Widespread as yesterday morning. We still have mainly clear skies and temperatures are in the mid to upper 30s across most of the viewing area. Winds are light to 10 mph from a northerly direction but will turn to the southeast and become gusty this afternoon. We should warm into the upper 50s to mid 60s this afternoon as well. One more really nice day after this before things change. Ill have the details in a few minutes. Northerly direction but will turn to the southeast and become well. One more really nice our top story this morning protests around the country, including here in iowa, over the Dakota Access oil pipeline. The pipeline would cross through much of iowa though much of the debate has been focused on a section of land in north dakota. Around the country yesterday around 70 people at this one in dubuque. They stood in front of a us bank. An Organization Called food and water watch named us bank one of 38 banks helping contribute money to the pipeline project. Us bank did not comment. adria hogan, dubuque im out here today because we cant stay silent when so many of our brothers and sisters over in the dakotas, their land is being threatened, and their Burial Ground and their Water Resources are being threatened. Reid binion takes a look at some of the other protests around the country. Water is sacred water is life the heartland tuesday. Protesting in support of the Standing Rock sioux tribe. And against the construction of the controversial Dakota Access pipeline. I do this because i want clean Drinking Water for my future generations. Plans for finishing the pipeline include tunneling under a lake and river that the Standing Rock tribe relies on for Drinking Water. The concern is that digging under those water sources will create a risk of president ial candidate bernie thousands across the country opposing the project. We are not going to allow a pipeline to endanger the clean water that millions of people depend upon. The companies behind the Dakota Access pipeline insist that the risks are low. Pipelines do leak. Its rare. I think the chances of this pipeline leaking is extremely remote. Those same companies slamming the army corps of engineers monday decision to halt further construction on and around the lake. And taking their case to court. E needs to discuss the issue further with the Standing Rock tribe. And that it hasnt decided yet whether to grant an easement for continued construction. Im reid binion. The Company Building the pipline is asking a federal judge for permission to go around the government and keep construction a kwwl followup. Blood everywhere. Thats how continues. 27yearold eddie hicks on trial accused of murdering his girlfriend. Police say he stabbed her more than 100 times at her home in dubuque last year. According to our coverage partners at the dubuque telegraph herald an officer testified hicks told officers to kill him. The defense arguing he was confused and making odd statements. 15thousand dollars in damage to a garage following a fire in dubuque. Crews responding to the area of 22nd street and windsor ave. Yesterdays fire no word on what caused it. Passed over for a promotion the claim worth nearly twoMillion Dollars. The city of West Des Moines agreeing to a settlement with a sergeant two days after chief shaun ladue resigned. She was one of three woman who sued last year claiming they were unfairly passed over for promotions. The two other officers already in my 32 years, morale is kind of, its hard to explain, and i think you make your own morale. Of the team, and thats what were gonna do. the sergeant has been with the department for 17 years. A horrific story. A 14yearold is fighting for his life after being locked inside of a basement for two years. He was found inside an alabama home sunday with little food or water. Hes now in Critical Condition in the hospital. Authorities say when he was brought in, he only weighed 55pounds. Representatives with the Alabama Department of Human Resources say they never received any reports about the child. Police arrested his adopted parents. Families of those killed in the shootings at sandy hook are appealing a judges ruling. The families want to hold remington responsible in a wrongful death dead. A judge dismissed their case but im bringing this appeal to help avoid the next mass shooting. Using these weapons and to help prevent more families from the horrors that we have experienced. Lawyers filed papers asking the Supreme Court to hear their appeal. Water still unsafe the state of emergency continues. A year ago the mayor of flint, michigan declared a state of emergency. That was set to expirei we still cannot drink oura wter without a filter, and thats a huge issue federal and state governments have vowed to restore the Drinking Water system and continue helping the peopel of flint. A cement truck trying to get through an intersection before the light changed and turns too fast for its load. Thankfully, no one got hurt. Dry, warm weather continues to fuel wildfires in the southeast. Fires burning in tennessee, the carolinas. Strong winds expected tomorrow which could push the fires near communities. Humidity also expected to drop making fighting the fires more difficult. Decades after he died defending our country an iowa heros remains are identified. Marine corps private first class wilbur mattern, of oelwein battle in 1943 but his remains were not recovered until just recently. He will be buried with full military honors monday at Arlington National cemetary. Continuing coverage as the white house transitions to new Leadership Today the outgoing and incoming Vice President s meet for lunch. Joe biden will welcome mike pence today at the Vice President s official residence at the naval observatory. Pence spent tuesday in transition meetings at trump tower. His wife karen is expected to attend the lunch as well. Biden will be there. Former democratic president ial candidate Hillary Clinton will make her first public appearance tonight since giving her consession speech last week. Tonight, shell be honored by the Childrens Defense Fund in washington, dc, where she once worked as a young staff attorney. President elect donald trump is going to have to make some tough decisions about his businesses the Trump International hotel in washington just opened. But the Historic Post Office turned fivestar property may prove to be a conflictof interest for trump. Fo e questions if trump holds press conferences on the property. Or if visiting diplomats decide to stay at the hotel. Trump said he plans to transfer his Business Empire to his children during his presidency. Speaker of the house paul ryan will remain in his leadership role for a second term. House republicans unanimously nominated ryan. In january, ryan will be subjected to a formal vote on the house floor to officially retain his gavel for the new congress. With a republican majority in the house, ryan is expected to after a social media post about donald trump. On election, Matt Harrigan who ran a Cybersecurity Company in california posted on social media that he planned to kill the president elect. When a friend warned him that he might get a visit from federal authorities he said bring it secret service. Harrigan has apologized and deleted his facebook account. The companys board of directors said it doesnt condone comments like th this morning, a mayor is no longer on the job after she seemed to endorse a racist comment about the first lady. This is what happened. After the election, a West Virginia nonprofit director posted this on facebook. She said it will be refreshing to have a classy, dignified first lady in the white house. She said im tired of seeing an ape in heels. The mayor of clay, West Virginia then responded saying you just made my day. Now on leave from her job at a non profit. The mayor apologized saying her comment wasnt meant to be white house. New this morning expanding services to help more people. A waterloo nonprofit is trying to get a grant so they can help kwwls Amanda Gilbert joins us live in waterloo to tell us how the nonprofit is helping people stay warm more than just give people items they need. They recently applied for a grant from the Waterloo Community foundation of northeast iowa. They try to help people out in all kinds of ways giving out supplies people need. As you can see from this video of one of their ungarage sales. The organization has a lot of clothing and other items for people. But theyre trying to get grant bus cards. Really cold it gets kind of hard then the taxis are kind of expensive, so well be able to expand in other areas to help people to things they wouldnt be able to do otherwise. Right now. Eye of the needle still has a lot of Winter Clothes available if you need them. If you need anything. Theyre located right next to live in waterloo, Amanda Gilbert, news 7 kwwl. Typically the organization wouldnt be able to have an ungarage sale in november, like they did yesterday. The warmer weather helped them out. Its coming up the cities you may be able to score the best deals on for your 2017 vacations. Plus were learning and a thanksgiving tradition were getting a sneak peak at the floats for this youre watching kwwl, weve got you covered with jerry gallagher, ally crutcher and meteorologist eileen loan. Meteorologist eileen loan now for your forecast forecast. From the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team. See the screen for your complete stormtrack 7 weather team some areas of fog again this morning. Although not as widespread, we can still Weather Network cameras. We will end up mostly sunny again today and we stay mild today and tomorrow before things change on friday. We are starting the day warm. In the mid 30s to low 40s over much of above average. Winds are morning but will become southeast and gusty by this afternoon. We are still dry for the next day or so, but a pretty strong system will track in by tomorrow night bringing a lot of highs today across the region will be in the 50s to 70s again, but much cooler air is tracking in behind the will stay mild today. Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s mid 40s to around 50 higher than our normal highs and we stay warm for thursday with highs in the mid 50s to low 70s as the system tracks in. Winds will become Even Stronger toward the evening. Windy with falling temperatures on friday. We could see some showers, but the back to highs in the mid 40s by monday and tuesday. Down. Highs today across the region will be in the 50s to 70s again, but much cooler air is tracking in behind the front. Only the mid 30s in western dakotas tomorrow. We will stay mild today. Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s with gusty southeast winds. Winds wi only in the mid 40s to around 50 higher than our normal highs and we stay warm for thursday with highs in the mid 50s to low 70s as the system tracks in. Winds will become Even Stronger toward the evening. Windy with falling temperatures on friday. We could see some showers, but the main thing will be the wind and temperatures. Highs will only be in the upper 30s on saturday with the winds continuing. We drop to around 20 for sunday morning. And back to highs in the mid 40s by monday and tuesday. Left in 2016 but if youre experts are predicting which cities will have the best deals. According to travelzoo the new zealand. Paris. Peru. And the united kingdom. More Hotel Openings make dc and florida a good bet and a strong dollar could make traveling abroad more affordable. Jetblue is having a sale right now some oneway fares are listed as low as 34dollars each way. The tickets are good for monday through thursday and saturday travel between december first and march ninth. There are severab within the window. The sale ends late tonight. Need a gift for an apple fan . Apples latest product is a photo book. And it goes on sale today. Its titled designed by apple in california. And shows the companys past 20 years of product design. As with most of apples products. Theyre not cheap. It comes in two sizes the small still costs nearly 2hundred of nikes selflacing sneakers just found out those are not going to be cheap. The cost 720 dollars select users of the nike plus app will get early access to buy the december, from decking the halls to crazy glues fun house an early look at the floats for this years macys thanksgiving day parade. In just more than a week in just more than a week your kids life is already in motion. At sylvan, we create a personalized plan for your child with our in depth assessment. Our certified teachers use a technologybased approach so your child not only catches up, but gets ahead of the game. To find out more about sylvans affordable plans and flexible hours call 1800educate today youll be surprised how quickly city for the annual macys thanksgiving day parade. This is the 90th anniversary of the parade. Karen lee shows us some of the new floats and a little bit of history about the parade. Tangible magic. Its amazing seeing all the colorful colors and all the artwork. New floats this year are the aloha spirit featuring a working waterfall, the girls scouts building a better world, deck the halls and krazy expensive. We always talk about the parade as being our gift to new york and to the the day before the parade is no easy feat. All of these 3story, 24 foot wide, 30 to 40 feet long floats have to come apart and collapse 1 2 feet tall and theyve got to go through the lincoln tunnel. At a time when there are political protests dominating the streets right now, organizers say what we need at least for a moment is to see balloons and, of course, these very happy characters to give a different perspective. We are going to move forward with the in 90 years the parade was only canceled for three years during world war 2. It marched on assassination. The Kennedy Family reached out to macys and said please make sure that the parade goes on because the country needs it, and to do so reminds everybody just how thanksgiving morning right here on kwwl. Time now is xxx. Coming up renovations on the capitol wrap up just in time for the butterburger is made of just three cuts of fresh midwest beef. Nothing more, nothing less. So we got the sirloin, the chuck and the plate. No fillers; thats it. All prized cuts, all wellmarbled for richness and flavor. This is where those three wonderful cuts of beef come together. You can just tell that blend is working in there. And we sear them, and that seals in the juices of the burger. It doesnt get any better than that. Eileen loan is back with another check of your storm track seven forecast. Areas of fog this morning then mostly sunny and mild again today with highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s. Warmer tomorrow but winds picking up even more by evening. Windy with three years, 60 Million Dollars finally renovations to the us capitol dome are complete. This is a live look at the outside of the capitol behind us now lets take a look at what the inside looks lile. The dome had become badly corroded since it was last restored during the Dwight Eisenhower administration. Workers removed hazardous materials, upgraded electrical and mechanical systems and used 12hundred gallons of paint on the rotunda got you covered. This is today in iowa. [ tower pinging ] [ whistling ] weve got a problem, friend. Half off any smartphone for anyone who switches . Whats the problem . The naughty list shouldnt get deals yeah, but anyone who switches gets half off of any smartphone. Even these . Yeah, any smartphone. Call the big guy [ bell dings ] santa . No, jingles. Spits ] ooo. Ouch. [ neck cracks ] [ darien ] switch and get half off any smartphone. Iowa arrest made in a Murder Investigation officers wont forget. Plus donald trump is still trying to figure out who he wants in his cabinet as some push back and iowans who depend on hel their assisted living complex have 30 days to find new help. Its a story thats new this and im jerry gallagher. Storm track seven meteorologist eileen loan is here now with your storm track seven forecast. Eileen on camera some fog again this morning, but not as widespread as yesterday morning. And temperatures are in the mid to upper 30s across most of the viewing area. Winds are light to 10 mph from a northerly direction but will turn to the the upper 50s to mid 60s this afternoon as well. One more really nice day this afternoon as well. One more really nice day after this following the murder of a two yearold boy with connections to iowa. Chicagos Police Superintendent announcing 41 yearold kamel harris has been arrested in the death of kyrian knox. The suspect was already in an illinois jail on unrelated charges. Knoxs Mother Told Police she had left her son in harriss care. Throughout every Police Officers career, were all witness to things that most people shouldnt see once in a lifetime, let alone on a regular memory, and last year on labor day weekend, twoyearold kyrian knox became one of those memories harris is charged with firstdegree murder. Those who knew a 19yearold girl have a simple message after she was shot to death. They wan