Storm track seven meteorologist kyle kiel is here now with your storm track seven forecast. Good friday morning. It is going to be a very windy day here across eastern iowa. A wind advisory is in effect today for the entire kwwl viewing area, with gusts to near 50 mph. Today will be a windy and warmer day across eastern iowa. Areas to the north will see a few clouds during the morning hours, otherwise the sky will be mostly sunny. A south wind will turn west 20 to 35 mph, gusting up to 50 mph at times. A wind advisory is in effect for the entire area through 6 pm. The wind will begin to calm down overnight, with temperatures dropping into the 30s under a mostly clear sky. Saturday looks pretty good as well with a mostly sunny sky and high temperatures back in the upper 40s to mid 50s. There is a slight chance for a rain or snow shower on sunday, otherwise it will be partly cloudy with highs in the 40s. While we wont see the 50s early next week, temperatures will the pattern looks dry f
With light winds. The winds will pick up tomorrow and stay breezy through thursday with temps cooling a bit. Ill have that forecast for you in a few minutes. New this morning. A new program in eastern iowa is dedicated to helping students feel more comfortable expressing themselves in school and in their community. Kwwls Amanda Gilbert joins us live in waterloo. She caught up with people in the prgram its called the waterloo writing project, and its dedicated to improving peoples writing and communication skills. Talking about things that are important to them in the community and then write about it. Would want to communicate their writing to am audience. Whether its music. Slam poetry or dance. At the end of each writing project session, there is usually an mics. Putting those kids in the students at the waterloo writing project is a volunteer, this is a soon to be nonprofit kevin says this is a third space for students to learn outside of school or home. Weve got you covered live in
Night. There is a low confidence right now on any details. Check back for later updates. Wednesday through friday the weather returns to normal when it comes to afternoon highs in the 30s. Dry conditions are expected. A local charity is burglarized but police arent exactly sure how it happened. Someone stole a safe from Saint Vincent depaul thrift and consignment store in waterloo. The store helps out low income families in the area. Kwwls Hillary Maglin talked to some employees and customers about how they think this may have happened. Hillary what did they tell you . Police say this didnt happen during Business Hours but the thief might have come into the store before it closed for the night. And customers cant understand why someone would steal from a sot i think its horrible. Its something no business expects to happen to them broell cant believe a store they visit so often was burglarized. sot. Cg Martia Broell frequent shopper it really and truly is awful to steal from somebody t
Mcneeley. Mcneeley was stabbed to death in her home in the 1400 block of pioneer road at 4 30 a. M. On january 24th. Today, police say blood found at the scene matches yahias dna. Yahia was shot and killed by Urbandale Police officers earlier this month. After they were called to the merle hay holiday inn on a drug complaint. After entering the lobby, officers confronted three people and a scuffle began with yahia who opened fire. Officers returned fire and yahia was hit and died at the scene. Des Moines Police say yahia had a lengthy criminal history and was particularly dangerous. 9 04 59 you know when we think about the reason we get into the business and putting bad guys in prison. This is the guy were thinking about. This guy was a known violent offender. No empathy for anyone else i believe he had no conscience and his actions very clearly demonstrate that he was very violent. officials believe yahia is also cases based on evidence. Jury selection is currently underway in a boone
With a shop vac, some metal, a few pipes, a generator and wood chips, you can produce electricity. If you know how to combine those things properly. The process itself is older technology, said chris jeffries. Its very simple. Chris jeffries created this gasifier. He explained the process as using the shop vac to create negative pressure, while wood waste is heated in a separate large cyclinder where gasses from unburned wood are then siphoned into a filter before feeding a generator. Its a controlled combustion, a controlled pyrolysis, said chris jeffries. The city of south sioux city, nebraska, plans to plug in this technology. Were trying to be selfsufficient and go as green as possible, said rod koch. Mayor rod koch says using this gasifier will save the city 40,000 a year in electric costs. It saves us from having to dispose of trees that are eventually going to die anyways because of this emerald borer ash, said rod koch. The unit will be much larger than this and will be placed