In cedar rapids, the city has been preparing to keep the toads clear of snow. Snow. S 2 news reportrt Marissa Scott continueueour Team Coverage with all the work the city has done to get ready for what promises to be a recordbreaking snowfall. Tells me theyre ready, no matter h h rapids. Crews put out 16 thousand gallons of brine yesterday and put down another 2 thousand five hundred gallons today. The city also has 45 hundred tons of salt to spread down on the street. In total the city has 90 plows and other eces of equipment a lot t which will be out overnight after the strongest part of the storm is done. They say the priority is to get the main roads before hitting the residential streets. Sometimes when you get over thta four inch mark, it doesnt really matter if its six or its nine. With an early event like this, well have the staff here to make sure we handle it. Being that its tracking at an overnight hour like this, we can really get our equipment out, our staff can handle it
Right now, the cbs 2 news road warrior is tracking realtime conditions on eastern iowas night. The dot has been working over time to prepare for this winter blast. Blast. Cbs 2 News Reporter Marissa Scott joins us live now with more, marissa . Scott and karen right now, something new youll be seeing out on the roads tonight a dot snowplow with flashing blue and white lights. Lights. This is scott and karen right now, something new youll be seeing dot snowplow with flashing blue and white lights. Most of the plows on the is something new theyre trying out. The dot says, every year in iowa, they have 43 accidents, involving cars running into snowplows. Usually, blue and white lights are reserved for emergency vehicles, so they asked the legislature to change the rules, to make these plows easier to see. Theyre testing the idea out this year, using one plow with these new lights here in cedar rapids, and one in iowa city. I think its a 3yearpilot program, and there are many more plows in
Displayed a gun and demanded money. The worker handed over his wallet and the suspect ran away. Police say they have Surveillance Video of the incident from a neighboring business. An are looking for the suspect. 3 its not all doom and gloom tonight. Weve got some good news from one Woodbury County business. Ag Processors Inc of Sergeant Bluff is planning another multiMillion Dollar expansion. Our Jaclyn Driscoll joins us now. Jaclyn, whats the company planning. 3 3 diana. Agp received a unanimous go ahead from the board for their second expansion in less than a year. 3 agp is adding a 38 Million Dollar biodiesel facility. This will double the capacity of biodiesel fuel from 30 million to 60 million gallons per year. Increasing the demand for soybeans. This demand, as well as the plant farmers. 3 agp is currently owned by 165 local cooperatives, which in turn are owned by 250 thousand farmers throughout the makes as a regional coop gets passed back to those local coops and back to the
The heart of europe. A french prosecutor today said 7 attackers are dead. They all wore suicide vests and at least one has been partially named by but with no record of terrorist activity. A syrian passport for abdul akbaq b was found near 2 13 and already some of those connections are being and a top security expert here in paris said what by isis, that could also target the United States. Hitting closer to home a rochester realtor and his girlfriend are in france and were only a mile away from the blasts of the bataclan theater. He was at this restaurant about a mile and a half away from the concert venue where some of the attacks took place. He said a waiter stood up on a chair hushed everyone in the restaurant and told them there had been a shooting nearby. But today he says there is an its been absolutey amamzing when i got back and i saw all it was flipping amazing to see the amount of people that care. He says one of his biggest takeaways from this trip is the outpouring of supp
Tonight. Moderate to heavy snow at times can be expected before midnight. This will make travel difficult at times. The snow gradually tapers off from west to east after midnight. Snow totals 39 isolated higher amounts. The wind starts to increase late tonight into saturday reducing the visibility. Wind gusts will highs in the 20s. After the snow ends, our next chance of precipitation will be rain. The storr forecast to bring that will be here wednesday and thursday. Meteorologist Mark Schnackenberg here is additional forecast tonight into saturday reducing continues to move east across tonight into saturday reducing continues to move east across chance of precipitation will be expected before midnight. This will make travel difficult at times. The snow gradually tapers off from west to east after midnight. Snow totals 39 isolated higher amounts. The wind starts to increase late tonight inino saturday reducing the visibility. Wind gusts will be near 25 mph from the northwest. A cold we