Live in the drake neighborhood, kim st. Onge, kcci 8 news, iowas news leader. Steve powdery snow falling across the metro this morning and afternoon. A little under two inches at the Des Moines International airport. We could see some more tonight. Kurtis, it sure got slick out there. Kurtis it really did. No doubt about that, especially on the sidewalks and secondary roadways. Here in the metro, 1. 9 inches. It was a little more in jefferson and polk city. If you are out in it, you noticed how big the flex work. Very fluffy. Air space in between. Right now, the band of snow is very light from southern story county through jasper county. Not expecting any additional accumulations out there. Going to be a cold one tonight. Clouds of slowly decrease at the not a tremendous amount of wind, but enough for the windchill of three below early on. Highs tomorrow 23 degrees. 8 day forecast has two snow chances and a warmup. Details, coming up. Stacey des moines authorities are identifying a man
We won because we harness the energy and the excitement that the Democratic Party will be to succeed in november will need to succeed. Mr. Trump do we love the people of New Hampshire . I think it even a year ago. I said, i think im going to do well there because i am here a lot and it is so beautiful and i love it so much. I love the people. I said, i actually think they love me a lot. Gov. Kasich we see this as an opportunity for all of us, and i mean all of us, to be involved in something bigger than our own lives. Cynthia we met up with a New Hampshire political analyst two is now looking at each campaign in south carolina. The big question for bernie is what is next. The next date on the list to south carolina, and the polls in the south. What we do know about Hillary Clinton is, although she is taking it on the chin in New Hampshire, she is doing much better among the different ethnic populations in south carolina. Africanamericans and latinos strong support for hillary that coul
Line. Thats low. Vanessa caleb brown is a truck driver from north dakota. His goal is to get to paton. Slow down and i guess just hope. Vanessa as you mentioned, i35 in both directions is closed between clear lake and ames. There are several tow bans in place. Live in ames, vanessa peng, kcci 8 news, iowas news leader. Stacey commitment 2016 news tonight. New poll numbers from cnn show donald trump and Bernie Sanders holding substantial leads in New Hampshire. Sanderss 54 to 40 advantage over Hillary Clinton is down slightly from a 55 to 37 lead in the previous poll. No public poll has found clinton in the lead in New Hampshire since november. Donald trump tops the gop field with 31 , well ahead of marco rubios 15 . Ted cruz follows with 13 . Most polls open at 6 00 iowa a. M. Time. Chief political reporter Cynthia Fodor is live in manchester, New Hampshire right now. Cynthia, its been a full day on the campaign trail. Cynthia our weather here sounds like it is just like yours. In the
Act. Todd storm lake legislator gary worthan is sponsoring the bill. He says the dot tells him the the average speed on iowas interstates is 72. All the more reason to boost it to 75. If youre not going to in 470 to slow that traffic down, lets make it legal. Todd one driver we talked with lung interstate north of des moines agrees. Most of the people are going that speed anyway, so if someone is going 70 they are actually slowing the traffic down. Todd in fact, in a very unscientific test, we set our Cruise Control at 70 along i35 and traffic constantly passed us. But not everybody is convinced faster is better. The thing is, they go fast enough as it is. In the winter time, people need to slow down. You know, its a trade off. If you want to look at safety and thats all you want to look at, it should be 25 to 30 miles an hour. Is dead set against raising the speed limit. The next step for this bill is the full Transportation Committee and the iowa house. That could happen this week. S
Yesterday. But high winds are still around, making for another very frigid day. Lets check in now with frank for more on that. Frank now that the snow is out of here, the coldest is staying around. 13 degrees, what a blast of cold air with wind out of the northwest at 20. The wind is not helping. Fort dodge at 15, 23 for mason city. Low 20s around lamoni. Through the rest of the day the cold will be big concern. 4 00 wind chills at times, zero to five low if you look at it right now. They are cold, feels like five below in des moines and nine below in ames. Definitely one of those days for you have to layer up. 6 00 temperature of 13. We are going to finally warmup in the forecast. Learning more about the death of a des moines man following a report of a disturbance. Des Moines Police Department Patrol officers were called to 2500 59th street to investigate a report of a person yelling outside their home. Officers found no disturbance upon their arrival. A short time later, officers we