his colleagges say miller died of an apparent heart attack. they say, he had had a history of heart problems his colleague tells kwwl -- he believes miller passed away at his home in waterloo -- an was later taken to covenant medical center -- where he was prononunced dead. he was 67 years old. kwwl's lauren moss spoke with co-workers and lauren, this is really a loss to the entire community. van millee was known as a community leader here in the cedar valley.. he was passionate about iowa, his employees and his family. just one day before he passed away, his youngest son got married...co- workers told me he spent hs last days, surrounded y a lot of love. piller was an icon in the home care iidustry- he rrceived numerous awards for all his work. this year, the des moines register named v-g-m the top workplace in iowa among large companies. his business has more than 800 employees..-nd he centered his time and money around local charities- he was all about helping people in the community.. jim phillips- chief operating officer, vgm

made along the way were always wrapped around the people that helped make the business successful in making sure that..that will stay here in the waterloo area." van miller leves behind 3 sons, 5 grandchildren and a wife of 24 years. as i mentioned, his youngest son got 4& married his weekend- and co- workers told me it was a beautifuu and fun wedding..something that van was very excited about. phillips also told me, miller was battling heart problems since 2000..he had minor heart attacks and even a bypass surgey and sadly, it appears t tat he died on sunday...from a heart attack.. a visitation is set for this friday..and services will be saturday morning. we will post that information on our website, kwwl.com we've got you covered, lauren moss ...kwwl news. thanks lauren, it was announced that jim walsh is the new business partner of van's..someone that

continuing coverage - - a meth lab busted over the weekend. the bust happened at 210 ridge drive in marion. police discovered the lab while responding to calls of a distrubance in uni 9 of the wedgewood apartments. 31-year-old austin gee has been charged with possession -- and charars are pending for making the drug. kwwl's jessica hartman has been talking with neighbors who say they ae concerned for their safety. that's right . . i spoke with the tenants of apartment 10 - - who don't know if the chemicals home as well. marion city ordinance requires landlords to test the apartment where the meth was found for residual levels of chemicals. if the test is positive - -all apartments ththt share a wall with the contaminated unit must also be tested. right now - - the owners of the building - - kelley property

management hasn't given kwwl a clear answer to when thse tests will be donon. tenants are worried about what the test will nd. "sharing a two-by-four and some dry wall . . . it's kind of scary. that stuff. scary. how close to death i was living next to." right now the cit ordinance does not give a deadline for landlords to complete the tests - - leaving sidents - - for the time being -- with out answers. coming up- - -what the management company told me and the tenants. i'm working on putting that together for the 6. we've got you covered live in the newsroom...jessica hartman kwwl news. the marionnpolice department says they are rrently workrkg on getting a deadline for the testing added to the city ordinance. an easternowa sheriff' department has one more tool to attack the growing drug issues in the county. meme jarvis.

black hawk county sheriff's department. this is the second dog for the department. within two hours on the job, jarvis made his first drug arrest...ending with hree peple charged eith possession of meth, marijuana, and drug paraphernalia. "when it comeeto narcotics sometimessyou're not,,you ask run a dog around the car without any consent, it's an open air search and if he indicates on the car now we've got probibal cause." jarvis can also assist with finding evdence and tracking missing children. police arrested a man after he allegedly tried to kidnap a man` monday morning. waterloo police arrested tyray smith and charged with second-degree kidnapping. smith is also charged with assault while displaying a weapon and intimidation with a weapon afr he allegedly beat a woman with a rolver. his bond is set at 500 thousand dollars. a war of words is escalatii between republican presidential candidates donald trump and jeb

bush. the topic at issue: trump's controversial remarks about the nine-eleven attacks.. -nd then- president george w. busm. nbc'speter alexander has more. this morning, the feud between a fight over bush's brothee and 9/11: (sot:)(trump/fox news sunday/9:11:53) "i don't want jeb bush to say my brother kept us safe because september 11th was one of the worst days in the crisis, and he did it as you would hope a president would do. he unitethe country." the dispute started simmering friday: (sot:)(trump/bloomberg/ 8:07:00) trump: when you talk about george bush, i mean, say what you want, the world trade center came down during his time. ruhle: hold on. you can't blame george bush for that. trump: he s presidet, ok? don't blame him or don't blame him, but he was president. bush, critics say, has let himself be tormented by trump, but this time he showed new fire -- blasting trump's comments as "pathetic" ... (nats: -whimsical carnival music- ... unleashing this new video ridiculing tump's readiness to home about the former reality tv star. (sot:)(bush/cnn) 9:06:45 "it looks s though it's -- he's an actor playing a role of the candidate for president." trump insists 9/11 wouldn't

have happened had he been presidenthow? (sot:)(trump/fox/9:11:39) "i'm extremely, extremely toughgh on illegal immigration. "i believe that if i were running things, i doubt that thse families-- i doubthat those people would ave been in the country." after a ump in his poll numbers after the democratic debate, bernie sanders continues his campaign trail by making a stop in iowa. sanders held a town hall meeting in oskaloosa earlier this morning. the meeting was held in the mumuo technhnlogy center attilliam penn university. sanders told voters that the momentum is on their side and he's

will he or won't he? vice president joe biden is apparently gettinggclose to deciding if he is running for president/ people close to biden say that decision couud come within 48-hours. in a signal that he is considering running, biden spoke with a major labor leader on friday. a county-owned nursing facility in eastern iowa is cited by the state....ut administratoror say they're taking steps to correct the issues. the new admintration at sunnycrest manr in dubuque admits there were problems -- but there is a new plan in place to make it better. it was during an inspection in september the citations were given... all related to food quality, not getting the proper background check on a contract employee and a resident falling and breaking a "in our pn of correctn we have really stressed he use of $& our safetu alerts, and those are

they now also provide more food options for the people who live there. aging experts recommend doing research before placing a loved one in a care facility. coming up...another iowa county falls prey to the emerald ash rer. and....the former olympic runner convicted of killing his girlfriend will soon be going on house arrest. that'scoming up in just a few got you covered. with ron schnackenberg. this is the kwwl

ththrepuicans finallyy admit it. >>"republican kevin mccarthy saying ...the committee investigating benghazi and clinton's emails was created to destroy her candidacy..." "erybody thought hillary clinton was unbeatable, right? but we put together a benghazi special committee... what are her numbers t tay?" republicans have spent millions attacking hillary... ...because she's fighting for everything they oppose... ...from affordable health care. ...to equal pay... she'll nevertop fighting for you. and the republicans know it. >>i'm hillary clinton and

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few spotty showers are possible tuesday through dnesday. if any rin falls in your backyard it would be less than 0.10". many locations are expected to be dry. there is a slightly better chance of light rain shower friday. high temperatures cool back into the 50s by the wwekend. the wind gradually diminishes this eving as the sun sets. a few spotty showers are possible tuesday through wednesday. if any rain fallspin your backyard

chance of light rain showers friday. high temperatures cool back into the 50s by the weekend. the wind graduallyy diminishes this evening as the sun sets. a few spotty showers arerepossible tuesday through wednesday. if any rain falls in your backyard it would be less than 0.10". many locations are expected tobe dry. the is a slightly beter chance of light rain showers friday. high temperatures cool back into the 50s by the weekend. the wind

evening as the sun sets. a few it uld be lss than 0.10". manyy locations re expected to be dry. there is a slightly better chance ef light rain zhowers friday. high temperatures cool back into the 50s by the front of the bus driver. and - a teenagagr is claiming he hacked into the c-i-a director's personal e-mail. you're watching kwwl. we've got you covered in aplington, independedce, elkader and all of eastern iowa. --------- --------- -------

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the ash borer found at a rest area on i-380 northbound linn county this morning. the rest area was just a half mile from the johnson county border. there are now 29iowa countiee infecttd. kwwl's kristin rogers went to that rest area today and saw the infested ash trees herself, she also spoke to athorities, kristin what e they telling people about these ash borers?

their saying people with ass trees in the area have two options, keep the tree and treat it, or get rid of it all together.... they're only ahalf inch long, described to us as a small emerald ash borers can do a large amount of damage... rogers) "we are told all of these ash trees are going to be removed." (cg: cathy cutler/ transportation planner, iowa dot) "we are at the northbound rest area but the southbound rest area a`so has ash trees, all of the ash trees will eventually be taken out." and those who live within 15 miles of an infestation site like this one, need to take action as well. (cg: todd fagen/ cedar they you know don't care and hazardous take them out." although i'm told the ash borer's can only fly a half times through fire wood.

advise pele to be cautious especially when bringing wood or other lumber in the area especially to your home if you would have ash trees." i'm told the state f so local fire wood should not be an issue, to a state that is not ash borer's around... i'm told the city of cedar rapids stopped planting ash trees in 2020 as part of their plan to prepare for a possible ash borer infestation... but trees that are infested coud be we've got you covered live, in we are told treatment of a tree with ash borer involves chemicals that have to be applied bba cirtified applicater every couple years... still to come on the k-w-w-l news at five...four people are in the hospitalafter a bus rolls over. and....a barge sinks into a southern channel causing ships to be shut down for thth day. --------- --------- ---------

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who has the plan forobs? jeb. tax cuts for the middle class. eliminates special loopholes. ananxplosion in growth and new jobs. jeb: cut taxes. grow america. right to rise usa is responsible for the content of this message. transit bus andndcar collide. the accident happened at the intersection of highway 2-81 and fairbank-amish boulevard in

a car failed to stop and rolled right into the path of the bus. deputieesay the bus rolled over during the accident. injuries are considered to be non-life threatening at this time. crews working overtime to clear a sunken barge. check this out -- slow going for ship traffic on the houston ship chchnnel today. luckily nobody was on board the ship when it began sinking. the barge along with a partially submerged towing vessel are near the kinder-morgan ship dock in galena park...a fery busy partof the shannel an investigation is ongoing to finnout if the perrnal email accounts offhe c-i-a director and homeland security secretary were hacked. a teenager claims he hacked the c-i-a director's a-o-l email account. the teenn says he swiped the director's contact list, a log of phone calls by the agency's former deputy director and several social security numbers. none of the documents ere assified.

the f-b-i and secret service are investigating. the blade runner starts his house arrest tomorrow morning.... oscar pistorius has currently served one year of his five-year prison sentence...but the south african parole board agreed he can star his four-year probattn. the double amppee will now aaso be subject to gun prohibitions -- and must continue psycho-therapy. the fojmer olympian gas sentenced last year for rhe homicide of his hirlfriend, reeva steenkamp. amazon files a lawsuit against more than one- thousand individuals who allegedly wrote fake reviews for a price. the lawsuit targets users of fiverr dot com, where amazon found people wee offering to write positive reviews of products they had never used. in the complint, amazon says such reviews "can significantly undermine the trust that consumers and`the vast majority of sellers and manfacturers

place ii amazon." here's a live look at the hawkeye community college skycam. storm track seven meteoroligst mark schnackenberg has a final look at your weather next. we'll be --------- --------- --------- co it is time to deal with skyroroeting out-ofofocket costs. commentator: the 32-year-old head of a pharmaceutical company raised the price of a life-saving drug overnight by 5,000%. i'm announcing a detailed plan to crack down on these abuses. commentator: he may be lowering it after hillary clininn blasted him out of the w wer. her plan would limit the out-of-pocket costs that consumers have to pay. clinton: nobody in america should have to choose between buying the medicine they need and paying their rent. i'm hillary clinton,

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at six... we're taking a closer look at the waterloo mayoral race. kwwl's nikki newbrough speaks with current black hawk county board of supervisor and ayor candidate frank magsamen. before we go..a huge ttank you to the more thaa 40- loyal kwwl viewers who made our trip to hawaii such a fun time.... hers the shilling family....11 members made the trip as joyce and dick schilling of new hampton ceceebrated their 6oth wedding g anniversary.. here's a photo of one half of our group of more than 40 making this trip.. and here's the other half..we also had viewers from waterloo -cedar falls, cedar rapids, marion, dubuque, shell rock,k,waverly..aaamosa and one of my favorite photos...the view from the peak of the famous diamond head volcano crater...we hiked to the

top of that mountain and it was worth every step. next trip is to alaska next jue and rick collman will be the host for that alaskan adventure. more information will be forthcoming. storm track seven chief meteorologist mark schnackenberg tonight, the cia director hacked. a high school student

claims he broke into