Kurtis 12 degrees below zero in mason city. Currently, wind chill above zero at 2. Wind chill advisory write through 8 a. M. Saturday morning, along and north of highways dirty, wind chill is 30below zero. Outside, the wind chills still get 20 degrees below zero. So youre better than i come a cold air filtering on in. Overnight low in des moines at four below zero. Our 7 00 a. M. Wind is 16 below. Tomorrow, we start with some sunshine greeted by the clouds moved in, and a High Temperature at 15. In looks like snow will arrive after 8 00 on saturday. Then continue on and off for sunday, i think ending by around 2 p. M. Temperatures on sunday, 32. I will have the latest on futurecast and some of those snowfall totals, coming up. Stacey a woman is dead after a it happened around noon today in the 6900 block of northeast 29th street. The Polk County Sheriffs Office says a child was flown to a metro hospital. And that crash remains under investigation. And there are new details about that d
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 towing up there around boone. Below the freezing mark. Weve still we will see some fog forming later tonight. This system should move out, and by noon tomorrow, around 34 degrees. The big story after this system is spring fever. If a warmup moving in . Is a warmup moving in . 30s into the 50s for three days. Stacey flags around iowa are flying half staff today to honor u. S. Supreme Court Justice antonin scalia. The 79yearold was found dead in his room at a texas ranch saturday morning. Governor
Does crash data tell you on those roads,the roadway geometrics will they allow for an increase in speed limits. Hoye says it is not for him to advocate on what is better a five mile an hour increase,a 10 mile an hour increase or the two lane rural road speed limit staying at 55 miles and hour. He says when all is said and done Public Safety is tasked to enforce the law and that is what they will do. Whatever the legislature after they have done their investigation whatever they deem appropriate obviously Law Enforcement will enforcement any law they pass through. Reporter the dot tells us it has concerns because Research Shows fatalities and the severity of crashes go up with an increase in speed. Next week is the first funnel week so if this bill does not get out of committee by friday the 19th it will not move forward this session. Steve iowa lawmakers are also looking changes to keep those we told you 2years ago about a little known state law that made it a offense to have a frame t
Winter, with above average snowfall keeping those roads slick. As kccis Cynthia Fodor shows us, thats keeping body shops so busy, theyre almost working nonstop. Cynthia this entire garage is full of wrecked cars are lined up, waiting to be worked on. With so many accidents this winter, the auto body business is booming. Seems like coming in every 3648 hours periods. A lot of front end, rear end hits. All hands on deck. That is our goto word. Cynthia at scottys auto body, its one of the busiest times ever. Four snowfalls in two weeks means a steady stream of bended fenders, broken bumpers, and dented doors. Kurtis mayfield blames the timing of the blizzards. Kurtis it is literally happening around 1 00 or 2 00 in the afternoon, and people are trapped, having to get out in cynthia and weve had smaller amounts of snow more often. So far, this month . 7. 9 inches, only 12 days in, which is the average february snowfall for the entire month. This winter, were already nearly 3 inches above a
Digits. Clouds will slowly thin. We will break free to some sunshine later in the day with a degrees. Stacey lets take a live look at Road Conditions from across that state from the iowa dot. This is from 511ia. Org. The areas you see in blue are partially snow covered roads. Pinknkre completely covered. Recommended. Interstate 35 from ames to clear lake is closed because of the Winter Weather and the number of accidents along that stretch of road. Semitrucks jackknifed in the southbound lanes and numerous vehicles lined the ditches kccis Laura Terrell has checked out the driving conditions north of des moines. Laura we were just up north, where there were major blizzard conditions at this time, at this time. Problems were off 35 toward highway 20 heading toward fort dodge. Our news truck actually got stuck at mile marker 151. State troopers told us that probably 40 or 50 cars were backed up and stuck for probably close to two hours. If you are thinking about going in that area, you ca