iowa. The bird flu impacted a number of iowa farms last year. And now iowas ag secretary is asking for money to prevent another outbreak. Plus. Nothing comes for free even free hugs come at a cost. Stay with kwwl, weve got you leaders for for 5hundred thousand dollars. That money would be used to train farmers in the event theres another outbreak. Last year the bird flu killed 48 million birds nationwide half of that was in iowa alone. Uber drivers on strike. According to the group fight for 16 uber drivers around the country are expected to strike today to push for a 15dollar minimum wage. Uber has said in the past drivers in its top 20 us markets actually average more than 19dollars an hour. But drivers complain of accounting for expenses like gas, repairs and insurance. Uber does operate in some iowa cities but its unclear strike. Eastern iowa is getting a new place to shop for groceries. Trader joes Grocery Store will be opening in coralvilles iowa River Landing district. Its on track to open next year. Right now des moines is the only city in iowa that has a trader joes but the company has more than want to give out free hugs better get a permit a mans been wearing a tshirt reading free hugs and offering them to people at subway stations in canada. Last week he said a transit officer asked him to show a permit for his activity. He didnt have one so then he was fined. This very station and i met a sharing that great moment with her, and she was talking to me what was happening to her at that moment, so it wasnt something bad. The citys Transportation Authority later withdrew the fine and issued a warning instead. But the man is still warned to stop offering free hugs in the storm track seven meteorologist eileen loan has your storm track the left lane is blocked on highway 20 right now due to a crash. Now. At this point no word if anyone is injured at this point. Stay with kwwl as we learn more information. Eileen loan is back with another check of your storm track seven got you covered. This is today in iowa. Now on today in iowa tornadoes. In late november in eastern iowa. Our storm track seven team tracked it all. Plus we are following breaking news overnight. A plane carrying a soccer team in south america crashes. And there and the Trump Transition Team says expect a number of very important announcements today. Good morning, im ally crutcher. And im jerry gallagher. Storm track seven meteorologist eileen loan is here now with your storm track seven forecast. Eileen on camera behind the cold front yesterday, today will be mild in comparison. Partly cloudy skies will continue through daytime hours. Highs today will be above average in the mid 40s to the north and low 50s to the south. Winds could be a little breezy at times but for the most part wont be an issue. Tonight, additional clouds begin to track in ahead of a weathermaker that could bring a few flurries most likely will not be any accumulation by sunrise on wednesday. Wednesday brings the potential for a light rain snow mix across eastern iowa. The best chance would be in our Northern Counties but days from december and were talking about tornadoes. Severe weather rolled through eastern iowa yesterday. This video was sent to us from a viewer near parkersburg, with a funnel forming above butler county. Butler county Emergency Management says fortunately the county escaped with very little damage. Some roof damage, a small shed blown off its foundation and some tree limbs down. More video this out of grundy of tornadoes yesterday in iowa. Its unusual for this time of year. But certainly has happened before. 41 tornadoes in iowa during the month of november since 1980. The storms also brought hail here are a few pictures of the buildup sent to us from the parkersburg area. As the storms moved through we received many pictures and a lot of video from you. Thank you for that. Whenever you see news or if you have pictures or video to share many of you did yesterday. Some eastern iowa firefighters are working with their city to improve a concern theyve had for many years. The president of the Cedar Falls Firefighters Association says for years. Firefighters have felt like they were left out of important decisions made about them. Theyve asked the mayor. The council and Department Heads why. But they werent getting a clear in the right direction. When moments like this happen. The cedar falls firefighters recently found out from the media. Who the finalists for their next fire south main street might be where their new Public Safety building would be. Jim head of Firefighter Union those are fairly momentous things tha happen within a Fire Departments life. A new building and a new chief. And to find out from the media, that just demonstrates that theres a disconnect between our leaders and the staff of the department. Recognizing a need to improve communication between the city and the firefighters. , mayor brown recently cedar falls fire union. Mayor what they do is so important, and we need them to be there when they do their this. We need to improve this. Its for the health of the city and our citizens. And there should be more meetings in the future. Slowly. There is a culture in every organization. And culture takes built for quite a while, so that culture needed to be changed a little bit. Its going to take some time. Amanda gilbert reporting. Firefighters want to see more direct contact between the city and the department. When the city. The council. Or Department Heads make important reach out to the firefighters. Mayor brown says the next cedar falls fire chief should be chosen sometime in december. Breaking news this morning a plane carrying a soccer team from brazil has crashed. 81 people were on the flight that went down in colombia. Five people survived. Everyone else died in that crash. The team was on its way to a regional tournament. No word yet on what went wrong, continuing coverage this morning students go back to class this morning at ohio state after emergency . Caller hi, im at ohio state, right outside of watts hall and there is a guy who crashed his car into a bunch of people and ran out with a knife chasing down people. 11 were hurt including one person who has critical injuries. A Campus Police officer shot and killed the suspect. The attacker an ohio state student posted a rant bef he wrote on what appears to be his Facebook Page that he reached a boiling point and made a reference to a lone wolf attack. The killer was a somali refugee who lived in pakistan before coming to the us as a legal permanent resident two years ago. Investigators are searching his apartment. Fbi agents have been seen walking in and out with bags of potential evidence. Ohios governor says the university will be stronger having learned a lot from what happened. To the people that run security here, they will even up their outstanding and heroic performance on the part of our first responders. He says its not just the students who go there now who are dealing with this. He says anyone who has ever been linked to ohio state has been affected by what happened. This is video of a prayer vigil held for the victims. Police say one of their officers was on the scene within a minute yesterday and killed the attacker a man wanted by police d