Says the fire was contained to two units. With a third receiving heavy damage. None of the occupants of those apartments were injured. But three pets were killed. The red cross is providing assistance to the affected families. 3 3 fire also destroying a vehicle this morning. Crews were callll to the e n o s office on outer drive just after 8 oclock for a reported car on fire in the parking lot. They found a fire underneath the hood of the car. And had to break open the drivers window to unlatch the hood and fight that fire. 3 responded to a car fire here in the parking lot. Got on scene fully evolved compartment fire, engine compartment fire. Crews were able to quickly put thatatire out. T. But the r received heavy damage from the blaze. Nobody was injured. What exactly caused the car to catch fire is still under investigation. 3 Midamerican Energy is warning customers in siouxland of another attempted billing scam. The utility says it first heard about the latest version of this scam
Looks like now. Sioux city is among several communities that have declared snow emergencies. Parking is prohibited on on emergency snow route streets. Violators will be towed. The city has also closed city hall and other Non Essential Services and facilities. That parking ban will also help out crews out working to make the roads safer. Ktivs tiffany lane is at the sioux city Public Utilities office with more on the cleanup conditions. Tiffany . Sheila, over the last few hours, weve been seeing city snow plows make their way in and out of the gate behind me. City Officials Say all 50 pieces of snow equipment are being used since the snow started. The streets superintenden t says the plows are whiteout conditions forcing interstate 29 to close in parts of siouxland. Dot officals in south dakota closed i29 from the iowa south dakota border all the this afternoon near north sioux city, south dakota. Zero visibility making roads impassible. Theres also a no travel advisory for many state h
3 3 our meteorologist kayla novak. Whos from california. Is live outside getting some experience on what its like to be a siouxlander. Kayla. 3 well last night we placed a 2 foot square plywood board on a flat surface and its about a half inch thick so it wont blow away in these blizzard conditions we also marked it with some orange tape so that we could find if after the measuring stick that is clear to read by tenth of an inch. 3 measuring in these conditions is difficult because of all the drifting snow. As you can see here i was falling earlier in snow drift spots that were up to my hips. This is why we put the snow measuring board away from buildings and trees. So that snow does not fall onto it and we also take an average measurements around the board. 3 we measure every hour during the storm and sweep it off for the next measurement. So far today we have gotten 9. 8 inches of snow and this last hour we got measuring snow xxx amount of snow so thats a total of xxx snow here at st
Offices closed at 10 this morning, 3 along with the Tyson Events Center and all three branches of the Public Library among others. The city has also suspended garbage collection and declared a snow emergency. That means on Street Parking is prohibited 3 until the streets have been plowed. Any car left on the streets will be towed at the owners expense. Elsewhere in siouxland. The blizzard forced a planned bond vote 3 for Iowa Lakes Community college to be postponed by a week. That vote will now take place next tuesday february 9th. 3 3 meanwhile. The cleanup is underway here at the siouxland news studios. We received more than 12 inches of snow here. And the winds blew that around into some drifts that were nearly three times that. Thats a tall task. But were still out there giving it our best. Similarly. Snowplows, blade equipped pickup trucks, and even some front end loaders are out in force across siouxland tonight. Trying to clear out roads, driveways and sidewalks. 3 3 lets turn n
On friday and again on sunday. Right now it looks very light. Stay tuned 3 3 3 president ial candidates are all over t t state of New Hampshire today ahead of the first in the nation primary next week. Its a three way race on the republican side right now between ted cruz. Donald trump. And marco rubio. On the democratic side. Hillary clinton is campaigning hard after her razor thin victory over Bernie Sanders. C b s news correspondent we juh weijia jang jiang is in ndham New Hampshire. 3 pkg nats donald trump took to the campaign trail in milford, New Hampshire iowa. And downplaying marco rubios third place finish sot donald trump he comes in third, i come in second. Trump no good. Rubio unbelievable night, unbelievable victory rubio outperformed expectations in the hawkeye state. Finishing just one percentage point behind trump, the New Hampshire favorite sot rubio we cant just win with the people have now we have to go out and convince more people that conservatism is the right appr