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
Alert forecast,. As you wake up temperatures will start ofin the upper 20s and low 30s for most. Skies will be partly cloudy which will allow for a great start to your friday. A little sunshine will go a long way throughout your late morning and afternoon. With the sunshine and a westerly wind temperatures will warm into the low 40s or highs. Into the evening tempepeatures will stay mild, with lows dropping into the low 30s. Skies will become mainly clear and the start of you weekend looks great. Once again the weather remains fairly quiet, but i think most of you will be ok with that. Especially since our weather gets even better into saturday and will continue into sunday. Temperatatres are pushing 60 dederees both days. Spring isnt too far away. There is a large need for student care and not just the physical part of care. During an open house at the clinic in taylor elementary, she says there should be more Mental Health services. Right now, the united way funds a handful of partti
Barney fraaken on two counts of 1stdegree murder yesterday. Police e y fraaken shot his wife amy and daughter amber in november last year. Fraaken also shot himself that day. Police arrested him shortly after he was released from the hospital. Last year, fraakens stepson told kccitv he believes the shooting came from marital problems. Places all along the east coast are cleaning up after some dangerous storms rolled through. A tornado damaged prwperty outside of Richmond Virginia overnight. The storm overturned trucks and toppled trees throughout essex county. One man who witnessed it l says the storm was devastating to his entire neighborhood. We was sitting in the middle of the house when it came through and it just demolished everything through this, couple houses that are gone completely, the church is gone, and a lot of people hurting now, there are like 3 or 4 people harvey says his neighbors quickly came together to clear debris from the road so emergency crews could get through
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
First, meteorologis t kaj omara has your first alert forecast, kaj. Any light snow showers are quickly moving out of the area. The sky should rapidly clear and the wind will be picking up as well. Plan on highs in the upper teens to lower 20s with a slow fall in temperature during the afternoon. Many areas should either touch zero or go a bit below zero tonight with wind chill numbers briefly approaching 20 tomorrow morning. Saturday continues to look great, with a good chance of snow on sunday all across the area. At this time, 24 continues to look like a very reasonable amount with a light fluffy consistency. Next week, plan on some 30s to start off, with a return to some 40s by next thursday and friday today clearing, winds nw 1530 alo 17 dbq 18 iow 21tonight mostly clear low 42 iow 0tomorrow mostly sunny, chilly high 1117 winds nw 510 alo 13 dbq 13 iow 15tomorrow night chance of winds se 510 alo 9 dbq 7 iow 11 thanks kaj. Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton is trying a new an