By bearing gifts. See more just ahead. Good morning and welcome back everyone, im eric hanson. Elizabeth im elizabeth klinge. Those campers have lucked out with the weather. Metinka you know what, thats right. Temperatures have been so mild. 38 in des moines and a couple degrees cooler in ames. Great for the early part of december. A light breeze from the northwest and the wind will be shifting to the south. And help warm temperatures back up to 55. Thats 20 degrees warmer than it should be and we will have plenty of sunshine. Tomorrow is looking warm. Highs close to 60 which could come close to record high temperatures but it will be windy on thursday. Friday has a few clouds and slightly cooler temperatures over the weekend. Thats when the changes happen. Eric todays big stories now. Theres new information this morning on a roosevelt basketball coach arrested for sex charges. 46yearold gerald tig johnson turned himself into Police Assault with intention to commit a sex act and Sexual
36 in ames and in des moines were at 39 with most locations across the state are already above freezing. In a more typical december morning, temperatures would only be near 20 degrees so this is a huge improvement over average. And its going to be an above average day, too. We are expecting sunshine by noon, close to 50 degrees, headed for highs today right around 55. The weather stays quiet the next couple days and it also stays warm. But weve got some change coming in the forecast and well need to pull out those warmer coats as we head towards the weekend. Eric todays big stories now, theres new information this morning on a roosevelt basketball coach arrested for sex charges. 46yearold gerald tig johnson turned himself into Police Tuesday facing charges of assault with the intention to commit a sex act and Sexual Exploitation by a school employee. The varsity basketball coach returned to roosevelt after a few stints with other schools. The district says it is cooperating with invest
Arrest warrant the girls , basketball coach turned himself into the polk county jail. This all unfolding hours before his team was set to take the court. When the Roosevelt Roughriders took the Court Tuesday night the team played without head coach tig johnson. The girls varsity coach and special Education Teacher is behind bars in the polk county jail with no bond on sexualrelated charges. Students tell kcci his reputation as being as his 65 stature. He was a very popular guy. We all knew him, we all got along with him. Now, were all shocked. Ryan what do people think about tig . Hes nice, caring, dedicated. Ryan was a surprise . Big surprise. Ryan the School District says it was alerted to a criminal complaint filed with police yesterday. As Police Issued an arrest principal kevin biggs sent a voicemail to parents. We will have a teacher assigned to his classroom duties and an assistant coach will be leading the Girls Basketball team during this time. The police are taking the lead o
The e ove igniting. That fire quickly spread, burning two apartments and causing smoke and water damage to 10 others. 20 people were displaced by the fire. But are being housed in empty units elsewhere in the complex. Nobody was injured in this fire. But sioux city fire rescue wants to remind everyone not to leave their cooking unattended. 3 3 an old elevator is getting the blame for a fifi call to the old st. Lukes hospital on sioux citys northside this morning. Fire crews were called to the building in the 28 hundred block of douglas street around 11 oclock for a report of smoke. An investigation revealed no fire. And eventually it was determined that the alarms were triggered when a rarely used elevator in the building heated up. 3 3 a popular comic book shop in sioux city has been e victim of vandalism. About 6pm saturday night employees of acme comics heard a crash. They discovered three of their windows were cracked. When taping up the windows they found rocks that had been used
3 record rainfall continues to pound parts of the Pacific Northwest. As over the last few days the unrelenting storm system has caused flooding, landslides and evacuations in washington and oregon. Cole miller is in portland with the latest. 3 as the rain continues to fall for a Third Straight day across the northwest. Already swollen rivers and creeks have caused major flooding, evacuations, and landslides around the area. Crews in portland worked into the night to clean up tons of debris along a local highway. sot don hamilton odot spokesman this has been a big mess but we hope to get it cleaned up quicklythe record rainfall dumped a little over three inches of rain on the hours. Triggering dozens of rescues. Officials say it could take months to repair this giant sinkhole that opened up in nearby gresham. Where powerful winds also toppled trees onto cars. sot dale hall resident all of a sudden i heard a big woosh come down and next thing i know we got tree down standup cole miller c