Thanksgiving day from 4 am to 6 pm for much of siouxland, including sioux city winter storm warning in effect thanksgiving day from 9 am to 9 pm for Harrison Shelby counties a mix of freezing rain, sleet and snow will create some tricky turkey day travels, so be sure to keep a close eye on todays weather. If you must hit the roads, freezing rain early today will work its way eastward and eventually transition to light snow in and around sioux city later this morning with strong north winds which will cause some low visibilities. Because the freezing rain will last longer in southern siouxland, the ice accumululion will be greater with up to a quarterinch of ice expected, hence the winter storm warning for that area. As for snow accumulations, its still looking like most places will receive around 13 inches by the time the system exits the viewing area to the east by 78 oclock this evening. The rest of the Holiday Weekend looks dry and cold with highs near 30 0 before more snow chananes
Roads for this thanksgiving holiday Law Enforcement across iowa is putting extra enforcement on the roads. Kwwls Amanda Gilbert joins us live to talk about what to look state patrollwill be out in full force today and the rest of the thanksgiving break. Some troopers are coming in on their days off or doing overtime them. Nat gets in ccr, car door 20. Nat car engine Nathan Miller is letting behvaing. Hell be patrolling the work. K pulling people over. nat tickets. nat and he wont be alone. Theres more state patrol officers working than usual during the breakk. The reason. It supposed to be a joyous holiday where family and friends are getting together. It would be tragic if someone didnt get to where they didnt theyre focusing three main things. Speed enforcement. Seatbelts. Impaired drivivi. Making sure those the road are safe. Safety. The reason has been doing this for nine years. If i can have a moment with someone and kind of slow them down a little bit. They can possibly be thinki
And nathaniel saunsoci. The 20monthold who died in 2006. He sustained severe head injuries while living in a a foster home in south sioux city. Today, was a day of remembering those three children and others in the foster care and adoption system. Ktivs tiffany lane was at the war eagle monument this morning where marchers began their trek throughout sioux city. Tiffany . Sheila, it was a peaceful and prayerful march, with a goal. To reconnect foster and adopted children. And reconnect them with their families. Beginning and he says some children who arent with their biological families will see this and hopefully reconnect with them. One family hoping to reconnect with theiriroved one through the march was Delphine Oconnor and her son michael. Delphine says her granddaughter Maria Helena Flores was taken into foster care nearly 20 years ago. She says during that time, an injury caused maria to become quadriplegic. I would consider her lost as one of the lost children and in our family
50 miles away from home from today through ssday. Storm track seven meteorologist eileen loan is here n with your storm track seven the roads are starting to get busy with traveers, but there arent any weather hazards out there right now. Highways and airports are not showing any problems tooy. And it should stay the same tomorrow, although we will have an increase in low clouds, some drizzle and maybe some rain showers with rain likely on thursday. As a cold front tracks into the area, snow will mix in, especialll to our western and Northern Counties by tomorrow evening, with the whole thing tracking out by sunrise friday. We will likely see some locally heavy rainfall out of this system with some getting a couple of inches of rain. Snow will ddpend highs in the 40s to low 50s. We have a wet thanksgiving and a minutes. Today is one of the busiest travel days of the year. Many of you are getting ready to hit the road today unless youre hosting the big meal because so many people spend
Through the night. Some fog may develop in spots through morning. It will be overcast and gray on wednesday with some pockets of drizzle. The weather really gets dicey on thursday with a mix of precipitation from rain early on to some freezing rain, sleet and a touch of snow by the end of the day. The driver involved in a deadly, single care accident in des out of the hospital and behind bars this evening. Troy mure is now charged with killing his girlfriend in that crash. It happened yesterday morning on 35th street in des moines. Police say mure was speeding when he lost control. Hit a utility pole and a tree. His passenger and girlfriend. Scalicity perez. Was killed in the crash. Mure suffered minor injuries. Today he was released from the hospital and promptly arrested. Mure is charged with vehicular homicide by reckless driving. Vehicular homicide by owi. And first offense owi. Mures family told channel 13 yesterday that mure was speeding because he was being chased by another car