The rest of the week. Ill have minutes. New thisismorning waterloo firefighters respond to a fire this morning. They were first called to new this morning waterloo firefighters respond to a fire this morning. They were first called to Western Avenue around four this morning. Smoke has been pouring out of the homm. We just spoke with firefighters a few minutes ago but they dont have any more information at this time. Theyre still on the scene. A kwwl followup. An updayeeon the three people rescued from a cedar falls mobile home during a fire a story we first ashley calfee, the mother, had to be taken to iowa city to be treated. She took in a lot of smoke. Her three year old son and five and windy weather. John bostwickcedar falls fire, battalion chief we had some things that were starting to freeze up during the started to freeze up and that type of stuff. Take a look at this body camera video from a Cedar Falls Police officer. They showed up first and battled the fire until firefighters were able to get there. The cause of the fire is still in knoxville firefighters are investigating a deadly fire which happened sunday night. When crews arrived, one of the homeowners Ronald Henning was outside. He had to run to get help. His wife patricia was still inside. Fireifghters pulled her out from the home. But she later died. Ronald is being treated at the university of iowa burn centerr. Family needs to know that the arrived on the scene did everything they could to try and get her out of the house. the cause of the fire is still being determined. Blizzard conditions making it difficult for firefighters in saint charles. Thats south of des moines. Strong winds caused a fire to spread quickly. A family lost their home and four pets in this fire. The cause is still under investigation. Continuiuig coverage. Were learning more about the three people who died in a car crash thursday in benton county. Icy roads are being blamed for this crash. The three men who died were all in their thirties, from congo. They had just moved to cedar rapids in recent months. The Vice President of the Congolese Community in iowa tells kwwl the mens funerals will likely be on the same day but the community is having trouble e oming up with the money. Dozens of people are hurt after a charter bus overturns on a it happened in connecticut. Nearly sixty people were on the bus at the timm22 of which were taken to the hospital. Four are in critical condition. The cause of the crash is under investigation today, governor branstad visits Waterloo West High School for a Career Opportunities presentation. This comessne week afterroters overwhelmingly turned down a proposal for a career and technical center. Last night the school board met for the First Time Since the vote. Members of the Bond Committee were surprised by the Election Results after doing four yearr sue flynn we are exploring different options. We want to talk to people. We want to talk no. The committee is heading back to the drawing board now but the district isnt giving up on the idea of e Career Center just yet. A family is suing the city of flint and the state of michigan over the water crisis there. The family says their two yearold daughter is one of the children with high levels of lead in her blood. The tap water in flint was im uncertain because im no doctor. Its just its ah its know, we have children that, care. This is the first individual lawsuit stemming from the contamination. An Illinois School district remains closed due to lead concerns. Teachers and Community Members spent time over the weekend clearing out the Elementary School after tests found high levels of lead dust and mold in the building. Pendin results of air quality samples oo the middle schchol, sse students will finish out the school year there while others will attend classes at a nearby high school. In missouri a town on edge after learning chlorine levels in their tap water went five years without being checked. Now, the old director is out and decision 2016. Voting is underway for the first in the nation president ial primary. This is video of workers setting up a polling location at an Elementary School in manchester. As many as one in five kely voters. Are undecided walking into the polls today. If trump and sanders win. As expected. All eyes will be on how strongly clinton runs. And who tuns second in the gop. Voters in a handful of towns, including in the famously first dixville notch, are the first to cast votes in New Hampshire under new hampshirr law towns with less than 100 people can open polls at midnight and close once registered voers have cast their votes. John kasich and Bernie Sanders came out on top for dixville notchs ttal of nine voters. Former new york city mayor Michael Bloomberg says hes run for president this year. Bloomberg telling the Financial Times hes considering all his options when it comes to the presidency. The first time hes spoke openly about a potential bid. Thdecision time could be soon. Bloomberg admits he ould need to start getting his name on babalots by early march to stage its the last day of the mardi gras season. As sarah dallof shows us, fat tuesday celebrations in new orleans are expected to be the good morning. The celebration and security are both being the big easy. nats crowd the costumes nats welcome to new orleans. Baby the parades. And of course, the beads. nats reaa . Lady tosses beads. Lady catches, thanks all part of an iconic mardi gras experience. A feast for the eyes and ears. Beyond, beyond our expectations awing visitorsrsand locals alike. Im here every year and we dance a lot. You may not know the person on the side of you but you get surveillance, the fbi says visitors ssuld always assume theyre being filmed. In addition to agents, Police Officers are on patrol many undercover. We want you to have a good time but we will not tolerate parades the weather this season has been cool and rainy. Not perfect but not enough to affect any of the scheduled events. A little rain on these not even slowing the celebrations. All of this adds uu to big bucks, dumping an estimated 840Million Dollars into the local economy. A reason for businesses to rejoice. Once the mardi gras madness is over. Im new orleans, im sarah dallof, nbc news. A trooper is back on the job after being injured while responding to an a car hit the wisconssn state trooper, pinning him between two cars. His left leg was broken in all the work i put in to become a trooper was nothing compared to the work ive had to do to get back doing what i love. He wantete to get back work to show his children challenges can be overcome. He says his recovery hasnt been easy, but it has been worth it. With the Winter Weather weve been hahaing. Everyonenes thinking about how to stay warm right now. One mom is making sure newborns stay warm as well. Kwwls Amanda Gilbert joins us live in the newsroom. She spokeeo this mom a aut how shes keeping waterloo babbies warm in the winter. Lacy tripp loves to croche she decided to use her hobby for a good cause. She made more than 200 hats s r newborn babbies at Allen Hospital. She reason she does this is her twin babbies. She had them prematurally and sepnt 50 days at allen. Wherethe hospital became a second home. Newborn babbies heads warm thats why your mom always teaches you to wear a stocking think its jsut another sign that theres some great people in the communinty. Lacy also makes hats for stillborn babbies. She says it shows that they are babbies too. Right now Allen Hospital is hahaing out valentines day hats that lacy made. They just finished handing out the superbowl day ones that had footballs and tiny pom poms on them. Weve got you covered. Live in the newsroom. Amanda gilbert. Kwwl news. Lacy uses pinterest and youtube to get ideas for the holidaythemed hats. Each hat takes 45 minutes to an hour to make. Its coming up on today in iowa. Were keeping an eye on the weather and letting you know about me problems its causing on iowa roadways. Plus some frat brothers brave the cold to raise money to help and a restaurant is so successful iteeps outgrowong its kitchen youre watching kwwl, weve e ot you covered with jerry gallagher, ally crutcher and meteorologist eileen loan. Now your storm track 7 forecast on kwwl. From the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team. See the screen for your complete weathth information. Here is additional forecast information from the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team it will stay windy and cold today with some blowing and drifting, but not to the extent we had yesterday in portions of the viewing area. A fewewmore snow showers track in tomorrow and we will stay cold northwest with gusts to 30 mph. They will stay strong all day. Wind chills are running below zero and we still have some blowng snow around that will reduce visibilities at times. Roads are still treacherous in central iowa and we still have many that are dealing with drifting in our viewing area. Stormtrack7 Live Weather Network cameras will keep showing that lowing snow much of the day today. Temperatures will stay cold for the rest of the week. Our temps are mostly in the teens this morning with Single Digits to the west. The low is hung up in the great lakes as a strong storm system tracks into the north atlantic. Eventually it will be able to move and we will happen tomorrow and bring some snow owers back to the state. Although it shouldnt be cold, though. Highs range from the Single Digits to the 50s in the region tomorrow. However, most of us wont be so lucky. We stay in the teens. R temps wont change much today and we will keep the northwest winds gusty. Blowing and drifting will keep happening, but at a manageable level today. Tonight the winds will srt to die down, but temps will drop below morning. Wednesday has a few snow ssowers with highs onlyyn the Single Digits to mid teens and winds around 5 to 15 mph. We stay cold this week with highs only in the teens and lows around zero. Another round of sysrem for late sumday into monday. Heres a look at some of the blowing snow in eastern iowa yesterday. This is on highway 218 near plainfield. You really cant see very far. The weather continues to cause problems in central iowa. Some parts of i35 are closed this morning. The dot also says its a good idea to avoid other highws right now because of blowii snow. Likk highway 18 between mason city and clear lake and 175 between ellsworth and hubbard. Fraternity brothers in north change much today and we will keep the northwest winds gusty. Blowing and drifting will keep happening, but at a manageable level today. Tonight the winds will starttto die down, but temps a few snow showers with highs only in the Single Digits to mid around zero. Another round of snow showers will track through heres a ook at some f the snow in eastern iowa yesterday. This is on highway 218 near plainfield. You really cant see very far. The weher continues to cause problems in central iowa. Some parts of i35 are closed this morning. The dot also says its a good idea to avoid other highways right now bighway 18 between mason city and clear lake and 175 between ellsworth and hubbard. Fraternity brothers in north dakota finding a way to take advantage of recent cold weather. The annual freezeathon frat members brace the cold, asking cars to pull over all to raise money for a child care center. And they did it in subzero wind chills and 40mile perhour wind gusts. Its still to come. A bank at the center of the 2008 financial crisis is back. In liquid form. Plus she went from her home, to a food truck, to a restaurant so small its hard to find. Fredricksburg, farley, fairfax Lehman Brothers th your dreams evolve, and with committed support, they thrive. Declared bankruptcy, sparking the 2008 financial crisis, is back. In a whiskey form. A british investor filed to use the term for his line of whiskies. With names like ashes of disaster and snapfire, he suggests one of the whiskies quote goes perfect with reckless maneuvers, long gambles, and explosive consequences. One of the smallest. This morning, the story of a woman who built her business from the ground up william joy got a behind the sceees look. Tiny banner on a fence is the only evidence it exists were kind of stuck off in a corner and were a little hard to find. Firsttimers often miss it she kept saying, we just went in a circle and i said we did go in a circle. Its calle the here and thats her. Its unique. Nichelle thurston is from florida a i never could find awesosoe, really good tasting seafood. So she took the last of her savings. Its a house made sauce. And it is delicious. And she started celling it out of her house. It was all just on a whim. It worked better than she or her husband expected. Getting off work and see two or 300 people standingn your porch waiting for your wifesseafood. I meen i cant tell you the feeling man. After two months, she moved to a food truck. People. Four months later, opened up the restaurant. This is my first time actually running a restaurant. I think ive been doing pretty good at it. Her secret weapon is social media. From posting pictures of her food, shes gained more than 20 thousand followers on instagram and more than thousand on facebook. F it wasnt for social media i dont know if we would be where we are today. Between facebook and instagram, thats my customer base. I kept seeing everybody talk about the seafood lady, the seafood lady and then they besides social media, the thurstons thank god when it said baby, one day god is going shrimp see ya later baby. She got the recipes from her grandfather who was a chef in the navy. Since she started, her two brbrhers and her mom have started up places using the same successful too. Coming up. A heartwarming welcome home for a soldier who storm track ssven meteorologist with another check of your storm saturday before we warm into the a big surprise for kids after they said goodbye to their dad. Hes a Staff Sergeant in the army and suprised them at schooll this isnt your typical soldier surprise see, dad had just said goodbye to his kids in the duty. The real surprise. Is hes retired from the army and is ive missed so many birthdays, so many holidays, and theres now time for me to take c cre of my family whos been there the whole time to support me. And so now its time for me to actually be here and support them. He served our country for 14 years. If youre not a big fan of cajun food but want to celebrate mardd gras. We have some suggestions. This year fat tuesday falls on National Pizza day whether its chicago style or deep dish, ordered or homemade. Pizza is an american a recent harris poll even found comfort food. And for your breakfast enjoyment its also National Bagel day formerly bagel and lox day. Heres something you might not know bagels get their shape because the bread is boiled, then baked. That makes it soft inside and crispy outside. If you want tocelebrate both youre watching kwwl. Wwve got you coveree this is todayay now on today in iowa. An ongoing battle over iowas Medicaid Program continues. With a bill in the legislature. And a former governor getting involved. Plus. Voting is already underway in New Hampshire for the nations first primary and babies are a bit warmer this morning. Thanks to a woman who makes it her personal mission to knit them hats. And im jerry gallagher. Storm track seven meteorologist eileen loan is here now with your storm ttack seven forecast. Temperatures this morning are running in the teens although there are a few areas in the mph and still gusting to 30 mph closed between ames and clear lake. Our visibilities are better, but we still have some forecast for you in a few minutes. Visibilities are better, but we still have some blowing snow this morning. And that may continue today with the winds staying strong. We wont warm up forecast for yu in a few new this rning waterloo firefighters are on the scene of this morning. They were first called to Western Avenue around four this morning. Smoke has been pouring out of the home. Wee still workink to get more information right now. Fireifghters are still on the scene were taking a live look now weve been in touch with firefighters this morning but they at this another big story this morning a former gogoernor versus our Current Governor as democrats and republicans battle over medicaid chet culver is Holding Town Hall meetings in coralville and cedar rapids today to talk abouut governor branstads plan to privatize medicaid. Many democrats criticice the governors plan which affetcs hundreds of thousands of iowans. Culver said last week the move could put Peoples Health at system. Branstad is firing back. That kind of partisanshipipshould ve no place iitrying to deliver the best health care to the citizens of iowa. Some lawmakers say the governor hasnt been able to show his plan would actually save money. A bill is already in the works at the statehouse to repeal the governors actions. As a lady got up and said i have a son who is bipolar. Hes googling the internet to find s answers to see what his alternatives are and which way he should go. The democratic led senate does gun owners in the state are pushing to legalize suppressors, also known as silencers. The Iowa Firearms Coalition is working with lawmakers on a bill that would legalize suppressss in iowa. The bill cleared a committee and could go to a vote on the senate floor in the next few weeks. But critics say this is not the right direction the state shoud take at a time when theres so much gun vio