Conditions sw 1020 mph continue overnight and into early saturday morning. The sky is clear tonight and remains that way saturday to enjoy plenty of sunshine. More melting snow expect saturday and linger into sunday with a stray rain shower possible. The strongest winds gradually diminish after 7 pm. Breezy conditions sw 1020 mph continue overnight and into early saturday morning. The sky is clear tonight and remains that way saturday to enjoy plenty of sunshine. Ore melting snow expect saturday with highs in the 40s and 50s. Strongest winds gradually diminish after 7 pm. Breezy conditions sw 1020 mph crashes reported by the Iowa Department of transportation so far and five more are currently under investigation. Kwwls Macleod Hageman joins us live in waterloo with the details. Mac . Dangerous winds die down following a bvsy day for travelers. nats. Oh my god, oh my gosh. a familiar cene across iowa as several Truck Drivers driving by high winds near the to its side. nats. Dubuque video block traffic on interstate 380 north of hiawatha and this truck driver near waverly was able to act fast by steering his semi into a ditch over a sign through a fence snapping this power pole into piecesnd finally coming to a rest in this field after he felt his truck our first concern is whether everyone is safe in the vehicle. He was really thankful it wasnt a concrete pole or a steel pole. It was a wooden pole that broke off at the base. Bremer county sheriffs Deputy Jason Ellison says the driver was not ticketed. When its weatherrelated or really iiy roads or high winds like this we typically dont Issue Citations unless its something the driver did. High winds keep Law Enforcement officials busy friday afternoon, responding to several highprofile vehicle accidents throughout the day. Iitheyre not driving straight into the wind or with it, its really not safe wind gusts 5060 miles unloaded. Even though the driver snapped the power pole crews were able to isolate the location without power pole crews were able to isolate tt location without affecting anyones power. Weve got you covered live in according to crews itll take nearly wo hours to repair the broken ower pole. Continuing coverage two eastern iowans are recovering from a fire. One man breaking through a window to save his neighbor on jefferson street in waterloo this morning. He invited kwwls Amanda Gilbert into his home to share his story. Smoke coming out of an upstairs window. Waterloo neighbor Eric Rasmussen woke up to that. I knew something was wrong. Neighbr. Who lived upstairsrs. Was in trouule. Standup he told me he ran up the stairs behind me and broke through a window to try and get inside and help his thats when i cut my arm. When rasmussen stepped inside. I couldnt see anything, i ouldnt breathe. I tried yelling for him. I could hear him stumbling around, but he wasnt calling out. Unable to see or hear his neighbor. Rasmussen then ran out of the building and told Police Someone was still inside. Firefighters then pulled his neighbor out. There was just smoke everywhere. Both rasmussen and his arm was stitched up and hes back home now. I asked if he feeees like a hero for what he did. No. I think anyone would have done it. Weve got you covered. In waterloo. Amanda gilbert. American red cross volunteers came to help out to help as well. This was the 21st fire they responded to this yearr a crane lifts a semi out of a ditch in the days after it crashes and leaks 36 hundred gallons of deicing fluid. Crews tell us the wind wasnt a problem lifting it out. The cyrotech de icing Technology Truck rolled monday afternoon on i380 south of cedar rapids. A crane had to be brought in to lift the trailer out of the ditch. The truck leaked deicing fluid and diesel fuel which flowed downstream into the coralville reservoir. A woman in ioww testing posititi for the zika virus the Iowa Department of Public Health announcing today. This is the first reported case of an iowan contracting the virus. Were told its a woman between the ages of 61 and 80 who recently traveled to central america. The Health Department also the state is not at risk of getting zika because of the lack of mosquitoes holding the virus re. An eastern iowa icon is getting a facelift but not everyone is keen on the idea the Black Hawk CountyGaming Association is granting 750 thousand dollars to renovate 4th street pedestrian bridge in Downtown Waterloo the board voted the grant unanimously. But not all bood membebe like the prooect board member geoff grimes called the bridge the worlds longest urinal kwwls Olivia Mancino looking into the project and those comments about the bridge she joins us now live geoff grimes addressed that urinal comment on hisfacebook page, standing by it saying hes seen people misuse the pedestrian bridge far too often however city officials and the gaming assocation are in renovated saying its long over due. Picturesque Downtown Waterloo the fourr street bridge, located smack dab in the middle of of the city, is the subject of many photos. But take away the some in the city say its time to retouch the photograph. That bridge is inpretty sorry hurley says the decision to give grant money tt the 4th he says it was either fix the pedestrian bridge or get rid of it. Were going to fix something thats become an iconic image of waterloo as you can see parts of the bridge are riddled with rust and littered with cigarettes. Essentially, the bridge will get a facelift not a redesign. Gaming Association Board member geoff grimes isnt hot on the idea. In mondays meeting, he called the bridge is the world longest urinal. He backed those statements up on facebook, is an accomppished and forrer architect, and this was designed not by an architect, and i respect his opinion very much hurley says he wouldnt go to the extreme of calling the urinal but hes seen people use it as a restroom before but says theres a simple solution to that. People just have to behave themselvess. We just have to behave ourselves good advice from tim hurley construction is set to begin in spring, which is expected to last three to four months the City Engineer says the roadway may be closed down for brief periods of time during the construction but thats yet to be determmed weve got you covered. Kwwl news. This is the first time in nearly 20 years the pedestrian bridge is being updated. The project will cost one and a half Million Dollars in totality the rest of the money will come from city bonds the first major deadldlne of the the first funnel. Its when proposed bills in the legislature find out if they get to move on or if they die. The goal is to narrow down the long list of bills introduced every year. One of the billsse covered yesterday is getting to move forward. The bill, if passed, would schools to have a certified medical professional at sporting events. Collision the goal is preventing concussions but providinn the staffing can be expensive. Exciting news coming out of decorah the eagles had its first egg of the y yar. Youre looking live at the nest right now. Mama eagle laid her first egg of 2016 last night just before 8 30. According to the raptor resource project, the name of the egg is cottonwood d24. Coming up on kwwl, this big guy is helping to bring back aders to an eastern iowa library. Stay tuned and state wrestling tournament continues in our states capital. Well be right back. Now your storm track 7 forecast on kwwl. 7 weather team. See the were excited about february. All our handcrafted classic footlongs are just 6 each. 6 for a footlong is big news. Subpocalypse 2016 where foot traffic for delicious subs is putting tremendous pressure on sidewalks. Enjoy all of our classic here is additional forecast information from the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team the strongest winds gradually diminish after 7 pm. Breezy conditions sw 1022 mph continue ooernight and into plenty of sunshine. More melting snow expect saturday with highs in the 40s and 50s. Clouds increase saturday night and linger into sunday with a stray rain shower possible. The strongest winds gradually diminish after 7 pm. Breezy conditions sw 1020 mph continue overnight and into early saturday morning. The sky is clear tonight and remains that way saturday to enjoy plenty of sunshine. More melting snow expect saturday with hhghs in the 40s and 50s. Clouds increase saturday night and linger into sunday with a stray rain shower possible. The strongest winds gradually diminish after 7 pm. Breezy conditions sw 1020 mph early saturday morning. The sky is clear tonight and remains that way saturday to enjoy plenty of sunshine. More melting snow expec saturday with highgh in the 40s ann 50s. Clouds increase saturday night and linger into sunday with a stray rain shower possible. The strongest winds gradually diminish after 7 pm. Breezy conditions sw 1020 mph continue ernight and into early saturday morning. The sky is clear tonight and remains that way saturday to enjoy plenty of sunshine. More melting snow expect saturday with highs in the 40s and 50s. Clouds increase saturday nigigt and linger into sunday with a stray rain shower possible. The strongest winds gradually diminish after 7 pm. Breezy conditions sw 1020 mph continue overnight and intoo rly saturday morning. The sky is clear tonight and remains that way saturday to enjoy plenty of sunshine. More melting snow expect saturday with highs in the 40s and 50s. Clouds increase saturday night and linger into sunday with a strongest winds gradually diminish after 7 pm. Breezy conditions sw 1020 mph ntinue overnight and into early saturday morning. The sky is clear tonight and remains that way saturday to enjoy plenty of sunshine. More melting snow expect saturday with highs in the 40s and 50s. Clouds increase saturday night and linger into sunday with a stray rain shower possible. The strongest winds gradually diminish after 7 pm. Breezy conditions sw 1020 mph continue overnight and into early turday morninggthe sky is clear tonight and remains that way saturday to enjoy plenty of sunshine. More melting snow expect saturday with highs in the 40s and 50s. Clouds increase saturday night and linger into sunday with a stray rain shower possible. The strongest winds gradually diminish after 7 pm. Breezy conditions sw 1020 mph continue overnight and into early saturday morning. The hoping to ring back reeers after its infested with bed bed bug free with the help of a dog. Kwwls shirly descorbeth is live in dubuque with more details. Shirley. Well, after people heard about bed bugs here at the carnegiestout Public Library y n dubuque it freaked them out. Those in charge of the library tell me people are terrified to come here now so theyre going above and beyond to make sure it doesnt happen again. This is cooper this four year old Labrador Retriever is hard at work at the carnegie what were doing is having the dog go through and the dog can Library Every month for bed bugs after they were found here a few we had an isolated incidence and we wanted to learn more about bed bugs and we didnt the crime. But after word got out that these flat shaped, apple seed like bugs were discovered at the library stopped going. The perception is oh my gosh, the library has bed bugs, so patrons shouldnt be worried because of the procedures the library has in place like cooper. This friendly bed bug hunter. I dont think anybody should be afraid to come to the library because this particular library has this program in place, were gonna take care of that. Now in addition to Cooper Library now in addition to cooper staff have also been trained on how to spot bed bugs. And during that inspection no bed bugs were found. Good news there. Going forward, the canine inspections will be done every other month. Weve got you covered, live in dubuque, shirley descorbeth, kwwl news. Cooper the inspection dog stays busy. Hes actually works in multiple states, travelling between nebraska, minnesota, wwconsin, illinois and of course, iowa for bed bug inspections. Coming up. We will have the latest from the state wrestling tournament at Wells Fargo Arena in des moines. And the uni Womens Basketball team hosts drake in a battle of youre watching kwwl. Weve got you covered in eldorado, wrestling tournament in des moines. Action is heating up in all classes as we look to have 42 wrestlers and three teams crowned state champions on saturday night. Kwwls zach grant has the latest from wells fargg the Wells Fargo Arena and in day to start us off at 113 pounds hampton moves on via tech fall at 120 pounds Brock Rathbun bum knee and all moves on with a major decision at 126 pounds winning 113 at citys Derek Holschag moving on to the semis with a 93 win sot Derek Holschag union 132 junior im gonna focus right nick holt oo independence moves on with a 52 year moving on to the semis he poppens of ap shedenhelm comes out on top with a 125 victoy lets talk class 1a semis terrific tch at 132 pounds betwee chase mclaughlin of lisbon and Drake Halblom of alburnett. Mcluaghlin needed a sot chase mclaughin 132 pound junior. I am ecstatic there take down in ot to advance with now Trent Johnson continued to the third period he now has a matchup with three time state know where i am so ive been dont know where i am so ive the third period he now has a matchup with three time state champ Carter Happel treant johnson dnh 145 pound junior i wanna wrestle where i am with the best i mean hes ranked in the nation i dont know where iam so ive been excited and ivevebeen waiting for this and now i got it. At 195 pounds Landers Kuboushek will be going for the title he advances from the semi with a 90 shutout win and a battle of undefeateds at the heavyweight kyler schott of north linn troy mills falls to Jared Brinkman of iowa city regina in a great 54 battle in des moines im zach grant kwwl news in class 1a 1. Alburnett 88. 5 2. Lisbon 87. 0 8. Don bosco gilbertville 35. 0 12. Dikenew hartford 31. 0 14. North linn troy mill 29. 5 3a 1. Southeast polk 67. 0 4. Waverlyshell rock 39. 0 7. Dubuque hempstead 33. 5 9. 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