Let me have your attention. I asked the mayors that are in the room to please be seated at the table, and others please feel free to sit along the wall. We are going to go ahead and get started, so that we may make an attempt to get ahead of schedule. I wish you good morning to this special climate section special climate session. Todays leadership confronting tomorrows challenges. I will talk more about that soon. I am jim brainard. Carmel, mayor of indiana, and cochair of the Energy Independence in Climate Protection Task force. Colleague,oduce my san jose mayor sam mcardle. Let me ask all of the mayors present here to introduce yourselves, so that speakers and others will know who is participating. Start with greg stanton. Good morning. Im the mayor of phoenix, and chairman of the Energy Committee. Good morning. I am hobbie r gonzales, mayor of the city of santa fe. Javier gonzalez, mayor of the city of santa fe. Good morning. I am david miller. I am former mayor of the city of toro
I feel for cleveland. One of my buddies Michael Symon from the chew. Im afraid to talk to him this morning. Might not be getting up this morning. We also have very special security on hand for our Christmas Trees, yey, we take it very seriously here at good morning america. Oh, did we mentionon its star wars week. Han solo himself is with us. Harrison ford will be here in the studio talking about the new movie a bit later. Very, very, veryexcititi. Bute begin with that winter storm thats been slamming the upper midwest with snow and ice and moving east threatening to bring flooding to six states. Abs rob marciano starts us off in minneapolis. Good morning, rob. Reporter good morning, amy. Temperatures here hovering just above the freezing mark saving the city from a truly icy commute. This is the first and biggest snowstorm of the season. Less than aoot but that was enough to cause big problems overnight, snowfall making for miserable minnesota mishaps throughout the nht cars slipping
Freezing allowing for the precipitation to fall as rain. As we enter the evening hours a f fw of us may watch the rain turr into a wintry mix. A few showers will linger into the Morning Hours tomorrow making for a damp black friday, otherwise we start to dry out and temperatures will sit in the mid to upper 30s. Thanks britley. In a tv9 followup this morning. Ththman who policc say triggered several hawk alerts on the university of iowa campus earlier this month faces multiple charges. 32 year old Adam Weinstein faces one count of third degree sexual abuse, four counts of assault with intent to commit sexual abuse, and three counts of third degree harassment. The charges follow a series of physical and verbal attacks on campus on november 10th. Police took weinstein into custodd shortly after the incidents, and he was involuntarily committed to university of iowa hospitals. They arrested him when he left the hospital yesterday. A conviction on all the counts couud put weinstein in riso
A few spotting showers will persist through the Early Morning hours, rain will become more likely as we enter into late morning. It will be a soggy thanksgiving as the rain continues through the afternoon and evening. For most of the day our temperatures will remain above freezing allowing for the precipitation to fall as rain. As we enter the evening hours a few of us may watch the rain turn into a wintry mix. A few showers will linger into the Morning Hours tomorrow making for a damp black friday, otherwise we start to dry out and temperatures will sit in the mid to upper 30s. The man who police say triggered several hawk alerts on the university of iowa campus earlier this month faces multiple charges. 32 year old Adam Weinstein faces one count of third degree sexual abuse, four counts of assault with intent to commit sexual abuse, and three counts of third degree harassment. The charges follow a series of physical and verbal attacks on campus on november 10th. Police took weinstein
Are in a classic el nino pattern, and this tends to lead to a mild december at the very least. In addition, there are no major storm systems for the next 7 days that will impact iowa. Perhaps this weekend is your weekend to get the Christmas Decorations out have a good day today a waterloo family is back in their home this morning after a close call with high Carbon Monoxide levels in their home. Late saturday night, two Carbon Monoxide alarms went off in the rental home at 1732 mulberry strere in waterloo. At first, all four members of the family thought it was just a failing battery. But when the alarm wouldnt quit, they called 9 11. The Fire Department measured 74 partsper million of Carbon Monoxide in home. Normal indoor air should be 10 or below. A rustedout exhaust pipe from the furnace s causing the odorless, colorless and deadly gas into the home. Engle said saturday night she had a splitting headache and figured it was a migraine. Then the co detector started beeping. They sav