Firefighters in cedar rapids are trying to figure out what caused a mobile home fire. One person is dead and another was taken to the hospital. The fire was at 3701 16th avenue sw. 72 year old Ronald Jacobs died at the scene. Responders took his wife, 72 year old karen jacobs, to Mercy Medical center before transferring her to another hospital. Smoke and flames had filled the mobile home when firereghters arrived just after 7 30 am yesterday morning. But the fire never got large enough to threaten any nearby mobile homes. One long time resident at the Mobile Home Park says the jacobs couple had lived there for issues, which may have slowed them down if they were trying to escape. He was on oxygen, and he liked to cook in the mornings, cook breakfast and stuff like that. But i dont know what happened or whatever. One battalion chief said he does not know if the oxygen tanks they found inside the mobile home played any role in the fire. In a tv9 followup this morning. Authorities are inv
Collision sports to provide a licensed athletic trainer to assess concussions and other injuries. The Senate Education Committee Approved the bill on an 86 Party Line Vote yesterday. Democrats approved it while republicans opposed. State senator from maquoketa and former High School Wrestling coach tod bowman spoke in favor of the bill, telling the Des Moines Register quote we are not covering every practice, but this is a step in the right direction where the most vulnerability occurs. Meteorologist Justin Gehrts has your first alert forecast, justin. We saw southern counties but now the anticipation of spring is taking over. Cloudy skies remain for the rest of the day, but the light snow has left with the exception of a couple flurries near the mississippi through early afternoon. Well have highs in the e wer to middle 30s. Mostly cloudy weather continues through tomorrow with highs in the lower 30s again. Well climb into the 40s on thursday, friday and saturday. We should see more s
They found the suspect and victim had been shot. The victim was taken to a hospital in clarion then transferred to Mercy Medical center the suspect was taken to a fort dodge hospital and then transferred to iowa methodist this time. The Iowa Division of criminal investigation is assisting Eagle Grove Police with the case. But they have yet to name any suspects or say what led to the shooting. And our later newscasts. The iowa state patrol is trying to piece together what led to a deadly accident on i35 this morning. Jackknifed and overturned on interstate 35. Just south of cumming. The crash killed the driver. Investigating the cause. Crews had to close down north bound lanes but they have since been reopened. This is the same area where a over back in december. Traffic is back to normal following a road closure on mlk and fleur. Around 920 this morning an ankeny sanitation garbage truck hit a light pole on mlk. The light pole fell across the roadway and police immediately responded. T
Speculation. Is there something that brought him there that is perhaps relevant to our work here . There is discussion about something to you keep the location close to her chest as long as we could. We were not able to do so. That is ok. But certainly, we are considering, why there, and where there stops along the way . Another big question at this press conference, which only wrapped up half an hour ago, folks wanted to know, did he have anything to say about Hannah Grahams whereabouts . The police chief says at this point his detectives have not been able to talk with Jesse Matthew. He asked for a lawyer while he was still in charlottesville on saturday. At that point he had a right not to talk, and he invokes that. At this point, he seems to still be invoking that right, even though police want to talk to him, because they believe he has the information they need. They still dont know what has become of Hannah Graham, but we do know the search is going on on this mountain behind me
This Sexual Assault, please call police. Reporting live outside of the special victims unit that morning, jan carabeo Eyewitness News on the cw philly. Jan, thank you. New this Morning Police are investigating a Home Invasion in west oaklane. It happened on the 1800 block of 73rd avenue. Police say the suspect entered the home with a gun and then stole about 1,700 in cash. It is not clear if there were any injuries. Also, it new from overnight, fire fire rekindles and spreads from boarded up business into a cleaners, in west philly. Firefighters returned to the 4,000 block of lancaster avenue to put out the hot spots. Few hours earlier the firefighters had a difficult time battling the flames in the boarded up business. Still, there is no word on a cause. And, an investigation is underway to determine what caused this overnight fire in north philly. Eyewitness news on the 2900 block of north 21st street. Officials say the fire started in a two story garage. Neighboring homes were evacu