Has your first alert forecast, kaj. Plan on another mild week today should be a nice one with highs well into the 50s north to lower 60s from dubuque to cedar rapids and points south. A weak front comes across the area today and tonight, but with no moisture to work with, only a few scattered clouds are anticipated. The bigger story will be a large low pressure system that arrives here on friday, but will lead to windy and mild conditions for thursday into friday morning. By friday morning, the entire story changes drastically with Colder Weather blowing in on gusty west wind. Highs will barely crack 40 for the weekend. Mild november weather tends to end ver see a textbook example of this by this weekend. Have a great day today mostly sunny. Wind nw 515. High 60 tonight partly cloudy. Wind nw 515 low 38 tomorrow mostly sunny. Wind sw 515. High 61 tom. Night mostly clear. Wind nw 515. Low 39 moment his administration , president elect donald trump named rnc chair Reince Priebus as his c
Conditions and already today we were 10 degrees above normal for this time of year. We do have a couple of clouds out there right now to keep the temperatures a little warmer tonight. For the commute temperatures will start above the freezing mark for the first time in two days. We will have lows in the upper 30s. A little cool but not as cold as the last couple of nights. We will have a couple of clouds in the sky but the skies will be clearing. Throughout the afternoon temperatures will be warming up into the upper 50s and close to 60 which is another 10 degrees above normal for this time of year. We have a weak front moving through the area tonight and into tomorrow morning the wind will be out of the northwest and keep temperatures from climbing higher. After that we will have some much warmer weather on the way. I will let you know how warm its going to get and how long it sticks around in the full forecast in a bit. Donald trump is now announcing he has felt two top administratio
Developing news coming from our next commanderinchief donald trump started to announce who will be apart of his staff come january when he swears into office. Reince priebus the Republican National committees chairman will be president elect trumps chief of staff. Priebus called it an honor to join trump at the white house. Trump also appointed rightwing media mogul steve bannon served as the head of breitbart brightbart news before hopping on trumps train in august. A Campaign Statement referred to the two men as equal partners. President elect trumps first extended sitdown interview since he won the election aired right here on cbs 2 news. News. The president and his family were interviewed on sixty minutes where he gave insight on a number of key issues one of which the impact of social media like twitter and facebook. Trump republican candidates and eventually win the white house. The fact that i have such power in terms of numbers with facebook, twitter, instagram, et cetera, i th
A lot of headlines recently for its high crime rates. As of early september, the city had more than 500 total homicides in 2016, according to the chicago tribune. That outpaces bigger cities of la and new york. Combined, those two had about 100 fewer homicides through late august. The sgt. Can recall hearing Horror Stories from visitors to cedar rapids. A few months back, i met a family that was in town. Her children werent allowed to go play in the front yard for fear of what may happen to them, for theres little doubt that chitown crime is troubling. But is it really troubling cedar rapids, which, by car, is fewer than four hours away. Police chief wayne jerman recently weighed in on the question. Is there an influence, sure. And were aware of it. Its hard to pinpoint exactly how much of an influence, though. Arrest records may offer some insight. Data from crpd shows last year nearly 16 percent of those arrested were born in illinois, the same for the two previous years. The pd says
Lets go to storm track seven chief meteorologist Mark Schnackenberg now for your forecast. From the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team. See the screen for your complete weather information. Here is additional forecast information from the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team hopefully youve enjoyed our warm stretch of weather, because temperatures are in for a big change. Overnight it will the middle 50s. A strong storm system will track isolated showers on friday, as well as falling tp tomorrow evening, but no accumulation expected. Saturday will be cold and windy with a mostly sunny sky. Temperatures remain seasonable into next week, with a chance for rain tuesday and wednesday. Thanksgiving looks to be mostly sunny with temperatures in the temperatures are in for a big change. Overnight it will be mostly cloudy, warm and windy with temperatures dropping northwest of our area, bringing us windy conditions and a few isolated showers on friday, as well as falling temperatures throughout the day.