Winter sports playground. Dylan is about to head to the top of the massive ramp. Today, friday, february 12th, 2016. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning and welcome to today on a chilly friday morning. Even as a yankee fan, im happy to see whats going on at fenway park. Theyve transformed that place into a winter wonderland. You called it wicked big air, and id add wicked cold air. Itll be freezing or below freezing or below zero i i a lot of the country. 30 degreeselow normal. Al is tside on a frigid plaza. Good morning. Good morning. I have to tell you, this is rough. Heres what happens when you combine a broken water main in scranton, pennsylvania, and brutally cold air. Its an instant ice sculpture. Coating power lines and homes. They finally have g gten it under control, but it crereed a mess. Well see more scenes like this over the next 48 hours. Heres whats happening, again, as we men
A dream the family couldnt wake up from. Forced to celebrate life, and grieve death, at the same time. We would have to ask a nurse to go and get our daughters body from the morgue, or wherever they were keeping her cooled, Jeremy Cotter said. Precious time for a grieving family. But, that grief led to an act of generosity. Last month, the cotters started fundraising for whats called a cuddle cot. Made in the uk, the device allows a childs body to be cooled, at a mothers bedside, preserving the body so it wont decompose. Her back to the morgue. Every time we were visiting with her, lisa cotter said. The cotters hope they can help other families, dealing with a loss, by donating lukes, in sioux city. We would have been able to have her with us whenever we wanted to see her, Jeremy Cotter said. Mercy Medical Center already has one. And, the cotters hope, one day, theyll be available to every grieving family in their time of need. The cotters will donate the cuddle cot to st. Lukes, in el
Commute a little on the slick side. Today will also bbing some gradual sunshine that wont yield much in the way of warmth with highs only in the teens. Tonight is when the real cold arrives with lows dipping below zero and wind chills reaching into the 10s and 20s in most spots, so bundle up if youre going out tonight we wont get much relief from said temperatures tomorrow either as we introduce flurries and snow showers during the day. Its saturday night when the main snow system will move through mainly our northern and easternmost counties, so you folks could see anywhere from 24 inches of the white stuff. The rest of us including those in around sioux city will get a bit less than that as this completely exits sunday morning. The rest of valentines day will bring a brisk south breeze and finally some better warming into the 30s that will stick around next week and eventually warm into the 40s see graphics. Wx timer 40 the sioux city teen accused of shooting cop early sundy morning
Governor branstad told the condition crowd the slumping farm economy has hurt iowas revenue. So for most areas it will be a hold steady budget. The exception will be education. We should not overpromise and underdeliver. This budget provides schools the stability, predictability and funding they need and deserve the governor put the e pplement state aid increase for prek through 12th grade at slightly more than 145Million Dollars. But here at north cedar schools, thats not enough to rescue thiss small district from a downward trend in both enrollment and the need to make more cuts next fall. The district graduated 70 students last year but added only 49 in kindergarten. So a two and a half percent increase in per student aid wont make up for losing students. The district will have to depend on a state budget guarantee that provides a little new money has some drawbacks. The budget guarantee says the new money, in our case 95,000 dollars, but thats a one year offering. The next year yoy
Early morning travelers may see authorities at the Eastern Iowa Airport this morning. They were called out there around 7 30 last night for a suspicious substance found in a bag. Kcrgtv9s Forrest Saunders is live at the airport this morning. Forrest, what can you tell us so far . Chris, nicole, its back to business as usual here at the Eastern Iowa Airport. Earlier this morning though, totally different scene. Airport police had closed off this entire area, the bag claim, while hazmat checked out an unknown substance. Heres what authorities are telling us this started just before 7 pm. Airline personnel altered airport Public Safety a suspicious bag had come in on a flight from chicago. The bag area was closed off a little while after. Hazmat was called in to investigate. Hazardous. The bag claimed area reopened around 4 a. M. No one is in custody. No flights were impacted. Nor should they be for the rest of the day the next flight arrives in just a few minutes. Guys . Live at the East