Camera . Soon, you wont be shelling out quite so much cash. Jenna thanks for joining us tonight im Jenna Rehnstrom tim seaman has the night off. We begin tonight with a grim discovery in pierce nebraska. The state patrol is now investigating the discovery of a body found burned in an abandoned pickup truck. A vecle was spotted in a field about 10 miles outside of town around three this afternoon. Investigators say they discovered the remains of a person in the cab of that charred pickup truck. The Nebraska State Patrol and the state Fire Marshals Office were called in to investigate. The state patrol says the vehicle was still smoldering and too hot to get inside. The state patrol along with teh state fire marshal and Pierce CountySheriffs Office are working to identify the body and the cause of more details as they come into us. Jenna fire officials in spencer say flamable materials too close to a space heater caused a house fire saturday. One person was found dead inside the mobile homom after the fire was put out. The victims name is not beingng released until a a autopsy is complete. Jenna sioux city has become the hot spot for political candidates to stump including one Bernie Sanders. The democrat took the stage earlier tonight at the Sioux City Convention center to speak to more than a thousand people abc9s Deborah Souverain downtown for the Campaign Stop and has more. Deborah . Borah jenna, it was a aacked house e the sioux citytyonvention center this evening. I guess you could say the crowd was definitely feeling the bern. This was Bernie Sanders second visit to sioux city. And the vermont senator says. Tonights large crowd and his growing poll numbers could indicate a close race come caucus time. The sioux city was steaming monday evening. With people who were feeling the bern natpop bernie entering stage to applause over 11hundred people packed into the convention center. To hear from democratic president ial candidate Bernie Sanders. And he started the town hall meeting off by reassuring his constituents of where his priorites will lie if he becomes president. Natpop he said i welcome their hatred, because i am representing working families, said Bernie Sanders running on a campaign that promises a future to believe in. Sanders told the crowd. His campaign is sending a message to the billionaire class. In a oneonone terview. Sanders told me that part t that message. Is his plan to close the income inequality gap. By gradually raising the federal minimum wage to 15 dollars. You cant make it on 10 bucks an hour, you cant make it on 9 bucks an hour. We need to have a living wage for all americans. 8 seconds sanders who is coming off of pivotal democratic debate in new hampshire. Where he sparred with Hillary Clinton over how to defeat isis. Says the terrorist group isnt the only immiment threat threat to this country. Of course it is, and we are going to do Everything Possible to destroy isis and protect the American People but its not either or. We have to deal with Climate Change tomorrow and isis today. They are both serious threats to our country. A recent cbs news poll shows sanders just five points behind Hillary Clinton in iowa. And with just a few weeks away from the caucuses. The stage is setting for a heated contest. If we can win in iowa and nehampshire i think we have a path to a National Victory and i think we have a path toward pulling off one of the biggest upsets i ithe modern history of america. Deborah during the was adament finance reform. Weekend his campaign affirmed big money politics. Sanders broke a record. For the most individual contributions point during a campaign. Studio deborah news. Former congressman steve king stopped by our studio this afternoon. The vermont senator running for president , outspoken personality. But doesnt agree with his socialist ideals. Bernie is a self professed socialist, well im the complete opposite. Im a constitutionalist, im a free enterpriser so we dont see the world through the same lenses so to speak. Yet, i like bernie personally. Hes a fighter, hes a scrapper and he lls you what he believes. I think hes frank d that refreshing apoach he brings is why he has the support he has said iowa representative steve king. King is endorsing texas senator ted cruz for president. A man he calls the best candidate to bring the nation together. I want to see an america thats pulled together thats unified where we feel like were on a a common cause, common set of people with a common set of ideals and i think ted cruz is the best person to do that, said iowa representative steve king. King also discussed his skepticism with Climate Change science, and why he believes we need special Ground Forces in syria to defeat isis. Jenna on the republican side, the president ial race is now one candidate lighter. South carolina senator Lindsey Graham has suspended his bid for the white house. Graham says he doesnt have any regrets about running for president , but wish he could have been a stronger candidate. He also says he enjoyed his time campaigning because he got to meet quote some of the nicest people in the world. When asked who hes going to support, graham had this to say. Jenna almost 40 thousand dollars has been raised in one day for the family of a spencer wrestler who passed away unexpectedly. A preliminary autopsy shows Austin Roberts likely died of natural causes. Austin died at Spencer Hospital on saturday after collapsing during a wrestling meet. A gofund me account set up to brought in over 39thousand dollars already. If you would like to help, visit our website siouxland mattersdotcom. Jenna a beloved Iowa High School football coach passed away unexpected yesterday. And, as his students and fellow coaches in madrid madrid remember him today, they says it was off the gridiron where he may have left his biggest impact. Claire powell has the story wanted to go to sleep wake up and realize it was a bad dream. It wasnt just a bad dreamd we were looking for a football coach. And a teacher, he impressed us most as a teacher j first to chew your butt when you got it coming,but first to put his arm around you when you had that coming too he had that unique ability of making everybody important, makign them see they had a role i got the news, i was shocked and didnt know what to do. I couldnt believe it would happen to someone like him, hes s the type of guy that just from friendndip youre fortunate to have in your life. Whistles laughs theres a long list of hinkelisms that we were fortunate to be a part of when the going gets tough, are we going to give up or nut up hinkelism whats it going to take to win tonight . Hell say outscore the opponent community as a whole is a better place because of randy hinkel d he was a big part of our lives outside off hte field, with our families. Sp we had a feeling hed be a great fit in madrid, he ended up being one of my best friends for a long time jim well remember him forever and he left his mark here and hes a true legend. Never forget him. Ending . T about getting a ticket from one of the citys speed cameras on i22 a bit of good news. City Council Members have voted to lower fines coming from those automated cameras. They passed all three reading of the ordinance change at their meeting today. Fines for going 11 to 15 Miles Per Hour over the speed limit will go from 168 down to 100. The change will go into affect sometime early next year. Jenna starting today, iowas safe at home program is taking applications to give domestic olence victims a substitute address. Leutenient governor kim reynolds says its a big step to keep victims real address from appearing on public records, making them harder to find. Mailor victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, trafficking and stalking by keeping their home addresses confidential when conducting official business like registering to vote. Participants in the program will have their mail sent to the secretary of States Office who wil then forward the mail to their home address. The program goes into effect new years day. Still to come. The seventh lment of star wars had an out of this world weekend. Just how much did they rake in at the box office this weekend . Stay tuned to find out. fred star wars movie has broken both all time opening million in north american sales and 529 million worldwide, abcs elizabeth h hur has the details. nat the force. Strong with moviegoers. Star wars the force awakens. Shattering all kinds of records in its opening weekend. sot it was an 11 on a 10 scale sot it felt like the original trilogy all over again nat woohoo in los angeles. Movie theaters kept adding shows to keep up with the demand. Meaning plenty of tickets were available. But fans still waited in lines. sot michael beaudry, burbank, ca why wait in line . Its star wars why not . In new york. This audience even got a surprise visit from the star john boyega. As seen in this video posted on instagram. nat John Boyega Instagram i just wanted to pop in, i was in the neighborhood laughter this star wars movie was hailed as the most anticipated prequel. Ever. And fandango is even reporting. A new record. Most ticket sales on their site even before opening it. So who watched . And. Strong in my family sot it was amazing. sot it redeemed the prequels sot i have spent hours watching the after all that i was not prepared for it jenna fred, what can we expect . fred we have a warm day tomorrow, then a approach the holiday weekend. 2 line super fred hexom fhexom kcautv. C om fred the Port Neal Welding Company skycam hd shows dreary conditions from the Ho Chunk Centre in downtown sioux city. The high today was 31 and the low 26. 27 is the current temperature in sioux city. Local temperatures are in the teens and 20s for most. Wind chills are in the teens and 20s. The visibility is less than 10 miles across the board, with less than 1 mile areas of fog and freezing fog will be seen through the night, so drive with care as roads may become slick. The stormcast hd shows cloudy skies tonight, a warmup tomorrow, quiet weather wednesday, then a chance of light snow thursday. Your forecast for tonight is for mostly cloudy skies and areas of fog. The low will be 21. Tomorrow, expect partly cloudy skies and breezy winds, along with a warmer temperature of 48. The 7day forecast shows a slight chance of light snow thursday, a slight chance of christmas, a slight chance of mixed precipitation saturday, then a slight chance of mixed precipitation on monday. There is obviously a lot of forecast, so please the winter solstice, otherwise known as the first day of winter. That means the suns highest angle is as far away from us as it gets in the southern hemisphere. It will start moving back toward us tomorrow, which jenna thanks, fred coming up in sports. Sbl and South Sioux City games tonight. Well have the highlights up ahead. Tim plus the abc9 top plays takes us to the hardwood tonight. Stay tuned for the best of the best from the last week up chris five games into the season, both sbl and west have identical 2 and 3 records. But the warriors and wolverines have been heading in Different Directions lately. Sbl has lost three straightwhile west is on a two game win streak. Would those trends continue tonight . Lets head to sergeant bluff. In the first. Chris kroll. Late rotation on the zone defense. The warriors out to an 84 lead. Then sbl works it wright. The hoop and the hack, the leadpto 6 after the freebie. But here comes west. Darius moore. With the mindboggling spin move and finish, wolverines back within four. Then check out the Quick Release from avery brun. He connects on the rner triple. Keegan savary, freed up in the corner connects. Sbl wins it as time expires. 7472. Across the river. Sixth ranked south sioux hosting omaha mercy and the cards on cruise control. Bricelyn comstock dishes it off to marybethrasmussen, she loses it for a second but gets it up and in for two. 6617 cardinals after 3. The starters get a couple possessions in the fourth. Haley fritza splashes it home for three. That makes the lead 50. Then late in the game. Mckenna sims to kayla harris, back to sims. The freshman for three more. South sioux heads into the hohoday break on a for the first timeme this winter, the abc9 top plays tonight all come from the hardwood. From high flyers to buzzer beaters to acrobatic finishes though, theres still plenty to love about this weeks countdown. We kick thinin lincoln. Sundays game for the huskers was one to forget, but this play from andrew white and Shavon Shields is something to remember. White, knocks the ball loose and cashes it in on the other end with the two handed flush, but takaka closer look at the steal. White, channels his inner lionel messi with the heel flip to the break. Intentional . Maybe, maybe not. Awesome . Definitely. Play number four takes us to the chool ranks. Homer in action last friday night. Michael arnold. With the nice crossover then look at the finish. Takes the shot and gets itit totoall. Hes fired up and rightfully so. He takes a hard shot to the body and somehow is able to control it for the old for play three we head back to the College Ranks for a former South Sioux City star. Mikel is listed at 62 on the iowa roster. But that doesnt mean the hawkeye senior cant play above the rim. Last weekend at the big four classic, gesell, blows past his defender and rises for the flush just like back in the glory days in the mini dome. This dunk with 30 seconds left. Sealed the game for the hawkeyes over drake. Play num was sent into us. West sioux hosting Woodbury Central last week. Were tied up at 57 with time winding down, but thered be no overtime. West siouxs isaac topete says, im pretty tired. Think ill go home now. He ends it in regution, hitting the triple at the buzzer. That sends the falcon fans home happy with the 6057 win. But our top play comes to us from spencer. The tigers on the christian. James mcdermott on the receiving end of the long outlet and he lobs it up to Jake Kluender who slamamit home. An impressive set up on both endnd here for the tigers, who must be taking notes from chris paul and blake griffin. Thats why they lock up the top spot in the abc9 top plays of the week. But she is not the one originally announced. The pageants host steve harvey wound up crowning the wrong winner. Then had to give a shocking and awkward apology. nats steve harvey Miss Universe host columbia cheers nats steve harvey Miss Universe host i have toto apologiziz the frunnnn up is colombia. Miss universe 2015 is philippines nats steve harvey Miss Universe host this is exactly whats on the card. I will take responsibility for this. It was my mistake. It was on the card. Miss universe 2015 host, steve rvey, misreading his cue cards and naming the wrong contestant as the winner the two women, awkwardly standing at the snafu. Miss columbia stripped of her crown. Stunned viewers, watching as Miss Universe 2014 placed it on the head of winner miss philippines, the show abruptly cutting to credits. fred your forecast for tonight is for mostly cloudy skies and areas of fog. The low will be 21. Tomorrow, expect partly cloudy skies and breezy winds, along with a warmer temperature of 48. Thth7day forecast shows a slight chance of light snow thursday, a slight chance of light rain friday for christmas, a slight chance of mixed precipitation saturday, then a slight chance of mixed precipitation on monday. There is obviously a lot of uncertainty in this stay tuned today is the winter solstice, otherwise known as the first day of winter. That means the suns highest the low will be 21. Tomorrow, expect partly cloloy skies and breezy winds, along with a warmer mperature of 48. The 7day forecast shows a slight