To be harmless, and fake. Police pick up some wild camera video. Good morning, im ally crutcher. And im jerry gallagher. With storm track 7 meteorologist eileen loan. Good morning. Eileen on camera from the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team. See the screen for your complete weather information. Here is additional forecast information from the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team low pressure is moving just wednesday. Driving our weather here in eastern iowa. As it tracks off to the east, we have the potential to see some flurries. We begin with the white house transition. More big announcements are expected today. Tracie pot with the latest on the transition and whats happening on capitol hill today. I think the American People are seeing the leadership and the energy that our president elect today Goldman Sachs alum and Campaign Finance chair Steven Mnuchin as treasury secretary. And billionaire wilbur ross as commerce secretary. It was a good enough meeting. They gave me a proper rain hat. Still up in the air people. Night. The people hes selected as members of his cabinet are solid, effective, capable people. Candidates and advisers are swarming trump tower. We talked about secretary of labor and its something im gonna consider. Vice president elect pence meets with Republican Leaders on capitol hill today who say theyre ready to quickly confirm trumps cabinet. In sync on governing, but not flag burning. In this country, we have a long unpleasant speech. I happen to support the Supreme Court decision on that matter. Mr. Trump suggests punishment jail or loss of citizenship. President elect trump kicks off his thank you tour in ohio tomorrow. Hes also said to visit indiana to announce 1000 factory jobs staying in the u. S. Tracie potts, nbc news, washington. New orleans this weekend. Senators grassley and ernst demand answers from the va after a veteran takes his own life. Curtis gearhart had been receiving treatment for pt sd. But when he went back in to the va for recurring headaches, the family was told it would take five or six weeks to see a doctor. Gearhart took his own life before that happened. The va office of Inspector General got back to senator grassley gathering information and have requested more information from the va. We will assess all the information and determine our next steps based on our analysis. The Inspector General says that process could take 2months. President obama spent part of his day visiting with Wounded Soldiers in maryland. The president visits the countrys Largest Military hospital there several times every year. And those visits are private out of the public view. The white house says he met with been arrested accused of slashing a woman at a Us Military Base in japan. The base is home to the 35th fighter wing for the us air force, stationed in japan. Continuing coverage this morning. Buckeye strong. Members of the Ohio State Community come together after an attack on campus. Authorities say an 18year old student plowed into people with a car and then started slashing them with a knife. Eleven people were injured in the attack. Theyre all expected to be happen that are unfortunate or that are hurtful to us. When those things happen, what really works for us is to come together in the spirit of unity. And i encourage everyone in our Buckeye Community to think clearly about that. The alleged attacker was shot and killed by police. In detroit a Community Held a candlelight vigil for an officer killed in the line of duty last week. Officer collin rose was shot in the time of the shooting. He later died fellow officers called rose a great talent and a great officer for the community. His funeral will take place on thursday. Brakes fail a car crashes into a business. It happened at mulgrews tavern in east dubuque, illinois yesterday. People were inside at the time. It was just like a loud cannon door of the mulgrews bar. Some injuries. She was taken to a hospital, but has since been released. Everyone else is okay. New details this morning. A wrong way crash on highway 20 shows how our officers put their lives at risk to protect and serve us every day. Kwwls Amanda Gilbert joins us live in waterloo. We now have Waterloo Police officer mark crash on highway 20 yesterday around 4 30 in the morning. Nissen noticed another car headed towards his squad car near the ansborough exit. But was unable to get out of the way in time. When the crash happened nissen had his emergency lights and siren on. This officer was actually responding to calls of a wrongway driver on highway 20. He knew he may be headed towards a dangerious situation. Shows that our men and women in blue risks their lives every day just this year. Two Police Officers in des moines were killed after a wrongway driver crashed into them. Live in waterloo. Amanda gilbert. News 7 kwwl. The other driver in the crash. 27 yearold erick james anderson. Was charged with an owi second offense. No insurance. Failure to have control. And driving one person is dead and three others hurt after a car crashes off a los angles freeway, landing on a homeless camp. Police say at least one person was trapped under the car. Its still not clear what caused the crash. The truck driver who crashed into a van carrying comedian tracy morgan two years ago, pleads guilty. He was driving a walmart truck when he crashed into morgans van on the new jersey turnpike. Morgan suffered serious injuries in the crash and comedian james mcnair was killed. A miraculous recovery. A boy who nearly died after getting hit by a car is now communicating with his family. Leighton pullin was hit by a car crossing a Waterloo Street last month. The sevenyear old was rushed to iowa city and has been recovering ever since. The family invited kwwls lauren moss into leightons hospital room to check in on his recovery. Give me a thumbs up. A thumbs up. An act of leighton pullins family in means so much more. I said if you know this is grandma give me a thumbs up, and he went like this and i said up and he went like that. That was the best feeling in the world. I just wanted to leave work and i did and got here as leighton has been unresponsive for weeks, suffering a fractured skull and brain damage after being hit by truck. If you ever want to see a miracle this is a miracle, we never thought we would see this just a week ago the last the way he was. Now look at him. Hit it back to me. Oh wow, thats a spike. His doctors and nurses at covenants rehab center, are helping him move, and communicate with his hands. Grab the orange one. Theres a long road aheadleighton strong. Thats our nickname for him, but leighton is fighting hard each and every day. What it feels like, its wonderful. One thumb at a time. As you can imagine, his medical expenses have been a lot on the family a family friend is asking for Christmas Gifts to send to his list. He feared for his life. Thats what a former Police Officer says facing murder charges. Michael slager is charged in the shooting death of walter scott last year. Slager has said he stopped scott for a broken tail light. But then he took off running. And officer slager chased after him. Shortly after the officer shot at him. Slager says he now has nightmares and cant sleep. You any indication of compliance pulled my firearm and i pulled the trigger. If convicted, slager could get 30 years in prison. An oklahoma Police Officer who shot and killed a man in september will stand trial for manslaughter. Officer betty shelby was charged te in september, which was captured on camera. The judge decided to go ahead with the trial after reviewing the video in the courtroom. Shelby said he disobeyed her commands and she thought he was trying to get a weapon from his car. But Police Videos showed crutcher with his arms in the air before the shooting. Investigators never found any weapons in his car. Working towards a solution. People come together in waterloo to talk about vioelence. This year the citys seen three know how they can help. The naacp held a work session to try to come up with solutions. All day and everydaaby out what we can and cant do. We can change this community. Waterloo is small. We were built on community. The groups filled out forms with their ideas and set up work groups to start implementing the suggestions. A Common Thread more mentoring. An evergreen tree chopped down and that tree was a symbol to them. The illinois couple lost their son twelve years ago. The tree was a gift of remembrance. A tree farm offered a replacement but the family wants justice. I dont want anybody to replace believe somebody did that. They plan to replant a new tree. This time, in their front yard officers get more than they police in kansas put cameras along a park trail and ended up capturing were some harmless, costumed wildlife. A wolf in high heel boots is a different sighting for the area as are two people in gorilla suits entertaining the camera. On the departments Facebook Page police thanked the community for noticing the cameras. For their sense of humor. Its coming up on today in iowa. Have too many donations for kiddos plus. Its beginning to look a lot like ski season. Those stories and the forecast from storm track seven meteorologist Rachael Peart coming up. Youre watching kwwl, now your storm track 7 forecast on kwwl. Lets go to storm track seven for your forecast forecast. From the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team. See the screen for your complete weather information. Here is additional forecast information from the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team low pressure is moving just wednesday. Driving our weather here in eastern iowa. As it tracks off to the east, we have the potential to see some flurries. A rain snow mix is possible. Southern counties may not see anything except clouds. However, even the Northern Counties wont see much accumulation by the time all is said and done. Highs today will be in the low 40s. Overnight, a few lingering flurries are possible. December begins with near normal highs in the upper 30s low 40s. More sunshine is likely on friday into saturday as High Pressure tracks in. Weekend outlook we will have partly cloudy skies for saturday but computer models are not in agreement about sunday. Some keep it dry, others bring in some precipitation. We will watch it carefully. With highs in the 40s, any precip looks it we are watching a system for the middle of next week that could bring snow to eastern iowa. Change is very likely at this point. Low pressure is moving just north of the iowa of snow has ski resorts getting ready for the season. Almost a foot and a half of snow has fallen in the last week in breckenridge. Which is keeping public works departments busy theyre working round the clock to keep up. Its coming up on today in iowa. Holiday shoppers can become easy targets for pickpockets. Tips from police on how to avoid it coming up. Receiving messages from around the world even though she didnt win. Stay with kwwl, weve got you we think church is more than a place to go at christmastime. We think church can happen anywhere and anytime. We think church can happen when gifts change lives a world away. When giving your time, gives someone new hope. When opening hearts, inspires joy. And when we remember where it all began. Of the United Methodist church invite you to learn more at rethinkchurch. Org pickpockets. Police in chicago showing how. A man bumps into a woman and lifts her wallet from her purse as she gets into the elevator. In another demo, a man gets his wallet stolen while passing through a police say to be aware of your surroundings while shopping and avoid crowds because they make shoppers more vulnerable to crime. She didnt receive the crown but the pageant contestant is being called a winner. Compete in miss minnesota usa wearing a hijab and a burkini during the swimsuit portion of the competition. Since people found out about her story shes gotten messages from women around the world supporting her. This is a big win for us you and being celebrated som i just challenging you to be outgoing and just do your best in women and made it to the top 15. A worthy cause with too many donations. A Police Department in wisconsin gives stuffed animals to kids when they respond to a call a car crash, a fire whatever the case may be. Theyve received so many donations they have too many. Now theyre starting a program theyre calling stuffed hugs any kid who walks into the department for any reason can leave with a stuffed animal. Public to try and comfort them. Time to clean all the animals before they get handed out. Its coming up on today in iowa. Introducing the newest powerball winners. Its a group of 20 people and they storm track seven meteorologist [music] no, no, no, no, people are both soft and strong. Yey which is why our products are too. 421 milliondollar lottery jackpot. The group purchased the Winning Ticket in tennessee. The group says they play twice a week and spend 60 dollars each time. And now theyre big winners. And i just started screaming but husband had to look. I looked wouldnt answer their phone. And im like, get up saturdays prize is the 12th largest Powerball Jackpot in us history. Eileen loan is back with another got you covered. This is today in iowa. This morning protesters are being told to leave. For their the cold and now face an order. Plus, a big announcement about jobs from donald trump even before he takes the oath of office. And another day, another finalst taking centerstage at uni. This is a huge week on campus as the university searches for a new leader. Good morning, im ally crutcher. And im jerry gallagher. Storm track seven meteorologist forecast. Eileen on camera low pressure is moving just north of the iowa minnesota line through the day wednesday. Driving our weather here in eastern iowa. As it potential to see some flurries. A rain snow mix is possible. Southern counties may not see anything except clouds. However, even the Northern Counties wont see much accumulation by the time will be in the low 40s. Overnight, a few lingering flurries are possible. As temperatures fall to near freezing 32f , fog is possible. December begins with near normal highs in the upper 30s low 40s. More sunshine is likely on friday into saturday as High Pressure tracks in. Weekend outlook we will have partly cloudy skies for saturday but computer standoff in a snowstorm. Protesters in north dakota have been told to leave. People have been showing up to support the Standing Rock sioux tribe which is upset about which would cover four states, including iowa will damage their water governors Evacuation Order with winter on the way. After nearly five months of protest, officials are turning up the pressure. Telling demonstrators to leave now or face the consequences. But neither the official warnings nor the howling Winter Weather seem convincing. The Morton CountySheriffs Department warned protesters tuesday that theyll start blocking supplies a spokeswoman for the Department Later clarified that theyd only stick to punishing trespassers. Members of the Standing Rock sioux tribe. Who originally filed the lawsuit against the pipeline. Say theyre not budging. Water is sacred. But, its also Good Business to protect your water resource. North dakota governor Jack Dalrymple warned protesters about the Winter Weather which will only get worse. He said that First Responders will no longer be responsible for rendering aid to those who stay 17 native americans, whove served under the obama administration, signed a letter asking the president to step in and allow protesters to stay. The ceo of the Company Building the pipeline is also weighing in trying to convince protesters the pipeline will be safe. This pipeline is being built where to existing pipelines exist today, that were built through your state in 1982. Weve not disturbed any historical sites. Im yasmin amer reporting. Two pipeline protesters, who chained themselves to equipment in they ran past security to the construction site in pilot mound. Thats in boone county in central iowa. They chained their wrists together inside a pvc pipe. Firefighters cut the pipe. A state patrol plane was called in to search for others in the every direct action we deeply believe water is life therefore we must do everything in our Human Capacity to protect it. Pipeline construction sites left in iowa. The area along the Des Moines River is the one of the last sections of the pipeline left to finish in central iowa thats why protesters are focusing on it. No one got hurt when a pipeline exploded in missouri. This video shows the huge fire in platte county. Thats on the western side of the state. The pipelines owned by Enterprise Products partners out of louisiana. The company says the pipeline moves an ethanepropane mix from kansas. His life to protect and serve. Hes now out of the hospital with minor injuries. Kwwls Amanda Gilbert joins us live in waterloo. You can tell us more about what happened. Waterloo Police Officer mark nissen responding to calls about a wrongway dri