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The very first to be stalled in fairfax county. Take a look at this morning as pedestrians punched the button for the first time and put it to the test. The signal then activates the overheadlight to eventually turn to solid red and that stops traffic in both directions so the pedestrians can safely cross. It was put at this location to solve a frightening situation. An Elementary School right across the street from a big Apartment Community where many of the residents live. But the closest inte...

Picture provided by urbandale police, fired a gun at police officers. Three officers are on paid administrative leave tonight Sergeant Jeff casey and officers Anthony Brooks and justice weaver. Police have not released any more information about the incident. Steve a weather system bringing rain and possibly snow now headed toward central iowa. Kurtis is going to be a beautiful evening. Computer. In the dakotas, generally rain. In colder air will move in. Still some cars in the ditches. Turkey t...

[kcci captioning is brought to you by the iowa clinic] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] mollie it happened in the 100 block of north lucas. Our vanessa peng just arrived there in the past hour. She joins us now live on the phone. Vanessa, what can you tell us . Vanessa it happened yesterday around 8 00, on valentines day. Its in the 100 block of north lucas avenue. Its kind of an industrial a...

Eric also this morning taylor swift swipes back at the naysayers with her acceptance speech at last nights Grammy Awards. Who one, who lost and who outdid themselves with their performances ahead. Eric good morning everyone and welcome back. Its tuesday february 16. Im eric hanson. Elizabeth im elizabeth klinge. We want to get over to metinka. We have a wintry mix coming down. Metinka it looks like a whole rainbow out there. Superbright colors are snowflakes that are melting as a are falling. As...

Its kind of a sad day when you lose one of your neighbors thats been here for r ite a few years id see them out in the yard, on the porch with their plants and stuff and they like to be out with their garden and trees and whatnot. Neighbors say they heard firefighters found Ronald Jacobs near the front t f the mobile home and karen jacobs in another room. Ronald jacobs was pronounced dead at the scene. Cedar rapids fire investigators have no this mobile home yet for for the moment its labeled as...

Firefighters in cedar rapids are trying to figure out what caused a mobile home fire. One person is dead and another was taken to the hospital. The fire was at 3701 16th avenue sw. 72 year old Ronald Jacobs died at the scene. Responders took his wife, 72 year old karen jacobs, to Mercy Medical center before transferring her to another hospital. Smoke and flames had filled the mobile home when firereghters arrived just after 7 30 am yesterday morning. But the fire never got large enough to threat...

Collision sports to provide a licensed athletic trainer to assess concussions and other injuries. The Senate Education Committee Approved the bill on an 86 Party Line Vote yesterday. Democrats approved it while republicans opposed. State senator from maquoketa and former High School Wrestling coach tod bowman spoke in favor of the bill, telling the Des Moines Register quote we are not covering every practice, but this is a step in the right direction where the most vulnerability occurs. Meteorol...

Interviewed by police. Morales Attorney Says after his client was read his miranda rights, he barely nodded his head. Attorney peter tenny claims his client made no verbal statement, and was completely silent. Tenny says that is insufficient to satisfy the burden of a valid, voluntary miranda waiver. An estherville, iowa, man says he wont seek a change of venue in his murder trial. Lee christensen is charged with 1st degree murder in thomas bortvits death back in june. Bortvits family reported h...

Hoping that not only can we maintain where they are at but elevate them to a higher level, ys reynolds. The Governors Office says about 25 percent of the states third graders arart reading at their grade levelel thisisrogram is to help ththe students who are struggling. What we want to encourage them to do is enter their child into the Summer Reading program so we can get them to the level they need to be so we arent passing them on unprepared and setting them up for failure and its about making...

New this morning. A longtime fued between an iowa police chief and a county sheriff boils over. The police chief is now running for sheriff. And the current sheriff makes a shocking accusation. You knocked up a 15 year old and she had a miscarriage, okay . The police chief says its the voice of the Pocahontas County sheriff he rereorded the call. The two men have apparantly been battling for the past two years. Over which office is supposed to respond to crimes in certai areas. According to the ...