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KWWL Today In Iowa At 6 February 8, 2016

40 mph. Temps are in the teens will have a few snow showers but the blowing snow will stay the main problem. The winds stay strong through tomorrow and the cold air will stick around, too. Ill have more on that in a few minutes. Today. They are 15 to 30 mph right now with gusts up to 40 mph. Temps are in the teens and low 20s and wind chills are the blowing snow will stay the main problem. The winds stay strong through tomorrow and the cold air will stick around, too. Ill picking up our team seven Amanda Gilbert joins us live from ceda falls with a look at conditions. Amanda. Its really the wind thats the biggest problem there well you said it. If theres one thing i noticed this morning its the wind. Its hitting my face right now. And it hurts so make sure to dress accordingly this morning. Im going to step out of the way so you can see behind me. Im behind the uni dome in cedar falls. The wind is really picking up te snow thats fallen already and that is already on the ground. Blowing it across roads and flat surfaces. Driving will be a major concern this morning. Especially in more rural areas. I checked with Alliant Energy and mid american energy. No major pier outages yet. According to their websites. But thats also a weve got you covered live in cedar falls, Amanda Gilbert, conditions. Heres a live look at 218 in county. New this morning. Three people are in the hospital following a fire in cedar falls. It happened just before 11 45 last night at a Mobile Home Park in the 2500 block of union road. Firefighters rescued a five yearold girl, a threeyearold boy and their mother from the home. They had to head back to the scene around four this morning when the fire picked up again. At last check the children were doing well. The mother had serious smoke inhalataion. The cause of the fire is under investigation. A man is arrested after allegedly setting off a hospitals Sprinkler System and causing thousands of dollars worth of damage. Douglas hala is facing criminal mischief charges. Hes accused of tampering with the Sprinkler System at covenant 40 patients had to be moved to other areas of the hospital. Our staff came in, we were in in more to help us with that room change the damage is estimated at ten thousand dollars. Police say hala was a patient at the hospital. We dug into Court Records which tell us he was arrested last year for allegedly threatening a nurse at the same hospital. Seven people are hurt and one person is dead following a shooting at a night club. It happened in rochester new york. The victims range from 21 to 30 years old. One is female. Investigators believe it started as a fight inside the nightclub. Two people shot and killed when someone opens fire at a mardi it was very chaotic, because trying to sort out and find out we had officers yelling for help. There were reports of people fleeing the scene. And again, no arrests have been made at this time one person is dead and six others are hurt after a plant explosion in northwest georgia. Police say the explosion happened early sunday morning at a feed mill on a chicken farm about 50 miles northwest of atlanta. The explosion remains under investigation. One man dies in a race in which runners could also eat krispy kreme doughnuts. People were challenged to run five miles while eating 12 doughnuts in an hour. The North Carolina man stepped out during the first mile and reported having chest pains. He was taken to the hospital, where he died. Its kind of a shock to me. That happening. So its a little scary. The Krispy Kreme Challenge is a studentled, charitybased run that supports the North Carolina childrens hospital. Decision 2016. The New Hampshire primary is tomorrow. State to visit with people in flint, michigan. Clinton visited a church and told the people of flint shell fight to help them as they this is not merely unacceptable or wrong, though it the children of flint are just as precious as the children in any other part of america. Clinton also called on congress to approve 200 Million Dollars in emergency aid for flint. Clintons competitor, bernie sanders, spent sunday campaigning in New Hampshire. He spent a lot of time in his speech contrasting himself to clinton. Foreign policy. The most important policy issue in the modern the history of this country was the war on iraq. I was right on that issue. Hillary clinton was wrong. Separating himself again. Take super pac funding, saying it distracts from the issues important to struggling voters on the republican side. Senator ted cruz speaking to a standingroom only crowd days ahead of the primary. One of the biggest crowds hes seen in New Hampshire. One topic he hit. The idea of Political Correctness is dangerous. And the idea that we would draft our daughters to immoral and if i am president , we aint doing it. Cruz has two young daughters, who, he says are capable of doing anything in their hearts desire. An 18yearold first time voter cries when she meets her teen a hug at this New Hampshire rally. Its like how i felt about one direction three years ago. High school in New Hampshire campaigning for the florida senator. Super bowl 50 had fireworks, fly overs and some sloppy football. Jay gray shows us which city is everybody around i mean its game with a long drive and field goal. And scored again in the first. The panthers got on track to start the second quarter. Cutting the lead to just three. Both teams gave the ball away before half time. A long punt return led to another denver field goal. Giving the broncos a 13to7 lead at the half. A halftime that started with coldplay. And ended red hot with bruno mars and beyonce joining the show. In the 2nd half, the teams traded field goals, but late in the 4th quarter with the panthers trailing by six, the panthers turned the ball over, their fourth the result. A broncos td that secured a third broncos super bowl win and a second super bowl ring for qb peyton manning. And as the celebration continued on the field it became very clear that a driving force for these players in the super bowl win was to make sure their leader the sheriff had one final championship ride. Its just a blessing from god just for him to go out his 18th year in the league and win the and talk with his family before jay gray nbc news santa iowa. A young iowa girl gets a new room, thanks to the work of some volunteers. Plus a big surprise for people working at a restaurant when a sea animal gets inside. Weve got you covered with jerry gallagher, ally crutcher now your storm track 7 burke at farmers, weve seen almost everything, so we know how to cover almost anything. Even a stag pool party. party music splashing destruction splashing destruction burke and we covered it, october twentyseventh, 2014. Talk to farmers. We know a thing or two because weve seen a thing or two. Weather information. Here is additional forecast information weather team strong winds will keep blowing and drifting snow a concern over the viewing area. The winds will also bring in some pretty cold air that will stick with us. Right now. The worst areas of travel will be central through northeast iowa. Blizzard warning continues for grundy and butler counties with tama to new hampton including waterloo and then oelwein to elkader northward in a Winter Weather advisory, both until 6 this evening. A few snow showers will continue to track through the area today, but we are not expecting much snowfall. However, as they do track through, they will reduce visibilities. Mainly we will have blowing and drifting problems in the north and west where there is more snow on the ground to blow around. The snow plow cams are showing some of those areas this morning. Mostly west. Stormtrack7 Live Weather Network will with strong winds. The temps will be colder, too. We are in the teens with a few 20s in the southern counties. A good 15 to 25 degrees colder than this point yesterday morning. Winds are 15 gusts to 40 top 50 mph at times this morning. Winds will stay strong today with a slight weakening tonight before picking up again tomorrow. Showers continuing, the main threat is the winds. And that wont really change since things are starting to stall in their track across the nation. We will also get colder. Highs today will only be in the 20s at best. And week. We will have strong winds blowing and drifting will be the main problem. Winds and cold tonight teens with chills to 20. And highs tomorrow only in the teens at wednesday morning. Snow showers continuing, the main threat is the winds. And that wont really change since things are starting to stall in their track across the nation. We will also get colder. Highs today will only be in the 20s at best. And we may already seen them with a lot of teens taking over for tomorrow. And much of the week. We will have strong winds today with gusts to 40 mph at times. A few snow will be the main problem. Winds and cold tonight and tomorrow. Lows tonight will be in the Single Digits and teens with chills to 20. And highs tomorrow only in the teens at best. We stay cold all week. Wind chills could drop to 25 on wednesday morning. Its still to come. A young iowa girl battling the odds now has the comfort of a new on wednesday morning. Its still to come. A young iowa girl battling the odds now has the comfort of a new the votes are counted and we know the name of a zoos adorable new member. Youre watching kwwl. Weve got you covered in harpers ferry, hudson, hiawatha and all of eastern iowa february is huge for us. All our handcrafted classic footlongs are just 6 each. The media is going a little crazy. Submageddon with an incredible amount of accumulation inside. That now seems. Enjoy all our classic footlongs for just 6 each. Heres a recap of todays top stories. The Denver Broncos are super bowl champions. The broncos beat the panthers 2410 last night. Earning the team its third super bowl title. A mother and her two children are recovering following a fire at a mobile home in cedar falls. Firefighters rescued all three from the home. The cause of the fire is udner investigation. And parts of iowa are under a blizzard warning this morning. Many more counties under a Winter Weather advisory as we take a live look from the evansdale water tower the big threat is not the snow. But the winds. Causing the snow to blow across roadways. A girl is battling the odds and now has a new space to call her own. Kwwls Shirley Descorbeth shows us how a bedroom makeover is bringing peace and comfort. nat sound its a welcome home like no other 9yearold Camdyn Reisner of dubuque is being surprised with a bedroom makeover. Princess themed. Overwhelming and emotional is an understatement. Before the big decor and lighting. To be able to do this camdyn is such an honor. Were real excited to help out and give her her princess bedroom. Its all thanks to the organization special spaces, which makes bedroom makeovers for kids with life threatening illnesses. In camdyns case she has rare genetic disorder thats been so she has developmental delays, she has to catch up on walking, talking and. ,so the biggest challenge for camdyn is just independence. Those pitching in to help, hope this bedroom makeover will bring her peace and comfort. We hope that the bedrooms provide just that unique space that they can retreat to. And now camdyn is overjoyed with happiness. The riesner home. Now complete with a room fit just for a princess. Weve got you covered in dubuque. Shirley descorbeth. Kwwl news. Remodel special spaces has done in dubuque its coming up. A marine themed restaurant gets a special guest whos used to being near water. Plus fans had their chance to weigh in. We learn what name is back with anseven forecast. Few snow showers today but stick around for the week with highs only in the low to mid morning. A sea lion needs a nap and heads to the marine room. Thats the name of a restaurant outside san diego. The animal went in, took a nap. While. Shes now at sea world where shell be taken care of until she can be returned to the wild. The columbus zoos baby polar bear finally has a name. People from 115 countries participated in an online poll to name the cub. Who was born on november 6th. The winning name. Drumroll please. Is nora parents names. Youre watching kwwl. Weve got you covered. This is today now on today in iowa. Hillary clinton has to think fast on her feet. When she learns a young girl is hoping to become the first female president. Plus. Following a deadly crane collapse. Safety changes take effect today. And firefighters rescue a woman and her two children from an good morning, im ally crutcher. And im jerry gallagher. Storm track seven meteorologist is here now with your storm track seven forecast. The blizzard warning is still in effect for butler and grundy counties with a Winter Weather advisory from tama through waterloo and new hampton and then for the northeastern part travel hazards. Falling snow is not the main issue today, since the bulk of the snow has already tracked through and it didnt leave much. We partially to completely covered in the area. Here is a look at as some showers track through. The winds are the main problem today. They are 15 to 30 mph right now with gusts up to 40 mph. Temps are in the snow showers but the blowing snow will stay the main problem. Stick around, too. Ill have picking up our team seven cameras in the area. And visibilities are down as some showers track through. The winds are the main problem today. They are 15 to 30 mph right now with gusts up to 40 mph. Temps are in the teens and low 20s and wind chills are starting to drop below zero. We will have a few snow showers but the blowing snow will stay the main problem. The winds stay strong through tomorrow and the cold air will stick around, too. Ill have more on picking up our team seven coverage with a look outside. Storm track sevens Amanda Gilbert joins us live from cedar falls. The snows been falling pretty steadily all morning. Not a lot has been staying in the ground. And thats because of how stroong the wind is. Its really been picking up the snow all morning. Heres a look behind the unidome in cedar falls. You can really which is why driving is a major there are plows out working against that wind to get the roads as clear as possible. In fact theres more than 100 out in iowa according to the track a weve got you covered live in cedar falls, Amanda Gilbert, kwwl news. Lets take a look now at interstate conditions. This is i80 near the coral ridge mall. During big gusts of wind you can see the camera shaking new this morning. A mother and her two children are in the hospital following a fire at a mobile home. It happened just before 11 45 union road in cedar falls firefighters rescued a five boy and their mother from the home. They had to return to the home this morning when flames started were doing well. The mother had serious smoke inhalataion. The cause of the fire is under investigation. Everyone is ok after this fire in eldridge. Crews responded just after four no one was home, and firefighters say it could have been much worse. If a man passing by hadnt stopped to help. Residence here and noticed small fire under the window extinguishing the small fire firefighters believe this was an electrical fire no word yet on the extent of the damage. Police are searching for the man who walked into a business with a gun and got away with thousands of dollars. Heres a look at the Surveillance Video from the acapulco mexican bakery in iowa city saturday night. You see the man walk up to the cashier and lead her in back. Customers look nervous. In that back room cameras show the cashier being forced forward. A gun to her back, she gives the man money from the desk and from a safe then he quickly leaves. As we spoke with the owner, her god son can be heard translating. Its very unsettling for us because he already came in with the intention of going in to the back room where the safe according to witnesses the person took nearly 50thousand dollars and the Crime Stoppers grou is offering nearly one thousand dollars for any information that leads to an ararest. An iia Police Officer is recovering after being shot while responding to a call. Sioux city officers investigating a string of robberies and burglaries responded to an apartment complex. Police say Isaiah Mothershed shot an office in the leg and also shot himself. The officer is a 13year veteran of the department and is already out of the hospital. Mothershed is currently in police custody. Hes also the suspect for a kidnapping and assault which happened six months ago. A crime allegedly committed over a drug debt. Continuing coverage. New Safety Policies go into effect today following a fatal crane collapse last week. One person was killed and three others hurt in new york on friday. New yorks mayor announced new restrictions to improve safety. Including a strict policy about who fail to make a site safe during a even if it is a forecast in advance, we are going to require that the cranes be put into that secure mode. A new policy for sidewalk safety is also in place. North korea claims it has launched a satellite into orbit. However, its widely believed to be a cover for a longrange missile test. This all comes about a month after north korea claimed to successfully test a hydrogen bomb. The reaction from the us, japan and south korea has been swift and unanimous. All three are condemning the rocket launch by north korea. The United Nations Security Council held an emergency meeting last night about north korea. The Us Ambassador to the un says nobody is fooled by their claims about launching a satellite. The launches themselves are advancing north koreas capacity to advance its Nuclear Weapons program. The Ambassador Says president obama spoke with chinas

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