Temperatures dont look too bad right now, but this is likely the warmest it will be the rest of the day. We may gain a degree or two with the help of southerly winds right now with not too many gusts, but that changes. By late morning the winds will be gust to 30 mph or higher and stronger this evening as the winds turn to the west. A wind advisory is posted for the almost half of our counties for gusts to 50 mph. We may have a few showers track through today, but it will be mainly windy and weve gotten the most out of the mild weather and our run is over. Later today its going to storm track sevens Amanda Gilbert joins us live in waterloo. You can tell us more about what its like outside right now. Its not to bad right now. But this is actually the warmest its expected to be today. The weather will likely keep droppinng throughout the day. So. Heres five things you cars ready for the colder temperatures. Make sure to check your tires. With a guage if you can. Check your battery. Get your oil changed if needed. Make sure your cars wiper flouidds are uptodate. Stock your car with emergency items in case you get into any trouble. I spoke with the owner of jim cause none of us are thinking as soon as you get a little snow out there, were all going to it done. And thats ok. Thats just life. But we need to get after it, all of us. Jim tells me their business has been down so far because the warmer but he predicts that will change warm coat with me to prepare for this evening. Live in waterloo. Amanda gilbert. News 7 kwwl. Some items you might want to put in your cars emergency kit a blanket. A phone charger. Prepackaged food. And a developing overnight one woman is hurt in a stabbing but police know few other details. Early this morning. A woman said shed been stabbed but theyre still trying to figure out where it happened. Theyre told it did not happen at the home on randolph street. We saw the ambulance pulling away from the home the woman is expected to survive. After being hit by a car a sixyear old boy has a minor head injury. This according to our coverage partners at the telegraph herald. It happened along jackson street in dubuque. According to police, the boy ran into a street between two parked cars when hewa get a ticket because police say she could not stop in time. 100 years in prison for murdering two homeless people. Travis standlee convicted in the deaths of Raymond Ursino and sharon mead. Meads body was found last year near the campus of Coe College Cedar Rapids one day after being released from jail. Hed been accused of killing ursino but he was released over a lack of evidence at the time. After being found guilty in both cases hes been sentenced to two after a shooting at a childs birthday party. In all seven people were shot at the party for a twoyearold in tennesee including a six yearold. Police are searching for one to three people they consider suspects. This morning were hearing from a woman who was punched by a police officer. We want to warn you this may be hard to watch. Cell phone video shows the arizona officer punching her. The officer was at her house because of an eviction notice. Officer says she became uncooperative and allegedly kicked him when he tried to arrest her. She claims she never touched embarrassing, its the people who are supposed to protect us, and they did not protect us. They ended up hurting me. The officer is now on administrative leave. The woman was arrested for assaulting an officer and resisting arrest. A driver lucky to be alive after his tow truck is hit by a train. Deputies in kansas say the tow seriously injured. The railroad has been notified and is investigating. A kwwl followup this morning. Zika virus concerns continue across the country meaning new rules for Blood Centers in iowa. The fda says all donations must be screened for the zika virus. In davenport, the Mississippi ValleyRegional Blood Center has been getting ready for several weeks. If we look at the the blood supply inm supply is as safe as it mandate we would have to do individual donor testing uh for zika virus. Zika is mostly spread by mosquitoes and can cause serious birth defects. Wells fargo says customers are significantly pulling back from doing business with the bank. The company says new Customer Account openings fell 44 percent in october compared to the year before. The bank also saw a 50 percent drop in credit card applications. Wells fargo has been under fire opened up two million bank and credit card accounts without customer authorization. In order to meet aggressive sales goals. Jp morgan agreeing to pay more than 260 Million Dollars in fines. Its settling charges claiming the firm hired people in exchange for business contracts. The settlement ends a nearly three year investigation into whether the company violated antibribery laws. Jp morgan executives earned deals from firms in asia in excha friends of government leaders and client executives. As donald trump makes his transition to the white house several names are being considered to weekend and trumps pitch to democrats. A senior transition official tells nbc Lieutenant General mike flynn has been offered the job of National Security advisor. Not require senate approval. Fraud mitt romney is a sad man. A transition source says president elect trump will meet with former nominee mitt romney sunday to discuss romney as a possible secretary of state. Mr. Romney would be quiet capable of doing a number of things, but hell be one of those im sure thats reviewed. With his transition taking shape, mr. Trump turned to foreign policy, meeting japans Prime Minister i renewed my conviction together with trump i will be able to establish relationship of trust. The vice presidee bosss agenda to democrats were beginning to discuss areas that we might move forward on together. We will try to find our Common Ground where we can. And of territory. Setting up the first 100 days. The trump team is planning what they call a thank you tour of blue states turned red. Sometime after thanksgiving. Tracie potts, nbc news, iowa voted for president obama in both 2008 and 2012. No word yet if iowa will be included on that tour. His favorite candidate lost the election he lost a bet and now it will be forever marked on his d buddy he promised to get a tattoo of donald trump if trump won the election. I just wish i was getting a normal tattoo, something that i wanted. May make him change his mind on betting on politics in the future. Its coming up on today in iowa everyone is different a goat plus the rising cost of healthcare a problem so many iowa families are dealing with. A look at the root of the problem. Youre watching kwwl, weve got you covered with jerry gallagher, ally crutcher and meteorologist eileen loan. This is today in iowa. Now your storm track 7 [ tower pinging ] [ whistling ] weve got a problem, friend. Half off any smartphone for anyone who switches . T deals yeah, but anyone who switches gets half off of any smartphone. Even these . Yeah, any smartphone. Call the big guy [ bell dings ] santa . No, jingles. [ knuckles crack ] [ spits ] ooo. Ouch. [ neck cracks ] [ darien ] switch and get half off any smartphone. Lets go to storm track seven meteorologist eileen loan now for your forecast forecast. From the kwwl stormtrack here is additional forecast information from the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team our stormtrack7 Live Weather Network cameras will show lots of clouds and will likely be dancing even more than yesterday. It will be windy today through tomorrow with the few gusts, but will pick up from the west today and the the gust to 50 this afternoon and evening. A wind advisory is posted today for areas from Grundy Center through waterloo to elkader and northward for the strongest gusts. It is still technically mild, but this is the warmest it will be. As the cold air to the west will start tracking in on the strongest winds. They are already more than 20 mph in the northwest and gusting higher. We may see a few showers, but the main show is to our west and north and should stay there as the low tracks to the northwest. We mainly get the wind. Gusts to 50 mph today and temperatures steady or tonight. Winds will gust to 35 mph tonight with lows dropping into the 20s to around 30. And only climb into the mid 30s to around 40 for saturday with gusts to 25 mph. The winds will weaken by evening and we will stay cool through sunday before warming back into the mid 40s for monday. A chance of rain tracks in tuesday and wednesday but should track out for thanksgiving day. 20 mph in the northwest and gusting higher. We main show is to our west and north and should stay there as the low tracks to the northwest. We mainly get the wind. Gusts to 50 mph today and temperatures steady or falling with a few showers today and tonight. Winds will gust to 35 mph tonight with lows thanksgiving day. Bullies a billy goat is teaching kids its okay to be different. Sid is not your average goat. He has no ears, and hes deaf. The texas goat helps kids learn about bullying. Everybodys a little different. Well, its just nice to be nice even though hes not, even though hes not like you. Hundreds of elementary and middle School Students visit sid every week on field trips. This morning were Digging Deeper into the problem of Affordable Health care. Many people say they are simply sick care is not like shopping for a snowblower. If youre lying in a hospital bed, its tough to be a rational thinker about cost. You just want to get better. Many families feel powerless in some cases, being forced to choose between president obama tried to address that, but, most believe, it didnt work because costs keep going up. Going up a lot. Were Digging Deeper into the problem and where go from here in sick of the cost. Repealing and replacing the disaster known as obamacare. That promise from donald trump. Hes now on his way to washington, a in our state, we improved rate increases up to 43percent, impacting 75,000 iowans. Thats nick gerhart, the insurance commissioner for the that its just going to get worse. A uni grad, gerhart was appointed by governor branstad. To me 3 or 4 years ago, that wed have a 43 increase and the state wouldve approved it, i wouldve said no way, but we did because its justified unfortunately. The Insurance Companies argue the high costs of those iowans who were not insured before. Think of the cost of Health Care Like a dartboard. You have medical care like tests and surgeries covering much of the board, prescription drugs taking up another big chunk. But recently, the focus of the conversation on the soaring cost of health care the bullseye primarily to blame . Obamacare has 2,700 pages and about 4050,000 pages of regulations so i think there specialty drugs. Its really hard for me to sit here aay certainly been a challenge. The rates have gone up considerably in iowa and other states and i dont see it getting any better unfortunately. But were they not going up before aca . They were. To this level . Not even close. Insurance premiums are up 213 percent since 1999. Its been a problem for a long time, but rates have skyrocketed in Health Care Law kicked in. It addressed insurance, not health care cost. And with more sick consumers in the system, Insurance Companies are struggling to keep up. Especially when you consider what happened in iowa. One claim is generating 18 million in costs. Wait . What . Back up a minute. One claim is generating 18 million in costs. Thats one iowa family with an average of three Million Dollars claims a month over the last six months of last year. So what does that mean for everyone else . Everyone in that pool is paying 808 for that one family and thats crushing. 22thousand wellmark customers paying 800 dollars more to make up for it. Theyve never seen anything like this. We dont know anything about the Healthy People are buying in. Small Group Driving the and lower quality. So mr. President elect, where do we go from here . I will ask congress to convene a special session so we can repeal and replace. But maybe not dump it altogether. The voters dont need to worry about their 25yearold or younger staying on their policies or preexisting conditions. Based on interviews with congressional republicans, both of those popular components of obamacare could survive. What could go mandates on coverage for individuals, mandates on employers to cover workers and rules that require women to be offered coverage for contraceptives as a free Preventative Health benefit. No matter what happens with those pieces, iowas insurance commissioner says transparency youre spending. You can sit here and say, my Insurance Company is paying for it, but at the end of the day, were time will tell if a new law drives down the cost. Were learning even more about the claims coming from the iowa family you heard about. Through the first four months of this year, they turned in claims worth nine Million Dollars. So thats 27 million in ten we asked how is that even possible . The insurance commissioner says they dont know because by law they cannot see their records. Wellmark told us the same thing. Storm track seven meteorologist eileen loan is back check of your storm track seven forecast. Windy with steady or falling tomorrow gusts to 25 mph . Tonight with a better chance of disney uses drones to create a light show unlike anything weve seen before. Three hundred star drones flying in the air over the water shifting into holiday themes like christmas trees. The fiveminute starbright holidays show should run at least thru the end of the year in honor of the guiness World Records day the Harlem Globetrotters go out and set several new records on the court. One record the longest basketball shot blindfolded. One player hit that shot from 73 feet away. Another record for the longest shot sitting on the floor. In all, they set nine new records. Youre watching kwwl. Weve got you covered. This is today [ tower pinging ] [ whistling ] weve got a problem, friend. Half off any smartphone for anyone who switches . Whats the problem . The naughty list shouldnt get deals these . Yeah, any smartphone. Call the big guy [ bell dings ] santa . No, jingles. [ knuckles crack ] [ spits ] ooo. Ouch. [ neck cracks ] [ darien ] switch and get half off any smartphone. Iowa an Investigation Underway in eastern iowa after a woman is stabbed. Plus days before allegedly killing Police Officers an iowa man reportedly praised them. And the weather is changing. Its time to get your home and car ready tips in a live report. Good morning, im ally crutcher. And im jerry gallagher. Storm track seven meteorologist eileen loan is here now with your storm track seven forecast. Eileen on camera temperatures dont look too bad right now, but this is likely the warmest it will be the rest right now with not too many be gust to 30 mph or higher and west. A wind advisory is posted to 50 mph. We may have a few showers track through today, but it will be mainly windy and now with not too many gusts, but that changes. By late morning the winds will evening as the winds turn to the may have a few showers track through today, but it will be mainly getting colder. Out with tshirts, in with the sweate. The next few days will feel like the seasons are changing. Storm track sevens Amanda Gilbert is live in waterloo with the importance of being prepared. Right now its not too bad out. But i have my warm coat on. Ready to go. Temperatures are expected to drop so low by tonight that we might even be seeing some snow. Youre going to want to have an emergency kit in your car ready to go as temperatures continue to drop. She has everything from a change of clothes. To jumper cables. To a minishovel. I also spoke with the owner of jim lind auto service about what hed suggest having in your car. Some blankets. Some chocolates. Some candles. Any of those supplies, just in case you happen to get broke down and stranded and someone cant get to you right away. Keep yourself safe. Jim says its also important not to just prepare for an emergency. But to try and prevent it. He suggests looking at your tires this weekend. Check the air pressure and look for cracks or holes. Live in waterloo. Amanda gilbert. News 7 kwwl. Something else you might want to have in your emergency kit cat the mild weather weve been having until now has kept builders very busy. Contractors have been working ahead and its not just the warmer temps helping. Also, its been an exceptionally dry fall, so, weeve been able to do a lot of ground work. And of days. He says hes ahead of schedule on his townhomes on ravenwood circle in waterloo which means theyll sooner than expected. Across the country, builders broke ground on the most new homes in nine years last month a very good sign about the economy. Continuing coverage were learning more about the man accused of killing two iowa Police Officers. Days before the ambush attacks he called police heroes. Four days before he allegedly shot and killed two officers as they sat in their patrol cars. Scott greene apologized for the runins he had with the Urbandale Police department keeping the community safe. He wrote online that his dark days were over because he was getting treatment for pt sd. Urbandale officer Justin Martin and des Moines Sergeant tony beminio were killed. New overnight a stabbing investigation is underway in waterloo. Police responded to randolph street around one this morning for a report of a woman whod been stabbed. Police say the victim is not being cooperative. They tell us she was not stabbed at the home they responded to but happened. Our crew saw the ambulance driving away from the home. The woman is expected to survive. Dubuque police need your help solving