Showers end this evening. A few 30s. A few flurries linger friday cloud with high rain snow saturday night into early sunday morning. High temperatures this weekend are in the upper 30s and low 40s. Morning. We continue to track the potential for a large winter storm to impact iowa where across iowa or the the place from update to update. In tennessee, the death toll from after more bodies were recovered today in the great smoky mountains. Dan scheneman has the latest tonight. This weeks fires forced some 14thousand people to flee to safety. In the aftermath of the chaos. Evacuees now must search for loved ones. Michael reed hopes to hear from his family. Looking for my wife constaenccr. Esiuh and my daughter lilly whos nine. And my other daughter chloe whos least seven lives and that figure could rise as search and rescue missions continue. Some families who did not lose loved ones. Lost their homes. Jeri morgans house was destroyed. Along with priceless mementoes from her late mother
Amanda you have a lot of people wondering is this some kind of hoax. As you can imagine theres a lot of fear. But as far as police are concerned they say unless these clowns are committing a crime they cant do much to stop them from simply Walking Around in costume. Start heading for college and university. College street and university. The house thats kitty corner behind the house. Are several subjects. Undressing they appear to have been wearing clown costumes. Its reports of clowns like this one. Are several subjects. Undressing they appear to clowns like this one. Popping up all across eastern iowa in the weary hours of the night that have many on edge. Im constantly looking out my locks, im constantly locked up in the house. Waterloo police hearing six separate reports of all happening between 10 30 to three in the morning. One of thosehere at this mcdonalds on la porte road. Teenage girls dressed with clown masks ordering food through this drive through. In cedar fallstwo clown
We cant give their loved one back. But we can stand by them, and hold their hand, and get them through the rough patches. Rose rough patches felt already by about a dozen families this year. Most recently, in colorado, where an officer was shot this week. So far, in 2016, there have been 10 firearmrelated deaths. Last year, in the same time frame . Just 1. Toni its concerning to everybody. Because the trend thats going on in the United States is not good. And when you have a loved one that is out there every day putting their life at risk, its very scary. Rose a risk, buenting says, she knows all too well. Amanda i really hope that, tonight, lots of people recognize that theres blue lives that matter. And that everybody puts their life on the line every day, when they put that badge on and go to work. Rose the money raised tonight will help families attend National Police week and visit the memorial in washington, d. C. Todd . Todd in kalamazoo, michigan today, hundreds of people gathe
But referred us to a recent article in the register. 6 24. In that article, it said that des moines had reached out to waterloo and a principal and a teacher had given a positive reference. But in the article, Waterloo School leaders say they never received a formal reference request from des moines. At the time, districts were not required to conduct criminal background checks of new hires. That changed in 2014. But the iowa board of educational examiners which licenses teachers in the state cant legally share criminal backgrounds with districts. And the board only revokes s aching licenses for certain criminal convictions, which is why madson was able to still teach after pleading guilty to trespassing. Thats why referevce checks are so vital. Waterloo schools provided kcrgtv9 with its twopage document for how administrator s screen potential candidates. But few districts are willing to talk about such a sensitive topic. I thinkhwhere weve seen problems, in education in general and,
Symptom of other issues that are creating it and so the Police Department needs to work with the rest of the community to address this problem. Cedadarapids police chief wayne jerman says the Department Already started outreach to the community. One main project the Police Community action team. Their priority and their mission focus is to address gun violence and with this being a gunrelated homicide, this would be certainly be something that they would be involved in. That team was not working the night of thehe homicide. The 25yearold who was killed lived in chicago. Thats spurring discussion that the violence comes with the people who move to this area. Area. I dont think its 100 percent accurate that its only just people from chicago. Are there people from chicago . Yes, but were also seeing other people from metropolitan areas who come here to cr and become involved in this type of activity and its the other victim has not been identified for his safety. But listen to this for th