In from our northwest tonight with a mix of rain and snow. It looks like conditions will be mild enough before midnight for mainly rain showers in western iowa. Local 5 news at 10 in hd starts now. We are iowa stephanie 2shot good evening. Im stephanie angleson. Jack 2shot and im jack miller. Downtown des moines is looking to host some big events this year. But changes could make it tricky for those looking to use the skywalk system to get around. Construction of the Convention Center hotel has closed down parts of the skywalk until 2018. Stephanie tonight, just days away from the start of the state wrestling tournament. Construction concerns are going to cost them a lot of money. Stephanie local fives Nikki Davidson joins us live from downtown with more in tonights big story. Nikki . Nikki right during these cold winter months. Coming down the warm skywalk can be like heaven. But lately. Youre going to run alot of this. Parts that are blocked off and closed. An inconvience for some. B
Im jim rosenfield. Youre looking at snow in colorado. One of the ingredients that will combine to make our spring snowstorm. Nbc 10s meteorologist glenn hurricane schwartz is here. Glenn. It looks likely. The storm is going to develop along the midatlantic coast. Its going to be a noreaster. Here we are. It could start off as light rain, but the track is pretty classic as far as a winter storm is concerned. It gets colder and we have a chance of the snow sticking. The timeline could start in the morning. Its all snow. 6 00 to midnight. Thats the chance of it starting to stick once we lose the daylight hours. Well talk more of the potential with the rest of the sevenday in a few minutes. New at 11 00, police shot a man police say pulled a gun on them. Nbc 10s Randy Gyllenhaal live at Temple University hospital. Any word on that mans condition . Reporter police say this suspect is expected to survive. He was shot by a Philadelphia Police officer and rushed here to temple hospital. Were t
Macungie township. Moments after the car crashed into the big rig and the thick smoke spoke unspeakable tragedy. And on action news, new information. The authorities told us the horrific crash earlier today claimed five lives. Three miles north of the border between berks and lehigh county. The tractortrailer rolled over on its side and burst into flames. And the police chief had this to say late today. For unknown reasons a vehicle driving north was traveling north and crossed over the Center Median over the grass, and it caused a headon impact collision with the tractortrailer. It turns out the car was a Subaru Impreza and the authorities are investigating at the scene to determine what happened and how it happened, what the situation is now. The road is still closed and again, five people in the car were killed. We will be keeping our eyes on this throughout the night and will update it on 6abc. Com and on action news tomorrow morning starting at 4 30. If we find out anything more b
Good evening, im rebecca kitchen in for kendra kostelecky. Well get right to weather. Dick stoddard is in the Weather Center tracking these storms. A winter storm will continue to impact the region today. A cold front will bring lowering snow levels through the morning with snow mixing with rain possible across western nevada valleys. Be prepared for travel impacts in the sierra and western nevada throughout the weekend and possibly into early next week. Short term. The main core of the Atmospheric River moisture plume is currently pushing its way across the sierra and into western nevada. Heavy rainfall accumulations have been reported along the west slopes of the sierra so far this morning with some sizable shadowing along the east slopes. Right along and just to the east of the crest, rainfall accumulations in the 1 to 3 inch range have been reported thus far and a few tenths to about half an inch of rain across western spillover precipitation will increase through the morning as a
The Mount Rose Ski resort around 4 pm. Crews were able to locate them after a few hours. But it took longer to make physical contact because say they are in an area with a considerable avalanche danger. You can absolutely stay in bounds. Stay on the marked trails and this kind of call wouldnt have happened. The two snowboarders are from out of town. The told search and rescue there were not injured but the drop in temperature puts them in danger of hypothermia. Recent snowfall in the mountains prompted the Sierra Avalanche Center to increase the avalanche risk to considerable. According to an advidory put out this morning. People looking to go on any backcountry outings this weekend need to be aware of an increased risk of wind slab avalanches. The advisory says fragile wind slabs above 87 hundred feet already exist. But could become more widespread as more the recent rain and snow. Making a big impact on the truckee river. Kolo 8 news nows Chris Buckley was there as hydrographers with