Tonight when they opened the doors, were there many shoppers . No it wasnt too bad actually there were lines only at a few stores right when the mall opened at 6. The National Retail federation predicts 1. 6 million more people will hit the stores this year over the thanksgiving weekend compared to the same time last year. And many of the shoppers i spoke with at the lindale mall said it was their First Time Ever participating. Eager shoppers tonight despite some malls like mall of america opting to stay closed on thanksgiving. 19 15 14;00 our Corporate Office decided the best opportunity for lindale was to be open tonight to provide shoppers with another opportunity to get the best sales, deals and doorbusters. I think it lessens the craziness that we see on black friday so it just starts a little earlier on thanksgiving night. Some stores like francescas and some Jewelry Stores chose not to open, which surprised some shoppers. 19 21 04;25 we were going to go to we went to rue 21. One
Heading out and about for some black friday shopping roads should be just fine across eastern iowa. Any precipitation that will fall will be extremely light if any. Temperatures this morning will be in the low to middle 30s. Expect highs to climb into the low 40s today with gradual clearing to arrive later this afternoon. High pressure will sit to our south and east late tonight and into tomorrow. This will giving us a southerly wind and on top of that well get more sunshine. This will allow for our temperatures to warm into the low 50s for some, others into the upper 40s. Sunday will bring some sun to start, but and continue into monday. Today a flurry possible early, otherwise mostly cloudy. Wind w 515. High 41 alo 40 dbq 40 iow 42 38 to 44 tonight skies clearing. Wind w 510 low 29 alo 28 dbq 29 iow 29 26 to 32 thanks britley. After enjoying the thanksgiving turkey, Many Americans hit the stores for thanksgiving evening deals. As abcs janai norman reports, hundreds more are waiting o
Carolinas. The hurricane could bring flash flooding, spawn tornadoes and cause a dangerous storm surge. Meteorologist kathy sabine joins us, the storm hitting just ahead of the labor day weekend. Unbelievable. It is the first hurricane to hit that area since 2005. Theyre bracing for that tonight. Well start in the pacific because madeline which was threatening hawaii has been downgraded now to a Tropical Storm and just passing south of the big island overnight. Now were tracking lest is pushing west over the open pacific and may impact the big island over the holiday weekend. A hurricane watch is issued for maui county and much of the big island tonight and lester will weaken as it moves near or north of hawaii saturday and sunday, could be a hurricane to really contend with for those that will enjoy the holidays on that island. So it is the third major category 3 storm or stronger in the eastern pacific and Hurricane Season started early major storm in the gulf. A tornado watch has be
And a lot of people turn that community. According to investigators, the cedar valley Crime Stoppers are reporting a successful year, thanks to Community Involvement information and get a lot of this crime solved, so, it is a nice feeling. Down the road youre hopeefully preventing future crimes, and quite honestly, because theyrr seeing their picture, and thats a deterrent to even committ the crimes. Investigator lippert says the Crime Stoppers coffers are dwindling due to rewards they pay for information. Thats why thth waterloo black hawks are raffling six jerseys next month in honor of fallen officers. Weve got you covererd live in the newsroom Macleod Hageman kwwlews. You can buy a raffle ticket tomorrow night during the blackhawks capitols game at the game kicks off at seven and jerseys will be raffled march 12th. Snow just doesnt seem to want to leave our forecast. Lets go to storm track seven chief meteorologist Mark Schnackenberg whos tracking it all. From the kwwl stomtrack 7
You can hear all of it on our weekly political show, this week in iowa. That airs sunday morning at 9 am. Live in the studio, amanda krenz, local five news, we are iowa. Stephanie ram another controversy thats continuing after the caucuses tonight. Did ted cruz resort to dirty tricks to win the caucuses . There are allegations that he misled ben carson supporters into thinking carson had dropped out on caucus night, to convince some supporters to move toward his camp. But the fallout has now filtered into iowa politics. Carsons iowa cochair, state representative rob taylor is now demanding an apology from congressman steve king, for tweeting out information that perpetuated this untrue information. Today, king, who is a cruz supporter, stopped by our studios to respond. I dont know why rob taylor feels like he has to insert himself in this. Talked to ben carson, told him if i had known. Would not have said anything. Stephanie political trail. Stephanie 2shot some president ial candidat