Flurries and the clouds, too, as the low takes its time leaving north america. Breezy with flurries today. Highs in the upper 30s to low 40s today will not change much breaking news this morning a man hawk and part of buchanan county. Were taking a live look at i380 at raymond road a few miles north of here is where the chase started. The Black Hawk CountySheriffs Office tells us man blew through a stop then took off when a deputy tried to pull him over. The chase eventually ended peacefully in a field. Deputies took Troy Postel Vargason into custody. People in the southeast are waking up to Severe Damage today. At least five people are dead yasmin amer has more. Devastating scenes across the southeast. After a round of deadly storms. At least three tornados ripped through northern alabama, weather service. Jackson county saw some of the worst damage. Strong winds knocked down trees and powerlines and no one was injured. But everywhere. Itas w. Bad really Officials Say a tornado touched down in polk county. That state is already reeling from Deadly Wildfires that have wednesdays rain provided some relief. But its not nearly im yasmin amer reporting. After the storms turned deadly in alabama and tennessee the system moved east. In charlotte you can see wind blew ac units off their bases. A semi tossed on its side like a truck the driver taken to the hospital with a head injury. Trees down including one which fell on a house. The weather system brought much needed rain to the area which i said, god, please, let us go through this. Bring us out of this. Thousands of people lost power. Storms also causing heavy damage in South Carolina downed trees and power lines. Homes damaged. In one town the fire chief asked while crews looked at conditions. Continuing Coverage Today the third and final candidate in the running to become unis next president visits campus. Mark nook isthe current chancellor at Montana State university in billings. He has ties to iowa he received his masters in astrophysics at iowa state unis interim president james wohkpart outlining his vision for the university should he get the job. He previously served as provost and says he has an understanding of the strengths within the campus. But he calls on a n narrative in higher education. To take a student, and help out in the world. And offer themselves out into the world. What kind of a respsonsibility is that . The board of regents is expected to select the new president next week. New details this morning as prosecutors decide not to charge a Police Officer in the death of police spend the night dealing with protestors. More than 1 hundred protestors took to the streets near Police Headquarters chanting anti police slogans. And demanding justice for scott. Police are urging protesters to stay on the sidewalks, but many have spilled onto the streets, leading to arrests. A Police Officer shoots and kills a man wanted in a string of robberies. Kansas city officers pulled the suspect over, and initially he followed the orders. But then, according to police, he grabbed gun. Officers immediately shot the man, who died later at the hospital. No officers were hurt. Its now up to a jury to decide whether a South Carolina officer is guilty of murder. Jurors in the Michael Slager trial deliberated for about an hour last night before heading home. Theyre expected to continue deliberations today. Fixing a phone and finding child porn. Cedar Rapids Police say 33year old Jeremy Rodriguez faces charges of sexual exploitation. When he went to pick up his phone after having it fixed. Hes since posted bail. A kwwl followup. Out of fuel and a total electric failure. Were learning more about a deadly plane crash carrying a Brazilian Soccer Team. Mondays crash killed all but six of 77 people on board. A cedar rapids coach used to play for the team. The coach for the cedar rapids rampage began his professional career playing for the team. Im still in shock. I cant believe i lost 35 good friends that i played together, i worked together for like six years and this. Several players on the cedar rapids rampage are also from brazil. Stole more than a Million Dollars in gold in the middle of the day. The man is hanging around an armored truck. He walks off with a bucket of gold flakes worth nearly onepointsix Million Dollars. Police now believe the man and the bucket of gold are in florida in either orlando or miami. Nats of explosion the us army comes in after someone finds an explosive device dating back to the civil war. Its the second been found at a construction site in savannah georgia. Onto the white house transition today, donald trump is expected to deliver on a Campaign Promise to save jobs. He and mike pence will travel to indiana and ohio. Trump is set to make an announcement today in indianapolis at the carrier plant. He reached a deal for the corporation to keep nearly a thousand jobs in the state. Indiana senator dan coates praising donald trump. On the carrier issue i think the who is not even yet president of the United States is able to negotiate something that was a major issue in the campaign. Senator coates did not say whether hes being considered for a post in the trump administration. We do know the coowner of the chicago cubs Todd Ricketts has been named trumps pick for deputy commerce secretary. The Ricketts Family has had a rocky past with trump. Todd was an early supporter of Governor Scott walker. After walker dropped out from the race, todds mother poured millions into an antitrump super pac. Trumps choice for commerce secretary billionaire wilbur ross. Ross is a new jersey native. He amassed a fortune that forbes estimates to be worth nearly three billion dollars. The ashes of former cuban leader fidel castro are on their way from havana to castros final resting place the morethan 500mile route castro and his rebels took after overthrowing the government in 1959. New this morning too many cats. One eastern Iowa Humane Society is starting a new program becuase theyre overflowing with cats. Kwwls Amanda Gilbert joins us live in waterloo. You can explain the cedar bend Humane Society says normally around this time of year. They start to take in less cats. But thats not the case right now. They tell me in the past 4 months theyve gotten more than 1,000 cats. Which is very unusual. And they dont turn any away. So theyve had to find ways to putting cages in hallways. We have seen theres been a lot of sorrounding communities your cat is also an issue, weve the cedar bend Humane Society is starting a new program this year to help fix this problem. Theyre calling it home for the holidays. Asking people to its a great way to see what its like to have a pet. Or make sure you get along with the one you picked out before you ado i prgoram starts december 20th. Gilbert. News 7 kwwl. The cendar bend Humane Society says if you dont want to adopt or foster. Theyre also looking for donations its coming up on today in iowa crews come to the rescue of a stuck manatee. Plus Holiday Gifts for the family pet more people youre watching kwwl, weve got you covered with jerry gallagher, ally crutcher and meteorologist eileen loan. Now your storm track 7 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 stormtrack7 Live Weather Network cameras are showing the low this morning and may catch some flurries off and on today. It will be breezy, too, but the winds will die down tonight and stay there for tomorrow. Temps this morning are hovering in the mid 30s with some low 30s to the west. West winds are running mainly 10 15 mph, although at times they are stronger. That will be the case through day, with winds weakening this evening and turning more to the northwest. Our clouds are still from the same system that brought us the thunderstorms on monday but today will be mainly the back side. That keeps us under clouds and with flurries today and clouds tomorrow and even saturday. Temperatures tomorrow with 20s to the 50s stretched across the midwest. We will be through. Temps only drop about the northwest. We stall in the tracks through sunday with some middle of next week. We could who sees how much snow vs rain. Continues to get closer. Crews rescue a manatee trapepd in storm system heads our way for the middle of next week. We could have some thursday. It is too early to updated as it continues to get crews rescue a manatee trapepd in a storm drain the animal became stuck in a 36inch pipe. Found it. Crews had to dig around the storm drain before they could lift the manatee out. It was stuck for approximately three hours. The animal is being taken to seaworld to be checked out. Its still on the way this morning high tech gifts trackers and cameras on the top of christmas lists. But not for no problem. You can still stream movies on bigger stories from across the country. Police have shot and killed the person they believe shot and killed a Police Officer. Accoridng to the nbc station in seattle following a Standoff Police killed the suspect then rescued two children from the home. Today donald trump heads to indiana to visit carrier corporation. Trump delivered on a Campaign Promise convincing the company to stay in indiana instead of outsourcing jobs. Naught or nice it seems all pets are on the good list. As brian mooar tells us new data shows were being especially generous to our pets this year. Pets are on santas nice list this year. And consumers are shelling out big bucks for our Furry Friends this holiday season. The pet category is seeing a huge surge in sales about 1. 5 more sales than we saw last year so what do pets have on their wish list . Toys of course beyond the pet store. Online holiday your pet celebrates. Or even topical toys like the dognald. Get it dognald . . . For the gift that keeps on giving. Subscription boxes deliver new items each month. And what better way to treat your pet. Than with treats consistent with the healthconcious trends of humans. Were buying more organic amp; handcrafted foods for our pets and hightech gifts like pet trackers and cameras are gaining popularity. But buy soon to save right best time is this week or as soon as possible all in all, our fourlegged companions will see an average of 62 bucks worth in gifts under the tree. Higher spending. As more start seeing themselves as pet parents. Instead of merely owners. I have a 7 month lab puppy and i dont mind spoiling her. Theyre our fur babies fur babies. Worth spending a furtune on. Get it furtune . Whatever. Heres a cute dog in a shopping cart. Millennials are expected to spend the most on their pets this holiday. Netflix users can now download several shows and movies to watch offline. The company says the feature is available on phones and tablets by updating the netflix app. Theres no extra cost. The top artists and songs of 2016 according to spotify. Drake was the most streamed artist on spotify for the second year in a row. Hes also the most streamed artist of all time on spotify. Rounding out the top three were Justin Bieber and rihanna. The most streamed song was drakes one dance. Golfer tiger woods makes his longawaited comeback later today in the bahamas. Woods spent the last two days getting his game in shape for the hero world challenge, a select tournament that opens later today. Last year. Hes had two operations on his back since then. Iowa native zach johnson also scheduled to participate. You can now have the taste of Dunkin Donuts coffee in your poptart. For the first time, poptarts and Dunkin Donuts have teamed up to create two limited edition, coffeeinspired poptart flavors frosted vanilla latte and frosted chocolate mocha. Both will be available at Stores Nationwide beginning this month e died. It was the brainchild of a mcdonalds franchisee who decided customers wanted a bigger sandwich. He came up with the big mac in 1967. When it became a big seller at his 47 locations in pennsylvania it was added to the chains National Menu a decades. Like Christmas Trees popping up across the country. Toms kept coming back on my longterm control medicine. I talked to my doctor and found a missing piece in my asthma treatment with breo. Oncedaily breo prevents asthma symptoms. Breo is for adults with asthma not well controlled on a longterm asthma control medicine, like an inhaled corticosteroid. Breo wont replace a rescue inhaler for sudden breathing problems. Breo opens up airways to help improve breathing for a full 24 hours. Breo contains a type of medicine that increases the risk of death from asthma problems and may increase the risk of hospitalization in breo is not for people whose asthma is well controlled on a longterm asthma control medicine, like an inhaled corticosteroid. Once your asthma is well controlled, your doctor will decide if you can stop breo and prescribe a different asthma control medicine, like an inhaled corticosteroid. Do not take breo more than prescribed. See your doctor if your asthma does not improve or gets worse. Ask your doctor if 24hour breo could be a missing piece for you. See if youre eligible for eileen loan is back with another check of your storm track seven forecast. Saturday. Some rain snow showers gets into the holiday spirit. The first family will light up the National Christmas tree. This will be the obamas final time to flip the switch on the colorado blue spruce. The holiday tradition started in 1923 under president calvin coolidge. A star studded lineup of performers will join the first family to ring in the season, including james taylor, kelly clarkson, and garth brooks. 5,4,3,2,1 go wooo is lit up for the holidays. This years tree will be lit and on display until january seventh. The first tree at Rockefeller Center was put up by construction workers in 1931. And the sleeping a Police Officer died in the line of duty. Were following the developments. Plus in iowa a holiday decoration remembering fallen officers. And not even Winter Weather is stopping pipeline protestors. Good morning, im ally crutcher. Jerry is off. Eastern iowa yesterday small flakes of snow coming down in waterloo. Not enough to stick to the ground but lets see if thats changing anytime soon. Storm track seven meteorologist eileen loan is here now with your storm track seven forecast. Eileen on camera we still have some flurries and sprinkles tracking through the kwwl viewing area this morning. That will likely continue all day. Temps are holding in the mid 30s this could gust a bit higher at times. We keep the flurries and america. Breezy with flurries today. Highs in the upper 30s to low 40s today will not change the person suspected of killing a Police Officer is now dead. This all hapepning in washington state. Police say they responded to a Domestic Violence situation with a suspect barricaded inside a home with a gun. The suspect shot the officer several times. After the shooting police were able to get adults and children out of the home. According to the nbc station in seattle officers killed the the home thoughts and the prayers that are going out to us. This is the first officer to die in the line of duty in tacoma since 1997 an officer is recovering after be s reported Home Invasion when shots rang out. An officer and shooting suspect were both rushed to the the suspect was listed in critical condition. Hundreds of officers from around the country are expected to attend the funeral of a a wayne State UniversityPolice Officer today. He was shot and killed last week as he approached a suspect on a bicycle. Iowa Police Departments are remembering officers who died this year. Them. The tree skirt displays the names and badge numbers of the five fallen officers. This week its on display at the Urbandale Police department. Less than a month after those officers deaths the Us Senate Passes a bill to help the families of officers killed in the line of duty. Iowa senator Chuck Grassley wrote the Public Safety officers benefits improvement act. Its supposed to help families waiting for approval of survivor benefits. The bill now heads to the house time now is xxx. New this morning case dismissed. A lawsuit filed by the family of a woman killed in an eastern iowa mall will not be moving forward. Alexander kozak a mall Security Guard shot and killed Andrea Farrington inside the Coral Ridge Mall last year. Farringtons family filed a lawsuit against the mall and the security company. The case had been scheduled to go to trial next year but has calls for tra