Abc 9s bria bell was with the family earlier and has more. The palmersheim palmershymm family says having one another helps throughout the rebuilding process, but one of the toughest things that they have had to deal with so far is the loss of their beloved dog joey. You wake up one day and everythings changed, your whole life, said mike palersheim. The palmersheim family is greatful to be alive, but their lives have completely taken an unexpected turn during whats suppose to be a time filled with love, laughter, and holiday cheer. The day before thanksgiving, their house caught on fire. The damage has been detremential, but they say nothing is worse than losing a pet that you considered a furry family member. You know, you come by here and expect to see him looking out of the window and its been rough. But the kids dont remember life without him and its been hard, said stephanie palersheim. Stephanie and her family are now living in a relatives home for the time being at least until they can get back on their feet. Still living out of boxes pretty much, like living out of suitcases. Weve got piles here and there just sorting through everything day by day, said mike palersheim. A go fund me page has been created to help the palmersheims durg this trying time. They say the money and support that theyve received is helpful. Were geeting some support from Family Friends that dont live in the area and it all helps, everything helps, said mike palersheim. A link to the familys go fund me account siouxland matters dot com. In studio, bria bell abc 9 news. Deborah trtric news out ofofpencer, iowa, whwhe a High School Wrestler who collapsed on the mat last night has died. Austin roberts passed away at Spencer Hospital over night. According to school officials. Robert s, a 220pound wrestler, was rushed to the emergency room. After collasping on the mat during spencer highs invitational tragic news out of spencer, iowa, where a High School Wrestler who collapsed on the mat last night has died. Austin roberts passed away at Spencer Hospital over night. According to school officials. Robert s, a 220pound wrestler, was rushed to the emergency room. After collasping on the mat during spencer highs invitational wrestling tournament. The Schools Community is in grief over roberts sudden passing. Not only was austin accomplished hlete, austin was a a good kid and a good clasase and the type of student that wouldnt hurt a flea but was a fierce eompetitor as well. We are a hurting for austin and his family and for his classmates a for the staff that had an opportunity to work with him and we are just doing what we can to help everybody got through this tough time, said terry hemann, Spencer Community schools superintendent. Deborah hemann says the cause of death is not yet known. And the School District is unaware of any preexisting conditions that may have contributed toaustins death. A gofund me account set up to help the Roberts Family has raised over 13 thousand dollars. If you would like to help, visit our website siouxland mattersdotcom. Deborah last night during the final democratic debate of the year the candidates discussed a lot of topics. Including their opinions on donald trump firing back. Is in washington with more. abc this week sot donald trump r president ial candidate knowing the clintons and knowing hillary, but theres no theres nobody she just made it up. I mean she made it up. It was a sound bite. On abcs thiweek, donald trump attacked democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton for this explosive allegation. Sot Hillary Clinton d president ial candidate he is becoming isis best recruiter. They are going to people showing videos of donald trump insulting islam and muslims in order to recruit more radical jihadists. Both the white house and terror experts say theres no hard evidence i is is using videos of trump to recruit. Today, the Clinton Campaign clariried thth the former secretary of state was not referencing a specific video . Last night, trump tweeted Hillary Clinton lied. abc this week sot donald trump r president ial candidate ive been right on more than anybody else has been right. abc this week sot stephanopoulos are you sure you want to go are you sure you want to go down that road . The Fact Checkers have called you out on statements than any other candidate. Trump oh, ill go down that road. And, you know, people maybe call me out, but they turn out to be wrong. Democratic contder sen. Bernie sanders argued on this week that trump deliberately misleads. abc this week s ot sen. Bernie sanders d president ial ate i say this straightforwardly i think you have a pathological liar there. Trump was the biggest target in the democrats New Hampshire debate the only gop candidate called out by name. But even his fellow republicans are taking aim at their frontrunner. abc this week sot gov. Chris christie r president ial candidate i was in new jersey on september 11th and thousands of people simply were not celebrating in jersey city. Candidates attacking withinnd across party lines as primary voters and caucusgoers get closer to making a decision. Devividwyer, abc news, washington. Deborah Bernie Sanders will be right here in sioux city tomorrow. But there has been a change of venue for his visit. Bernie sanders town hall meeting is now being held at the Sioux City Convention center on fourth street. Open at 6. Sanders Campaign Organizers say the venue changed due to overwhelming turnout projections. Deborah breaking a bottle over the ships Susie Buffett daughter of Berkshire Hathaway chairman, Warren Buffett helped christen the uss omaha today. About 500 people, including 20 nebraskans, attended the pierside ceremony. The event took place at the austal usa shipyard in mobile alabama. The u. S. S. Omaha is the fourth ship to be christened at the facility. Deborah if youre e e of the lucky fans headed to california to watch the hawkeyes in the rose bowl. We have details on a party you wont want to miss. The battleship u ss iowa in los angeles, california , is helping celebrate the hawkeyes in a big way. A free pep rally is being held at the Historic Place on thursday the 31st. From noon until five. And its free for all iowans. Hawkeye apparel is encouraged. For more information visit their webiste, pacific battleshipipot com. Deborah christmas came early at the gas pump this year. The National Average has dropped to two dollars a gallon, according to triplea. It hasnt been that low since 2009. Plus more than twothirds of gas stations are selling gas for less than 2 dollars a gallon. That according to the information service. One industry analyst says he expects low prices to last into at least january. Deborah more about a lottery investigation involving an iowa man. Investigators say started with one insider from iowa, who is accused of and now, authorities ar looking into extended to states. Abcs clayton its lottery scam prosecutors say took a game of chance . And removed the chance. Nats lotto video announcer if you match all five numbers and the hot ball, you win the jackpot. T. Eddie tipton . . Former Security Director at t e Multi State Lottery Association . Is now accused of Hacking Computers so theyd pick his winning numbers. Prosecutors say tipton asked people he knew. Including his brother. To help collect jackpots in colorado . Wisconsin and now. Oklahoma. Sot sot david jobes Iowa Division of criminal investigation those three together totaled about eight Million Dollars. Investigators say theyre now scrutinizing games gfx map in as many as thirty seven states and territories. Sot david jobes Iowa Division of criminal investigation were looking into any jackpot that could be associated with eddie tipton across the country. In September Tipton was convicted of scamming the iowa lottery. Prosecutors say this Surveillance Video shows him in disguise buying a ticket that won 16 pointfiveMillion Dollars. Nats 18 49 19 courtroom we, the jury, find the defendant Edward Tipton is appealing that conviction. gfx but he still faces trial on the newer multistate cases. His Attorney Says there has been no evidence that mr. Tipton did anything to tamper with any of the computers. In the meantime lottery officials are beefing upupecurity . Nats ottery employee each of us have a unique 6 digit t de to get inside this room . To convince the public games worth twentybillion dollars in revenue to the states . Can be trusted. Sot Thomas Miller fmr. Iowa Deputy Attorney general if people dont trust the honesty of the system, particpation in the lottery is going to dwindle and be jeopardized. Deborah tiptons trial for the latest charges begins in january. If convicted. He could face twenty five years in prison. Deborah when we come back. Did the latest star wars movie break the Box Office Record . Well find out after the break. Fred fred a cloudy night is ahead, then our weather wi turn cooler tomorrow. Rain and snow chances are in the 7day forecast after the break. Stay with us dear future, sailed through that diaper stage, learned to walk, and im reading like a thirdgrader. But now its time to go out into the world. Its not all toys and games out there. Will you look out for me, future . You can ride my new bike. Movie has the force on its side. At least in the box office. As pamela brown reports. The movie broke some alltime records in its Opening Weekend. Star wars awakens to the Biggest Box Office opening in history the newest Million Dollars this weekend in the us and canada alone, the scifi franchise continues its legacy of being an Opening Weekend hit the first Star Wars Film also had the highest weekend debut back in 1977. The force awakens flew past Current Record holder jurassic world. Natsot movie but its no surprise fans werer anticipating t t movie well before its arrival. Standing in line for hours even days for tickets moss butted sots i started on dec 5th i put in about 26 hours on friday 3 days now and i got here at 5am this morning one couple even marked it as their own special day natsot wedding i now pronounce you husband and wife may your love last longer than a stlax digestion. Kiss the white house got in on the action too sharing the stage with a Storm Trooper at fridays press briefing and president obama ended his last press conference of the year with this. obama no font ok everybody i gotta get to star wars and its not just the box office the e rce awakens was also a hit with critics scoring near perfect on rottentomatoes. Com so what will director jj abrams think about all this . j. J. Abrams, director success for me, its just going to be if people go and like the film and if kids go and see themselves in the movie and people they leave the theater than when they got there, and the number is the number. Thousands of star wars fans gathered in los angeles to break a different type of record. The group attempted to break the record for the Worlds Largest lightsaber battle in a 24 hour period. Those numbers are being combined with some from other weekend battles in san francisco, seattle and san diego. The previous record of seven thousand lightsabers was set at comicon in san diego. Organizers say record setter. Com will determine if they broke the record Deborah Elisa Fred we have some fairly major changes to the forecast for this week. Elisa elisa raffa eraffa kcautv. Co m fred the Port Neal Welding Company skycam hd shows the fog and mist from the Ho Chunk Centre in sioux city. The high today was anexcellent 46, perfect for walking the dodo the low has been 29. In sioux city, we have 30 degrees. Local temperatures are in the 20s and 30s. Winds are northwest at 10 to 15 miles per hour. That wind is producing wind chills of 20 in sioux city and just 12 in oneill. Relative humidity is as high of 100 percent, and as result, we are startingo see some fog. It will linger overnight. Midwest temperatures show can expect a definite cooler feel to the y tomorrow. The satellite and radar cover, but little shows cooler weather tomorrrow, then a sharp warmup tuesday before rain early wednesday. The forecast for tonight is for cloudy skies andnd breezy winds witit patchy fog. The low will be 24. Tomorrowow look for a high of 32 with mostly cloudy skies, the 7day shows upper 40s tuesday, then rain and snow chance of snow of rain on Christmas Day friday, then a good chance of mixed precipitation with rain, snow, and possibly ice on saturday. Sunday will be sunny and the first day winter, otherwise known as the winter solstice. This means that the sun is shining most brightly south of the equator, as far away from us as it ever goes. After tomorrow, it wil start moving back north again, so our we will have e re daylight . Deborah elela deborah thanks, fred. fred you bet. Deborah when we come back. The Nebraska Volleyball TeamVolleyball Team returned home with a natatnal championshsh. Alex has the details on their title earlier in the newscast, spencer senior wrestler Austin Roberts passed away last night. I wanted to take this opportunity to send our thoughts and prayers to austins family and the Spencer Community. If you want to reach out and assist the Roberts Family, a gofundme has been created to offset medical and funeral expenses. You can find that link on our website. Siouxlala dmatters. Com or on our abc9 facebook page. Alex over the last ten years, nebraska basketball is 818 in nonconference home games. Tonight, the huskers had samford on their like another easy win right . Not so fast. The bulldogs are 73 this season. Coached by former standout scott 1st half andrew white forces the turnover. And gets the feed from shavon jam. He had 17 but samford held a late lead. Under three minutes. To tai webster for three. Huskers within five. Then shavon would hit a three soon after shields had a game high 25 points to go along with 7 rebounds. Andrew white and shields comine for 42 points. No one else could really get anything going huskers shoot 43 6958 huskers, the Nebraska Volleyball Team won their Fourth National championship last of texas. Returned home to looking at championship run, they finished the season with 16 straight wins, a storybook ending to their magical 2015 season. Picture anything. I game at a time, set at a time. After what unreal. I dont think it has really settled yet that we won the whole thing. Its so cool to be a part of this. Congrats against to nebraska. Welldeserved nationalal championship. Alex for the second time this season, Northern Iowa took down a national powerhouse. The panthers upset fifth ranked iowa state last night, capping a great day of action at the big four classic. With saturdays win, Northern ValleyConference Team in 50 years to win two games teamin the same season. Uni upset number one North Carolina in late november. Paul jesperson points against the performance in the state capitol. Just a great game to be a part of. Really proud of our guys to find a way to hold three or four teams in the country. These guys and there teammates were able to do prove that we can play with anybody. I know coach believes in the guys in the locker room. Whatever game we are in, we are never out of it, it doesnt matter the opponent. Everybody is down. Im down. I want to win, i want to win every game. None of us have lost a lot of games. But i understand that we cant go nuts and this. Its not my personality. We have to go to work and be ready for cincinnatti. Uni visits hawaii this week. Iowa a state has a road test at cincinatti on tuesday. As for the hawkeyes. Iowa beat drake by six in the opening game of the big four classic, their fifth straight win over the bulldogs. Fran mccafferys bunch blocked a School Record 14 shots, leading the hawks to their 8th win of the season. Iowa hosts Tennessee Tech on tuesday. Baseball fanin the area know this name. Former standout Damek Tomscha hosted a hitting clinic today over in morningside. Along with heelan alums david kerian and paul jacobson, tomscha, who plays in the phillies organization, led hitting drills for a number of young baseball players. Once in those very shoes, damek was excid to give back to his community. Its s st something that i have wanted to do. s a goooo opportunity for kids to come back and for to put on. I just hope they take out a few little hitting tips that will help them become better hitters and Better Baseball players. Its a tough game, its a failure game and there are going to be ups and downs and struggles and hopefully, they realize that. Tomscha currently plays for the classa lakewood blueclaws in the Philadelphia Phillies organization. We will hear more from the trio of guys who hosted this clinic later this week. Deborah have a few days to enter our Christmas Tree contest all you have to do is message jessica rae on facebook. Or email her your pictures at jrae kcautv. Com and your pictures will air live on our newscast. The winner will receive 4 tickets announced tuesday morning. fred the forecast for tonight is for cloudy skies and breezy winds with patchy fog. The low will be 24. Tomorrow, with mostly cloudy skies, the 7day shows upper 40s tuesday, then rain wednesday, and chance of snow thursday, a chance of rain on Christmas Day friday, then a mixed precipitation with rain, snow, and possibly ice on saturday. Sunday ll be sunny and a child witnesses a brutal murder. They had a little sixyearold girl. The courts wouldnt let him go. Even dna wasnt enough. Do they want me to hand them the keller on a silver platter