drove into the wind to keep from tipping. bremer county sherrif's deputy -- jason ellison says he went off the bremer county sherrif's deputy -- jason ellison says he went off the road -- hit a sign -- went "if they're not driving straight into the wind or along with it, were issued -- since the crash was wind-related. crews were also able to isolate and crews tell me it will likely take a couple hours to fix. we've got you covered live in in another case - a semi is a viewer sent us this photo just before noon today. and - another semi is blown over on highway 61 near the dubuque regional airport... you can see it's fully blocking the road. the black hawk county landfill is also closed early today because of the high winds.

trash picked up today will be carried over tomorrow. a wind advisory is in effect for much ov our area this friday evening. storm track seven chief meteorologist mark schnackenberg knows more about when it's going to let up. from the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team. see the screen information from the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team: the strongest winds gradually diminish after 7 pm. breezy conditions (sw 10-20 mph) that way saturday to enjoy plenty of sunshine. more melting snow expect saturday with highs in the 40s and 50s. clouds increase saturday night a crane lifts a semi out of a

in the days after it crashes and leaks 36 hundred gallons of de-icing fluid... crews tell us the wind wasn't a problem lifting it out. the cyrotech de- icing technology truck rolled monday afternoon on i-380 south of cedar rapids... a crane had to be brough into the lift the trailer out of the ditch. the truck leaked de-icing fluid and diesel fuel which flowed downstream into the coralville reservoir. an iowa woman tests positive for the zika virus...

of the disease in our state... the iowa department of public health says the woman is between 61 and 80 years old... she'd recently returned from central america. the health department says we're not at risk here because we don't have mosquitos transmitting the virus here. in the iowa legislature - a number of proposed bills see their last day with the first legislative funnel... if a bill hasn't made it out of committee by today it dies... a few bills still have a chance including: a bill banning tanning access to people under 17 years old, easier access to medical cannabis for those who need it, and a bill that would end the plan to privatize medicaid here in iowa... dead bills - the bill to raise the speed limit on iowa highways, a proposal to increase iowa's minimum wage to 12 dollars an hour... and a proposed ban on smoking on iowa casino gambling

an icon of an eastern iowa town is getting a facelift-- but not everyone is excited about the idea the black hawk gaming association will grant 750 thousand dollars to renovate the fourth street bridge in downtown waterloo although the grant was voted unanimously, not all board members like the project board member geoff grimes was quoted as calling the bridge the "world's longest urinal" kwwls olivia mancino has been looking in these developments -- she joins us now live according to the city engineer the pedestrian part of the bridge hasn't been updated in nearly 20 years and the gaming association president tim hurly says in conversations with waterloo's previous mayor, it was time to either fix the pedestrian bridge or get rid of it here's a look at the bridge. as you can see, there's rust spots

repainted, that's where the money will go - to clean and beautify the bridge, though the design will geoff grimes is not happy the grant will go toward the project, he called the bridge the "world's longest urinal" then addressed his comments on his facebook page--reinforcing those opinions. i was deferred to the gaming associations president tim hurley to address these comments "goeff is a new member and he has his opinion, hes an people have varying opinions, and this wasnt designed by an architect so he's coming from a different place and i respect that very much" the construction on the bridge will start in the spring-- and is expected to last for three to four months weather-depending while the construction is on the pedestrian bridge, it may shut down the roadway for brief periods of time, but the city engineer says they'd open up the roadways for

we;ve got you covered live in the newsroom olivia mancino...kwwl news. the rest of the money to fund this project -- another 750 thousand -- will come from city bonds decision 2016 - candidates face their next test tomorrow.. the democrats face off in nevada, while the repulicans go head to head in south carolina. steve handelsman is in south carolina - he has more on what we can expect out of south carolina tomorrow. amanda and ron, here in south carolina splitting up the vote. which rubio hopes to end here tomorrow. if the polling is sot: sen. marco rubio (r - presidential candidate ) :05-:08 very confident about tomorrow. very optimistic because rubio's goal is 2nd or 3rd... but to beat jeb bush ...who campaigned again with his mother barbara to beat john kasich and maybe ted cruz to take over as the only surviving mainstream gop candidate sot: sen. marco rubio

presidential candidate ) :22-:26 "we need to nominate someone that can bring us together...i know i can better than anyone in this race" republican :31-:35 "we need that segment to bow out gracefully" ted cruz won't. the iowa winner, polling second here, sot: sen. ted cruz (r - presidential candidate ) :41-:46 "here in south carolina, these next 21 hours are going to decide a great deal." he's linking rubio to president obama on immigration even though cruz today had to pull his fake photo of the two sot: donald trump (r - presidential candidate ) :53-:56 "this guy ted cruz is really a liar" donald trump's once big lead over cruz is down to five, in today's nbc news wall street journal marist poll sot: donald trump (r - presidential candidate ) 1:03- :1:08 "running for presidents takes guts ive never done this before it takes guts, it takes guts" nats: 1:10-1:15 supporter: i'm a muslim i support this man to the death

trump: did you get that ! the u-s looks set to win another primary. the democrats clash carolina just like in iowa - sanders support lies on a strong voter turnout... if more people who typically don't go to caucuses turn up, it could go in sander's favor. president obama pays his respects to supreme court justice antonin scalia today. the president - along with first lady michelle - visited the united states supreme court great hall where justice scalia's body is lying in repose. the supreme court will stay open until nine tonight to accomodate the long line of scalia. breaking news just into our newsroom... the u-s marshals service is looking for this man - kevin edwards and he may be in eastern iowa... be in eastern iowa... he's considered armed and dangerous.

most wanted.... wanted for the murder of 9-year-old tyshawn lee in november of 2015... take a good look... he's six foot one, 200 pounds... an hay have cut his hair. if you have any information call police right away... coming up... firefighters deal with an extra obstacle while fighting a grassfire... a fire nadooo and... an eastern iowa library has a special guest... find out why they're letting a dog inside! that's coming up in just a few here's a live look at the storm track 7 live doppler radar. chief meteorologist mark schnackenberg has your full forecast next. "you're watching kwwl. we've got you covered. with ron steele, amanda goodman and chief --------- ---------

february is huge for us. all our handcrafted classic footlongs are just $6 each. the media is going a little crazy. "sub-mageddon" with an incredible amount of accumulation inside... that now seems...

--------- --------- 7 weather team. see the screen information from the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team: conditions (sw 10-20 mph) continue overnight and into early saturday morning. the sky is clear tonight and remains that way saturday to enjoy plenty of sunshine. more melting snow expect saturday with highs

increase saturday night and linger into sunday with a stray rain shower possible. the strongest winds gradually diminish after 7 pm. breezy conditions (sw 10-20 mph) continue overnight and into early saturday morning. the sky is clear tonight and remains that way saturday to enjoy plenty of sunshine. more melting snow expect saturday with highs in the 40s and 50s. clouds increase saturday night and linger into sunday with a stray rain shower possible. the strongest winds gradually diminish after 7 pm. breezy conditions (sw 10-20 mph) continue overnight and into early saturday morning. the sky is clear tonight and remains that way saturday to enjoy plenty of sunshine. more melting

with highs in the 40s and 50s. clouds increase saturday night and linger into sunday with a stray rain shower possible. the strongest winds gradually diminish after 7 pm. breezy conditions (sw 10-20 mph) continue overnight and into early saturday morning. the sky is clear tonight and remains that way saturday to enjoy plenty of sunshine. more melting snow expect saturday with highs in the 40s and 50s. clouds increase saturday night and linger into sunday with a

the strongest winds gradually diminish after 7 pm. breezy conditions (sw 10-20 mph) continue overnight and into early saturday morning. the sky is clear tonight and remains that way saturday to enjoy plenty of sunshine. more melting snow expect saturday with highs in the 40s and 50s. clouds increase saturday night and linger into sunday with a stray rain shower possible. coming up... find out why a dog is roaming the aisles of one eastern iowa library. today is an important deadline for drone owners...

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harper lee dies at 89 years old... lee was born in 1926 in alabama... in 1960, her seminal work to kill a mockingbird was published, for

she was back in the news within the last year for releasing the book "go set a watchman" - a sequel to to kill a mocking bird. dramatic video out of missouri shows a grassfire that turns into a "firenado" crews were fighting a massive grassfire yesterday... which you can see spread to a pretty big building. the fire actually turned into a "firenado" - look closely the fire is kicked up in small little spirals... there weren't any reports of injuriris. if you got a drone for christmas, today is the last day for you to get it registered with the federal aviation administration. all drones purchased before december 21st must be registered today... any drone bought after that date must be registered before its first flight. the registration cost is five bucks. more than 325 thousand people have already registered their flying machines.

trying to bring back visitors after a bed bug infestation. the carnegie- stout public library in dubuque had an incident of bed bugs in october. once people heard about it -- it scared them off. now the library does monthly inspections with cooper -- orkins labrador retreiver who sniffs for bed bugs. cooper goes through aisles, smells books, even couches. "they have very good noses, he does here, he's looking for bed bugs, he's hunting for bed bugs." library administrators say they're doing everything they can to make sure bed bugs don't come back. tonight at six...we'll tell you how that inspection turned out. in case you missed it - the decorah eagle's nest has its first egg of the year... you're looking live at the nest right now... mama eagle laid her first egg of 2016 last night shortly before 8- 30... you can see her sitting on the nest right now. d-24 is the name of the egg,

project. still to come on the k-w-w-l news at five... a look at some up-coming events at the african american museum of iowa for black history month. --------- --------- ---------

we're about halfway through black history month -- a time dedicated to african american culture. the african american museum of iowa in cedar rapids is celebrating with special events and extended educators about it. the african american museum celebrates african culture year round - but goes the extra mile for black history month. (sot. cg: krystal gladden/museum educator) "this is really a great time to celebrate african american contributions." the museum showcases accomplishments and struggles by black americans from across the country - and from iowa. that's something museum educator krystal gladden's loves about the gallery. (sot) "one of my favorite things is being able to highlight those things that are connections to iowa." maps of iowa's underground railroad viola gibson. for black history month - the museum will extend it's hours to give people morereccess to those features. (sot) "we're expanding our hours to include sundays during february and march

gladden says while she's excited for the specials black history month will bring - african american culture should be celebrated year round. (sot) "although it's time of year, this information is relevant throughout the year." we've got you covered in cedar rapids... hillary maglin... kwwl news. this month will include family activities african american artists. here's a live look at the waterloo skycam. storm track seven meteoroligst mark schnackenberg has a final look at your weather next. we'll be right back --------- ---------

storm trackmeteorologist mark schnackenberg has a final look at your news at five. "nbc" nightly news" is next. we want remind you, we're "always

developing news tonight. mad dash. hours before the vote in two critical states trump under fire for what he has said about the iraq war, and hillary clinton fighting to hold off bernie sanders. slamming apple. the feds fire back in a fiery battle over cracking the san bernardino killers' iphone, and n trump calling for a boycott. hoverboard crackdown after dozens of fires, some burning homes to the ground, the government says enough. a major new warning that could lead to an outright ban. walking free. after four decades locked in solitary confinement, a stunning twist in one of the most infamous cases in modern american history. and harper lee dies at 89. we remember the legendary elusive offer of "to kill a mockingbird."