mission in the face of disaster -- as they get ready to move to another area in need of help. good evening everyone, i'm amanda goodman. and i'm ron steele. thanks for joining us. tonight -- hurricane andrew is bearing down on the east coast -- where catastrophic damage is possible throughout the next two days. historic winds are expected along the coast -- with the storm already dealing a heavy blow to caribbean nations and killing at least 114 people there. this of course coming on the heels of our own severe weather event -- as many of eastern iowa's rivers flooded to near- historic levels over the past two weeks. communities along the cedar, shell rock and wapsipinicon rivers taking on flood water -- with many now trying to bounce back and clean up from the damage left in

amanieh is live in cedar falls tonight -- after meeting with volunteers trying to lend a hand in response to both disasters. ron -- as these emergency response teams head down to these hurricane threatened states. a lot of help is still needed right here in eastern iowa. i caught up with a group of amazing volunteers who are tackling this flooding before they head out to this group of men aren't from eastern iowa. "yeah, we just completed our operation, before that we had a major operation in west virginia helping with the flooding there." and now they're here in cedar falls-helping out this homeowner after the flooding left devastating damage. "gutting the house, taking out the drywall, the installation, damage, sub floors." and when you look

amount of people who have helped,and i feel like i'm always blessed when something neighbors, and friends, and people we don't even know out to help us." strangers-with a mission. but if you look closely they're wearing it proudly. (zoom in on uniform?) "our motto is disaster is our business, and veterans are our passion. so while we get the veterans together to help the homeowners. it's also helping us have our sense of mission, have our purse comrardery again, stuff that we lose and miss when we ge tout of uniform and get out of the service." and they won't stop here. they already have teams out there on the ground right now. and once

go in-they'll be joining them. we've got you covered, live in cedar falls elizabeth amanieh...kwwl news. for those in need of flooding relief items and cleanup supplies -- a red cross resource center is currently stationed in waverly. the center open back up tomorrow from 11 a-m through 8 p-m at the waverly civic center. remember that you can also visit our website at kwwl dot com for for more on the hurrricane's damaging path -- let's bring in storm track seven chief meteorologist mark schnackenberg who is tracking the storm. information. here is additional forecast information from the kwwl for your complete weather information. here is additional forecast storms are possible until about midnight. the wind shifts to the cooler conditions with highs in chilly by saturday morning. low in the 60s. from the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team. see the screen for your complete weather information. here is additional forecast the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team. see the screen for your complete weather information. here is additional forecast

scattered showers and isolated northwest and increases while the upper 50s and low 60s. the wind decreases friday evening and under a clear sky it will be chilly by saturday morning. low in the 60s. for more on the hurrricane's for your complete weather stormtrack 7 weather team: from the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team. see the screen here is additional forecast information from the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team: scattered showers and isolated northwest and increases while remaining windy through friday. the northwest wind pulls in cooler conditions with highs in and under a clear sky it will be pleasant with sunshine and his in the 60s. from the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team. see the screen for your complete weather information. here is additional forecast 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: northwest and increases while remaining windy through friday. the northwest wind pulls in cooler conditions with highs in the upper 50s and low 60s. the temperatures in the upper 30s and low 40s. the weekend is pleasant with sunshine and highs 7 weather team. see the screen for your complete weather information. scattered showers and isolated

the northwest wind pulls in cooler conditions with highs in and under a clear sky it will be chilly by saturday morning. low temperatures in the upper 30s 7 weather team. see the screen storms are possible until about midnight. the wind shifts to the northwest and increases while remaining windy through friday. the northwest wind pulls in and low 40s. the weekend is pleasant with sunshine and highs in the 60s. a business owner convicted of in iowa -- gets a hefty prison sentence. robert sharp will serve 30 years in federal prison for selling smokable synthetic products out of his iowa city business called pipe dreamz. a federal raid of sharp's store and home in may 20-15 ended with officers seizing thousands of synthetic products that containted research chemicals that had not been tested or approved for safe

decision 20-16 coverage now... here in iowa -- early voting and absentee balloting is underway but -- officials in several area counties in eastern iowa are saying there's one mistake many people are making. they say some people are not signing the back of the return envelope to their absentee ballots. yesterday alone -- black hawk county received 30 evelopes in the mail that weren't signed. in dubuque county -- around 10 percent of the have not been signed so far. here's a quick review of what to do -- ballot both sides and then put it in the secrecy sleeve, and then you put it all in the return envelope, and as it says on the

hawk county say they will contact the voters that did not properly sign their return envelope. until it's fixed -- these ballots cannot be counted. deaths on the road are up around the nation -- and the same is true in iowa. nationally -- there has been over a thousand more traffic deaths this year than over the same time in 20-15 -- according to a federal report. here in iowa -- 35 more people have died on the roadways compared to the average number on this day. black hawk county is approaching deaths from last year -- there's been eight in 20-16 compared to 10 throughout 20-15. dubuque -- meanwhile -- has equaled last year's deadly total of three. down south -- 20-15 totals have already been surpassed. there have been six deaths in linn county this year compared in five in all of 20-15. in johnson county -- 11 traffic deaths this year dwarfs last year's five people killed. kwwl's macleod hageman joins us live in the newsroom with more. mac? according to the iowa department

simple. put down your phones and buckle up. iowa traffic fatalities this year involve people -- (traffic... nats) -- not wearing seatbelts -- (seatbelts... nats). but drivers linda fricken cellphones. people are texting and driving and turning right in front of you. you've got to drive for two people almost." "it's like they go off the side off the road, and they continue to text or whatever. i get really upset with it.." "state officials are looking into whether iowans are spending more time on highways since gas pc safe driving habits should be common sense." "i think we should have a law. they do in idaho and washington. you can't drive and text. if you do, you get a fine, and i don't think they have that in iowa. i think we need driving) -- linda plans to take advantage of the lower gas prices (nats... gas pump) -- hitting the open road. (nats... driving.)

was $2.39 on my trip. so, it's down. it keeps going up, but it's still down from what it was." the department of transportation tells me they should know whether more drivers hit iowa highways this year by next spring. but they do believe there's been an increase. we've got you covered -- macleod hageman -- kwwl news. so far -- there have been three tff the state. the deadliest month this year was may -- with 39 deaths. tonight, every player that's ever played on that field -- i guarantee is thinking about you tonight." coming up on kwwl -- an eastern and... here's a live look at the storm track 7 live doppler radar.... chief meteorologist mark schnackenberg will have got you covered. with ron

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: scattered showers and isolated storms are possible until about midnight. the wind shifts to the northwest and increases while remaining windy through friday. the northwest wind pulls in cooler conditions with highs in the ur temperatures in the upper 30s and low 40s. the weekend is stormtrack 7 weather team. see the screen for your complete weather information. here is additional forecast information from the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team: from the kwwl stormtrack information. here is additional forecast information from the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team: scattered showers and isolated remaining windy through friday. the northwest wind pulls in cooler conditions with highs in chilly by saturday morning. low temperatures in the upper 30s and low 40s. the weekend is pleasant with sunshine and highs in the 60s. from the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team. see the screen here is additional forecast information from the kwwl 7 weather team. see the screen

scattered showers and isolated storms are possible until about midnight. the wind shifts to the cooler conditions with highs in the upper 50s and low 60s. the wind decreases friday evening and under a clear sky it will be pleasant with sunshine and highs in the 60s. screen for your complete weather stormtrack 7 weather team: from the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team. see the screen here is additional forecast information from the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team: scattered showers and isolated northwest and increases while remaining windy through friday. the northwest wind pulls in chilly by saturday morning. low temperatures in the upper 30s and low 40s. the weekend is 7 weather team. see the screen for your complete weather information. here is additional forecast the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team. see the screen for your complete weather stormtrack 7 weather team: scattered showers and isolated storms are possible until about midnight. the wind shifts to the cooler conditions with highs in the upper 50s and low 60s. the wind decreases friday evening and under a clear sky it will be stormtrack 7 weather team. see the screen for your complete weather information. here is additional forecast

information. here is additional forecast scattered showers and isolated storms are possible until about midnight. the wind shifts to the the northwest wind pulls in cooler conditions with highs in the upper 50s and low 60s. the wind decreases friday evening and under a clear sky it will be and low 40s. the weekend is screen for your complete weather stormtrack 7 weather team: from the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team. see the screen for your complete weather information. here is additional forecast scattered showers and isolated storms are possible until about midnight. the wind shifts to the the northwest wind pulls i chilly by saturday morning. low temperatures in the upper 30s stormtrack 7 weather team. see the screen information from the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team: from stormtrack 7 weather team: northwest and increases while the upper 50s and low 60s. the in the 60s. from the kwwl for your complete weather information. here is additional forecast storms are possible until about the northwest wind pulls in and under a clear sky it will be pleasant with sunshine and highs

lesson in leadership today -- through a superb example. -- -- the late football coach and model citizen in his community. thomas was killed seven years ago -- when he was shot by a former player in the aplington- parkersburg high school weight room. those who knew and played for coach thomas say he was a true leader, mentor and role model. kwwl's taylor bailey at the leadership academy today. taylor? coach ed thomas's moto was do what's right. something one speaker says is difficult--but it is something ed tonight

team, leaving a lasting impression on many after he was killed. "there is no better man to be kind of the poster of leadership" leadership--something he taught and lived by. his lessons live on--through the ed thomas legacy leadership academy. "the leadership academy is in its third year and coach ths on his legacy" after her husband's "taking it and moving forward and doing something positive is a great way to continue is legacy instead of if you chose to be negative and angry it would accomplish nothing" speakers, teaching students to do what's right--the words thomas lived by. "attitude is everything, you can't control what happens to you but you can always always can control how you respond" this mural in ap high school is littered with quotes

one student. "you know that just shows how good of a guy he was , it wasn't teaching his players, teaching his studetns how to be a person, how to be a person with respect, how to be a person with responsibility and integrity" ed thomas touched many people at ap high school today--teaching them about integrity and respect. a lesson he isti teaching--nearly seven years after his death. we've got you covered...taylor bailey...kwwl news. i was honored to be on that stage today -- along with aaron thomas, ed thomas' oldest son -- and uni men's basketball coach ben jacobson. our messages were very similar -- your character is defined by adversity coming up... u-n-i head football coach mark farley says david johnson is

watching more n-f-l these days. and an iowa state basketball star receives the big 12's top preseason honor... you're watching kwwl. we've got you covered in elkader, freeport, west union and all of

how tall are you? how do we measure greatness in america? our bank accounts? no. it's measured by what we do for our children. the values we pass on. i've spent my life fighting for kids and families and it will be my mission to build a country where our children can rise as high as their dreams and hard work take them. that means good schools for every child in every zip code. college that leads to opportunities...

young american can find a job that lets them start a family of their own. we face big challenges, but we can solve them the same way families do. working together. respecting one another. and never giving up. i want our success to be measured by theirs. i'm hillary clinton and i approve this message. morris has been named the big 12 preseason player of the year, becoming just the second cyclone to earn that honor. morris joins jamaal tinsley as the only cyclone players to receive the preseason hype. tinsley also won the award at the end of the 2001 season as well. morris was also the only unanimous selection to the 2016- 2017 preseason all-big 12 team. morris, was the second leading scorer for the cyclones as a

game last season. morris earned big 12 second team honors , and he is the top returning scorer in the big 12 this season. he led the conference in assists with almost seven a game and minutes played at 38 per contest. he was second in steals in the big 12 with 62. he also had the nation's third- best assist-to- turnover ratio at (4 point 2--3). monte morris starts his final season at iowa state ranked no. 25 11-hundred 33 points. tonight... former uni star david johnson will lead the arizona cardinal into battle at san fransico-- in a game between a couple of one and three teams. johnson is one of six former panther players on n-f-l rosters... all of them were former players for uni head coach mark farley. and farley whoo is pretty busy on saturdays says he has a greater reason to become more interested

and done so hopefully he stays healthy and things go well--- d-hall got his first interception last weekend--and last weekend was homecoming and mackenton dorleant came back for the game so its fun to watch these games and especially guys being impact players. joing and dorleant--- l-j fort, austin howard and xavier williams are also on n-f-l rosters. the panthers are on the road this saturday at south dakota...join us tonight at ten for the mark farley interview as the uni head coach

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futuristic delivery treat. drones are delivering frozen yogurt in michigan. the orange leaf frozen yogurt company doing a test run delivering the fro-yo to students at hope college. let's go to storm track seven

your forecast. thank you for joining us for the k-w-w-l news at six. thank you for joining us for the k-w-w-l news at six. we'll see you back here at ten track seven chief meteorologist mark schnackenberg for a last look at your forecast. track seven chief meteorologist mark schnackenberg for a last look at your forecast. thank you for joining us for the k-w-w-l news at six. we'll see you back here at ten

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