Right now, students are studying best prevention practices for the disease. Gray spent five years at the cdc the agency now tasked with leading the u. S. Response to the virus. Jeffrey theyre doing both a lot of work within our borders, to look at the cases and potential transmission of the virus. Ryan the actual testing, we want to know, is not done here at the Iowa Department of public health. Blood samples are drawn, then shipped to the cdc in georgia. For the actual analyzing of the samples. But i did learn tonight that state Health Officials are considering in the future offering the test right here in iowa. Live in des moines, ryan smith, kcci 8 news, iowas news leader. Steve thank you, ryan. Right here in iowa, an ames company is working to develop a zika virus vaccine. For its work on an ebola with zika. The Biopharmaceutical Company says it is still trying to figure out what type of vaccine they are going to work on. Brian were just starting, right . Everybody is just starting
First on 13. Its that time of year again. The mats are down at Wells Fargo Arena and theyll stay put until saturday. After a good night of rest, wrestlers and fans are ready to flood into downtown for day two. Channel 13s josh nguyen joins us live now from where all action is taking place this week. And josh. Theres going to be a lot chaos not just inside, but outside wells fargo. Ishaa is expecting 80,000 fans to attend this years tournament. The event center will have more staff than normal to accommodate the larger crowd. The are not doing much for parking. Buses can park at principle park and cab will bring fans over but those fans will be responsible for paying. Im not sure in a lot of cases you see the amount of love for the sport that you see here. These fans are very knowledgeable. A lot of them actually wrestled. So they know if the kid is good or if the kids one day down, 3 more to go for state wrestlings biggest venue of the year. Today wrestlers fend for themselves but lets
Mayor. And in cedar falls, businessman jim brown receivedverwhelming support for the mayoral seat. He got about 75 percent ofof e support, with about 35hundred votes. Received 143 votes. And David Halterman had writein candidate. Vote for brown in todays runoff. Thats from the position at the end of on the runoff ballot today. Mayoyocrews has served ceded falls for 30 of the last 44 years. Meteorologist Justin Gehrts joins us now with your first forecast. Justin, will we still some overnight . Our scattered snow showers and flurries diminish tonight. Some few lingering flurries could still fly on wednesday but there is hope for a brighter sky on the horizon. Watch out for a northwest wind building to middle 30s. A warming trend continues to look promising later this week. As the sunshine becomes more apparent, high temperatures rise into the middle to upper 40s starting friday, lasting through the weekend. Low 2531 scattered flurries high 3339 winds nw 1020 back to you. Cedar Rapids Po
For real . Cheers. If you drop your food on the floor, how much time do you actually have before you can no longer eat it . The new study, this morning. Good morning, everybody. Were distracted by the fivesecond rule. Well finally address this. Cheers. Only sara can make dropping food on the ground, an occasion. First, we have a lot of new details to tell you about in what has become the worlds most baffling aviation mystery ever. The investigation focusing on the pilot and the copirate. The captain ahmed shah. There are questions this morning about his ties to a controversial political party. And the copilot, fariq abhamid, who lived at home with his parents. Friends and family say he was religion and serious about his career. He had 2,700 hours of flying. And officials were shocked when they saw him flying with young ladies in the cockpit during flight. The search area is now massive. Its focused on two, huge areas. The red arcs you see on your screen. A northern arc stretches over l
And is the fivesecond rule for real . Cheers. If you drop your food on the floor, how much time do you actually have before you can no longer eat it . The new study, this morning. Good morning, everybody. Were distracted by the fivesecond rule. I like sara haines saying, cheers. Well finally address this. Cheers. Only sara can make dropping food on the ground, an occasion. We love that. Thats coming up later in the half hour. First, we have a lot of new details to tell you about in what has become the worlds most baffling aviation mystery ever. The investigation now focusing on the pilot and the copilot. The pilot, his name is captain zaharie ahmed shah. He is a 53yearold grandfather. He has a Flight Simulator in his home. He has over 18,000 hours of flying time. Neighbors say hes a wellrespected father and neighbor in the community. However, there are questions this morning about his ties to a controversial political party. And the copilot, fariq ab hamid. A 27yearold copilot who live