iowa city police say 30-year-old clifton brinkmeyer called in the threat right before robbing a u-s bank on william m reet. the school got the threat tuesday morning - and immediately evacuated the more than two-thousand students - taking them to a safe location. minutes after calling the school - police say y brinkmeyererrobbed the bank using a fake plastic gun. police caught brinkmeyer a short time later and now today - he is charged in connection with the bomb threat. he is being held in the johnson county jail. also new tonight, more than two dozen students in cedar rapids were delayed getting to school after a minor bus accident. the district says a kennedy gh school bus and a car clipped each other near willman street and 9th ave in hiawatha. no one was hurt but up to 30-students were on board at the time. police d d not issue any tickets in the accident. now let's check in with chief swailsto see what we can the blizzard pummeling the east coast could be a record breaker.the national weather service says the storm could rank near the top-10 snonostorms ever to hit the region. more

police say they found 30-year-old clifton brinkmeyer with a plastic gun when they responded. investigators say surveillance footage and witness statements helped identify him. police arrested brinkmeyer for second- degree robbery. we have a follow-up on a cedar rapids police officer who was severely hurt responding to a domestic call. cedar rapids police say officer randy vest is still in the hospital after he was seriously injured while on the job. this is video of vest from when we talked to him for a story about train safety a little more than a year ago. vest and other police responded to the soapy waters laundromat on the city's southwest side sunday for a domestic disturbance. officers say a man punched officer vest, vest fell and hit his head on a cement parking babaier. he had serious injuries b b we don't know his condition due to medical privacy laws - we only know officer vest is still hospitalized. police say 33-year-old nathan brocks was the man who hit vest. they say he fought with other officers on the scene and they had to use a taser to get himimnder control.

iowa city police say this guy - clifton brinkmeyer - robbed a u-s bank in iowa city on tuesday. he was arrested for the robbery - and through investigation, officers determined the 911 call reporting the threat came from his car. that bank was robbed 20 minute after the bomb threat was called into west high school. more than two thousand students were shipped to a different locations as officers and drug dogs combed investigators now say a fre that killed two young sisters was an accident. crawford county wisconsin sheriff's deputies say the fire started at the center of the home in wauzeka... which kept the girls from being able to escape using the staircase. lena and trinity bartels died as a result of the fire. investigators haven't been able to determine the exact cause of the fire. an early wake up for iowa state students camping out before monday's game - because their tent starts on fire. ames s irefighters responded to the tent fire outside of hilton coliseum around 3:30 this morning. no one was hurt... firefighters say the fire was starated by a propane hhater inside e

police say 30-year-old clifton brinkmeyer called in the bomb threat before robbing the u-s bank branch on the other he's facing a felony terrorism charge in connection with the bomb threat, in addition to a felony robbery charge. police arrested him shortly after the robbery tuesday morning, and found a phone when they searched his car. they say that phone was used to call in the bomb threat. police and school administrators evacuated nearly two-thousand students from the school before sending them home for the day after the threat. the threat also disrupted voting for a special election in johnson county. meteorologist joe winters joins us now. still not much happening in the weather here in eastern iowa. while the east coast digs out from a potentially record storm high pressure keeps control of the weather in eastern iowa. after a quiet saturday the high slides to the east bringing a bit more southerly air into the state. despite more clouds on sunday it looks like a milder day with highs in the lower to middle 30s should occur. the next chance for measureable snowfall comes on mond

police say they found 30-year-old clifton brinkmeyer with a plastic gun. investigators say surveillance footage and witness statements helped identify him. police arrested brinkmeyer for second- degree robbery. iowa city west high school students are going back to a normal day of class today. a bomb threat forced students to evacuate yesterday morning. police say they received a 9-1-1 call warning there it's not clear if this threat is connected to others in the northeast. nine schools in new jersey received phone call threats yesterday morning. schools in massasausett s and delawarerelso received bomomthreats. police evacuated about 2 thousand people in 10 degree weather. the superintenden t says police determined it was a credible threat. they had to call for all the buses in the area to help ansport students. " they rolled all the buses they could, get them over to west high, we were able to quickly evacuate school, load onto the buses and then we brought them over here to the university of iowa, they gracioioly allowed us to use the tennis and rec. cen

well, iowa city police e y this man called it in a bank. 30 year old clifton brinkmeyer now faces a threat of terrorism charge, in addition to a second degree robbery charge. police say brinkmeyer robbed the u-s bank branch at 1117 william street in iowa city around nine tuesday morning. that's on the opposite side of iowa city from west high school. police arrested him shortly after the robbery, and they found a phone in his car that they say he used to make the bomb threat. more than two thousand students had to evacuate west high school. johnson county also had to move a polling place for a special election that had been at the school. dubuque is getting 31 and a half million dollars to help in the bee branch watershed, an area that commonly floods. the city partnered with the state to apply for the federal funds to repair and flood proof homes. more than four years ago, water backed up sewers and poured into basements on the city's north end. kcrg t-v nine's dubuque bureau chief katie wiedemann shows us where those millions when it rains, it pours. and in dubuque,e, when it popos.. 2:5

clifton brinkmeyer was arrested and charged with robbing the u-s bank on william street in iowa city. police later determined he was responsible for calling in the bomb threat at iowa city west tuesday -- forcing everyone to evacuate. he now faces charges of terrorism and robbery. an iowa man pleads guilty to two counts of first degree murder. 37-year-old jerry dillinger admitting to killing his former sister-in- law loretta dillinger and michael robinson. loretta's body was found last month in a pond near lorimor. the second body - who dillinger says is robinson -- was found near a house in thayer. he was apparently in a relationship with one of dillinger's relatives. dillinger was given two consecutive life sentences. a man who injected a woman with heroin, causing her to overdose is sentenced to two years in prison. 37-year-old richard roberts, of cedar rapids, pleaded guilty to october. he admitted to injecting the woman, causing her to lose consciousness. she was revived by emergency crews, and they say she was close to brain injury and death. roberts is being held in the united

high.officers arrested 30- year-old clifton brinkmeyer and charged him with second degree robbery.after brinkmeyer posted bond. authorities arrested him again and filed a terrorism charge against him.they say he was the one who called in the bomb threat.brinkmeyer is now being held in the johnson county jail *without bond. the russians, chinese and iranians may have accessed hillary clinton's private emails and server. server.that's the new claim coming from former defense secretary robert gates. gates.gates told a conservative radio host the odds are quote "pretty high" that u-s enemies accessed the former secretary of state's emails.clinton says any information was not classified at the time and was later critics say charges should be presidential hopeful. fellow democrat martin o'malley will make more stops in eastern iowa this weekend. the former maryland governor will hold campaignevents in coralville, waterloo, maquoketa and davenport. despite little support in recent polls, o'malley has appeared at more events in iowa than bernie sanders and hillary clinton. with the iowa caucus'

police say they later found the suspect, clifton brinkmeyer, and a fake, plastic gun. he's being charged with second degree robbery. parents, students and staff are hoping for a more typical school day at iowa city west. yesterday, classes were shut down because of a bomb threat. police officers and k9's checked out the high school -- as students were bussed to the hawkeye tennis and rec center. we heard from students about "everyone listen up, listen up, listen up, he said it like five threat to our school, we didn't know what kind of threat, but just a threat and everybody was to get their coats and meet in the gym." from there students tell us they was a bomb threat. the building was cleared after a search. the bomb threated affected the voting for a special election. west high was a polling site. here are the results of that election. lisa green- douglass will be the next johnson county supervisor. she'll fill terrence neuzil's seat. he left the board after taking a job in michigan. the county was required to hold the election no matter what -- so they learned abou

police quickly found their suspect - 30- year-old clifton brinkmeyer. brinkmeyer was not far from the crime scene.he was carrying a fake plastic gun. he is now being held in the charges. now let's check in with chief meteorologist terry swails who tells me there's a snow system in the midwest, but what does that mean for us, terry? a minor disturbance will cross the region tonight. light snow or flurries will develop early amounts will be very light with most areas seeing less than 1" of new snow. however, areas near and south of i-80 could see 1 to 1.5" totals. temperatures will warm into the 20s later this week with through the weekend.tomorrow: mostly cloudy early. becoming partlyloudy in the 20-25 north to south. wind: s slslk roads to our west stopped a presidential campaign today. doctor ben carson cancelled his events today to visit with a campaign volunteer injured in an iowa car accident. his campaign says a van transporting three volunteers and a staffer was driving near of ice d flipped onto its side. that's w wn another vehicle driving by cr

clifton brinkmeyer was the guy arrested for that bank robbery . the robbery happened shortly after the bomb threat was called in. brinkmeyer is charged with threat of terrorism along with second degree robbery. brinkmeyer was released after posting bond. it was a scary wake-up call for iowa state students this morning while they were camping out for monday's game against kansas. a tent caught fire at 3-30 a-m outside hilton coliseum. witnesses say a propane tank with a heater attached started a blanket on fire. no one was hurt and the three men inside were able to get out the estimated cost of damage done is one- thousand dollars. a major winter storm is moving up the eastern seaboard today. along interstate 81 in virginia, snow began falling overnight. as you can see, driving is treacherous and the going is slow. heavy snow is expected to continue to fall all day today and into tomorrow. the blizzard is also affecting eastern iowans who travelled to the east coast. many from dubuque there for the "march for life," rally in washington d-c. kw-wl's

morning.witnesses say a man showed a gun and demanded money moneyinvestigators took 30-year-old clifton brinkmeyer into custody a few hours later. he's now charged with second degree robbery.police believe developing tonight - the red cross is now helping 14 people after two house fires in cedar rapids.authorities tell cbs 2 news, a dryer caught fire at a home on a avenue northeast last night. night.crews also responded to a fire on johnson avenue northwest.authorities say the owner of that home was trying to thaw frozen pipes. pipes.no one was hurt in either case.the red cross has now helped 126 iowans affected by fires since january first. that is cbs 2 news ten at ten -- the corridor's top stories and tomorrow's weather first forecast in the first ten minutes. minutes.still to come... come...the one thing that should be a red flag if you get a call from someone claiming to be with the i-r-s. tomorrow on cbs2 this morning.it's the season of colds, coughs and sore throats. throats.but a quick fix for your winter woes is not always good for you in the long term. find out why tomorrow on cbs2 next

today, 30 year- old clifton brinkmeyer was charged with threat of terrorism in connection with the bomb threat he made at west high school. to his charge of second degree robbery made in connection with the bomb threat earlier this week. stephanie: the lower price of crude oil is affecting many industries and businesses including plymouth energy near merrill, iowa. the ethanol producer started production in 2005. now the company is experiencing the downside of below average gas prices. when gas prices drop, ethanol plants typically take a hit. but according to steve meyer, the chief financial advisor for plymouth enery....that's just part of the business "we're in a supply and demand economics here. actually, ethanol production has been very strong since the beginning of oil, there's excess production. we've experienced the same thing with ethanol so therefore we've seen prices and margins the commodities," said meyer. stephanie: meyer says that although the business is demand, there will always be a renewable fuel. jack: contact us. we also want to you have a story you want us to look

police later found the suspect, clifton brinkmeyer, and a fake, plastic gun. he was taken into custody and charged with second degree robbery. two children are killed after getting stuck inside a house fire. it happened late last night n wisconsin -- just across the iowa border. the crawford county sheriffs office says two killed were sisters, 12-year old lena old trinity bartles. neighbors say someone drrving by noticed smoke coming out of the save them -- but the smoke and fire was too much. "the house behind me is fully engulfed in flames and pretty much beyond the point of ving." authorities say the girls were home alone -- their parents were at work. they are still searching for the cause of the fire --but say it is not suspicious. school evacuates students and faculty -- shutting down classes for the day. police ficers and k9's's checking out iowa city west high school -- as students were bussed to the hawkeye tennis and recreation center. students reacting to the news of what police called a redible threat. (cg: nick deerberg & andre magalhaes / student

today, iowa city police charged 30 year-old clifton brinkmeyer with "threat of terrorism" after the bomb threat tuesday at iowa city's west high school. but that's not all. investigators say brinkmeyer then robbed a bank shortly after the bomb threat was called in. police have not said whether they think the bomb threat was an attempt to distract them during the bank robbery. stephanie: coming up on local 5 news at 10... our sports team has criss crossed central iowa... we've got all your basketaball highlights coming up. james: ((ad lib weather toss)) elias: monday on good morning iowa... a veteran whose a wheelchair hasn't let that stop him from doing a good deed for his neighbors sam: plus in our forecast, things are looking a bit warmer. big kansas and iowa state game, we'll get you the weather for that too. elias: we'll get you all ready to go, monday on good morning iowa. "your watching local 5 news at 10 in hd with jack miller, stephanie sports with sports director jon schaeffer. this is local 5 news at 10. we are iowa." james: weather adlib: tonight we are going to be cold and ca

police now say that 30-year old clifton brinkmeyer called in the threat tuesday morning right before robbing the u-s bank on williaiastreet.there, witnesses reported seeing a gun leaving the scene with a

police say 30-year-old clifton brinkmeyer did that just 20 minutes of that, he faces a 2nd degree robbery charge. police say brinkmeyer robbed the u-s bank branch at 11-17 william street in iowa city around 9 that morning. the bank is on iowa city's east side -- miles away from west high. police arrested brinkmeyer shortly after the robbery. around the same time, more than 2,000 students had to evacuate west high school because of the threat. johnson county also had to move a polling place for a special election that had been at the school. is it art... or just frozen pants? this from minneapolis... more proof that culture and art can be found with anything... even capris?? what a dramatic change from last weekend! temperatures this weekend will be creeping into the 30s for some. i think most that these temperatures are much better than those below zero. we'll start off the day in the teens, but will top out in the upper 20s and low 30s for some by the afternoon. on top of the warmer temperatures making for a wonderful weekend weather, we get some sunshine. mostly sunny skies will be arou

they've charged 30-year-old clifton brinkmeyer with second degree robbery.police believe the weapon he allegedly showed was a fake, plastic gun. in less than two short weeks, voters will be finally be heading to their caucus locations here in iowa.every four years, iowans gets the very first chance to select who they think should sit in the oval office. office.but some feel the state doesn't deserve it.i took a closer look at what would happen if iowa lost its spot. spot. depends on where we would go. south carolina is third and they attracted a lot of candidates in a debate last week. if we were 30th, we probably wouldn't attract anybody.that means chaotic scenes like the ones at the state fair this summer would be a thing of the past.iowa g-o-p chair jeff kaufmann straw poll over the summer because candidates didn't think it was important to be successful in iowa.he says even fewer reasons for candidates to spend months in iowa would be a problem. problem.if we were to slip back to march or april and we were too late, to be real honest we really wouldn't be that relevant. the nominee

police say they found 30-year-old clifton brinkmeyer with a plastic gun. investigators say surveillance footage and witness statements helped identifyim. police arrested brinkmeyer for second- degree robbery. iowa city west high school students are going back to a normal day of class today. a bomb threat forced students to evacuate yesterday morning. police sasathey received a 9-1-1 call warning there was an explosive device in the school. it's not clear if this threat is connected to others in the northeast. nine schools in w jersey received phone call threats yesterday morning. schools in massachusett s and delaware also received bomb threats. police evacuated about 2 thousand people in 10 degree weather. the superintenden t says police determined it was a credible threat. they had to call for all the buses in the area to help transport students. " they rolled all the buses they couldldget them over to weses high, we were able to quickly onto the buses and then we brought them over here to the university of iowa, they graciously allowed us to use the ten

they've charged 30-year-old clifton brinkmeyer with second degree robbery.police believe the weapon he allegedly showed was a fake, plastic gun. in less than two short weeks, voters will be finally be heading to their cacaus locations here in iowa. every four years, iowans gets the very first chance to select who they think should sit in the oval office. office.but some feel the state doesn't deserve it.i took a closer look at what would happen if iowa lost its spot. spot. depends on where we would go. south carolina is third and they attracted a lot of candidates in a debate last wouldn't attract anybody.that means chaotic scenes like the ones at the state fair this summer would be a thing of the past.iowa g-o-p chair jeff kaufmann already had to cancel the iowa straw poll over the summer because candidates didn't think it was important to be successful in iowa.he says even fewer reasons for candidates to spend months in iowa would be a problem. problem.if we were to slip back to march or april and we were too late, to be real honest we really wowodn't be that relevant. the nominee is

police say they later found the suspect, clifton brinkmeyer, and a fake, plastic gun. he's being chared with second degree robbery. parents, students and staff are hoping for a more typical school day at iowa city west. yesterday, classes were shut down because of a mb threat. police e fficers and k9's checked students were bussed to the hawkeye tennis and what police called a credible threat. "everyone listen up, listen p, to tell us that there had been a ththeat to our school, we didn't know what kind of threat, but the gym." from there students say they were told more specifically it was a bomb threat. the building was cleared after a search. thehebomb threatee affected tt voting for a special election. west high was a polling site. here are the results of that election. lisa green- douglass will be the next johnson county supervisor. she'll fill terrence neuzil's seat. he left the board after taking a job in michigan. the county was required to hold the election no matter what -- was moved. "for us, this is the first time we've had other counties where they've had

police say they found 30-year-o-o clifton brinkmeyer with a plastic gun. investigators say surveillance footage and witness statements helped to identify him. police arrested brinkmeyer for second- iowa city west high school students are going back to a normal day of class today. a bomb threat forced students to evacuate yesterday morning. police say they received a 9-1-1 call warning there was an explosive device in the school. it's not clear if this threat is connected to others in the northeast. nine schools in new jersey received phone call threats yesterday morning. schools in massachusett s and delaware also received bomb threats. police had to evacuate abouou 2,000 people in 10 degree weather. the superintenden t says police determined it was a credible threat. they had to call for all the buses in the area to help transport students. " they rolled all the buses they could, get them over to west high, we were able to quickly evacuate school, load onto the buses and then we brought them over here to the university of iowa, they graciously allowed us

clifton brinkmeyer - robbed a u-s bank in iowa city on tuesday... he was arrested for the robbery - and through investigation, officers determined the 911 call reporting the high school bomb threat came from his car. .. that bank was robbed 20 minutes after the bomb threat was called into west high school... more than two thousand students went to different locations as officers and drug dogs searched the halls... investigators now say a fire that killed two young sisters was an accident... crawford county wisconsin sheriff's deputies say the fire started at the center of the home in wauzeka... which kept the girls from beinnable to escape using the staircase. the sisters died as a result of the fire. investigators haven't been able to determine the exact cause of the firee an early wake up for iowa state students camping out before monday's basketball game -- beause their tent starts on fire... thth tent fire outside of hilton coliseum firefighters say the fire was started by a propane heater inside the tent being too close o flamable material. tha

they've charged 30-year-old clifton brinkmeyer with second degree robbery.police believe the weapon he allegedly showed was a fake, plastic gun. federal prososutors have reached a plea agreement with a motel in fargo at gunpoint. police say eric webb held the business up in june, but was shot by an officer shshtly after.webb was given five seperate charges in the case, including armed robbery.his trial was supposed to start tuesday, but was cancelled. the red cross is helping 14 people after two house res in cedar rapipi.authorities tell cbs 2 news a dryer caught fire at a home on a avenue northeast. northeast.crews also responded to a fire on johnson avenue northwest.authorities say the owner of that home was trying to thaw frozen pipes. pipes.no one was hurt in either case.the red cross has now helped 126 iowans affected by fires in the past three weeks. don't forget -- cbs 2 connects with you - call cbs 2 if you see news happen.800 222 kgan. you can also email tips, pictures, and even video --to news -- at cbs 2 iowa dot com. that's a quick look at your wednesday morning news.get mo

they've charged 30-year-old clifton brbrkmeyer with second degree robbery.police believe the weapon brinkmeyer allegedly showed was, in fact, a fake, plastic gun. also in iowa city today, a scare for students, parents and faculty at west high school. school.a bomb threat was reported, forcing leaders to evacuate the school around 8:45 this morning.police responded immediately wiwi k-9 units and swept the campus, but turned up nothing.parents picked up students at a nearby rec center while other students were bussed home. our priority is safety and when that happens, sometimes the academic have to take a back seat for part of the day. day.police are investigating all possible leads.the school not only were students and faculty evacuated, but a as well. well.the school had served as a voting location for today's special election.the johnson county auditor re-directed people to vote at the nearby athletic hall of fame. that special election was to fill a vacant seat on the johnson county board of supervisors.polls closed just momemes ago and d 're awaiting the first results.we'll have updates on

police say they found 30-year-o-o clifton brinkmeyer with a plastic gun. investigators say surveillance footage and witness statements helped to