Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 3:48 a.m. CST

CORALVILLE/IOWA CITY – One person is dead, another was injured during a multi-vehicle collision on a 100% ice covered I-80 westbound Thursday afternoon, near Coralville. The Iowa State Patrol reports the collision involved seven passenger vehicles and four semi tractor-trailers. Diminished or reduced visibility was also a factor. The names of the victims has not yet been released. The accident, which happened at around 3:30-p.m. near the 242.5-mile marker, remains under investigation.

CHICAGO (AP) — The bitter cold that gripped the Midwest forced commuters to bundle up like polar explorers. But by early next week, many of those same people might be able to get by with a light jacket or even short sleeves. Forecasts say temperatures could climb by as much as 80 degrees over the next few days. Experts say the rapid thaw is unprecedented, and it could create problems of its own _ bursting pipes, flooding rivers and crumbling roads.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — More than half of the Republican-dominated Iowa Senate is backing a constitutional amendment aimed at weakening the state court system’s power to review abortion restrictions. The move comes just days after an Iowa judge overturned what would have been the nation’s broadest such limit, banning abortions when a “fetal heartbeat” is detected.” The amendment would expressly state that the state constitution “does not secure or protect a right to abortion.

CRESCO, Iowa (AP) — Democrat Sherrod Brown is making his first trip to Iowa as a presidential prospect. The three-term swing-state senator is visiting the leadoff caucus state in Cresco, in the one county in the nation both Democrat Barack Obama and Republican Donald Trump won by at least 20 percentage points. Brown is testing a message aimed at reaching working-class voters who also lifted Trump to victory in 2016 in swing states Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Sen. Joni Ernst is expressing frustration with Iowa Congressman Steve King’s comments about immigration and white supremacy. Ernst told Iowa reporters Thursday that she shouldn’t have to be “spending precious time talking about white supremacy and comments by a member of our delegation.” King claims his comments were taken out of context. The House rebuked him and he was denied any committee assignments.