If you will be traveling tomorrow morning are getting out for black friday look temperatures to be around 33 to 34 degrees and we will still have mostly cloudy skies. Does will be with us for most of the day tomorrow and i expect our temperatures to end up somewhere around 40 to 42 degrees across most of iowa. Just a chance of rain or snow shower later tonight and then that is it until sometime late on sunday. Right now fire investigators are just leaving the scene of us of an explosion that rocked central city this morning. Recycling business at the 600 block of iles street. Police fire and hazmat teams all responded. They are explaining why it is still a dangerous scene for first responders. Reporter its not the way anyway in central city plan to spend the thanksgiving day. I want to give you a look right behind us as you can see we still have some smoke and it is rising out of this area. There are barrels that are stacked at the site. About 8 00 this morning. Fire crews were here un
Been chilly and snow on the ground. Today temperatures were around 40 degrees. So close to where we should be this time of year. It was a nice quiet date with no rain or snow. Tonight there is a weak disturbance moving across eastern iowa and as you can see there is a band of rain and snow mixed that is trying to work its way to the central part of our viewing area. Were not expecting this to last but there could be a brief period of snow as it comes by. Right now fire investigators are trying to figure out what caused a massive fire in central city this morning. It happened at recycling business on iehl street. Fox 28 news anchor matt hammilljoins us live from central city. Matt . A thanksgiving no one will forget as explosions rocked the town early this morning. As you can see behind us still some hot spots smouldering ad lib but also a feeling this could have been so much worse. Nats fire witnesses saw flames soar into the air and responding fire teams could see the smoke ten miles
Spots smouldering ad lib but also a feeling this could have been so much worse. Have been so this could have been so much worse. Witnesses saw flames soar into the air and responding fire teams could see the smoke ten miles before they got to the scene with so much oil to feed the fire what started in one building quickly spread to another. Nat 3 24 32 the explosions are going off and you can feel the heat. Neighbors say the flames moved so fast they didnt know what would happen next. Tina vanourney witnessed iowa gold fire 3 24 37 its crazy, it was very on. Nats fire right in the middle of the battle as crews struggled to bring the raging fire under control chief jim oleary watched the smoke plume settling over central city and realizedeveryone could be in danger. Chief jim oleary central city fire 18 20 we do have a message out to them to turn their heat off. City and realized many people could be in danger. We made everybody stay indoors. One firefighter had to be rushed to the hosp
Welcome to cbs two this morning. Im dora miller alongside brandon traffic at i 80 at coral ridge its that time of the year again americas biggest shopping day black friday. Plenty of people here in the corridor are rushing to the malls includingour cbs 2 News Reporter Stephanie Johnson who is at Coralridge Mallstephanie, has the craziness started yet . Many corridor many corridor retailers are ready for the Holiday Shopping rush. This is a live look at lindale mall it opened at six last night. Managers tell us every store got lastminute shipments for black frid they should be ready for all of the early shoppers. The mall will reopen in about an hour. Several other stores are open right now. Jcpenney kohls and target are all open through black friday. Best buy will open at 8 this morning. Tanger Outlet Center in williamsburg will be open until 10 tonight. In iowa city the areas chamber of commerce is rewarding shoppers for taking their holiday lists to local stores. 12 businesses are pa
Were take a look now at highway 13 near Mount Vernon Road and it is starting to pick up just a little bit for traffic. We were a little worried earlier this morning because nobody was on the road. It is black friday. You are watching cbs 2 this morning. Not a joke. Im here for jenee. And im here for justin. So we talked about how traffic will be pretty good today. A little on the chilly side. Cars are already starting to pile into the parking lot at lindale mall as the stores will be opening up over the next couple of hours. Right now, mostly cloudy. A feelslike temperature of 30 degrees. Iowa city now at 38. As we take a look at live doppler radar, not much going on across the corridor. And dry back it out, high and dry all over eastern iowa. Seeing some clearing in far eastern nebraska. Mostly cloudy today, clearing later this afternoon. A little cooler up to the north. 39 in decorah. 38 in charles city. Down to the south, 43 in washington. Mild temperatures will continue into the we