Use caution if you have to be out anywhere in iowa tonight. Lots of blowing snow making roads treacherous for evening kccis vanessa peng is live in ames with current conditions. Vanessa when strong winds start whipping the snow around blowing snow can really create its own problems. Vanessa city, county, and state plow drivers can only do so much. You could start to clear the roadway and then we have isolated spots where you think the roads ok and somebody sets their Cruise Control again and they end up in a slick spot and spin out of control. Vanessa the problem is the wind makes certain areas of the road appear clear, but then the minute there is a wind break ice and snow piles up. Some of the closed areas, the protected areas, are the worst right now because the winds blowing most of the snow off where its not protected, but the protected areas is really bad. Vanessa on both the rural and take it slow, increase your following distance, and dont use your Cruise Control. Drive for the
Im a champion of the trutn the public awareness, that we know the truth and that we know the science. Vanessa youth and Shelter Services prevention specialist Denise Denton says Research Shows some ecig users go on to be dual users. Meaning they smoke both conventional and electronic. She stresses the bottom line is ecig use is harmful. Reducing access wherever we can has been a very viable strategy in reducing first use and continued use. So that, among many strategies , are what we look at amongst Public Health in trying to reduce young people from using or adults from using. Vanessa we just noticed some guys that stopped in here. These people all tell me that they used to Smoke Cigarettes and now they are testing out vape or ecigarettes. Tom miller says he supports city and state laws that would ban ecig use in public spaces. Live in ames, vanessa peng, kcci todd Des Moines Police need your help to find the grinch that stole one familys christmas. These are pictures of the suspect.
T kaj omara has your first alert forecast, kaj. Well start off the day with lingering snow showers and flurries, though most of the day wwl stay cloudy. Tempmpatures will not go anywhere,e,hanks to fresh snow in the area, and should remain in the 20s the entire day. Another area of low pressure looks to spread snow across the area early tomorrow with amounts of tr2 common. Again, that could lead to slick driving, especial in the rning hours. Well stay quiet as 2015 comes to a close, with 2016 starting off cold. Thanks kaj. The city of f dar rapids is all now working to remove snow before people head out this morning. The city told tv9, the g gl is to keep theheain streets as clear as possible. And the temperatures yesterday made that easier. But now that its getting colder, it could cause problems. A lot of streets need owing. And the citys streets supervisor says crews are working hard to clear streets for morning drivers. We will have everybody in at 1 including our mechanics. We wil
Jasper, boone, story and marshall. Travel is not advised on i80 east between mitchellville and grinnell. Kccis Laura Terrell starts our team 8 coverage from along i80. Laura a snow covered interstate. Is leaving several cars scattered in the ditch along i 80 east, like this fed ex truck near mitchellville. Things were going too slow and i just didnt want to cause an accident or be in an accident. Laura truck driver jacob benson decided to just park it for the night. I parked here just for my personal safety. I found a place where i could park so i figured i would stop for the night. Laura Michael Morton and his family are only stopping for a quick rest stop break on their trip from sioux city to ohio. Weve seen six semis jackknifed. Weve seen two of them tipped over. Weve seen about four or five cars in the banks. Laura even though travel is not advised theyve decided to keep going just at a slower pace. We are doing about 40. And then with the truckers around, we drop down to about 30
Our snow should be ending between 10 00 and midnight out there. Heaviest to the north. Seven to 11 inches. Already reports out of webster county, Marshall County, anywhere from five to seven inches of snow. 48 in central iowa. The icy conditions as you head over to east central iowa. Our winter storm warning in morning. Southern iowa has the system moves quickly to the north. Todd take a look at the iowa dots Road Conditions map. On a good day, the roads across the state will all be green. But tonight, it is filled with covered or pink, meaning , completely covered. Problems. Vanessa here in ames, the wind will not let up. It is hard to keep up with the snow, snow that can create huge problems for drivers out on the road. We start at 7 30, nonstop. Vanessa snowplow operators are working fast to keep up. We had a hard time getting it off. This one, the wind keeps piling vanessa that means be careful around areas that have windbreaks. Blowing snow really can be its own problem. We have i