Started yesterday morning south winds, while light, are helping. And they will pick up today. It will be pretty breezy this afternoon with gusts higher than 20 mph. Clear skies this for the afternoon as clouds track in ahead of the next cold front. Highs today the forecast. Ill have that for you in a few minutes. Overnight. Someone dies in a crash in a yard. A car went off the road along the 500 block of newell street in waterloo. It happened around midnight. The car hit a tree and then caught fire. The person who died was the only one in the car. Their name has not been released. Well keep following this story and bring you the latest on air and online as we learn more about it. After years of planning and a of work today a new interchange is set to open. The c57 interchange over 218 will open this morning. We first started hearing about the need to make changes at cedar wapsi several years ago after many serious crashes. Opening the overpass means three gravel roads including gresham
Still seeing 30s out there this morning. But a good 5 to 10 degrees above where we started yesterday morning south winds, while light, are helping. And they will pick up today. It will be pretty breezy this afternoon with gusts higher than 20 mph. Clear skies this morning will end up partly sunny for the afternoon as clouds track in ahead of the next cold front. Highs today will be in the 60s. And we will warm up even more for the weekend. But there is rain in the forecast. Ill have that for you in a few minutes. Breaking overnight. One person is dead after a car hits a tree. Waterloo police say a car caught fire after going off the road and into someones yard. Kwwls Amanda Gilbert joins us live in waterloo. You can tell us the latest on what happened. Ive been checking in with police this morning. They say shortly after midnight. A driver drove off the road and into the yard behind me. This is on the 500th block of newell street. The car ended up hitting a tree in the yard. And then c
Eileen loan is here now with your storm track seven forecast. Not as cold this morning, but still seeing 30s out there this morning. But a good 5 to 10 degrees above where we started while light, are helping. And they will pick up today. It will be pretty breezy this afternoon with gusts higher than 20 mph. Clear developing overnight. One person is dead after a car hits a tree. Waterloo police say a car caught fire after going off the road and into someones yard. Kwwls Amanda Gilbert joins us live in waterloo. You can tell us the ive been checking in with waterloo fire and police all morning. They did confirm that shortly after midnight. A driver drove off the road at the 500th block of newell street. The car ended up hitting the large tree behind me in this front yard. The car then caught fire. And Waterloo Police confirm that the driver was killed in the accident. They time. Waterloo Fire Department says it took about 5 to 10 minutes to put the fire out. They say the car was destroye
Deputy is arrested for carrying weapons. Officers were called to a san marnan drive gas station for an assault around 330 this morning. Witnesses told police erik mcferran was drunk and tried to assault people. According to a criminal complaint mcferran had a loaded handgun on his person and later blew a point one six nine blood alcohol concentration. Erik mcferran had a weapon permit to carry but was void because he intoxicated. Blow up the dh s. One woman is being charged with making a threat of terrorism. Sarrina bancroft of iowa city made threats in person and over the phone. She also threatened to shoot inside the department of human services. Authorities say she allegedly made threats because she was upset about a dhs case involving her. Kim bradfield from janesville is expected to be ok. It couldve been much worse. She was on 260th street in Bremer County when there was a collision on the tracks. She was taken to the university of iowa hospitals and clinics, but again were heari
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