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Im tim seaman jenna and im Jenna Rehnstrom the man and woman involved in a bad car crash with a stolen car this afternoon. Have died from their injuries. Tim witnesses say the car went airborne on 25th street as it flew over a steep hill. We have more details tonight in our top story. Jenna heres what the car looked like when it finally stopped after hitting a tree. The red nissan altima. That was reported stollen last thursday. Flipped on its top after striking two other cars. The accident happened near the corner of 25th and morgan streets on the northside. The 34yearold driver and his 28 yearold female passager had to be cut out of the car and were rushed to the hospital. Police say witnesses report seeing the car driving very fast down 25th street when it rammed the front of an suv that was backing out of a driveway. Sgt. Scott hattig, scpd says, there was no pursuit we did have witnesses who saw the vehicle come up over the hill they went as far to say that it caught air, was airborn coming over the hill it was traveling that fast, so i cant even begin to estimate how fast they were going right now. The names of the man and woman killed arent being release yet. A woman and child in the suv that was hit wre not seriously injured. Tim Sioux City Police say vehicle thefts are on the rise. Especially in the last few weeks. For the year, 207 cars and trucks have been reported stolen. Thats 4 more than last year with two months remaining in 2015. Tim the thefts have been primarily occuring within the morningside area and northside of the city. Police says they have a couple theories on why vehicles are such we have people who have been stealing vehicles for financial gain and then were also having people stealing vehicles for joyriding purposes, said detective jeff harstad of Sioux City Police department. The Sioux City Police department reminds citizens to lock car doors, park in well lit areas, and keep valuable items hidden. Jenna northwest iowa voters headed to the polls today to elect mayors and city Council Members. Tim our Deborah Souverain. Was there for the results of the Woodbury County election. Deborah. Im guessing. Bob scott is still our mayor . Thats right. Mayor bob scott ran unopposed in this election. He told me wishes he had a challenger. But hell gladly take the free win. Mayor bob scott. Was elected to another four tonight. He collected. Two thousand. And 87 scott. Says he will not run for reelection. So during his last term. He wants to focus on creating more opportunities for younger generations. I think thatst the way were going to attract and keep young people in this community and weve done a bad job of that for about 10 to 12 years around here. We need to do the things that young families find attract and we need to continue to work on Economic Development very hard. We need to have jobs in this community for young people, said bob scott, sioux city mayor. Also, on the ballot was councilwoman. Rh onda capron. She was re elected to her seat on the city council. With 77 percent of the vote. Rhonda. Who garned. One Thomas Venesky collected. 554 votes. The first four years were an honor and the next four years privilege to we are doing, said rhonda capron, city council member. We have a lot of good things happening in sioux city and i am just happy to be a part of it. Rhonda says term. She wants to continue working on major recreational projects. Like cone park. And the possible larson riverfront park. About 47thousand registered voters. But less than 3thousand people cast a ballot in this election. Woodbury county auditor pat gill says, those numbers werent suprising because he wasnt expecting a large turnout. Reporting live in studio Deborah Souverain abc 9 news. Jenna the majority of members of the omaha tribe of nebraska are giving their support for legalizing marijuana. Tim in three separate ballot measures today, he Tribal Council asked for input to help them decide if they should pursue legalizing of marijuana. The majority of voters were in favor of all three proposed questions. Of the 650 voters, 59 say they were support the Recreational Use of marijuana on tribal land. 78 say they would support its use for medical purposes. And 67 say theyre for allowing the omaha tribe to grow Industrial Hemp to sell. Tim the vote does nothing to legalize marijuana now, but gives the Tribal Council the goahead should it choose to work with the federal government to legalize it in the future. Jenna voters in sioux center are not overwhelmingly supportive of plans to expand highway 75 to five lanes through town. In a ballot measure today, 56 of the close to 1,600 voters said they would support the city moving foward with expansion plans. But, that fell short of the 60 needed to pass. Now, City Planners will have to wait for possibly another vote in the future. The city wants to expand highway 75 from three lanes to five to allow for increased traffic and more safety and also to esthetics. But, many people in town have concerns about making that road through town even more busy and the road getting to close to homes along the way. Theres always confusion with people, pedestrians, trying to cross our highway and we feel we can make it safer, and thats what this project is really about. The enhancements that weve looked at have an led lighting system that flashes on the inside and the outside lanes. It also has some that its embedded in the roadway, so when into that crosswalk somebody is in there city manager. The expansion project most likely wouldve buying some homes to tear down. Heres a look at a decided at the polls. Sheldon voters approved a 2 increase in the hotel motel tax, money used for Economic Development. Thattax not at state limit of 7 percent 25277 votes in onawa approved the implimentation of a hotelmotel tax 7 but barly 201 184. 4 Buena Vista County communities were looking to extend the use of 1 cent sales tax, storm lake lakeside rembrandt alta all approved an indefinate extension. Tim on cam and a push by a Citizens Group to make sweeping changes in city leadership in incumbant mayor Myrna Heddinger won reelection with 53 suport and will serve her 4th term. 2 of 3 incumbant Council Members also won reelection. In iowa house dist 5, charles holz of lemars was elected to fill the term of Chuck Soderberg who recently retired. Holz was not opposed. Jenna it was a standing room only crowd at the State Capitol today. People were lining up to share concerns over governor branstads plan to tranfer the states Medicaid Program over to managed care organizations. Theres a committee of lawmakers thats been set up to oversee the privatization of medicaid. They heard concerns from the community today. One of the top concerns voiced. The timeline to get everything done. There are 560 thousand iowans on medicaid and the roll out date for the new privatized plan, is january one. Kelsey 1 04 33 we get a little nervous that when too much is transitioned too quickly, mistakes get made, errors get enrollment packets for medicaid recipients are starting to be mailed out. But so far Provider Networks arent yet in place. There are only 39 Business Days between now and the start of the new year. Tim today democratic president ial candidate Hillary Clinton made her way into the hawkeye state. She spoke to supporters at a town hall meeting in coralville earlier this afternoon. The president al hopeful then held a townhall meeting in grinell where she highlighted the importance fo raising the minimum wage to 12 dollars an hour as well fixing the va and making sure veterans are getting proper care. The va does a lot of good for work for a lot of good veterans. But it has systemic problems. Those have been revealed and its shameful we have too many veterans who have been left out and denied the care that they need. I am in favor of fixing it and being really tough about fixing it. Clinton also focused in on gun gun reform if elected president. Tim theres no agreement in the great debate over gop debates. Plans by campaign staffs to present the networks with unified demands for debate terms unraveled monday night, as president obama took a swipe at the republican squabble. Stacey cohan has the story from washington. A last minute effort to unite gop candidates on debate reform is an epic fail. The Carson Campaign organized a sunday night meeting for candidates to create a letter of demands to debate media sponsors. It didnt happen. Donald trump plans to negotiate on his own. donald trump, r president ial candidate i dont really care that much. I want a room, i want a podium and lets get going. John kasich, chris christie, and Carly Fiorina also bailed. Colorado senator cory gardner, who just endorsed marco rubio, calls the debate drama a distraction from the real issues. sen. Cory gardner, r colorado ultimately its not going to come down to the insider games about whether the debate rules are right. Its going to come down to the American People even president obama weighed in, taking a jab at republicans debate complaints from folks who boast of great negotiating prowess. president barack obama when i talk to putin, hes going to straighten out. Just looking at him. And then, it turns out, they cant handle a bunch of cnbc moderators. Theyll get another shot at the debate stage in one week at the fox business debate in milwaukee. Im stacey cohan reporting. Jenna immigration is not something that comes up in local politics very something that comes up in local politics very often. But an expert on the subject is making it his mission to inform people across the country on both sides of the topic. Lukas voss joins us now with more on the trip to sioux city. Lukas jenna. More often than not there is a misunderstanding about who immigrates and what immigration means. Prominent journalist and director roy germano was at briar cliff tonight. Screening two of his films to shed light on the issue. I had a chance to catch up with him. Nats students clapping vo briar cliff students were in for a treat tuesday night attending two screenings with film making roy germano who really didnt know what to make of his work in the beginning. Sot when i made this film, i had no idea if anybody would ever see it. Vo turns out quite a few actually saw the film. Germano holds a phd in government and an m. A. In international relations. He has traveled extensively throughout latin american and worked as a journalist for vice news, fox news and msnbc. He hopes that his screenings and works can make a difference. Sot those are small films and i hope in their little way they are playing a part in opening peoples minds. I have people come to my screenings and said i used to think these people were just here to steal jobs from us and now i see them as basically the same as us with families wanting the same things that i want. Nats people laughing vo germano screened two of his films tonight. One with a special connection to briar cliff. Students there can take part in a mission trip to the troubled country and help. Germanos film murder and migration in honduras certainly had an impact on students and professors. Sot its great to know that somebody else who actually has been there lived the same experience who sees the same views is here to share. Sot its incredibly important it gives our students our faculty and the greater Siouxland Community really the opportunity to see this issue right on the front lines. Lukas and if you would like to share germanos stories as well you can go to www. The other side of immigration. Com to find out about his latest project. Reporting live in studio, lukas voss abc9 news. Still to come. A furry intruder photobombs a photobombs a babys fall photo shoot fred tonights ask fred outside a curious deer photobombs a newborns photo shoot. Photographer megan rion set the fall scene with baby conner. When she says the deer walked out from the trees and surprised them. Rion says this is not the first time the deer has made an appearance rion has even named it. She says maggie has been sneaking into her photos since the beginning of the summer. jenna fred, well take more days like today fred we have one more in store, before things change by the end of the week. 2 line super fred hexom fhexom kcautv. C om fred the Port Neal Welding Company skycam hd shows a quiet evening from the Ho Chunk Centre in sioux city. 72 was our high today after a low of 42. The kings pointe skycam hd in storm lake shows a nice looking scene. The allergy report today shows low pollen levels yet again it appears that our high pollen readings may be over for the season. 60 is our temperature in sioux city. Local temperatures are in the 50s and 60s. Winds are south and southeast at 5 to 20 miles per hour. Visibility is fine, but fog is likely late tonight and tomorrow morning. If we zoom out, we can see the front that will push through thursday to our northwest. We have 61 in north platte but just 39 in rapid city the satellite and radar shows a mix of rain and snow along that front. We will be warm enough for siouxland. The stormcast hd shows closer tonight and tomorrow, so we will stay breezy and warm, and with partly cloudy skies. The cold front will move through on chance of showers. Follow. Your rain of rain, give or take, forecast for tonight is for partly cloudy skies and patchy fog late. The low will be 53. Tomorrows high will be 71 with breezy winds and partly cloudy skies. Tomorrows record high is 76 from 1975, so while we will be close, it appears that record is safe. The 7day shows 60s thursday and 50s friday. Saturday and beyond will bring 50s and 60s. The Northern Lights may be visible again tonight, even though there will be a few more clouds when, but overall, midnight to 2 am tends to be the ideal viewing time. Tonights ask fred question is what is the snowiest november on record . The answer is a whopping 16. 5 in 1983 tonights winner is peyton wieting from pierce, ne. Tonights ask fred prize is 4 tickets to the super latke brunch lunchdinner this sunday at congregation beth shalom in sioux city. To enter, email a weather question to me or post one on our abc9 News Facebook page. tim thanks, fred. fred coming up in sports. Iowa High School Football teams are just sports. Iowa High School Football teams are just one win away from playing in cedar falls. Well take a look at the matchups after the break. Tim plus four siouxland teams were in action on the Volleyball Court tonight looking for trips to the state tournament. Highlights from regional finals when we come back. Jenna tim chris 2 line name super chris drought was going to come to an end. Sergeant bluff luton, the mrac champs, hasnt been to state since 1985. Spirit lake, ranked tenth in the state, hasnt made the trip since 1983. To state for the First Time Since take on me and total eclipse of the heart were atop the charts . Sbl took the first, we pick it up in the second. Lauren wickman. Slams it home. Indians get within three at 2118. Then after the warriors get it to set point. Kailee jenness with the heads up play going over on two. Spirit lake stays alive. But the next point belongs to brittni olson. She tips it over. And sbl gets within a set of a trip to state. Midway in the third. Merrin van velzen. Serves up the ace. Warriors go up 1511. Then this shows it was sbls night. Olson, gets it to ride down the net and fall for a point. That keeps the lead at 4. Spirit lake would make a run. Macy smith finds the seam and the floor to stay alive. But on match point. Sydney scholz says sprinkles are for winners. The warriors advance to state for the first time in 30 years. Brittni olsonit feels amazing and to be the [first] Sergeant Bluff team since 1985, its a great feeling to finally accomplish that. We did it as a team and it was a team effort. Sydney scholzoh its amazing. Its a just incredible feeling, absolutely love it. Im proud of my team, everything. Its great. Morgan skinneri couldnt ask for a better senior year. This has been our goal the entireour four years, and now that were seniors we finally get to go. Renee winkelits mostly about the girls. Really. I mean, i can coach and thats fine, but unlesstheyre the ones that have the drive and theyre the ones who are leading this. Im just directing them along the way. The warriors will play next wednesday at noon against kuemper catholic. Chris two years ago, heelan sat at home during the state tournament for the First Time Since 1997. But last year the crusaders made the trip to cedar rapids and tonight they had a chance to starta new streak. The 8th ranked crusaders, battling carroll over on a neutral court in schaller. Second set. Heelan won the first. Shelby miller drills a kill for carroll. Tigers take the 2221 lead. And then its Kristin Honold tapping it over on set point. Carroll ties the regional final at one set a mccabe gets in on the action for heelan. Crusader s go up 51 early. And it would turn into the grace hanno show. Monster swing from the senior. Heelan down 1918. But they get back on top. Hanno from the outside. Heelan goes on to win the third set 27 25. And in the fourth. On match point. Allie cooke finishes it off for the crusaders. 31 the final. Heelan back to cedar rapids for the second straight season. It means everything. We have been fighting so hard all year. We have worked so hard we have had some losses throughout the year, but we just use that as motivation to get better and it definitely paid off tonight. The crusaders play waverly shell rock next tuesday at 6 pm. Chris sioux city east was just 75 points away from School History tonight. The black raiders have never qualified for the state volleyball tournament but a win against ankeny centennial would snap that skid. The jaguars though are the defending state champs, so east with a tough challenge. First set. Big centennial lead but lexi lapke. Trying to will the raiders back. Big spike here. But after that it was all jags. Tasha vipond with the touch in for the point. Then the power from olivia sandquist. East sees its season come to an end, 30 tonight in ankeny. The iowa high dear future, sailed through that diaper stage, learned to walk, but now its time to go out into the world. And from what i hear, its not all toys and games out there. Will you look out for me, future

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